Things we report from the area that bore the brunt to cause fear. The World Health Organization is warning the world not to relax its guard as the push for a Coronavirus Vaccine shows signs of progress. This is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news about called good 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for the new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases were seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas u. S. Pharmaceutical firm says the results from trials show that the vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Its really important milestone in the fight against the kind of make up because it demonstrates that our very senior morning 1273. 00 is able to prevent over 1000. 00 disease including severe disease. And its really just a milestone though. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generally more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture. President donald trump made a deal with madonna and august to purchase 100000000. 00 doses of the drug once it was read. It was that it is the 2nd candidate for the chance of getting approval. Pfizer announced last week that its back seed was 90 percent effective and late stage trials. Thats promising news as addictions continue to climb, the u. S. Now has of the 11000000 confirmed cases that is the highest in the world. And we have 2 teams covering this developing story. In a few moments. Well go to joe castro, who is in wilmington, delaware. Thats where joe biden is Holding Meetings with his transition team. Lets begin though with White House Correspondent, Kimberly Harkat who is in washington. D. C. Kimberly, so very exciting news from which i believe is based in massachusetts capping off a really excellent few days for american vaccine researches. Yeah, the u. S. President tweeting it, celebrating the rise in the stock market as a result of this news of this latest vaccine 2. Announcements in the space of one week and the white house says its on track to get some of these vaccines to the most vulnerable americans, at least 20000000 doses. By next month. The problem is in all of this is the distribution as thats for dr. Anthony fauci comes and he is on the court. A virus taskforce, a top Infectious Disease specialist, and he said that the u. S. Election and Donald Trumps failure to concede to his rival, joe biden, may hamper those distribution efforts. The virus is not going to stop and call a time out while things change the virus is just going to keep going. The process is just going to keep going. This is something that just is now going in the very, very strong right direction. The vaccines are effective, we want to get it approved this quickly as we possibly can. We want to get doses to people starting in december, and then we want to really get the ball rolling as we get into january, february, and march. We want to smooth a process for that and the way you do that is by essentially having the 2 groups speak to each other and exchange information. But right now the 2 groups are not speaking to each other. Thats because the u. S. President is challenging election results, and thats made it difficult for the biden cope, it Advisory Team to get in talk to some of the Health Experts in order to kind of pass the baton if you will in terms of distribution come january, following inauguration, and as you mentioned, the cases of covert in the united states, more than 11000000 infections, 245000 deaths since 31 states seeing those deaths rising. So grave concern is there are new lockdown measures being put in place and the trumpet, ministration, being accused of hampering the effort of turning things around. Ok, thank you for that. Kimberly how cut there are White House Correspondent live from washington d. C. Lets get more now from how did joe castro, who is in wilmington, delaware, heidi, so were expecting to hear from president elect joe biden laying out his plans for the economy. Tell me, even with this vaccine news, im guessing hes got some big challenges ahead. He certainly does kim and you know hes meeting with Business Leaders throughout the day and this afternoon he will be unveiling more of his economic recovery plan, which hes only talked about in Broad Strokes up to this point. But we know that biden has been supportive of democratic efforts prior to the election to pass a sweeping at another sweeping Economic Relief package totaling some 1. 00 trillion dollars. Democrats have been seeking more direct payments to american families, as well as bailouts for local governments that are really being put out of business due to the response to this pandemic. We expect some of those issues to be flushed out when biden makes his speech later. This afternoon, but the real question is whether or not he has support in congress to pass through these plans. Of course hes still the president elect. He cant formally make any moves on this until after Inauguration Day on january 20th and come that day. There is also the big looming question of whether democrats would be able to control the u. S. Senate to have the majority there that is dependent on the results of 2 Senate Runoff elections that will take place in january in georgia. So thats still a big question mark there. If Congress Remains divided as it is today, then biden would likely have to compromise some of these great sweeping ideas. He has about invigorating the economy. Because we know republicans are seeing the u. S. Economic growth in the last 3 months, with 3000000 jobs added back after the dip we saw in the early spring to the, to the pandemic. But economists are also saying do not be too optimistic. Now, given the growing number of hospitalizations and deaths, and given the number of states that are now imposing more restrictions, it is likely that businesses will once again have to shut down with the economy once again in jeopardy. Ok, thank you for the caster there live from wilmington, delaware. What is a professor of epidemiology and medicine, a Columbia University . She explains what needs to happen before the fall, isnt the done of vaccines can and to widespread distribution . Well, these are preliminary data and the companies are continuing to follow the participants in those studies to collect more data, both on terms of the efficacy out there. Wow, well the vaccine works, as well as also the safety because we need a little bit of a longer follow up to make sure that their essence are safe. At that point in time, the, both of the companies will submit to the for the Drug Administration here in the united states. A request for emergency use our eyes issued. And this allows then the distribution and the use of these vaccines amongst the population. And this is obviously going to take several weeks, if not, several months. And beyond that, of course, theres the need to be able to distribute the vaccines and deploy them to the people who need them the most. And thats also going it, except i think the global mobilization by researchers and around the world and from a sort of companies and governmental agencies all around the world to push the development of the vaccine as rapidly as possible. Sooner rather than having the usual traditional sequential development of vaccine going through the french studies incrementally over time. Theres been now in much more accelerated development of these vaccines. And actually starting to manufacture the vaccines even before we have data on their efficacy. So the goal was, has always been to try to get that seen a safe and effective as soon as possible. And other city get it to the people who need to take the vaccine as soon as possible as well. To the crisis in northern ethiopia. And the government is sending reinforcements to the rest of to grab region despite International Calls for mediation. There, as from the convoy of troops heading toward the father, lived with us and is now in its 13th day, also carrying medicine and other the region to graze leader has called on the un and the African Union to condemn ethiopias offensive. Ugandas president Yoweri Museveni pianist isnt negotiations, but the Ethiopian Government says uganda will not play any role. And as the crisis continues, thousands more people are fleeing into neighboring sudan. Have, a morgan has more now from the u. S. , near the sudan, ethiopia border after walking for 5 days, give my matthew has finally reached in sudan. He escaped fighting in his hometown of home in ethiopia, stigler a region. Hes exhausted and hungry. And when the fighting started and people are being killed, i left everything behind in flood. I walked for days and became weak, but i had to continue. Now im suffering from fatigue and ive been diagnosed with malaria. Go to my is one of more than 20000. People who fled to sudan seeking safety, some have chest infections, raising concerns that they may be infected with the coronavirus. The refugees include pregnant women, like im listed behind it, and a better way back in there. When the bombardment started, i took my children and ran, even though im pregnant, i carried one on my back and one on my arm. And i started running away without a sense of direction until i arrived at the river and crossed into sudan. I have not had food for days and my belly is hurting, even though ive got a month before giving birth. The Reception Center here at home day it has one health clinic, but lacks proper medical equipment. Doctors say more and more patients are arriving every day. We get wounded people because of explosive materials, like grenades, gunshots and fractures. Some people have diabetes. We try to handle the cases we can, but where we card, we were further to the county hospital. But we are quite concerned about the possibility of spread of Communicable Diseases amongst refugees, because theyre all close together in a small space. So dan is planning to transfer people here to another camp. Those at least who are well enough to move, but more refugees are expected and the pressure on this clinic will remain morgan aljazeera, how date need to sudan if you be a border. Are medias foreign minister has resigned. Its the most significant political casualty, since the deal was made to hand over parts of nagornokarabakh. It comes as the pressure is rising on. Prime minister need to step down in the search address since they agree ment with us by john after weeks of fighting took responsibility for the loss of territory. As he reiterated that he will stay in office and bring stability to the country. Theres been widespread protests against the concessions that he makes all the meters in the armenian capital yerevan with more on the Foreign Ministers resignation. Well already heard is actually from his spokesperson, who posted on social media. The lecture that the foreign minister gave to Prime Minister un, and actually it was a handwritten letter, very short basically saying thank you for working with you, but i am not doing that anymore. Now the background to that according to the spokesperson, is that he didnt agree with what Prime Minister pushing and said during, in an extraordinary session of parliament, that session was only with his party because the opposition refused to attend the session. Simply because resignation and talk about resignation was not on the table. During the session, the Prime Minister said that the fate of shushi or call it had always been part of the negotiations between the 2 countries. Over the past 20 years of the spokesperson of the foreign minister said that that was absolutely not true. So there you can see that each time Prime Minister tries to get himself out of trouble. He gets even more in deep water. Still ahead on aljazeera. Although the chooses its next leader in another battle between supporters of the European Union and russia. As the number of calls 900 cases grows across the united states, thousands line up to 3 justices on the how the weather set. Barack ross, southern parts of the arabian peninsula, but still a slightly different story further north, but more cloud here outs of turkey pushing across the caucasus, to northern parts of iran. Some showers right once again coming through here. Notice the possibility of wanted to shout across northern sections of the gulf. I suspect here in qatar will stay dry. Temperatures getting up to 34 celsius on shoes day, a little colder, a little fresher, at 28 degrees. As we go on into the states should. As i say, study spotted right, but not too much, quite a cane way to lift the dust and sand. Certainly a possibility. It is dry elsewhere across syria, potentially, and dry to cause parts of the the horn of africa. The wet weather is further south. Big showers across central parts of africa as they should do, the seasonal rains continuing unabated. The short runs. Theyre continuing their into southern parts of kenya, pushing into where tans need quite a bit of wet weather that so across much of angola, sliding down through boss wanna into central and eastern parts of south africa. More showers coming in here as we go on through wednesday. Just a lousy dry in mozambique wanted to showers that to the north, and that is a few showers cropping up. But again, the b. B. C. s journalism is revered around the world, but its close relationship with the British State has always placed limits on its independence. And i love the fact that i exist, but a sort of things. It goes to prove. Philips exposed a little known century long tussle between the b. B. C. In the u. K. Government and considers the current threats to its future. If the government has, it in the b. B. C. What you do see the enemies on movers battle for the b. B. C. A listening post special on aljazeera root or there are moderate our top stories this hour u. S. Pharmaceutical firm madonna says early results from its cover 19 vaccine showed nearly 95 percent effective. Its now in stage 3 tentacle trials. Pfizer announced last week its vaccine is 90 percent effective. If hell be, as government is sending reinforcements to its restive northern to great t. V. s, their forces are appealing to the International Community to condemn the offense of the governments ruled out. Any mediation efforts are medias foreign minister has resigned after days of protest against a peace deal with azerbaijan. But Prime Minister nicola refuses to step down. Hes defended the decision to head back parts of the corner. Cut a bug accused at a food bank at the u. S. State of texas are stretching for columbuss as unemployment saws in the Worlds Largest economy. Thousands of people, as you can see, lined up to get access to a local food bank and delos to receive donations. The north Texas Food Bank distributed nearly 300000 kilograms of food on saturday for food banks across the u. S. Are under growing pressure to provide for rising numbers of people being forced into poverty by the pandemic. The u. S. Is the worst affected nation in the world, with a 1000000 cases added in just the past 6 days under a week. And a korean is a senior director of marketing and communications at the Texas Food Bank. She says, saturdays numbers show that the need for food has increased. This is actually the largest distribution weve ever had in north Texas Food Bank history. So the need is very, very great. And you know, the food bank, not only do we have these kinds of distributions, but we have hundreds of partners across north texas. Senator should be eating food. And each one of them has reported a significant uptick in terms of the needs of folks that are coming through their doors, looking for that food assistance, many of whom are doing so for the 1st time. I have a great honor, an opportunity to meet with a few folks that were waiting in line. And, you know, one person actually parked their car at fair park at 10 oclock the night prior to make sure that they were there in line and ready for this event. And that just tells me that if, if somebody is willing to do that, that the need is great. And one of the folks that i met with a gentleman by the name of manual, he told me that he is disabled. And that happened prior to kovan 1000, but his wife was able bodied and working, but she lost her job to the pandemic. He has 6 children at home. And he said that because we were able to provide him with a turkey and other holiday food that was going to replace the pasta meal spaghetti that their family was going to have for thanksgiving. So he was truly grateful and hearing stories like that. And we heard many are, is just heartbreaking because it shows that, you know, there are a lot of people they want to work. But because of the pandemic, theyre losing hours maybe getting laid off from their job, especially those in the service industry. I think that there are many, many people that need help, but there are just as many people that want to give that kind of help. And we always say that hunger is a nonpartisan issue. Both sides of the aisle come together to, to meet the need to help our fellow neighbors. And thats the case here in north texas. I mean, you know, when this pandemic started, we really had no idea what was going to happen in terms of donations support, things like that. But people have come together to meet the need. And weve had so many generous donors that want to support this issue because they know that, you know, this really could be anybody and moldovas election incumbent president evo does on says he will concede defeat if the court finds no problems with the pope. With most votes counted spro, european challenger, my son who is projected to win, says a hopes to establish a working relationship with them to the election was viewed as a choice between close relations with russia or with the European Union. So he gago is in moldovas capital its interesting to note when you break down the numbers, there is a difference between moldovans how they voted inside moldova itself. And those who are living in the other countries. For example, my sundays win was 51 percent from inside moldova, and in the diaspora. It was more than 93 percent of people who voted for her. So it shows really sort of quite a distinct kind of idea that people have about how they want their country to go forward. Especially people whove had to leave the country in search of work instead of in search of opportunities because they simply have not found them here. And this is one of the things that my son who has campaigned on shes, she has been campaigning on the issue. The challenges of how to rebuild the country, how to build up a country from within. And even though she is optimistic about her when she still is very aware of the hard work that she faces ahead, the modern people prove that they can unite around the good people in their own right objectives for the country. Now the most difficult part comes, it was not easy to win this election as its going to be more difficult to implement the commitments that ive made. But i know that we have a lot of good people who are going to help. We have a very strong team. Yes, we have all the turns to get there. So all in all, it is really an interesting change that moldovans have voted for. The question is whether she can get hold of it to be able to commit to her vision as well. Israels military housing has approved permits to build more than a 1000 illegal settlers in the occupied west bank to be built in a settlement. The palestinians say cuts them all from East Jerusalem. The houses are considered illegal under International Law or force. It explains an unusual move by e. U. Diplomats designed to send a message to israels government. Driving in, convoy to a piece of internationally recognized palestinian territory, turned away by right wing israeli settler activists. A 2nd group made it to the summit of what israel calls give out how much toss to a similar reception you are only certain. Again. Israel has long planned to build a settlement here in contravention of International Law. That like a final puzzle piece, would connect other settlements between bethlehem and jerusalem and sever a vital territorial link of a future palestinian state. The e. U. Is demanding a reversal of israels decision to issue tenders for the construction work on 1257 homes. Just days before Prime Minister netanyahu hosts the us secretary of state, and bahrains, foreign minister, you e. U. , and back again, have signed the realization agreement in order to stop an extension. It was explicitly stated by the present of both countries. Right now here is a defacto, an extension attempt, and that cannot go on, or weve come up back to this patch of land again now its quieted to explore exactly why its at the heart of this issue. If israel did build an illegal settlement here, it would cut off bethlehem from the palestinian neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem beit, suffer just over the brow of this hill, entirely isolating it behind illegal israeli settlements. It would also separate bethlehem from the rest of occupied East Jerusalem beyond those buildings. And so that is why the e. U. Why the p. A. Is arguing that it would really jeopardize the territorial integrity of a future palestinian state. The other issue is the timing coming just ahead of the inauguration of president elect joe biden. In january when he was here as a Vice President in 2010, there was a Major Incident when a new settlement enterprise was announced. It was a major rupture between the Obama Administration and that of benjamin netanyahu. It looks like things are being set up to cause another such rupture even ahead of joe biden. Taking office. Syrian foreign minister walid has died in 79 years old, while him was a close ally of former syrian leader half as last thoughts. And then his son, a shot at the war. He repeatedly defended Government Forces against allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The number of people to have died from the worst typhoon to hit the philippines. This year has risen to 67. Storm bamako brought heavy rain and triggered severe flooding across the main island of do zone. Last week, rescue teams have been sent to was to places where hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food and shelter. And has more from the province of the philippines, which is one of the worst affected areas. 1000000000 province was not even under typhoon category when vanpool hit the philippines last week. But the impact here is just as devastating. It took a few days before news about many communities that have been submerged, started to come out. There were reports that the focus was largely on manila and nearby provinces. And even at this point, there are still many areas that remain inaccessible. Over 50 cluster villages and gay and province are still inaccessible without connections to the many cities surrounding it. This is why relief operations had to be done by air. Its been almost a week since by foreign vanco struck. And more than 83000 residents have been displaced inside the un province alone. This is a very difficult time for the philippines. This is the 3rd typhoon to hit the philippines in 3 weeks. The biggest one was by far and gone over a week ago, which left thousands of people homeless and now by phone call. What makes this devastating is how quickly this situation turned into a humanitarian crisis. Government resources are stretched and the country is still reeling from the economic brunt of the coronavirus fund. Demick military Officials Say it will take days before they will be able to access all of these kind of communities. And only then can they assess the full extent of the damage of by phone vanpool in the country . How can you know what is going strength as it heads towards Central America thats causing severe flooding in colombia, at least 3. People have died and hundreds forced to leave their homes just a week old for another hurricane. Rina mom, it has been heavy rains a proton, but hurricane didnt take long to submerge homes in parts of colombia. Severe flooding, forced many onto roofs, to wait for help. Somehow to where through waist, deep water to find safety or use whatever they can find to help the people describe how quickly the water rose in their homes after a major rivers burst, their banks was in that i dont say since 12 am, the river has been going up when we least expect it, its the water level was above the house in the tourist city of cutter haina flood waters powered through the streets, braine the city to a standstill. Rising waters triggered landslides in antioch, a province sweeping away trees and cars and burying homes. Rescue workers are looking for anyone whos missing or stranded combing through mud and debris. Then when i have a niece was buried, she was trapped in the mud 2 little children. Hundreds of people are now being moved. President even duke a visit to the flooded areas and told people to take precautions. We have not been able to ministry, we need families to go to shelters, understand that the risks have not gone away. In the meantime, well continue to provide humanitarian support as well as other tools that the National Government has at hand together with the local government. Electricity and phone lines have been cut in many rural areas. Local Authorities Say it could hamper recovery efforts. We know that we have gone from an emergency situation with the covered 19 and were trying to reactivate the economy. And this flood has complicated the situation considerably. The region is still dealing with the aftermath of last weeks hurricane rita. And the recent Severe Weather system wont let up. Forecasters expect hurricane nyota to intensify into a category 4 storm as it heads towards Central America for healing mohammed al jazeera space. X. Is also a craft carrying for us generals to the International Space station. It said its the 1st fully fledged mission for nasa undertaken by a private company, the capsule named resilience for this years many challenges. This troubridge, the ira, says later on monday, it is the start of what nasa hopes will be a long series of crew rotations for the jobs of lab results there. And these are the top stories u. S. Of a surgical for madonna says early results from its cause at 90 vaccine show. Its nearly 95 percent effective. Its now in stage 3 clinical trials, pfizer announced last week, its vaccine is 90 percent effective. But donna says theres still lots of work to be done before distribution can get to really important milestone in the fight against the pandemic. Because it demonstrates that our very senior morning to all 73. 00 is able to prevent cope with 90 disease, including severe disease. And its really just a milestone though we have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective. Its great news