Also in ethiopia, where the government says its moving forward on its final offensive against fighters around to graze main city and palestinian leaders condemn the u. S. Secretary of states unprecedented visits to an illegal israeli settlement and the occupied Golan Heights. Welcome to the program. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the race to find an effective vaccine. British, a pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2, trial show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. It says people over 70 who have been tested have shown a strong immune response. The vaccines being developed with Oxford University and its in the final stages of human trials. Now in the last 10 days, 2 other drug makers, pfizer and madonna, reported their back scenes are more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials. Well, globally cases have surpassed 56000000. There have been more than 1300000 deaths worldwide. 250000 of those in the u. S. Making it the worst affected country by far or Charlie Rangel has been following developments from london. Just published its phase 2 results, which were based on a group of 560. 00 volunteers. Is it not . Its phase 3 results which will be coming in the next few weeks. But the initial results showed that this vaccine is generating a strong immune response, an adult over 1617. This is a very crucial age group because vaccines dont tend to work as well in older people because as we get older. d our immune systems deteriorate. This vaccine is different from the other 2 that weve been reporting on because it is made from a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees, which is then modified to make sure that it cannot grow in humans is given in 2 doses. And so far is reporting a 99 percent efficacy rate. All participants have been gente generating neutralizing antibodies. So is knocking out the virus in their bloodstream with no reported side effects. And that is very good news here because this is the vaccine that britain is betting on. It has bought 100000000 doses of it so far, and so we are eagerly awaiting the phase 3 result. Whats interesting is that initially this vaccine was one of the front runners, and we thought wed be getting results much earlier. But as we know in the last 10 days, the pfizer bio and tech and the medinah vaccines have pulled ahead and, and have shown that they are more than 90 percent effective. And was in thing is that those vaccines use a technology that is completely new, that known as messenger r n a, but their results are not. So vaccine results are very promising for all the other vaccines that are still in development. But so much more than a quarter of a 1000000 people who died from the covert. 19 in the u. S. Nots, the highest number of deaths in a single country infections are still rising. More than a 1000000 cases have been reported in the past week. The situation so bad that states and cities are imposing new restrictions. York city has just decided to close schools to prevent more infection. Until the very latest while White House Correspondent, kimberly how could 2000 washington d. C. Completed in 50000 kroner virus related deaths in the u. S. Its a grim milestone and experts obviously warning that the death rate could increase and swearing because its a major holiday on the horizon. Yeah, things are expected in projected to get worse before they get better. The alarming number, in addition to the ones youve mentioned, are that hospitalizations are up 25 percent in just the past week. Now, the u. S. President has continued to project optimism, tweeting on this morning, that in fact there, he believes that the vaccines will be coming fast and that were tallied, he is down 85 percent, but the infections are rising. And so we know the Vice President will be in the situation room holding a covert briefing coming up in the coming hours. But again, this is also being met with sharp criticism from the incoming biden administration. Urgent, lee needing to do a transition. It says and not getting the full access at a time when these infections are rising, they say that precious time is being lost in terms of being able to discuss not only how to combat the rising infections, but also the distribution of these vaccines, which they say will be so critical for getting out the need for addressing and putting together a National Plan for doing so. But of course, one of things that president trouble, so he likes to do besides talk about the vaccine in his involvement in it is talking up job figures because the economy is something that he certainly straw used to emphasize and support his sort of base with yeah, he had really hoped that this would propel him to reelection and we should point out. He insists that he won the election in fact, next hour. We expect that his campaign will be holding a press conference to talk about new evidence that he believes will bring a path to victory. But as weve seen with many of these cases so far, they have not held up in court. In fact, the campaign has, as its announcing this press conference, also announced its withdrawing one of its lawsuits in michigan. And in terms of the economic numbers, youre right, they are not good when yet again, weve had a spike in the jobless claims that has a lot to do with covert 19. The fact that these infections are rising, we see new restrictions being in place. And so businesses are shutting their doors, theyre laying people off. And whats alarming about all of this is the issue of the upcoming thanksgiving holiday. That not only are people, is there concerned that theres going to be an increase in transmissions due to people, perhaps traveling and visiting their friends and family. But this is also a major time for retailers to sort of make up some of the money of the Holiday Season that they might have lost during the rest of the year. But with doors closing, retailers are not expecting people to be shopping as much. And this is not only going to cost jobs, but its going to cost valuable income. So the problem seems to be compounding. This is something that the president has not talked about today, but were certainly watching very carefully to see what will be discussed. Certainly many looking now to Congress Looking for relief and that has also been stymied by some of the election transition that is not taking place. These will come back to course more analysis. So when that happens, if you guys talk, can you help about a White House Correspondent . Well, at least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the arrest of opposition. Politician, bobby wine 350 people were arrested in the unrest and Security Forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. As he demonstrated, after one was detained on wednesday, officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning for the upcoming president ial election. Malcolm webb has the latest from nairobi in neighboring kenya. 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 the winds lawyers and the spokesman of complaining as im being given access to legal representation or to his medical team. Theyre worried that he might be injured. Theyre 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 spread of 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. Hes 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 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 cording to the government will be problematic for covert 19, although his supporters believe these restrictions are simply to stop people. Seeing how popular a year is. He appears military says its nearing to graze the main city of mccarley in what it calls its final, after more than 2 weeks of fighting with the regions leaders, the prime Ministers Task force says its close to ending the conflict 100 hour has the latest from the government is still working out how badly people have been affected by the fighting. 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, food 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 takeaway region and a 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 gate is the 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 trucking all the way to saddam would be able to the ton soon as the government is putting it, the urns acting libya envoy has brief the Security Council on libya now it comes after the rival sides held talks last, we continue to hear. They agreed to hold elections late next year, but negotiators failed to name a unity government. But in recent months, libyas u. N. Recognize government has made gains against war to have to forces after he launched a military offensive to take the capital. Tripoli, lets get the very latest. While diplomatic editor james bays whos at the united nations, i mean, james, what are we expecting to hear from this meeting . As all sides seem to in principle, want to see progress from those peace accords were signed and look ahead. Well certainly there are some on the u. N. Security council who are describing recent developments as a breakthrough. You do now have a fragile cease fire in place. You do have an ambitious plan that would lead to elections in just over a years time. But of course, you dont yet have that unity government in place. The u. N. Acting special representative, Stephanie Williams said there were still many challenges ahead. I am optimistic about the way for an idea yet clear are right about the many challenges that lie ahead. 10 years of war cannot be solved one week of political tasks that we hear more now. The language of peace rather than the language of war for the sake of the year. 75 libyans came together in tunis last week, included faith effort to start the process of healing their nations. They said they touched as the family of the gun as well, had extended their hands, if not their hearts to each other. And of course, james, this talk of the turkish president visiting libya soon, and that too is a factor, isnt it . Because all sides have to consider who are united and libyas friends and who are their foes . Absolutely, i think it will be very interesting to see what the turkish president says. If he visits tripoli, he has been very much on one side of this conflict. Although turkeys position has been that hes been there, bolstering and effectively saving the internationally recognized government. Of course things have moved on there is now supposed to be soon, a new unity government taking place. And among the parts of the deals that have been done, Foreign Forces, all Foreign Forces we soon, that also includes Turkish Forces are supposed to leave libya by early next year. This is going potentially to be a headache for the u. N. Security council in the coming weeks because another part of the deal says that there should be international monitors coming in to have a ceasefire to monitor the cease fire, the fragile cease fire in libya, this is going to require a lot of negotiation for a new resolution. And of course, one of the other countries that has forces in libya is russia. There are russian mercenaries in libya. So getting russia to sign on to the words for a new resolution are going to be difficult to see what happens. Certainly for the moment james bass, thats joining us from the u. N. My pompei has become the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank and to step forward in the occupied Golan Heights in israel as part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. Earlier he met with the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and said legal settlements can be, and we quote, lawful and proper. Pompei, i also said the u. S. Would be stepping about action on a boycott, movement against israel. We will regard the global, any israel b. D. S. Campaign as anti semitic, and other sensible to you, mr. Prime minister. Since it seems like a statement of fact, but i want you to that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful b. D. S. Gondor can withdraw u. S. Government support for such groups. Well, still ahead here on aljazeera will be line from bogota as colombians prepared to commemorate the one Year Anniversary of large antigovernment demonstrations. Its going to get worse as the combination of air pollution and the winter months struggling to breathe, while Health Experts are warning out. Pollution could lead to more coronavirus deaths in india. If you stay with us. Well weve been waiting for when to need shown itself this massacre in the northeast of china 1st of all, but a bit of welcome right now. It is welcome, at least in beijing, the quote is not bad here for a change and to the north in a place you might be familiar with harbin 1st proper snow of the winter harbin, of course, her c. R. S. Festival in the early part of next year. But snow is the 1st to arrive and it worked as if hes sorry, stay in that part of china, immediate future. Its all going east towards siberia and then the cold air come across and generate showers in the north coast of honshu used to go a line of rain and south coast of honshu, tipping off down towards taiwan. But look whats gathering in western china. These westerly disturbances now this time you tend to generate the proper winter weather, so temperatures are coming down. Chances 7, beijing data focused. See some snow. I suspect on saturday, much as the rest of china will see an increasing likelihood of right. Hes cool. Now if you made cold it cold, it will happen as a different degrees. And let me end with a bit of excellent news. Look at the absence of crowd in the sas, china sea, and the philippine sea. There are no more tropical cyclones just the proper wet season. A long way, 30 secs. But the American People have finally folk in america as i see it. When america is off balance, the world becomes more dangerous. The world is looking at us with a mixture of sadness and with the election behind us will the Republican Party dump trucks the fuel weekly, take on us politics and society . Thats the bottom line. The usa is always of, in fact the people, all right. The world people Pay Attention to work on here and i do see it is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. Oh, oh, oh. Welcome back. Youre watching aljazeera. That means the whole robin a reminder of our top stories. Theres been promising results for a trend virus vaccine developed by the university of oxford and astra zeneca. The latest phase 2 findings show a strong immune response was triggered in those aged 8 to 70. At least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the unrest of Opposition Leader bobby wine, 350 people were arrested in the unrest. Security forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. And mike pompei has become the 1st us secretary of state to visit to the legal settlements in the occupied west bank and to step forward in the occupied Golan Heights. Earlier he said, settlements were we quote, lawful and proper. Protesters are gathering in colombias capital tomorrow on years since massive and to government demonstrations. Well last year, plans for a labor strike ballooned into widespread protests against the government of president , even decay of the sons of m. P. s. He is live for us in bogota. So why are people coming out onto the streets . What are they hoping to achieve this time around . Yes. Well, people have a long delays the grievances against the government. Even duke it is, have been going on for quite a while and has to do with that. A serious reform that the government had announced before your rival the pandemic in particular, when it comes to Health Reform with people here believe it will push for the Health System in the country. Other things have to do other grievances have to do with inequality in the country. Also the lack of implementation of the story. He deal with 5 rebels in 2016. Weve reported that for many months about to killing Community Leaders to former fighters in remote areas of the country. People here feel