0. hi there. i'm kevin l. . this is the news hour live from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. a deadline for rebels to put down their arms passes if europeans, military swiftly carries out airstrikes near the to graeme capital. social media executives in washington on capitol hill answering tough questions from congress about censorship. the presidential elections, french abuse debate, a controversial new bill to protect police. but it could start folk,

human rights and severely limit free speech. $17000000000.00 worth of weapons to saudi arabia, but less than $6000000000.00 in much needed aid for yemen. you've reported criticizes the g. 20 nations. if you simply go to school for limpets, chief thomas bosses athletes at the tokyo game should get vaccinated against the 19, but they won't be forced to we can this news hour with the situation in northern ethiopia, where rebels integrate, have refused to give in to government demands to put down their weapons 3 days ago . prime minister abi ahmed issued an ultimatum stand down or face more attacks. tuesday he delivered on that threat with new airstrikes and his government froze. the bank accounts of 34 institutions linked to to graze leadership. the ethiopian air force says it carry delta strikes near the region's made city of mackay lay. it

is the primary base for the tiebreak people's liberation front or t.p.s. if which governs there about. it says that his forces are now preparing a final attack. he says the conflict will end when the t. p.l.f. is brought to justice and its leaders have been replaced. the un and foreign leaders of called for mediation are requests which has been largely ignored by both sides. the government deployed extra troops on monday and does more soldiers move when civilians are fleeing. the un has called it a full scale humanitarian crisis, an estimated $27000.00. people have crossed the border into neighboring pseudo discreet cities to be yeah, but 50000 people, you know, that know the city by the most part in the city, you're starting to see the services you're in. it's your job. you see these 3 girls used to be in the service providers,

and you can see in some stories of this instance, a position that much more needs to be done. has more from ethiopia's capital, addis ababa. the european prime minister ahmed, is promising a crucial and decisive face in the fighting that the grey region of more from ethiopia, he says his forces are now we're ready to take the city of mechanic up with all of the to great region. he made that announcement of to the expiry of a 30 day that he had given to degree fighters to surrender themselves to the ethiopian national defense forces. security sources have told him visit of the next 48 hours will be question as the european forces launch a tux on mckinley for multiple fronts. the sources say that the fighting is expected to get more intense. if european forces near the mountainous areas surrounding the couple of the to give a region mckayla the to grow people's liberation front leadership who are engaged

in the conflict with the government in the suburb say that they had a very to defend their positions to the last month the been complaining about civilians getting hot in aesthetics carried out by government forces in mcmullen. something that has been rejected and refuted by the government in the december. late last week, the t.p.a. live fight and send up to 3 missiles across the border to us. mother, 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 2. great. it is a semi autonomous area governed by the tick rate people's liberation front is estimated to have up to 250000 to gray was the front line for ethiopia during its 2

year conflict with eritrea. and knowledge amounts of military equipment are still stored there, despite ethnic to grains only making up 5 percent of the population. they control the national government finale 3 decades. that's before prime minister abi, of that came to power in 2018. that shift in power turned to tension after to great leaders to fight up its government twice once and refusing to join his coalition party. and its attempt by holding elections against the orders of the central government was and is the ethiopian minister in charge of democratization. he says, the tape e.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 defend. again, people from any possible for innovation who want to go in and would possibly

negotiate wastrel of their south under the horses of you know, well now that you had on earth, there is only hand of it if you just got out of being anything. how little people it is in the mass killing we can cite 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 of the people that are involved in separation of these ground 0 as to should be handed over about to us are sort of just what under the people's, you know, it should be good. should also be freed and be allowed to be members, a functioning government of all defense forces. a number of things can, can be listed. we cannot know, which is with all these things out and the suspect why our soldiers are under the accountability there. if who are out there, it is all them to defend it again,

people from any possible for innovation. so there has to be condition. well, earlier we spoke to, brad said, and eritrean journalist living in exile in the u.s., he says, prime minister on the op ed wants to see an end to the t.p.s. if saddam is receiving more than 10000. if it's from dubai, if you ban forces that have been bombarding a friend of rubber examples are involved. and to that in the conflict and sort of other countries other never encountered from south sudan, probably kenya. i mean, sudan duty in all this camp knowing of this is already coming to know god goes about so far. i think they don't want to listen to anyone. because what i am as and says, and what he says are they are trying to finish off the bill that they have that kind of revenge against them. definitely tell it instead of and was in with the

people organism, the wisdom with the leadership that i wouldn't have written. it was written because they don't want to have to sit on their land and otherwise that we might get them. and what's being done the chief executives of facebook and twitter are pairing before members of the senate judiciary committee to answer questions about social media and the presidential elections. it is their 2nd hearing in 2 months was called by republican senator lindsey graham in october, when the social networks limited the reach of a new york post article, which was critical of president elect joe biden is opening statement. twitter is c.e.o. of message. it was wrong to block the post. we made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in your vehicle were changed. and according to your we block them from being spread. further,

consideration with little distraction was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours. i hope, desire straits. the rationale behind our actions demonstrates are believed to be, but it was stakes, 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. election interference remains an ongoing threat that will never fully be solved. so we continue to improve with each i watch it. your 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. let's go now to our white house correspondent kelly hellcat to ken lay a bit of contrition. very guess you could say from tresses don't say, don't so much from facebook's zuck of cows. that herring been going yes,

jack dorsey seems to be getting a disproportionate number of questions. republicans really unhappy over the limiting of information that they say adversely affects conservative causes. not only that new york post article, but also senator ted cruz, grilling the twitter c.e.o. over the alleged apparent what sort of looking for and corporate position on the issue of voter fraud. essentially saying that, you know, he doesn't know whether it does or does not exist. something that jack dorsey admitted yet twitter is taking a corporate stance on some of the president's claims, for example, that there's been widespread voter fraud. vote rigging, even as the department of homeland security has said, that is not the case. still, this is something that conservatives argue that twitter is a platform as well as facebook for exchange of ideas. and that is sort of the concept of the internet overall. and they are not living up to their

responsibilities and also not living up to responsibilities. allegedly, according to some of these senators, is google noticeably absent from this hearing. so a lot is being delved into in terms of the sort of role that social media has to play. not just for this election, but for upcoming elections as well, because pretty important questions, considering the amount of power platforms have. chemically we mentioned the original new york post off of coal, which sort of spock's republican are in the 1st place. tell us more about that. yeah, the article was controversy alive and you heard jack dorsey talking there about their decision to limit the article. what happened? this is what got even the press secretary here at the white house just furious is that they were sharing this article, many conservatives that was not particularly flattering to joe biden. what it was with an article that alleged that his son hunter biden had taken advantage for

business purposes of some of the policies put in place by his father when he was the vice president. now what's significant about this is the point that twitter was making is look at this article was written based on information that was gleaned from a laptop that was under repair. in other words, hacking it was private information. conservative saying yeah, but that's never stopped. you with other kind of articles that are shared on social media, so they feel they are as a centrally saying that there is bias. something that the social media networks are denying. still. we know that liberals are also concerned. democrats are saying that they're concerned not just about the president's claims, that they say are rania's and fraudulent, but also that there is hate speech that needs to be taken into consideration unlimited. so it seems both sides are concerned. want to try and make some legislative change, but for different reasons. ok, thank you so much for that. ken lay how compare our white house correspondent but i,

had on the news hour including concerns about u.s., president all trumps plans for a troop drawdown in afghanistan. nato ones withdrawing too quickly could pose a risk to a secretary of state by is in turkey, but we'll tell you why he's not making any government leaders. class in sports, new dates are confirmed for the club world cup in qatar on details. coming up with peter de france, palm of his debasing a proposed law that bans the broadcast of police officers faces. critics say it's an attack on free speech that could lead to impunity for police violence. that's all about love told 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. a harrowing watch, it uses footage shot by journalists, all 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 de freyne says the bill destroys basic freedoms. that over 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 sure, via during a police check in paris in general, was filmed by a possible by footage the lead to an inquiry in parliament m.p.'s debated the bill

if passed, a person could be jailed for up to a year and find more than $50000.00 for broadcasting sharing identifiable images of a police officer with the intention of harming them out. so i journalists and opponents. the law gathered to protest. campaigners fear that if journalists and citizens are dissuaded from filming the police, it will make it harder to hold some officers accountable for their actions, and some may act with impunity. but the government says the law is necessary to protect the safety of 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 on line with cost of violence or to be subject to reprisals. they can have grave consequences. protect the police for violence. one 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 just 0. paris. the french government has been on a growing pressure to address long running complaints of excessive force by police . in june, for least 5, tear gas to disperse, a rally of supporters of a french black man who died in custody in 2016. since the start of the yellow vests movement in 2018, a number of protesters have lost their eyes or hands because of stun grenades used as crowd control measures. and in 2017, the un published a report finding 3 incidents of suspected excessive use of force. one of the 3 was and another was theo, the haka, who was reportedly raped, beaten up by

a police officer. with more on this, we're joined by paulina this mail in paris. she is a spokeswoman for reporters without borders, is calling this law or could obviously have some very far reaching implications for journalists. what are your major concerns? good evening. our major concern about the solo is so lack of clarification. according to your report, i just heard from paris, it's very clear and in how far the once a journalist issue that we'll be able to go we'll, the prosecutor, we'll be able to look into the journalists to e-mail and personal things or words on the social networks just to remember to not be kept. this ban on filming. it is a ban on the fuming police is intent to harm and we consider that threaten the

press freedom because of its article 24. that puts the journalist and the high pressure with the risk of one, your prison and 45000 euros, or rather the whole of the questionnaire. doesn't it, polly? when you talk about intent to harm, i mean, who decides what the intent was? how do you, how do you prove the intent? right? exactly. the prosecutor will have means to show this intention to harm, but it's too vague and we are asking for clarification. how far will the prosecutor be able to go? that's one of the question. plus the fact that it will have a chilling effect on other journalists. i mean, no one wants to be prevented to do the job on the field. and no one wants to be as he did. and therefore talking about interpretation. we've talked about that word intent. then there's that word harm, i mean, what happens if you're

a police officer is filmed and he's emotionally harmed, he's upset about it. i mean, is that basis for prosecution? not for prosecution, probably, but at least for that long standing by the police officer on the ground. so he would tell the journalists to stop filming in order just to not to be and to avoid disposable band. so it would be an afghan on press freedom and the right to inform because the journalist would be stopped from it. so one sequence is one of those. the proponents of this is saying that the purpose of the law is to stop police officers from being harmed after they've been identified. your we, we both know that footage can be taken out of context that perhaps police officers could be filmed that could be taken out of context. and perhaps they could be in harm's way. i mean, do the proponents of this will have a point to notice that you are not on the

ground to arm police and this is a fact them in professional journalists are on the few to inform. but the police officer would have been under high pressure in the past 5 years with the attacks in france and the number of the month ration of the new project get the money at there is that have been under high pressure and they have been also at that so there is also, we totally understand that they have the right to be protected. the problem is that germany's should not be have the feel of the consequences of this protection. so it has to be dealt differently. and the text is not clear at this stage and has its stance, and it's a bounds feeling. so it needs clarification and we hope that it will be rejected by the in pieces in the parliament these days. and we will, of course, be following that terror on al jazeera. thank you for your time, pauline, and is now there from reporters without borders. well,

some big decisions in u.s. foreign policy is being considered by the trump administration. as its time in the white house draws to a close report suggests that just last week, traum off his officials, the options on attacking iran's main nuclear site. he said, have been talked out of it. iran has said that any such move would be met with a crushing response. there's also been talk of the trump administration planning to designate yemen security rebels as a terrorist organization. the foreign policy publication says it's another initiative in the works before joe biden takes over in january. and the head of nato has warned against removing u.s. troops from afghanistan too quickly. a report suggests that trump is looking to hol, the number of personnel by january. when our closer look at the involvement of u.s. troops in afghanistan, there are around 4 and a half 1000 soldiers stationed there right now, alongside other nato troops that are training afghan security forces. more than 2400 u.s. troops have been killed since american involvement began in 2001. at its peak in

2010, some 100000 u.s. soldiers were in the country fighting al qaeda and the taliban. more recently, peace negotiations between afghanistan's government and the taliban have been taking place in qatar. those talks are the result of an earlier deal signed between the taliban and the united states. james dorsey is from the national university of singapore as a middle east institute. he believes trump is looking for some last minute victories to cement his time in office. i think what you're seeing is that trump used the last next 2 months as his legacy, with other words, a legacy that will allow him to exit with successes in his mind rather than whining over a last election and successes that would, 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 accord. similarly, we have to see what kind of sanctions he is likely to still impose on the 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 the counterterrorism sanctions, and that makes them much more harder to get to we send. so its goal is as much his own legacy as it is trying to limit what biden can and cannot do. the palestinian authority says it's ready to resume security coordination with israel. because i'm a hunter, israel fence and next more parts of the occupied west bank. i've also joins us now live from west jerusalem. harry took off. what does resuming coordination was a for me? well, it means that a big shift back towards

a better at least working relationship with the israelis on a day to day level. it's as you say, originally a decision that they took to cut these ties security and civil cooperation. because of all the talk about annexation about netanyahu. employee imposing the prime minister is really posing parts of the trump plan, which would allow israel to annex on 30 percent of the occupied west bank. that of, course, was put on hold. they opted for the normalization deals with the u.a.e., bahrain and sudan under the stewardship of the united states, the trumpet ministration. instead, and all the while the palestinians have had to deal with one of the key effects of this ending of corp, not accepting the money that israel collects on its behalf in terms of tax revenues that is now built up to some, nearly a $1000000000.00 u.s. dollars since may, it's meant that some 150000 employees of the palestinian authority have had to go

with half salaries. at least those who aren't on the lowest pay have had to go with half salaries. it's had a big economic impact of that. combined with the coronavirus pandemic has seen unemployment rise to officially nearly 30 percent. some estimates put it at more than 40 percent. so there's a big economic incentive to restore these ties. there's also a political incentive because of the incoming by the administration. we know that there have been contacts between the biden campaign as was and presumably now the biden transition team. it is certainly a way of showing that they are open to a risk restoration of some possibility towards progress under a new administration. it does though, put in some jeopardy efforts towards reconciliation with other palestinian factions, hamas and others have criticized this move, saying that it is going back to cooperating with an occupying power. and so the

talk of possible conciliation possible elections on the palestinian side now looks to become less likely. ok, thank you for that. harry force that live from west to salem. at least 80 refugees have been killed and dozens injured when the engine of a boat exploded in the north atlantic seach it happen. nick, a bird. the western coast of africa. around 150 people were thought to be on the boats, mainly from senegal and gambia was said to be making its way from cape, verged to spain more from dakar. in senegal. early this morning, the cat bird in 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 they arrived on the scene, they saw all men, women, children holding on to plastic barrels normally used to contain food. now the vessel exploded. obviously it's all made to carry humans. it has happened before

that 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. 'd even morocco and the mayor of this town, our green green on the canary island says that they are held in camps. he calls them camps of shame because they have little access to running water. there. 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 migrants that are waiting for their papers to be processed. still come here on out just there. i'm some of the job he had close to the border with nagorno-karabakh and i'll tell you how the line millions are being cleared by a as it were. joining forces before civilians could move in people and kind of things take stock of to death and devastation caused by time for exam color. and will tell you about the takeaway man hoping to the best excessively, and thanks in tokyo is coming up with concerns for but we've 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 coaxes some thick cloud. here. some outbreaks of rice and sharon around

damini, azerbaijan, georgia, sinking further south as into northern parts of terror. and as we go on throughout weds day snow said the winds pick up that shamar wind blowing away temperatures here in doha will struggle to get to be 2728 degrees over the next couple of days. if that doesn't sound possibility for the strength of that wind that we go with those showers, sinking little further south would say into those northern sections of iran, just 9 celsius there in toronto, where 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 showers, of course, stretching right across the central belt of africa, the seasonal rise doing quite nicely. let's get further south with some heavier showers to into angola. botswana could see some showers along with that eastern

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buckeye are caught in the crossfire on al jazeera. there are challenges. there are a reminder of our top stories this hour. if you have these air forces is carried out, strikes near the main city of the to create reachin for a deadline passed. and the government has frozen bank accounts, links to 2 crazed leadership. its chief executives of facebook and twitter are parry before members of the senate. judiciary committee to answer questions about social media and the presidential elections. it's their 2nd hearing in 2 months. the palestinian authority says it's ready to resume security coordination with

israel to cut ties in may over israel's plans to annex more parts of the occupied west bank. protesters in thailand have rallied in front of parliament in bangkok as m.p.'s consider changes to the constitution. demonstrations calling for the resignation of prime minister prayers general to have been happening since july. desa say he and the constitution drafted on the military who are in the judgment, also demanding reform of the monarchy. and supporters of thailand's royal family held a separate rally, backing the cake. hundreds of royalists marched to the government in bangkok, demanding the preservation of the hallmarks. role scada has more from protests in front of thailand's parliament on this main avenue right in front of parliament. here in bangkok now is flooded with 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 of the constitution being read today and on wednesday. so they staged protests on this side as well as the other side of. 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 a pro banner case. 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 right, we separated them. but once there was that retreat, they confronted each other, both sides of this divide if you will. 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. since 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, i think of the protesters are acupuncture. the street right in front of parliament, you know, here another real, another day of session over viewing these drafts to the constitution. again, they want deep changes the anti-government protesters, but that the monocacy want things to stay the way they are. the casualties from

tough continue to climb in the philippines. more than 60 people are confirmed dead as a stone cause devastation across the main island of luzon, including in the capital. manila reports from province, one of the worst affected areas. people here in alkali say they are burying a hero. there died while rescuing these neighbors from floodwaters using his own you little dentist. but his daughter angela is angry and is calling for justice. she says her father didn't have to die from electrocution. if only power lines were disconnected, early enough wealth by, for example, was hitting the entire philippine region of luzon. was the someone was the son just this, just this bear was a village captain. where was the police? my father wasn't any of those. but why did it had to be him and to rescue the residents? none of them showed up. they found this body through the sleeper. you know,

now that was not meant to be this devastating. now, days after the typhoon struck, the government is facing widespread criticism from people here. they say the tragedy could have been contained with more able leadership and was not even and their warning when the vanco hit the capital region, it was only experiencing once and greens at the time. more than $80000.00, people had to be rescued in this town alone. widespread deforestation has long been blamed for constant flooding here too. makeshift shelters like this one are now there's a pool along the highways of alkali and nearby towns, civilians who have lost nearly everything and during desperate need of aid. inside this small tent, there are 5 families who have to endure nights sleeping on the ground with their children. again, nothing to be selling. our house is still under water,

so we just have to stay here in cramped under the tent. we're grateful for any help . they once said the rice fields and comfortable homes. now this is all they have left all the hit, the region of luzon for a few hours, but it left a trail of destruction and suffering. jim duggan al jazeera korean province, northern philippines. as by john estimates, 14000 square kilometers of land in and around the corner is contaminated with mines and unexploded munitions dating back 30 years. and now pose a danger to civilians and the crew is responsible for clearing the science of some of and very reports from tall tower and they're going to cut back 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 1994, he stepped on an anti-personnel land mine. they could later,

you still struggles with his prosthetic leg would have to ask 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 azerbaijan 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. were 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 80 years our stuff now it's 491 person, 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 active front line for nearly 3 decades. it is ever present danger from unexploded bombs and mortar shells. after a package was cleared,

we asked them to shores how they find minds. 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 amir says it's reaching out to international agencies for assistance. and until that help arrives, these men say they will continue to diffuse learned minds one at a time of a big job with understeer. a part of our turkey's president has announced a tighter restrictions and partial lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of culbut. roger taught her to one, ordered all schools to remain closed until the end of the year, and all restaurants will be limited to delivery only turkey's record of more than 417000 infections and $11000.00 deaths. since the start of the pandemic,

america's top diplomat is in turkey is part of a 10 day tour of the region. but my compiler will not be meeting turkish politicians or officials. he spent the past day in talks with religious leaders. so in cultural who has more from istanbul, the u.s. secretary of state came to turkey for a brief visit, but he did not meet any government leaders or politicians. instead, he held talks with the had a few orthodox church on issues of religious freedom here. and the middle east, as the secretary of state, of a very frankly, i think united states has a very important role. and also we are very hard to improve on his work very hard to receive the secretary of state and threw her out of her or an hour of this crash from the change of heroes regarding questions or

religious freedom, or for that matter right or wrong sort of guarding all for the presence of christians in the middle east when it was announced, bumpass trip will highlight religious issues. turkey's foreign ministry responded with a written statement, saying the visit should instead focus on enhanced thing cooperation on regional and international issues between turkey and the united states. and you know, i mean, this is not to stand up for something i are out of my sights because this was

last july, when the turkish government decided to convert to how to get sophia museum back to a mosque urged uncorrupt to continue to maintain the building as a museum, the hagia sophia, had been an important church for hundreds of years before being turned to a mosque. the turkish government dismissed those concerns saying it's an internal issue. but take medical patriarca has expressed his sorrow about this decision. just ahead of his visit to his stumble, pompeo told the french press he agreed with french president imran macron. that turkey's recent actions have been aggressive. he cited turkey's support for us, our great john and did not know kind of a conflict with armenia, as well as its military moves in libya and the eastern mediterranean close last official visit to the turkish capital. ankara was late last year, but he didn't go this time while ankara sees this as a snob. his office explains it as a simple scheduling issue,

but pompous earlier statements in france that the u.s. and europe working together to counter turkey's recent actions may hint at a different reason. see now, because al-jazeera stumble, oxfam says g 20 member countries have sold $17000000000.00 worth of arms to saudi arabia since it intervened in yemen's war in 2015. report by the charity organization says that is 3 times what's gone to yemen in 8. the reports being released as g 20 leaders prepared of meat virtually this week for a summit hosted by saudi arabia. we spoke to our son to come out from oxfam in london. it says action is dated from world biggest and that 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 have been hearing testimony from human rights groups about the detention from saudi arabia of 2 senior princes and rights activists. the investigating the whereabouts and allegations of abuse by saudi arabia of these high profile detainees, including king solomon's brother, and from a crown prince mohammed bin nayef. those cautious optimism about the change in the to ship in moldova, after sunday's runoff election. the winner mio sandu campaigned on being pro europe and had a convincing win of the more moscow dating incumbent leader. don't. sonya gago is in the capital and went to find out what moldova, and saying. for the 1st time in moldova's history, the country has voted for a woman to be its next president,

maya sun to face tough opponent, the incumbent president eagled don. he wanted to keep moldova firmly within moscow sphere of influence. why a sound new campaign door was a change of tactic, if you will, ever bowled over to really follow a more pro western pro european model for the country to progress into the future. here's what people at the central marketing kishan of the capital thought about that nobody knows what the future will bring, but we're looking for something better. and i believe she will deliver her promise . your goals all voted for the don't be a good president. i don't know, we have to wait and see who knows deal if i think she will bring change, not like the previous president who did nothing for 4 years. there will be changes for sure whatever people's opinions of my as some do here. the question is now, how will my son do or as president, is she going to work well with

a pall over the parliament itself is stacked against her with most of the m.p.'s from the opponent socialist party. she's going to have to devise a way that she can be able to work with them, especially given the economic crisis and the pandemic which has hit affecting the country. and she's going to have to win hearts and minds of the people as well as the politicians. how can i order is pushing across central america after making landfall in nicaragua, and a record breaking here. fred iota is the 1st to reach category 5 status and the 2nd major hurricane to hit the region this month. the latest central america is facing its 2nd major hurricane in as many weeks. this is nicaragua as hurricane ocean approach landfall. a storm surge of up to 6 meters and winds of 250 kilometers an hour battered northern beaches yet to come. but again,

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, residents traumatized by eater flood. again, most of them want to hear 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. 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, 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 immense africa. there is make some, 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 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 ungenerous 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 2028 led to hurricane season has seen the most named storms on record. so many meteorologists

ran out of names from the list. people across central america, a hopeful iosa is the last one of the year. charlotte dallas 0 a space x. capsule has dealt with the international space station ushering a new era of commercial spaceflight that marks the return of american astronauts to space using american rockets launching from u.s. soil. the craft of blasted off from florida on sunday took around 27 hours to complete the journey, taking 4 astronauts to the isis. their mission will last for 6 months. still ahead here on al-jazeera. find out what happened when the term most recent tennis major champions faced off at the a.t.p. finals and in london. and on the way with peta and sports

time after sport is paid to him to give every much the head of the international olympic committee has encouraged the wolves. athletes to get vaccinated against covert 19, thomas both finish these 2 day visit to the national stadium, which is one of the main venues for the games delayed by a year because of the pandemic. 11000 athletes are expected to compete in tokyo, buck stress that they wouldn't be forced to get a vaccination when one is available. but he suggested that they should take it for the sake of others. we really encourage that when our forces have a vaccination like to fish and because they

want to ration of solidarity with their fellow athletes. tripoli's people, a small group of anti olympics protesters gathered outside the stadium during the visit. many in the country are concerned by the spiraling costs and health risks involved in holding such huge events. during a pandemic where the games delayed to next year, the coronavirus pandemic dragging on many athletes to find extra jobs to support themselves and their families while they train. one of those venezuelan fans, ruben illimitable back home is hailed as a national hero. having won gold at the 2012 london olympics, now he's living in poland and working as a food delivery man to support his family. a mother who still training for the tokyo games says the job allows him time to practice. i've had

a lot of reactions from people asking me why an olympic champion has to work for when you should be training in the best conditions. well, unfortunately it is what it is, and it's not just me, but other athletes to have found themselves in the same situation. you just have to adapt to the change. i know it is not going to last forever. it's a really tough year because they are no competition. we just keep working and training and i know that next year will be very productive because the sponsors book comeback and so will the income. and we'll be able to look ahead to tokyo 2021 with peace of mind now to spain, where some of the world's best footballers are facing a big wage cut because of the financial impact of covert 19, that's out of the spanish league league or released each team salary cap for next season. barcelona have been hit the hardest with a cut of $341000000.00, while real madrid drop by $204000000.00, the limit is based on several factors, including a team's expected income. over all clubs,

a wage limit is down $724000000.00, a leaguers. biggest starlin are messi is with argentina right now, preparing for their world cup qualifier against peru. they'll go into today's match off the back of a frustrating 11 draw with paraguay last week. argentina are currently 2nd in south america with the top 4 automatically qualifying for cotter 2022. but security at the game will be tight as hosts peru are in the middle of a political crisis. on monday, the country got its 3rd president in the space of a week following protests. the peruvian f.a. has guaranteed the safety of the teams during the match, and both sides want peace to be restored. you don't want a 1000000? yes, we are aware, but we're distant and one never really knows what's going on. the pictures are not pleasant. i want to take this opportunity to give a strong hug to all peruvian people. nobody wants this,

especially in south america. we hope normalcy is restored and life returns to peace . one of the test events for carter ahead of 2022 years the club world cup between the 6 continental champions. the tournament was originally planned for december, but it's now been confirmed. it all will be played from february 1st to february 11th, still in cutter. european champions, buy in munich, are the 1st to have qualified 5th have not said if fans will be able to attend games. tuesday's game in u.a.e. has nations league between ukraine and switzerland has been called off. that's after the entire ukraine team was placed in quarantine following 3, positive covert, 19 tests within the squad. the decision was made by local, swiss, or thorazine. u.a.e. for has not yet decided what action to take. meanwhile, saturday's game in the french league between marsay and nice has been postponed following an outbreak in the nice squad. the us open champion dominant team has

beaten french open winner. a fellow del of the a.t.p. finals in london team was the man who held these nerve better in 2 tiebreakers in this battle between tennis is to most recent major champions team would win 7676. it means the austrian will be assured of a place in the semifinals, if 7 of city past can be to russia's own very good live later. let's finish with a sport that produces its fair share of broken ribs. the professional blue rider circuit now has a new rule champion berth. this was jones, a veto dilemma of brazil. but if it exists potential title for the 1st time, a career based school that is the 4th highest in the history of the event, you also walked away with a $1000000.00 winning, but we'll leave it there for now. i'll be here again later with more sports news. kim, thank you for that. but that's it for me for this news hour to go away. that america

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