getting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic. let's start with some of the all the ground realities affecting the news coverage. what's the lay of the land? they're challenging assumptions and the official line. vilest thing post on out is the right side of the fence for a moment, always on the love god. we are the wild grappling the act problem while we're on the media. don't go, we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. this is al-jazeera, alarms the whole rom and you're watching the al-jazeera news, our life, my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. u.k. scientists report encouraging results as the world searches for a safe and effective covert. 19 banks seen also syria's last rebel held region confronts a rapid rise in infections. doctors fear the virus could overwhelm it,

lives health system, and the death toll in uganda rises to 16 up to protest against the arrest of opposition leader bobby wind and palestinian leaders condemn the us. secretary of state, unprecedented visit to an illegal israeli settlement on the occupied golan heights . and he just came in to go to a sports returns to spain and says he's tired of always going to blame for problems at barcelona. good to have you company. welcome to the news. we start with the corona virus pandemic and the race to find a vaccine for tisha pharmaceutical giant astra. zeneca said its phase 2 trials show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. a strong immune response was shown in those aged over 70. now the vaccine is being developed in partnership with

oxford university. and it's now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. the good news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise . more than $2000000.00 have been reported in africa, but low testing rates mean the actual figure could be much higher across the continent. in the past, $28.00 days, cases have increased compared to the previous month in $1000.00 countries in the region including countries like kenya, geria, ghana, and well globally cases have surpassed 56000000 therapy more than 1300000 deaths worldwide. and more than a quarter of a 1000000 of those are in the u.s. making it the worst affected country by far. well, it's for the very latest more white house correspondent kelly how he joins me now from washington. d.c. 250000 kroner, virus related deaths can believe in the u.s. . it's a grim milestone and experts are warning that death rate could increase as

a major holiday approaches. absolutely. they're really nervous about another number, a spike of hospitalisations, the number of people being admitted to the hospital, up 25 percent in just the past week. and the real concern is, as you point out this thanksgiving holiday, that is very popular with americans for traveling long distances. to visit friends and family. now, as we talk about this holiday, there are new restrictions that are in place in at least 15 states, trying to curb a rise in infections. this includes limiting the number of people that are gathering in their homes as well as very face masks. but the problem is, is that millions of americans are growing fatigued tour and don't believe that this is even necessary in the 1st place. and so that is really hampering efforts. now, the u.s. president has been tweeting saying that vaccines are coming fast and that mortality is down 85 percent. but the reality is,

is that the infections are running rampant in the fear is that not enough is being done in order to try and curb this. and of course, the other big issue that president trump is always keeping an eye on is the job figures because he relies almost to boost his base and to boost his popular support . yeah, those numbers are not looking good either. in fact, the number of jobless claims rising at a rapid number higher then what was forecast by economists and the concern at all of this is where this is headed because as we talk about this thanksgiving holiday, this is a major driver of the u.s. economy annually it not only provides jobs, but it also allows for retailers to get a big bulk of their annual income. but what we're seeing is, as these infections are rising, not only are businesses cutting those jobs, but also what we're seeing is that many people are scaling back their spending,

and this is going to have a major impact. just as we also see a lot of those relief programs by the government running out now, the u.s. president, according to his rival, joe biden, the president elect is complicating this further by not conceding what he's arguing is that the transition that could deal not just with that cannot make recovery, but also with vaccine distribution is being hampered by a failure by the president to concede. now, the u.s. president has announced in about 2 hours' time that he will have a press conference, or republicans will showing new evidence of how they believe there is a path to victory. but as we've been reporting many of these cases of not held up in court, so there is a lot of skepticism that this will turn around. still, the president saying that he is not going to concede. and his critics arguing that that's having an impact, not only on vaccine distribution, but rising infections as well. and it will come back to you for more analysis can be how could a white house correspondents complete?

now the world health organization blames the rise in infections in africa, home, family gatherings, interaction at work, and election campaigns. i mean address has more from in one cheerio. this seems to be some for tea or some kind of fatigue of the past 2 of africans. we just came back from an election in ivory coast and what you notice there and across many sub-saharan african countries is that people where very few people wear masks this days. social distancing is still a problem, and crowds gather in large numbers. most of the people you see in such crowds don't wear a face mask. experts are warning that as the how much dusty season kicks in. in a few weeks or a few days. we were going to see we are going to see a lot of cases of covered 19 for example in nigeria for the last 2 months, only a few dozen cases were reported each day. but today, the center for disease control use released its results saying that in the past 48

hours more than 200 cases were recorded and it warned that this could increase as people abundant safety precautions use of trees lost and of course, social distancing the issue of vaccines is good news for many africans, but remember, this is a very, very hot continent. most parts of the continent is very hot. the storage of these boxes is a problem with a shortage in electricity supplies and all that could be a problem delivering such data storage areas. hard accessible rural areas will also be a contributor effect that while these boxes may not necessarily which people quickly doctors in syria's lost rebel stronghold are warning of the catastrophic consequences of cave. in 19, in a province, the u.n. says daily inspections of increased by 300 percent in the last month, victoria gate and he has a story. it live provence has been battered by the syrian conflict and now in its

10th year, the last rebel controlled glave in the northwest is home to nearly 4000000. people most depend on aid to survive and many live in makeshift shelters in camps for the displaced it live reported its 1st coronavirus infection in july. since then, the number of people infected has increased rapidly to 11 and a half 1000 a day. this time and ask after 10 years of dealing with bombing casualties and the targeting of health facilities, the coronavirus pandemic has really increased the burden on us if cases of cover 19 continue to increase. the health sector will completely collapse it live has 8 hospitals that can treat 1000 patients, but the u.n. says 7 already overwhelmed. and each one is desperately short of the quick meant. there are $142.00 i.c.u. beds and $155.00 ventilators,

to cover the entire region. the name of the beds in the intensive care unit are completely full. we have around 30 pairs, all of which are occupied with patients upstairs. we have another department with 30 beds and we have 30 patients in that department to. 6 the outbreak has mostly affected adlib city safe, but the fear is the virus could spread to overcrowded camps where social distancing is difficult. the grain of ours pandemic has severely tested the world's best health care services. syria is destroyed by years of war is facing its biggest challenge yet, victoria gays, and be anonymous authors coordinator of operations for northwest syria, doctors without borders joins you know, via skype from brussels for talking with us live on the program, covert on the increase in the infrastructure isn't all the facilities really can't keep up with demand. how worrying is the situation in italy we consider

this situation is very worrying it in one of the senators that we have. we are in many better prepared the fury that is very, very high to be because they have a system to increase the number of but they don't really look for patients. and critically patients is very, very reduced. so we are really worried about the issue in india. in india, you are one of many humanitarian groups that's in the location working alongside various governments that is bringing aid in what sort of help that is coming in right now as we approach winter. i mean, there is a complex situation where we have people, you know, 2.5000000 of them are refugees who lose people are out of you see very, very vulnerable living in refugee camps. you can only imagine that keeping food,

if anything, and expecting to be rich to prevent possible. so obviously we are going to in distributions operation. we are only organizing, you know, only solution of the 2 are to create the winter. and then the increasing our capacity in the un to be able to cope with either of you know, of course, you are not a political group. you are in a political organization, a charity. but covert itself is obviously a hidden enemy that needs to be dealt with also from the central government to damascus. because obviously it doesn't sort of stop at roadblocks, anything like that. so what sort of communication do you have with the government to damascus about covert 19 and about to help the people in need

be new to being in charge of the health. even if paramount to be able to run our fruition is to communicate with your authority that i'm in charge of the whole structure. and of course you did touch upon the fact that winter is getting close. you talked about the fact that social distancing washing hands is a real difficulty. again, how do you get it? how do you get across this problem? because some of the most of adlib is actually in a war torn, there are derelict buildings. there are also planted cities. how do you coordinate or get the message across about trying to social distance, trying to keep hands and locations clean without spreading the virus. 2 different. the whole communications are what we call health promotion. so we have

people going around to explain to people how to react, how to know it is one part of it. and the 2nd part is obviously with mint and material to measure, obviously, pollution of the fencing, you know, and then settlement, you know, you know, began it is almost impossible. so you have to, you have to give nothing and think that it so you know, you have to find solution and all those measures that should be on average. of course, it doesn't forget the medical workers that work with you, the local medical representatives, 70 percent of, but ical workers in adelaide have been infected with hiv at 19, according to statistics. what sort of a strain does that put on the service that you can deliver? the service that those aid agencies in the area can deliver when they're under

increasing crease strain. there is a view that the fact that we have a high number of medical practitioners is a huge burden on this thing that you can do is really securing and that's what we do in our health through every new group creation. please don't go right now just to be able to prevent the spread of the coronary is there isn't paramount to be able to continue running your operations, really keeping or us becoming our health scriptures as a safe place where there is no, never everybody respects mission between patients indeed, men and women, well, and that's up from medicine, some frontier doctors without borders. thanks for joining us from brussels. thank you. thank you all. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour, including we're live in ethiopia, where the government says it's moving forward on its final offensive against

fighters around to gray's main city. and pakistan's visiting prime minister pledges to support peace efforts in neighboring afghanistan and a major league baseball star forfeits his $24000000.00 salary. after failing a drug test, coming up with peter in sport, at least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the arrest of opposition. politician bobby wine 350 people were arrested in the un rights security forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. as they demonstrated after wind was detained on wednesday. now officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning for the upcoming presidential election. let's cross over to malcolm our correspondent in neighboring kenya, who's monitoring events for us?

are you going to north or what he's saying? or anything else about the of the numbers of those that have been killed or injured police chiefs and spokespeople said they haven't given a lot of detail on causes of death and so on. but they have blamed people for rioting, blame people for attacking police officers. the uganda red cross, the society said it's ambulances responded to dozens of calls and gone out and picked up injured people, taken them to hospital for 40, gunshot wounds and people with problems that certainly tallies with what we heard from eyewitnesses. and also many videos shared on social media from compiler. in the last 24 hours showing soldiers, police people in plain clothes, firing kalashnikovs towards people. we don't know if that's with metal bullets or rubber coated bullets. and also a lot of tear gas being fired to try and break up those crowds of supporters and

not just in the capital kampala, also in some other towns and cities across the country. and when you and i talked about the initial arrest of bobby wine, there's always question marks about his detention and where he will be. what's the latest on where we think he might be? spokesman says he's in a high security police facility, which is in the eastern city of ginger. that's not so far from where he was arrested when he was campaigning. police haven't confirmed where he is, but the winds lawyers and the spokesman of complaining hours and being given access to legal representation or to his medical team. they're worried that he might be injured there waiting to see if or when he might be produced in front of a court yesterday is why shared on social media and media. one appeared to be a charge sheet saying that he'd be charged with offenses relating to

causing the spread of disease that refers to the rallies that have been holding which visibly have much larger crowds than the ministry of health. the limit of $200.00, which is ostensibly to prevent transmission. or the other thing that might happen is that what we wind might be taken back to his home, discretely. he's been arrested several times before and often the security services with bobby wine and with other prominent opposition, politicians in an attempt to quell the unrest. try to just take those people home, maybe late in the night, so that people don't continue protesting on the streets. but they're certainly faced between with a couple of tough options. now there's nearly 2 months to go before this election. and if they allow these rallies to continue, that says well local calling to the government will be problematic for covert 19, although his supporters believe these restrictions are simply to stop people seeing how popular years. but of course, detaining him brings the kind of on the rest of the streets that we've seen

yesterday and wednesday. so they've got quite a difficult decision to make terms of how they go about managing this situation in the 2 months, up to that poll, which is expected in the 14th of january. welcome, thanks for the our correspondent in neighboring kenya. well, my pompei and become the 1st u.s. secretary of state to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank and to step foot in the occupied golan heights. but players in israel as part of a 10 day tour of the middle eastern europe earlier, he met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and said illegal settlements can be and we quote, lawful and proper. also said the u.s. would be stepping up action on a boycott. movement against israel, let's get the very latest from our correspondent gary falsities in ramallah in the occupied west bank. of course a controversial visit by the secretary of state to now that he has visited. what's the reaction we'll leave palestinian reaction has been pretty strong. senior

members of the palestinian leadership saying that the united states through this action is now not just a sponsor of the israeli occupation, but an active part in it. this was a visit to that side, got settlements opposite the palestinian town of algeria in the occupied west bank just very close to ramallah. it's an area where there are a lot of us palestinian joint nationals who say that this visit has taken place on their stolen property. what it was visiting was a winery which was involved in a court case last year in the european court of justice, which ruled that all products coming from israeli settlements, including the wind from this settlement, had to be labeled as such. not simply as israeli. it was shortly after that that declared a change in u.s. policy that it would no longer automatically look at settlements in the occupied west bank as contrary to international law. and so as well as being the 1st u.s.

secretary of state to make such a visit itself a very controversial and surprise. at the same time, the u.s. state department said it would now mandate all products coming from settlements in the occupied west bank into the u.s. market, simply as made in israel or products of israel. so in a way that's yet more controversial, because it essentially says that the u.s. views these areas as integrity to israel, whether there's been actual annexation or not. and so again, that has been a jek to 2 by these by the palestinians as far as netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. and pompei are concerned. they had a joint statement in jerusalem earlier on in which they went over several of the very many things that as far as israel is concerned, the trumpet ministration has done to its benefit over the last 4 years and might compare had another one. as you say, deciding that the boycott divestment and sanctions and the israeli movement should

be declared as far as the u.s. is concerned, anti semitic. we will regard the global or any israel b.d.s. campaign is anti sematic. i know this is simple to you, mr. prime minister seems it seems like a statement of fact, but i want you to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful b.d.s. . gondor can withdraw our u.s. government support for such groups. b.d.'s responded to that rebutting it saying that it was a working against all forms of racism, including anti jewish racism. and so the united states was trying to conflate its activities with anti semitism for its own political purposes. the visit was no 2, it was not done at that stage. pump air then went on to the occupied golan heights again somewhere that during the trump administration, the u.s. had declared sovereign israeli territory. so this does have something of a flavor of a good bye to a just weeks out from what we still presume will be abided ministration. but during

that process, also issuing new policy, which could, to some extent circumscribed or at least provide a challenge for a new u.s. president. how to force it thanks very much for the update. her force of the force in ramallah was for in secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and member of the palestine liberation organization. central council joins me now via skype from ramallah. good to speak to you again, sir. some palestinian leaders like one another. sure. we have said words to the effect that sort of pompei is insignificant and should just go home. i presume you have a similar sentiment 19 countries doing it is very significant because max himself, mr. brown, after lot of crime, a lot of crime of atonement and work. and i'm often accented to do that. is it by force reality. and this is the meaning of this visit

to a good in the heart of the west bank and the golan heights. but more than that, his declaration that the products of so products is there and means he is receiving good and yeah. and the implementation of the silk want to deal with the sin city, which is that an extension of the west bank. this is the letting their next edition of the occupied get into this. and as such, i think this is a very dangerous matter. and in addition to the fact that he's praying to what obstacles in front of biden could try to create facts on the ground, that could be a new bets. ok. so how does this then, how does propose visit and sort of the very fact that he visited internationally recognized illegal settlements, change the conversation with the israelis and the americans because in the past few days, the palestinian authority has said that it is willing to now start talking to the israelis changes a lot because it means that the united states' new administration, i think,

will be hosting some of that. and that's what mr. biden said. he will not bring back the american embassy now that he will get stronger to act against us. and reality of the fact of the century. liquidation of those, the number ongoing projects by and by not who are supporting government that american administrations were going to do that if you don't, you touch on the fact that it, he's trying to make biden the incoming president elect as a we all assume he will be his position and prospects to try and find a way forward in the middle east. and this impasse more difficult. how difficult do you think he is making it for president elect biden, and his incoming administration or not that he shouldn't want to be a different kind of by going to do this. but there is that unusual because by

the end of the never pressured, he has not dick and very clear to stand strong stand against the settlements. so as long as by not, but if you do exercise pressure on israel, we can see facts on the ground. continuing, that is the meaning of what your and not only our own little dancey and it's us, the sponsors from the american administrations. yet we would like to see the new american administration this and syria. this was it like for you congressman. but on the democratic party, you have done business that is shameful and sentiments i believe. but we didn't hear that from biden yet on top of that allows him so that aipac b.d.'s, which is a peaceful, nonviolent movement. which is not going to wish people of his very good people. but it's not as equally unfair not. so i ain't cool. that's what i want to ask you

a touch of, that's what i want to ask you about what it was about,, the comments about the b.d.s., because for our international viewers, it's not just the palestinians that are fighting for statehood. there are many other groups like human rights watch, amnesty international,, various christian church groups in the united states, u.k., sweden, denmark, india, that are all trying to help and support the palestinians. they are all going to be deemed anti semitic in their, in their efforts to help you if what pompei is said is that transpires legally in the next few weeks before the administration leaves. pompei 0 and netanyahu, and there's a phone call, just finance them and you could do this thing, occupation, justice and apartheid. and that's why they're not backing b.b.'s. it's an effective movement. so peaceful movement. and it's not against jewish all israeli people, as i said. but it is against occupation and apartheid. they want to destroy us and

a possibility of the action, but they will not succeed. yes, we'll continue our good writer. but i think now here we go. is not only shameful. it's very close to a fascist approach. but are you with us people including the american people that i think that out of the mouth expression now is the meaning. so it's good to get your point of view. mr. barghouti, the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative. thanks for joining us from ramallah. thank you. senior politicians in the u.s. are pushing for new legislation to block a $23000000000.00 weapon sale to the united arab emirates. the move is seeking to halt president donald trump's deal to sell drones. f. $35.00 fighter jets and missiles to the u.a.e. senators say the sale was rushed and threatens to start an arms race in the region

. well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news are a cry for help from communities across central america. after a storm iota left a trail of destruction and death in the ad words from the university of georgia. the n.b.a. draft with a difference as the delayed annual pick of the best college players goes head in the pandemic that's coming up in sports. so don't go away. hello, mostly the arabian peninsula is quite quiet at the moment, but in the arabian sea there's a circulation forming that might increase the shower likelihood encircled, or the whole of iraq, or even one of the showers in a month. more likely and rather more widespread is what's happening in the eastern med yet another circulation is developing here. so that will bring rain into the

demand across syria and across iraq in the shadow spread dancer, saudi arabia with snow on the heights of iran. this isn't unusual weather, this is not going to be repeating weather for the next few months. now said the arabian sea is active, so is the indian ocean. currently, we are free from circulation, the turn into hurricanes, but it's been wet recently in northern madagascar. and we've seen a fair amount of rain spread, dance around, go to then towards namibia as well as for science in africa. once again, we're generating showers in the east. so new job, johannesburg and cape town's wind up to 30. that will not last the wind directions change, it will cool down again. i would like to see the forecast a proper write in the puter, but we've just got ses of these coming in. so the next couple days there will be some rain in some parts of mozambique, but the concentration is fairly, obviously, botswana and then again in south africa,

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that's will be striked to welcome back. you're watching the al-jazeera news hour with the whole run a reminder of our top stories. there are promising results from a coronavirus vaccine developed by the university of oxford and astra zeneca. the latest phase 2 findings show a strong immune response was triggered in those aged over 70. at least 16 people have been killed in uganda. joining protests sparked by the arrest of opposition leader bobby, why 350 were arrested in the unrest. security forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician and by pompei or has become the 1st u.s.

secretary of state to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank and to step foot in the occupied golan heights. earlier he said, israeli settlements can be, quote, be lawful and proper. if europe is military, says it's nearing to graze main city of mccarley in what it calls its final offensive. after more than 2 weeks of fighting with the region's leaders, the prime minister's task force says it's close to ending the conflict. let's bring in mohammed atta, our correspondent in the capital, and as we've been hearing, have it claims from both sides that they're making advances. i mean, what are you hearing about the current situation in t. gray? really, as the government says it's making inroads towards the regional capital. yes . so let's what the government is saying that the an attack on the cup, the tone of the ticker,

very region michela and from multiple fronts is imminent. they say that this is going to happen in the coming hours or days. both sides have been making huge claims of victory, very hard to ascertain, given the telephone and internet network integrated region being down. but the spokesman for the emergency task force said that the looking at attacking mic, which they consider to be the ultimate price in this war, that's now almost 2 weeks old. of course that the british people's liberation front to have a top mount had their defenses on the hill, some mountains outside the capital of the region. the government on its side is saying that they are superior air power is going to be enough to be able

to knock out those defenses. but again, security analysts will almost always tell you that the bottle for mckenna is not going to be is easy because of the terror in and because of the how heavily armed the degree fighters a lot. of course, it's never easy for the civilians that always caught up in the middle mohammed. and obviously we've seen pictures from sudan and our correspondent ahead. but morgan showing us that many thousands of people fleeing into that part of the region. yet the sudanese are so yet the ethiopian government are appealing to their nationals to come back because it will be fine very soon. hearts really know what the ground realities are. it's hard and i don't think given the government knows the true extent of the humanitarian situation. on the ground, that's why they said today that they are sending a task force to look into the gravity of the situation on the ground. even before

the war started, there were hundreds of thousands of people who depended on food aid in a region. they had to be fed by the charities. the charities have been unable to replenish their talk of relief. mood in the past 2 weeks. vehicles are laden with relief and food supplies. tuck at the border that the canadian has with them had a regional, been informed of long queues for bread. not just mckenna, but all the other towns in the ticket, a region that they are also of the thousands upon thousands of refugees from the trail who live within the takeaway region and the humanitarian sources. tell us that this is, this has gotten worse. the peter, the fighting has been going on and it's only bound to get worse. and then that call of people to the ton. i don't know how they're going to cut it out, but these people fresh out of their homes. they've seen the amount of, you know,

impunity and a toxic out of it because their neighbors, the must suck of people, particularly in small towns like my country where hundreds of people were beheaded with knives and machetes. so it's highly unlikely that those people of the trucking all the way to soon done would be able to return soon as the government is putting for the update mohammed out there for us in addis ababa. thank you. now pakistan's prime minister is in afghanistan with talks with president, a shotgun is imran khan's 1st visit to the country when it comes, as peace talks between afghanistan and the taliban have stalled, and there's been more violence between afghanistan's forces and the taliban. well, hyder has been following the story from the pakistani capital. this really, it comes at a very crucial time in gate because there is a transition of power in the united states. the u.s. president that did the outgoing president had already mentioned that he wanted to go through. the pakistani prime minister was given both sides saying that days

where they go to where they are sure of ronnie's day, they should be a leap of faith. both countries should move to try to get moved. imran khan also saying that it was indeed a historic development. and he said that it would do whatever it is sports that brought it to their stall, peace and of iran has done an interview with wide lens. although did it because a diplomatic norm is right and both sides poured a brave face. there are serious challenger go. beardsley and no one annoyed happened within the next 2 months. august on the, to the prime minister had already played a crucial role in bringing the taleban and the u.s. to accept across the table from each other. and also played a role in the interest of iran dialogue. know what pakistan has said. all along that there has to be our own instead of one,

it's down to be used against any other country. something that other band agreed with the united states that are deep. and people based on the elementary driven by the pakistani military, including by huge insurgents, are training on the other side, need some action from the government. as a bunch of government says it will be inviting international experts to assess damage in the town of presumably going to international courts against what it calls a meaning of war crimes. as only forces recaptured the town in the recent. well just there has been given rare access to suzuki near the iranian border. and some binge of it is that this is a plume of white phosphorus, a banned chemical which burns human skin as the forces allege this was fired on a civilian area by armenia. both countries accuse each other of using the illegal munition, but deny using it themselves. it's the 1st time international media has been

allowed into territory taken by a very forces destroyed tanks and unexploded rockets everywhere. the gorgon village post, where the strategic importance for the bunkers and supply routes are treating armenian troops. left these shells and thousands of rounds helmets, boots, sleeping bags, and uniforms littered the fields on the way to fizzling. the town was captured by the armenian military in 1903. and most of it is in ruins. now, among the people taken to the town for a tour arranged by the government where some homeowners from physically, these are the entrance to my house was from the other side. but now bushes and trees have overtaken my 3 bedroom house with a kitchen and a big yard. i'm very sad was the reason why did they grab and destroy all these houses? what you've also lost his home, and he says he used to be the head of the theater in physically 27 years ago in the

oldest building. officially. it was an architectural marvel and 100 years old. it's not far from here, but now it's damaged beyond recognition. where we stand now used to be a busy street, and a luxury is part of the city. now it's just hurtful and upsetting. this, right? you know, bones, territorial claims physically has largely remained a ghost town. i mean, you captured it in 1903, but the 100000 plus population in iran physically was never replaced. it's not clear whether it was systematically damaged or just neglected for nearly 3 decades . as any president says, shortly after the deal that ended the conflict in forced armenia to hand over territory to other right, john construction is set to begin on the 29000000 dollar highway. that will link visually to the 2nd largest city in nagorno-karabakh. and according to him, the enemy will be held to account armenia as a state appears, the responsibility for such an actions of war crimes,

crimes against humanity in cordons in a policy of $1.00 isn't. and based on that assessments, of course, we will continue to build international institutions including the international courts. so we are to hew armenia. those disappears from physically see their mosques have been destroyed in graves of their ancestors desecrated. they see what gives them strength is knowing they are nor longer displaced and will be able to rebuild their homes, looking at the destruction, it's hard to imagine how this was once a bustling city with tens of thousands of people. people here say they're emotional when they've come back and they're ready to rebuild their lives. as soon as they get the go ahead. some of the job it does if they are physically demanding the resignation of the president, sebastian pinera, after a crackdown on demonstrations, places and use water coming to disperse crowds and the rest of people near the presidential palace 3 weeks ago voted in favor of rewriting the constitution, after more than a year of protests,

but also demanding the release of activists who've been jailed, large crowds gathered in argentina's capital supporting a push by the president that would legalize abortion. the move has reopened a controversial debate in the last a catholic country. after similar efforts fail to years ago, trees about a small for what is are, is it was a campaign promise made by president albert of the family and this vowing to change the strict abortion laws. in argentina. this week he sent a proposal to congress to legalize the procedure activists celebrated. but they know there's a tough battle ahead on the commitment that we believe we have to be on the streets to continue with the sea of green as we see it. because we cannot be defeated again in the senate, and we don't know how many senators will vote. in some cases they made up their decision to the situation on the street. so we need to be here. abortion is only legal in argentina in cases of rape, or if a woman's lives is at risk,

was in 2018 at bill was passed in the lower house but failed to get senate approval. a motion that controversial. 2 issues in the catholic country and there are some sectors of society that of the said, well this is what many here say that of course it will be happening in one of the fun way and that's why thousands of women are hospitalized every year. most of those women who have to go to robert dr. and end up trying to terminate their pregnancies in back room. you see jurors that are unsafe and illegal human rights groups say legalizing abortion is a matter of public health and that's why they're pushing willful. he's to take action by turning public buildings green, the color that has come to represent the call to legalize abortion in latin america to some legislator, i already say that they are, they are in favor of a war for some families is there. maybe they don't fight against abortion on, it's ok. we now feel they are, it's ok. but somehow i think they are doubting and,

and we are trying to topple both who are doubting in order that look on means then to sell them how we think or backward. and be nice to finally have that big of an i say, somalia face on a far more fun, i have to angle yanna are the only latin american countries that permeate pregnancies to be terminated in the 1st weeks of the bill in argentina would allow women to have an abortion during the 1st 14 weeks of pregnancy, but the measure is also accompanied by a 1000 days surance policy that will assist women who want to have their babies. but the bill faces strong opposition, especially from the catholic church. both francis compared having an abortion to hiring a hit man, and many in the country agree an orderly. once again, they are taking abortion law. they want to tell us abortion is the solution for poverty. in argentina, we ask all good argentinians to do what they can on the streets to pressure

legislators to oppose the bill. the abortion law cannot make it to congress. the law is likely to be debated in december during an extra sessions. these people say they'll remain on the streets pressuring congress to legalize abortion and helping women to get the treatment they desperately need. it is how will what a sight us forecasters are warning the devastating floods left by storm iota could get worse with more heavy rain on the way to came ashore in south and central america as the strongest atlantic hurricane of the year. killing more than 30 people, and leaving a trail of destruction, alexia brian has more overcome with emotion. these families are being reunited, after hurricane iota ripped through their homes in colombia. the desperation of seeing their neighborhoods destroyed the fear of losing their loved ones, and the relief of survival are too much for some your words because i

can't explain. it is the worst thing a human can experience. now there are people on the streets sleeping on the streets . there's been a lifted from the island of providence here. and this is what they've left behind. the military has been called in to help with the cleanup and what will be a long road to recovery. time for themselves, and i know that the reconstruction challenge is going to be enormous. juge the total destruction of a lot of the infrastructure. important thing is that in the 1st $100.00 days of intervention, we will have humanitarian assistance. going to be able to help the most affected families. the storm unleashed winds of around 250 kilometers an hour and record rainfall, swelling rivers, and triggering mudslides across central and south america. rooftops doss the sea of muddy water and honduras, where tains of thousands were forced to flee to shelters. and i feel i'm going to

go with thankful to god, thankful to those who arrived and help the children above all else. the atlantic is saying a record storm season this year. scientists say warmest say's caused by climate change and making hurricanes stronger for longer after landfall. many of these areas were battered by another major hurricane, just 2 weeks ago. authorities and build in nicaragua say anything left standing after that storm was destroyed this time around. shelters already packed after easter and now overwhelmed with new arrivals. right now i'm in a shelter, but at any moment they could kick me out and i don't know where to go. and it's not over yet. there are more warnings of life 3 thank flash, flooding from the heavy rain in iotas tale. brian al-jazeera. well still ahead here on al-jazeera find out about the small baseball stadium in texas that's being

used to promote cricket in the u.s. .

talk about times has peter, thank you so caps and tired of always being blamed for problems at the club. this was him returning to spain from international duty with argentina reporters outside the able to all students who respond to claims by reasons former agents that he has a row enough, tara bossa messy, tried to leave the club this year,

but was forced to stay another season after they refused to trigger, he's really schools getting out in a few minutes. you know, what's your reaction to being called the head of a reign of terror? is arthur's ever known? to be honest, i'm a bit tired of always being the problem for everything in this club. and to top it off, i've just arrived after a 15 hour flight and get delayed by customs. it's crazy. now to the asian champions league, which is being hosted inside a quarantine bubble in cutter australian side sydney. see we're up against a shanghai s. i.p.g. of china at the world cup stadium. and recently, who went ahead through trained harder but back came shanghai in the 2nd half with an equaliser from leashing long. and then we got another to put them ahead with 10 minutes left and to make it worth the 70, their goal keeper, thomas howard bell,

was same thought for a moment of madness in the 91st minute handling the ball. more than 5 metres outside of the box. and conti, that female footballers who have families are set to receive better working conditions. football's governing body fee 1st says it will bring in new rules, allowing players to take at least 14 weeks of maternity leave and still get paid a minimum of 2 thirds of they contracted salary. they also get extra 3rd cicle support when they return. any club that ends a player's contract for becoming pregnant, could face a fine and might even be banned from the transfer market for a year. the rules are set to be ratified by the fever council in december, newly crowned formula one world champion. lewis hamilton says he hopes to have a new contract in place with misstate. he soon hamilton, who won his 7th world title last weekend in turkey, has been with the german team since 2013. but his current deal runs out at the end of the season. it will lot more to do together. so i am hopeful once

we get this direction, still to go or to see more more we're always together in terms of the changes that we can achieve more in terms of winning the former australia rugby union, coach michael checa is switching codes to take charge of lebanon's rugby league team, he was one of these boss for 5 years until 2019 and has been working as a consultant with argentina. but now he's going back to his roots, as both of his parents were migrants from lebanon, who went to australia in the 1950 s. checker will prepare them for next year's rugby league world cup. meanwhile, reg b. in england has been prioritized in a $400000000.00 government bailout, designed to help sport survive without fans. during the pandemic, around half of it will go to rugby 178000000 to union and 60000000 for league.

women's football gets 4000000 while men's professional football and cricket or not part of the package. one of the biggest stars in major league baseball robinson curnow has been suspended for the whole of next season for taking performance enhancing drug. the new york mets 2nd baseman tested positive for a ban the anabolic steroids. he's been suspended for $162.00 games without pay, which will cost him his $24000000.00 salary. so prefer some, the 38 year old has violated the drug rules canoe, an 80 game suspension in 2018 when playing for the seattle mariners the mets president said we were extremely disappointed to be informed about robinson's suspension violation. it's very unfortunate for him, the organization, our fans and sport the mets fully support m. r. b's efforts towards eliminating performance enhancing substances. after months of delays because of the pandemic,

the n.b.a. has held its annual draw for be at virtually. but commissioner adam silver announced the number one pick while the hopefuls waited at home with their families, with the 1st pick in the 2020 n.b.a. draft, the minnesota timberwolves select anthony edwards from the university of georgia. it was an emotional moment for edwards who set surrounded by portraits of his late mother and grandmother, who died of cancer. a 19 year old will now get a 4 year contract with $44200000.00. i'm going to what are we to bring? what i bring to the table and just impact a game other way like they are making sport about so defensively on impact, the game being a car, the best rebound of team that i could possibly be. and just be a lock in and do whatever the coach and me tennis world. number one, never talk of which is calling on australian authorities to allow players to compete while in quarantine ahead of the australian open the tournament should all take place in melbourne in january while the country remains closed to nonresidents

because of coronavirus and the victoria states government is yet to sign off on plans on dealing with arrivals. i'm planning to play australian open for sure. i mean, i would like to to go there and i'm ready to quarantine for 2 weeks and whatever is necessary for me to be able to play i hope that there's going to be you know, support and understanding from the victorian in saying government for, for the players and for tennis, australia and they're all allow players to compete in the 2nd week of corn teen. south africa's cricket team is also dealing with a case of coronavirus just before the start of their series with england. an unnamed player in the squad has tested positive and 2 others who were in close contact with him on the isolating. the team is due to play a limited overs series against england beginning with the 1st of 3. t 20 matches in cape town. on the 27th of november, meanwhile,

work has begun on building the 1st of a major cricket venue in the united states. this empty baseball stadium in the dallas suburb of grand prairie, is being redeveloped to host major and minor league cricket. it will also be a high performance center for the national teams. the us is also planning a joint bid with the west indies to host the t 20 world cup. it's going to be fun. i tell you some of the baseball. a lot of the same things go on and pictures have similar firm balls and all that. and it's just, it's going to be a lot of this is the 2nd largest in the world and we're bringing to the largest media market in the world. and that sentence alone, it doesn't matter if it's cricket or it's which it, whenever it is that just smells of opportunity. well, one man's curveball is another man's in swinging your cursor and

a thanks very much phaser. and of course, i'll have more news on the other side of the break. we have been watching al-jazeera news with peter sterling beats the hell drama. until a few minutes time. thanks for your time and your company to jump into this story and to lean on global community bio diversity is biosecurity. it is that essential for our species to survive? be part of the debate. i know you have i.d.'s and you can be part of this conversation. when no topic is off the table, the police are not neutral and all of these case goal here is to terrorize. and

here's the other part of this. there's no consequence to this stream on out as they are on the deserted streets of. they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles, delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians. most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go missing. mother of 4 says, contagion is always on her mind. none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet. there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants. now say they're essential to control the virus. i receive messages on the out saying that we are, you know, so i was a nurse back home. what i am doing is not all that different from my passion, helping others for 23 years. mohsin has collected kind's along the coast. enough to fill his museum enough to break

a guinness world record. armed with a story for every object, he's become an environmental activist and inspired artist. and a voice for the plight of countless migrants might use the al-jazeera. u.k. scientists reporting courage in results of the world's searches for a safe and effective covert 19 vaccine. so rommany watching al-jazeera life. my headquarters in doha also coming up the death toll in uganda, rises to 16 after protests, against the arrest of opposition. leader bobby, why also in ethiopia where the government says it's moving forward on its final

offensive against fighters around to gray's main city and pal.