thank you everybody. thank you. 0 out of there, i'm just on the attack and this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes, stepping down in protest. more than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong resigned after 4 of their quality colleagues were disqualified. there's been an explosion in saudi arabia at a ceremony, attended by european diplomats from schools that a cowardly attack protester

and arrests in armenia, where people are angry about the deal with azerbaijan, to end the fighting in nagorno-karabakh. and a military operation in northern ethiopia forces thousands to flee to neighboring sudan, where live from khartoum. a donkey just into the sport with less than a day delayed, most of its goals to mentor. the woods is on the pro, as he looks to defend these green jackets. we'll hear from him with this news. hong kong is facing found the crisis after more than a dozen pro-democracy politicians called it quits. their resignation was in solidarity after the territory's government disqualified 4 of their fellow legislations. yet there we are. 001, china's congress has passed a patriotism resolution,

allowing the removal of legislators who pose a threat to national security and challenge beijing's rule. pro-democracy activists say that amounts to the end of the one country 2 systems principle made by the central government to say that all this stuff is all powerful. we'll be taken away. they're all the problem. we will keep searching. i mean that to make 2nd tier of cost to present it used at the top, the central government. so that's always sells the. that is the face of arguments why the state there is today to the end of the 100th the 1st part of our correspondent, if a pilot has more from hong kong that was a very emotional press conference. some of them announcing the resignation with tears in their eyes, saying those resignation letters will be in the hands of the government tomorrow, which essentially will deem hong kong's legislative council without any opposition voices anymore. they say they're doing this because it is what beijing's actions

have essentially done is rendered hong kong government ineffective in the making its own decisions. the fact that beijing can essentially oust lawmakers who are deemed as unpatriotic or for any reason that it may like, essentially makes them almost ineffectual. their whole position already under siege. and they feel that hong kong no longer can have a democratic voice within the government. they made it very clear to say though, that although they are quitting the government, they're not quitting the fight for democracy in hong kong. but many questions still remain and once they leave, what kind of an opposition can remain in hong kong given the fact that hong kong now has this national security law, where any kind of dissent or protests are not allowed. so this seems to be the last gosh, an of those opposition or critical voices, particularly within the government that can represent people in hong kong, and now that no longer will exist after their resignations are accepted after that

mass walkout happened in hong kong government. and here's what hong kong later carolan said earlier, defending the disqualification. no single single you figure for legislators who have been deemed in accordance by the law to not genuinely swear, to uphold the basic law and not genuinely played their allegiance to home combe, we have doubts about their ability to perform their duties. if they are unable to uphold the basic law and to support hong kong of course, and qualified to be legislators. well, earlier we spoke to claudia moshe's, one of the hong kong pro-democracy politicians who resigned. she says they were left with no choice. we need to quit in the protest against a beijing group by the cream of the. i mean the, this is not even though who by law now it's moved by the crew. they do, they order whatever they want. and 2, we cannot simply afford to stay on because

a minus our 4 colleagues who are ousted the afternoon of the 15 of us will simply don't have the minimum number to a protest. they're also being unseated. eventually one by one of the by the beijing type. and so they're just let us, let us so full of fake names that we just cannot carry on. and we need to support our work colleagues who are viewing it, telling anyone who was not patriotic enough to keep all politics. you have no place here. and so i would work the to be quakerly frank. i think it's possible that things will be in that don't, but then you do not under estimate on com people, especially the young that end which is some show up. some little things will

have a really fun eventually because you need to believe and you meant to now there's been an explosion in saudi arabia as an event, attended by western diplomats and other foreign citizens. at last had a cemetery in the city of jeddah during a remembrance day ceremony to mark the end of the fast wild war 2 people were injured according to saudi state media. but our correspondent is n.p.r.'s with more . we've had a statement now or joint statement from several countries, france,, the u.k. the us, greece and italy, their embassies, or put out a statement condemning what they call a cowardly attack. now they are some of the countries that were represented during this remembrance day ceremony that took place in jeddah at this cemetery for non muslims. it is armistice day. it is the day that marks the end of world war one.

what happened was an explosive device went off during that ceremony. we understand that several people were wounded. we don't have any more details, though, about how gravely they were wounded or their identities. but what we know is that in this statement, the embassies of those nations that i mentioned before have called on all thirty's in saudi arabia to investigate this as speedily and transparently as possible. the french foreign ministry have in recent weeks, been warning french citizens abroad to be particularly vigilant because there is a growing anti french sentiment in a number of countries in the middle east. and in asia we've seen a lot of anti french protests. for example, in the past few weeks and all of this following the recent attacks we had here in france in october, the beheading of a schoolteacher, who showed cartoons of the prophet mohammad following president omar cross comments

that islam in the world was in crisis. and he also defended the right of the challis abdo newspaper to publish cartoons saying that this was about freedom. oh protesters gathered in armenia as capital to voice their anger about a deal to end fighting with azerbaijan and are going to carry back. they're opposed to the agreement, which sees land handed over to harry forces. police have detained around 20 people at a protest in europe, and now nagorno-karabakh is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan bought . it is controlled by all means hundreds have been killed in the fighting since september. our correspondent is in europe and she says, focusing our anger on the prime minister. well, the main slogan coming out of here is that nicole questionnaire, who is the prime minister of armenia, is a traitor. and there you have a couple, couple of 1000 people here in freedom square. you know, these are people who are infuriated with the ceasefire agreement by and large,

it has been quite peaceful. there have been some scuffles here and there are, we are told at least 20 people have had been detained at the beginning of this rally. and also one of our main is largest opposition party say that their leader is at the moment, the question of a national security. now you have police on this side at the moment there standing there watching. they have been reminding people through a microphone that this still a martial law in this country and you're not allowed to protest, but these people are ignoring it now are spoken to a few of them. they say that legal question and reason have the right decide that without consulting with the people, they said that that is not democracy. and that basically he sold out and gave away their land as well, including those 7 regions that are considered occupied viremia since 9094 people

here say that is not the case. they say that they, the people that live there instapundit carries in other parts of nagorno-karabakh, won't be reached, learning there, because of accepted. it was russia that helped to broker that cease fire deal. and for more on that, let's go to alexandra called for. she joins us from moscow. alexander, this deal so intrudes the deployment of russian peacekeepers. deepening its influence in this region. well, yes indeed, the blowing the moscow, the russian peacekeepers seems to be the key point of this agreement. there should be in total 1960 of them with the 990 armored vehicles. and as soon as this agreement was signed, the russian soldiers started boarding planes that took them to 1st armenia and then all that it will now go to look at a box. the official information is that so far,

27 planes have landed carrying around 400 soldiers, 8 helicopters and armored vehicles. of the disagreement is that they are should be deployed on the contact line on another note about as well as on the korean daughter lauching. this is the road that basically connects to and i'm going to put a bokken according to russians. they're already there. but russian officials say all. busy these men have experience in syria. they are armed according to disagreement, and they are to stay at least 5 years after which, if both sides agree, then they are to leave. and now, what is going on with this, this agreement that has been signed is that russia manages to keep its influence in this era in this era your area. so moving with both renia and john, they are saying that there's going to be only a russian patrols that the only thing that they will have with 30 with which they

obviously are coordinating. all this efforts is going to be the monitoring center on that. they're dorie of azerbaijan. now, 30 soldiers, for instance, would be acceptable for armenia, for numerous of reasons. and what we are seeing now, and yet of on because bush announced signed this agreement would be a child's game to the reaction that would be, for instance, if there would be peace keepers. but with this deal, yet again, the russia seems to menage to avoid confronting directly with turkey in the area or in the region where both have interests above that are supporting opposite sides. and instead they manage to, at least for now make some sort of agreement. and a share of the influence over this area. this agreement is only a part of the solution and the political long term solution is only to come well for the last 20 years. that didn't happen. so we'll have to wait and see what time

and the future events will bring in. kelly remains very volatile, alexander, god, speaking to us from moscow. thanks so much, alexandra. there is plenty more ahead. a few this news hour, including a suspected financier of the rwandan genocide, faces war crimes charges in the hague. we need a south african community. he's been investigating this best of scandal that's made thousands of people. and after nearly a year's delay because of the coronavirus qualifying is back under way for the african cup of nations. now the military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the country's borders. and there are fears it could lead to a further humanitarian crisis. prime minister ordered that offensive in the region last week, accusing local forces there of attacking a military base. and since then,

hundreds have been killed. several 1000 people have also fled to neighboring sudan of more on that. let's now speak to have a morgan. she joins us live from khartoum. sudanese authorities are already warning, they don't have the resources to cope with this influx of people and there are still thousands more waiting to cross over. yes indeed. now let's not forget that the bordering states, of course, already had camps that were housing or hosting refugees, even prior to the conflict that had broken out in the region in ethiopia. last week there were already hundreds of refugees there waiting to be processed, saying that they want to be moved to a 3rd country and they were receiving humanitarian aid. and they were already saying that the aid that they were receiving is not sufficient for them. now the sudanese government is saying that the number of refugees that are flowing are just too much for them to cope with. they say that more than 1000 have already crossed over and have been processed. but there are more than $6000.00 that are still waiting process. and they say that that's because 1st of all they're worried about

the health precaution. this is, of course, happening during a pandemic, the global coronavirus pandemic. and they're saying that they're concerned about those who could potentially be infected. they're also worried about how they would be able to cope with the number of refugees, especially the women and children who may be carrying diseases such as cholera. that's something that they say they're concerned about. the ministry of health is saying that it's taking all precautions to make sure that they have access to clean water and that there is some kind of dense the distance between the refugees. the other concern is, who among the amongst those refugees are militants and more the who are amongst them are civilians. they are have been reports from local authorities, that some of those people who have crossed over into sudan are waiting to be processed. are militants who have surrendered their weapons and are waiting to be housed in camps. so lots of concerns, lots of procedures to be followed, and many, many refugees, according to authorities waiting to be, to be accepted into refugee camps here. in sudan, specifically in the states of castle and out of which border if europea in eastern

sudan, i understand there are groups who supported grand forces and those who are opposed them. is there a concern that we could see further conflict in that area where people are actually trying to seek refuge? well, they fear pain. sudanese border have always been very poor as they have been concerns . and they have been reports of smuggling, they've been reports of human trafficking. and there have been clashes along the sudan if european border in the area an official physical county in get out of state, as well as parts of casella over the past few months. now we've seen that happening in february, we've seen it happening in may as well, where there were reports of sudanese army officers killed, and some ethiopian militias injured. so these, those border areas have always been very forest and very unstable. now the concern right now is how that would affect the sudan if you can relations right now. the intergovernmental authority on development is being headed by the sudanese prime minister album dog, who has formed, met last week and an offer to mediate in this conflict. something that the prime

minister responded by saying it is unnecessary and not needed the sudanese security and defense committee. that's the committee that is responsible for security matters related to that country have held an extraordinary meeting on monday to discuss the issue. so the head of the sovereignty council of the hunt has also met with prime minister security advisor yesterday at the presidential palace to discuss the full for the events on the border. and the outcome of that aspart. the statement from the sovereignty council is that the special envoy and the secretary said that right now it will get the issue under control as soon as possible. so sudan is trying to mediate many people. many countries in the region have been trying to mediate because they're concerned about the instability that would trigger in the horn of africa. but so far, if he of his response has been saying that it is not necessary and that it can handle matters on its own. any potentially huge regional consequences have been morgan there with all the latest for us from khartoum. thanks so much happening.

now u.s. president elect joe biden, says donald trump's refusal to concede the election is an embarrassment. he's planning on meeting with advisors on wednesday to feather. prepare for a transition into office. the trump administration. meanwhile, is filing lawsuits to contest results in battleground states and is refusing to provide access to biden's team. judges have tossed out their cases in michigan and in georgia can be how it is standing by for us at the white house, but 1st. let's speak to john hendren, who is in wilmington, delaware. john, how is the biden transition team approaching? what's not really a transition yet so far? well the transition team right now is working on what it's calling one of the diverse most diverse cabinets in u.s. presidential history. and that includes state officials, former rivals to the former vice president,

including people like pete who judge amy clothes, which are both of them. democratic candidates for the president, susan rice, a black woman is being considered for secretary of state among others. so by whom transition team says it's going ahead, but what the trumpet, ministrations refusal to acknowledge biden as the winner means, is that he doesn't have access to the formal organs of government that includes a $6000000.00 fund to pay his staff. but joe biden says he doesn't need to file a lawsuit right now that he can go ahead and do what he needs to do. and he's been, talking with foreign leaders. the leaders of the u.k., ireland, germany, and france, all of whom have congratulated him, acknowledged him as the winner, and pledged to work with him in the future. but he can't go through the state department to talk to those people. so these are all informal conversations until president trumps general services, administrator nick knowledges in signs a form that says, joe biden is the future president so far they haven't done that. mike pompei of the secretary of state said yesterday that the be administration is working toward

a smooth transition to a new trump administration to give you an idea just how unlikely that is. there have been 31 recount statewide recounts since to 2000 election. and in those, the average number of votes change has been a little over 400 in wisconsin last time around. for instance, in 2016, donald trump netted another 131 votes. joe biden's margins are in the 10s of thousands over 120000. in the case of michigan, i think it's small as margin is something like $10.00 to $14000.00 in georgia. so it's incredibly unlikely that this election will be overturned. nevertheless, joe biden is going to have to do just informally until the trump administration acknowledges he is the next president, john hendren there with all the latest from wilmington, delaware, joe biden's, home state. thanks, john. now let's move over to the white house and speak to candy, how that can be. i see that we are expecting to see the president from places say, where do all of his legal challenges actually stand right now.

well, as john just reported in terms of the legal challenges, many have already been cast out. we are watching carefully as the u.s. president is set to leave the white house for arlington national cemetery, today's veterans day in the united states. and as a military cemetery, he will be there to pay his respects. it's going to be a virtual event. due to the pandemic can cope with 19, the question becomes whether or not donald trump will say to the press or even make remarks that are very similar to what he has been tweeting, including today. and in recent days that this is not an election that is over and that he will win. now again, with respect to those lawsuits many have already been thrown out. but what there is still a possibility of and what we are hearing more and more about is the possibility that the elect tour strategy is that snow could be activated. this is where republicans potentially would try and block state secretaries of state from

certifying the ballot counts, so that republican controlled legislators could instead choose the electors for the electoral college that favor trump instead of biden. now this is all perfectly legal. whether or not it would sit well with the voting public is certainly another matter, but this is something that is being explored as some of these legal challenges are being rejected. so we'll watch very carefully to see if the u.s. president talks about this. in the meantime, as there has been an increasing burden of proof on the campaign to show that there has been widespread fraud and voting irregularities the campaign today, releasing the obituaries of more than a half a dozen voters that are deceased, but somehow managed to cast a ballot in the most recent election can be how can our white house correspondent in washington d.c.? thanks so much company. let's dig into this an animal with kind wilcox. he's

a professor of government at georgetown university and he joins us now on skype from virginia cried as we've been hearing there from wellington, our correspondent talia. it does seem that the biden team is trying to proceed with their transition plans, if in a bit of a vacuum. so much of this will be needed to be facilitated by crystal savants already in office to get the sense that the biden plan is potentially to try to get as much done as possible as quietly as possible. so trump doesn't feel a need to raise a public fuss will also try and strike to the people who ministration, not to release transition plans and not to begin to brief the biden team on national security issues. this is truly a president. it but it wasn't entirely on this but and so the bio team has already been putting in place some of their transition teams that are calling these people volunteers because there's no money to pay them. but actually that you have some

money saved from the campaign to be able to facilitate this taking this cloud. i see the white house budget office as also telling federal agencies to continue preparing the trumpet, ministrations budget for the next fiscal year. i mean, that would be february, right. is that obstruction or just wishful thinking? well, is wishful thinking. i mean is that we might as well start the process anyway. but that's wishful thinking. well, let me ask you, then kimberly, there was referring to this legislation around potential sending alternate electors to the electoral college. i know that that's legal. can you talk us through that a little bit and the legal recourse that that stands in the way for, for the republicans? well, it started currently clear this legal if in fact one candidate has clearly won an election and state, then not certifying that result may be illegal under state law. most of the secretary of state are actually elected directly by the people. and so it would be

a really. ready risky thing for their careers to then disregard the electoral college vote. but one of the things that the print team is trying to do is cast of doubt on the election in order to be able to say, well, we really don't know who won in a particular state either doing the most that there were in michigan or i could come up with several people willing to certify that particular people, as you said earlier, who would get dinged the vote, but half a dozen people doesn't change the outcome. this happens at all actions. there has been one arrest by the way, so far for someone trying to vote through deceased person. but that was someone trying to vote for a truck in pennsylvania. so it is theoretically possible to do this. the head of the state senator in the pennsylvania announced very publicly that he wasn't going to do this. and he announced that because he was really tired of getting phone calls to do so by people who prompting a low

a number of republicans cried, have felt the need to come out publicly and support president trump at this stage. despite all state officials, i'd be barring texas publicly stating there was no actual for that would affect the outcome. so in your mind, at what point do they actually move on? well, so that's a really tricky question for them. some of them believe that they're hedging their bets. they believe, for example, mitch mcconnell says he has every right to pursue all of his legal options. but he says that mindful of the idea that most of these legal. ready options will a have though no future but the, the governor of florida recently sort of advocated that they simply cannot go along with the popular vote. i think some people are really nervous about the trunk base and will they turn out to support them in the next election? but you're starting to see increasingly senators stepping forward and saying it's

time to start the transition. clydesdale cox that professor of government at georgetown university. great to get your insights again, announces their thanks for being with us. clyde. thank you. well, still ahead here here on al-jazeera. we take a look at how the pandemic has impacted consumer spending, as the world's biggest online sale kicks off. why the japanese government wants to move away from the ancient tradition of using inkstand, and coming up in support of peace and among my indians wrap up. yet another i.p.l., cricket title, the season is changing in the middle east. now we've seen the weather rapidly deteriorating the levant and now its proper frontal systems, drug across iraq into iran. so the recent storms, all showers and rain. now the following final weather doesn't drop temperatures

below where they should be. we're still talking 20 in jerusalem as an example, about 25 in baghdad. now, most to saudi arabia, most of the rave, it yours is fine, but you'll find these shows do edge science was and the wind picks up ahead of them at a probably affect bahrain, possibly even qatar, later on friday or early on saturday, specific forecast for cattle just gives a small chance of showers, all wind really house down. they dars off again on sunday, so it's not persistent. this is the wet bit of african a really and it's from more or less uganda always science was. we've seen some good rain recently in johannesburg as an example. there are showers forecast now. eastern side far eastern side of south africa, malawi, zimbabwe. i'm sure you'll like that, but look at the temperature further south to get cape town, a bit of a breeze off the interior got 30 degrees. guess what? the average temperature should be in cape town's, tommy 23, c. a well above because it doesn't last it down to 19 just below average by saturday

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a bullet with a revolution. people all call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera? to move to her aid to let's remind you of our top stories here. the fallon will, than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong, have resigned in solidarity off to the government disqualified their colleagues. china's policy of patriotism resolution allowing the removal of politicians who challenge its 2 people have been injured in an explosion in saudi arabia. it happened at an event in jeddah,

attended by western diplomats and other foreign citizens. last august at a cemetery during a wild remembrance day ceremony. and fighting in ethiopia's, northern tikrit region is driving thousands of people across the border into said, john, this follows prime minister, i'll be off meds, ordering an offensive off take using forces of attacking a minute tree base. well, let's take a closer look at the northern region of te grain. it's a semi autonomous area governed by the grain people's liberation front. it's estimated to have up to a quarter of a 1000000. feiss. teaberry was the front line for ethiopia during its 3. a conflict with eritrea and large amounts of military equipment are still stored thing. despite ethnic to grains only making up about 5 percent of the population. they control the national government for nearly 3 decades. that's before prime minister came into power in 2018, that shift in power turned to tension rather, have to raise leaders defied oddments government twice once by refusing to join his coalition. and then again in september by holding elections against the orders of

the central government. while we can now speak to the dalai lama, she is the editor in chief of the at a standard which is an ethiopian news magazine, and she joins us now on skype from frankfurt. thanks for being with us. i do want to start with the situation on the ground right now because we're looking at 2 very well armed sides and i see the u.n. is already saying $9000000.00. people are at high risk from this conflict. so this isn't just isolated military offensive. it's a deteriorating humanitarian situation. you know, several other humanitarian organizations are also raising some concern about the possibility. so it's a looming humanitarian crisis. county that you were a say about 98 people could be very daoist, that i think the opposition to grow the region. and given that my move to do that in government is out of line. currently, there are no in and out routes for even the humanitarian service delivery is at the

moment. so i think if the situation that is right that you're waiting meant by people being in danger or my misery, right, well, and that is extended to the government to show well, there has been plenty of speculation also about this turning into a board, a civil war and i want to get out of us in context here. so the team here left with a real driving force behind ethiopia's federal constitution. and now he's been pushing to centralize everything and that's not just made the tea p.l.f. angry. it's made other groups angry to do you think this is fermenting potential conflict with other ethnic groups and other places? yes, absolutely. in fact, this is very safe to say that what is happening to right, today's an extension of what has been happening in places like korea. you know, there has been a state if you'll only believe civil war in your marriage, no state was an arbiter group that never wanted to recognize $100.00 as

a prime minister and several asked him to satisfy their local peace talks have failed. so there isn't a sustained military operation in western edge hausen or american, and there also are other culturally this that are less talked about. men shall go in regional state militia groups, which next day is what the government often acted wives as i did by army troops, which i believe are, you know, army insurgent groups amended study and there also are, there is no, there is in the south was there and so this, this station, these not really grabbing the hit lives now because of the balance of power. but this is an old boy confrontation that the prime minister is almost pressing everywhere, particularly since it will be out even they were

a unified currency. now has been very many issues and nationalities in that country . well, this also has huge potential regional consequences, right? i mean, since i've been in power, obviously ethiopian eritrea have become much closer and eritrea has some issues with themselves. do you see the spilling over borders on either side, sudan and eritrea. like many are easily you know, this is so true and that is this and knowing the hold of the jews and because this is a region that region is not really doing from problem from this complicated country conflicts. and there i do that. we do have to trim and dynamic there and the degraded united states president yesterday accused the eritrean forces are fighting alongside the egyptian forces and their attempts to

kind of turn that whoever i have given to them and deny such being any trend, no government forces being involved in that, but it's not and i'm like, so now you know, given that to gripe and the relationship between right and it turned government remains and a prime minister, i asked one state in his brokerage or reeves, was that it traversed the, i mean more cities are still there from the 20 years from the award 20 years now. so given those day, not even that it interests you have been a couple of times overly spoke about removing any from from power, including c. days before this military operation begun. given all those background and i'm likely scenario that this won't be my speeding towards it. and then might, i could sit down and for that matter. but it's all sort of unlikely that it might

even be a back ground like you can walk to. and it's rare. and that, as we've been saying here on al-jazeera, doesn't apply to escalation, as like any time to the dalai lama that the editor in chief of the, at a standard. great to be speaking to here on out there. thanks for being with us today. so how did he bahrain's a long time? prime minister has died in the united states have been sound on al khalifa was 84 years old. he was head of the government in the gulf kingdom since 1970, making him the longest serving prime minister anywhere in the wild. he was receiving medical treatment in the us. his body is now being sent back to bahrain for a funeral. the government has now announced a week of mourning. well, let's speak to mark owen jones. he is an assistant professor of middle east studies at hama, been philly for university, and the author of the book, political repression in bahrain. he joins us now on skype. from here in doha, one of the longest serving prime ministers more than half a century, he was also a controversial figure and talk us through his legacy. yes, so,

as you said in solomon, it's the longest part 7 prime minister in the world. he rose to prominence in the sixty's, but actually became prime minister in the seventy's, where he spearheaded really the shift from independence from the u.k. to kind of fool reassertion al khalifa control over internal affairs. as such, he gained a reputation for being particularly brutal in its oppression of political opposition throughout the seventy's, eighty's and ninety's. he is basically, he was essentially responsible for ordering mass arrests of opposition figures in, the early 1980 s., for example, he ordered the arrest of $650.00 share protesters, protest the civilians, even though they hadn't engaged for example, in any wrongdoing. he just did it because he wanted to send a message that the behind the government to use quotes by a british official, the time with true arabs. so he's definitely gained a reputation as a hardliner. and

a person who does not tolerate any form of dissent or challenge to the human gemini in bahrain. well, there are also corruption allegations, right? not the arab spring protests are called back in 2011. they tried to remove him, but failed. how did he survive in office? well, they survived in office because the bahraini state is one it's. it's a very small country with a large security force. it has the backing of the united states in the united kingdom, so it has powerful allies who generally support the government. and let's look at 2011. he survived, but look at the consequences of his corruption. i mean, thousands of hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets in 2011, united by the fact that they were all, you know, sick of corruption in bahrain and much of the corruption was embodied by the prime minister. so people did want democracy and they wanted more democratization, but they also wanted and then to what they saw as the theft of the natural resources of the country that should have been better distributed to the bahamian

population. while he mentioned powerful allies there, how was he regarded by foreign powers? he was, he was regarded as incredibly smart, shrewd, intelligent. and this is one of the reasons that explains his long survival. he was a cunning political actor and he really knew where he was able to actually implement a lot of the modernization of the train. so many bahrainis probably actually like him, but certainly the opposition won't shed much of a tear for him. even though he was generally considered quite popular among foreign diplomats, simply because he was regarded as very competent. well, let me ask you then about succession. you know, obviously very close ties in the region between various countries. bahrain, very much allied with saudi arabia. how much influence do you think riyadh will have on him or places him? yeah, there will be, they will have the final say on whoever replaces the prime minister. and even if the prime minister was, it was going to be someone considered more liberal. i mean,

the deputy prime minister is the current crown prince who's is regarded as a reformer. inevitably, the prime minister's role will be limited to kind of overseeing social change and potentially economic change. the notion of political change. we'll certainly have to have the ok from saudi arabia because saudi arabia at the end of the day determine the extent of the governance structures in bahrain with regards to politics. so whoever will be, will be limited by that relationship. mark owen jones there from hama, been a colorful university here in doha. great to new insights on al-jazeera. thanks for being with us. thank you. well now funeral services have been held for chief palestinian negotiator, sayyid erekat in his hometown of jericho. his body arrived there on wednesday for burial to a ceremony in ramallah. erekat died on tuesday from covert 1000 related complications . you negotiate with israel on behalf of the palestinians for more than 20 years.

now the man accused of being a key finance c.-a of the $199041.00 genocide is making his 1st appearance at an international court in the hague is accused of funding, militia groups and propaganda before and during the genocide which he denies. the former businessman was arrested in paris in may off the 26 years on the run. ethnic critters killed at least 800000 mostly tootsies in just a few months during the genocide. now the corruption case against 7 people associated with south africa's governing party has been adjourned until february of next year. they are accused of pocketing millions of dollars which were meant to fund as best os removal for more than $400000.00 homes. residents have reported the diet will become sick because of those as best as 5 is the governing agencies put parties. secretary-general will also appear in court later this week. well, thousands of residents in townships in the free state province say, years of living under as best as she has made them severely ill. those fibers,

when inhaled, can cause lung disease. that cheating was meant to have been removed in a $15000000.00 contract, but nothing was done and the money allegedly stolen. we spoke to a community where he's been looking into those affected by the scandal. my name is mostly what i have uncovered is that most people, you know, it really is, do we have as posters? they are not our way of the health implications of as pesters, which is a problem. when we go to other houses, we actually find out that they have their houses have been paid for the so that the roofing can be removed, but it's not done. i believe what went wrong is that we deploy wrong people. people who do not care about the community. once we know people who care about the community will be able to deploy people who are able to do their job. you can tell

me that as, as an emmy see you not are, well, what's happening around your department? people are angry. they're angry at the fact that they've been living in these houses for so long that children are also inheriting those houses. yet money is being spent for these houses, they are very, very angry. they're frustrated with the government. and in the end they take it out on as one who works with the community to say that every time you come to that nothing gets done. so they're committing is frustrated and angry as well. it's very concerning as an agency member that we are and able in this sort of thing. we seem to be enabling this sort of behavior instead of speaking out. it is,, once you know the a.n.c., when you have grown up in the incident, you are taught that where you have society, that when your neighbor is ill, you must take responsibility for that. when your neighbor is angry,

you must also take responsibility for that. now when you see leaders that have been deprived by as doing that to the very same people that they expect them to be, to vote for them. again, that's totally unfair. it's painful for us to go in to go to those with the same for every 5 years. we go to the same houses with the same problems. i think it stands, it's totally totally out of order. it's wrong. it's inhumane for as to expect people not to be angry with the a.n.c. . i just want me. it's terrible. it's very painful for us. oh, now the wells biggest shopping spree has begun in china with singles day sales taking place online. analysts say the annual event is an important indicator of the country's economic health and a sign that it has successfully battled the coronavirus pandemic between a new reports from beijing. millions of packages on making their way across china. in an annual extravaganza. nov 11th mock singles day. china's version of black

friday sales e-commerce companies expect a bigger than last year, due to pent up demand from the pandemic from reserve bills shopping for us to vote or celebration for chinese people. everyone of china is aware of it. there is a lot of publicity on the moon and more brands are offering big was started 12 years ago as a contrast to valentine's day singles day sales are now spread out over a number of weeks and involves several online retailers. this year have spent more than $80000000000.00 on platforms bringing to china's biggest economies. companies and home analysts say it points to a recovering chinese economy. the pandemic is now largely under control. manufacturers taking pot say they're focusing less on exports and on chinese buy is little with its high. every country has handled a pandemic differently,

and the chinese market is stable in comparison. this may last a while will help us avoid risks. but the coronavirus has had an impact on how people are spending growing china sentiment abroad, and rising nationalism here has seen some move away from foreign labels. unable to travel overseas, some wealthy accustomed to spend more on luxury goods. others have become more price conscious because it doesn't. it has led to a major this in the sales of health related products, vitamins a small. this also goes, oh no, it was more locally because it's easy to buy. fresh food was hot, but it's locked out just to see it. but while many are enjoying singles, day shopping from the comfort of the road harmed, china's more than 3000000. koreans are racing to keep up with the busiest time of year. some in smaller cities are using the event to raise awareness about poor

working conditions and unpaid wages. al-jazeera beijing. well still ahead here in sports. we'll show you an incredible hole in one. as the wild, the best golfers get ready for the last. i'm

the only come back. the ancient tradition of using past lies stands for everything from official documents to receipts is now under threat in japan. the government has planning reforms that will end the use of stamps and digitize paperwork instead,

has more. for centuries, this hand carved wooden stamp has been part of daily life in japan, whether it's an heirloom or a coming of age gift, is personalized. unique to its owner, it can cost hundreds of dollars being seen as use for government documents and daily transactions. a new japanese culture we didn't affair selves by signing our name in stamping our seal next to it. you can also own originator's them, which is custom made one of a kind in the world. only you can own it, which makes you feel a bit like a king. this is the 1st item that makes you a responsible adult now. but this is all likely to change soon. the japanese government plans to stamp out the use of hang cofa nearly all of its administrative paperwork. it's part of reforms to improve efficiency and digitize system. sure, there are people use hanko stamps just for the sake of stamping. but once we change

the way, we think and streamline our stamp use to only when it is absolutely necessary, it will make the purpose of using how much more clearer hanko is considered legally binding than a handwritten signature and has made working from home during the pandemic. difficult for many office workers. it's prompted former prime minister shinzo abyei in late april to order the draft of new laws through g.'s. japan's dependence on hanko. one document could often have as many as 40 seals of approval as it goes through a chain of authority. the signal we're talking one, no one wants to take responsibility in japan, it's always very good. when you think about it, it should really only take 2 stamps at the most. one by a person who makes a document and another by the person who approves it. last month tech giant hitachi announced the paperless office plan. it's part of a growing list of businesses promising to end the custom of stamping by setting a march 2020 deadline to stop the internal use of hank. but autism stunt make is

a concern that could spell an end to an ancient tradition has remained unchanged for centuries. the balkan or the opponent says, even if different seals are made in the same font, they carry the personality of each craftsman who spends a long time to create them while consulting with clients. that means that each hanko stamp naturally is unique in the world. the effort to curb hanko remains a challenge for the government, and it's still unclear if society will give up using its customary seal of approval 1st, late at al-jazeera. well, it is now time for sports and here's peta. the stars, thank you. we're less than a day away from the start of the masters golf tournament with tiger woods aiming to defend the famous green jacket. woods, won it in dramatic style back in 2019, securing his 1st major victory in 11 years and 15th major over all. it was supposed to defend it back in april this year, but the tournament was pushed back to november for the 1st time in its history

because of the pandemic. to have it this long. and it's not the way i want to have it back. and a problem. obviously we have, we had an opportunity to play this week, which, you know, early in the year we didn't think we'd have this opportunity. so robert, fortune to be able to build to compete. most of the pre-settlement talk is about bryson, who won the u.s. open back in september. he's bulked up by 18 kilograms any year and is driving the ball incredible distances on drive at home recently carried more than 400 yards. i really don't know where the end game is on this, but i will say that i am hearing it further now that i wasn't sure enters or any further. then the us open. and i'm trying, you know, a driver this week that may help me a little, immobile further. so we'll see, i don't know, still up in the year or maybe hitting the ball for but kenny do 30. this

was paine's world number 2, john rom, playing the part 316th in practice. he skimmed the ball over the lake onto the green, and straight into the hole. a nice present on what was he's 26th, birthday. unfortunately, there are no fans at augusta this year, so it didn't get the cheers it deserved. qualifying for the africa cup of nations resumes this week after nearly a years delay because of the pandemic. over 19 protocols were in place for media attending to his years training session since he won their 1st games that way back in november 29th, teen answered top of the group. on friday they'll be up against tanzania in about how much weight of cereal we've had a long time away from official competitions. last month we had opportunities to play to friendly's, to prepare ourselves for these 2 games in the cup of nations,

which i hope all of the squad will be ready for this challenge would determine to do our best. north and central america's top club competition. the concord champions league will resume in a bubble in florida. next month. the tournament was interrupted in march for the coronavirus pandemic, but resumed last week with the quarter finals organizers. those say that the 2nd legs, as well as the semifinals and final, will now take place in orlando at the explorer stadium in december. meanwhile, teams in the asian champions league are set to resume inside a bubble in cutter, using some of the stadiums that have been built for the world cup. but malaysia's champions ajo who are ruled will not travel after they were refused permission to leave the country by government officials. that's because of covert restrictions. dutch cyclist dylan innovation has been banned for 9 months for causing a serious crash on the tour of poland. it happened back in august when he even had a right in a sprint finish to force fellow rider, fabio yacc upson,

into the barriers the cups and was placed in a medically induced coma and required extensive facial surgery. he will require most 2021 to major league baseball and alex core is happy to be back home at the boston red sox. they've rehired him as manager after he served a season suspension for his part in the sign, stealing scandal for joining boston. colo was a bench coach at the houston astros, when they used cameras to spy on opposition, pitching signs on the way to winning the 2017 world series. but he's back now and determined to rebuild his reputation. i made a mistake. i still love the game, i still love what i do. and i promise you that from, you know, now on, you know, i'm going to use this experience the right way. i'm not proud of it. i'm not happy about it, but we have to move on. the west indies, cricket teams preparations for this series against new zealand have been dealt

a blow after several players violated quarantine regulations. the windies are 12 days into a 14 day mandatory quarantine period for teams to bring new zealand. but that could now be extended if they are any concerns from the local health officials. and the mumbai indians have defended their indian premier league title that's after beating the delhi capitals in dubai to lift the trophy for a record 5th time. this year's i.p.l. was originally shadow to begin in march, but was shifted to the u.a.e. following the covert 19 outbreak. one achieve the final result the i hope we put back a lot of smiles back home and around the world as well. these were the tough times . a lot of people were going through a lot of tough times as well. so i hope this championship that we won something to cheer for the people back home as well. ok. thanks so much, bob. that's it for this news hour, but do stay with us. we'll be bringing you president trumps a 1st public appearance since the election very shortly.

it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covered 19 patients built inside a london conference center. it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close,

extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. jumped into the story until he now global community bio diversity is bio security. it is that essential for our species to survive. be part of the debate. i know you heard i.d.'s and you can be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table, the complaints are not neutral and all of these cases goal here is to terrorize. and here's the other part of this. there's no consequence for this dream. on out is there 20 years of china's transformation told through one young girl's journey from birth to adult, but thanks to decades following the development of her life. animation,

rewind returns to the story of k.k., the girl from going joe on the al-jazeera stepping down in protest. more than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong, resigned after 4 of their colleagues were disqualified. you know, again, and this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up there's been an explosion in saudi arabia. a ceremony attended by european diplomats. france is calling it a cowardly attack. a protest and arrests in armenia where people are angry about.