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back to our molly crabapple, meet pomade. then if you obey the market for 30 years, you begin to believe it has power over the last few years beyond great deeds on al-jazeera. 'd jordi room do not want the status quo. just talks aimed at ending the conflict in libya, have finished without agreement on a unity government. money inside this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, the conflict in northern ethiopia spills into neighboring ever train and sends 20000 people fleeing to sudan celebrations and prayers. the interim president quits after less than
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a week in the job. u.s. president donald trump, appears to acknowledge for the 1st time that joe biden has won the white house, but insists he won't concede. the un's acting envoy to libya says she's pleased with the outcome of talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of violence in libya. despite rival factions being unable to reach an agreement on who will lead the country through the transitional period, a both sides have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. their delegates failed to agree on the makeup of an interim government until then. the majority in the room do not want the status quo. this is not an acceptable alternative. it is not sustainable. everybody recognizes that the hard summer that
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many libyans just passed through with no electricity and very little water and all the other hardships and, and the pandemic really, i think, was a wake up call for. let's go to our correspondent harriet tears in tunis. clare, what do you make of the outcome of these talks? are they disappointing? i think from the point if you're of the united nations and the special envoy there, stephanie williams there for sizing. what's been achieved from the talks. so the major headline from this week was the elections the day that's been set for that. the 24th of december 2021 though they were obviously very optimistic about that. stephanie williams was absolutely thrilled about that date. her predecessor ghassan salami who resigned in march, stating stress and exasperate she at the international community is what he described as a lack of support. he has said,
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this is the most optimistic he's been in libya. sources are telling us that there is an element of skepticism about whether those elections will actually take place on december 24th 2021. but that's the date that's what they're working towards. and they have to him said in the week you would solve all the problems of the country if a decade of war. and a week's talks, achiness be. if you don't try to solve some of the problems, you're never going to get anywhere and achieve a fair to the state to score being in total. the status quo equals deterioration. still so said in that press conference that's still going on in tunis that the political class there or notis. she just said that the libyans have expressed in the political class. she said that they've, the clips of classes are like political, dana, sars who frankly, will have the same fate as the as the actual dinosaurs that was quite strong words
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there from, from a diplomat. but in terms of what hasn't been achieved, told the delegates have been unable to name the individuals that they want to take on the postes of the interim government to last for the next 13 months until those elections, $11.00 hopes will take place on the 24th december of next year, so it's posts like the prime minister, deputy prime minister to post a deputy prime minister. but other key positions on the deputy prime minister post . there was a press statement this afternoon and we have stated again in the press conference to stay from stephanie williams that the women in the grip have demanded that one of those positions of deputy prime minister be attributed to a women. and there's also mention there at a quarter of ministerial positions of 30 percent. so the special envoy described tens of discussions as you would expect after a decade of war, a political discussion on what the interim government and what
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institutions will be. and while there might be disagreement on what living people who are institutionally speaking, i think living people want people everywhere want, which is good governance stable institutions and a peaceful society. and i think that's what 6700000 with a 1000000 people and but gratefully expect to have many thanks for that. claire harriet, there for us in tunis to the conflict now in ethiopia, which is not only escalating but expanding across borders, threatening to destabilize the horn of africa. the leader of the t.p.a. left, a group in the northern states, has confirmed his forces fired rockets across the border, hitting the eritrean capital. he's threatened, threatening to carry out more attacks on its own. however, those who attacked you great will not just attack and return home. we will retaliate while they are here and strike the airports from which they launched
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attacks. there is no place that we can't reach and we will continue to attack selected targets that the invading forces are using against us. after 12 days, the tea p.l.f. is now fighting on 2 fronts. against both the ever trian and ethiopian government troops, prime minister ahmed hasn't commented on whether he's getting help saying only that his country is capable of fighting by itself. well, so far, at least 20000 people have fled, the violence crossing into sudan masochism ethnic press. funning, have been reported in 1st city, p.l.s. and said, will troops are atrocities in the cities in northern ethiopia. with more on what ever traces attentional involvement could mean? this takes the conflict to a whole new level. it has spilled across the borders of ethiopia, and now another country trail is about to be sucked in.
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if you would go with the version that european governments are giving right now, but the t.p. alive how you most of the past week maintained that they have been fighting the visions of eritreans army on the ground on to korean regional soil. and they're saying eritrea was involved in the fighting from the onset. of course, this is something that's been refuted by the advice of a government and also as matter with prime minister saying that they have enough capability to fight the operation on their own. but what we know is that the missiles landed in a smarter as well as the long great long held grievances by science of work against the 2 people of leadership. and now to put a smaller or a war. of course, there is that issue of the border between eritrea and ethiopia,
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which is also not democratized. and the un border commission had ruled the flashpoint town of but me to give in to eritrea. something prime minister is willing to do, but the area is currently administered by the current g.p.l. of administration of governance. and i support, it definitely has an axe to grind without administration to see that he gets what he wants in terms of the border. he wants for a trade. meanwhile, government have killed at least $34.00 people during an attack on a passenger bus in western ethiopia. it's part of the country where civilians are regularly targeted as but no indication of who is responsible or if it is linked to the escalating crisis in the north. more now on how the conflict is pushing huge numbers of refugees into sudan. morgan has more from the border. hundreds of refugees continue to arrive here at the border reception center. now
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the center is just about 2 kilometers away from the sudan. if you appear border in sudan and hundreds of refugees have been pouring in. here in 200, a perception center with the number reaching up to 90000, just over the past few days alone. now most of them live in conditions like this out in the open with no shelter and no proper sanitation. and this is raising concerns among aid organizations here, especially medics. that this would create a health crisis. medics say that most of the people who are right suffer from chest infections as well as malaria and factions. due to exhaustion from traveling for days, skipping the fighting in the tigra region, most of the refugees were spoken to speak of the same horror. saying that they have seen people being slaughtered, that they've seen aerial bombardment, which is made them fear for their lives and leave here to sudan seeking safety and seeking humanitarian aid. now, medics say that they are quite concerned about the number of refugees and the influx. they say that they're expecting more than $1000.00 over the coming days,
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and that's just here. and it's what a reception center sudan says that it's expecting a total of up to $200000.00 in the coming week between here in kosovo state and out of state with both border if european and it's calling out for the international aid organizations to help respond to what it's calling is turning out to be a refugee crisis. well, it's your peers military said to be getting drones from the united arab emirates for use in the region offensive. the associated press is quoting, a spokesman from the people's liberation front, who say the drones are being flown in from a sob in eritrea. however, he provided no evidence of this. the u.a.e. hasn't come commented on the report. genome attorney is deputy director of the africa program at the international crisis group. he says the u.a.e. does have assets in the region. the u.a.e. has, has been using the ports of us on the air tran, coast or its campaign in yemen. although these of us
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state of the conflict there has also wound down the u.a.e. has also, you know, importance to the man's employer in the reports, mortgage, ethiopia, and eritrea, which was ignored by president moroccan military forces say they've responded to an attack from a group which wants independence for the disputed western sahara there, but no reports of any casualties, but the air france says it's mobilizing thousands of volunteers. morocco began a military operation on friday to reopen a key highway, which it said was blocked by the front. despite a longstanding ceasefire. tensions have increased recently have been scenes of jubilation in peru after interim president manual mariano announce.
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he's resigning after just 5 days in the job. he had been under mounting pressure to stand down after replacing martin biscardi who was impeached. congress called an emergency meeting after 2 students died during anti-government protests. lawmakers called on marino to quit or face impeachment himself. but you know, the earth would, i mean, it is global. she ended up with some days ago, i was sworn in as president of the republic to lead a transition government with a constitutional mandate. we've been patient of the president some days ago and met the president of the congress. how to take on the highest position in our country. and i did it responsibly with humility and on a perino has resigned because he's hands a stained with blood with the blood of our children. they have to pay the 105 congress members who are complicit in the deaths of our children. we demand train
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quality. we demand transparency, justice for all people. as for the resignation, there's no love lost mariana sanchez, his life rests in lima. marina gone after, not even one week in power, a lot of political upheaval going on and very that's right. molina and it's kind of a mutiny really happening in the streets of the country, not only of lima, which is the capital, but in different towns in different districts, in lima, and all around the country. the main cities in small towns around the country from the south to the north. people putting a lot of pressure on maybe not for his resignation. and it's been certainly not even a week, but a very difficult week for many. there's been a lot of protests that have most of the, most of the protests have been peaceful, but there's been a lot of clashes, a lot of violence,
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a lot of clashes with riot police. and we have seen a lot of police in plain clothes arresting people, which is something completely legal right now. human rights organizations are saying here in peru and, and several congressmen are after this there are at least $4041.00 people that have that are unaccounted for. so we have to know what happened to them, but what really made the change was the deaths of these 2 young students last night that triggered the media, the resignation, one after another, members of the cabinet. and of course, today there was no option for me to resign. so what now for took us through the next steps for the country to get another new president. well, a new inter congress president has been named. this is
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a woman. you see a lot of this, the one from the broad front of fuel is a left wing party. that left wing party voted in favor of, of the impeachment, but she didn't. now they're being very careful on who they choose because the people are out waiting to see who are going to be directing things in congress. she is the one who's now in charge of making the list of candidates for the designation of the new congress president who will in turn be sworn in as peru's new interim president, we still don't know if that will happen in the next few hours. legislators usually drag their feet for these things, but i think there must and they will probably do this as fast as they can because there's a lot of pressure from people who are outside the premises of congress and the center of lima near the presidential palace, thousands of people waiting,
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marching and waiting for what will would, what will happen in the next few hours here in the country. and finally decide who this next interim president will be in peru. many thanks for that mariana sanchez there for us live from the capital lima. the 1st time u.s. president donald trump, appears to have publicly knowledge that joe biden won the election. he tweeted earlier saying that trump also reiterated that he won't concede, repeating his unsubstantiated claims about those who forward. his team is pushing ahead with lawsuits in battleground states. those several lawsuits have now been thrown out of court. where joe biden's, chief of staff, is edging republican leaders to accept what has happened. he has not spoke with
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senator mcconnell about anything yet. we're hoping that senator mcconnell will accept the reality that is just the reality. joe biden won this election, come a harris win this election. and i think it's time for leaders in both parties to get to business of this transition to get to business of working together to start to plan out a legislative agenda for next year. as far as palaces going down in washington. i mean, he is now finally acknowledging that biden has won, but he's not conceding to have lost the election. well, it's sort of like he isn't. he isn't, you know, he said biden won because the whole thing was rigged and corrupted. and then he said he'd never concede anything. it's all a big fraud. so nobody really knows what's going on in president trump's head. but i'm kind of reminded of the famous swiss psychiatry's the lives of the
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ross who denominated 5 stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. that's sure the prison terms ever going to get to do acceptance. but he seems to have gone through several of those stages so far. and so it's a, it's a work in progress, i guess, at the white house. meanwhile, with 11011000000 cases of 19 in the united states, according to the johns hopkins university statisticians who study these things. there is a great deal of pressure from president elect biden's team on the administration to get busy with the transition. they say that there's a vaccine out there, there's, there they are making plans at the current agencies
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under the trump administration and what to do and how to distribute it and who gets it 1st and all these sorts of things. and the biden people want to be involved in that one of the co-chairs of biden's covert task force said earlier today that they're ruling out a total nationwide lockdown. he said that that was sort of the response in the spring, but we've learned a lot more now about the virus and he compared it to sort of a dimmer switch, you know, using some areas to put them under more strict rulings and other areas to give more relative freedom, but it's the case that several states, including oregon, new mexico and the state of washington have imposed some pretty stringent new guidelines and restrictions on businesses and social gatherings as the number of positive cases and the number of deaths unfortunately continues to rise. meanwhile,
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congress will be back in session in what's called the lame duck session on monday. and there is some intense pressure, again, from democrats to get republicans to put in turn pressure on president trump, to admit that he lost and get on with the transition. and they also want the senate leader, the republican leader, mitch mcconnell, to really get serious about passing some kind of relief and repair and a stimulus bill. large amounts of money to be sent to the states, the cities and to help people who have lost their jobs. still very many millions of people who are out of work there. the aid that was passed earlier this year as run out 8000000, people have sunk into poverty since the beginning of the rotavirus pandemic in this country. so there will be pressure on mcconnell to start coming to the
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bargaining table and start doing something about this. and finally, the president's own former national security advisor, john bolton, with whom he had a falling out said today that the president is not doing the the is doing harm to the nation by refusing to accept defeat and sowing these sorts of stab in the back. theories which will probably persist among president trumps legion of admirers, long after president biden is sworn in as the next president on january 20th or 2021. many, thanks for that, rob reynolds there for us in los angeles. i mean, ian's living in politics, nicola catabolic have been given 10 more days to leave before land is given back to azerbaijan, the transfer as possible deal to end fighting in the disputed region. the district
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of kabul is among the 1st areas to be handed over. some people torched their homes as they left anger is simmering in armenia, about a peace deal. many see as a betrayal. several people have been killed and injured in the disputed region of kashmir during fighting between indian and pakistani troops by sides accuse each other of launching unprovoked attacks and violating a longstanding ceasefire. lee harding ports. it's been days since artillery shells dropped on this village in pakistan. administered kashmir, indian administered kashmir was also targeted. these people have returned to what's left of their homes to salvage what they can little shooting all you like, puddle, but all we faced, immense loss. my life saving was destroyed. all my belongings were burnt. i'm just left with the clothes that i'm wearing. i had saved some money, but that was going to. as they clear the rubble, many are angry. their father was going to see what did they achieve by killing us.
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we the army. what we have done to them, we are living a poor life here. what did they do this to us? our children are without a roof, no cross border fighting between indian and pakistani troops intensified last week leading to one of the biggest artillery battles between the 2 sides in recent months. go to her good luck. dozens of people have also been killed in the disputed kashmir region. this father of 5 lost his wife in the shelling. blood was everywhere in the room. i buried my wife and 11 econet. india and pakistan were exchanging fire until 6 pm. we are poor people and what have we done? the authorities should take us to a safer place. pakistan's military said india fired 1st, forcing it to respond. but indian officials say pakistan fired a barrage of mortars along the line of control after indian soldiers blocked their
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attempt to cross the defacto border. with the human rights organization should take note of the killings of civilians and the damage caused to civilian properties . in the intense shelling by pakistan on saturday, pakistan said it had evidence that india was sponsoring rebel groups on its soil. a claim india has always denied the evidence, is presented by pakistan, provide concrete proof of a new find and matutinal sponsorship of multiple terrorist organizations, including the u.n. does it did, did. did pakistan have summoned a senior indian diplomat to protest against what it called india's latest violation of a 2003 cease fire agreement? india responded by doing the same citing unprovoked ceasefire violations by pakistani forces. kashmir is claimed by both india and pakistan. each side has
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controlled part of the region since the end of the british rule in 1947. but tensions have escalated since february last year. many in kashmir, say they are now paying the heaviest price of the conflict and can only pray that changes. we're hard in al-jazeera. more than $30.00 refugees and migrants have been rescued off to their boat capsized in the mediterranean. emergency crews were seen throwing life jackets to people in the water. these halim coast guard found the group off the island of lampedusa. thousands of people have died this year while attempting the dangerous sea voyage to europe. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has gone into self isolation off to coming into contact with someone who's been infected with copd 19. his office says he's feeling fine and will continue working from downing street. johnson fell ill with the virus back
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in april when he spent several days in intensive care. techie's president says he favors a permanent 2 state division of cyprus. he's been visiting the turkish backed northern part of the aren't, which attempt at a one strip was decried as a provocation by the greek speaking south. cyprus has been split since turkey's $974.00 invasion. president visited on the 37th anniversary of the self-proclaimed turkish republic of northern cyprus, which is only recognized by ankara, also mention maritime tensions with grace in the eastern mediterranean. love. the greeks are, does not want to share the wealth with the current owners of the island, the cypriot turks, and the police say it that is wider, trying to avoid, to sit down with them about the hydrocarbon sources as to guard her countrymen. if there we nor do turkish republic of northern cyprus can tolerate diplomacy,
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games anymore, votes being counted after moldova's presidential runoff. the election is viewed as a choice between closer relations with russia or the european union. sonia guy, a go reports, pose that the standoff between people, exercising their right to vote, and those fearing the system is being cheated. this is vital, it's a border town linking moldova, to the south, declared on recognized republic of trends in istria fiercely pro russian and clave strongly supportive of the pro moscow incumbent president because it's not on here . it is a battle for hearts and minds between moldova and russia, in this state, which between romania and ukraine, an area known for contraband trade. but tensions have often been difficult to contain. and it's been exacerbated by years of political instability and corruption
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. this is the problem. all weak institutions doesn't fall of the rule. this super cold is applied in the election where every vote counts what international observers are most worried about is the stress of manipulated voting. and here on the board of transnistria is where they are most concerned about issues. on top of all the issues facing mulled over a bitter divisive political landscape has marred any possibility for progress. regional power brusha has thrown its weight behind. he called it on his abrasive manner and populist touch. have found favor with his base, your core. some of them are selling misleading. the rest 500 would prefer to justice for a developed economy. i voted for the use for what makes us stronger christian
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values. but not everyone is convinced remaining within moscow's sphere of influence is the country's benefit. the dog was caught out by his pro-west, an opponent of the 1st round miers sundog. she says she wants to tackle corruption in a country that has been rocked by political instability and a $1000000000.00 bank fraud scheme that saw the a privilege of 50 percent of moldova's g.d.p. disappear. currently, more than a 1000000 moldovans live or work abroad, a lack of opportunities of one of europe's poorest nations means that remittances are currently propping up the economy. many moldovans living abroad, mostly in western countries, more affinity with sunday's vision. and this year, double the amount of voted since the previous election in 2016, the whole dog came. and just because they know that this is their duty and no matter how far away from their homes,
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their participation makes the this is an election where the country will decide whether it will stick with the status quo or not. for russia, mass protests against its allies in belarus and kyrgyzstan is another post soviet country that is a crossroads with many watching which direction it will take. so that i go out, jazeera kisha. now this is al-jazeera. these are the top stories. the un's acting envoy to libya says she's pleased with the outcome of talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of violence in libya. that's despite rival factions being unable to reach an agreement.
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