knowledge them to some great talking political debate from return on al-jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. no matter what you use in current affairs, that matter to you. stepping down in protest. more than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong resigned after 4 of their colleagues were disqualified. hello, there i missed on the attain. the sound was there at life and are also coming to us president donald trump makes his fast a public appearance in days as his team tries to fight the results of the election

. 6 protest and arrests in armenia where people are angry about a deal with as a by john to end the fighting in a corner carabao and bidding farewell to cyber erekat. the chief palestinian negotiator, who died on tuesday after contracting her bid 19. now the vast majority of hong kong's opposition politicians have resigned after beijing passed a resolution disqualifying 4 of their fellow legislators. the government accuses them of being a threat to national security. but critics say china is stepping up efforts to silence dissent. our correspondent david upon reports from hong kong. they say the fight is far from over. their resignations are a show of solidarity. cannot simply afford to stay on because

minus our 4 colleagues who are ousted the union of the 15 of us simply don't have the minimum number to a protest. they're also being unseated. eventually one by one by the beijing type. the group resignation came after china's highest decision making body disqualified for pro-democracy legislators. the reasons include seeking foreign interference in hong kong's affairs, promoting independence, threatening national security, and refusing to acknowledge beijing sovereignty over the territory. while hope to the gene roots of the every lawmaker must show that there was a possibility of supporting the basic law of hong kong and be allowed to china. so that we are able to have a political system dominated by patriotic for pro-democracy legislative councillors

who at a meeting, when the national people standing committee handed down the resolution, they were disqualified within minutes of the announcement. the role i have will be difficult and challenging. and in fact, just like every winter, it will be extremely difficult. but i am in full faith of hong kong or hong kong hours. outside the government headquarters, some celebrated the news. politicians often use their power to manipulate and discard the general public to go against our country is clear now that betrayal will no longer be tolerated. hong kong operates under china's one country 2 systems model, which is meant to guarantee the city's government is given a high degree of autonomy. its legislature was a symbol of that divided between legislators pushing for closer ties with beijing and those fighting for democracy. this will be the 1st time hong kong's legislative

council will have no pro-democracy representation. since the former british colony returned to china in 1997, half of the city's 70 member legislature is directly elected by the public with the other half chosen by industry groups. the departure of the democratic politicians close is one of the main avenues for opposition voices in the hong kong government . they've got palin al-jazeera hong kong. now u.s. president elect joe biden says donald trump's refusal to concede the election is an embarrassment. he laid a wreath about an hour ago at a veterans day event in philadelphia. biden is also planning on meeting with advisors on wednesday to further prepare for a transition into office. meanwhile, the trump administration is filing lawsuits to contest results in battleground states and is also refusing to provide access to biden's team. judges have so far

tossed out their cases and michigan and in georgia. donald trump has made his last public appearance since losing his bid for reelection. he was just in arlington, virginia, also at a veterans day ceremony. and trump has not spoken publicly since he lost his bid for reelection. correspondent john hendren is standing by for us and wilmington, delaware, joe biden's, home state, but 1st. let's go to our white house correspondent candy, how cut in washington can be no words from the president today at the cemetery. but where to all of his legal challenges now stand that's right, the u.s. president, now back at the white house after laying a wreath at arlington national cemetery in remembrance of the unknown soldier. it is veterans day in the united states and national holiday. we had wondered if the president would speak as he has been very vocal on twitter, but not in front of the television cameras in recent days, and very few public events, if any,

on his schedule. and so the president has been very, very clear that he believes he has not lost the election. in fact, at one point tweeting, we will when the president has launched through his campaign a series of legal challenges, some have been cast out. although in the last hour, one positive development potentially for the campaign has taken place in the u.s. state of georgia where we know that there are also a runoff elections for the u.s. senate taking place as well. but with respect to the 2020 presidential vote now in hand count has been ordered for all of the counties in georgia. so this is significant because given the fact that it has been a very tight race there, this is something that is seen as a positive development. in the midst of this, there has been ongoing challenges to donald trump to provide the evidence of widespread voter fraud and irregularities. the campaign also releasing today, a series of a bit sure, he's dating back 220032006,

containing the names of people who somehow managed to, despite being dead, cast a ballot the 2020 alexion. they say this is some of the evidence they will be using as they continue to press their cases and courts. our white house correspondent, candy. how could they with the view from the white house in washington? d.c., thanks so much. kimberly. well now let's move over to wilmington and john hendren is there for us. john, rather remarkable today, biden and trump laying wreaths at different events, really just minutes after each other. and as you were saying earlier, biden behaving rather not like a president. that's right. what we have here is a case of dueling presidencies. you had that split screen moment in the past hour, where you had general term playing a wreath at arlington cemetery. joe biden laying a wreath at the korean war memorial. in philadelphia. my comp, a of the secretary of state is going to visit 7 nations in the middle east in europe starting friday. all of those countries have congratulated joe biden and

recognized him as president joe biden has been calling foreign leaders. the heads, of germany, the u.k., france, ireland, chalking to them about things like climate change and the kind of cooperative things that they can do together. biden, meanwhile, is putting together his cabinet, even though he has not been recognized. that's why he's got to do it from here at the queen theater in wilmington, delaware, because he has not been formally acknowledged. what happens is the general services administration, the chief of bad organization signs that document. and that says that biden will be the next president. well, the trumpet, ministration refuses to do that. so joe biden is doing it all from here and he says he's working on putting together a cabinet that reflects the gender and ethnic diversity of america. so you've got black americans, white americans, asian americans, a whole array of people. many women being considered for cabinet positions,

and biden says each fix is to look much different from the child cabinet, which is largely white. but until the drug administration acknowledges that joe biden will be the next president. he's going to do it from here. john hendren that and running ten's out a way for us. thanks so much john. oh, moving on now, and there's been an explosion in saudi arabia at an event, attended by western diplomats and other foreign citizens. that last had a cemetery in the city of jeddah during a remembrance day ceremony that to mark the end of the fast while all 2 people were injured according to saudi state media and 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 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. now funeral services have been held for chief palestinian negotiator, erekat in his hometown of jericho or his body arrived there on wednesday for a burial office. are many in the law. erica died on tuesday from curve in 1000 related complications. he negotiated with israel on behalf of the palestinians for more than 20 years. our correspondent need to abraham has more from jericho that of course, family is mourning the loss of a loved one. but for many palestinians here, the death of saw a guy to leave the big void in the political policy and spear. there are mechanisms to replace some of the positions he was filling, but it's hard to match his personality. and his experience, he was

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 a dead 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, what group is a school by itself? an army fight and as an individual, he was able to work. actually, we are soldiers for palestine. is the party has left without seeing his dream fulfilled, of having. and indeed in his final word,

the eyes of the arab normal, a nation, we are living in israel and many brothers lenient here are saying they are left in one of the most difficult well still ahead. fair hair on al-jazeera undercover police in the u.k. infiltrated left wing groups for decades. now they're facing scrutiny about rights abuses. and we take a look at how this kind demick has impacted consumer spending. as the world's biggest online sale kicks off, the season is changing in the middle east. now we've seen the weather rapidly deteriorating the event and now its proper frontal systems track 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 which sas 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. because i'm just gives a small chance of showers will sustain that wind really house down the doors off again on sunday. so it's not persistent. this is a weapon of african i really and it's from us, uganda. always science was we 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 like that, but it's hampshire further south to get cape town. a bit of a breeze off the interior. you got certain degrees. guess what? the average temperature should be in cape town's, tommy $23.00, c.

a well above because it doesn't last it down to $0.19 below average by saturday. frank assessments, if american public opinion piece betrayed by social media platforms after november . what would be good? because as if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy, one obvious solution is to break from an informed opinion, just look at his dog anyway. the protesters aren't going anywhere either. it's ability to get a revolution. people walk out the in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. come with it. that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera.

hello again, i'm just on top stories here. this hour. more than a dozen pro-democracy 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 rule and president donald trump has made his 1st public appearance at a veterans day event in arlington. virginia trump hasn't spoken publicly since he lost his bid for reelection, but has been tweeting about an unproven version forward claims. 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 targeted a cemetery during a wild one. remember, states are protesters gathered in armenia's capital to voice their anger about a deal to end fighting with azerbaijan. in the going to karabakh there opposed to

the agreement which sees land handed over to our very forces. police have detained around 20 people, protest in year. now they're going to care about is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan, but it is controlled by armenians. hundreds have been killed in the fighting the essence september. she says armenians, they are focusing their anger on the prime minister. well, the main slogan coming out of here is that question. you know, who is the prime minister? is a treat your know, you have a couple, couple of 1000 people here in freedom square. you know, do the people in, through you did with this cease fire 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 whether mean is largest opposition party say that their leader is at the

moment being question of a national security. now you have police on this side at the, at the moment they're standing there watching. they've 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 as posted to a few of them. they say that legal question and reason have the right to decide that agreement without consulting duties with the people because 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 being occupied viremia since 994 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 on xander,

god as and moscow. and she says, deploying russian peacekeeping troops is also part of this agreement. as soon as this agreement was signed, the russian soldiers started boarding planes that took them to offer of armenia and then ordered to not go to look at a bar. the official information is that so far when 7 planes have landed, carrying around $400.00 soldiers, 8 helicopters and armored vehicles. the idea of the disagreement ease that they are should be deployed on the conflict line on the going across, as well as on the korean daughter. locked in, this is the role that basically connects armenia to and i'm going to put a buck in according to russians. they're all over the, they're, russian officials say they all 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. 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 with both renia and they are saying that there is going to be only a russian patrols the only thing that they will have with their key with which they obviously are coordinating all these efforts is going to be the monitoring center on that there are 3 of as a debate. john, 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 feather 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 fled to neighboring sudan. have a morgan is in khartoum for us and she says there are concerns that some of the ethiopian refugees crossing interesting, donna, actually fleeing fighters. 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 have already crossed over and have been processed, but there are more than 6000 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 the 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 has named crown prince london as the new prime minister. after the death of the long time head of government in the united states was 84 years old. he took power in the gulf kingdom in 1970 that makes him the longest serving prime minister anywhere in the wild. he was receiving medical treatment in the u.s. and his body is now being sent to bahrain for the funeral. the government has announced a week of mourning the man accused of being a key finance e.-a of the $994.00 wanted 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 and may after 26 years on the run, ethnic purity has killed at least 800000 sees 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're accused of pocketing millions of dollars which were actually meant to fund as best os removal from more than 400000 homes. residents have reportedly died will become sick because of the best of 5 is the governing n.c. party. secretary general will also appear in court later this week. how a british inquiry scrutinising, undercover police tactics is expected to hear evidence 5 years after it was set up . it will look at how undercover officers spied on hundreds of left wing

organizations. charlie angela has more from london 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 piece of francis was the chief. we saw blama, so he was a member, he was undercover 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 has created

. over more than 4 decades, at least 139 police officers 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 or corporate interests. everything from environmental campaigners. opponents of the arms try used on the rights activists and choices campaign is to gain access to these groups. some of this is starting 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 to use with somebody and you think, you know the really well, and then you discover 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 the implications that house you are the relationship. it destroys your

ability to trust hard knowledge of 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 the al-jazeera and how police and angola have set up roadblocks to try to stop anti-government protests in the capital. there's growing discontent over the struggling economy and the government's failure to tackle corruption, security forces violently suppressed recent demonstrations that box activists say

they're determined to march on wednesday. that's the country's independence day. thousands of people in poland defied coronavirus restrictions to join europe's largest far right. gathering of the year it is poland's independence day. far right organizers called on supporters to rebel in the name of national unity while was was, may accuse the police of coorg and izing that march $1000.00 infections there have now passed off a 1000000 thousands of people in the philippines have been evacuated from their homes as the typhoon in as many weeks threatens the country, typhoon pham co is expected to hit the northeast in quezon province in the coming hours. that region hasn't yet recovered from the destruction of typhoon that hit earlier this month. while the world's 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 also a sign that it is successfully battled the coronavirus pandemic. katrina, you reports from beijing. millions of packages are 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. some reader of bills shopping for us to vote or celebration for chinese people. everyone of china is aware of it. in the lead, 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 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 part say they're focusing less on exports and on chinese buy is little whether it's high. every country has handled a pandemic differently, and the chinese market is stable in comparison. this may last for a while, so focus will help us avoid a risk. but the current virus 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, vitamins a small and sporting goods. oh, it was one was it's easy to find fresh food on the lot. how that it's locked out.

was to see it, but while many are enjoying single day shopping from the comfort of the road harm, 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, want to remember you can always find much, much more on our web site, including all the latest developments following that blast in saudi arabia. that's al jazeera dot com that this is al jazeera, i mean the headlines more than a dozen. pro-democracy 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 rule. u.s.

president elect joe biden says donald trump's refusal to concede the election is an embarrassment. he was just at a veterans day event in philadelphia and is planning on meeting with advise.