jordan, joining us now via skype from reston. virginia is rena shah. she is a lifelong republican who founded the group republican women for biden. and we were just talking about the obstacles to joe biden's transition process. not going to get any easier when he's inaugurated, as it, he's dealing with priorities around a pandemic. the prospects of the economy going into recession in a senate that might block his every move. how difficult is the start of this presidency going to be for him? you know, i don't think it's going to be very rocky purchased by them because he comes into this role. no stranger to the oval office. i think it's been since president each w. bush, 41 bush, 41 since the last time we thought american president walked into the oval office with this much, not so security intelligence as well as foreign policy experience. so i trust that joe biden will be very comfortable. what he's been doing in the days since essentially locking up the election and look yesterday, it was just more of a formality for him hitting 306 electoral votes,

she joins me via skype from oira, in the indian state of go, well come serai. overall, the indian economy continues to shrink. after an unprecedented contraction of almost 24 percent, we just saw there in the 2nd quarter. what does that mean for people's everyday lives? so in everyday life on the street, i would say that the fence is very obvious now for instance where i haven't gone to the do list of the time sheets are many restaurants and hotels continue to be shut even though of tourism season is on and the government has been encouraging the industry to very often now another stimulus to settle differences that it might include realize that the song before and during the beginning of the traces at that time read reported that almost $6700000.00 migrant workers have lost their jobs and recent reports. now suggest that at least 50 percent of them have only back into cities and jobs, which means that the will of course, is much smaller, which therefore affects things like businesses, reopening, construction sites, being back on and so on, still fall. and fina

and does always skype's always see the decision on christmas is expected to become patients as a parliamentary group. until now we have begun to see a short trend of lower figures in terms of inspections, which means the exponential growth could be stopped. but that's not enough. we need lower figures, especially for christmas, and it inside christmas isn't the only celebration that's on the line. many say that the much loved tradition of new year's eve, fireworks needs to be reigned in, but a nationwide ban on fireworks sales does not appear to be on the cards. and for more on this, let's bring in a man or show stay w.'s political correspondent. good to see you ana. what's the situation right now? is the pandemic on the control? well, anthony, ever since the 2nd, the pasha look down here at the beginning of november, we've seen the number of infections be allies. there's no more exponential growth, which is a positive news, but the figures us 2 way too high on tuesday. there were more done 1300 new infections, a recorded, we are nearing the w1w infections here in germany and most 1500 pounds

about how white—collarjobs and be so easily displaced in a world where everybody is communicating by skype and zim. you don't necessarily need to employ somebody in the uk to do the same job andi somebody in the uk to do the same job and i can see that causing some friction further down the line. what do you think, madeline, is working from home making you more productive? i definitely work longer, i am very much what they describe as being longer hours but less productive. i feel i should plug on earlier but also i really miss having that organic exchange and flow of ideas that you get in the office, just buzzing of other people, especially if you work in a job like ours where you have to be creative stop having people around you is so useful especially for people like me who are new to journalism, having the benefit of colleagues who so much, having their wisdom and insight but jason is right about the question about what it means for remote working in general because throughout the pandemic, people have been calling heaviest for lockdown but also the permanent changes caused by remote w

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our enemies want to skype by the only thing they get just by kingston is their manner in which the 2 things even go one on dusting the frustration. no one is that i took us with you have asked you to speak, the great couldn't understand why. i think this is a nation of the program when it comes to $26.00 issue of feeling because the short or so members of the manpower i do believe that one day we will be able to work together with them. but it's just the systems that one did to say ok, what type of punishment does this person does? if so it's not true most by these we as one of those, we don't have a beef. i think the police, we also found that they do not have to necessarily be so so, so we don't want to be better than the police because we are not the police. we don't want to be compared to the police on we want is a relationship where all of us who was the fight against time. yeah. spawns move on you say no, but you know, yeah, i've just come off or i'm only what if, if fighting each other, it is worse. and we can't afford to have those old against lose. so we can afford to have k

associate research professor at georgetown medical center, she joined us live now from washington dc via skype. sony countries have gone back into another lockdown or are seeing a rising cases. there is a lot riding on this vaccine. but this vaccine may not be the silver bullet that everybody is hoping mib? hoping that it might be? >> out of the trials of the two verse vaccines to which we have seen data reported. pfizer and modernity, they are very promising, and it is encouraging. more than 90% protection on each. that is a good reason to have optimism. once they are approved and licensed, approved for use, have to packaged and moved to communities, so that they can be delivered to people. all of the support has to be put into place so that they are delivered under the right conditions, preserves and effective. with all of the equipment that is needed to administer safe with. syringes, needles, and the bottling of the vaccines in the first place. that requires a lot of planning and a lot of support. anchor: it will be easier for rich nations to be able to do that. they are certainly the bigg

there is always skype, so we can see. >> the decision on christmas is expected to be confirmed wednesday, following talks between state premiers and angela merkel the overall situation remains critical. -- merkel. the overall situation remains critical. >> we have seen a trend in infections, which means exponential growth can be stopped, but we need lower figures, especially for christmas. correspondent: christmas is not the only celebration on the line . many safe new year's eve fireworks needs to be reined in, but a nationwide ban of fireworks sales does not appear to be on the cards. brent: let's go to our political correspondent. we understand these new restrictions will not be in effect for the christmas holiday. the fire is does not know it will be christmas december 25, so how does the german government justify this exception? correspondent: yes, indeed. you might say the virus would be happy for people to sit in large groups, closer to each other. i think what the german government is doing is a carrot and stick policy, telling the public that if people stick to the stricter rule

our enemies want to skype by the only thing they get just by kingston is their manner in which the 2 things, even the one that dusting the frustration. no one is that i took us with that was that you just picked a great clue and i'm trying to walk. i think this is a nation of the program when it comes to a point, he said they should feel it because the short or so members of the manpower i do believe that one day we will be able to work together with them. but it's just the systems that one did to say ok, what type of punishment does this person does? if so it's not true, my buddies. we as one of those, we don't have a beef. i think the police, we because the police also found that they do not have to necessarily also. so we don't want to be better than the police because we are not the police. we don't want to be compared to the police on we want is a relationship where all of us who are called to get a tour was the fight against time. yeah . spawns move on. that's a meeting in the oval and he would say no. but you know, yeah, i've just come off i'm only wanted to vote if, if, if, b

he joins me live via skype from berlin. sir, thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera. now, amnesty international has actually released a statement saying that you found evidence of killings in parts of the t grey region. tell us what you found, the war your evidence was. you know, we can confirm that schools, if not, hundreds of civilians were stuck to it today. in a small town called me kudrow, which is in the southwest. europe is the degree region likely most likely on the night of november 9th, these victims appear to green civilians appear to be laborers, no way involved in the ongoing military offensive in the region. so i'm guessing 1st of all, what was your evidence, what? what did you find and also do you have any idea as to who would have been responsible for these killings? indeed, so we spoke to witnesses 2 to the instance. people who came into the town on the morning of the 10th of november after the army took control and they, they said that the roads were strewn with dead bodies, especially in the, in the center of the town. we then studied audio visual e

look at all the stuff in our skype that is not pretty. that is a replay of smoke coming from a very familiar offender. does the name creek fire sound familiar? things been burning in the sierra since early september and it still going. that smoke is largely due to that. and from the top of the sales force tower which is where we are taking in these views right now, you really see it. right now we fall in right about there for much of the bay area. so, in other words, it is actually an okay story because moderate air quality compared to what we had earlier like late summer, this is much better than that, but it's still something to be aware of, the air quality is not all that great. otherwise, a beautiful day, but thanks to the smoke coming off the creek fire for two months continuously, it's coming our way still, you can watch on the futurecast as we get into tomorrow. expect the sky to still look easy for the second half of our weekend in the first part of our work week and yes, air quality is going to stay in the moderate category. as f

when the communication happens within 10 milliseconds in skype and zoom in the last half destroying that because it takes about $260.00 milliseconds, just flip. now when you get to the same room, you know, this emotional bond between us is very different. and finally, she will bring this back for headline stories this hour of them regarded as perhaps the greatest the footballer of all telling diego moderate has died at the argentinian world cup winner past the way home in buenos aires also ahead on the program questions are raised over the british swedish kronor virus vaccine with us . but tell us more saying it's not all very effective when taken by older people and partners to read.

state of maryland by skype it's good to have you on the program thank you very much indeed for joining us donald trump initially said that he was going to be draining this well but he wasn't one of the elite he said early on ated the american working class why would working class people in america not want to vote for donald trump this time round. of course the 1st reason is the covert penned back and resulting recession currently there are 12 and a half 1000000 workers officially unemployed and many millions more who are not counted their miscounted or they've dropped out of the labor force altogether some 30000000 workers or about one 5th of the labor force is suffering in this recession so i think that's clearly the number one cause in addition to the fact of course that we've had well over 200000 people have died from the cove it can damage that number grows every day is there a risk of from the biden count that joe biden despite his had his background and in particular in pennsylvania i mean the coal producing states upon producing states would still be seen as part of that democr

white house and state department official and she joins us via skype from washington d.c. good to talk to henry 1st of all let's just try and clarify that this is indeed what the trump administration is trying to do is impose as many sanctions as possible on iran before they leave office. yes they've been quite open and clear about it they say that they're building a sanctions walk taking from trump's language about building a wall between the united states and mexico they say quite clearly and openly that they are trying to go if sanctions war against iran the president biden and president elect biden could not dismantle a series of overlapping interconnecting sanctions not necessarily sanctioning something new but sanctioning them under several different authorities in u.s. law that would be incredibly difficult politically and legally to lift or waive interesting so they wouldn't have to push any of these through congress. that is correct at this point congress has has authorized to create prior laws particularly after $911.00 nearly 20 years ago but also some laws pass

helped lead the peace talks on nagorno-karabakh in 2001, joins us live from lexington, kentucky via skype. thanks very much for being with us. and tell me what do you think the significance of this deal is? i think it's very important because they think what we saw develop over the weekend was their budgets that says that capturing these 2nd largest city in the border of prayer and imminent threat to the capital city of the world occurred about the planet cared. so this deal started a major bloodletting, and i think also reduce the risk of that further is collation infighting that could have gone so far as the brilliant russian and turkish military forces in an active manner know that russian forces as a peacekeeping element. we saw, i mean, not to anger from some people in on me, but this sudden i felt kind of betrayed by the deal. and then that seemed to calm down how much of a crisis is this still there for? i mean, you think politically domestically is significant, but i think the bigger reflects the reality and the expectations of would ever come about to bring peace to this land. an

when the communication happens within 10 milliseconds in skype and zoom and all that have to strike that because it takes about 260 milliseconds, just float to talk. now when you get to the same room, you know, this emotional bond between us is very different and you find she will bring this back. ah there already are. you know what? rock or yeah, you know me, but you know, i think of it. i think that people who are adopted are afraid of losing people. we're very scared of rejection . now as there are no secrets with adoption, but when the worst secrets and lies, there was no family relationship. it was a wall between us the strange coldness that i don't feel any more. so as a father i compare myself to my father. first faith with our biological family, we have branches. i'm like a tree with lots of leafy fruit filled branches. but below i have no roots, at least not ones i'm aware of that are out in the senate. that's what i think i do. you know, i'm going to give them a lesson in there. are, you know, they say we need you letting you know, you know, say not to, you know, one of them is

the president and chief executive of africa international media group she's live via skype thanks so much for being with us so just how much is a little bit about why a less than what i ended up running in this election in the 1st place. you know. cause obviously he had only 2 terms to google but he's. hand-picked successor and i googled for you barry has to wait certainly a couple of weeks ahead it will be election just a couple weeks and you are a very sinister past in terms of. in. other words when you eat. what has built the country and made it to a very prosperous. we seem to be having a few problems with that with a line to my or below i'm afraid we're not hearing you and you're breaking up quite badly i'm sorry apologies for that and thanks to my old have your for that contribution there now a 70 year old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building 2 days after a powerful earthquake rocked parts of turkey and greece but hopes of rescuing more people are dwindling as the total number of deaths passes 60 most of those victims and much of the damage was in t

movement joins me now via skype from ithaca in the u.s. could have you with us live on al-jazeera. i mean, what's your reaction to secretary pompei is claim that the b.d.s. is anti semitic. thank you so much for having me. so rageous that condi and like boy cut movement would be labeled as anti-semitic. now that said, we shouldn't be surprised, given the trumpet ministrations efforts at every turn to prop up the apartheid state of israel and to shield it from international criticism. israeli politicians said at the beginning of trump's administration have said again recently as trump lost the election, that they will that they want to use every opportunity of the trumpet ministration to further their objectives. and these are their objectives to steal more land and to cement their systems of occupation and apartheid. now that all of this is so ironic as anti semitism has spiked dave injuriously under trump's presidency, thanks to his administration. and the republican party's willingness to trade it in tolerate anti-semitic tropes and social views that he wants to get into as well.

let's welcome our panel of guests joining us on skype. in melbourne, a senior manager at asia initiatives for human rights watch. a professor of put science at tehran university and the author of "surviving execution -- a miscarriage of justice and the fight to end the death penalty." welcome to you all. i would like to begin in tehran. you support the death penalty. why do you think it makes such a deterrent? guest: the first issue is we have to look at every country separately. i don't think we can have a general rule for the entire globe regarding capital punishment. the latest data on iran, the world values survey, which was conducted in 2020, so it is very recent, asked air radians what they thought of capital punishment. it was on a scale of one to 10 with one being never suitable and 10 being always suitable. over 80% of iranians chose a number of five or over. so a majority of iranians, including myself, support the capital punishment system and i think it does act as a deterrent for potential violent crime perpetrators. i don't t

he joins us from, by skype, from paris, peter out of the program. so this latest incident comes after a number of investigations and other incidents of police violence. tell us more about about the context of these incidents of it happening and why i think only people living turn on all these incidents, not just in the last few weeks the last few days, but over many years their frequent ports of police brutality, everything, term deaths in custody to actual torture, that's not strong a word they're being particularly well. we think incidents of police using their, their weapons to looting hurt criminal suspects. a lot of these incidents of intense apartheid during the current of violence, lockdowns, particularly poor areas of major cities and killing parents. the latest incidence of included or refugee being attacked on monday and on saturday. as you just reported here to a music producer put set up on a light special by 4 police really glued lines to him and put him in hospital. and we know all this because it's videos of him on their cell. the vid

he joins us by skype from washington. d.c. good to have you with us. so at a time when the trumpet ministration is being criticized by its critics for being distracted being delusional, focused on trying to win battles for reelection, in courts and playing golf. how much of a priority is it for this trumpet, ministration? to try and sort out relations between arabs states and israel. well, as we know, really from the onset of the presidency, the president sought to unify all these really center palestinians in a common cause dry sleep around, you know, internationally. what we have seen since is that, of course there has been some mentions in the arab world with india. why we have i'm sorry. and we have also seen it was then we've got now i've got someone joining the interview. have we? hello? yes. sorry. i'm so sorry i'm so sorry. that's all right. what was that name? by the way. your daughter, this is my son cyrus 3 years old. ok, well future foreign policy analyst for long. you coming back to the issue of discussing the saudis, on the other hand, es

some you'll get the true is a journalist based in ethiopia's capital joins us now over skype sir, thank you for joining us here in al-jazeera, we were just hearing from our correspondent that already this is causing a humanitarian crisis because of the people escaping the violence. and yet the, it's really imminent or we've just heard that the prime minister has ordered a final assault or mecca lay because of the difficulties of getting any kind of information out of tikrit right now. how much do we actually know about this assault? we don't, you know, many of us are interested in travelling to the, to great state to see exactly what happened, but we're not being allowed. so instead, we're focusing on the report that's coming from human rights watch, undersea international, respected ethiopian human rights commission. and daniel burke and there was a former political prisoner, and the victims are going to sudan. there's telling us the horror they've gone through and all kinds of experiences. they've lived through to go to the sudan. but every ethiopian rifi jeep reminds us of those trai

org, an organization that monitors internet access worldwide, his via skype from london. very good to have you with us. so facebook, it already complied with the request in april to significantly increase its censorship of was seen as on by state posts in vietnam. can it do more, really, to resist the vietnamese government's demands at this stage? so this is really the latest development in a long running really accomplish between this huge company and the state in vietnam. so this has happened since the start of the year. there's been some degree of throttling around the early months of 2000. we've tracked so it is regions that in terms of tree net blogs. so what this is all about is about getting pace book to restrict content on its own. and this is political speech. so that is, is it's directly critical of the state and also state figures. so this is against local laws, but it doesn't necessarily violate facebook's international approach to expression . now this is remarkable because it's the 1st time we've seen a country really pressure a company using technical matte

he joins us now on skype from singapore. good to have you with us. i as a, says that recovery is going to take anything up to 3 or 4 years, even if the airline industry, how many familia, airline brands will have disappeared before then. well, it probably a few, but i mean i think most of their lines will still survive. they'll be able to recapitalize and there won't be able to read by and government support. we've already seen that one major round of government support of last year bonds for vicarious around the world. and we might have to see another round to our base to be over this period. or we're going to have a significant reduction in past numbers in revenues. to what extent it will want to extent is the, is the airline industry the canary in the coal mine in the end that if the airline industry is suffering now and will continue to suffer than that, that those financial losses are going to spread far and wide in the next few years . yeah, i mean, they definitely there's, there's a whole, you know, chain of companies behind their lines for ma

joining us by skype is the mayor . to ank you fojoining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> fresno county sheriff along with law enforcement in surrounding counties sathey will not enforce the curfew that the governor has announced will go into effect on saturday. at least two fresno churches said they will be open and orders. in defiance are you concerned this cases? nce will lead to more >>am concerned about it but i understand it. my primary responsibility is to keep people safe in the 'rcity. looking at a curfew that is extremely difficult to enforce. we rely on voluntary ce compli our police department has been stretched like many law enforcement agencies acrossweth state. re focused on a lot of serious crime with gangs, murders, robberies , i'got to prioritize it. certain things like restaurants. i think it's onerous. you are measurg the damage, people are overly fatigued by the covid virus and measure that against -- everyone is learni more. hopefully we're getting the end. >> in addition to not enforcing t

let's bring in an associate professor of political science at howard university joining us via skype. good to be with us. what is your reaction and in the way you see the current state of the race. we have michigan going to biden but the trump campaign is lawyering up wanting to take this to the circuitry -- supreme court. are we headed for a long battle? >> i do not think about it will be as long as it is purported to be. when you look at the last few states to come in, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, the states came in the way that they did because yet to be counted vote speak -- came from democratic strongholds. it stands to reason joe biden would overtake work could overtake trump in those states. it is not over. it is possible though not likely joe biden could end up winning georgia, which in addition to some conversation of arizona and nevada would make this break even larger in terms of a biden victory. host: everyone of course, when we hear lawsuits and demands for a recount all that you cannot help but think about florida in 2000 and and there is a general conception the r

anchor: a former state department national security and white house official joins us live via skype from virginia. thank you for your time. the gsa is not actually determining the winner, just saying the transition process has been unlocked. how major is this? guest: i think it is very significant and implied that even though trump will probably never give a concession, i think it is implying that he is finally conceding in a de facto sense. he is allowing the transition to go forward. he will allow biden to get the highest level of classified security briefings, and vice presidenelect harris as well. he will allow the secretary of state and national security advisor and secretary of treasury's teams to give classified information and understand the inner workings of the u.s. government. it is all about a concession at from a to slay significant. anchor: will this be the closest we get to donald trump conceding? guest: perhaps. it is incredibly important in a policy sense. while the world is fixated on covid-19, rightfully so, there are many things the trump administration might be

and does always skype's always see? the decision on christmas is expected to become firm to wednesday following talks between state premiers and chancellor angela merkel. the overall situation remains critical for so long as you have high expectations as a parliamentary group. until now we have begun to see a short trend of lower figures in terms of inspections means the exponential growth could be stopped, but that's not enough. we need lower figures, especially for christmas. i mean, so our christmas isn't the only separation that's on the line. many say that the much loved tradition of new year's eve, fireworks needs to be reined in. but a nationwide ban on fireworks sales does not appear to be on the cards. and to give us a manual shot this on the story. she joins us from berlin. how necessary is the extension of tough measures. if you look at the cases on tuesday, germany recorded its highest number of daily death, was more done, 400 new and over 180-0000, new infections in a single day. since the beginning of the

joining us by skype is the mayor . to thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. with law enforcement in surrounding counties say they willot enforce the curfew that the governor has announced will go into effect on at saturday. least two fresno churches said they will be open and services in defiance of the orders. are you concerand this resi will lead to more cases? >> i am concerned about it but i understand it. my primary responsibility is toe keep people in the city. we're looking at a curfew that is extremely difficult to enforce. we rely ar volu compliance. our lice department has been stretched like many law enforcement agencies across the state. we are focused on a lot of serious crime with gangs murders, robberies, i've got to prioritize it. certain things like restaurants. u are measuring the damage, people are overly fatigued by the covid virus and measure that again -- everyone is learning more. hopefully we're getting towards the end. >> in addition to not enforcing the curfew, fresno has said it plans to find businesses that stay open during the dai

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but we're joined now via skype from the united states by dr amish i. consent to for health security and a doctor that just thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera and certainly we see joe biden there putting the covert pandemic really at the top of his list of priorities from what he said from what you've heard what do you make of his plans to deal with the pandemic. i think these are very welcome to many of us in the infectious disease and pulp public health field these are the themes that we've been echoing basically since january to be able to have the infrastructure to deal with cases to have testing tracing isolating ability to have the c.d.c. coordinating this response to have how to have a lot more respect for science and public health guiding the response and has been in the past so i think it's going to be tough no matter what because we've got such a burden of infection but what i'm seeing so far in the biden plan and the fact that he's made this a priority of his incoming administration is all something that we are all looking forward to

he's the southern africa director at human rights watch, joins me now via skype from london. good to have you with us on the program. i mean, sometimes we can do a situation and think it's been blown out of all proportion from your understanding of what's happened at this particular school, or what conclusions are you drawing? what is clear that there was an incident, we were excluded from a graduation ceremony. and what needs to happen is for this sort of to be looked at it to lead into an independent investigation into exactly what happened. but you need to be saw on its must establish what happened and ensure that the north incident or this in that followed it. it when we talk of south africa it's and it's long history of racial injustice. it's obviously a very sensitive subject as you said. and that we thought that might have been resolved after the end of apartheid. but the issue of race and racial injustice continues to simmer. why? partly? because remains deeply due to and some of the of this issues today have not been resolved. what happened was that may not be true e

she joins us from jacksonville, florida via skype. thank you very much indeed for being with us. so you know, trump quite well, what do you think has made him is in continuing to spin this out in this way, given that the weight of evidence so far that it, that he's not going to win well or, and i think it's just really unfortunate that the president has been reluctant to accept the will of the people, the votes are, and donald trump is no longer going to be president. come january the 20th. his goal right now is to buy time. don't trump knows that onesies out of office. he will face litigation cases, legal consequences for decisions that he's made in the last 4 years. and so he is simply stalling with these lawsuits. so you say, mention them that there's a motive for him to avoid the kind of consequences of which some legal issues, how many more moves do you think he will make in the next few weeks to make it difficult for the biden team? if and when they do take over, i think that he has any number of maneuvers that he will try. i mean we've seen this press conference today that

central council joins me now via skype from ramallah. good to speak to you again, sir. some palestinian leaders like one another. sure. we have said words to the effect that sort of pompei is insignificant and should just go home. i presume you have a similar sentiment 19 countries doing it is very significant because max himself, mr. brown, after lot of crime, a lot of crime of atonement and work. and i'm often accented to do that. is it by force reality. and this is the meaning of this visit to a good in the heart of the west bank and the golan heights. but more than that, his declaration that the products of so products is there and means he is receiving good and yeah. and the implementation of the silk want to deal with the sin city, which is that an extension of the west bank. this is the letting their next edition of the occupied get into this. and as such, i think this is a very dangerous matter. and in addition to the fact that he's praying to what obstacles in front of biden could try to create facts on the ground, that could be a new bets. ok. so how does this

want to talk to chris smith he's a consultant virologist at cambridge university and joins us live via skype thanks very much for being with us so these are every interim results when will we know whether the confidence has been projected by the makers is justified. well we need more data as your report highlighted that still to come and so far we are halfway through what's called a phase 3 trial and face serious the final sort of gate keeper before something is approved or not by regulator real thorough tease now what they've returned so far is data from having given the virus the vaccine to 40 plus 1000 people what they're demonstrating is that in the group of people who got the placebo in other words a nonfunctional version of their vaccine there was a very high rate of infection compared to the people who got the real deal the real vaccine and that gives us confidence that it appears to be protecting that group much more than the placebo which you would expect but what it doesn't tell us for instance is a 90 percent success rate means a 10 percent failure right so we need to know who tha

and does always skype's always see the decision on christmas is expected to become firmed wednesday. following talks between state premiers and chancellor angela merkel. the overall situation remains critical. hundreds for so long as you have high expectations as a parliamentary group. until now we have begun to see a short trend of lower figures in terms of inspections, which means the exponential growth could be stopped. but that's not enough. we need lower figures, especially for christmas and it inspired christmas isn't the only separation that's on the line. many say that the much loved tradition of new year's eve, fireworks needs to be reined in, but a nationwide ban on fireworks sales does not appear to be on the cards. and is a manual shasta's on the story. she joins us from berlin. how necessary is the extension of tough measures? well, sarah, if you look at the cases tuesday, germany recorded its highest number of daily death, was more done, 400 new deaths and over 180-0000 new infections in a single day. since the beginning of the pandemic, we count own most a 1000000 case

republican member of the florida house of representatives he joins us now from miami in florida by skype thanks very much indeed for being with us so on the one hand on this issue litigation that the trunk campaign wanting to vote count to stop in in one state but then in another in arizona it could actually lead to an improvement in the result for trying isn't this a bit incoherent the senate action it's not necessarily what we're discussing here is which type of votes be counted which is not where the truck can be your is that those ballots that have received over 30 should not be counted anything received before november 3rd should be counted but if something was postmarked on the earth that was received on november that was not in the hands of the supervisor of election of the secretary of state that state before the election was completed so it's all depending on the state but there are 2 completely different arguments so dumb that that so they've lost it was already a judge has thrown out the case in michigan would that be something that you that the campaign would continue to purs

to bring in claude plaxico he's a former north carolina democratic senator who's joining us live by skype it's good to have you on the program so thanks very much indeed for joining us we heard from jamal there dancing is that essentially america as some analysts are calling it is has been split into 2 that there is a fracture in the country what is the best way for joe biden administration should that come to pass to try to glue those 2 sides together. when they 1st of all want to clarify and a little bit more from my perspective and that is joe biden. won over the independents so yes there's division in this country we're not be any different from any other country that that has that what has differentiated us is our acceptance of our democratic system almost side that's being challenge right now but more challenge by one side but in the selection joe biden was successful in winning over anough independents so why he didn't not bring in very many republicans don't trump did not bring in many many democrats. they battle was between those independents who don't who are not partisan and th

she's the code director of the afghanistan analysis network and joins me now live via skype from london. good to have you with us on the program. and if we just look at the attack that happened in kabul earlier on on saturday, if it's not the taliban because they've denied involvement, then the most recent suspects would be, i saw at the top of the list, whoever it is, is being given space to operate while there seems to be a sort of security and intelligence vacuum. yeah, i mean what, i would stress, you can't take taliban and i once they start you in the past, they've denied attacks that we traced to individual taliban commanders or some count them out. if they are problematic from a propaganda point here, which this is clearly, then if it was the taliban, they wouldn't be accepting. and as you say, it could also be the islamic state. dying could also be behind it. we just don't know at the moment, i think what you can say, i mean a couple of things. one, it shows ricci's and security that are just breathtaking, yet again, that this sort of weaponry get into the city. and secondly, it

she joins us on skype from bernd. good to have you with us. so as i read out there looks like, according to the exit polls, the voters may have gone against this law. do you still? are you still hopeful it will pass? i am still hopeful that we will get a mentor, a t. of the people that vote in favor of it in a certificate, which would already be a great success for us. so i am still hopeful in death sense, but it is clear from what we see now that we will have lost cantons, the majority of the cantons, which we need to have to stop a majority, did this request it here in switzerland. why, how do you respond to those businesses which were saying they are doing this in switzerland alone will just put switzerland and swiss businesses at a disadvantage rather than enforce a standard for everyone? well, i would say to them that we already see that we have a law in france and that is working at the moment that we have countries like the u.k. or us that can about what we have case this. some cases have been decided, some cases are pending in front of

he joins us via skype from yellow day in cameroon. thank you very much, professor for being with us. so what's happened to the numbers in africa? one of the main trajectories of countries right now, did you could be funny to me? i was asleep, always one to atlanta, the size of a freak out. it was a 1454 countries because of the, what we're seeing in that country like south africa, are still having a number of cases as well as those countries that are closer to europe. moral core 70000 kids for the last 2 weeks. sympathy for needy are for n.g.o.s and so on. but what is interesting us has been mentioning nigeria and have countries like kenya and kenya. last week you have for just one day because they were north visiting the must be talked to the count down. an important and increasing number of kids, their country as uganda mentioned also worry because when to the answer election guy is going to bat and then we get in. we believe that daughter election or what is happening there, meeting in the rallies before the election. and i also co

symonds al jazeera, well as a journalist and justice activists from both the enjoys me now live via skype from prayed to your in bosnia herzegovina. good to have you with us on the program. how delicate has it been to keep the peace in bosnia herzegovina considering there all those major croats and serbs interests within the country? well, i think that we are at the moment in one of the most delicate periods since to do it in peace agreement. because immediately after the war we had a very heavy international presence in the military presence, which sadly defied the peace in these early years. when it was most fragile and we were on an upward curve up until 2006, where the potential for us, in fact, making the peace work and building a state that will not be shackled by what is a peace agreement which was signed while the cannons were still hot was going to be turned into some sort of functioning constitutional framework. unfortunately, in 2006, this package of constitutional changes failed. and since then we see a reason erection of, especially among the bosnian serb leadership, both in

bush he's joining us from philadelphia in pennsylvania by skype it's good to have you with us back on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed for joining us. given the fact that you were an aide with president george h.w. bush how would you compare his campaigning with what we're seeing from the trunk administration. very different like night and day george h.w. bush was. very thoughtful person and he was a hard campaigner like most candidates for president are but he was willing to of course. concede once he knew that he had lost the campaign to bill clinton back in 1902 he won of course in 1980 beat michael dukakis and that was a happy moment for him and for all the all of us who worked in his campaign but this is of the sad moment when he lost in 1902 and had to had to admit defeat but in so doing you congratulated. president elect bill clinton and then when about welcoming him to the white house he invited him to come he and mrs clinton come to the white house and met with him there and helped him prepare for his new administration and even left a note for him in his desk so that wh

she joins us now on skype from. thank you for your time. so there's a communications blackout right now, is there no final or internet? so obviously it's very difficult to get up to the minute information from too great . but what's the latest you're hearing about what's happening on the ground? well, during the conflict remains very active today, we had a report from our colleagues in their office in mcnally that they witnessed an airstrike. not far from them. there remains a blackout of electricity, water, internet, but hut. somehow the things we were able to communicate with them this morning, but things remain very, very dismal and they're afraid and people are moving constantly. ok so, so an airstrike coming in? that's obviously really concerning news. can you tell us more about that with who was targeted casualties, anything like that. we don't know what the targets and we don't know who was a, who was targeted. of course, as i said, we have intimate and communication with colleagues when they do get access to internet at the office.

via skype. i want to ask you about something emily murphy put into her letter in joe biden. she says that gsa does not dictate the outcome of legal disputes. obviously talking about donald trump's legal challenges. saying they are issues for constitutional laws and state laws. she goes on to say she strongly urges congress to consider amendments to the act, i guess the presidential transition act, what is that about? >> [laughter] i am not sure what that is about. there are cases still going on in court. the presidents path to victory is narrowing, although the third circuit court of appeals decided to hear the dismissal of one of his lawsuits in pennsylvania today. on january 20, there is going to be an auger ration. if it is joe biden inaugurated, he needs to have a transition before that. wind you, he has been in politics including eight years in the white house. a number of people he is naming to his cabinet, our old hands at washington. but there will have to be a transition between now and generate 20th -- january 20. >> emily murphy says she did not receive direction

he joins us via skype from, washington. d.c. thanks very much indeed for being with us as well to pick up on, on one of the issues that the talk of multilateralism. what do you think it will mean, for example, for something like the iran nuclear deal, do you think it be possible to go back to something like that? well,, the president elect has said that he's willing to consider returning to the j.c., you know, way if you're iran, you know, comes back into compliance with its obligations. you know, that obviously is easier said than done. i think there will be political obstacles here in washington. in tehran, also going through slim, you know, but let's remember that we just had an election here in united states. there's an election coming up in iran next year or so. i think that whatever is possible on that front, it will take some time to materialize. so that if the foreign policy, there's a big interest in that what about things like the palestinian issue after we've seen the normalization between israel, bahrain and so

i'm now joined by the emergency coordinator with the un's refugee agency for sudan joins us by skype from khartoum. and as we were reporting just there of the 10s of thousands who fled to sudan, some 45 percent of them are children. or can you tell us about the, the challenges and the situation that they are facing there? i mean, the 1st challenge is that in just over 2 weeks, about 40000, people have by now fled to sudan units, you are in our government partner corps. we have registered these people here. they need immediately food, safe drinking, water, shelter, and sanitation at the border. they don't get sick. so, so this is a challenge in a very remote area of used in sudan. the other important point right now is to decongest the border points. these people cannot stay at the border area that's not the place to, to have a refugee camp. so we are currently building a new camp, further inland, and about 70 kilometers distance from the border has caught them. we've had the 1st convoys transferring people there and we're receiving them there in the reception center and giving them s