Met with crown Prince Mohammed bin sound man u. S. President elect joe biden, is set to announce his 1st cabinet appointments. Anthony blinken may form on Obama Administration official expected to be secretary of state. Powell says its developed a covert 19 vaccine for the world and then a fraction of the cost of others in the pipeline. The british drug maker working with Oxford University says trials show it could be around 90 percent effective. It would cost around 2. 00 and a half dollars a dose and be stored at normal frigid temperatures for 6 months, helping distribution. By contrast, more than or says its experimental vaccine looks to be 94. 00 sent affective. It can sit in a fridge for 30 days or a regular freezer for 6 months. By on tag vaccine is said to be 95 percent effective. However, it requires specialist deep freezing. Both modern and pfizer will charge at least 20. 00 a dose. Jonah, how is in london so i guess the 6000000 dollar question journal, when will the astra zeneca vaccine be available for us to buy . Well, astra zeneca says that it is putting these interim results immediately into the regulator in the hope that they are sufficient to achieve approval potentially they say by the end of the year, towards the latter part of december, when the 1st rollout can take place. The question is which dosage regime will they proceed with because there is the standard dosage regime. One full dose followed by a 2nd full dose a month later that produced not the best results around 62 percent efficacy. And then a subset of the trial involving 3000. 00 participants with a lower dosage half a dose followed by a full dose a month later that counterintuitively produced far better results. 90 percent efficacy. The question is whether the data from that subset is sufficient to approve that dosage regime or whether more data will be required yet. Whatever happens, remember this, this is a vaccine that does appear now to work. It reduces the severity of symptoms among those who slip through the cracks to merely mild symptoms. Therefore, no instances, serious instances of the disease at all. It is cheap to mass produce much cheaper than its counterparts and much easier to store and distribute it. Far more moderate temperatures, making it accessible to the developing world to poorer countries that had feared they may be left behind in all of this, which is why already its being dubbed the vaccine for the world. And despite the good news about vaccines, the Prime Minister there is just outlined whats going to happen for the what sort of winter plan explain to us what this new to system will look like. Yes, willing to now has a much better idea of how things are going to look over the next few months leading all the way up to the spring next year when the Health Secretary at least or, or believes that one way or another Vaccine Technology will lead to a return to normal life, the lockdown will end on the 2nd of december, Boris Johnson has outlined the new tear system of localized regional restrictions that will replace it much stricter than the previous tier system that was introduced in october. Designed to lock in protect the gains of the lockdown, but also to bring numbers down and prevent any sort of winter or springtime surge in the virus. Also to allow for a relaxation of the rules over christmas so that families can spend time together before the 2 system resumes. After christmas there is a new testing news, last Testing Available to parts of the country worst affected to allow them to get out of that situation into a lower tier. And also to alleviate the need for 14 out of the mandatory 14 day isolation period. Under the test and trace system. So all of these measures in place now to continue to control and suppress the virus also to hopefully try and protect and boost the economy at the same time, even as yet more positive news about a vaccine. Now 3 in the works of the likelihood, looking more likely than ever that an end to all of this is inside. Or i bear the journal how from london and omarion, it is the Health Policy manager oxfam. She says the news from astra zeneca in oxford is encouraging. If they do, you really want this to be a vaccine for the world, then we have to address the elephant in the room. And that is the supply issue. We dont have enough supply of this vaccine for the world. And its true that astra zeneca has with oxford and under Oxford University, its instruction we understand have made more deals with more money factor is to scale up production, but they havent yet done enough. And thats why the peoples Vaccine Campaign is calling for astra zeneca. And in fact, all the pharmaceutical companies to open up that science to share their science and transfer that know how about this, about their vaccines. And they said that we can scale up that production to actually supply the world. But yes, we understand its based on, on technology and for that reason it is lower cost. But also, as we understand it, Oxford University has put conditions on astra zeneca, not to make a profit, particularly in developing countries for the duration of this pandemic. But we need to see those contracts to be absolutely clear that astra zeneca is not making a profit from this and keeping the price as low as possible. And we need that those same guidelines apply to the other pharmaceutical companies as well. And the other vaccine candidates, south korea is introducing new coronavirus restrictions to try and stem a 3rd wave as winter starts. Daily infections have topped 300 for much of the last week. And officials fear they could rise further. Problem brined reports from saw on south koreas 5, tier scale for social distancing restrictions are being raised to level 2 for the sole metropolitan area which is home to around half the countrys population. The spike in new cases has officials here worried youre in a cocktail. If we do not stop this change, the number of patients will rise as if a dam had broken. The new measures will mean cafes can only serve takeout in restaurant dining will end earlier each evening while theyll be tighter restrictions on class sizes in schools and numbers of spectators at sporting events. Nightclubs will also be closed. The last time nightclubs were closed was in the 2nd wave that happened during the summer, the 1st way within the southeastern city of daegu, at the start of the outbreak here in february. But what worries officials about this wave is how widespread it is. Absolute preemptive testing in isolating were effective for the previous 2 waves as they happen around main clusters. In contrast, this time there are various sources of infection. Its led to the government calling for a redoubling of efforts. This coordinated drone show pushing the message that the virus can be overcome by people working together as they have for so many months with the promise of a vaccine on the other side of a difficult winter problem. Bride aljazeera soul. The leader of forces in ethiopia is northern. Region is denying Government Troops are in the process of surrounding the regional capital. The government though insists its soldiers are within 50 kilometers of the city. On sunday gave the Peoples Liberation front a 72 hour surrender ultimatum. A Communications Blackout has made claims from both sides difficult to verify. The government began its offensive. Almost 3 weeks ago is following developments from nairobi in neighboring kenya. The government has said its forces surrounded the grain capital, regional capital of mackay, in that there are about 50 kilometers away. That follows an ultimatum given by present by Prime Minister made on sunday. He said he was giving that to Ground Forces 3 days to lay down their arms of head of what he said was a final would be a final assault on the regional capital. We kelly. But the bread in the bread in gary michael, the leader of the to green forces, has refuted these claims. He said that its not true that the cities around it. And he said that 3 day ultimatum was actually a cover up on the part of the federal forces. He says are suffering following 3 defeats. So these reports, these claims by both sides completely contradict each other, but its very hard to work out exactly whats going on. Since communications phone lines and internet in that part of the country have been cut off for weeks, sudanese authorities have opened 2 camps to cope with the influx of refugees from ethiopia, and morgan reports from get out of state. Some have experienced life like this before refugee camp in sudans got a lot of state is need too many refugees, but not it has this fight. Her parents fled to the camp in 1085 to escape war and famine back in their home country. Shes back to the same old camp this time with her 10 day old child who she gave birth to while fleeing conflict in ethiopia, stigler a region of the more leader i went to america to give birth to my child. But then the fighting started and you had to flee. I gave birth to my child while i was running away to come here. He was born on the road. Now im back to the camp where i was born as a refugee and my new born is at the same camp. Also, refugio was closed in the year 2000, following the return of most of the refugees who once lived in the capital back to ethiopia. But 20 years later, the camp is open again to cope with an influx of ethiopian refugees who started arriving to sudan. 2 weeks ago. All here have escaped from various parts of degree. Nearly 40000 refugees have fled to sudan altogether, following a government offensive on the to great Peoples Liberation front. The offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base, which came after months of tension between the Regional Government and the federal government. Taking a dash of hope not to come back to the camp when he left here, 2 years before it was closed. But he says the fighting has left him with no option. Has a home and how to they are killing us. Integrate. There are people being killed, our own children, bombs are being dropped on buildings. Its sad that many of us are displaced again, but we want to live. We dont want to die in war. More than 6000 refugees now live in the camp. Its opened less than 2 weeks ago. Even though receiving refugees isnt new for the owner of the number of those arriving here has been increasing so fast that many of them are still without shelter. Access to basic services such as clean water, food and healthcare is also challenging. For many, this place is once again providing them with a refuge in the United Nations says it expects 200000 refugees to arrive to sudan in the coming months if fighting, integrate along with lack of humanitarian access continues. So these Authorities Say the camp has a limited capacity and more camps need to be established. But were urging donors and International Organizations to help us cope with the situation because its very dire. Some organizations are provided aid, but theres too many people for the state, and for a few were going to zation. They need services and they need care, which we cant provide alone. Sudan already has its economic problems. So we need the International Community to help us with this crisis. That has says, she took her children would never live the life she had left. But with 3 generations of refugees in her family, she wonders when the search for a permanent refuge and stability will and people morgan aljazeera get out of state. Still ahead, an aljazeera kept in custody. Hong kong prodemocracy activist, joshua long pleads guilty to his role in antigovernment protests and warnings of an environmental disaster. We look at the impact on ambitious real estate projects. Could have on pakistans, mangroves hello, weve got sir. Clear a crisp but weather pushing into japan at the moment. Clearing skies coming in, we have got a little bit of cloud, just pulling wife and at least the side of japan, 16 celsius in tokyo. Freshening up here. 7 nights there for beijing and also for red. So well see similar temperatures as we go on through wednesday, perhaps a touch warmer in seoul, but great difference, a fair amount of sparkling blue skies there and some sunshine. Then weve got at 14 celsius, the chance of showers into the northeast of honshu, but nothing too much to speak of. Well, the more the way of shabby rain is the central parts of china. Kolarov to the north of that. When off down to the south, hong kong at 27. 00 celsius, decent spells of sunshine, sunshine 2 into central and much of northern india, down towards the south, down towards the southern sections of the bingo. We do have a developing system here thats throwing a lot of heavy rain pushing across into under pradesh that could lead to some flooding as we go through the next couple days. It may well develop into way of cyclists. We want to keep an eye on further north. Other end of the spectrum here, cold wet and wintry weather coming in across northern parts of india and cold enough to pakistan. On account of the cost becomes the 1st african nation to default on its debts of the pandemic. But are steps pileups Central Banks think the unthinkable . Negative Interest Rates plus brazils dumped out of the rankings of the worlds top 10, economies. Countering the cost of aljazeera context in the fleet. Story telling around the biggest issues had to do usually do with a comeback. Youre watching aljazeera time to recap our headlines now. Pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and Oxford University, say late stage testing of their covert 900. 00 vaccine shows its highly effective. They say can be stored, fridge temperature, making it cheaper and easier to distribute. The leader of forces in ethiopia, region is denying Government Troops are surrounding the main city. The government insists its soldiers are in circling it at a distance of 50 kilometers an hour. Saudi arabia is denying that crown Prince Mohammed bin met with israels Prime Minister benyamin netanyahu. The Saudi Foreign minister tweeted this response after the israeli public broadcaster reported a meeting took place. It was said to have included the head of Israeli Intelligence agency, mossad and the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o r e 4. So has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. The Education Minister said it was a great achievement, despite the semi official way in which it had come out. Netanyahu rival and alternate Prime Minister and defense minister benny gantz was criticizing the us. And you know, for having this meeting leaked out in such a way, the israeli Prime Minister himself was asked about it during an appearance of the israeli parliament, the knesset, during which he said that for many years he had never publicly commented on such things that he wouldnt start now, but that he continued to work to expand the circle of peace. So i think the preponderance of evidence, certainly from the israeli side is that this meeting did take place. It was 1st seen in a flight path of a business jet which has been used by netanyahu in the path which left israel on sunday evening, went to this future would be hightech resort town that the crown prince of saudi arabia had been. Someone wants to establish on the red sea coast, we know that he was there with the u. S. Secretary of state might pompei o. And if israel had wanted to totally shut this down, it has very powerful censorship laws with which to do so. It was pretty clear that the Israeli Government wanted this to come out, presumably had, there had been some kind of called nation with the other parties involved as well, despite this denial coming from the Saudi Foreign minister. Now dizzier senior political analyst joins us now live for more on this somewhat. I, what do you make of these reports of a meeting between m. B. s as hes known as trails Prime Minister . Well, it seems like all the circumstantial evidence leads to us believing that the meeting that took place. And clearly, as weve heard from harry and the Prime Minister is right, is reveling in the fact that being, it takes place. And he clearly went out of his way to make sure everyone knew that the secret meeting is not so secret. After all, on the saudi side clinic there is a bit of a, i got a division of labor or some overt things happening within the kingdom. I can to believe its the earlier. There is division of labor. I dont think an israeli Prime Minister could land in saudi arabia without the monarch knowing so clearly between the king of the congress. Theres some kind of understanding that the king denies and insists that nothing will happen with israel before an independent but a 2nd state is established. While the crown prince continues with his 5 year journey. If you will, one with israel in order to establish radio channels of communication. Now the fact that the mossad chief was there clearly establishes the fact that saudi Israeli Security contacts have been going on and continue to go on. And they are part and parcel of whatever goes on on the political scene. Israel certainly wants us to be known because nothing now thinks its a huge asset for themselves. The saudi monarch, not so much because they, as a Public Opinion include a saudi arabia has a certain standing in the muslim world. You could only imagine sign me, you know, the next season, how millions of muslims wont feel that the saudis, who always talk about the occupy jerusalem are normalizing relations. Not with israel, but with there is an occupation of jerusalem and palestine. Whats the incentive for the timing now coming at this transitional period between u. S. Administration this probably a sense in the Trump Administration that they need to cement some of what they consider to be that achievements which is making some inroads into the trump deal of the century and that is basically setting out a country whose normalizing relations with the israeli occupation. Now we all know that the likes about her reign and the u. A. E. Wouldnt dare normalize relations with israel if the soldiers werent championing. If she were there normalization. So i think its important or it was important for the top and mrs. Shin, for the soldiers to perhaps make another step, a more daring step on the part of the crown prince in order to make some message of sort the words, the israelis about normalization. Because i think probably that the now would be convincing the crown prince that theyre coming by then administration, that israel is certainly an asset for saudi arabia. And we all know that congress is not exactly catch a way through with the kingdom come so that it gets Human Rights Violations that killing of our colleagues about hygiene. Its war in yemen and certainly its opposition to that need with iran. So all in all, i think the timing is serves, i missed another now and serves the administration or President Trump and so on. Im along with our thanks a lot. Now a stunning get, an idea of who takes some of the top positions in the joe biden administration. The, president elect is expected to announce anthony blinken. As the new u. S. , secretary of state, clinton has long served as his Foreign Policy adviser and reports suggest Jake Sullivan is being lined up to take on the role of National Security adviser. Hes worked for both biden and former u. S. Democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton white house correspondent, kimberly how is live for us in washington d. C. Lets start with the appointment of the secretary of state and that candidate it. What does that tell us about u. S. Foreign policy . Perhaps where it might go on the joe biden, or what is clear from these and ausmus that are to be formalized on tuesday is that its a goal of the biden. It ministration to re frame americas relationships with allies, particularly after 4 years of Donald Trumps america 1st policies. What this will be is a resounding of some familiar global alliances, whether it be rekindled link to the iran nuclear deal, whether its the United States taking part in the World Health Organization or even joining the paris climate accord. But there will also be some challenges for a new secretary of state because this is a demoralized state department at the scene budget cuts and even many career diplomats leave. So its not something that will be able to be done quickly, but clearly it is a priority for the incoming biden administration. All right, thanks so much can be healthier. Now, hong kong prodemocracy activist joshua wall has pleaded guilty to Unlawful Assembly during last years protests. He was joined in called by fellow activists, i guess chalo and ivan lam. The 3 will be held in custody until sentencing next week and could face 5 years in jail. Last years protests outside hong kongs police headquarters, but triggered by the introduction of a controversial extradition bill to the polonaise following events in hong kong. The prosecution spent most of the days proceedings, presenting evidence mostly in the form of video footage, showing the events of the night of june 21st 2019. It shows thousands of people who had surrounded the police station, blockading the police headquarters. But the footage mainly focused on joshua warned ivan lamb and i get this shout chanting slogans and calling on the Police Commissioner to come out and face the public. They all have pleaded guilty and could face up to 5 years in jail. Perhaps a foretaste wish me to stay in prison, but i would personally that neither person boss, no election bears, nor any other arbitrary power to stop us from activists on. This would be the 4th time joshua long is being sent to jail. His 1st prison sentence is back in 2017. He was just a teenager then. But it was also for protest related offenses. Back then, he was seen as one of hong kongs 1st Political Prisoners and it sends shock waves across the city. But this is a very different hong kong now, especially in the past few months where the arrests and detentions of political and democracy activists have become a frequent occurrence under the calling you a crackdown against the city is. This is this generation of youve go from protests to prison, to safeguard liberty for the place that we are born, silas, but we got less sacrifice. This is just the latest in a growing number of activists being taken to court for relatively minor offenses. Timing from last years protest. Since 2091 then 10000 people have been arrested with at least 2000 of them charged for protest related activities. Carter says it has identified the parents of a newborn baby found in a bin Hamad International airport. The infants mother left the country carters Public Prosecution office says its working internationally to have her arrested. She could face 15 years in jail. It says Airport Security are also to face sentences of up to 3 years for forcing female passengers to undergo physical examination. Before being allowed to fly after the baby was discovered, police in colombia say, an attack that killed at least 8 people on saturday is linked to drug trafficking. They say a group of heavily armed men opened fire in a dormitory at a Coffee Plantation in the region. A separate attack on sunday in the Southwest Region of coca left at least 5 people dead. Colombia has seen a rise in attacks. Rival gangs battle over control of the countrys lucrative cocaine. Trade. Environmentalists in pakistan are warning a government plan to develop 2 islands in the arabian sea could create an environmental disaster. The islands are situated near karachi. Theyre known for their mangrove forests as they provide natural cover from storms and pollution franka go up to reports. They are known as karachi screen lungs. But these mangrove forests on the shores of one of the most polluted cities on earth. Washington fast. And now environmentalists say they are also try to end by a 50000000000. 00 Housing Project plant by the government. I think if youre going to do Land Reclamation here and phyllis with sand and miles that its nothing short of thats the mangrove forests that form a protective barrier. Its the mangroves that protect us from the storms and cyclists. And the ecosystem here is essential for the livelihood of the fishermen. From illegal logging and pollution have already damaged the smog rules and their diverse ecosystem. Tens of thousands of people depend on them for commercial fishing. They see they no risk losing everything. The allotments on the look of the sea will be spoiled. There will be a lot of pollution at the construction of the city. Hundreds of thousands of our fishermen will become unemployed. Prime minister imran khans government says the project to create thousands of jobs and ease pressure on karachi, a city of 20000000 people. But it has put promise to iran, contra, covenant, at old speed. Provincial leaders believe that yes, development has to be live, but the development not at the cost of your property. Market the cost of your people and market the cost of your environment. Monsoon floods this year have caused damage. In many areas, karachi advisor mantra, see if the natural protection offered by the islands is all too real. Did the city could face an environmental disaster, clark, a good guy . And thats have a look at some of those headlines here. Now. The syria now pharmaceutical company, astra. Zeneca and Oxford University say late stage testing of their code with 19 vaccine shows its highly effective. They say can be stored at fridge, temperature, making it cheaper and easier to distribute. Journal has more from london. It is shown to reduce severity of