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People dont do it, as we expect, were going to do something about australia is about to release a report on alleged war crimes committed in afghanistan after a 4 year investigation u. S. Drug maker says it will request emergency approval for its coded, but 19 vaccine in the coming days and shown consistent results across broad demographics with no major side effects. On the has more from new york. Its safe, 95 percent effective and ready for final approval. Thats what pfizer and its german partner by in tech are saying about their corona, virus vaccine. Which they expect to submit to the f. D. A. For authorization within days. In trials, the company said side effects from the vaccine were mild, boston based moderna has said its vaccine still in the final stage of trials is also showing over 90 percent effectiveness. U. S. Health officials said both could be rolled out as soon as next month. By the end of december, we expect to have about 40000000 doses of these 2 Vaccines Available for distribution, pending f. D. A. Authorization. Enough to vaccinate about 20000000 of our most vulnerable americans. And production of course, would continue to ramp up after that. But president elect joe biden said on wednesday that while the vaccine news is positive, hes being hampered by Donald Trumps refusal to acknowledge his election victory, or allow the Biden Harris Team access to Important Information about developments. Theres a whole lot of things that are just, we just dont have available to us, which, unless its made available soon, were going to be hurrying by weeks or months, speed able to put together the whole. And this should both vaccines use a new technology called messenger r. N. A. That is being praised for how well it seems to work. Dozens of drug makers and Research Groups using a variety of approaches, are racing to develop a covert vaccine with astra zeneca and johnson and johnson also likely to release results of trials this year. It cant come soon enough with copd surging around the world with the United States, still the global hot spot. Now averaging around 150000 cases and over 1000 deaths a day. Rural states are being hit particularly hard with south dakota and iowa, recording over 50 percent positivity rates higher than new york during the peak of the pandemic in the spring. And while the vaccine appears to be closer, most experts still say it wont be widely available until early to the middle of next year. Gabriels on aljazeera new york. But theres growing concern that wealthier nations will quickly, but the majority of any vaccine leaving poor countries last in line. The Campaign Group global justice now has worn that up to 85 percent of the worlds poorest people. Why not access . And thats because ive already sold 82 percent of the 1300000000. 00 says they can produce by the end of next year. And its the same case with the Pharma Company medinas vaccine. Its already sold 70 percent of its 780000000 doses. Theyve been snapped up by the worlds richest nations, which only make up around 14 percent of the worlds population. That leaves very little room for aid organizations to help poor nations. Now, while the development has been welcomed by the world health organization, it has warned that vaccines are only one part of a successful response to the corona virus. And in vaccines is going to give us a huge chance. But if we add vaccines and forget the other, things does not go to 0. We need to add vaccination to the existing physical measures being careful and hygiene. And if we add that physical distancing in hygiene and care to vaccine, i think we will go a long way to getting rid of this one. All this as the United States continues to see an acceleration of covert 19 cases. The number of coronavirus related deaths there has crossed 250000. Its reported more than 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 it statistically the worlds worst hit nation. 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 devastating it is for american communities. Biden told his guests that they deserve leaders who would work hard to support nurses and carers. Canadas vast outtake terek tree of none of us has gone into a 2 week lockdown after a surgeon coronavirus cases. After being creative are as free for 8 months are now outbreaks in full communities. There are no roads into the territory and towns can only be reached by plane. The 1st case was reported at the beginning of november, but this week infections doubled overnight, reaching 70 cases on wednesday. Now, the majority are in the habit of r. V. s, a community of just under 3000. 00 people, most of which are indigenous innuit. And they are already vulnerable with few jobs, expensive housing and Minimal Health care services. 54 doesnt seem like a big number in your city or in a large city. But in a small place like 54 r. Is quite a number and people are, are, are quite nervous and are scared and weve been doing good in myself as much as we can to reassure them there. Yes, it is there, but dont panic, stay home. We will take care of you so far. No one has been has had to be hospitalized. People in germany have been protesting against the governments new coronavirus rules. The country is under a 2nd lockdown after seeing a shop take and cases, police fired water and arrested several people in berlin. Thousands demonstrated as palm and debated a bill which would allow the government to impose even stricter coronavirus measures. The state of South Australia is going into lockdown for 6 days to stop the spread of 1922, new cases of whats been described as a highly contagious strain of the virus have been detected. Schools and nonessential businesses will be closed and people will have to stay home. The states premier described it as a Circuit Breaker locked down to control community infections. Sons dealing with a 2nd wave of corona, virus infections, the government that has not imposed another lockdown, but is restricting Public Events to include political rallies. The tory gate and the 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 to say, yes, when theyre old, they go, but yeah, get their masks are 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 baby in the evening, and that way we can ensure social distancing and avoid any spread. 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 gazing be aljazeera. Judy official is an associate Research Professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University medical center. She joins us live now from washington d. C. Via skype julia. So many countries have gone back into either another lockdown, or theyre seeing a rise in cases that theres a lot riding on this vaccine right now. But this vaccine may not be the silver bullet. Everybody is hoping it might be the data we are seeing come now out of the trials of the 2 1st vaccines for which weve seen Data Protection reported the Pfizer Vaccine in the a very promising. Its encouraging that the early numbers show more than 90 percent protection on each, and that is a good reason to have optimism. But once they are approved and licensed for use or approved for use, they still have to be packaged. They have to be moved to who communities so that they can be delivered to people. And all of the support has to be put in place so that theyre delivered under the right conditions. So theyre preserved and effective with all of the equipment that is needed to administer them safely, including syringes, needles, and the bottling of those vaccines in the 1st place, which just requires a lot of player and a lot of support. So its going to be quite easy, or at least easier, rich nations to be able to do that. And theyre certainly the biggest consumers of this vaccine. Theyre ready for in orders into the, into the millions. But when it comes to poor nations, are you concerned that the vaccine may not be available of those countries for a watch . Absolutely concerned because we expect. And since with this before, and vaccines were rolled out for the h one, n one pandemic, in 2009, we saw that there was a real challenge in getting vaccines matched correctly with the communities that were in greatest need of them. And certainly in, in countries where resource constrained the, the, the just tickle it to get the vaccines at the right place to train people to administer them, just to find the care personnel to, to deliver these vaccines to the people at highest risk quickly. And even greater, challenge in washington d. C. , thank you very much. Thank you. Least 3 people have been killed and dozens more injured in uganda during Political Violence between protesters and police. Supporters of the pop star turned politician bobby wine burn ties in the streets after he was arrested. At a rally in the east of uganda. Officials accuse them of violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning for the upcoming president ial election. Another Opposition Leader has also been arrested while campaigning. This update from nairobi. Well, the wind was campaigning in the district called luca, just over 100 kilometers from the capitol can pass. And it was there that he was arrested, bundled into a police van. Cleef said he was arrested because of repeated violations of Campaign Restrictions to try and prevent the spread of covert 19, in particular holding rallies above a specified limit of 200 people. But the wine was a pop star got involved in opposition. Politics is challenging. President , you know, im a 70 and elections, its you to be held in january. The 70 has been in power for 34 years. For the wine, its very popular among young people, particularly in towns and cities where he frequently jaws large crowds much larger than the limits of 200. Now when he was arrested today, news spread to the capital kampala where his supporters took to the streets to set up burning roadblocks. Police responded with a crackdown and disperse crowds with tear gas. Gunfire could be heard throughout the city. Police said along with reports in the local press that some people have been killed in the violence as well as dozens who have been injured. Meanwhile, another opposition candidate, patrick. The party is the Largest Opposition Party in parliament, was also arrested in the Northern City of gulu. Police said, because he had planned an on authorized procession. So ahead on al jazeera armenian soldiers joined mass protests against Prime Minister nicola, as calls for him to resign over his nagornokarabakh appeal, plus how low they are. Weve got some raw the wet weather coming into japan over the next couple of days. Huge, massive cloud rolling across the yellow sea, the perry of low pressure, this one. And it will bring some terrific downpours in across north korea. South korea going on through thursday, pushes out into the sea of japan, some wet weather coming into q. C. That will sweep its way further. Race was making its way across honshu and hokkaido as we go through friday, some snow in the northern flank of that and the cold, all the wind coming in behind. So really freshening up, so no higher than about 8 celsius in a similar temperature that say for beijing, but at least it will be dry and fine. Try and find sue across northern parts of the philippines over the next couple of days. And im pleased to say much drier weather now coming into vietnam. Still quite a rash of showers across central parts, southern parts of the philippines. Pushing into where malaysia will be downpours around the middle a peninsula, some wetter weather to say, just extending across a good part of somalia and also into borneo in asia are also seeing some live as lively showers longer spells of frank continuing across southern parts of india. Sri lanka saying some rather wet weather, but to the north of that is fine. Dry and sunny and outspoken writes are killed in a car bomb outside. Hes a return in 2005, accusations, speculation, and denials. Aljazeera with a life and fine and dandy, simian c. N. N. , journalist, academic and political activist, i mean crossing and killing every chance on aljazeera. We want to remind of all top stories this us shrug will apply for a merge and see all to rise ation for its current a virus vaccine. Within days, pfizer says late stale and late stage trials of its candidate shows, it was 95 percent effective. An improvement on initial results published last week, and the u. S. Continues to see an acceleration of coverage. 19 cases. The number of deaths has crossed 250000. Its reported more than a 1000000 new infections in the past week alone. President elect joe biden, hosted a Virtual Meeting with Frontline Health care workers. And 3 people have been killed in protests in uganda, often opposition president ial candidates was arrested. The pop star turned politician, known as the wind, says he was violently dragged out of his car by police. I mean, his Prime Minister remains under pressure after his country was forced to hand territory to azerbaijan. Rallies organized by private and government. Protesters have taken place in the capital yet of on some of the demonstrators were soldiers who recently fought in the disputed region of the gonna cut about Prime Minister nicole pashmina and is resisting calls to resign out. As a result, binge of it has been 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 official youre entering in really after 27 years, there is widespread destruction. What is the plan . And 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 completion. And azerbaijan has already started, well done 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 physically and as a 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 actions 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 at the centers where they are 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 . Indeed to turn, if i do peace 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 trucks from recent destruction policy in these areas that russian peacekeepers are deployed in not going to care about region of azerbaijan. 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. 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 refused to have about 140000. People who were displaced, from this area and since they were taken out in the 1990 s. , there is to be nothing but destruction that have happened here. So a lot needs to be done before. People can actually come back in a long awaited inquiry into the conduct of Australian Special forces in afghanistan as proud and credible evidence of multiple war crimes. Their reports contains details of 39. 00 unlawful killings of civilians or prisoners and the cruel treatment of a further 2. Other allegations include weapons being planted on bodies to conceal wrongdoing. Just aspersion, considered in detail 57 allegations of incidents and issues. He found there to be credible information, to substantiate 23 incidents, of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25 strong special forces personnel predominantly from the special air Service Regiment gauges live for us in camera. Nicol you were at that press conference that we just heard a sound bite from. Does this mean they will be closure for afghan families . Finally, for this already has been a 4 year investigation, but this is really the beginning because this process has been administrative only within the Defense Force. It is not a criminal investigation. So all of these matters are still just allegations, but this report will no doubt be shocking and extremely confronting to many people. It details dozens of allegations against at least 9 tain. Special forces soldiers who were in afghanistan between 2005 and 26, jane, and some of the stories, quite confronting, including allegations of unlawful killings, of civilians thats outside of the heat of battle. And also what was known as blooding. The report contains allegations that some younger soldiers were asked by them or say, new soldiers to kill, unlawfully killed people in afghanistan as a 1st kill. And some of those did do that in the report says that there are many people who are suffering mentally at this stage as well. But this will no doubt have widespread ramifications and in terms of the time fry. And it could be until we see anyone in the court system because a special investigation will now need to look at all of this evidence and actually build up cases to be prosecuted in course. But nikka, how controversial is this in australia itself . I mean, are people looking for to the Australian Defense ministry to take responsibility . Well, the chief of these showing Defense Force Angus Campbell has just apologize sincerely for any wrongdoing. And this does need to be seen as a strictly in a struggle in government and the Australian Defense force taking accountability show ins have known about this for some time because of Media Coverage of the lakes of stories of alleged war crimes. And this really is confirming that the Australian Defense force also thinks that wrongdoings have occurred. Its interesting to note that it says its responsibility to make sure that families of any afghan citizens who were caught up in this do get compensated even before the criminal cases get prosecuted. So it will be very concerned about this. But this does show that the Defense Forces taking accountability and holding those to account who didnt act within the realms of the law of war. Theyre good guys there for us live in camera, us secretary of state. My pump is in israel on what is said to be his last will. On behalf of the trump administration, he held a joint press conference with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and bahrains a foreign minister. They praised the normalization of ties between israel and bahrain. The u. A. E. And sudan deals brokered by the u. S. Compos expected to become the 1st top u. S. Diplomat to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank. That sparked anger amongst palestinian protesters, who see the settlements as a major obstacle to peace. Now the trumpet administration has broken with decades of u. S. Foreign policy in its support of israel, including saying that it doesnt see israeli settlements to be illegal under international law. Ari forces in west jerusalem. 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 of 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 Iranian 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 was 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. The u. S. Has dropped drug charges against west mexicos former defense minister solving some of those 10 fake guess he was arrested in los angeles last month. Its now up to mexico to investigate and possibly prosecute him. John heilemann reports from mexico city. 2 it was a bombshell precedented when the former head of the mets knaan forces, general salvador see him for eagles, was arrested by u. S. Authorities in los angeles airport. Again as thats all theyre saying. But now theres been a bigger shock in extremely unusual u. Turn. The u. S. Has decided not to prosecute him and to send him back to his homeland. See him for a girls was accused of trafficking drugs to the u. S. And protecting a cartel from mexican and u. S. Law enforcement. Prosecutors said one of his nicknames was the reno the godfather. The mets can, foreign minister must sell or abroad, welcomed the move to return him. But its a decision that we look at kindly and we think is positive. We dont see this as part of the road to impunity, but as an act of respect towards mexico and its armed forces. He said to see him for eagles will now be investigated in mexico, incorporating the u. S. Evidence, but he didnt say hed be put on trial. Why is that . I mean, the president , under his manual opens up the door. This is a question of sovereignty. He sees dealing with c. M. For eagles, as his administrations parole gets the decision to get their former chief, but will also help strengthen the president s relationship with the military who has come to rely on for policing and infrastructure projects. The move was announced in a joint statement from the u. S. Mexican attorney generals that talked about the strong lauren foresman partnership between the countries and the united front. Those words mean suv an important bilateral relationship, but they were raised questions to if there is such trust in the relationship, why didnt the u. S. Authorities tell them . Its come ones about the investigation in the 14 months that they were conducting it. And whats going to happen now when the general returns to a country with rampant impunity . John homan, how does it or mexico city bizarre is there and these are the top stories. A long awaited inquiry into the conduct of Australian Special forces on the stand as fran credible evidence of multiple war crimes. The report details