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neutral, and all of these cases here is to terrorize it gives the other part of this. there's no consequence. this stream on out is the the fear of his military launches asterix needed to graze capital after a deadline passed for the rebels to put down. all hello, i'm adrian for the get. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up anger on the streets of bangkok. protesters are once again hit with water cannons. as police try to stop anti-government demonstrations. chiz in peru as a former world bank officials chose to become the 3rd president in
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a week amid a serious political crisis. and saudi arabia has bought $17000000000.00 worth of alms from g. 20 nations since 2015. when look into the oxfam ripples we begin though with a situation in northern ethiopia, where gray rebels have refused to give in to the government. 3 days ago, prime minister had issued an ultimatum to stand down or face war attacks. on tuesday he delivered on that threat. the air force says that it carried out the strikes to the region's main city of the. it's the primary base for the tea, great people's liberation front told pti p.l.f. which governs the prime minister. i'll be all bad, says the attacks will continue until the tea p.l.f. is brought to justice and its leaders are replaced. the un and foreign leaders
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calls for mediation, a request which has been largely ignored by both sides. the government deployed extra troops on monday, and it's more soldiers move in the living that i'll sleeping in troops. an estimated $25000.00 have crossed the border into neighboring sudan. just released yet. but since you know, when it's yourself and other service providers. and you can watch al-jazeera spotted out a report now from fish in ethiopia. the government forces have their eyes on mckellen a couple of but security generals, they say they've been cutting out of place on the outskirts of this couple of the to carry legion and secure tickets. also tell us about the next 48 hours will be
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really crucial in this fight. if european security forces cut out the market pronged hot on mckenna to cut the call off, the credit goes to great people a bit better. some functions putting on has lost some tums of close of 100 columns of a couple told and, but they're cleaning, cleaning for most of the past one off week. government forces and have been prime minister to use false. it's something that has been outside of the government, another suburb, but they say they're sure that they're out. 16 positions from at a train, fighting alongside prime minister forces not implants as in the fellow at the university of london and an orphan specialist on the horn of africa. he says that
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despite the government's strong ministry, the t. p.l.f. could find for a long time. look. 'd now depends on what unfolds on the battlefield. if the, the eritreans really have 16 divisions all along the northern border and the federal forces are attacking from the south that you, grans could lose a great deal of the land and they might even lose cities. what people forget about this is that this is not a battle about cities about area and about of land. it's a battle about grit and determination. and you know that in that sense, the 2 grains have a much stronger hand than it would appear. because although they are isolated at the moment, they can easily go into the hills and into the mountains. they fought for 20 years from those mountains and they could do it again. the 2 grands, basically believe in corella warfare, not conventional warfare,
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which is the warfare they fighting right now. and, but if they lose the conventional war, they will return to the guerrilla war. and then they are in a much more powerful position. and prime minister abu situation will become much more difficult. at least 80 people were killed and dozens injured when the engine of a post exploded in the north atlantic. it happened there kept bird of the western coast of africa around $150.00, people before to be on the boats, mainly from senegal and gambia. it was said to be making its way to the spanish canary islands. police in thailand have used water cannons to disperse anti-government demonstrators in bangkok, protests calling for the resignation of private a surprise. chacha have been ongoing since july. the demonstrates to say the constitution drafted on the ministry room is illegitimate, and also demanding a reform of the country's monarchy. supporters of thailand's royal family has
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a separate rally. backing the king. hundreds of royalists marched to the parliament in bangkok to mounting the preservation of the mox role in the country. let's go live to the bangkok, al-jazeera scott heide, latest escort. what's the situation there? how the hallways are? we are right outside of parliament. and as you mentioned, those hundreds of the royalist the yellow shirts, the call did march here earlier in the day. and still a lot of them remain here, at least in the last hour or so. they were still here, though, why we're here in front of our house, because today is the 1st day of 2 days where they're going to read potential drafts for amendments to the constitution. again, as you mentioned, it's a very sensitive issue for the antic of the protesters bay want to own it changed out pretty much, got it, and rewritten. the royalist, those yellow shirts, and other members of parliament in between groups of members of parliament in between. what different changes so that's we're seeing we're seeing the 1st reading of these potential 7 crafts. we're not sure if parliament's going to push them all
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forward to the 2nd reading. that's why a lot of these protests out here today. that's why they started to stage earlier in the day, is they're worried if their draft, the draft, they're backing with the deepest changes to the constitution would not move forward again. we saw another day of that meeting, but what's interesting agent. so part of it is just off to my right. i would say it's about 20 meters away. the law is the protesters weren't allowed to come within 50 meters and they had because the police over here at least on this side, had a very fortified barricade along with 2 or 3 lines of riot police and water cannon there. and they were there for hours and there, but there are a lot of confrontations, tear gas water cannons were used with that kind of the waste water. and then all of a sudden, i'd say within the last hour and 15 minutes, the police completely retreated, completely, retreated down that street. that's when the protesters came in and what we saw, what we haven't seen yet in these months of protests and what we saw within the last hour and 15 minutes is
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a direct confrontation between those who support the royalists and these anti-government protesters. and that's the spark that has been a concern of both sides of this protest movement as well as the government, as well as the police. that is the 1st time we've seen a lot believe it didn't last that long. there were bottles thrown, there is a little bit of debris, bricks thrown back and forth, but luckily it didn't last that long. but that is the main concern adrian moving forward. is that the 2 sides of this divide? if you will, will meet in by the confrontation, we saw the flare up a little bit. but right now, as we've seen with a lot of these protesters over the last several months, once you see this a bit of competition with the police retreat, it turns into a bit of a night market and speeches. and that's what we are right now. and again, i need to mention they are now the anti-government protesters who are now occupying the street in front of parliament, even as the reading of these amendments to the constitution is ongoing. ok, so it's that, that the anti-government protests right now where the royalists where, thank god. the royal us are just down the street and we came in
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that direction. i'd say about 2 hours ago. i would say again about a 1000 people and they had been there for a while because they came much earlier in the day, much earlier than anti-government protests. they were still there. they had knots on the ground and there were people eating almost like a picnic atmosphere that they, i think now they have probably retreated. we saw both sides kind of retreat from this choke point if you will. because i guess leadership on both sides and they can protesters and those wireless rally, or as the leaders kind of pushed those aggressive people back and that kind of faded away now, right now i'm not sure if they've gone deeper in, but it didn't look like they're going to stay that much longer because they have been here all day. but again, though, the main point is, is that there was this direct confrontation. and even though you know, a point that needs to be made and it's needs to be questioned, why the police and this is the one point where both sides were going to standoff why the police retreated and left no presence there. and just went straight down that street over there and now and think about protesters completely occupied the street in front of parliament. and it's come many thanks. i was there,
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a scot hides a reporting live from bangkok, peru's parliament has chosen former world bank official francisco sagacity. as the new interim president, he's the nation's 3rd leader in a week. it follows days of political turmoil, not on a sanchez reports now from lima. legislators finally agreed to seal the power vacuum. they selected 76 year old, francisco sas, the hospital's congress president, and the such, the country's new interim president, he immediately addressed the political crisis. you know his family really wondering what we are seeing on the streets now is the anger that we must recognize, accept and channel through peaceful means to help prosper as a country have a day before he sworn in. the signaled the new government will listen to the concerns of young peruvians. the noise today is not
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a day of celebration because we've seen the deaths of 2 young protesters who expressed a point of view democratically and practically without violence. we cannot bring them back to life, but we can from congress, take measures in order for this not to happen again. but i am being died of metal pellet wounds on monday in these family and friends gave him a traditional for will with andy and music downloads and tears. this will be no, no made. my nephew doesn't deserve to be there. lying in a coffin, he was a young student working to pay for his studies. we are in terrible pain. he died defending the nation. the attorney general has opened a preliminary investigation against him and will maybe know his former cabinet chief and interior minister for homicide. and force disappearance and abuse of power. well, i can assure you that these deaths will not go unpunished. this election may begin
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to diffuse a week of political upheaval. a precedent was impeached, and another ousted after only 5 days in office. however, it is not guaranteed to be the end of the political crisis. they do has a new government, a none of its members have a criminal investigations pending. but these protests and the millions of their sympathizers at home. now know they can fight the political class and to win, i guess i'm just, i'll just look at a weather update next here on al-jazeera than the most powerful atlantic storm this year. hits central america aid agencies describing catastrophic damage. and i was on the job, close to the border with nagorno-karabakh, and i'll tell you how land mines are being cleared by other with joining forces for civilian skin, moving heavy
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rain pushing towards northeastern parts of china towards the korean peninsula. cloud. a rolling through his some heavy downpours and that wetter weather that'll make its way across north korea. eventually sliding down into south korea on the back edge of that. some very heavy snowfall for some continues to make its way further east, which is we go on through thursday. there's that western weather that line of heavy downpours with some thunder. pushing down to central parts of china. still on the warm side in shanghai, around 23 degrees, but turning increasingly wet over the next couple days. make the most of that fine . dry weather that we have into japan. because the rains on this way there for you to see as we head towards the weekend, plenty of rain, it's a southern parts of india. meanwhile, sri lanka, still seeing some rather heavy showers. the central and northern parts of india. it is fine and dry and it will stay that way as we go on through the next day or so.
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the west, the weather will continue just around others, but there may be pushing down towards tumble, not a not quite as wet as it has been recently, but still some showers longer spells of rain around here and sri lanka. still seeing some larvae down polls from time to time, but some sunshine in between. now i just say we have got some colder and whether it's and more than possible. i cannot lock my phone with my face. you can access your bank account with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification. the biometrics are far from perfect a convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cost. most crucially, our privacy. in the fall from a far far series, i mean radio addresses the appropriation of our most personal characteristics. all hail the algorithm on
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a 0. 0 old well, again, this is officer and that's for much of the main news. this is and force says that it's carried out strikes to the main city of the t grey region. the prime minister said the 3 day i'll to meet some given to tikrit forces to surrender is now about tens of thousands of anti-government. protesters are rallying in the thai capital, bangkok they're calling on the prime minister to resign and they want reforms to the monarchy. skeleton strace was held in support of the king and peruse parliament has chosen the former world bank official francisco sagacity. as the new interim president, he's the nation's 3rd leader in
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a week from his days of political head of nato, as warned against the removal of u.s. forces from afghanistan too quickly, reports suggest that the trumpet ministration is looking to haul off the number of plus. now by january, that would leave around 2 and a half 1000 troops in afghanistan. and that also be a reduction in iraq. for that decision has prompted an angry push back by some cdn members of trump's republican party. a rapid withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan now would hurt our allies and the light the light. the people who wish us harm violence affecting afghans are still rampant. the taliban is not about him by the conditions of the so-called. peace deal. the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than president obama's withdrawal from iraq back in 2011, which fueled the raj of isis and
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a new round of global terrorism. iran says that any attack on a stupid facilities would face a crushing response. that's following a report from the u.s. that president trump was seeking options to attack a nuclear site is set to decided against it, or the sanctions remain on the table. and the trumpet ministration is also reportedly planning to designate hemp yemen's could the rebels a terrorist organization. a foreign policy provocation says that it's another initiative in the works before joe biden takes of engender a diplomatic sources. worried that the move will disrupt international aid and u.s. peace efforts. james dorsey is from the national university of singapore as middle east institute. he believes the trump is looking for some last minute victories to cement his time in office. i think what you're seeing is that the last the next 2 months as his legacy, with other words, a legacy that will allow him to exit with successes in his my rather than whining
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over a last election and successes that we could help him were he to decide to run for another presidential term in 2024. i think there are a number of things which he may do, which are going to be difficult for joe biden. so if he were to entertain an attack on iran that would complicate a return to negotiations with iran and the nuclear cord. similarly, we have to see what kind of sanctions he is likely to still impose on iran. in one of the last rounds, for example, those sanctions were imposed not as part of the maximum pressure with regard to the nuclear core but of counterterrorism sanctions. and that makes them much more harder to, to, to rescind. so if its goal is as much his own legacy as it is trying to limit what biden can and cannot do. so as you've been hearing the top
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administration then might be looking to seal some final foreign policy victories before leaving office. one of them to be a diplomatic push to resolve the blockade of under schapelle reports. the secretary of state is back in the region to drum up support for normalization deals between israel and some arab states. increase pressure on iran and make some headway in talks to end the blockade of cattle. like pompei, it was doing doha and riyadh in the days ahead. this is u.s. cattery and saudi officials have signaled in recent weeks that a breakthrough may be near. on monday, u.s. national security adviser, robert o'brian added to speculation, telling the global security forum hosted in part by katter, that an air bridge may be on the table, allowing qatar airways to fly over saudi and bahraini airspace. so we'd like to get that repsol measure color air had, was it because it was able to fly over saudi air space or bahrain airspace is an important 1st step in solving that ref. i'd like to see that get done before it. if
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we end up leaving office, qatar's foreign minister says the blockade which has dragged into a 4th year has no winner. everyone is losing. we are hopeful that this i think, moment and what we need to lie now is to have a serious engagement in a good faith with the other countries. and this is what but that i was prepared to do a monarchy. and so it is accused of supporting terrorism, which they say to anybody who talks to anybody in the muslim brotherhood or allows free elections was hooked up to it in iran and the saudis number that is really have discredited themselves quite a bit. and it's surprising that they haven't found a face saving way to end this blockade, but let's hope this, this maybe it, the u.a.e. may be a spoiler for any proposed agreement. as a brian was speaking of
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a resolution to the gulf crisis being a priority for the trumpet ministration. the us ambassador to washington was saying otherwise would look at that rift. i don't think it's going to get resolved anytime soon. it's a small problem. it's not really being addressed, not on anyone's, you know, priority list right now. but the u.a.e. and other blockading countries are under pressure. the u.s. things better relations between the gulf countries will help its policy of isolating iran. and they face accusations by a un special wrapper to work that the measures imposed on cats are, are a violation of fundamental rights aimed at limiting freedom of expression, movement and trade. and are schapelle al-jazeera. america's top diplomat is in turkey as part of his tour of the middle east and europe, but will not be meeting any of turkey's politicians or officials. he's spending the day in talks with religious leaders in istanbul is also set to visit georgia, israel and
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a number of gulf countries oxfam says the g 20 member states of sold $17000000000.00 worth of arms to saudi arabia, since it intervened in yemen's war in 2015. a report by the charity says that's 3 times the amount that's going to yemen in aid. the report's been released as g 20 leaders prepare to meet virtually this week for a summit hosted by saudi arabia. members of the u.k.'s parliamentary hearing testimony from human rights groups about detentions in saudi arabia, including those 2 senior princes and rights activists. they're investigating the whereabouts delegations of abuse by saudi arabia of these high profile detainees, including some king solomon's brother and former crown prince mohammed bin nayef, paul brennan, reports from london. i think the timing is actually mainly because of the g. 20 summit that's taking place in riyadh in just 5 days from now, november 21st to the 22nd. and i mind my reading of it. it's to coincide with that
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because it's not an official parliamentary committee. nevertheless, it's been chaired by a conservative m.p. crispin blunt and that were in this zoom meeting that he's convened. there were human rights activists, people from human rights watch discussing what the situation is and shining, a light on the situation in saudi arabia. and we heard from flu, who's the sister of jane, a hospital this woman very famous around the world for campaigning, for the women's rights to drive in saudi arabia who's been in prison in saudi arabia since 2018. and who, according to the family, has been tortured while she's been in custody. there. that clamp down is exactly what these activists are saying. needs to be looked at more closely in particular in the light of the g. 20 being that what they're essentially saying. if i can sum it up, is that saudi arabia presents to the outside world, a kind of whitewashed presentation of what the situation is like in the kingdom and
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the image of the kingdom to the outside world, while internally and gauging in repression. and sort of, you know, the lack of proper penal code and judicial process. 3 decades before the current conflict, nagorno-karabakh was mired in another war. it left a dead deadly legacy. as a by john estimates that 14000 square kilometers in and around the region are contaminated with mines and unexploded munitions. they pose a serious danger to civilians and to the crews tasked with clearing the sites. and some of the german reports now from tartar near the border, come about the real bomb. a dog is a veteran of the car about war. now, his son fights on the front lines in the latest crisis between armenia and azerbaijan has destroyed his home in 1904, he stepped on an anti-personnel land mine. they came later, he still struggles with his prosthetic leg because of her them. if i didn't step on
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that mine, i would have had very different ambitions and another future every time i think about it, the negative impact on my life fills me with sorrow and grief. decontamination operations are continuing in a very towns hit by armenian rockets. i mean another by john never signed the mine . and thousands of people have been wounded by landmines and explosives since the 1990 s. grad and smirch rockets, litter boarded. these men were put out there by john's national agency for mine action funded with the help of the united nations development program. and they have their work cut out for them. 14 sols and square kilometers. it's a dangerous area near their 7 cells and square kilometers. and mine too are expecting that it's will be mined areas near the 4 sols and square kilometers where that it's will be contaminated with unexploded ordinance. and where estimating
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all the terrorists from the mines and unexploded ordinance is from the fire for up to 8 years. our stuff now it's 409 to one person and we're expecting to increase that staff up to 15 souls and person. now the area is retaken by other right, john, after 6 weeks of fighting must be cleared, says during the latest conflict, but nearly 500 and exploded ordinances. and more than 1520 personnel minds about do . 150 meters obeyed. the search for land mines continues as disorder was an act of frontline for nearly 3 decades. it is ever present danger from unexploded bombs and mortar shells. after the package was cleared, we asked them to shores how they find mind. it's a painstaking process. and much of it is still manual one wrong move and they
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can lose their lives. the supervisor told us how his colleague was killed when he stepped on a mine while trying to save an injured landmine victim. the priority now is declare yes for security forces. after that, civilian buildings and agricultural land to help displaced people, eager to return. and a mess says it's reaching out to international agencies for assistance. and until that help arrives, these men say they will continue to defuse land minds one at a time. when you have it out of iraq, you know, going to pushing across central america after making landfall in nicaragua, in a record breaking year for appliances to reach category 5 status and the 2nd major hurricane to hit the region this month. reports the for the central america is facing its 2nd major hurricane in his many weeks. this is nicaragua as hurricane iosa approach landfall, a storm surge of up to 6 misses,
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and winds of 250 kilometers an hour battered northern beaches. but this is the 5th hurricane. i've seen in my life and it's one of the strongest and most destructive hurricanes we've ever seen. iosa made landfall in nicaragua, just 25 kilometers from where hurricane struck 2 weeks ago. it killed more than 120 people. resilience traumatized by eat, or flood again. most of them want to work in the u.s. . we are asking people to help us take our things to another place, please. we're asking them to take us to where it's safe because it's not safe here . i'm afraid for my life ios, across the caribbean as a category 5 hurricane. it's the strongest storm ever recorded in the atlantic. this late in the year, records began in 851 iota,
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1st pushed over the columbia in islands of san andres and providence. it's the most powerful storm to eva, his colombian territory, the devastation beer is a meets africa. there is mix, mom damaged the infrastructure. we're talking about 98 percent of the infrastructure on the island of providence here being ruined iow, she was expected to move next to honduras and guatemala, soaking the already sort and track of hurricane rita. their presidents joined forces to ask for financial aid with the economic forecast just as dire as it has been sent to verify it and seeing it in practice that central america and on judas, among the regions in the world most affected by climate change. we have a problem, countries know that due to the industries that they are, the greatest generic has of climate change effects. so they have green funds available, but it's extremely difficult for us to access the funding for the 20 twentieth's
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lenticular again, season has seen the most named storms on record so many that meteorologists ran out of names from the setlist. people across central america are hopeful, iosa is the last one of the year. shelob ellis al-jazeera it's good to be with us. hello, adrian figure here in doha. the headlines on al-jazeera ethiopia's are for says that it's carried out strikes near the main city of the grey region. the prime minister said the 3 day ultimatum given to t. gray forces to surrender is now over. an estimated 25000 people have fled into neighboring sudan to escape the fighting. this situation is very you know, what 50000 people, you know, are no 5.
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