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Takeoff. U. S. Aviation regulators say boeings 737 max can return to the skies, but only under certain conditions. And im disturbed in doha with all your support in the cricketers went to pakistan for the 1st time in 16 years. Is that a move for this news . Our u. S. Truck make a fire as a says it will request emergency approval for its coded 19 vaccine in the coming days. The vaccine developed with its german partner biotech, has shown consistent results across various demographics with no major side effects. On the results from the pfizer biotech vaccine trials showed a 95 percent success rate in all age groups. The highest of any candidate in late stage clinical trials. So far. The company says it could have 50000000 doses available by the end of the year. But its distribution is complicated by the need to store the vaccine. A temperature is of 70 degrees or minus 70 degrees celsius. We are confident that if, if we continue across the current of it, that it could could happen that, that we get not what it was until mid of the stand and quits to, to provide 1st millions of doses of experienced to the region. Get an approval on october for this because victor davis nash is a professor of epidemiology at the City University of new york and joins us live via skype. Thanks very much indeed for being with us. So are you surprised by the level of effectiveness that they, theyre claiming for the vaccine . Yes, its very encouraging to hear such high numbers. Of course, there could have been area and need to be vetted by our food and Drug Administration and the insight, but 1st as a 1st number coming out of the barn here. Its really nice to hear. I dont like that. Now, especially older adults, they, they put the figure for them at 94 percent effective is, is that something that wouldnt be seen with, with regular vaccines . You think . Well, i think some other vaccines dont have that level of ask c, especially in older people. And of course, thats the group of people that is among the most vulnerable to source code to infection and those who would come in 1000 severe kovan 1000 that comes from it. So its very curvy to hear that as well. In september, the drug company was worrying that they didnt have an a diverse enough pool of trial participants. Is that, is it your impression that they managed to resolve that . So i havent seen the detail data from either of the vaccine manufacturers, but that in their statements, they did say that across different subgroups of age and reset the city and presumably gender as well that they saw equal effectiveness or comparable effectiveness. And so my hope would be that, that enroll the Diverse Group of people into their trials. Now theres this talk of that, the complication of having to keep it so cold. How much of a hindrance is that in terms of rollout . Well yeah, the more logistical challenges you have, i think the harder it is going to be to get the vaccine from, you know, when its manufactured into the bodies of those that need to take the vaccine. And so that the more complicated the coal chain, the harder its going to be serious deliver, and many different venues around around the country in the u. S. And around the world where there may be challenges maintaining coaching. What about the need for 2 . It is my understanding that this one is the one that needs to you need 2 doses of it. How much more difficult is it to to sort out a Vaccine Program if you do need 2 doses. Yeah, well my understand is that both Companies Back senior pires 2 doses and so yeah, they may be 3 or 4 weeks apart from each other. And so individuals will need to be reached twice in order to, to receive the full, the full vaccine. And the benefits that come with it, and that makes it challenging to get people in, you know, i wouldnt say its twice as hard as getting them and twice, but it can be harder to get them in. Again, once theyve had the 1st dose and the regulators, how quick can you experience . Can we, can we expect a sort of decision on whether it has given approval . Well, i think weve seen, you know, an unprecedented year in and scientific progress and, you know, moving things that normally take years to get through the pipeline in a matter of months. And i know that, you know, the entire Scientific Community is poised to work as quickly as possible to, you know, to go through all of the data thats been generated by these trials and vet them. You know, say as much as we can about their understanding out of ethics and safety. So, you know, my hope would be that there would be a lot more eyes on these data over the next few weeks and months. And you know, were getting some kind of approval and maybe even peer review in the scientific literature, you know, much faster than we usually see. Oh please, by the end of the year, if not before, has a dentist rationing care, much indeed for joining us. Thank you. All the development has been welcome by the World Health Organization is warning that vaccines are only one part of a successful response to the coronavirus. I hold with a lot of hard work in the spring will start to have vaccine come on stream and then well have a huge extra tool. Some people think the vaccine will be in a sense the solution, the unicorn, weve all been chasing. Its not all this is the United States continues to see an acceleration of virus cases. Its reported more than what a 1000000 new infections in the past week alone. According to the Americas Branch of the World Health Organization, there are well over 11300000 cases confirmed across the u. S. , making statistically the worlds worst hit nation. Almost 249000 people have died there. After contracting the virus. Us president elect joe biden has hosted a Virtual Meeting with Frontline Health care workers battling the coronavirus. He emphasized that he wanted to hear directly from those whove seen the reality of the pandemic and how its devastating american communities. Joe biden told his guests that they deserved leaders who would work hard to support nurses and carers lets go to she have a chance. Hes in wilmington, delaware, and she had joe biden has big plans in terms of dealing with a virus. Right. And then these sort of on this local level, joe biden as president can do quite a bit even without congress. So from the testimony of those, those Frontline Health workers, they were complaining about the lack of personal protective equipment, for example. They were somehow doing tales of having to reuse by nurses and by 5 men and by others. And also stories of nurses having to go to work even though theyve tested positive for covert showing symptoms. But their employers are forcing them to go into work and all these sorts of areas the president can do quite a lot. He can do what i didnt do, which is invoke the defense production act and streamline the production of personal protective equipment. Get the infrastructure all together. Centralized production, seize the means of production. These are muxes, frasers probably biden. Good news. So its not pumping out p. P. For so from a centralized, centralized locations and distribute them widely around the country. Trump refused to do that. He left it to states to try and fight with themselves to try and get b. P. As far as nurses going into work, covert positive than his existing regulate tree. There are rules for which are which ensure that a workplace has to be safe. The trouble ministration hasnt been, hasnt abiding by those rules or making sure that those rules are abided by so he can do a great deal that well, by dint of businesses having a great deal of trouble, there is on the issue of vaccine potential vaccine distribution. Because the federal government on the trunk is still not giving the trumpet transition to any information about supply chains about problems about what issues have already popping up, what they feel might be to come. So they call and prepare for that. So they have a real problem down by months, again today saying look, i mean, why are there more people will die as a result . As a result of that, thats it. And thats not just a problem there for bite. Its a problem for the states as well. Because actually the individual states, were just talking about the new potential vaccine, the may be distributed in the coming months that i dont being told either as to how many seen doses they can expect from the federal government, how much they should prepare for them. They say they dont even have the money necessary to train the staff, to, to administer the vaccine, to take in all the data thats necessary to be transmitted to the c. D. C. Although some states even refuse to transmit data to the c. D. C. Out of privacy rules. So there are all these issues which might take congressional action, and congress doesnt want to act, not just on extra money for the states, for vaccines that was seen, but even for helping people in a lockdown survive. And new york facing new restrictions and the rising infections that we just heard that the Public School system as a result is going to be shut down on thursday. But the, the 3 percent average test Positivity Rate over 7 days has been reached. And theres this, there was a limit when you made it a great priority to reopen the schools in new york city about 2 months ago. When he did that, he said if that average test positive or the rate reaches 3 percent, the schools would shut down again. Its reach 3 percent shutting down. But this isnt because it is spreading within schools. And this is, this is an interesting point which is being discussed. One of the many nuances of covert policy, i guess, is it could spread within schools is still very, very, very low minuscule. But because the citys average test positive you rate is going up, thats why the schools are being shut down as a great debate as to whether this is the correct test, Positivity Rate for schools to be shut down. In fact, about 300000 children of the 1100000 children, all students who are in the school system. So only a fraction actually had gone back to school. But clearly this will cause a great deal of our people and the lives of parents and students. And for childcare, im forgetting for money as it was cheaper to say thank you very much. The chinese vaccine is also showing positive results in trials and the drug known as corona back. His now in the final stage of testing researches say the vaccine led to a quick immune response in around 700 trial patients. There are several vaccines being developed in china. Some of which are already being administered, katrina use in beijing and says the Chinese Government is showing confidence. China has 5 vaccines in total, which are undergoing final stage days. 3 trials. But the clear front runner here is a vaccine thats been developed by the company signed of that vi otec called corona vac. Now this vaccine works by including an inactivated form of the virus. That is a virus that has been chemically killed in a lab. And that will be injected into a subject and ideally produce and an immune response in somebody who is receiving it. Now, according to an article published in the medical journal lancet, this vaccine had some success in mid stage trials. This is based on study and a study of about 700 people, although the article didnt say what the success rate of the vaccine was. Now that was done that was accumulated in april and may instance then quite a bit has happened with the son of that vaccine. 1st of all they began phase 3, final stage trials overseas. Now those trials couldnt be conducted here in china because of the lower number of carved 19 numbers, but theyve since began in indonesia, bangladesh, and in brazil, a southeast chinese province called judge in september, started up a Pilot Program for members of the public to receive this sign of that vaccine and since september, the judge on government says 740000. People have received that vaccine, including Many International students who were about to go overseas to commence their studies, as well as international businessmen. Now of course medical experts around the world say it is extremely risky to be giving members of the public or people this vaccine before the phase 3 trials have been have been ended, and theyve had any conclusive results. But certainly, the Chinese Government does seem to be very, very confident in this particular vaccine. Pakistan is one of many countries around the world dealing with a 2nd wave of coronavirus infections. The government has not imposed another knock down, but is restricting Public Events including political rallies, rhetorical b. Reports. This hospital in islamabad is struggling to cope with the number of 1000 patients being admitted to its wards. Infection rates across pakistan have increased significantly in the last 2 weeks. Second wave is very serious. Hospitals are once again parked. Its very difficult to cope with the crisis when the Health Care System is already so fragile. The government has ruled out a 2nd national lockdown, shops, restaurants, and factories can stay open, but must follow, say, szell distancing measures and weddings are restricted to a 2 hour gathering, but up to 300 guests can attend Prime Minister imran khan has banned his p. T. I. Party from Holding Public rallies and asked others to do the same opposition parties accuse him of playing politics. The role of the army, the ban on political rallies is not acceptable to be categorically reject the governments decision and our rallies will happen. Daily infections in pakistan peaked at more than 6800 in june. That number fell to a low of 213 in august and to stay below 700 for most of the last 3 months. Now its back above 2000. People are worried about how theyll cope during the previous, lockdown or businesses were destroyed. Now we hear on t. V. , the 2nd wave is more dangerous. What is the government doing for us . They waste time arguing with opposition parties instead of caring for the people. The government says it will decide next week whether to shut schools, teachers say theyre doing their best to ensure students a safe. Yes he did, and the role didnt go. But yeah, gave them masks a checked as well as the temperatures. The 2nd wave is spreading rapidly, so weve divided our classes into 2 groups. Come in the morning and group being in the evening and that way we can ensure social distancing and avoid any spread by the Prime Minister says hes worried about the number of people being admitted to hospitals and visiting people who wear masks in public and avoid crowds to prevent the 2nd wave of coronavirus being worse than the 1st, victoria aljazeera coming up on this news hour from london, the president continues his twitter attacks on the u. S. Election results, even as more states reject his campaigns court actions. Marching on the capital is here, his Prime Minister says the army is closing in on t. Grays biggest city and sports with peter asian champions, league football, turns to call to action on the way police in uganda say 3 people have been killed during clashes between protesters and Security Forces, supporters of the pop star turned politician known as bobby wine tires in the streets after he was again arrested. Officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions. Are campaigning for the upcoming president ial election. Welcome web is monitoring developments from nairobi and status update. The winds wife has published on social media Uganda Police charge. She says that on this occasion then its certainly not the 1st time hes been arrested on this occasion. Hes been charged with actions that could cause the spread of disease. So this is relating to those covert 19 restrictions that the government has laid out. You doss where youve been taken. Police have said that they dont know he was taken by counterterror police. His wife says that she believes hes being held at a Police Station in the eastern city of ginger. Now the Security Forces often find themselves between a rock and a hard place in these kind of situations. They appear to be under instructions to often prevent opposition. Political activities from taking place in european theres been legislation to prevent that for almost 10 years now in uganda. But on the other hand, when popular opposition figures are arrested and detained, that can cause on rest. That itself can bring people on to the streets. Thats exactly what weve seen today with will be one campaigning in one part of the country. His arrest leading to protests and on rest in the capital, which is more than a 100 kilometers away. So pleased at this point have the choice of either blocking those Political Activities or releasing, releasing their captive to prevent the armrest getting any worse. What they often try to do is kept it into a bar and take the back roads and try and take them home so that the opposition figures taken away and released from detention, but without attracting any further crowds. Ethiopias Prime Minister says his troops are nearing victory over forces in the northern tier, a region that has refused International Calls for mediation, and says military officials, a marching on capitol hill, a federal troops launched an offensive against the Peoples Liberation front earlier this month. Hundreds of people have been killed and the conflict has forced thousands of people to flee many into sudan, hip or morgan is there a worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding as thousands of people cross the border every day. The number of refugees that continue to arrive today have been rising over the past few days. The United Nations High Commission for refugees. Thats the Refugee Agency said that on sunday, more than 5000 arrived on a single day. More than 2300. 00 arrived in the next day. And they say that those numbers are much higher than what they were expecting. They said they were expecting. And the numbers of hundreds of thousands to be arriving. Now, as you can see behind me, these are refugees receiving aid. This is the 1st time that refugees are receiving aid since they arrived to this refugee camp here. And a lot of not far from the border. Most of them say that theyve been going hungry for at least 3 days. Other thing that theyve been going hungry for more and that they have children that they need to tend to. Authorities obviously that the numbers have been rising. Weve got nearly through 30000 refugees numbers that are expected to go up to 250000 over the coming weeks and sudanese authorities have been pleading for aid organizations to step up. So weve seen delegations from the United Nations agencies such as the World Food Program and the United Nations childrens Agency Unicef visiting those refugees centers, the border centers this refugee camp and other refugee camps to look into the needs and assessments of what those refugees need. They say that they have produced called food for about a month for about 50000. 00 refugees. But then again, those numbers are not what are expected. Theyre expecting more than 100000. 00. So more demands by refugees and by authorities for aid organizations to step up your structures. Take home pay was warned that new sanctions could be imposed on iran, on his last visit to israel. Hes praised the countries which have agreed to diplomatic ties with israel in deals, brokered by the u. S. In a News Conference with israels Prime Minister. Foreign minister emphasized irans isolation and encouraged all countries to make pacts. These agreements are important for so many reasons important to the whole world. Indeed, as i travel the world, countries that you might not expect or thankful for the work that bahrain and the united emirates israel are now going to do together. These agreements, open up wonderful opportunities for commerce and economic development. These are, give us also tell, malign actors like the Islamic Republic of iran, that their influence in the region is waning and that they are ever more isolated in this shall forever be until they change their direction. For citizen restoration, he explains whats expected from my proposed last visit to israel, a section of state it is a significant visit in the last weeks of the trumpet. Ministration might pump a 0 here and saying fairly normal things in his press conference, but obviously later doing something pretty extraordinary. With this visit 1st, the press conference we heard from Benjamin Netanyahu welcoming the bahraini foreign minister here the 1st time. An official ministerial visit had taken place, saying that these normalization deals were proceeding with real pace and unleashing economic force, thanking donald trump once again saying that it would not have been possible without the u. S. President s leadership. There was similar language from pompei who also mentioned iran, which is a very much alive issue after those reports that donald trump was looking at military options in regards to Irans Nuclear program in recent days. And those reports also suggesting that home players were pompei was one of those who argued against taking such an option. But the israelis are very concerned about what might happen under the Biden Administration with regard to potentially taking the u. S. Back into the iran nuclear deal. As for ability, if any of the bahraini foreign minister, he also welcomed the warming ties talking about the very soon to be formalized establishment of embassies in each country reciprocally. He also is the only of the 3 men to talk about the palestinians at all. Saying that he had emphasized the need for israel and the palestinians to get back to the negotiating table. And for a viable 2 state solution to be reached. Of paris visit has already stirred up anger among palestinians is expected to become the 1st top u. S. Diplomat to visit an illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank. Palestinian protesters gathered in the west bank city of pyrrhic. They held a march and burnt tire, as they see settlements as a major obstacle to the Peace Process and said, compares visit is supporting israels claim to the land. According to israeli media is expected to visit a winery in the region. This week is President Donald Trump has resumed his twitter attacks on the results of the us election, even though his assertions of fraud are falling short in several states. Is campaign is now filed for a recount. In 2 areas of wisconsin, a state won by democrat candidate joe biden. Its a move which will cost 8000000. 00 in a bid to overturn 820000 vote. Winning margin comes after pennsylvania. Supremes court rejected the argument that republican observers could not watch counting closely enough on its source. Reuters poll conducted over the past week, has revealed a significant number of republican vote. Is still believe the president ial election may have been stolen. 68 percent of republicans said theyre worried. The poll was rigged. Only 16 percent of democrats and one 3rd of independents. A similarly concerned just moon, half of republicans, believe president. All trump rightfully won the election altogether. 73 percent of those polled agreed that biden won the election, or 5 percent thought trump won fischers live from the white house for us. I learned that the trump team continue to push ahead with claims of electoral fraud. And donald trump, just in the last couple of hours tweeting that there were more votes cast in michigan than there are people. Therefore he wins the state and thats without any basis of fact whatsoever. The top Campaign Continues to push ahead. I think donald trump was hoping that the pennsylvania case might well end up as the u. S. Supreme court. Youll remember that his campaign went to court, saying that that observers, when getting into counts that turned out to be false, they then went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court rejected that case, and of course weve known that donald trump has this idea in his head that the Supreme Court somehow will hand him a victory. Well, the u. S. Supreme court doesnt seem inclined to take on this case one because there seems to be, nor are, didnt see in making a decision because it seems that pennsylvania is moving forward with a farming the results in giving the wind to joe biden. The other thing is theres no great constitutional issue for the Supreme Court to dive into, so they seem to be steering well clear of it. We also know that donald trump has asked for a recount in 2 democratic counties in wisconsin. That will cost his campaign somewhere in the region of 3000000. 00. He did a similar thing in 2016. Hillary clinton was behind there. She asked for a recount in wisconsin. They carried it out. And in the end, donald trump got 100. 00 or so more votes than he had before, he increased is margin of victory. So donald trump continues to tweet and retreat. People who are saying that there was fraud, there were issues, there were problems in michigan, there was problems in georgia, there was problems in pennsylvania. The difficulties got all of the court cases that his campaign, theyre bringing up. Theyre not producing evidence and judges on pushing through. I think the last kind was suddenly where like one success for the Trump Campaign against 24 defeats. Its not a great track record. And there are many republicans who are beginning to get in sand when you hear the polls that you just read, lauren, that donald trump is undermining democracy. Hes creating more division in the United States. And thats something that people are getting really worried about and were getting to the point. Sadly from speaking to a few people know last couple of hours. That republicans may start talking, speaking out, because theyre so what he devoted, theyre not there yet. Theyre still scared of donald trump, but theyre getting there. And in the meantime, the administration is suffering another setback, rest time on immigration policy. Thats right. They had been anyone who came across the border, they were sending back to mexico. They said that that was because of corbett. A judge has now said that unaccompanied minors, children under 16 who appear across the board, dont ask for asylum, cannot be sent back. No Trump Campaign, the Trump Administration, let me get distinction, right. The Trump Administration says judges cant make decisions, overrule Public Health experts. But in this case, the judges said, look, if you send back people who come with children, thats ok. If you send by adults, thats ok as well. But you cant send back on the company of minors who are not and see that they are looking for asylum. Its likely that the trumpet ministration will appeal this. They want to move on it quickly, but for the moment it is considered a defeat of donald trump. And the policy that the introduced in march just discovered was beginning to bite across the United States. And fisher, thank you very much indeed. So had this news out armenian soldiers join mass protests against Prime Minister. He called passion yan, after he signed a deal, conceding territory to azerbaijan and a sport with peta. Find out why the Australian Open tennis tournament is in doubt. Thats what those pictures are. However, weve got some cooler weather coming into western powers if you apply for the next couple of days, cold adderall, the more unsettled actually, weve got a cold front coming through this. A lot of this blue line thatll make its way in that cross the british isles. As we go on through thursday and friday, temperatures not hot at around 5 celsius in glasgow. 9 celsius there for london, recent days have been getting up into the, the low to mid teens actually. So quite a significant freshening up of conditions system makes its way through the south was in these for system right on that. Some wet weather coming into northern parts of germany, ahead of thats a lot of rain from both states right down into the alps and theyll be some snow coming through here. It does stay reasonably quiet down to the southwest, across spain and portugal, 19 selfless and madrid most aquash into the eastern side of the med, because some lively showers, a rumbling away here, and that western weather, making its way towards cyprus and the levant. And by the time we come to friday of a storm system bring up across central parts of the mediterranean central areas of italy could see some rather heavy showers with some thunder. Maybe some localized flooding and that same system that will roll down into northern parts of libya, some heavy showers coming in here over the next couple of days. And turning away from the egypt. One of the most wanted men on the planet. Pete masterminded a 4500000000. 00 fraud. They want to put him in jail, but you cannot help being in the past. 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An improvement on initial results published last week. 3 people have been killed in protests in uganda after a president ial opposition candidate was arrested. The pop star turned politician known as bobby wine, says he was born into act after his car by police. Your sector state might compare has warned that new sanctions could be imposed on iran while on his last visit to israel. Hes praised the countries which have agreed to diplomatic ties with israel more in deals brokered by the us with more on that visit to speak to khalid and good days. A senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington, d. C. Hes also director of the program on palestine and palestinian israeli affairs. He joins us via skype from arlington, virginia, thank you very much indeed for being with us. As part of this, this visit from payors is due apparently to go to a visit, a settlement in the occupied territories. What do you think the, the motive or the, the objective is behind that visit . Well its, its probably true for the on the one hand, its probably aimed at shoring up Prime Minister netanyahu, who is facing protests, hes become very unpopular, is really coalition is becoming unstable. And there are even calls for yet another a 4th election to be held. And hes also facing criminal trial early next year. So its one way to shore up netanyahu, whos kind of a battle leadership. But i think its also very ideologically and politically motivated in the sense that pump aoe at the trumpet ministration are strong advocates of the greater israel project, which views all of the occupied territories as belonging to israel. And therefore, until you know, its a way to legitimize that normalize israeli settlements just about a year ago, pump a 0, reverse longstanding u. S. Policy declaring this, i dont mince to be illegal. And so this is kind of taking it a step further saying not only are the settlements that are not illegal, but theyre, theyre actually a good thing. Even these particular domains are built on private Palestinian Land and how much you can one expect to change policy in relation to those issues in particular. And israel and the palestinians. Well, i think by has already indicated that he will take a very different approach that he will reaffirm International Legitimacy a Un Resolution 242. And it will go back to referring to the occupied territories rather than their biblical names that the trumpet ministration favored the of judea. In some area and to go back to a more realistic 2 state solution. But it may not be enough simply to disavow these these policies and reverse them in word. I think it will be important for any incoming bided ministration. To make clear in the same way that pumping, you know, is sort of flaunting, thumbing his nose at International Law by i think, will have to reaffirm quite clearly a commitment to international norms. And what do you make of the move from the palestinians . Just a restart coordination with israel and also to has to attend classes to bahrain in the, in the u. A. E. After theyd, after they made these moves. Could any, any short time ago . Any yeah, i mean i think this is, this is clearly the Palestinian Authority, palestinian leadership is climbing down from the tree that it had climbed up and had no, no way down. So they are using the pretext of coming by ministration as, as a way to climb down. But it really is a, is a kind of an act of desperation. The Palestinian Authority desperately needs aid from the International Community. They need the tax transfers that israel collects from palestinians, but has not been transferring needs. It needs to be engaged with the United States and, and these are the what they view as the ticket to, to saving themselves. But its sort of underscores a real lack of Strategic Thinking on the part of the leadership. How to dig in to thank you very much indeed for talking to him. Thank you. Thank you. And prior to his arrival in israel, pompei was in georgia where opposition parties trying to draw his attention to the political crisis unfolding there. They say parliamentary elections in october were rigged. Robin foresty will come for some to be seen for a high level guest, a fist bump. Hello, mike pompei. I was in tbilisi to emphasize, continued american support for georgia, at a time of regional instability and a raging pandemic. We want to do everything we can to support your democratic process, the building of the institutions of the project, other to be taken to all of these institutions in place that are free, Fair Elections and all the things that come with robust debate and democracy. But georges opposition says free and Fair Elections failed. This downtown protest was organized to attract the u. S. Top diplomats attention to a domestic political crisis. They accused the government of pilates ing the results of a parliamentary vote and backsliding on democracy election definitely was rigged. And this is ridiculous, and that your das us ally and we dont want to back to you. The opposition also want the government to take a stronger stand against the land of the uprooted. Russia has military bases in georgia is to break away tear trees south the set. And last week, russia deployed 2000 peacekeepers to the nagornokarabakh conflict zone in neighboring as a by john. While the u. S. And georgia already cooperate militarily ahead of pompei os visit for what you did, ministers and passages called on the u. S. To provide a Permanent Military presence in their country. We dont know what will be the final outcome of this socalled cease fire or hopefully, but it really sharpened the call of the quantiles of this idea. As mr. Immediate the means to maintain or our dog in the our region or a right track of peace and security rather than being a pool of russian, your political manipulators. It was a short stop on a busy itinerary for mike pompei o, but his visit has huge significance for the only democracy in a region where the balance of power of late has shifted away from the United States. Robin 1st year walker. How does era tbilisi armenias Prime Minister remains under pressure after his country was forced to hand territory to azerbaijan. Rival rally is organized by pro and antigovernment. Protesters are taking place in the capital yerevan. Some of the demonstrators were soldiers. Recently, fortan a disputed region of nagornokarabakh Prime Minister nicole passion and is resisting calls from opponents to resign. Over what they see as a defeat are there is a sign, a binge of agents being given exclusive access to a territory recently retaken by azerbaijan. Is the 1st Time International media has been allowed to film in physically he spoke to a senior as area official. Youre entering in really after 27 years, there is widespread destruction. What is the plan . Actually we see the destruction. Its in a bundle as a but are being committed by army against the city. And physically was one of the prosperous city of azerbaijan before cooperation, and was a region has already started, well, been planning and city planning process. So what that a constructor, enter a city or facility, and bring in internally displaced population of facility back to facility. And as i deal quite aerators of azerbaijan, and once again, International Community will see the difference between destruction of armenia and construction of azerbaijan. But of course, armenia as a state bears the responsibility for such an action, sort of war crimes, crimes against humanity in cordons, in a policy of 1. 00 ism. And based on that assessments, of course, we will continue to build International Institutions including the international courts. So we are to hew armenia. There is a demand by azerbaijan to include turkish peacekeepers, there centers where theyre going to be based. Thats not decided. How many are there going to be . Thats not decided. So how are you going to talk about i. D. P. s coming back to where your theory is. When there is so much still pending . India to the tune of i. D. P. s is going to be immediate process. A lot needs to be done, but no infrastructure has been left here, nor solid building have been left here, and all areas have been contaminated is a mines, and unexploded ordinance is. Everything has been destroyed, therefore it requires from azerbaijan to start new transfer recent destruction policy in these areas that russian peacekeepers are deployed in not going to cut about original father by john. As regards in a turkish peacekeepers its, i was in a monitoring system. And currently with parameters are in the process of discussion. Thank you very much. Thank you. Especially by their to the president talking to us in physically where there is widespread destruction all around. Most of the infrastructure in the city has been taken out. Locals here tell us that it was the city and surrounding areas which used to have about a 140 or 1000 people who were displaced from this area. And since they what theyve, taken out in the 1990 s. , there is we nothing but destruction that have happened here. So a lot needs to be done before people can actually come back in. Thousands of antigovernment protests isnt gathered in thailands capital bangkok, a day after clashes with prominent prime monica demonstrators injured. Dozens of bodies were held outside parliament as lawmakers debated amending the constitution before moving to the citys Police Station at nightfall. Mass protests have been ongoing since july demonstrations, calling for a promise to approach and to step down and reforms to curb the marquiss powers or proposal in parliament that would have opened a debate on the monarchy, failed to win enough votes for approval. So its coming out of there this news hour. Were starting a green industrial revolution. U. K. Government is up to get to net 0. Carbon emissions by 2050 and sports stadium, rooftop demise, a baseball bat, or a homerun beetle. Explain the sport for the on boeings troubled 737 max jet has won approval from the Us Federal Aviation Administration to fly again after almost 2 years. The planes must 1st be fitted with new software and pilots retrained to deal with problems in the stall prevention system called m. Cas. Those problems caused to deadly crashes in 20182019. Both the m cast system repeatedly and powerfully shoved down the jets nose as pilots struggled to regain control. A stream of investigations was triggered and the entire fleet was grounded for 20 months the longest in aviation history. Early estimates the ban has cost it 20000000000. 00 and taking off again wont be easy for the u. S. Plane maker. Icing a resurgent coronavirus pandemic, and new european terrorists plus regulators in europe. Brazil and china have yet to issue their own approvals for the sentry 7 max reports. The Us Federal Aviation Administration approved the boeing 737 max after requiring a host of Engineering Design and Software Changes and revised training procedures for pilots of the path that led us to this point was long and grueling. But we said from the start that we would take the time necessary to get this right. We were never driven by timeline, but rather followed a methodical and deliberate safety process. The 737 max, the latest generation of the worlds best selling aircraft, was grounded in march last year after 2 crashes within months that killed 346 people. The 1st was a lion air flight from indonesia in october 28th teen, followed by an Ethiopian Airlines flight 5 months later, both crashes were traced to a full in the planes maneuvering software. Faulty sensors triggered the program, putting the aircraft into an uncontrollable dive, even as pilots struggled to pull it up. Subsequent investigations blamed boeing for technical failings and a lack of transparency. Concerns about the maneuvering system, raised by boeing, employees were minimized or dismissed. Internal documents showed last month in indonesia, relatives of victims commemorated the 2nd anniversary of the lion air crash. Many believe its too early to allow the 737 max to fly again and turn so hot the last 2 brothers in law in the disaster. You said you could be someone, you know, we want to be absolutely sure that the 7th or 8th 7th mechs the safe. Then let it be just about profits and money and put human considerations aside. Boeing, executives say the company has to rebuild Public Confidence that starts with getting it certified, bringing it back to service. Convincing the regulators that weve done the right thing, that the changes to the airplane are right, that the manuals are right. The training is right. The f. A. A. Is approval is an important step for boeing, but it still has to convince other International Aviation authorities and convincing the public that its safe to fly on the max again. Likely take some time. Rob reynolds aljazeera. Britains Prime Minister has unveiled a plan called the green industrial revolution, aimed at tackling climate change. Johnsons proposal and to get the u. K. To net 0 Carbon Emissions over the next 30 years. It includes a ban on less sale of new pecial in diesel cars starting in the year 2030. And the mother has more from london. Its an ambitious plan to cut pollution from traffic britain set to ban the sale of new petulant diesel vehicles by 203010 years earlier than originally showed jewels. Some hybrids will still be allowed, but theyll be grants for electric cars and funding for charging points. All part of a new 10 point plan aimed at making sure the u. K. Meets its commitment to achieve net 0 Carbon Emissions by 2050. Prime minister Boris Johnson is calling its agreed industrial revolution. The plan aims to create up 2250000, highly skilled green jobs by 2030. It includes a pledge to make london the center of global green finance and involves mobilizing 16000000000 dollars of government money with the private sector providing up to 3. 00 times that amount. One highlight is a pledge to quadruple offshore wind power by 2030, producing enough electricity to power every u. K. Home, as well as a big boost in hydrogen production. But the Opposition Labor Party says only a 3rd of the program is new money pointing out. Countries such as germany and france are investing tens of billions of dollars for the sexpert. Its a small step in the right direction. Just a few weeks ago we identified that their government was spending just a 10th of whats needed every year to meet next year. A 33000000000 pounds a year is whats needed every year over this parliament. Whats been announced today is welcome, but it does fall short from what we think is needed. The plan involves greater investment in new Nuclear Power plants as part of the non Carbon Energy mix. It also includes funds to insulate homes and public buildings responsible for roughly a 3rd of the u. K. s Carbon Emissions as well as Tree Planting programs. A new Carbon Capture initiatives. But theres nothing about something environmental campaigners want to see a frequent flyer levy. We believe in this was supported by the u. K. s Climate Citizens Assembly that there should be higher taxes for those people who fly more so that the 1st, the 1st flights are comparatively cheap, but they become steadily more and more expensive. Because we know actually that just 15 percent of people in the u. K. Take 70 percent of points. The governments promising to invest in clean public transport to make cycling an easier way to travel, especially in cities. The challenge now is what incentives are needed to make a real difference. Nadeem aljazeera london. Now to pretend to have her spot. Thank you, lauren. Well start with cricket. News that england will visit pakistan for the 1st time in 16 years to play 2 t 20 internationals. The games will be in october 2021 and serves as a bold up to the t 20 world cup pakistan when years without hosting international cricket. After the 2009 terrorist attack on sri lankas team bus in lahore, which killed 8 people. But lanka, bangladesh and zimbabwe have all seen teams they, in the last year what were doing is smashing perceptions and actually building the real reality of what pakistan is really about. And its about passion from the fans. Its about hospitality and its about cricket. And this is what this country thrives on. This is what it lives on. And this is what we give back to the world. And its great that these players have been able to experience that england, all rounder monali who has been playing in the Pakistan Super League says this is a significant decision. I think it was probably going to happen. It really . Well i think its right after such a long time for the game its also respond. Ready to them is a new experience and sure its not going to to hold you know, i mean, we call it to go in the future and its a critical earlier we spoke to noman cricket broadcaster based in islamabad. And he says, engel and touring is a great boost for the country. Cricket is absolutely a passion in this part of the world. And it binds us together as a boxer, and hes, and it is about all about politics, race, and about religion. So cricket is a binding force and that they can look at fox. And we are absolutely delighted to be told that england heard on their way out. Isis wont be going to convene in india, shall be stopping over at karachi and declining nationals. So this is indeed happening, south africa is lined up for 2 and generally february 2000 and 31. 00. And then leader also very, almost almost confounded, still a reaction lately about the district. Its got to come over in 2020. So this opens up and i think cricket shall be back and i tell you honestly, its not that im on, but its fun, but its not only about playing cricket. Here we have a culture that you can keep the communication prosper. Tallahassee and typical asian. Yeah, well, so i think that this is really heartening that it has really opened up and conferred and to people and thats what it means. Big were going back and theres this in england. The next cricket assignment is in south africa where they will play t 20 and one Day International series against the hosts. Both series will take place inside a bubble, similar to the concept england used when they host the pakistan and the west indies or any of this year. Those were the 1st cricket matches after the corona virus outbreak. South africa and england fixtures will take place in cape town and the nearby town of paul the Asian Champions League are swung back into action with the teams from the east resuming their group stage for the 1st time. Since the coronavirus pandemic, the delayed competition is being played in a bio security bubble in cutter. Chinas shanghai shenhua, aged perth glory to one group a former wednesday to begin the Continental Campaign on a winning note. This match was being played at Education City stadium, which is one of the venues for the 2022 world cup tennis world. Number 7, alexanders very it is up and running at the a. T. P. Finals in london after a 3 said whenever they go short men, both men lost their Opening Group matches, making this contest a must win a fair pendulum swung in both directions. But eventually very favorite came out on top of the german winning 6346636 that he plays novak. Djokovic goes, is a very difficult, very deserves to be here. Thats why, you know, theres no easy matches, but i have to get the win. Im happy to give myself a chance to to go to so many finals there are doubts surrounding the next tennis grand slam. The Australian Open, which is set to take place as normal in melbourne and january the victoria State Government has yet to sign of quarantine arrangements with the country still effectively closed to international arrivals. Because of covert 19, tennis australia, hope players will be given permission to arrive in mid december to complete 2 weeks of corentin during which they would be able to practice. But the government says, planning is complex and nothing has been agreed. Yes. After a year out of the ring, the best pound for pound box in the world soul come, a low of arias has announced its next fight. The mexican has settled a legal dispute with these former promoter, which means he can fight as a free agent is going to face britains unbeaten. Callum smith for the world super middleweight title december 19th in the United States of at is, has already beaten smiths brother, liam, and is a full weight wool champion with only one defeat in 56 fights that was to floyd mayweather. Now heres something you dont see every day, a stadium ceiling denying a better home run in baseball. But here it comes courtesy of the game. Genie of the n. C. Diners in the korean baseball league. Yeah, its a big but maybe a little too big given its an indoor arena. Ceiling denying him what would have almost certainly have been a home our tools to make matters worse. The diners lost the skate to the 2 sand bags. And thats all the sports news mosport coming up again later. Lar, thanks very much. And thats it for me. This news hour. Im back in memory with another full round of the days news expression trudging back and from fossil fuels to modern day renewable. As societies develop, the energy demands increase, requiring Innovative Solutions to meet such that moms as a global power developed into the basement company. Nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stick around. We provide business growth, promote social economic benefits, and provide innovative, safe, and vironment, leigh sales Energy Solutions for future generation. The brush pioneering future energy. Some have been john. Some have simply disappeared. Obviously been found. One i want to investigate the plight of thailands decide on how to fear the kina faso is heading toward elections. But spiralling insecurity is overshadowing the votes of hundreds of thousands of conrad just out and much of the country is off limits. Thanks to roaming on. Kreutz, so what real change can these elections bring . Joining us as we assess the outlook for want to africas most troubled states, do you feel validated in south way as a type of performative activism . Lets go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist. The lights are on the theres nowhere to hide. Join me, Richelle Carey is up at the front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. Front row times on aljazeera drug company, pfizer says its ready to apply for emergency approval for its growth of our spec, seen after a late stage trials show its safe and effective. Unarmed taito says aljazeera live from london, also coming up ugandan Opposition Leader bobby wine is arrested again while out campaigning. 3 people were killed in the protests that followed. Your sect of state might compare heads to israel for talks, but controversy surrounds and one of the events on his itinerary