we need to tell our score, look, we don't want to rely on the authority and its media. villa's think post on al-jazeera the future of hong kong's opposition in doubt after the government disqualifies 4 politicians accusing them of being a threat to national security. the, as i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha, also coming up, fighting in ethiopia as tikrit region forces thousands to flee into neighboring sudan u.s. . president elect. joe biden tells the world america is back and calls donald trump's refusal to concede and embarrassments. the

old protests in her rule as referred to as a dent in 4 years is sawn into office at the at hong kong's government has disqualified for opposition. politicians moments after beijing passed a new patriotism resolution. it allows hong kong's government to remove politicians or quote, endanger national security or challenge china's role of hong kong, 19 opposition. politicians had earlier threatened a mass resignation if any of them were barred from the legislative council. though siegel single you fire for legislators who have been deemed in accordance by the law to not genuinely swear, to uphold the basic law, and not genuinely plead their allegiance to hong kong. we have doubts about their ability to perform the duties. if they are unable to uphold the basic law and to

support hong kong, of course, i am not qualified to be legislators. tom grundy is editor in chief and co-founder of the hong kong free press. he explains how the move could soon see no opposition representation in the legislative council. these 4 were banned from and now to spy on the election that was supposed to take place. this tandberg was delayed e.-s. only over 19. it has happened before that we've seen democratically elected lawmakers like this ousted from the legislature for the 1st time. this is not going through the courts within minutes, just hours after beijing made its ruling. we're going on kong government acted and they have to now leave the premises. the legislature was halted just as this news came through and it appears it cannot be a challenge legally. nevertheless, dennis kwok, one of those who is now no longer in or make, he said that this is clearly in breach of the basic moral and white to participate

in public affairs. and also a failure to observe to process. but as you know, this may now leave you without any opposition at all. we understand that in the coming hours, the whole pro-democracy camp, all opposition lawmakers set to quit. perhaps a rejection of efforts to divide and rule when it comes to beijing's crackdown on the x. . you know, the pro-democracy opposition camp and remained pretty united since the 2019 protests, unrest. and perhaps learning lessons from the wake of the 2014 umbrella movement. and we saw a lot of fragmentation, certainly most of those targeted today of a, from quite a mainstream or the probably hundreds, you know, pro-democracy party considered quite stuffy perhaps by some protesters. but, but certainly it seems that they are being caught up in some of these calls is that a bit of an interference. and we're going to see all of the democrats step down

leaving what some critics are going to perceive as, as a rubber stamp. let's get the latest now with david gopalan joining us live from hong kong. so david, what's been the reaction of the pro-democracy politicians to this decision fully, they are about to hold a press conference senate minute now to allegedly or supposedly announce their mass resignation in support. of these 4, they say that with these actions from beijing and from the hong kong government show that the opposition democratic voices have no place within hong kong's government. and perhaps no way of establishing themselves or keeping themselves relevant within the government. now if they step down, it is actually means that hong kong will have somewhat of a lack of opposition. there will be no critical voices within the government. so any rules, procedures, anything as such can be passed, can be passed on without any type of opposition. and that is really worrying for

the hong kong people who cannot even protest on the streets to show their displeasure with the government or any dissatisfaction with the legal system, whether it's a legal system or the way the government works. but it also means that now hong kong essentially doesn't have any way of having checks and balances against what beijing perhaps imposed. and what hong kong's government may want to impose on the people here themselves. dear gopalan in hong kong, thank you for the moment again. we are waiting for a press conference from the pro-democracy, politicians in hong kong, the opposition there, following the decision by hong kong's government to disqualify 4 of their colleagues for opposition. politicians will bring you the latest. of course, when we have it. in other world news, the military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the country's borders and they are fears it could lead to

a humanitarian crisis. prime minister ahmed ordered the offensive in a t. grave region last week, accusing local forces there of attacking a military base. since then hundreds have been killed and several 1000 people have fled to neighboring sudan. kapor morgan has more from khartoum. the 1st thing, the sudanese government did was close the borders between sudan and if you appear in the states of casella and got a lot of, that's because those borders have been long, long been known to be very porous. we've seen refugees crossing from. if you're into sudan, we've seen, we've heard reports and seen reports of smuggling. so those borders have long been known to be very porous. and sudanese authorities deployed more than 6000 troops. now they say that they are welcoming the refugees because they understand that they are fleeing certain circumstances. but sudanese authorities, especially the government here, held a special, a, an extraordinary meeting of the peace and security council on monday to discuss the issues that are happening because they see that they are quite concerned about what

is happening in neighboring ethiopia. especially because of the joint borders and the feeling of refugees into sudan. now yesterday, the head of the sovereignty council opted for the met with special envoy and security advisor. and they discussed the issues that are unfolding and the issues of refugees as well. and what came out of that meeting following that meeting was this special envoy saying that the situation if you are, is under control and that they are, they did, they can control it in the sudan has no reason to be concerned. and it's very sensitive for sudan because at the moment, sudan, specifically the prime minister of the lamb talk is the head of which has been trying to mediate in this conflict that is happening in ethiopia. something that the prime minister says is not needed and not necessary. protesters have gathered in armenia's capital to voice their anger over a deal to end fighting with the by john over a disputed region. they're opposed to the agreement which sees the land handed over to azerbaijan in, and i'm gonna cut a box,

which is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan, but it was controlled by ethnic armenians. hundreds have been killed after fighting flared up in september. he noted, states president elect joe biden, has called donald trump's refusal to concede the election an embarrassment, but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january. that's despite the trumpet, ministration, reportedly refusing to help the president elect's transition team. alan fischer reports from washington. well, donald trump is keeping a low profile. joe biden is putting himself front and center. this was an event to discuss the affordable care act, but the president elect to questions on other topics and he had a message to the man you replace of his refusal to accept the result. i just think it's an embarrassment when frankly, the only thing that how can i say this tax? i think it will help the president's legacy.

i think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders, a story that they are hopeful that the united states democratic institutions are viewed once again as being strong and endure. and that i think at the end of the day, you know, it's all going to come to fruition in january 20th or foreign leaders are calling joe biden to congratulate him. trump, secretary of state america's top diplomat, has called the result into question. it will be a smooth transition to a 2nd trimester action. right, we're ready. the world is watching what's taking place that we're going to come of the votes. when the process is complete, they'll be electors selected. there's a process, the constitution lays it out pretty clearly. various government agencies and departments it's been reported have been ordered by the white house not to help

with the presidential transition because in its view, the result is still in doubt. that hasn't stopped joe biden, pushing ahead with planning for day one, even without the immediate assistance of the trumpet ministration. and the leader of the republicans in the senate says the dili want to create problems. i don't think anything that occurred so far in iraq's an ordinary process of moving through the various steps that i indicated and allowing if there is a new administration to work through the transition, all of these steps could be taken at the appropriate time. this election has already seen a lot of legal challenges. there might be another one coming as the by can come pick it considers going to court to force donald trump's team to start planning for the handover of power. alan fischer. al-jazeera washington. bruce fein is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and constitutional lawyer. he says charm staffers

to challenge the vote, have no legal weight. notice that he has his secretary of state who is not a lawyer. pronounce that they'll be a 2nd, trump administration. secretary of state has no clue of the laws and procedures the court cases under way. the attorney general, who would be inclined to make a statement like that mr. barr, who is a loyalist, has made no such statement and looked at the case. is there already been close to a dozen which have resulted in dismissals of the allegations because there isn't evidence to prove illegal voting it even in the cases that have not yet been dismissed or even the ones that may be filed in the future. the number of votes at stake is far, far too miniscule, to affect the outcome of the election in any particular state. so this is just campaigning to raise money,

perhaps to help the georgia senatorial elections or keep trunk relevant. but the legal cases are going nowhere. and mr. trump statement that he's going to get the supreme court to intercede is completely facetious. the supreme court will stand aside. still ahead on al-jazeera palestinians get ready to bid farewell to their chief negotiator barack had died after contracting over $9000.00 will be live in jericho. in just a few minutes undercover police in the u.k. infiltrated left wing groups for decades. now they're facing scrutiny over rights abuses. hello once again, a former tropical storm has made landfall bringing rain to vietnam, and a current one of typhoon strength is on its way to the eastern philippines southern

luzon, including mela. the winds, quite strong personal, super typhoon. the storm surge has been noted that stream, which is of course, is going to be battering and causing flash floods through southern the zone on the islands to the east. it comes out over open water jugs state. this is still fairly warm, south china seas or might strengthen again. and it can, he is heading west towards the coast of vietnam. but i think at that point it will start to weaken, might make landfall as just another mass of rain. as has the current one that has taken a lot of the energy out of the atmosphere so that there are shower, was malaysia and indonesia. they're not particularly heavy and not particularly widespread or big gaps in between. unwelcome weather. i suspect from this storm system going to victoria new south wales and tasmania. that's of course going to draw recover in the sunshine afterwards was a bit stormy over what's still being harvested. thus the wheat crop persons at 22

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they're watching al-jazeera live from doha. a reminder of our top stories on kong's government has disqualified for opposition. politicians accusing them of being a threat to national security. china has passed a patriotism resolution allowing the territory to walk politicians who challenges war. the opposition politicians are currently holding a news conference in hong kong. reacting to the decision that the military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the country's borders. several 1000 people affect the region to inspire minister idea made an order at the offensive line this week. and u.s. president elect joe biden says donald trump's refusal to concede the election is an embarrassment. trump is calling on the campaign rather is filing several lawsuits to contest results in battleground states. now

the news bahrain's long serving prime minister has died in the u.s. . highly for been someone on highly fell was 84. he had been head of government in the gulf kingdom for more than 50 is. he was undergoing medical treatment in the united states. his body is now being repatriated for a funeral in bahrain. the government has announced a week of mourning. money has been sown in a sparrow's new interim president on tuesday, its 3rd leader in 4 years. his rise to power has faced nationwide protests. much of the public supports impeach president might invest car, and say, corrupt politicians are now running the country. mariana sanchez, reports from lima, anger, and outrage. because major cities from lima to school today. keep protesters clashed with riot police. dozens were arrested violence also erupting around the perimeter of congress. men women who was sworn in this new interim president.

this congress does whatever they want with us. we have to fight the country, can't go on like this. in his message remedial said he'd been entrusted with a legitimate vote to defend the nation. this is a public place. this is a difficult time for the country. people have expectations and a look at us worried that the crisis isn't deniable. we must act maturely with new i should peruvians elections will be held in april and that he will respect the rule of law. but that's a message. do you believe plausible $68.00 of $130.00 lawmakers face criminal investigations from murder to money laundering, abuse and fraud, among other charges. the new congress president faces $52.00 investigations alone. peruvians see corruption is entrenched at the highest levels and the outgoing president of the discover. the one person many believe could bring honesty to

government, has been impeached and removed from office. because carter was the only president who had the strength to put things in order. the new government is taking power to satisfy the person when missions they knew they wouldn't be reelected. some political goals of this new government say the law makers and gave to shield themselves from prosecution with immunity and eventually change the constitution to allow for their reelection. far from is quite good by a monday. now, former president discover who faces 2 investigations for corruption is questioning the legitimacy of the impeachment. he says, the votes to unseat him would only be valid if sanctioned by the people around the country. a few peruvians are content with discover out of office the year we got of them. it is here that actually discard deserved to be finished. a lot can happen. now. there is a lot of uncertainty to the but the spite their differences with people here are

certain about one thing. after 3 presidents in the last 4 years, nothing proven politics can surprise them. but the innocent just and just to be do is find palestinians are preparing to bid farewell to the occupied territories, chief negotiator erekat. these are live pictures from where his body is going to be taken this hour to jericho, where the funeral will be later held. several palestinian leaders, including president mahmoud abbas were attending this farewell ceremony there. in ramallah, erekat died on tuesday from colvin $1000.00 complications. he was 65 years old and he was a key figure in talks with israel for more than 20 years. let's go live to need a brain, who's in jericho outside cybercops house, tell us about what's been happening, where you are. his body is leaving right now and heading to jericho.

yes, we are expecting the body of part to arrive to jericho in the next hour or so after the military funeral in the presidential headquarters finishes. it is underway now and palestinian officials, senior palestinian officials or buildings. lot of hot air. well, we are standing in front of his house where the family is expected to be bidding him his final farewell and to be laid to laid to rest many here more and to his own social media. they said that he's a few years defender of palestinians and their rights, and many others of the they don't necessarily agree with his firm belief of the 2 state solution and that negotiations are the only power stewards achieving the palestinians. there are 3 demand there independent states. some of them were saying

that this path of nonviolence and peaceful negotiations with israel has reached a dead. and we've met a few months ago in his office. he was concerned of the coronavirus. he told us that he has a jeopardized immunity having had a long transplant. he told us that he's concerned he has been wearing his mask. ultimately, the coronavirus complications have led to many here to remember him as a man of few years speaker. he was known to the international world and this is why condolences of who are they in from all over the world. and he was emblematic of a generation of leaders who had very strong ambitions for a palestinian state, who takes up the mantle. now some

of the positions mr. a has been filling. there are mechanisms to elect new members to fill some of the positions he was holding. one of the prominent issues he was dealing with is the negotiations. he's often been called as a walking palestinian encyclopedia. he knew the details of the details of the issues that were being negotiated between the palestinians and israel. what's, let's remember now that there are no negotiations and palestinians have long said that israel is creating facts on the ground while negotiating on these very same issues. so for many palestinians it's yet to be seen how they're going to be dealing with the negotiations file, specifically that under trump, the palestinians of cut their relations with the u.s. administration. following the trump administration's move that we're seen as very pro israeli moving israeli embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem as well as announcing

nonsuch drusilla as israel's capital. so for palestinians, it's just to be seen if a biden administration will change their positions in that regard. and it's really a wait and see, but definitely he leaves a very big void. thank you for that need to abraham, in jericho, where the funeral of cyber erekat, the chief palestinian negotiator will be held later today. now to south africa where 7 people associated with the governing body appearing in court on corruption charges, they're accused of pocketing millions of dollars which were meant to fund espressos removal from more than 400000 homes. residents have reportedly died or become sick because of the as best as 5 years. the governing in c. party secretary general will also appear in court later this week. outside the

court in bloom fontayne. well, these are race a very important role. the government especially, which needs to be seen to be doing something against corruption of this is a country with there seems to be an increase in food corruption. and especially in recent months, when it appears even funds that were meant to deal with a fighting covert. 19 pandemic seem to have been looted though, in this particular case, the people who were affected by it space stores roofing in their homes across those provinces. hundreds of thousands of them are especially interested in this case and they say it's about time that something is done around the corruption. in this particular scandal. we're talking about people who have become ill because of these as best of survivors in the rules, which often leads to things like lines as these. they say this poor service delivery rather than spending up to $20000000.00 on health,

think people on removing these weeds, replacing them, and ensuring that people have safe places to love. that money instead appears to have been looted and appearing today, all a number of business people as well as government officials who have been involved in the looting of these funds are returning now to hong kong, where opposition politicians have held a news conference following the government's decision to ban 4 of their colleagues from the legislature. let's bring in dave hugo palen, who is following this story for us. so they've held now this news conference, what have they decided, the opposition politicians fear there were 19 opposition. politicians slashed in hong kong's legislative council after the 4 were kicked out earlier today. they said that they're going to resign on mass in

solidarity with the 4 that were pushed out of the legislative council and they have now made that announcement. they say they are resigning because this is a matter with that. hong kong's legislative council should have been able to handle themselves. and instead a decision has been made by beijing to remove lawmakers from hong kong's government without going through the legal procedures that were once required. so now what's happening is all the pro-democracy lawmakers and hong kong's governments are walking out. they say they're going to step down, which will leave hong kong's government as largely pro establishment, probe aging, and perhaps some more neutral pro-business representatives within the government. and what this also means is that there will be no longer any critical opposition, voices within the government to give checks and balances to rules and procedures and other decisions made on behalf of the hong kong people by the government.

essentially, making this as a democrat, democratic camp says a rubber stamp government, which they say it is starting to become anyway, especially after china or beijing has imposed several, not only laws of hong kong, but made decisions on behalf of the hong kong government bypassing the regular system that hong kong once would go through and it's up to us as an autonomous region of china to figure palin with the latest ad from hong kong. a u.k. inquiry scrutinising, undercover police tactics is expected to hear evidence 5 years after a list set up. it will look at how undercover officers spied on hundreds of left wing organizations or has a story from london. the back in 1903 and notice austin led a protest against the far right british national party as head of youth against racism. she wanted an end to racist attacks in london as was

a peaceful group that police decided to infiltrate them. i found out in 2010 that i had been spied on by peta francis for about 4 or 5 years. and pace of francis was the chief. we saw, so he was a member,, he was on top of police officer working for the s.d.s.,, for many years. the s.d.s., so special demonstrations squad, was set up in 1968 when a wave of protest against the vietnam war caught the police by surprise. deciding intelligence was needed to control future demonstrators, and then leaked and highly secret squad within the metropolitan police was created . over more than 4 decades, at least 139 police offices were given fake identities to closely monitor more than a 1000 political groups. pretty much anybody that proposed any form of challenge to

the state of corporate interests. everything from environmental campaigners pardons to the arms try used on a more rights activists on choices campaign is to gain access to these creeps some of us is started to intimate relationships with female members. then after a few years, when the deployment was over, they disappeared from their lives back through my life completely into disarray. because as you can imagine, if you spent 2 years with somebody and you think you know the really well, and then you discovered that actually, you know, they were spying on you or they didn't exist. you know, he's, he's a person who no longer exists. i didn't even, he's not i the implications that house all your other relationships. it destroys your ability to trust hard knowledge that these relationships are a violation of the women's human rights, the metropolitan police apologized and compensated 7 women 5 years ago. it was only

through their own research that the undercover officers identities were revealed. police are still refusing to release the full list of organizations that was spied on, believed to be more than a 1000 or the cover names of the police officers who infiltrated them. the core participants hope this inquiry will force them to reveal those details. and also the question, who in the government sanctioned these operations, charlie and al-jazeera, and the end to come fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera more than a dozen hong kong lawmakers have resigned in solidarity after the gut territories government's decision to disqualify 4 opposition politicians, china's legislature has passed a patriotism resolution allowing the removal of lawmakers to challenge beijing's will though see.