unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from our london broadcast center on al-jazeera. thousands of people displaced and fears of thousands more warnings of a looming humanitarian crisis as ethiopia battles forces in its northern t. grave region. barbara sarah, this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up china faces growing global condemnation over new laws that have seen hong kong politicians sacked. a rising death toll and new record numbers. the coronavirus pandemic, a tragic passing through europe and

the desperate search for survivors after a migrant boat sinks. 6 months old baby among the dozens killed in the mediterranean shipwreck, ethiopia's prime minister has claimed a massive victory in the northern region of t. . gray with the federal government is battling local forces. the brutal air and land campaign has raised fears of a humanitarian crisis. with hundreds killed and thousands displaced across the border. made says his forces have quote, liberated the western part of t. gray, and that the army is now providing humanitarian assistance to those in the area. it's fighting the tikrit people's liberation front, which the government considers illegal. $11000.00 ethiopians have already fled the

conflict to neighboring sudan. local authorities say that they're actually preparing for up to 200000 the rifles. well, the offensive began last week after prime minister are accused of regional government, of attacking a military base. aid agencies warn that they can't bring much needed supplies into t. grade because of the fighting phone lines are cut off and transport has been halted in and out of the region. the harbor though is following developments and has this update from ethiopia's capital, addis ababa? they are saying they have gained ground in the western part of the country, close to the border with their tray, and also on the border. if you appear house with the done, they say they have taken at the town of mayra just on wednesday. they have said they have taken the airport, they are now they've taken the town which is not far away from the airport. they

say they've also taken the towns of sugar out as well as the asian city of exit, which has got a lot of historical importance here. because most of the fighting school has been concentrated on the western part of the to gray region. and it has involved clashes between ground troops as well as anthrax targeting fuel. and the polls as well as a killer, a dools, which have caused so much casualties on both sides. the government here in addis ababa maintains this operation will not stop until it achieves its objectives of this calming the 3 people of militias as well as bringing their leadership to justice. for what it does, there was a u.n. says about half of those are children. even more than is on the sudanese side of the border where aid agencies are preparing for yet more displaced people. the

sea, hundreds of thousands more are waiting as per their estimation across the border. of course, if you can border waiting for 4 weans 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's territory. 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 states. of course, i know 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 needs very organizations here in sudan and international relief. to step up to what's unfolding to be

a crisis in the u.k. has reported its highest number of daily corona virus infections. since the pandemic began with $33000.00, new cases, confirmed, record rises are being seen across europe, which is battling an aggressive 2nd wave. france's warned that further measures could be imposed soon after the prime minister revealed that one person is admitted to hospital with kovan, one team every 30 seconds. that he reports in a small town south of brussels, a funeral director is burying the dead. he says almost everyone dying in the area is a victim of covered 90 something that wasn't the case in the 1st wave of greece's surgeon infections is pushing the hospital system to its limits with doctors warning they won't be able to give proper care for the difference is that the number of patients

is much bigger and so is the pressure on the clinics and the i.c.u. units, the ages are also much lower than they were. instead of a 2 year old that we now have 50 and 60 year old in italy, prime minister is resisting calls for a 2nd nationwide lockdown. but here in the south, hospitals are being overwhelmed with more and more people being treated in their cars outside given oxygen or placed on drips as they wait to be admitted. the outlook is similar in germany to the missing on stuff. we must prepare ourselves for the situation to worsen in the coming weeks. some clinics could reach their limits on it is possible that patients may no longer be able to receive optimal care everywhere. meanwhile in ukraine, president vladimir skeet is in hospital in kiev after contracting the virus on monday. the country's imposed a lockdown at weekends, but it's just reported a new data record of 11000 cases. europe has just 10 percent of the world's

population, but 25 percent of global cobbett, 19 deaths with winter looming and infection surging. the picture is getting worse. at the paris peace forum world leaders have committed to ensuring equal access to look at tensions that see something that can't come soon enough. they didn't bother al-jazeera. the u.s. to stop infectious diseases expert says the country can avoid another coronavirus lockdown if people get serious about hygiene measures, including masks, and social distancing, antenna found chairs are urged vigilance during the wait for us, the vaccines, but says that they could start having a major positive effect as early as next month. the u.s. is just recorded its highest number of daily deaths since may. the state of texas alone has passed 1000000 confirmed cases with california expected to follow soon.

but the pandemic is surprisingly top of the agenda for president elect. joe biden. let's go live to john hendren who is in biden's. hometown of wilmington, delaware. as a john corner virus might be biden's number one. priorities even started setting up a task force to deal with it, but it's not the only problem he's facing. is it that's right, joe biden isn't able to do anything formally in terms of policy until january 20th, when he's inaugurated, but he's doing what he can. he's appointed his new chief of staff, ron klain, and that's key because claim was the head of the a bullet task force under the obama administration. he's also a long time aide of oh, by biden. and he is a help biden craft his response to the virus which is spinning out of control in the united states right now with a 69 percent increase in cases just over the past 2 weeks. but biden's got other problems. he's not getting all of the information he could be getting about what's

going on in the u.s. because he's not getting the presidential daily briefings. normally when you become president elect, you get the same briefing that the president does. he's not getting those in because donald trump has not allowed his government to recognize that biden is the president, president elect. so that means among other things, he doesn't hear all the latest information about what's going on in the coronavirus . so now 8 republican senators, even many who are supporting donald trump's effort to overturn that election, are saying that he needs to get those briefings that biden does and 142 former national security officials are saying this same. they say this dangerous for him not to get those briefings in the fact that george w. bush had a 37 day delay because of the dispute in the 2000 election. that meant that as president, he was less prepared to deal with the $911.00 attacks when they occurred. that was the finding of the $911.00 commission,

a congressional commission that came up with that finding. so biden, meanwhile, is receiving congratulations like any other president elect with the latest comes from the pope who said he looked forward to working with joe biden on a number of issues. biden has just left wilmington, within the past hour or so on his way to his vacation home and beach, where we're told he'll be working through the weekend on sunday. 100 with the latest from wilmington, delaware, john, thank you. and as we were hearing there, the biden transition team is still waiting on legal challenges from the trump administration to resolve themselves. let's cross to our white house correspondent, kimberly halkett. she is in washington d.c. for us. so kimberly were, are we at with these legal challenges? well, the u.s. president continues to meet with his election team as recently as wednesday, looking his, his prospects for overturning the projected election results. but joe biden would

rather donald trump would have to overturn states joe biden. won michigan, nevada, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and those are projected to be long shots in terms of doing that. still, the u.s. president continues to raise money and continues to rail on twitter against not only the media companies, but also the electoral process in and of itself that it was not fair that there was widespread voter fraud and irregularities still on capitol hill. there are some republicans that are now akhil weighing support for the bid for joe biden to be getting intelligence briefings. and there are also some top democrats that are urging other republicans to begin to accept the election results. the republicans should stop their shenanigans about an election that president trump has already lost and focus their attention on the immediate issue at hand. providing relief to a country living through the cold,

the 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 that is the president congress, congressional republicans are deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason, but fear of donald trump. now in terms of a concession phone call by donald trump to joe biden, that still appears unlikely. many are now suggesting that don top may never accept the results of the election. the argument being that he believes that 72000000 plus people that voted for him deserve a fight, and that is what he is delivering. he is indeed can really help you with the latest from the white house can really thank you. a major search operation is underway off the libyan coast, after 74 people including

a 6 month old baby drowned when their ship broke down on its way to europe. the un migration agency says the boat was carrying more than $120.00 people, including women and children. when it left, the port of homes, fishermen helped the libyan coast guard, bring dozens of survivors back to shore. what it has the latest now from tripoli. about 31 bodies we retrieved, some of them will retrieve the by libya's coast guard. in the city of, of the capital tripoli. international organization for migration is raising concern over 3 cuenta cases where my grandson refugees, including women and children drowned in the mediterranean sea. but i spoke to libya's coast guard officers, they say that they have not been encouraged to conduct an interception patrols recently because they don't want to bring risk,

you'd migrants and refugees back to libya for the safety of the say that they come out of 4 to accommodate them with detention centers closed for the time being because of fear of covert 19 infection. i would break still to come this half hour this place that 3 decades ago, why some people will not return to their corner karabakh region despite an agreement to end in the thousands and the prehistoric monument with a modern problem, archaeologists and environmentalist's battle a plan to divert traffic from england. what's your central and east? europe has been sitting under these dismal conditions,

but it's back to be pushed out of the way because we still got the actor stuff coming off the atlantic for the british isles, for scandinavia has been down through france and iberia. now that's causing a difference in the days, but just stirring up the air, making it a windy condition for a time, drawing up reducing bit of water from further south. so you've got increasing temperatures and story of the fog. all things should be improving. paris shows the temperature difference, average of 11 this time of the year. we've got to 15 or 16, probably breezy the next 3 days, showers for a couple of them as that moves in. then you'll see the sun more obviously in germany and poland, and austria and the temperatures will try and try and feel better for you as a result. all this time is wet and windy, the british isles, bits of france, much quaternary in spain and portugal, actually much quieter in the eastern med. it's been very windy recently. you saw those floods just staying crete. i show them up. libya will get not so much snow floods slow moving showers, and they'll be persistent for

a couple of days. we've also got rain in the form of showers still as far north in west africa, sierra leone. but the focus on the thrust is a bit further south. in the 2nd part of identity and exiled nephew council travels to the middle east to retrace his steps. palestinian refugees in the baes, about half of the world's palestinian population and see the conflict through the eyes of the living. it breaks my heart to see this man was going like a father to yearn for a place that he may never see. i don't mean it is real for me to go out about my gun to 0 correspondent the, you know, the, the, all the time

after reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera, ethiopia's prime minister says his forces have gained ground in the northern region of key gray where the federal government is battling local forces, aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster in the region with hundreds killed and thousands displaced across the border. coronavirus cases continue to surge in europe with the u.k. reporting its highest number ever. the french prime minister, meanwhile, has revealed that one person is admitted to hospital with cope with 19 in france every 30 seconds. and the u.s. has recorded its worst single day desk toll from coronavirus, since apparently may 74 people drowned off the libyan coast when the ship broke down on its way to, you know, 120 people, world board meeting, women and children. fishermen helped bring thousands of survivors to the shore.

the european union is the man then china reverse. a new rule which is seen for hong kong. politicians sacked 15 opposition, politicians in the city of every zinedine protests that the ruling on wednesday, china passed a law allowing legislators to be removed if they pose a national security threat. the u.s., has threatened more sanctions against chinese and hong kong officials. the u.k., which handed the territory to china in 1907, says the move undermines hong kong's autonomy and has summoned the chinese ambassador for talks. but china's government is the fending the new rule. 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's leader

carrie lamb has brought calamity to the territory and its people she'll stink for 10000 years. the slogan was displayed 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 hand 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, eats 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, or you, 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 reemerge. 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 code 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 of the 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, thousands of homes in the philippines were left submerged. when typhoon, vancouver ravaged parts of the country's northeast, at least 13 people have been killed in 15 others are still missing. generally though, there are reports now from one of the war stuff that areas this is the village of, but uncut in many key in 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 or water level rose 18 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 these, 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 and very close to the wall 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 but 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 at this important man, vanco is the 3rd typhoon to hit the philippines in less than 3 weeks. the country is still reeling from the impact of typhoon gorney in the 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. even more complicated jim

duggan al jazeera manila is widespread anger and fear in armenia over an agreement to end hostilities concerning the disputed region of the cornal karabakh. as a result, be allowed to keep the captured during 6 weeks of fighting, but people who were displaced almost 3 decades ago say they are not convinced that they can return to their homelands. a warning, some viewers may find witness accounts in a sort of inch of ides of report the stressing. but then there are loads of them to her numbers, no 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 is civilians after a deal between other by john in armenia, a village will once again be under as eerie control. but the emotional wounds from nearly 3 decades ago are still fresh. i have great teacher for them a lot today. they say let's go live with this. i cannot,

i even saw soviet troops standing by watching it happen the support of the killers . my father fought in self-defense. that's why they took his call after killing. how many of the displaced people from nagorno-karabakh have vivid memories? this woman says he still has nightmares. after watching her relatives been killed in their bodies, burned, appears mother in law refuses to die here 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 would you believe? he says there will be really $10000.00 people live in this refugee settlement, which used to be a tent camp as a right. john, the government says it has spent more than $7000000000.00 to develop 11 settlements for the people displaced from the gone. after the agreement to retake all areas are the bridge and 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 or facilitating massacres, while to say no, says the committee he leads for the displaced has designed a project called the great return program. it outlines a voluntary gradual return of the displaced but he wants the international community's help in reconstruction and rehabilitation of 700000. people look at nations as well as other international actors demonstrate the importance in implementing all the resolutions which they have adopted for almost 30 years. they, of course, need to step in and render all support and assistance with the return of internally displaced persons. the question remains how many of them are willing to try to live in peace. but i think armenians who also regard nagorno-karabakh as their ancestral home. some of a job with al-jazeera australia will appoint

a special investigator to examine the possible prosecution of alleged war crimes in afghanistan. the prime minister made the announcement before the release of a report on the conduct of australian forces, civilians and prisoners are alleged to have been killed. australian special forces were the ploy. the last us of allied troops after the september 11th attacks of rotund all that would go beneath the prehistoric stone circle at stonehenge in england, has been approved. the tunnel is the sign to divert traffic away from the world heritage site. but the story point 1000000000 dollar project has been widely criticized by environmentalists and archaeologists. as charlie angela now explains ancient mysterious, and at the heart of a bitter dispute, stonehenge is one of the most important neolithic 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, the road to stonehenge will simply slow to take photographs. so when the greatest, 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, which it does towards leaking and we've been confidential village safe. 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 for over 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 a summer solstice and directly opposite, which is where they want to put the portal for the terminal is where the sun sets into. 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 shortest day. 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 have

been trying and failing since the ninety's to solve the problem of this road. the a 3 o 3. numerous plan to be proposed and then dropped at the top. and it's unlikely even this decision will be the end of the bridge. and if that, if it is ancient site charlie and al-jazeera stone time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera, ethiopia's prime minister has claimed a massive victory in the northern region of t. gray, where the federal government is battling local forces. says his forces have, quote, liberated the western part of tikrit. the brutal air and land campaign has raised fears of a humanitarian crisis with hundreds killed aid agencies warn that they can't bring much needed supplies into t. gray because of the fighting thouse.