but you know, our region, we know how to get the playfield to others and not the fires are still ongoing. i believe that you can tell the story is what can make a difference. thousands flee fighting in ethiopia's, northern to great region, amnesty international report. civilians being hacked to death and given elvis is al-jazeera live from doha. also coming up, congratulations from china becomes one of the last major world powers to recognize us president elect joe biden, surveying the damage in the philippines. the clean up operation begins after typhoon bamako plus. i'm natasha butler in paris 5 years off to dilute them for

2015, or turks are still painful memories and deep divisions. in ethiopia, the struggle for control of the tikrit region appears to be worsening. amnesty international says hundreds of civilians have been massacred. all the human rights group is unclear who is responsible? some witnesses blame forces loyal to the 2. great people's liberation front. un is warning of a humanitarian emergency. more than 4000 people cross from ethiopia into sudan in just one day. if your b.s. federal government has appointed a new head of the region, prime minister of the ahmed says the offensive will not end until local leader. it's removed. ever morgan has more from god that he found saddam there. the ethiopian border refugees continued to arrive at the sudanese european border here in the state of qatar yesterday. authorities went to check out the situation of the

refugees and what is happening at the border. they say that more than 11000 have arrived over the past 3 days in to 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 if you appear. now, what's happened 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 they sudanese authorities say they are quite concerned about what is unfolding. one exhausted 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 that, a god, 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 g.o.p. and 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 egads, 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 take a close look at this region to grey is in, ethiopia is northeastern highlands on the border with eritrea, and still it's home to be eaten and could armor and to claim people together, they make up about 6 percent of ethiopia's population to graze, governed by the 2 great people's liberation front from the region's capital mckayla,

the lift dominated the country's military and central government before it took office in 2018. it's estimated the p.l.f. as a quarter of a 1000000 fighters, and a lot of military equipment was up against ethiopia's military says it's made gains in the west to agree and response to attack on one of its federal military bases. bryden is a strategic advisor of some research. that's a think tank covering the horn of africa. he says this escalation is cause for concern not only for 2 grains, but for 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, if 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 less as a kind of precise law enforcement action by the federal government. but as an offensive against the people of to gray and to grains outside the 2 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 security and election officials from the u.s. government have released to statement declaring this is a presidential election. the most secure in american history is that there's no evidence that voting systems were compromised. despite this president, donald trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud on special 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 no 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 we 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, 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

have come 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 china 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 of the trump administration. in the latest spare us, the us president has banned americans from doing business with companies that are links to the chinese military. his executive order claims that beijing forces chinese firms to help finance and modernize its military. that takes effect on january 11 days before trump is due to step down. let's pick now to gabriel

elizondo who is in wilmington, delaware. gabe, a foreign ministry spokesperson from china was the one to issue this congratulations message to joe biden. did biden responded. oh, no, biden hasn't responded. he's actually taking a couple days off. that is beach home, just not too far from here in wilmington, here in delaware. we're not expected to hear much from him publicly over the next day or 2, as he takes a little bit of rest. however, there are a couple things really to point out here on this. and that says that there's widespread bipartisan support in washington for a tough stance on china, on multiple different issues. so that probably won't change when joe biden takes the presidency on january 20th. it's also important to point out that biden himself, during the campaign. and even in this transition period has not released any sort

of detailed plan on how we have ministration expects to deal with china. but that's sort of expected because all you really have to do is look back to the 8 years. biden was vice president to barack obama and a lot of biden's key foreign policy advisers. right now, either formally or informally, are people from that administration of long time ties to china and dealing with chinese china policy with the u.s. . so that will be something to keep a very close eye on. so what you can do is just look at the obama administration policy towards china, and you're going to probably see something very similar where it differs now is how, when it comes to trumpet ministration, what you're probably likely to see under a biden presidency when it comes to china is more strategy and the less rhetoric that's for sure, particularly in some key issues. now, it comes to what you're probably going to see under biden is he's going to probably

elevate issues such as democracy and human rights at the same level as economic trade issues and tariff issues with china. that necessarily wasn't the case under president trump, but there could be some key area years of agreement between washington and beijing during a biden presidency. 2, particularly one is on climate change. biden has said that is one of his key priorities and you can't really deal with climate change on a global level without engaging constructively, with the world's largest carbon emitter, that being china. so that could be some areas of cooperation. and then also on the global pandemic, the united states has, you know, pfizer and other companies that are very close to a vaccine here. china has several companies working on a vaccine. so that could be an area where they're able to cooperate, either on research science or distribution. ok, thank you for that. and willing to delaware,

still come here on al-jazeera. a warning to people making holiday plans. this cover 90 cases continue to rise in many european countries. and the nicholas hoult in the sillies fishing town of who are where dozens of families have lost relatives trying to make it by boat to europe. find out that's why so many continue to make this dangerous journey. and there were about see the weather in the levant, deteriorate again by which i mean west and windy. the last night's concert here is iran showing itself as snow the high ground of afghanistan, the shah is going to show talents for the gulf, as well, with a couple of days or a day of strong wind dancer cutter. as an example,

the change is just about to take place here. as you see in the eastern med folks would suggest sunday showers are quite likely on saturday. although that breeze goes to the showers for sunday and monday and only widespread. the be there will say this though, doesn't look quite so nice in lebanon, syria and stretching a bit further south and towards gaza. maybe you light have rather wet, starts to the following, working week. southern africa is seeing the showers get further and further south and go is a good focus and congo. but i think we'll also see it come right down. once more into namibia for sas is mostly dry picture, putting wind hook, you've got thunderstorms, gusty showers, i think on saturday and sunday before on monday the wind swings around to the southwest, not a particular woman. direction of the wind hooks or right jo'burg back up to 30 degrees and i want to own up to 35. ok time. i'm in i.t.

frank assessment because don't any way the protest is any way either the bullet will get the news from. i didn't depth analysis of the dates, global headlines is it? that's really the inside story on al-jazeera, on charges. of course, the once mighty financial capitals of the world have been reduced to ghost towns by the pandemic. could they reinvent themselves? plus to accuse president of the central bank governor after the summit law steps down as finance minister counting the cost on al-jazeera gorging on just their reminder of our top stories this hour. thousands of people

pouring across ethiopia's border into saddam to escape fighting between the army and 2 great regional forces. the federal government has appointed a new head of region. top u.s. election officials have described the presidential vote as the most secure in u.s. . history comes as more republicans break ranks with donald trump over his refusal to cooperate with president elect joe biden. china has become one of the last major countries to congratulate president elect. joe biden becomes a president. donald trump banned americans from doing business with companies links to the chinese military. the u.s. top infectious disease expert says the country can avoid another coronavirus lockdown if people get serious about social distancing and wearing masks. dr. anthony fauci called for vigilance during the wait for vaccines. on thursday, the u.s. reported more than 150000 new cases in just 24 hours. if the 10th consecutive day

and infections have been above 100000, several european countries have warned that it's too early for people to stop planning end of year holiday travel. that's as record number of corona, virus infections, excuse me, are reported across the continent. among those as the u.k. that recorded its highest number of infections on thursday, on a cane is in berlin, he says, not all in countries that have opposed hotshot downs and actually seen that quantifies cases drop. we know that in many countries across europe, across the european union, the trend of new infections remains upward. certainly, that is the case in germany. it's also the case in poland, where the numbers being reported far more than $20000.00 per day. and yet, in other countries around the european union, certainly over the course of the last few days, the trend has been either of a plateau in the number of new infections or a slight drop. certainly, that has been the case in 2 of the benelux countries. in belgium and in the

netherlands where a plastering effect has been reported. but as i say, it is important to put these into perspective. because we know that across the european union, there are many, many countries with very many risk areas alone here in l.a. and one in every 5 before we intensive camp beds available to emergency workers or hospitals for 4. covert patients is currently being occupied by a covert patient and only one in 5 of the intensive care beds. beds now are available for anybody else as it were, which explains why there is a real concern about the figures coming out. so it's a bit of a patchwork quilt as it were across europe. some countries that are in harsh lockdown a seeing a plateau in effect, or as others say, you know, plants are in effect just, you know, it's one of the u.k. prime ministers. closest advisors is to step down at the end of the year. dominic

cummings says he had always planned to quit when the breaks. the transition period was over on december 31. he's credited with masterminding breakfast and re-election earlier this year and was criticized for flouting coronavirus restrictions at the diamond is associate professor of public policy at queen mary university of london . he explains how dominic cummings became out of step with the british government. i think that the underlying it's you is that it appears as if dominic cummings has lost the confidence of the prime minister. in addition to that, he has also lost the confidence of a large number of conservative m.p.'s in the house of commons. and therefore, his position has become more and more unsustainable. if an advisor is close, the prime minister is dominant. cummings is not able to deal with conservative m.p.'s and other senior figures in the party. then the position of power point was going to become more and more difficult. i think the other issue here, of course, is also that the voices are not really supposed to be part of the story. no choices

by definition, are working behind closed doors to deliver the prime minister's priorities. the difficulty that dominic cummings has had is he's become so high profile that he almost is the story. he dominated is the political profile image of the government almost beyond any other minister, including the prime minister, and that's not really sustainable in the long term. so not since i think his position became unsustainable as growing outrage in bell or suffer the death of an addict of the protest at 31 year old roman on that anchor died on wednesday in the capital. minsk. witnesses say, had been detained and beaten by security forces. the interior ministry has denied responsibility here opinion has threatened further sanctions. shelling between indian and pakistani troops has killed 9 people on both sides of the disputed region of kashmir. these are the moments after the bombs dropped on pakistan administered kashmir. india and pakistan are accusing each other of violating the

longstanding ceasefire. aid organizations are warning of an unfolding crisis on west africa's atlanta coast, with a record number of migrants trying to make it to europe. last weekend, more than 2600 migrants arrived on the shores of spain's canary islands. reports from the fishing town of bor in senegal. and many young men are looking for a better life. on his journey to europe, shake him back a sensed there would be obstacles. there were 200 people on board, a fishing boat packed like sardines, when the engine exploded. mobile phone footage shows the boat catching fire off the coast of senegal with fishermen trying to rescue those they could. and buckets of people burnt alive. sitting next to him was a 14 year old boy who drowned as other clung to him in panic. the boy that died and i lived for the same reason,

no schools to go to him to your fish. there are no jobs, no work in europe. at least there is hope, the father of the dead due to fire. he has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter for sending his son to europe. among the dead was also 29 year old metal worker, a newlywed game. he heard that aging europeans dying a coronavirus were leaving jobs vacant for young african men to take a false rumor. his morning father explains, he warned his son not to pay the $800.00 to the traffickers. for those wanting to go don't go. i have succeeded in my life here without having to, leave, don't be impatient or tempted by in the fishing town of m., bor, europe appears to be so close with so many tourists who come and go as they wish. but africans are unable to travel with such ease, even legally explains migrant rights activist suffocating. many here consider

a synagogue in a prison for europeans barricade themselves, closing their borders to african countries. at the same time, to open markets and borders to them. while some 570 s. have died this year trying to make it to europe almost $1600.00 mostly west africans arrived in spain, canary islands, just last year. in the distance is the house belonging to a family who has migrated to europe and has running water electricity. the internet and here is the construction of another home funded by a migrant that has settled to the united states, compare this to the homes behind that have hardly any electricity or water with that visible difference in wealth with those families that have a relative abroad and those that haven't, that is pushing so many families and parents to send their children on boats to europe despite the risks. despite his ordeal shake him back. he has the blessing of

his parents to attempt the crossing again, fleeing war or poverty. but in search of a different life, a sense of being worthy to his family and to himself. ceremonies have been held to mock 5 years since the past attacks which killed $130.00 people. fan of a street comes amid a string of recent attacks and vigorous debate about social divisions. 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 and later the rector of paris's grand mosque and muslim community leaders also laid a wreath more than 130 people were killed in the city by supporters of i saw

shot at cafe terraces in the street, and the batek, and called simple 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 damn girl 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. like a volcano that's been sleeping inside me, but suddenly wakes up 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 and dozens of attacks in the country. field police officers, a teacher present, a man all not process 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 a death, not religion. it is not about islam. it is about the ideology of a death cult, what the terrorist 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 that 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. after 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 answers,

but it's unlikely to heal deep rooms or end divisions with tasha butler al-jazeera paris. more protests are expected in peru, agha turned into violence in lima this week after the former president was asked her by parliament. but on a sanchez has more from lima, violence in the streets of central lima, riot police, protecting parliament. and the presidential palace fired tear gas. protesters attacked them with rocks. protesters say police fired rubber bullets. some of them were wounded. protesters filled streets and classes around the country. many of them university students. they say they're fed up with corrupt lawmakers. more than half of the $130.00 congressmen, face criminal investigations from homicide to fraud, to money laundering among other alleged crimes. but lawmakers accuse former

president of corruption and say he's so-called moral incapacity means he had to leave office more. we cannot allow them to trample us. they've taken the government unconstitutional and we can only make them react with our protest. was the protesters insist lawmakers perpetrated a coup d'etat b. or who in fact, we've witnessed the kidnapping of our democracy. the congressmen have committed treason during one of the worst moments of our history. thanks. as the crisis deepened, human rights watch says, the rule of law is under threat. the organization of american states said the constitutional tribe, you know, must confirm the impeachment was legal. the former president, this gotta cast doubt over the decision, echoing protesters right here in my music and feel far as have a problem of legality and legitimacy. those backing the interim government continue

to defend its legitimacy. it's not a coincidence, not unconstitutional impeachment, in the strictly constitutional point of view is not meant to incapacity. as many argue it's moral incapacity. it is an absolutely legitimate decision. next week that constitutional court will clarify what moral incapacity means. but even if it fever's be scarry, he will not be affected by the recent lucian, because the court's decisions are not ritual active. and well, that decision me explain if lawmakers did wrong or not, it may not be enough to quell the anger in the streets of the country. but in a, such as, i'll just be to hundreds of drawings of lit up, the sky of south korea, forming colorful messages of hope. during the pandemic. they flew over the olympic park in seoul and forms dotted patterns where your masks wash your hands and cheer up with some of the messages. in turkmenistan,

a rather unusual statue is beyond veiled, allowed to call the sculpture of the country's beloved dog. now it looks one of the capital's busiest roads. it's accompanied by a screen that shows the central asian ship a dog in action. the statue joins another one in a junction nearby of the president, seated on a horse. watching al-jazeera reminds now of our top stories, thousands of people pouring across ethiopia's border into saddam to escape fighting between the ethiopian army and great regional forces. the federal government has 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. it comes as more republicans break ranks with donald trump over his refusal to cooperate with president elect joe biden.