w.h.o. making the healthy a world for you everything. ready a deadline for rebels to put down their arms pulses ethiopia's military swiftly carries out air strikes near the to great capital. with al, this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. social media executives in washington on capitol hill answering tough questions from congress about censorship and the presidential elections. friendship these debates a controversial new bill to protect police. it could start full human rights and severely limit free speech. $17000000000.00 worth of the arms for

saudi arabia. but less than $6000000000.00 and much needed aid for yemen. you, report criticizes g., 20 nations. begin this hour with the situation in northern ethiopia, where rebels into grey have refused to give in to government demands to put down their weapons. 3 days ago, prime minister ahmed issued an ultimatum to stand down or face more attacks. on tuesday, he delivered on that threat was new airstrikes and his government froze. the bank accounts of 34 institutions links to to greece, leadership. the ethiopian air force says it carried out the strikes near the region's main city of mikhail lay. it is the primary base for the 2 great people's liberation front, or t.p.s. if which governs there are. the ahmed says that his forces are now preparing for a final attack. he says the conflict will end when the t. b.l.f. is brought to justice and its leaders have been replaced. the u.n.

and foreign leaders have called for mediation request, which is largely been ignored by both sides. the government deployed extra troops on monday and is more soldiers move and civilians are fleeing. the un has called it a full scale humanitarian crisis. an estimated 27000 people have crossed the border into neighboring saddam. this iteration is very simply the you haven't yet got 15000 people, you know, what number is it a life? because i didn't seem to be able to study the services with you when it's your job . you're seeing his red cross listing aids and other service providers, and you can see some start of the system. so that provision, but much more needs to be done. otto has more from ethiopia's capital, addis ababa. they feel to be a prime minister. but this promising a crucial and decisive face in the fighting that to get a regional mall from ethiopia. he says,

these forces are now we're ready to take the city of mechanic up with all of the to get a region. he made that announcement of to the expiry of a 30 day that he had given to the great fight us to segment of themselves to the ethiopian national defense forces. security sources have told him visit of the next 48 hours would preclude forces launch a tux on mechanic from multiple fronts. the sources say that the fighting is expected to get more intense. that if european forces near the mountainous areas with a couple of the to go to a region make the to grab people's liberation front leadership in that conflict with the government in the suburb say that they had a very, to defend their positions to the last month have been complaining about civilians getting hot in aesthetics, crowded out by government forces in mckennitt, something that has been rejected undefeated by the government in

a disability. late last week, the t.p.a. left fight to send up to 3 missiles across the border to a smart, a couple of at a trailer. something diplomats say could bring in a train into the fighting. but the tibial of later should maintain, is that they are already fighting at a tree and forces on the ground and say that up to 16 divisions of the trim forces present and helping prime minister its forces. something that is of a body of nice. let's take a closer look at the northern region of tikrit. it's a semi autonomous area governed by the tigre, a people's liberation front is estimated to have up to $250000.00. families to gray was the front line for ethiopia during its 2 year conflict with eritrea and large amounts of military equipment are still stalled there. despite ethnic to gran's only making up 5 percent of the population, they control the national government for nearly 3 decades. as before, prime minister came to power in 2018,

that shift in power turned to tension to great leaders defied of its government twice once and refusing to join his coalition party. and is that tempered by holding elections against the orders of the central government? is the ethiopian minister in charge of democratization? he says the tea p.l.f. of force the government into military action. the government has no problem with mediation, but you know, the detail is short and the footage of our defense forces, our soldiers, who are our desire to do so. yet again, people from any possible before you know, issue who, what could possibly know where you told yourself under the horses, you know, you know where the hour is only handoff. so if you just got out of being anything to do, if people it isn't it is done so,

but there are conditions, you know, there are conditions that the billet has to meet. they have to hand over those top leadership positively that are involved in supervision of these crimes. oh, today should be handed over about to us. our sort of just what i do that has you both. you know, it should be good. should also be freed and be allowed to be a member of the functioning of them and develop within forces. and the little things can come to this that we can on that, which is with you, believe where all of these things out and the cesspool why our so it is. and as it got people to go with who it out there is open to defend it. to get them to before them any possible for innovation. so there has to be condition. the chief executive said facebook and twitter are pairing before members of the said judiciary committee to answer questions about social media and the presidential elections. the 2nd herring in 2 months. there was called by republican senator lindsey graham, i don't talk about when the social networks limited the reach of

a new york post article critical of president elect joe biden. both companies say they were stripped of the articles because it contains false and leaks. terrio. we made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in the article were changed through hacking and according to our we block them from being spread. further consideration, we've made a distraction was wrong, and corrected it within 24 hours. i hope this is the straights the rationale behind our actions demonstrates our ability to keep our mistakes and the changes all transparently to the public. i believe this was the largest election integrity effort by any private company in recent times. this is what people expect of us, and i'm glad that from what we've seen so far. our systems performed well. and election interference remains an ongoing threat that will never fully be solved. so we continue to improve with each i watch it. but our integrity work is really only

half the story. we also ran an unprecedented civic engagement program to encourage people to take part in our democracy. and i speak now to our white house correspondent kelly hello. can really seem like a bit of contrition there from dorothy don't so much from from zaka. how's the herring been going? yeah, you're absolutely right. in fact, senator mike lee having to point out a number of times where there have been so-called mistakes made by twitter in terms of its sort of limiting of information, some calling it censorship. alleging that this is cherry picked and disproportionately affects conservatives. well, they have defended both facebook and twitter that they are treating both conservatives and liberals on the platform. equally, they have acknowledged, at least in the case of twitter, that there are times that they have made mistakes. now, noticeably absent from this hearing is google, and that is also coming under the radar in terms of the scrutiny on capitol hill.

in fact, they made a statement that google is doing even less than twitter and facebook to live up to its responsibilities in terms of the free flowing information on the internet, or at least what's purported to be. so this is just part of the back and forth that is going on as these hearings take place. but overall, what this is really about is why there were a limiting of information according to republicans, prior to the u.s. election and how moving forward this can be changed. so that upcoming elections, that users can be confident, not only of the information, but that it is being fully censored even editorialized committee. they are talking about a lot of things in this herring. but tell us about the original post on google, which spawn republican are at least in the 1st place. yeah, you're absolutely right. so this hearing because the republicans control the senate,

they call this they were upset because of what you heard there the apology from jack dorsey. there was a near post article that was based on information that was gathered from a laptop that was brought to a repair shop by joe biden's, son hunter biden. now the allegations of this article was that, that hunter bided, took advantage of his father's time in office for business purposes. and conservatives believe this is information that should have been able to be shared freely prior to the election and maybe even have had an impact on the election. they say that joe biden really didn't face any scrutiny or much scrutiny as a result of this action by twitter. so this is something that they acknowledge that should have perhaps been looked at more carefully. but we should point out that democrats are also unhappy, but for different reasons. they're not happy by claims by donald trump, that he won the election that there was voter fraud, vote rigging. and they're also concerned about hate speech. so both sides are in

fact now asking for a legislative change and that's what this hearing is all about. seeing how section $230.00 of the decency action communications can be revised so that companies are not sort of immune as they are right now from 3rd party content on their platforms . ok, i think i can help about. i want house correspondent these days the refugees have been killed and dozens injured when the engine of a boat exploded in the north atlantic c. . it happened off the western coast of africa. around 150 people were thought to be on the boat from senegal and gambia was said to be making its way from cape to spain has more from dakar. in senegal. early this morning, the camp virgin coast guard were alerted by fishermen that there was a fishing vessel that exploded on board were not fish, but schumann's that were on their way to the canary islands. when the iraq over to on the scene, they saw men, women,

children holding on to plastic barrels normally used to contain food. now the vessel exploded. obviously it's not made to carry humans. it has happened before the vessels fishing vessels explode because they don't have enough fuel to travel for such long distances. it was on its way to the canary island, where this year alone, 17000, african, west, african migrants have come to the canary islands seeking asylum. these are not migrants fleeing war, but looking for economic opportunities. many of them come from senegal, gambia or even morocco, and the mayor of this town. our green green on the canary island says that they are held in camps because in camps of shame because they have little access to running water. there are rats, he says that are, there are cases of coronavirus. now the spanish authorities are not allowing the media to enter those camps. there are so many migrants in his town. that's normally

a resort town for tourists that hotels normally filled by tourists are now being used by migrant that are waiting for their papers to be processed. still ahead on, al-jazeera u.s., secretary of state mike pompei or gays in turkey, will tell you why he's not meeting with any cabinet pleaded i was on the job close to the border with newborn. and i'll tell you how one minds are being hit by other by joining forces before civilians get moving. we got some cooler weather on the way for parts of the arabian peninsula. we already have cloud and rain across northern regions of the middle east pushing up towards the coke system. thick cloud. some outbreaks of rice and sharon, around damini, azerbaijan, jewel,

just sinking further south as into northern parts of terror. and as we go on throughout weds day snow said the winds pick up that wind blowing away temperatures here in doha will struggle to get to be $2728.00 degrees over the next couple of days. it's just a sad possibility for the strength of that. when that we go, those showers, sinking little further south would seem to those more than sections of iran just 9 celsius there in toronto, sweat course reason it is generally fine and dry with plenty of sunshine. the sunshine stretches across the whole of africa. but we have got a developing system out into the right to say that will keep an eye on for next week, but the way to stay dry want to see showers into central parts of somalia, some heavy showers there into kenya, pushing up through a good part of tanzania, those shouts, of course, stretching right across the central belt of africa, the seasonal rise doing quite nicely. let's say good for the south with some heavy showers too. into angola, botswana could see some showers along with that eastern side of south africa with

this day an outspoken writer killed in a car bomb outside his. they return home in 2005, accusations, speculation, and denials. al-jazeera will charge the life. and finally down samir, kassir journalist, academic and political activist, sami, across the killing of a journalist on al-jazeera, who now

you're watching al-jazeera reminder, the top stories this hour. if you obviously air force says it's carried out strikes near the main city of the tikrit region after a deadline passed. and the government has frozen bank accounts, links to, to gray's leadership, chief executives, all facebook and twitter right now, bearing 4 members of the senate judiciary committee on the questions about social media and the presidential elections. it is their 2nd area, tribbles based 80 migrants to be killed and dozens injured. the engine of a bulge exploded in the north atlantic. see it happen next, virt, the western coast of africa. the french parliament is debating a proposed go all the bans, the broadcast of police officers faces. critics say it's an attack on free speech that could lead to impunity for police violence reports from paris. french documentary, the monopoly of violence, exposes and examines police brutality in france, focusing on recent protests,

but also taking in the suburbs. the hiring watch, it uses footage shot by journalists or members of the public. showing clips like this though, may not be possible in the future. the french government has proposed a new security law, part of which would crack down on the broadcast or sharing of images of police officers. filmmaker david says the bill destroys basic freedoms. of the lawmakers want to stop the free circulation of information and knowledge because in the last few years, france has discovered police violence. it's something that, in reality, has existed for a very long time in the suburbs, but was not documented. in this way, video has been used in several high profile cases of alleged police violence in the country, the death of delivery man, cedric should via, during a police check in paris and generally was filmed by a possible by footage the lead to an inquiry under the new law,

a person could be jailed for up to a year and find more than $50000.00 for broadcasting all sharing identifiable images of a police officer with the intention of harming them. campaigners fear that if journalists and citizens are dissuaded from filming, the police will make it harder for officers to be held accountable for their actions, and some might act with impunity. but the government says the law is necessary to protect police officers. you say it's not about stopping journalists from working. the law doesn't impact the right to inform for journalists or citizens. but it prevents police officers from having their identities put online with cost of violence or to be subject to reprisals that can have grave consequences. protecting the police from violence while on duty is essential says this police union spokesperson, but he says the new law is not the answer. a lot of the government would clear on the role of the police what they can and cannot do in the schools would not be

necessary. only rested demonstrations and recent attacks have prompted the government to take a tougher line on security. but instead of working on building more trust between police officers and the public, some say the new law threatens to erode it. natasha butler, al-jazeera paris. america's top diplomat is in turkey as part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. but bible pair did not meet with turkish politicians or officials. instead, he held a meeting with the head of the orthodox church in istanbul. ok, it was also said to visit georgia, israel and a number of gulf countries. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees is warned. it is facing a financial crisis and its financial chief says that could lead to disaster and staged a protest outside headquarters in gaza, city against a reduction of their salaries. the agency has asked for emergency donations to help make up a shortfall of $70000000.00,

avoid the suspension of essential health and education services. the u.s. was the agency's biggest donor told president donald trump cut all funding in 2018 . they say 41 people have been injured in protests in thailand's capital police fired water cannon and tear gas to keep crowds away from home and tens of thousands of anti-government protesters, a calling on the prime minister to resign. and one performs to the monarchy. earlier her small, the demonstration was held in support of the king scott as more from the demonstrations on this main avenue right in front of parliament. here in bangkok now is flooded with anti-government protesters, but just a few hours before they came in here, there were rows and rows of riot police as well as water cannons. that's because the anti-government protesters came here to parliament as there are draft to the constitution being read today and on wednesday. so they staged protests on this side as well as the other side of parliament. but just before sunset, the police again, the rows and rows of riot police were treated down that street. now what made it

interesting is it pro-monarchy as the yellow shirts had a rally earlier in the day because they were the constitution, the state as it is, they were down this street now there was a barricade and rightly separated them. but once there was that retreat, they confronted each other, both sides of this divide. if you know that's the 1st time we've really seen kind of a face to face, pretty violent confrontation bottles were thrown stones and bricks were thrown. sid's, this protest movement really kind of mushroom in july, that's the 1st time we saw that. but luckily it only lasted about 1015 minutes. and now the anti-gun protesters are occupying this street right in front of parliament over here another real, another day of session of reviewing these drafts to the constitution. again, they want deep changes the anti-government protesters, but the, the monarchist, want things to stay. the way they are about john estimates 14000 square kilometers of land in and around the corner is contaminated with mines and unexploded munitions back. i'll pose a danger to civilians and to the crews responsible for carrying the sites. reports

from target nocona kind of buck revealed mammadov 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 kids later. he still struggles with his prosthetic leg because of her them. if i didn't step on 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 there 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 all the terrorists from the mines and unexploded ordinance is from the fire for up to 8 years. our stuff now it's 491 person and we're expecting to increase that staff up to 15 cells and person now the area is retaken by other right. john, after 6 weeks of fighting must be cleared, says during the latest conflict, 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 active 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 can lose their lives. the supervisor told us how his colleague was killed when he stepped on a mine while trying to see of an injured landmine victim. the priority now is to create areas for security forces. after that civilian buildings and agricultural land. to help displaced people eager to return, and a mrs. it's reaching out to international agencies for assistance. and until that help arrives, these men say they will continue to diffuse, learn minds one at a time. have a big job with al-jazeera part are, you know,

oxfam says g 20 may be countries have sold $17000000000.00 worth of arms to saudi arabia, since it intervened in yemen's war in 2015, a report bond charity organization says that is 3 times what's gone to yemen in 8 reports being released as g 20 leaders prepared to meet virtually this week for a summit hosted by like saudi arabia. we spoke to us on the call from oxfam in london. he says, action is needed from world leaders to end yemen's humanitarian crisis. it's very difficult as yemen rolls into its 6th year of conflict to watch the situation in the country and unravel with the death, destruction and, and level of disease and infection in the country. and as we, as we work, as humanitarian organizations to respond to the coronavirus, we're seeing a dramatic drop in a low level of response for in the humanitarian funding levels. and we're only seeing around 40 percent of,

of the humanitarian appeal being funded today. it's the old cliche of how important these forgotten crises are. and we need to ensure that they are there, they are present and we need to use. we need to call on world leaders today to, to take responsibility. use the momentum of the g 20 this week to ensure that there are sufficient talks around the humanitarian funding shortfall and gaps for the response, which is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. it must get their attention . and ultimately, as many yemenis say to us on a day, day in day out basis. what is needed in the country is an inclusive peace process and an immediate cease fire. and that should be on the table at the g 20 and given sufficient bandwidth by the world leaders to ensure that happens members of the u.k. parliament to hearing testimony from human rights groups about the tensions in saudi

arabia of 2 missing you princes and rights activists they are investigating the whereabouts delegations of accused by saudi arabia of these high profile detainees . thanking solomon's brother form a crown prince mohammed bin nayef. hurricane iowa is pushing across central america, have to making landfall in nicaragua, and a record breaking year. fred, wouter is the 1st to reach category 5 status and the 2nd major hurricane to hit the region this month. shelob ellis has the latest 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 meters 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 rita struck. 2 weeks ago. it killed more than 120 people resilience traumatized by eater flood. again, most of what you know, i know that 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. i ocean 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, 1st pushed over the colombian islands of san andres and providence. here it's the most powerful storm to ever, his colombian territory, the devastation there is a me, it's africa. there is mix, i'm damaged the infrastructure. we're talking about 98 percent of the

infrastructure on the island of providence. here being ruined. i am sure is expected to move next to honduras and guatemala, soaking the already sort of track of hurricane rita there. presidents joined forces to ask for fine 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 is of climate change effects. so they have green funds available, but it's extremely difficult for us to access the funding for the 2028 led to hurricane season has seen the most named storms on record so many that meteorologists ran out of names from the city list. people across central america hopeful iosa is the last one of the year shell of dallas 0

a space x. camp show has docked with the international space station ushering in a new era of commercial space flight marks the return of american astronauts to space using american rockets launching from u.s. soil, the craft blasted off from florida on sunday and took around 27 hours to complete the journey. taking 4 astronauts to the i says their mission will last for 6 months . you're watching are just there are miles now of our top story. ethiopia's air force says it's carried out strikes near the main city of the tikrit region after, a deadline passed. and the government has frozen bank accounts linked to t., gray's leadership, an estimated 25000. people have fled into neighboring sudan to escape the fighting . and this is crucial you know, what if you go wasn't him.