rewind returns to the story of k.k. . do you know me? you just stepping down in protest, more than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong resigned after 4 of their colleagues were disqualified though again, 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 to protest and arrests in armenia, where people are angry about a deal with azerbaijan to end the fighting in

a form of carbon and bidding farewell to side erekat, the chief palestinian negotiator who died on tuesday, after contracting private 19 hong kong is facing further crisis. after more than a dozen pro-democracy politicians called it quits. their resignation was in solidarity. after the territories government disqualified 4 of their fellow legislations. yet there we are. now 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 polland has more for us 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 fledge exclusive council without any opposition voices anymore. they say they're doing this because it's what beijing's actions have essentially done is rendered hong kong's government ineffective into 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 is 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 gotten 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. but we spoke to a county, a moshi is 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 crazy. but i mean the, this is not even though who, by law now it's moved by the crazy 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 hate that we just cannot carry on. and we need to support our work. colleagues who have the you know, it telling anyone who was not patriotic enough to keep all politics. you have no place here. and so i would work that to be a great player, frank. i think it's possible that things will be in the don't. but then you do not under estimate on com people, especially the young that end, which is so not all things will have for a refund eventually because you need to believe and you meant to. now there

has been an explosion in saudi arabia at an event, attended by western diplomats and other foreign citizens. and 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. our correspondent is in paris 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 thora t'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 of 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 surely

abdo newspaper to publish such cartoons saying that this was about freedom. now us 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 prepare for a transition into office the trumpet ministration. meanwhile, is filing lawsuits to contest results and battleground states and as refusing to provide access to buy. the 13 judges have so far tossed out their cases and michigan and in georgia. donald trump is expected to make his 1st public appearance at a veterans day event in allington virginia. he hasn't spoken publicly since he lost his bid for reelection, but has been tweeting about unproven voter fraud claims. well, john hendren is standing by for us in wilmington, delaware, joe biden's, home state, but 1st, let's go to our white house correspondent can be health it in washington. can be i see that we are expecting to see president trump any moment where do the rest of

his legal challenges stand right now. that's right. we are expecting to see the president at any moment at arlington national cemetery. it is veterans day in the united states, a holiday, a national holiday, to mark those who served and those who have also played a very high sacrifice. and so arlington national cemetery is where many are buried and that is where we know the president will be traveling along with the 1st lady to lay a wreath. as you point out, it is the president's 1st public appearance. the white house officially saying that the president is not expected to speak. we have been wondering about that. given the fact that he has been so vocal on twitter and has really said very little since shortly after the u.s. election, at least in front of the television cameras, with respect to his claims that there has been widespread voter fraud in voting irregularities with respect to the 2020 presidential election. now the truck

campaign, as you mentioned, has been launching a series of legal challenges in various states. some of been thrown out today is providing some of the burden of proof with regard to the evidence of voter fraud. the campaign releasing a number of obituaries of people who have died going back 220062003, but that somehow were able to cast a ballot in elections most recently. so this is an example of some of the evidence that apparently is being used in some of these legal challenges, but again, the bar still very high given the fact that that joe biden has such an enormous lead in so many states. many do not expect this projected win made by the media outlets to be overturned. white house correspondent candy. how could they with all the latest? thank you very much. kimberly. now let's cross to john hendren. he's in wellington . john, i believe that that's the biden transition. headquarters behind you, how is the team approaching what's really not been a transition yet so far?

as to queens, the behind me where the biden transition team is based. they can't operate out of washington because the trump administration hasn't acknowledged that joe biden is the next president. so he's doing it from here and he's acting very much like the next president of the united states. he put out a statement today honoring veterans on veterans day we're told is medicaid is now on the move. we don't know exactly where but one presumes on veterans day that this would be a competing wreath laying to what the president is doing. that's just a guess on my part. but so you've got these kind of dual presidencies. joe biden is putting together a cabinet and he says you want it to look like america. meaning it would be diverse in terms of ethnicity and gender, looking at black americans, latino americans and even native americans to participate in that cabinet.

busily putting that together. but because he can't formally be recognized as the next president until the trump administration acknowledges him and actually signs of paper saying that it means he doesn't have access to the official organs of government. he doesn't have the $6000000.02 pay his staff working in that building behind me. also it means he's making informal calls to world leaders and he's, talked to the leaders of france, germany, ireland, the u.k., all of whom have congratulated him on his win and acknowledge that he'll be the next president. he's been talking to them about climate change and things that they can do together to cooperate on that. but until donald trump acknowledges that joe biden has indeed been elected president. he can't do any of that formally. and so he remains here. john, you are absolutely right in your guess we are saying so biden. now, at what looks to be at a memorial psion, and we do expect that he will lay a wreath shortly. i do want to ask you, you say he wants a cabinet that looks like america, but we still don't yet know who is going to control the senate and we won't know

until january. so how do you go ahead and try to work out who you want to appoint when you don't know if you can get them confirmed? well, biden says he's going to, he's going to take mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader at his word that mcconnell will act fairly in terms of senate confirmation of all these officials. now, the senate does have to confirm cabinet officials, but generally there has not been a kind of party partisan test. you know, those people report to the president, the senate, basically the, the idea is that the senate will approve people as long as they're qualified and not, you know, on a partisan basis. we are told that biden wants to consider some republicans for his cabinet as a kind of out reach to the republicans in the senate. but all we can do right now is put together names. biden is a pretty much a centrist anyway, so most of the people he's talking about are not radicals. however,

there are people like elizabeth warren, the massachusetts senator, who's a lightning rod on the left. the right wing has been highly critical of her. she's being considered, among other things for the treasury secretary bat might be a problem for biden to get through the senate. if it remains in republican hands. john, you mentioned that joe biden is acting very in president on saturday. he looks very presidential and the images that we're seeing from this memorial sites, as he has mentioned, is not only climate change as you were fed to that, but also battling the coronavirus pandemic. do we have a sense of what's his priority is going to be? what his fast steps will be in office? well, we've already heard the other day. he advised americans to wear masks. we know he's putting together a task force to deal with the corona virus. and that he says he'll be basing his decisions on the science. presumably he will be working on how to deliver that

coronavirus vaccine that pfizer has come out with. there are other vaccines that are being considered now. so all we know really in detail is that biden is going ahead and putting together his coronavirus task force and plan says that's his top priority to get america back to health before that vaccine comes. and now we don't really know a lot more than that. john hendren. wellington homestays as my watching. what appears to be a rather remarkable competing weaklings. thanks so much john. well, still ahead here on al-jazeera. a military operation in northern ethiopia forces thousands to flee to neighboring sudan splashing out on singles day of the world's biggest sales event. starts with a bang with china's top rated retailer alibaba expected to take in billions

of howlers, a cold wind. his blood has been some snow in her car to and that indicates a cold across the road to the warm waters of the north and sea japan. a brief, we've got a day off on thursday, it's fairly sunny. it winds up from the sas and then it goes right into the northwest again. so there's more cold coming across to hokkaido, the highest going to be some snow. this rain over taiwan, that rain might just catch quandong, not even edge into hong kong, but most to china and the peninsula. the korean peninsula is going to be fine and dry. typhoon vanco is the latest one to come through the philippines. still slowly strengthening potentially damaging storm surge with wind damage a $130.00 killers for of course, the risk of landslides. it goes across southern luzon, including manila, there emerges of the wall. most of the south china sea. it will briefly strengthen,

i think, and then probably fade away as it heads towards vietnam for a couple more days time. the northeast monsoon has set in across the bay of bengal . so we've got rain from under british science, which is right this time of the year. it means the northern plain, including new delhi, is now sitting under high pressure coldish, winter weather, relatively speaking, and has to say, those are pictures out of new delhi. so you might prefer to be an invitation to bear witness to all that life office the highs, the lows, the trials and tribulations and soon movements and everyday miracles, the injustices, the defiance, the tests of character and the person in the trees, the witness. documentaries,

with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. again i missed that remind you of our top stories this hour. more than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong have resigned in solidarity off to the government disqualified their colleagues. china has passed a patriotism resolution, allowing the removal of politicians who challenge its rule 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. the blast targeted a cemetery during a world war. one remembrance day ceremony and president elect joe biden has

attended a ceremony in philadelphia to mark veterans day present. donald trump is also expected to make an appearance on a different event, and allington virginia. that would be trump's 1st public appearance. since the election protesters gathered in armenia's capital to voice their anger about a deal to end fighting with azerbaijan. and i'm going to karabakh. they are opposed to the agreement which sees land handed over to us. every forces. police have detained around 20 people at a protest in yerevan. now nagorno-karabakh is internationally recognized as post about by john, but is controlled by all mediums. hundreds have been killed in fighting since september. our correspondent in your oven, and she says armenians are focusing their anger on the prime minister of the moon slogan. coming out of here is that the cold question, you know, who is the prime minister of, or alenia is a chair each or no you have a couple, couple of 1000 people here and freedom square, you know, do the people in,

through you did with this used car, your 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 who had been detained at the beginning of this rally . and also one of our mean is largest opposition. parties say that their leader is at the moment, the question of a national security. now you have police on this side at the moment. they're 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 ignore that now are spoken to a few of them. they say that legal question, yon reason have the right to decide that without consulting duties 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 carried in other parts of nagorno-karabakh, won't be returning there because of what he called accepted. well now the military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the country's borders and their office. it could lead to a feather, a humanitarian crisis. if european prime minister ordered that offensive in the region last week, accusing local forces there of attacking a military base. since then, hundreds have been killed and several 1000 people have already fled to neighboring sudan. him or morgan is in khartoum forest. she says there are concerns that some of the ethiopian refugees crossing into sudan, actually fleeing fighting. 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 tigre 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 $1000.00 have already crossed over and have been processed. but there are more than $6000.00 that are still waiting processing. 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 distance between the refugees. the other

concern is who among the amongst those refugees are militants. and one of the who 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. now bahrain for a long time, prime minister has died in the united states. 84 years old. he was head of government in the gulf kingdom since 1970, that makes him the longest serving prime minister anywhere in the wild. he was, receiving medical treatment in the u.s., his body is now being sent to bahrain for the funeral. the government has announced a week of mourning, says have already been held for chief palestinian negotiator, erekat in his hometown of jericho. his body arrived there on wednesday for burial after a ceremony in ramallah. erekat died on tuesday from kevin 1000 related complications . he negotiated with israel on behalf of the palestinians more than 20 years,

and has moved from jericho, where erekat was laid to rest. that of course, family is mourning the loss of a loved one. but for many palestinians here, the death of saw it got to leave the big void in the political policy and speer. there are mechanisms to replace some of the positions he was filling. but it's hard to match his personality and his experience with a firm believer in negotiations and in non violent means as the only path towards achieving a 2 state solution and freedom for the palestinians. but many here now say that this crowd has reached and even those who firmly disagreed with his politics more, him, him more never as a person who wanted the palestinian voice to be heard. it's really hard to

envision a replacement. i think what went through the school, but it's all me as an individual, he was able to tell us actually we are soldiers who are part of story has loved being in his dream fulfilled of having. and indeed, in his final word, the arab normal, a nation, we are living in israel and many brothers lenient here are saying that he lived in one of the most difficult. paul thing in me. well, let's take you to arlington national cemetery now, where you can see u.s. president donald trump, as well as the 1st lady, melania trump, there there, and actually vice president mike pence also now in shot and bill bar. they're all there to lay a wreath,

and it is veterans day in the united states. this is actually trump's 1st public appearance since the election. he hasn't spoken publicly since he lost his bid for reelection, but has meanwhile been tweeting about his unproven voter fraud claims. now this is all happening literally just moments after we saw joe biden and his wife, joe biden, president elect joe biden lay a wreath in pennsylvania at the philadelphia korean war memorial. so that was happening literally just minutes ago. and yet we are now seeing the current president do something very similar or we do not expect him to speak, but we will be bringing you more on that story as it unfolds. if it doesn't do that now moving on, and the corruption case against 7 people associated with south africa's governing

party has now been adjourned until february of next year. they're accused of pocketing millions of dollars which were meant to fund as best as from the able for more than $400000.00 homes. residents have reportedly died will become sick because of those as best as 5 is. the governing agency party's secretary general also appear in court later this week. our correspondent for me the minute is outside the courthouse for us in real contain well, these aversive are very important for the government, especially which needs to be seen to be doing something against corruption of this is a country where 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 province. hundreds of thousands of them. 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 lung disease. they say this poor service delivery rather than spending up to $20000000.00 on health, think people on removing these routes, 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. now the wound, biggest shopping spree, has began in china with singles day sales taking place online. analysts say this annual event is an important indicator of the country's economic health and a sign that had it has successfully battled the coronavirus pandemic continue

reports from beijing. millions of packages are making their way across china and the extravaganza. nov 11th mot. singles day. china's version of black friday sales . e-commerce companies expect to last year, due to pent up demand from the pandemic, from reader food shopping for a or celebration for chinese people. everyone of china is aware of it. in the lead up, there is a lot of publicity, and the more and more brands are offering big discounts was started 12 years ago as a contrast to valentine's day singles day sales are now spread over a number of weeks and involves several online retailers. this year have spent more than $80000000000.00 on platforms belonging to china's biggest economies. companies, alibaba 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 as little with its high. every country has handled the pandemic differently and the chinese market is stable in comparison. this may last for a while, so focusing more on the method 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 a customers are opting 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. vitamin c. a small sporting goods. oh was one was it's easy to buy fresh food, all the was that it's locked out, was 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. hello, then this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. more than a dozen legislators in hong kong have resigned in solidarity after the government disqualified their colleagues. china has passed a 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. the blast targeted a cemetery during a wild, one remembrance day cemetery. we're talking about that has moved from paris for.