disorders or histories of self harm. we have a notch issues building. ringback up to a major mental health and the world's attention is on controlling the ball or risk for the recount list. he didn't victims, even when the pandemic passes, there will be many in desperate need of help. thousands flee fighting in ethiopia's more than tikrit region. amnesty international reports civilians, they're being hacked to death there, i missed us here today, and this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, congratulations from china. beijing becomes one of the last major world powers to, recognize u.s.,

president elect joe biden. surveying the damage in the philippines, the cleanup operation begins after typing. class, i'm natasha popular in paris is off to the new member, 2015, and turks are still painful memories and deep divisions. in ethiopia, the struggle for the control of the 2 great region appears to be west wing. amnesty international says hundreds of civilians have been massacred. and while the human rights group is unclear, who is responsible, some witnesses have blamed for says, loyal to the 2 great people's liberation front. the u.n. is warning of a humanitarian emergency. more than 4000 people crossed from ethiopia into sudan and just one day, ethiopia's federal government has now appointed a new head of the region. prime minister i'll be off, had says the offensive will not end until local leaders are moved. well,

our correspondent have a morgan is on the ground for us. she has more from got a reef in sudan, near the ethiopian border. refugees continue to arrive at the sudanese european border. here in the state of qatar of yesterday, authorities went to check out the situation of the refugees and at what is happening at the border, they say that more than $11000.00 have arrived over the past few days into get out of state as well as neighboring states. and they say that more than 20000 are at the border waiting to cross into those 2 states seeking refuge from the conflict that is currently unfolding. and it's a great region. and if you appear now, what happens upon their arrival is that they are screened for health reasons, but also for security reasons. because some of those who have arrived so far are former combat sense. who put down their arms, fleeing the conflict and coming to seek refuge here and about if the sudanese authorities say they're quite concerned about what is unfolding once it's started. in these cover, the sudanese government announced that it is shutting down its borders. hearing

about it as well as neighboring states and deployed more than $6000.00 troops. and it comes at a time when the sudanese prime minister on the lam dog is the head of the eagle. that's the east african bloc. that brings together a group of nations including sudan and ethiopia. he has called the prime minister and expressed his readiness to mediate in the conflict. and it's a great region expressing concern that is something that the head of the, sovereignty council also expressed in this b.s., the security and defense committee meeting on monday. but the 2 sides, the prime minister of sudan, abdullah and the head of the sovereignty council both met with the security advisor of the ethiopian prime minister abu ahmed, who said that this conflict will get, will be sorted in the shortest time possible. and that mediation by sudan, or by a god, is not needed at the moment. sudan has said that it is worried about the humanitarian situation, and it's urging all sides for restraint and says that the situation is quite dire and very volatile and that all sides should try to resolve the conflict as soon as possible. let's not take

a closer look at the range and gray is in each of these northeastern highlands. you can see there on the border with eritrea and sudan. it's home to the iran, the chronometer, and to grain people. together. they make up about 6 percent of ethiopia's population is governed by the people's liberation front from the regions capital macallan, now the t.p. l.f. dominated the country's military and central government before that took office and 2018. it's estimated the t.p.a. left has a quarter of a 1000000 fighters and a large amount of military equipment, but it's up against ethiopia's military, which says it's made gains in the west of tikrit in response to an attack on one of its federal military bases. really, i spoke to matt bryden, he's a strategic advisor of research. that's a think tank covering the horn of africa region. he says this escalation is a cause for concern not only for to gran's, but for also other ethnic groups. one of the alarming things about this conflict is the speed with which it has shifted from

a discourse over constitutionalism and political principles like federalism to one that has taken on a a viciously ethnic character really in the space of a matter of weeks. so where this began, the dispute you could say began with the government of abbey akhmed, postponing national elections because of the coverage. 19 epidemic to graze. saying this is illegitimate. going ahead with its own elections as constitutionally mandated, the federal government calling that illegal, that at that level we're talking about highly sophisticated state functions and issues. but now if you look at these statements from the government and from social media mouthpieces on various sides of the conflict, this is being characterized last as a kind of precise law enforcement action by the federal government. but as an

offensive against that, the people of to gray and to grains outside that to great region, finding themselves arrested, detained, questioned, some prevented from leaving the country even those some with dual nationality and foreign passports. and so this is beginning to, to take the character of an ethnically fueled conflict and as other ethnic groups see this evolving, i imagine what the anxiety and the concern that the federal government could use similar tactics against other regions. other groups is simply going to grow now security and election officials from the u.s. government have a nice to statement, declaring this is presidential election. the most secure in american history. they say there's no evidence that voting systems were compromised. now despite this

president, donald trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. alan fessor reports. it's unusual for donald trump to keep such a low profile. he's made one appearance, but hasn't spoken in public for a week. his twitter feed continues to push claims of a stolen election on thursday. he tweeted a report alleging 2700000 votes were deleted from voting systems across the country . the company who made the machines says that didn't happen, and a government election watchdog insists the election was the most secured in american history. the elections, infrastructure, government, coordinating council, and the election infrastructure sector, coordinating committees, part of the department of homeland security issued a joint statement and emphasized in bold type. there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes changed votes, or was in any way compromised. one of the major contributors for making this the

most secure election in u.s. history is the fact that there were large numbers with vote by mail. and actual having physical paper ballots, one of donald trump's closest aides has reportedly been seeking out. officials in various government departments, he considers insufficiently loyal to donald trump, with the intention of firing them. one of the people behind this report has told friends he expects to be called in the coming days. on capitol hill, democrats continue to urge their republican colleagues to accept the election result and get back to business 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. neither does the president, congress, congressional republicans are deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason. but fear of donald trump. ok, the biden team is pushing for access to the daily intelligence briefing. they got

them during the campaign, but have been blocked since the election by a white house contesting the result. will republican senators have expressed concern that could impact u.s. security well stopping short of contradicting the president? look, one of these 2 men will be the president united states after the election results of coming in. and i think at this point, just as a matter of protecting our nation's interests, i do think that both the president and his and his competition here, the vice president biden should have access to those classified reports. president trump's legal team insists there's a process to follow that could take some time and it continues to fundraise to help the president's efforts in court. alan fischer al-jazeera washington and now tyler has become one of the last major countries to congratulate president elect joe biden. u.s. relations with beijing have been strained on trade technology and security under

the trumpet ministration. the latest spat, the u.s. president, has banned americans from doing business with companies linked to the chinese military. his executive order claims that beijing forces chinese firms to help finance and modernize its military band takes effect on january 11th. that would be days before trump is due to step down. let's speak now to our white house correspondent can be how it can be. so it seems beijing finally decided to pick up the phone to buy yet have a sense of what a china u.s. relationship might look like under his leadership. there is the sense that there won't be a dramatic shift when joe biden is inaugurated in the reason for that is that there has been for many, many years. stephen preceeding, donald trump's presidency, bipartisan support. that means democrats and republicans both agreeing that there needs to be a tougher stance on china, particularly when it comes to your areas of privacy when it comes to concerns about

technology. and so while there has been obviously in the last 4 years or dramatic stepping up in the tit for tat trade war. in the fact that there has been a heightened rhetoric towards china in terms of the actual policy. there should still continue to be a tough stance now, maybe more strategic because the sort of the practice of governing by joe biden is much more traditional. we know that from his experience in legislative affairs already, but in terms of the policy, many expect that many of the policies put in place by donald trump could continue as some exceptions to this could be in the area of climate change, which is something that we know is an important issue and platform for joe biden that he is likely to put into effect. in fact, we may even see more pressure on china to see that in this area. there is a more collaborative approach and can really separately it sounded like quite the vote of confidence today from election monitors. yeah,

with respect to the claims that donald trump has been making that, you know, 2700000 votes may have been miscast. it was important for the agency to come out and say that they have no evidence that there has been widespread glitching in terms of the voting machines that have been used in the, the broader electoral system. but i think it is important to note that while the statement says there's no systemic fraud, it's not saying there was no fraud. in fact, there have been multiple instances because of the fact that there was a broad use of mail in ballots that were unsolicited. in many cases, these voters registries where they got these addresses from have not been updated. so sure. there have been some isolated instances of people casting ballots that might have been deceased or even had moved out of the state. but no one is saying in this statement that this would in any way change the outcome of the election. in fact, we have more results from elections officials. now another state for joe biden,

putting him firmly. 2 as the projected winner, our white house correspondent back can be how come, thanks so much company. still ahead for you here on al-jazeera. a warning for people making holiday plans as private 1000 cases continue to spike and many european countries. and morocco launches a military operation in western sahara. could this be the end of a past year? cease fire? hello whilst winters wandering through 2nd in the winter storm, there will affect you if you're in sapporo prone to go surprise the temperature at 9 degrees going to be a chill in the air. otherwise, the sun is at its dice with the most in southern china, with the approach of vanco to the coast of northern vietnam,

likely on they suck the early sunday. the rain will wrap into rangi, maybe into your not. so parts of southwest china will see a bit of late season, right. otherwise it's fine looking whether there's vancouver as it sits at the moment. and you know now where it's going south of that pretty widespread showers. it's the wet season for malaysia and indonesia from co itself is light to make landfall near doha, with the sort of status rainfall potential up to half a meter means yet again, is going to make the flooding already in the area and vietnam in this season. even worse, right. so there's a general picture then of a wet season and still with the typhoon in it. now the northeast monsoon maintains the wet season. if you like or in homs, is it from chennai size was but if you further north and through the gazan example, it's an old indian northern pakistan. it's rather murky. this isn't just morning mist. this is rather a dirty year, particularly bad in new delhi in the hole, but it will now improve

frank assessments if other can public opinion pieces betrayed by social media platforms after november. what would be because if you believe that there are corrosive to our democracy, one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion lucas and his dog. anyway, the protestors are going anywhere either with the bill. if the revolution people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines kilobit, that's really out there on the screen. inside story on al-jazeera the, the little i

value watching al-jazeera. let's remind you of our top stories here. this hour civilians are reported to have been massacred in northern ethiopia as fighting continues there between the military and local forces in the tikrit region. ethiopia's federal government has now appointed a new head of the region. top u.s. election officials have described the presidential vote as the most secure in u.s. history and comes as more publicans break ranks with donald trump over his refusal to cooperate with president elect joe biden. china has now become one of the last major countries to congratulate biden. it comes as president, donald trump banned americans from doing business with companies linked to the chinese military. now the u.s. has a top infectious diseases expert says the country can potentially avoid another coronavirus lock down. if people get serious about social distancing and wearing masks. dr. anthony found she called for vigilance. during the wait for the scenes on thursday, the us reported more than 150000 new cases in 24 hours. and the 9th consecutive day

infections have been above $100000.00. now several european countries are warning. it's too early for people to stop planning, end of year holiday travel. that's as record numbers of corona, virus infections are reported across the continent among those the u.k. which recorded its highest number of infections on thursday. meanwhile, german officials have said it's unlikely that winter events, including christmas parties, will go ahead. nadine baba has more from london. well, people across europe are being warned that it's too early to make plans, because governments simply don't know what restrictions will be in place here in the u.k. . northern ireland is now moving. it's now extending its toughest restrictions for one more week. there's been a fierce debate over there between government and between business. they are going to allow some places like hair salons to gradually open from next friday. other parts of the u.k. are under their own mini lockdowns and this weekend the authorities are now worried

about the possible impact of a festival of lights device which is going to be celebrated by millions of hindus as well as sikhs, and joins. there are being urged to observe lockdown rules wherever they are, and to only meet people online rather than in person. very difficult circumstances . and that's a reminder that there's another festival, another holiday in 6 weeks time of christmas and governments all across the continent telling people it's not going to be a normal christmas. sweden's top state. p.d. epidemiology has people that they should expect travel restrictions between different areas to protect regional health services. similarly, the prime minister of france, john kass stix, says that he does not advise people to make bookings to fly back to france over christmas. and he's saying that there will be no lifting of the strict national lockdown for at least another 2 weeks. france really is in trouble. they've now got

more people in hospitals. we've covered $1000.00 than they did during the spring at the height of the pandemic. the 1st wave. now one of the british prime minister's closest advisers is to step down at the end of the dominic cummings says he had always planned to quit when the brits, a transitional period was over on december 31st. he is credited with masterminding bret's it as well as boris johnson's reelection. earlier this year there, he was criticized for 1000 coronavirus restrictions. and now one of britain's most notorious serial killers has died after refusing treatment for private 19, peter sutcliffe, also known as the yorkshire ripper, had been in prison since 1981. he's was $74.00 some to have carried out a 5 year killing spree. he was found guilty of murdering 13 women and trying to kill another 7 pro independence troops and western sahara. say morocco has

ignited a war by launching a military offensive. a moroccan army is moving into the buffer zone on the border with mauritania to combat the policy, sorry, or front. that group is accused of attacking trucks and extorting people. the pro independence activists deny the claims saying they were actually peacefully protesting the policy. are you say the operation ends a 3 decade cease fire. so just to all the policy area from all their liberation movement made up of ethnics are always aimed at driving the moroccan presence out of western sahara. they say the former spanish colony is their homeland and they've pushed for independence for decades. claims that as there is the 2 sides, a battle for control for 16 years before reaching a un backed cease fire agreement in 1901. today more than 2 thirds of the region is occupied and run by more occur. i spoke to recut, if he is the project director for north africa at international crisis group. he says the potential for escalation here is very worrying. well,

what is different and obviously very warring about the situation right now, is that disco be seen? probably as the 1st 2 real violation of the cease fire that has actually been in place since 1991. and the cease fire was actually always pretty much respected by both sides. what is different now is that we have seen over the past few weeks. the police are your front trying to stop the flow of goods between morocco and mauritania to has to go through the buffer zone that the police are in front. i would say more or less controls in protests. the fact of the united nations have been, would say, quite negligence towards this issue. there was no point meant for several months now of a u.n. special envoy to try and mediate between the 2 sides. and there was a perception within the police ario that the latest security resolution approved by

united nations security council was to close to the moroccan position and to ante. so the latest this latest, i would say events have really pushed, the police started to take action, and now the moral can still respond to this provoke ation or initiative. a senior official from south africa's ruling party has been released on bail after being in court on corruption charges, a smuggler. surely the secretary-general of the a.n.c. made his 1st appearance in court on friday. the charges are linked to allegations, millions of dollars of government funds were misused when he was a provincial leader. he continues to deny any wrongdoing. well as a by john is now introducing curfews in areas of nagorno-karabakh that it's captured and comes ahead of armenia's handover of land to azerbaijan. ethnic armenians have been leaving the areas that will be handed over. they have been some reports that people have been burning their homes as they leave the handover as

part of the deal between armenia and azerbaijan. that's now ended weeks of fighting over the disputed region. some of binge of aid has more for us from the very capital back. well, this is a curfew that has been put into place in most cities in other by john, and there is a 9 pm curfew that starts at last until 6 am in the morning. and this is something that they're implementing in the areas that are by joining forces have taken as well. the police stations that have been operating in these areas which were not under other by johnny control, were shifted to areas under azerbaijan's control. now the government, the president has told them that these police stations and their employees should move into the areas which are now under the control of the forces and implement those curfews. they should be maintaining law and order. and also making sure that the area is secure, making a note of the military hardware. there are whether there are any land mines or in secure buildings. so that is why there is a curfew. but most of these bases across the line of contact are not inhabited. by

people, because of the fighting, either people from either side, whether it was the armenian side or the other by johnny side have moved to their respective countries. so that's why they're going to be going in, regardless of the timings of the curfew. these are void of civilians, so a lot of people are not there and these curfews are going to be more symbolic than actually trying to keep people indoors. all thousands of people in bellerive mourning the death of an anti-government protest of that 31 year old woman, but her ranko died on wednesday in the capital minutes. witnesses say he'd been detained and by security forces. the interior ministry has denied responsibility but also answered, she's ruling party has won enough seats in parliament to form a on last and next government. national league for democracy party has secured. and these 346 out of 412 seats after sunday's election. but more than a 1000000,

people, mainly from ethnic minorities, were unable to vote after the government canceled polls, jews fighting at least $42.00 people are now confirmed to have died after typhoon vanco swept across the northern philippines. another 20 are still missing. landslides and flooding have destroyed homes and left dozens of times without power. our correspondent, in milan and open reports from rodriguez in the town of rodrigo's. in result, we met eric and the band were they were able to evacuate their home before it was submerged by flood waters. so they had to return no matter how hard it is to get here. because really that to get the race and legs we had in the storage, at least something to it this week. but everything else is been destroyed. they know it will take them years to rebuild. so they see they hold on to what gives them hope. next door evangel in my louis is in despair. all her belongings have

been damaged too. and she still has your mortgage to pay. please help us. we need clothes, food. we don't even have drinking water. vanco barreled across many areas in the zone destroying homes and leaving thousands without power. more than 200000, people were evacuated, but many others had to scramble onto rooftops and wait to be rescued. what we're seeing here is just a fraction of a village of more than 2000 homes, but it is quite obvious already just by looking at the day bree, that a big part of the destruction of my phone call was caused by logs that were swept down from the mountains by phone, vancouver is the 3rd typhoon to hit the philippines in 3 weeks, the country used to reeling from the impact of typhoon connie nearly 2 weeks ago.

at least 20 typhoon strike each year. and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common. scientists say weather disturbances in the philippines have become more extreme over the last few years because of climate change. and that's raising concern among many that they could become victims to an endless cycle of loss and despair. jamila, limburg, an al-jazeera result, province, northern philippines. well now the french prime minister and the mare of paris have led commemorations to mark the 5th anniversary of the paris attacks $130.00. people were killed. this anniversary comes amid a string of recent attacks, as well as a vigorous debate about social divisions. as i was about to report a somber remembrance, france's prime minister and the mayor of paris led a memorial in the city for victims of the november 2015 attacks their names read aloud me more than

a $130.00 people were killed in the city by supporters of i saw shot at cafe terraces in the street and the batek and concert hall, a night of carnage that began at the city's main sports stadium. on nov, 13th, i should have died because of the impact on my body. so each day that i have a gift, mohamed am goal, was working as a security guard at the stadium when an attacker blew himself up beside him. 5 years on the recent killing of a school teacher in a paris and 3 people in nice has revived painful memories. it's like a volcano that's been sleeping inside me, but suddenly wakes of the 2015 attack comes back to me. i see myself then. and i remember my injuries since 2015, more than a 100 people have been killed in dozens of attacks in the country. field police officers, a teacher present a model not cross says what he calls radical islam is the biggest threat to

france's values and freedoms. lawyer sonia mak to fret, presents dozens of survivors and relatives of victims of the november attacks said the aim of the terrorists is the death, not religion. it is not about islam. it is about the ideology of a death cult where the terrorists want is to so there are not only in friends, but in europe and the world for mohammed. it's a doubly distressing situation. the victim of an attack is trauma is ever present, but he also has to cope without some might see him to do the. it's like being a victim twice over. i don't begrudge people they don't understand. it's difficult . they see a muslim, they confuse and mix everything. they are lost and we must explain islam to them, but i don't begrudge them the trial of those charged with the attacks of 5 years ago will start next year. 20 suspects are expected in court, including the only surviving attacker, solid dislike of the so long. it will be an opportunity to learn more about how the

violence was planned and whether it could have been prevented. it may offer some odd says, but it's unlikely to heal deep rooms and divisions. al-jazeera paris. now hundreds of drones have lit up the sky in south korea from colorful messages of hope. in the midst of this pandemic, they flew over the olympic park in seoul and then organize themselves into dotted forms and patterns. wear masks, wash your hands and cheer up. some of the messages they display this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. civilians are reported to have been massacred in northern ethiopia as fighting continues between the military and local forces in the region. if there be a federal government has now appointed

a new head of the region. top u.s. election officials have described the presidential vote as the most secure in u.s. history and comes as more.