outfront. on al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the good and this is live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a call for calm by joe biden as he nears the 270 electoral votes needed to become the next president of the united states still a 1st to come together as a nation to heal. we have to try. as president trump's campaign takes legal recourse to challenge the results the supreme court orders the separation of postal votes that arrived in pennsylvania after election day. after studying troops

at imposing a state of emergency ethiopia's president moves to replace the regional government in the troubled will. jump in corona virus infections in france at a national locked out increase european nations grapple with the 2nd wave of the pandemic. and sport pressure is mounting on manchester united boss ole gunnar is so sour. just hours away from facing everton in a game that could have massive implications on his future at the club. so joe biden is inching ahead in the race to become the 46th president of the united states he has a narrow lead over president donald trump in battleground states 4 days after america went to the polls the votes are still being counted amid protests and several legal challenges by the trump camp. and biden has spoken in an address to

the nation saying that he's convinced he'll win he's ahead in pennsylvania nevada and georgia so far biden is projected to have won 264 electoral college votes from past 214 remember the number acquired is 270 bible needs to win in only one of the undecided states to get over the line rob reynolds reports from los angeles. joe biden took the stage looking weary but full of confidence we don't have a final declaration. of victory yet but the numbers tell us it's clear to us a clear and convincing story we're going to win this race. by now leads donald trump in pennsylvania by a significant margin and a narrow one in georgia he also remains ahead in nevada and arizona as vote counting continues and what's becoming clear each hour is that record number of

americans of all races faiths religions chose change over more of the same they've given us a mandate for action on covert economy climate change systemic racism. biden called for healing after a bitter and rancorous campaign let's put the anger the demonisation behind us it's time for us to come together as a nation to heal it's not going to be easy we have to try the trump campaign launched a barrage of lawsuits seeking to halt vote counting or to toss out mail and absentee ballots tabulated after election day but the president's lawyers provided little if any evidence of fraud no i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as jimmy carter did just as george h.w.

bush did and frankly just as al gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country nevada's attorney general called the trump campaign's voting fraud complaint in his state garbage multiple studies over the years have concluded that vote fraud in the u.s. is extraordinary rare in georgia biden's lead is so slim a recount is being planned as we are closing in on a final count we can begin to look toward our next steps with a margin that small there will be likely a recount in georgia pro trump demonstrators continued to protest around the country convinced that foul play was underway it raises the hair on the back of your neck where they're trying to plan where they're planning again they're going to they're going to steal this election. meanwhile biden supporters celebrated in the streets of several cities after days of painfully slow vote counting most

americans are eager for this election to finally be over but given trump's apparent determination not to concede defeat the legal battles could stretch on for weeks robert oulds al jazeera los angeles let's go live now to delaware al jazeera is mike hanna mike what are we to make of that speech by joe biden the victory speech that wasn't. well a victory speech of a kind of though he did claiming victory at this particular point expressing confidence that once the process is over he will be able to declare victory and become the next president of the united states this is the tack that joe biden has adopted in the days since the polls closed he doesn't want to get ahead of himself he doesn't want to declare premier to a big tree making very clear that he is confident of his chances and certainly does

indicate that that is very much the case that biden once again calling for unity expressing the opinion that he will represent all americans regardless of whether or not they voted for him and attempting to begin to heal this massive divide that has grown particularly in the last 4 years of the administration biden also pledging to begin work as soon as possible saying that he and camilla harris's running mate are also sitting down discussing what to do next discussing the period of transition something that could tip all the figures to the way that they indicate could begin within the next few weeks. how all the biden can blithely to approach this transition period assuming the one given that the president is unlikely to concede any charge soon.

well this is a very difficult point in to be because president travel has made very clear that he's reluctant to accept the results as it stands at the moment as the point is well that he may be reluctant to participate in this transition period or not get much cooperation and certainly when trump himself came to power there was little of working together with the previous administration the obama one and said certainly biden and harris may not expect full cooperation from the outgoing trump administration given the nature of betrayal and the nature of division that has occurred but at the same time they are well aware of that they will be getting together a transition team they will attend to get through this particular period but then you do have the issue of the president trying to refusing to concede now that is a major issue which is not really dealt with in the constitution in any form there

is one remedy and that is the 25th amendment which is members of the cabinet demanding that president trump step down but that appears to be an unlikely scenario so certainly this does make the period even more complicated for biden and harris should they actually move through i must point out well that back in 2000 when they would legal contests going on for a number of weeks off the election both bush and gore at that particular time establish their own transition team so what you are going to see should biden get through and win this election you will see them getting ahead drawing up transition plans as they are already doing says biden and they will have to do that despite the lack of cooperation from the trumpet ministration which may make it all the more difficult i'm serious mike hanna reporting live from wilmington delaware many thanks indeed mike a top u.s. supreme court judge has ordered all mail in ballots arriving in. and sylvania after

election day to be kept separate that's how the votes were already being tallied republicans for the last justice samuel alito to keep them uncounted but the judge ignored the request while legal challenges are pending more now from who's following developments in philadelphia. the secretary of state here in the commonwealth of pennsylvania was very hopeful that the votes would be counted by this time they're not i think a lot of people thought they would be but that the count has dramatically slowed and it's not clear why that has happened what is clear is every time votes are coming in they're showing the former vice president joe biden is getting a consistent lead he's consistently taking 70 to 80 percent of the votes as they're being counted if that continues it is clear that he will win the 20 or like 2 old votes that go with winning in pennsylvania voters went to the supreme court and to try and get something to happen that's already actually happened there were about 4000 votes there were allowed to be sent in after election day as long as they were

postmarked on election day you know so the republicans went to the supreme court and said those ballots shouldn't be counted they should be kept separate but the point is that the dirty done that the supreme court had already said keep those ballots separate but again we're talking about 4000 votes if the trend continues it looks like joe biden will win this commonwealth with tens of thousands of votes beyond that so we thought the votes would be done we thought pennsylvania would already be in joe biden's column making sure that he had a clear path to the next president of the united states so far that hasn't happened but here in pennsylvania there is optimism that it will. election official say that there has yet to be any evidence of voting irregularities for donald trump's republican party says that legal teams have been sent to 4 states to investigate. we have seen some discrepancies in michigan and some irregularities that deserve investigation democrats and the media spent for years and millions of taxpayer

dollars talking about a russian hoax on the grounds of election integrity now with just over 48 hours after polls have closed in an actual election for president they want to ignore clear irregularities russia call states as one and this election we will not stand for that every candidate in every office from president down to the local level has a legal right to challenge irregularities that occur in the process of canvassing ballots we intend to ensure that every lawful voter has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observers are granted the access they are due under state law and that any irregularities that have occurred whether by a malicious attack intent or incompetence are fully investigated to the fully fullest extent allowed under the law that's free and jordan who's in washington

d.c. so we've heard from joe biden we've heard from the republican national committee. one of the what is the term campaign saying where's the president. well as best we know the president is at the white house but we have not heard from the president in person since thursday evening when he delivered that 10 minute or so statement which pretty much everyone has panned as being filled with lies and misconceptions and misrepresentations about the way that votes are counted after a presidential election here in the united states the president did pop up a few times on twitter but a number of his tweets were taken down by twitter's moderators because the platform said that his tweets violated their policies on describing the political process in the united states so there hasn't been much directly from donald trump we have been hearing perhaps most frequently from

a number of lawyers in battleground states who are arguing that the vote counting process needs to be stopped and they've been appealing to federal and to local judges to try to make that happen they haven't been very successful however because either the judges hearing the case think that the arguments are specious or they take a look at the evidence and then they say there's not enough here for us to say that you have proven your allegations and that you deserve to have your request to stop the vote being from being granted what happens if a pennsylvania is called such oh by later today is there any circumstance in which donald trump would concede. well certainly there's the fact that as of january 20th 1201 pm eastern time the president would then become joe biden it doesn't really matter what donald trump wants at

that point but we're we're more than 70 days away from that official constitutionally mandated transfer of power it's what's really happening now and what's been really developing over the past 8 hours or so here in the united states is this sort of whisper campaign coming from fox news channel and now from the wall street journal which are news organizations both own by rupert murdoch's news corp these entities are now trying to make it palatable for donald trump to think about conceding by appealing to his ego by saying think about your legacy if you step aside graciously that's going to look good for you it's going to help your popularity with the american people certainly with your supporters you see this sort of whisper campaign actually starting but it's notable that it's being led by

the wall street journal and by fox news channel whether or not that's going to be traction whether it's going to be enough to persuade the president that perhaps he should. say that it's going to be almost impossible at this point for him to try to win reelection and concede to joe biden will have to see but certainly it's notable that you have these 2 very prominent news organizations putting this idea out there where basically everyone who is watching the vote count happen is paying attention to it and talking about it i was serious rosalynn jordan reporting live from washington last many thanks to president trump has been threatening quote a tremendous amount of litigation against the vote counting process in several states has come. it's filed suits in georgia michigan pennsylvania and nevada these include allegations of late and invalid votes and campaign observers being denied adequate access to cases in michigan and georgia have been dismissed for lack of

evidence none of the complaints provide examples of what trump claims is massive voter fraud finkelstein is a professor of law and director at the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she joins us now live via skype from pennsylvania. thrown off of the wall some of it will eventually stick is there any chance of any of this litigation impacting the final outcome of this election. well if union doesn't look like that's the case and here at ground 0 of this litigation namely in pennsylvania and there have been numerous lawsuits filed for example objections to the curing of ballots in which mail in ballots were defective for some formal reason and it standard procedure here to call up the voters and give them a chance to correct those ballots for example by signing the outside of an armful of. there's the lawsuit about how close republican observers members of

the truck campaign can stand to the tables where the ballots are being recounted to there's lawsuits around in what's called provisional ballots but it looks as though 1st of all this is the most important point none of these lawsuits could result in flipping the results in pennsylvania because the number of ballots involved is just too small and joe biden's lead in pennsylvania is now too great that's one issue another issue is that judges have not generally been sympathetic the most that the term campaign has gotten out of these lawsuits so far is that some of these ballots have been ordered to be segregated so that they are separate from the other ballots in case of legal challenges down the road but that's not going to make a difference to the outcome alternately because it doesn't suggest that the judges will be sympathetic on the merits there was a decision in delaware or rather

a to go in delaware county a negotiated solution that allows a member of the truck campaign to stand a little bit closer and that has not happened in philadelphia county and so there are arguments like well the county should all be the same i don't think that any of these challenges is really are really going to make a difference to the outcome for donald trump there will be a cups professor in any election count given that the massive number of ballots that they're dealing with does any of it though any of those hiccups add up to what the president claims is a massive voter fraud. you know there's no evidence of voter fraud whatsoever there are some disagreements about the way certain ballots should be handled but it's a terrible disservice to the american people and to our democracy for the truck campaign and donald trump in particular to be claiming that there is voter fraud

going on it's critical that everybody understand that what's going on is the counting of legally cast votes one of the things that's confusing in the american system is that every state has different rules for how the counting of votes will go and there is some room for interpretation even in the legally mandated within the legally mandated rules and that's just the way our system works in effect we have 50 different elections rather than one overall election for the president of the united states really good stewardship professor many thanks dave perfectly stand there in philadelphia thanks for having. this is the news hour from our series still to come on the program fears the foreign workers in lebanon the risk of abuse as a new contract to prevent their rights is suspended. and how social media campaign

in mexico is demanding justice from the journalists and its course rafa nadal stays on course for a career 1st the details coming up a little later in. the o.p.'s parliament has approved a new interim government for the northern grey region prime minister ahmed ordered a military offensive in the area on wednesday all trick using the region's ruling party of attacking government soldiers and ickes ation but it denies on friday government asterix that a number of targets be insists that the operation has clear and limited military objectives. during the process of law enforcement there could be air strikes the strikes will not target civilians rather they will target the capacities of these dangerous forces nonetheless in order to avoid unexpected peril i advise you to

limit group movements in cities the country that your father's built on that your forefathers paid their lives for is being disgraced by this evil force this force should be brought to justice and therefore i call on you to to great youth to stand against it and support us so that we can finish this task and move on with our endeavors to develop our nation in a short period of time when the feud between the federal government and i was added to graze leaders escalated 2 months ago when they went ahead with elections for the regions parliament people in tikrit make up less than 5 percent of ethiopia's more than 100000000 people but the grand people's liberation front has dominated ethiopian politics for most of the last 30 years that changed when prime minister ahmed came to power 2 years ago following. years of antigovernment protests many t. p.l.f. official say that he's been squeezing them out of the central federal government earlier we spoke to our low a senior lecturer in law kill university and

a lot of covering the horn of africa he says the issue in ethiopia is one of political ideology a bashful identity. the hurt of the confrontation 'd between the federal government and the leadership of the ticket regional government is really an ideological and political difference on the future identity on the characters of this european state when the hippie alleged people's liberation front came to power in 1991 they came up with a new political settlement for that european state that organized ethiopia along its no linguistic line so the system that is in place right now has called multi-national federalism where value is in a group use their own language their culture has allowed to measure of how to be at the regional level. now the t.p. l.f. who dominated european politics for the last 20 'd 728 years gave up going to settlement for the country but that's consistent assessment did not work at the

foot intended now to say the sepia liquid removed from power on the back of political mobilisation particularly by the autumn and when this prime minister came to power he was received very warmly very used to ghastly because he promised a change that most people believed it but unfortunately at some point along this transitional part the prime minister began to consolidate his own personal power and came up with a radically different vision of the future and at this point the t.p.a. left emerged as the defender of the multinational federal project now the one that we see now is basically the latest escalation of this political ideological difference between the 2 but obviously there is no way that this problem could be resolved to what and this is frankly an escalation that is likely to lead into the greatest geopolitical nightmare for the whole of africa

region and most likely could also lead to the largest state collapse or state distant agr. in the whole of africa because the place a very large. diverse country organized along in the constitution it provides for the right of even the groups to succeed and again and again the. opposition candidates in ivory coast's presidential election could face charges of terrorism and life imprisonment for denouncing the result that's according to the public prosecutor the constitutional court has extended the deadline for objections to last weekend's election result president alassane ouattara has been declared the went up but opposition parties say they'll set up a transitional government 2 candidates boycotted the elections saying the term for the president is unconstitutional. on the 30th of october 2020 i referred the medics of the chief magistrate to open

a judicial inquiry into acts of terrorism attacks and conspiracy against the authority of the state marriages al-jazeera is ahmed idris is following all of this in abidjan the government that is accused of selective justice in ivory coast for example no ruling party supporter has been arrested. exactly i was assuming that question the public prosecutor. said that in fact this is a continuing investigation and of course they will arrest anybody who disturbs the peace but his main the main thrust of his statement lies in the fact that he said before the boy court the announcement of the book called on the transitional government ivory coast was peaceful and they hold those leaders who called for the boy court and the civil disobedience marches as responsible for the deterioration

of security and the violence that followed during and after the election when asked why conan bedu was not arrested because he was part of the call for a boycott of the presidential elections last such a day he said. the issue with this statement was that he was he's very old and that of course the reason why he's been he's not been arrested was because he did not openly there was no statement credited to credit at g.m. that people should be on the streets inciting people to voters and in addition he was asked why are why is the government looking for often gets out and muddy talkies and he said the reason why they are surrounding biggest house is because that was where the declaration for transitional council took please now with the information we're now getting is that mr gesang has now been formally arrested had

been bored out with god not he was trying to cross into gun although they did snow statement from the office of the public prosecutor all the police this is the information we're getting from. you would have sources who were informed about the arrest of the ivory coast guard the border how is this crackdown. affecting the will of the of the opposition them are all. for the time being it looks like the arrests have sort of some impact on the protesters or the demonstrators and party supporters who. he got to go on to the streets to demonstrate i guess the elections results as well as the candidate child for president alassane ouattara however when you talk to party officials and opposition members i'll go not on camera they will tell you that they are still determined to challenge the legality of president alassane ouattara

candidature and election so therefore these the thing is still fluid although we can say that peace has returned to many parts of abi john and surrounding areas but it's not clear whether or not this it's will hold in the into line in rural areas where the opposition has more support than the economic capital abidjan. out is there is a madrid reporting live there from the irish own body thanks indeed. at least 3 people have been killed in afghanistan's capital a bomb explosion among the casualties as yama. a former news presenter for tolo news the surge in violence comes as government negotiators continue talks with the taliban here in doha ok time for us now to get a weather forecast his editor how is there well the weather's having its own battle between the red sin the blues at the moment we've got cooler it diving out of canada across the pacific northwest behind this weather front over towards the east is still

a little bit the heat around we should see temperatures still getting up into the low twenty's for new york and for d.c. with that cold air up towards the northwest western parts that is going to win out even in l.a. and san francisco temperatures struggling to reach 16 celsius that's good news in fact as far as the wildfires are concerned of course the cold air turning blue to purple now that's going to dig its way a further southwards and he switches we go through sunday and going on into monday the committee applets 19 celsius on monday grab a cold weather gear we're looking at 2 cells as the top temperature here as we go through chews day still just about getting up to 23 celsius in they say but that cold air definitely having an impact across a good part of the country it does bring with it clouds rain showers and also some wintry weather to some snow we'll see some of that wintry weather pushing across the mountains and as we go on through the course of sunday going on into monday sinking further south with some heavier showers coming in across the plains is

sinking its way down to central parts. it's a many thanks still to come here on the news hour fears of a humanitarian disaster after a powerful tropical storm stretches into central america. made the south korean couple taking the dream of owning your own house to new heights. and we'll take a look ahead to the biggest game of the bonus league season so far the latest football news coming up a little later in sports. a story of love family and freedom calling for my live 8 years old you were at school we heard the sounds of large explosions. and the hardships faced in captivity they came for me at midnight they told me to leave my son i said how can i face in my soul so much pain in the eyes of the other female prisoners. and the our pricing . on al-jazeera. the u.s.

is always of interest the people all around the world this has been going on for a number of those with tear gas being used to fight. like you know reports story for an international perspective to try to blame your local audience why it's important how this could impact your life at the height of the storm the water with your high with you know hey this is an important part of the world people pick and the people who are going here now does it is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. it is good to have you with us hello adrian sort of get here in doha with the news

hour from al-jazeera the headlines democratic presidential nominee joe biden has addressed his supporters in his home state of delaware late on friday he still not declaring victory but says that he will eventually win the election the race remains too tight to call but as donald trump trails behind he's found to challenge the results biden is ahead in the keep battleground states of pennsylvania georgia and nevada. ethiopia's parliament has approved a new interim government for the golden tee grey region the u.s. is calling for deescalation off the prime minister i'll be on it ordered a military offensive in the area on wednesday. when our top story president trump is prematurely declared victory multiple times since election day whilst also alleging voter fraud his latest comments on thursday night have driven some republicans to distance themselves from their party's candidate jeff flake former republican senator from arizona cold on republicans to defend u.s.

elections and democratic institutions saying no republican should be ok with the president's statements maryland's governor republican governor larry hogan joined the condemnation of the president's comments tweeting there is no defense for the president's comments tonight undermining our democratic process america is counting the votes and we must respect the results as we always have before no election or person is more important than our democracy. president trump's chief of staff mark meadows has tested positive for covert 19 it's unclear when he contract the virus or if he has any symptoms several white house staffers including president trump of being criticized for failing to consistently wear mosques in the white house well the u.s. in another record jumping corona virus infections widespread testing has confirmed more than 132000 cases on friday the death toll now stands at over

236000. as the world battles a 2nd wave of coronavirus cases europe is that you epicenter 300000 people have now died several countries are imposing tighter measures to tackle the spread france has registered a new record of 860000 qubit 19 cases within 24 hours off to go into lockdown a week ago in greece the government bearers imposed a 3 week national lockdown people could only leave their homes if they make an official request by phone supermarkets pharmacies kindergartens and primary schools they can stay open and in the u.k. england entered its 2nd lockdown on thursday non-essential businesses will be closed for a month at a mask testing program has begun in liverpool the trial encourages anyone living or working in the city to get tested even if they don't have symptoms of a serious jonah hole is in liverpool how enthusiastically are people taking to this

citywide testing program. very by all accounts it's going to last 10 to 12 days it could be extended beyond that depending on how well things go there were large queues formed outside the 6 new testing centers that were established on friday one of which we visited people in the queue saying that this is the right thing to do we need to take part in this it points the way essentially to a better future of the prime minister boris johnson heralding a new age of mass testing well we'll see it's of course intended that this will be scaled up nationwide starting here in liverpool liverpool one of the worst affected cities up in the north by the huge surge in cases that happened over the course of the last month as the 2nd wave descended its hospitals close to capacity was already in tears 3 the highest risk rating when the lockdown happened on thursday

the whole country of course in lockdown england that is nonessential businesses closed people told to stay at home as much as possible the police warning of stricter enforcement this time around against people venturing out without good reason. and here in liverpool this testing regime part of what the government or thirty's are trying to use the lock down time for not just to ease pressure on the national health service but critically to improve those mitigating measures test trace an isolate systems make them better try to get this mass testing off the ground try to provide ways to allow society and people to live with the virus much better than they have done as they wait for who knows how long for the arrival of a vaccine and over on the continent things are still looking pretty grim. indeed i mean slovakia a country on the continent that has led the way in mass testing and is a model to which livable in this country are looking but all over the european

region numbers absolutely surging it's being described now as the new epicenter of the pandemic in its 2nd wave many countries already in lockdown you mentioned some of the numbers there 3300000 deaths surpass now in europe of that number just 2 thirds of that number accounted for by just 5 countries the u.k. france italy spain and further to the east of course russia huge numbers being posted in both france and italy many of them in lockdown greece becoming the latest to go into lockdown greece has kept a really quite tight lid on the virus up to now looking not to drop its god going into lockdown prompting in the last 24 hours protests in thessaloniki up on the aegean $200.00 people facing off against riot police there with tear gas and percussion we're going to grenades we may see more of that sort of thing in time to come out of there as china hall reporting live there from liverpool china many thanks to mosques in austria have been closed off for

a man who attended them killed 4 people and injured 22 others in vienna earlier this week the country's integration minister insists the move isn't an attack on his on the islamic faith a 20 year old gunman was shot dead on monday during his rampage in the capital france's president emanuel macaw says that his relationship with turkey is worsening criticize turkey for taking action against other european nations meanwhile turkey stands against the french decision to publish cartoons of the prophet muhammad something seen as blasphemous across the muslim world there is a suburb in java reports now from istanbul. anti france sentiment in turkey has increased after french president emmanuel mccrone supported the publication of controversial cartoons to mark drawn them in and what's more crimes problem with islam mccrone needs mental treatment could get your respect we want the 2 president to respect france and the e.u. respect its values and to not tell lies or throw insults. recent anti france

protests like this are one of many issues worsening the crisis between turkey and france and. is a nationalist where users who are genuinely. believed for. some of the policies to be in front of her in france and who are he considers the way a muslim should be treated and i think he's not going to turn. back around and everyone has been helping opposing groups in the libyan conflict and correct you just paris of double standards for recognizing the un backed government and simultaneously arming the warlords for the for have start to attack tripoli francaise it supports have start to fight but it calls terrorism. that is a former advisor to live u.s. government he says the crown is concerned about turkey becoming a regional power after france dominated not africa and the sahara region for many years you know the geopolitical problems between that involve the egypt.

france israel. u.a.e. and the immigration issue in the southern mediterranean the end searchin of the russian. mercenaries in the area and all of that is a contributing to a very tough problem to solve i don't think there is in solution for it and it looks like my cronies are now. on a path to escalate and that escalation has also been happening in the eastern mediterranean and aegean sea 30 years long running maritime dispute with greece and cyprus has brought major allies to the brink of naval confrontation neighboring states have competing claims or exclusive economic zones and rights to undiscovered hydrocarbons and france has supported turkey's rivals france of course historically a long and good relationship with. turkey is to establish its rights over.

the mediterranean and i don't think it's really for france true make decisions on this matter. if there is it's either for the literal powers to reach agreement between them so. they can't then they will be expected to go to arbitration if there's also france's backing of those who buy its weapons $32.00 is expanding its weapon sales in the middle east and north africa region and then there's french support for kurds in iraq and syria and for egypt's president up the fact that sisi return if you again is on the opposite side so far mediation efforts from european allies have failed but it's become a dispute that is helping to rally the support base of both the french and the turkish leaders and with election season in both countries not too far away unless believe that turkey and france are going to move further apart before they perhaps

come any closer some of the job it out of there are somewhat. the governor of turkey central bank has been fired he was removed by presidential to creep after the turkish lira reached a record low the positions now been reassigned to a former finance minister domestic workers in lebanon have been left vulnerable after proposed contract to protect the scrapped lebanon is home to around 250000 migrants who work under response a ship system of rights groups say has exposed them to abuse so to hold a reports. for these migrant domestic workers home is now the backyard of the ethiopian embassy in beirut they say their previous employer has denied them their wages and were abusive their common complaint human rights groups have documented for years how levanon so-called profile a system gives employers control over workers' lives. i had to escape because

my employer constantly beat me she still has my passport and owes me 700. lebanon's laws are often criticised for failing to protect poor and domestic workers apart from providing food and at times shelter activists say they can't do much a few weeks ago the labor ministry approved a new contract that would have allowed the workers to keep their own passports and contracts among other changes but a court has since suspended it and there is no rule for take so we're going to continue with the system for how long we need a solution so we have been crying going along we really need an answer for this i mean i'm not a woman being like you i am the court ruled in favor of recruitment agencies that bring in most of these workers it said the new contract failed to balance between the rights and duties of all parties but others believe this was about protecting financial interests this is a very dangerous precedent for any. to be able to hold such

a decision to protect their financial basics. levanon is home to around 250000 migrants mostly from asia and africa many of them women who work in homes they are not protected by the labor law and their situation worsened as a result of the country's economic collapse. many were left without work others were not paid in abandoned by employers who can't be held accountable the heart of the problem at this stage is the nonpayment of wages and those in the midst of quakers who wish to return home but to do not want to return without compromising their rights in light of the current situation and all the exploitation of that are coming to surface and that reflects then the sensitive to have. it

implemented activists say the attempt at labor reform had been a long battle but it failed and along with foreign domestic workers they are back to square one center for their beirut. more than 150 people are missing she had crossed central america after tropical storm hit the region. one of the worst hit countries. reports. troops rescued survivors stranded friday in a remote mountain area of. heavy rains from the remnants of hurricane heda have caused a massive mudslide. might have killed 100 people. in a news conference president. said it will be days before the true toll of the storm is known. this morning we had 4 dead but unfortunately that figure went up to 50

after mudslides took place in. san cristobal we're trying to reach those areas by foot because we can't get there any other way roads have been cut off. many of the dead were in their homes in the village of about 150 houses have been swallowed by mudslides there. in western. heavy rain of also damaged thousands of homes killing dozens and fry the residents gather to retrieve their belongings from the degrees. lost everything for years to have my house in the streets. got us to give me something bitsa. rescue operations across much of central america destroyed roads and bridges evacuation orders remain in place in parts of the flooding was still a possibility. we have been advising people here on the edge of that there is an

alert that the river is rising so that they don't risk their lives. in central america real forecasters say the storm is regaining strength as it heads toward florida over the weekend. still to come here on the news and sports more here from the english premier league surprise leaders all the latest football coming up in just a few minutes. in part 2 of a special investigation 1018 visits western australia's only youth detention center and travels to the remote outback town so we many of the indigenous inmates come from. an al-jazeera. november on al-jazeera. following huge protests in the introduction of the beijing back national security

will carry lamb sets out have vision for hong kong. all hail the lockdown explores the complexities of a global response to the coronavirus pandemic. in a series of special reports we can summon the global gaming boom as other entertainment businesses struggle to survive up front returns with emmy award winning journalist richelle carey she'll cut through the headlines and lead rigorous debate and former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial on corruption charges we'll bring you the latest november on al-jazeera.

again mexico is among the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists for the social media campaign is seeking accountability from authorities al-jazeera spot while raw polo reports now from mexico city. latin america is one of the most dangerous regions in the world to be a journalist according to a recent report by the un in 2019 the region accounted for 40 percent of all confirmed killings of journalists around the world. had a 100 pages from sudan to what is says he left his job as a reporter after receiving death threats and after several of his colleagues lost their lives for reporting on organized crime in the city when it had a kind of i hadn't had the korean i've experienced the violence and the threats firsthand i see the risks that are taken every day to practice journalism in ciudad juarez and i've witnessed through the lives of my colleagues every time i've had to say goodbye to a friend. last year one human rights group launched a campaign seeking to quote revive the voices and images of slain journalists by

reactivating their social media accounts their slogan is still speaking up no my plan then with that of those both organizers have also incorporated image manipulation software into their campaign out this video features the likeness of javier valdez a mexican reporter who was murdered in 2017 so coming out of all this because these tell us kate or i'm. journalist and writer i was still on may 15th 2017 on orders by someone who did not like what i published but as you can see i'm here speaking to you. activists say they digitally manipulated videos or a form of protest directed at the federal government to do more for press freedom the plot to talk i guess out of the what have you had about this have to return from that to demand justice because our institutions are incapable of the laboring justice to his family life that is this all of since 2006 mexico has endured

a spiral of violence that's claimed the lives of at least 132 journalists among thousands of others. despite a promise made by mexican president look is a better order to protect members of the news media there have been at least 32 journalists killed since the start of his administration security experts point to widespread impunity and collusion between authorities and criminal groups as the main reasons ranking the country just behind syria as the most dangerous for media professionals and read up on the al-jazeera mexico city time for sport has far easier and thank you so much only going to our souls are is heading into what could be a pivotal game in his career as mansions unite its manager in our region is favorite among a number of u.k. bookies to become the next premier league coach to be fired sorceress team are down and 15th place in the league and lost in the champions league and united are away at everton on saturday i don't. look at waller to resource and it.

in for like a house of cards we are the best and the biggest club in the world. you don't expect. anything book criticism now it's just how you deal with it how you deal with it. all the league itself has surprised leaders at the moment southampton taking top spot with a victory over newcastle they lead on goal difference ahead of liverpool who play man city on sunday. the result is a momentary top position but it's only for a few moments and. it's but it's nice for the fans for the players. make a picture enjoy it for me to important to stay hungry and we don't leave. people working here james coming up in germany where the top 2 teams meet in the bundesliga just goal difference separates bar in munich in brussels dortmund last

season barring want to domestic double of trophies as well as european champions league dortmund have only won 2 with the past 10 league meetings against fire. i hope we haven't hit the pinnacle yet i think the mentality of us players of myself and i'm sure i can speak about the team now is to aim for another trip of course who i know is going to be hard but we know we have a lot of quality and the motivation sometimes going to be difficult but so one of us here picks the other one up i'm sure we can achieve a lot more than just having one season that's been great doctors have sedated diego maradona to help him battle withdrawal symptoms the argentinian is recovering from brain surgery and remains in hospital the 6 year old is in a clinic and what is there is where he underwent a procedure on tuesday to remove a blood clot one of the greatest players of all time there donna let argentina to world cup glory in 1986 previously battled drugs and alcohol in action

so we must not like we have seen a reaction that is basically a swatting reaction i one point anger and we have classified as that it is a syndrome the syndrome is a set of signs and symptoms based on what we believe is the withdrawal syndrome we are treating it and have not let him leave. rafa nadal has fought his way into the semifinals in the french capital as he stays on course for a maiden paris masters title the 20 time grand slam champion lost 1st set against fellow spaniard pablo khurana boo stack but he came back to win the next to closing out the match 46756134 year on the dow has only reached the final and parrots it once before. is out will now face german alexanders of rev in the semi finals the german beat swiss stand of rancor in straight sets to get there so rabbit is also into his 1st title in paris but his only beat nadal won best in their previous 5

meetings. major league baseball will not punish l.a. dodgers star justin turner for his world series celebrations despite testing positive for corona virus the dodgers had taken turner ad of the deciding game after getting news of his positive test however he returned to the field later to celebrate with his team after the game was one l.b. found that turner was actively encouraged to celebrate with his teammates and even appearing in a photo with the. ok and that is all your support for now adrian back to you for many thanks indeed young couples in south korea fighting it increasingly difficult to afford their own home a common problem and most of the world's major cities boston as 000 but by reports now from seoul one architect has come up with a possible solution. newly married and wanting to own their own home in the city of escalating land prices architect to him a new look does wife jungle young haight onan double solution build

a house that's narrow but tall told me 1st people were curious about what we're building they thought it was a word lighthouse. with just one room per floor it means a lot of stairs but with the bottom floors being the living areas mostly for day use and the top 2 more their personal space climbing up and down is kept to a minimum i don't like to. talk at all. so. choice is now designing similar tiny homes for others winning recognition from the city for his originality it's a concept already established in neighboring japan and it could provide a way for more young couples to own their own homes in seoul where the average apartment price has now risen to the equivalent of more than $800000.00 as property

prices surge the mathematics of building small and tall become all the more persuasive the land this house stands on cost just under $100000.00 us dollars spend another $150000.00 on the house itself and you have a home for less than a 3rd of the price of a similarly sized apartment and i think this could be a solution it's very challenging for young people to buy a home even if they think their entire lives. and even in congested central seoul it's a way to secure your own individual space when distancing has taken on a new importance the specially trained discarded in a night man we saw is it isn't very lucky paul asked to have displaced because there is no noise so it is a very calming place a small haven to call your own rabbit bride al jazeera so. that's so cool that's it from the news hour hello backtalk teacher in just

a couple of moments we'll see you go right. to drive their industrial expansion and european powers colonised huge areas of the world rich resources so free labor and fast lands were exploited in the name of civilization and wealth until the colonies decided that had enough in a new 3 part documentary series al-jazeera explores the district suffering and legacy of france's imperial past. not in tears french to colonise ation coming

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i call for come by joe biden as he nears the 270 electoral votes needed simply come the next presidents of the united states. stand 1st to come together as a nation to heal this not can these we have to try. as president trump threatens to double up a legal challenge the supreme court orders separation of postal votes after right arriving after election day in pennsylvania. that i'm having a hit in this.