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close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. saddam prepares for an influx of more refugees from ethiopia. the un's child agency warms. it could be overwhelmed. so how raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters in doha, coming up in the next 30 minutes out on bail ugandan pop star turned opposition leader bobby wine is released from custody as the death toll from protests continues to mount. also armenia relinquishes land to azerbaijan. after controlling it for almost 30 years, and with the donald trump chances of overturning the election result near 0,
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his lawyers resort to making increasingly wild claims. welcome to the program, the united nations has called on ethiopia's warring sides to stop fighting immediately. so aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. the government launched an offensive into grey region 2 weeks ago. both sides accuse each other of killing civilians in airstrikes and indiscriminate attacks. the un's refugee agency says it's preparing for as many as 200000 people to seek refuge in sudan. so far more than 30000 have fled, humanitarian workers say millions of children are at risk, and refugees are in serious danger of an outbreak of disease. have organ reports now from gaza. he 1st state in sudan, near the border with ethiopia, where tens of thousands of taken refuge just 2 weeks ago. what he did,
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saturday was preparing for her sunday now is operation. he was born with a cleft lip, which has affected his ability to drink milk and along with it his health. but just days before they were due to return to the capital of, if europe is not integrated region, the situation changed dramatically when we were due to go back for his last check up before the operation, the fighting started, all the roads were blocked and we couldn't get to macquarie, people were being killed and there were bombs being dropped, so i fled with him and my family. now we can't even get a doctor to check on him. we can't even get him his vaccination, let alone have hope. you'll get an operation here. the family now resides at this refugee camp in a fresh, a guy in sudan of state. there more than 15000, if you can refugees here in what was once a largely uninhabited area. thousands more. if you have fled to neighboring state to escape the fighting into. great. but it to hell are you on her 2 children are
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some of them. her infant son has been suffering from breathing problems and she says she's been struggling to get him the care he needs. he has one block nostril and doesn't feed except from a bottle. but i don't have formula for him because weeks fighting ethiopian came here. and the health care center doesn't have formula. so i have to go looking around for that. but i don't know where i'll get the money from. the camp has only one health center to cater for the thousands of children here. mothers wait for their turn to have their children seen by doctors. many children exposed to the horrors of conflict in the 1st years of their lives. according to unicef, 40 percent of the refugees arriving in sudan are children. some have been separated from their families and the process of tracking them has started. others have arrived with malnutrition because of the days they spent walking with no food and all have been affected by the conflict integrate in a way that will likely impact their childhood. the un's children's agency says that
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chris tricked it access, and the ongoing communication blackout in the tigre region has left an estimated 2300000 children in need of humanitarian assistance. and as more and more refugees arrive in sudan, there's rising concern over their future. remember, this is the time school started, children will actually miss this year's school. and most of those children we saw yesterday come there are school age. unfortunately, they will not have school this year. so we have to come up with alternative and programs already within the next month or 2. we're hoping the crisis will stop, the fighting will stop. there will be able to go back home. but if that's not the case, we have to be in place to support them. what do you do says she hopes the conflict ends soon so that she can return back home with her family. she says she wants her child to be operated on, but more importantly, wants him to grow up with no memories of the horror that's forced her and her family to leave their lives behind and seek refuge here in sudan. people morgan al-jazeera and fresh take on the part of state. this area army says it has entered
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a district that's been under armenian control for almost 30 years. it's one of 3 areas that armenia has to hand back as part of a cease fire reached a week ago. now russia helped broker the truce, and house peacekeeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer. armenians are angry about giving up their land and have been protesting to demand their prime minister resign as a by john and armenia sign the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over in the corner of the bath. let's take a closer look at the regions being handed over the and then region alone is nearly the size of the disputed nagorno-karabakh region. armenia must hand over to more areas in the coming weeks, including the region on november the 25th on december 1st, it will have to hand over the election district. and that includes the important corridor connecting the gonna come back to armenia. that's now under control of russian peacekeepers as a by john will keep all its territorial gains, including the corner kind of box 2nd city show some
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a bit of it is near and done. we've been told that that is exactly the same as what we, what we saw and physically which was a ghost town. just to give you an idea of where we are. these are actually the trenches on top of which we're standing for about 30 years. this is the area which the israeli army was using to go back to the dude go towards the front lines and we're just a few 100 meters away from the defacto border, which has existed for about 27 years and about 10 kilometers away from the town center where we've seen some social media pictures of the azeri army moving in and taking control of large parts of the city again, which was a ghost town. so adam was one of the most populated areas in the gorn, a car about one of the 7 regions around nagorno-karabakh, which were taken by the area by the armenian army in 1903, when they moved in. and it was about that 10 percent of all of the rajon territory
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. so now it is being handed over people. we've been meeting on the street on the way to the border, waving their flags coming out in support and asking us, has somebody been to the other side? has somebody been to their mosques or somebody seen their homes? so there's a lot of anticipation here because people want to go back, they've been living away as i.d.p.'s, and they now want to return to their homes. but it is not going to be easy or quick, because the military has been telling us that all of this area is littered with an exploded munitions and on mine. but you brought, there is a senior fellow at the atlantic council's eurasia centime global energy center. he says and is going to kind of box finally, legal status needs to be determined in future negotiations. and i was the u.s. mediator in the normal car of a conflict as well as ambassador azerbaijan. and in that capacity, we were able to get armenia and azerbaijan in, in 2009 to agree to a framework, to settle the conflict, which is essentially what was agreed on november 10th in that deal between armenia
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and azerbaijan, brokered by president putin of russia. so that framework is now being realized, and it always envisioned that the final legal status of armenian occupied areas of nagorno-karabakh would be determined through negotiations that would conclude at an indeterminate point in the future. so i think that's where we are right now. those negotiations will take place at some point, but of course only after the dust settles literally and figuratively and psychologically and the, the sense of humiliation and anger in armenia softens. the anger is going to increase the azerbaijani side is probably going to push for that legal path and sure, i think armenia will resist. i, but at the end of the day, i think we're going to see that this peace agreement will be implemented. and yes, there will be, i think, russian and, and turkish peacekeepers involved as far as we can see into the future until there finally, is that negotiation on the final legal status of the residual part of our car,
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but currently under armenian control, that's a long way in the future, i think ugandan opposition politician bobby wine has been released on bail outs being charged of actions likely to spread coronavirus. officials of accuse the presents the presidential candidates of violating cave in 1000 restrictions. welcome painting for the upcoming poll. at least 28 people were killed during protests by his arrest on monday. let's cross over to malcolm ips monitoring events for us from nairobi in neighboring kenya. we were expecting this court appearance what seems to have happened. he was charged in the courtroom with offenses relating to risking the spread of the coronavirus. and certainly in the last week and a half since the campaign rallies began, he's repeatedly drawn crowds of reporters that are much larger than the limits of $200.00 people that were specified by the ministry of health and the electoral commission. now those also are to say that these large events are
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a massive health risk that could spread the virus very easily in campaigns that are moving all across the country. but we wind supporters very much believe that this is an attempt to stop their legitimate right to pursue a political activities and attempt by the author of these to hide just how popular bobby wine really years. now he's been released on bail. meanwhile, for other opposition, presidential candidates has suspended their campaigns in protest. so we're waiting to find out how the rest of this campaign season is going to go. the election's not do until the middle of january, just on the 2 months away. so it's probably why it's going to be facing court proceedings and will so with great to enforcement of these health regulations from the author of these and some opposition candidates withdrawing from the campaigns. we're going to have to see what's going to happen in the weeks ahead. of course, with regard to what's happening over the last sort of 72 hours. suddenly the death toll continues to rise in the wake of bobby winds the rest of those disturbances
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that followed the situation doesn't look good on that front. please spoke to the press earlier and they said that 28 people have been killed. but that number is being contradicted by a police personnel are just who told news agencies that actually 37 bodies being counted that of arrived in the morgues in relation to those protests that began on wednesday when speaking to the press to police said that its offices hadn't been ordered hadn't been instructed to shoot people, but a lot of videos. social media within the last 48 hours from camp our to do show police soldiers and people in plain clothes, firing kalashnikovs toward people. we don't know if they're metal bullets or rubber coated bullets rights groups have criticized the government of uganda for weaponize ing is coded 90 restrictions with this crackdown thanks very much malcolm
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malcolm out there in nairobi for us. now pfizer and biotech saying they'll submit their covert 1000 vaccine for emergency authorize ation in the u.s. on friday data from the trials of the corona virus shot shown that it's 95 percent effective. meanwhile, in east asia, those countries that are hailing hailed that early success in handling the coronavirus pandemic, and are seeing a sharp increase in cases. japan is on its highest alert level after a record rise in daily infections of more than $2300.00. countries never had a full lockdown and it's up to the public to follow social distancing. rules. south korea is on the brink of another wave, it's registered more than $300.00, new cases, a 3 month high. and the prime minister is urging people to minimize year end parties and stay at home as much as possible. over in china, the problem of community transmission is reemerging. for more domestically infected covert 1000 patients have been detected in the northern city of tianjin. the areas
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now being classified as high risk and in the philippines. nurses are opposing their government's ban on taking work abroad. they say they have the right to pursue work overseas, but the government wants them to serve their country. during the pandemic jamila window, going to has more from manila, gary gary, the admits working as a nurse in manila feels like a struggle for survival. for more than 10 years. he's earned around $400.00 a month. and this is barely enough to support his family. gary has been accepted to work as a nurse in ireland for $6000.00 a month, a salary that is unimaginable to earn here. the philippine government in april barred nurses and other medical workers from leaving saying they were needed to fight the grown. a virus crisis told me working abroad is not make us any less of a patriotic citizen of this country. for me, it is actually a heroic act. we are just human and we also have this goals in over lives. the
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salary here is not to sustain the needs of our families. gary is among the thousands of filipino nurses who have called themselves prison nurses. they started an online campaign to petition the government to reverse its decision. they say it is tantamount to forced servitude. filipino nurses are some of the most sought after health workers in the world. but this fight, this a global study shows that nurses in the philippines receive one of the lowest salaries in southeast asia. the pandemic has highlighted the plight of nurses in the country. and i mean nurses, there's no an average of one nurse to 200 patients. if the government wants to really improve the situation here, they need to hire thousands of nurses in government hospitals. some are nurses who now work in different industries like call centers because these jobs simply pay
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better. nurses are calling for the chapel band to be removed and for salaries of all nurses in the country to be raised. but the philippine government is defending its decision. it says about 75 percent of cities and towns across the country, lack health workers, and it needs to keep the current pool of health workers. here during a pandemic, health workers tell us no one wants to leave their home country. if there are fair opportunities for all, and most of them had to borrow money or sell their land in order to afford to go abroad. now deep in debt, they see the government stands is denying them the opportunity to have a better life. jim duggan al-jazeera manila. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. take gaza's 5 protesters outside a south african school accused of racism against blacks,
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students. and as americans prepare for a traditional thanksgiving holiday feast, more and more people find themselves lining up for soon to stay with us here on al-jazeera. where we've seen a proper taste of winter. it's still there and it did actually, consul lots of temporary damage. so that's the winter front there, wrapped around it, that cold intrusion into the cold areas where we saw snow bitter freezing rain as well. so anywhere in the northeast china 3 provinces, you had significant snow. obviously, traffic temporarily halted road traffic temporary. how did news travel on the roads? now you might think so what? but this is the 1st time has happened this season. the freezing rain quite often is the worst of it all because it increases the weight on power lines and trees and breaks them off. now we go temporary halt in that happens data minus 6,
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and this is the are talking about and snow the next. what's going to come through beijing? a bit of wet snow. i think however, that is the winter coat and it's on its way south through china now it will produce a certain matter rain anywhere as far as the shanghai online backed will happen. but when you get any further, i think probably not. i think that's the moment for now i will hands forecast is 8 to 10 degrees. the next 3 days, the average is 50, so we are below average, but we're not getting the cold immediately. and the good news continues with the sas trying to say that the philippine sea, empty of cloud got no more tropical psycho stalker. about just the normal rainy season in indonesia. but how does one forgave after losing 32 family members in a heinous massacre? a survivor of one of colombia's 50 year long conflicts,
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worst atrocities dedicates his life to reconciliation with his peace falters around him. lay in a poll last year as life and mission are in jeopardy. witness back, i am caught in the crossfire on al jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera me so ho. romney a reminder of our top news stories. the united nations has called on ethiopia's warring sides to stop fighting immediately. so aid can come in and refugees. safe zones can be set up. the government launched an offensive against the grain forces . 2 weeks ago. ugandan opposition politician bobby weiner has been released on bail
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out being charged over actions likely to spread coronavirus. officials have accused the presidential candidates of violating covert 9 restrictions. at least $28.00 people were killed during protests bought by his arrest. and azerbaijan's army says it sounded dumb, a district that's under armenian control for almost 30 years. armenia is handing over the area as part of a cease fire deal to end weeks of fighting over nagorno-karabakh. the us president elect joe biden has been declared the winner in the state of georgia for a 2nd time after a hand recount the ballots were audited. after president double trumps campaign question, the results on time widespread fraud, georgia secretary of state said the republican, he's disappointed in the results but asserted that the numbers don't lie. i'm a passionate conservative. and as i said before, i'm
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a proud trump supporter. i was with him early in the 2016 election cycle and his government nation, but the same conservative principles that i hold dear. like other republicans, i'm disappointed our candidate didn't win georgia's electoral votes. close elections, so distrust people feel their side was cheated. we saw this from the democrats in 2018, and we see this from republicans today working as an engineer throughout my life. i live by the motto that numbers don't lie as secretary of state. i believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct. well, with georgia now called biden has extended his lead and won the presidency with $306.00 electoral college votes. he needed $270.00 from tall short of $232.00 biden is the 1st democratic presidential candidate to in georgia in nearly 3 decades.
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let's cross over to the white house or washington d.c. said in a white house correspondent, kimberly health that he joins me now. kimberly cause trouble be concerned now that he's lost georgia, but michigan is still in play as far as he's concerned. and he's trying to really sort of change tack and try to flip the states in a different way. yeah. as far as president, trump is concerned, it's still in play. i'm not sure that everyone in michigan feels that way. and just to clarify this process, because it is a confusing process, and the presidential votes will officially be formalized in mid december when the lek doors vote and cast their votes for joe biden, because he has amassed the most electoral college votes. and what's happening right now is we see each individual state you heard the secretary of state there in georgia, is there certifying their individual votes right now? so this is a process that we know is going to be completed in the state of georgia as of 10 am
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local time, that's in about 45 minutes or less. and then it looks to december for this formal process. and then what we're seeing is from donald trump and the republicans, is they are exploring sort of their window of opportunity in advance of certification from michigan that will take place on monday. and in advance of this december electoral college vote in whether or not they can overturn what right now is a projected win for joe biden, a handy one at that. so what we know is that the u.s. president's latest tactic is we have been reporting that his court cases have for the most part, failed around the united states. is that he is expected to today meet with some legislatures, republican legislatures from the state legislature in michigan. why is he doing that? because there is the possibility in this is illegal that in fact, even though the state has gone for joe biden,
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the republicans can vote to instead have republican electors vote in the electoral college vote in mid december. now this would certainly upset many people who would say this would go against the will of the people, but it is being explored. we did see in 26000 so-called faithless electors, going against who they had been edge to vote for. it wasn't very common. it's not exactly it's not unprecedented, but at the same time it has happened in a very small amount. that's what all the way to the supreme court, where they said, yes, this is caused to 2 tional, but it certainly would cause some would say, even a revolution in the united states should it happen, especially now given this disputed vote. so this is what donald trump is exploring . whether or not it will be successful is certainly unclear. most say unlikely for the update thanks very much can be how could our white house correspondent now the u.s. has recorded the hunted steady death toll since may 2224 hours over officials are
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asking people not to travel during next week's thanksgiving holiday. and california has imposed a month long curfew in hopes of stopping the spread of constant salumi reports. the fundament has also cost thousands of people. the jobs americans are lining up for food from california to the midwest to new york. with the national thanksgiving holiday, approaching demand for food assistance is increasing along with new filings for unemployment benefits. the labor department says they increased by 742000 in the last week, reversing recent games. since i don't think it's going on alone. you know, the bigger the do, the things that happen, new york has been hit particularly hard. it's one of 15 states placing new restrictions on businesses,
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an 80 percent increase in new coven infections nationwide, over the past 2 weeks, is keeping tourism down. broadway closed and restaurants at limited capacity. experts warn it is likely to be a difficult winter in new york state as a whole, was regaining payroll jobs at a slower rate than any state other than hawaii through september on a year to year basis. so the recovery was already slow and not quite steady. and these most recent developments have knocked us for a loop. and any reversal of the reopening is going to cause even greater decline in new york subway and bus service could see drastic cuts along with the layoffs of 9000 transit workers. ridership unfair income has fallen in the pandemic, exacerbating prior budget shortfalls. the metropolitan transportation authority is asking congress for 12000000000 dollars. we know that any reduction in service will
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hurt the city in the region, including customers who need us most. but without the certainty of substantial federal dollars, there is no recourse. and we must plan for the worst while hoping for the best in the wake of a crisis that has done more damage to our finances than even the great depression in the thirty's. but republicans have been reluctant to put aid to state and local governments in any federal relief package. aid to states like new york could come down to which party wins the senate and 2 contested seats in georgia up for a runoff election in january. if no a deal is reached, millions of americans are due to lose their unemployment benefits by the end of the year, kristen salumi al jazeera new york. there have been clashes outside a south african high school where people were protesting against racism. it's accused of discriminating against black students. take gas was,
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is outside cape town school, which allegedly held a graduation event, but only white students and teachers attended. now the school denies this and says the function was a private event for me to miller has more from near the school in cape town. a number of members about 2000 of them in fact tried to move closer to the school. you see behind me there now behind a police barricade, but to keep them back. police once again via tear gas and stun grenades, water cannon. to prevent these protesters from approaching the school, they say only 500 protesters are would be allowed through and the size we saw what is why we see this police barricade in this heavy police presence. protesters here have in fact be quite peaceful. and they've also accused police of being heavy handed. they're also apart from targeting the school, they're also angry with police saying that they're racist and they wouldn't respond in the same manner to white protesters or if marches were white,
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it wouldn't be the same scenario. so people here are angry. now ultimately the target is breckon file high school, which they accuse of racism. this goes back to a function that was held a year in function for final year students. once the official trance and interview function was cancelled by the school because of the 19 restrictions, it appears as if students had their own private function. this is what the school is saying. but there are black students at the school who say they've been discriminated against, and none of them were invited to this function they weren't allowed to attend. we've also heard a number of former and present students say that this goes back years and this is a school where there's been a lack of integration, a lack of black teachers. and there's a greater problem of racism at the school. the school has demanded that it has walls were admitted that some work has to be done in that they're now listening to
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all black students feel there's a lot in a budget standoff. putting $850000000000.00 coronavirus relief package in jeopardy cross' talks were held at her virtual summit after poland and hungary vetoed the budget. earlier this week, the 2 countries blocked adoption of the recovery plan over a clause that ties funding to the respect of rule of law. new zealand has urged its asia pacific partners to focus on controlling the krona virus to boost their economies in a speech ahead of the virtual apec summit. prime minister told business leaders that virus control is critical for financial growth. while i don't want to predict the outcome around, like i hung for a group, a new vision for the i should regard guessing on 3 engines of economic growth trying did you do an evaluation, sustainability,
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and inclusion? and you can follow all the latest on our website, it down to 0 dot com, and it's updated through that. our top story, we're following events in azerbaijan and armenia. have more on that and an excuse for you watching all desire, which means they'll run a reminder of our top stories. the united nations has called on ethiopia's warring sides to stop fighting. immediately said, aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. the government launched an offensive against the grain forces. 2 weeks ago. ugandan opposition politician bobby weiner has been released on bail after being charged over actions likely to spread coronavirus, a fish.

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