tiny little princess parts of the viewfinder, like the main aid agencies warn of a looming humanitarian crisis, as ethiopia claims military gains in the northern region of t. graham time to stop the attack. and this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, china faces international condemnation and the threat of new sanctions over the disqualification of hong kong politicians. the us reports at its highest daily death toll from covert 1000 since may. with ex-pats warning, the pandemic is accelerating and plans to tunnel under the star intended world

heritage site to ease traffic congestion was consigned amongst all. he'll just and environment now ethiopia's military says it's making gains in the northern tikrit region where the federal government is backing regional forces. but the conflict is also raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. phone lines have been cut off and transport has been halted in and out of the region. the offensive began last week off to prime minister ahmed, accuse the regional government of attacking a military base, aid agencies, a warning they contre bring much needed supplies into the region because of all this fighting. thousands of people are already fleeing many to neighboring through dawn. in the ethiopian capital, thousands of people have been lining up to give blood for troops fighting in tigray and part of the drive to rally support for the ethiopian army. hundreds have been

reported dead on each side since the government military operation began including civilians who are in development for us. and has this update for us from the ethiopian capital at about, or they're saying they have gained ground in the western part of the country, close to the border with eritrea. and also on the border, if you have with to done this, say they have taken at the town of america just on wednesday that say they have taken up what they are now, the 2nd tower, which is not far away from the airport. they say they've also taken the towns off, shoot and shoot out, all of that were lost in city of exit, which has got a lot of this protocol importance here in ethiopia. of course, most of the fighting salsa has been concentrated on the western part of the to

greater region. and it has involved clashes between ground troops as well as strikes, targeting fuel and death tolls, as well as the artillery duels which have caused so much casualties on both sides. the government here in addis ababa maintains this operation will not stop until it's a she has its objectives of this bombing that the people of militias, as well as bringing their leadership to justice. well, out of here is have a morgan is near sudan's border with ethiopia, where she says, aid workers are already reporting that thousands of refugees have already crossed. they say hundreds of thousands more are waiting asper their estimation across the border across they see open border waiting for means to be able to come into sudan seeking refuge. this the most of them are women and children, but they're also include former combatants, people who've laid down their arms to seek refuge here in sydney. is there a terry? so what happens upon arrival?

they say is that those refugees are then screened for health reasons. but they also screen to make sure that they're not armed, so that this conflict does not spill over the border and then comes the issue of settling them into camps already. there were refugee settlements here in the state of get out of as well as the neighboring state of kosovo where refugees are already arriving. all of them have been saying that they already were in need of humanitarian assistance that the assistance was already too little. and that with this influx of refugees, it is expected to reach up to 200000 in the coming 3 days. the situation will be dire and that he wants very organizations here in sudan and international relief. aid to step up to what's for them to be a crisis. now moving on and the european union is demanding that china reverse a new role that, that are for hong kong legislators being sacked. opposition. politicians in the territory have resigned on mass in solidarity. on wednesday, china passed a law allowing legislators to be bad if they pose, a national security threat. now the u.k., which handed the territory back to china in 1970,

says the move undermines hong kong's autonomy and has summoned the chinese ambassador. the u.s. has also threatened more sanctions against chinese and hong kong officials. adrian brown reports from hong kong. hong kong's legislative assembly was quieter than usual on thursday. now that almost a quarter of its lawmakers have resigned or been disqualified and staging what's likely to be their last protest. the chinese characters say hong kong leader kerry has pulled calamity to the territory and its people she'll stink for 10000 years. the slogan was to see played by democratic lawmaker lambchop, who must now give up his office. by the end of the month, i will keep fighting for democracy of hong kong, their version of enda. and together with all the hong kong people and the civil society to face against the dictatorship.

this is what china's leaders want to stamp out. lawmakers behaving badly with those from the democratic camp accused of being the main culprits. china's government has condemned the mass resignation of almost all hong kong's opposition as a farce with only themselves to blame for their downfall. says a sole hong kong delegate to china's most powerful political body. it's only a little the year. what china has been doing is based on the constitution and basic law, therefore everything should be done in accordance with the law. we cannot bad mouth one country 2 systems and the chinese government analysts say hong kong's legislature is set to become little more than a rubber stamp parliament, but dissent outside the chamber will likely continue. what does this mean? this means continuing instability. you can push it down with the police,

you can push it down with the rest. but it will just it really. it is not clear what this all means for elections supposed to have been held 2 months ago, but now pushed back until september next year. because of coded 19 on thursday, chinese officials here in hong kong warned that legislators who resign or have been disqualified, should not be eligible to stand in that poll. wednesday shake up of parliament comes just 4 months after china's government imposed a sweeping national security law on the territory that some critics call draconian . and in spite of continuing international criticism, china's leadership remains both confident and defiant. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong, who turning to the global coronavirus pandemic now and the world health organization is warning europe not to risk lifting restrictions to fast countries,

and governments across the continent are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading. 2nd wave. europe has around 10 percent of the world's population, but now accounts for almost a quarter of all deaths globally. now standing at more than $300000.00 on ukraine's president has now become the latest wild data to contract. private 19, a spokesperson for broughton is a lenski told the reuters news agency he had been a message to hospital. so he could isolate quite accurately. and japanese comic innocent has cut anticipated losses due to the global pandemic by 28 percent. but it still expects to lose 3200000000 dollars this year. makers have been hit hard by the current virus, but nissen says it expects profits to return to prepare endemic levels by december . well now the u.s. has recorded its worst daily death toll from 1900 and health experts are warning the pandemic that is accelerating. nearly 2000 more americans died on wednesday,

taking the total number of fatalities 224-1800. so 241800 people. it was also the 9th straight day that the number of new cases topped 100000, texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases even as the virus surges political paralysis is dominating washington with president trump refusing to concede defeat to joe biden. white, house correspondent candy, how to standing by for us in washington, d.c., but 1st. let's go to john hendren, who's in wilmington, delaware, joe biden's, home state. john biden has been saying for weeks now that dealing with this pandemic is his priorities are no surprises that about his newly announced choice for chief of staff. that's right,, joe biden picked not only a longtime aide, he's known since the 1980 s., but also the head of the a, bola test force the a bowler as are from the obama administration. ron klain ran that program, and

a lot of democrats say the reason we haven't heard more about the bowl of program here in the united states is that it never became an epidemic because that plan was so successful. but the president is not the president elect. i should say is not getting all the information he's, he's not getting the presidential daily brief. the intelligence briefing that would tell him in detail what's going on with covert around the united states. in addition to other threats in the reason for that is that the trump administration has refused to certify that joe biden is the president elect. that means biden can't access the money for his staff, but also crucially cannot find out the information in that briefing, even coming to harris, who is a member of the senate intelligence committee, is able to get a little more information than biden is because of that. but by and been going ahead and acting like the president elect, he has been talking to foreign leaders in his recently spoken of the leaders of japan,

australia and south korea. talking not just about the election and receiving congratulations from the but also talking substantively about what they can do together to combat both coronavirus and climate change. but he's not going to have a full picture until he gets in on those presidential briefings. and that's not going to happen until the trump administration certifies him as president elect. indeed, john hendren that for us on the ground. and that a thanks so much john. let's now cross to our white house correspondent candy how it can be. it really does seem that trump appears to be holding fast to this refusal to concede what's on his shuttle today. well they are, there's nothing public that is major and this is something that has been going on now for about a week's time since we last saw the president shortly after the election in the white house briefing room. no major public events scheduled to and we know that the president continues to me with his election advisers about the possibility of

potentially reversing one of those states projected for joe biden. and those electoral votes. and as the president continues to do, this top democrats on capitol hill are accusing donald trump of obstructing a peaceful transition of power. the republicans should stop their shenanigans about an election that president trump has already lost and focused their attention on the immediate issue at hand. providing relief to a country living through the cold, with health and economic crises when it comes to the election. republicans, congressional republicans don't have the evidence. they don't have the proof. they don't have anything you did as the president congress congressional republicans are deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason. but fear of donald trump. now to be clear,

there has been evidence that has been provided by some republicans as well as the president, including evidence of people that have cast ballots that were deceased, in some cases more than 10 years, but in terms of widespread voting fraud. this is something that still has yet to be proven. this is what the election campaign says it's setting out to do with a number of these lawsuits. but already some of those have not been held up in court. still, the u.s. president says that the 72 plus 1000000 people that voted for him deserve a fight, and that's what he's delivering. white house correspondent candy. how can they force and washington d.c.? thank you. candy. still ahead for hair on the counter. they're reliving the pain of their pot. we hear from people the space that he has acquired by fighting over the nagorno-karabakh region and why they fear they may never return in stock and waiting for help. koreans rushed to rescue those back stranded

after typing them to her back as the felony winter isn't far away, but it's still not making that much influence on the weather. even in northern japan, there's a cold front to watch as trails back to just a line of cloud as it goes back towards sichuan. now the snow is definitely there, but it doesn't really make it across the water so they might get a chill in the breeze. this is on friday in sapporo, and a lot of showers on that coast of honshu. they've all gone through the temps much the same sun coming out during saturday. fine weather for most of the crew updates are in china. there is rain catching the size, a chart of the even. that's going south following vanco, which is a, that's formally typhoon, probably staying tight fitting for a while yet the cool for it's the coast of vietnam. those are its current figures.

the storm surge was realized, and it may still be realized again as it gets close to the coast of vietnam because the winds there coming down will still be at least tropical storm strength something vietnam doesn't want. there are some scattered big showers in indonesia, but they are pretty well scott, i know it's the rainy season but not everywhere is going to get wet or see every day significant rain fell in there. lol, which is pretty good for north east monsoon. most of the rain in the air is for this chennai. sas was to sri lanka and the old indian plane, much of northern pakistan, is suffering from quite poor corsi. as donald trump and good for america, everything is in disarray. the media, of course, taken every bit of bait that they can to demolish the fact that america has been a force for good in the world. half of the american people get inspiration from him and the other half cringe, your weekly, take on us politics and society. that's the bottom line. if you want to help save

the world, sneeze and euro. and again, i missed on the attainder. let's remind you about top stories here. the salad aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster. in the northern tier, a region of ethiopia, thousands of people have fled as if your bismillah tree says it's making gains in the defense of that against regional forces has been international criticism of a new rule from china. that's the to 4 opposition. politicians of hong kong being disqualified both the u.k. and u.s.,

say they're considering sanctions. and in the u.s., several states are reimposing restrictions. as corona, virus infections break even more records. the number of new cases that has tipped over 100009 consecutive days now in texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000. on a rival factions in libya have agreed to hold elections within 18 months. the deal agreed and neighboring tunisia will also unite libya's rival administrations into one government. the u.n. has hailed that deal as a political breakthrough. both sides signed a cease fire agreement last month in geneva. but our correspondent, mark whitaker wahid is in tripoli and says the next step in this process is naming an interim government. there have been a lot of names nominated for these positions, but they are controversial names. the current presidential council includes 9 members according to this roadmap,

and i was hit by williams yesterday. the new position council will include only 3 members and also the government should run the country for 18 months before reaching presidential and parliamentary elections to be based on frame that $75.00, members of the libyan political dialogue forum held currently are due to choose among themselves. the members of the newly to be form of government and presidential council, but also it has to take into consideration the conclusions of the military talks held in circuit court of the by the 5 plus 5 military commission, which is tasked with implementing the geneva agreement,

which is entailing, get the removal of all troops in the disputed areas, especially, and sit and jail for, and also that there was the will of foreign fighters and mercenaries from libya. so both tracks are going, say, meltingly, asleep, and no one can succeed alone. at least 8 peacekeepers are reported to have died after a helicopter crash in egypt. the black hawk aircraft went down over the sinai peninsula and belong to the multinational force in observers that nonis had the 40 year old peace agreement between israel and egypt, and 6 americans were among the dead,, french and czech nationals were also said to have been on board a u.n., special representative visiting cats are, has countries blockading the gulf state to immediately withdraw their restrictions . do han is the special rapporteur on unilateral coercive measure than human rights . now in 2017, the u.a.e. saudi arabia, bahrain and egypt imposed a boycott on cattle accusing it of supporting terrorism vehemently denies all

allegations earch the them of so do the united arab emirates, the kingdom of bihari, and they are approved probably of just to immediately withdraw all sanctions measures aimed to establish an restrictions on freedom of expression, more them and access to proper to treat various bunter its quarter. non-tariff measures include in zoos which prevent finances, the purchase of medicine, medical equipment, fleet, other sensual goods, follow people live in qatar in violation of international legal standards. but a stray says it will appoint a special investigator to examine the possible prosecution of alleged crimes that afghanistan, the prime minister made the announcement ahead of the release of a report on the conduct of australian forces. civilians and prisoners are alleged to have been killed. a straight in special forces were deployed alongside u.s.

and allied troops after the september 11th attack attacks. well, there is widespread anger and fear in armenia over an agreement which allows areas to keep a land captured during 6 weeks of fighting. people who were displaced almost 3 decades ago now say they're not convinced that they can return to the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh and a warning you may find some of the witness accounts in some, a bunch of 8th report distressing. but then they load to her mom's or her numbers or sums. she says if my sister wasn't breastfeeding when they shot and killed my mother, she would have starved to death at the road a job or lost her mother, another sister, her father, an uncle in her jelly, in what human rights watch called a massacre over there. e civilians after a deal between either by john in armenia or a village will once again be under as eerie control. but the emotional wounds from nearly 3 decades ago are still fresh troops for i have great teacher for them today. they say, let's go live with their means. i cannot. i even saw soviet troops standing by

watching it happen. they supported the killers. my father fought in self-defense. that's why they took his call after killing him. many of the displaced people from nagorno-karabakh have vivid memories. this woman says she still has nightmares after watching her relatives been killed in their bodies. burnt. appears mother in law refuses to dye her hair because decades later, she's still in mourning. and her husband sees no reason to trust russian peacekeepers. i mean, it depends on the person with whatever he says. there were nearly $10000.00 people live in this refugee settlement, which used to be a tent camp as a writer. and the government says it has spent more than $7000000000.00 to develop 11 settlements for the people displaced from the go on a car after the agreement to retake all areas either by johns, the government still has to convince people to return home that's likely to take time because of the deep mistrust that exists between ethnic identity than

armenians. and many people here accusing the soviets, officer looting massacres. what the center says, the committee he leads for the displaced has designed a project called the great return program that outlines a voluntary gradual return of the displaced. but he wants the international community's help in reconstruction and rehabilitation of 700000 people. neither nations, as well as other international actors, demonstrate the importance in implementing their own of the solutions which they have adopted for almost 30 years. they, of course, need to step in and render all support in the system was a return of internal displaced persons. the question remains how many of them are willing to try to live in peace with ethnic armenians who also regard nagorno-karabakh as their ancestral home. some of the job with al-jazeera now roads are blocked and thousands of homes are underwater. after typhoon vanco

made landfall in the philippines, strong winds barreled across north of the main island here is on killing and injuring dozens of people tomorrow and it's this is the village of but in many key the city. it only took a few hours to submerge more than half of the communities. here people tell us they were forced to evacuate when the rivers of water level rose 80 meters. these volunteers have been rescuing people trapped for hours. but it was called, but we read the waters to make sure residents are safe. there were many children, old people. we started doing this, bringing in food and much needed aid is difficult. the water is neck deep and our boat had to be attached to a rope, a community that is only accessible by the

walls, because the current is still quite strong. is a very, very difficult, as it's always fun. not just for surveillance, but for rescuers across the region of the zone. many provinces have been devastated to brought winds and rains of up to 170 kilometers an hour, cutting power to millions and leaving others stranded in evacuation centers. officials do their best to implement social distancing. women the young and the year old are now forced to take shelter in places like this when the water started to go up very quickly. so he ran out and asked for help. we've lost our personal belongings, now submersion waters with we are grateful. we are all alive aside from the joint task force, the organic joint task force that are already in the navy and the army also contributed more course, aside from the manpower here with the support the equipment,

vancouver is the 3rd take food to hit the philippines in less than 3 weeks, the country is still reeling from the impact of typhoon garny in the beagle region, which left thousands of people homeless. government resources are stretched as the country is also still suffering from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. this makes relief and recovery efforts. now, even more complicated jim duggan al jazeera manila. now a road, a tunnel under the prehistoric star in circle at stonehenge in england, has been given the go ahead. it's meant to divert traffic away from the world heritage site of the 3100000000 dollar project has been widely criticized by environmentalists and archaeologists. it's ancient mysterious, and at the heart of a bitter dispute. stonehenge is one of the most important near lithic landscapes in europe. with one of england's most congested roads running past it,

this section of the 83 was designed for around 13000 cars a day, but struggles with double that amount. traffic and local residents say it's unsafe . we have people who will stop their vehicles on the side of the road to stonehenge or simply slow to take photographs. so when that it's annoying because you have trucks trying very hard to get a view of the saw it. so we have speeding because of course, when the traffic stop drawing to a halt, she does tour sleeker and we thank our village safer. the latest proposal to widen the road with a 2.9 kilometer tunnel would remove the sight and sound of the traffic and speed it up, but would also involve boring deep into the landscape. a landscape rich in archaeology still being uncovered. the deep cutting through dual carriageway into the tunnels would cut through us i say unique in the u.k.

group of nearly think long virus possibly also through late nearly 6 settlements, a place of pilgrimage, famous 5000 years. the site is sacred to many. beyond the thousands of tourists that visit, arthur penn dragon is a druid, a believer in ancient religion, and he worships here 4 times a year. he says a tunnel would ruin what he believes stonehenge was built for. directly. there is where the sun comes up and tells you it's the summer solstice and directly opposite, which is where they want to put the portal for the terminal is where the sun sets. so if they put the portal over there where they intend to, the light pollution is going to stop our us from observing the sunset on the shore to start opposing sides recognise there is a problem here, but neither believe a tunnel is the best solution. diverting the road north through britain's biggest military training ground is one they all agree on. but the government doesn't that

they've been trying and failing since the ninety's to solve the problem of this road, the a 3 o 3. new wristband to be proposed and then dropped at the front in the sunlight . even this decision will be the end of the road in the battle for this ancient site, charlie and al-jazeera stone. ghana's, former president jerry rawlings has died at the age of 73. the former military leader ruled the country from 1981 to 2001. he led to military careers, but went on to guide gun is transition to democracy. he resigned from the military back in 1902 and became president under a new constitution. rowlings is credited with bringing in a long period of political stability to the west african country. well to some sports news now and tokyo olympics organizers say, athletes taking part will not have to isolate for 14 days on arrival in japan. but a decision about international fans is not expected until next year. the head of

the international olympic committee, thomas bach, will visit tokyo next week to discuss coronavirus measures. what causes more or you see there are many foreign friends and having them quarantined for 2 weeks and not use public transport is unrealistic. therefore, health checks before entering the country, screening upon arrival, checking their whereabouts after they leave, are responding quickly. if they get infected is something that we need to look very carefully at i know that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis. in the northern tier, a region of ethiopia, thousands of people have fled as ethiopia's military says it's making gains and an offensive against local forces. prime minister ahmed says troops have liberated a key part of the region.