leaders from around the world. many syrians live in this impoverished neighborhoods . next to the porch where some of them used to work. in the, in the, in the, in sudan prepares for an influx of more refugees from ethiopia. the u.n. warns that it could be overwhelmed by you watching al-jazeera live from doha, with me fully back to go also ahead out on bail ugandan opposition leader bobby wine is released from custody as the death toll from protests rises. pfizer and biotech could become the world's 1st companies to seek emergency authorization in the u.s. for their coronavirus vaccine. i live by the model. numbers down in the,

u.s. georgia's republican secretary of state confirms a narrow win for joe biden. but donald trump snow is vowing to continue contesting the election results. thank you very much for joining us. 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 2 weeks ago targeting the grace people liberation front which governs a to greater region in the past. our ethiopian troops say they have taken the towns of ottawa about 100 kilometers away from the regional capital to grave. both sides of accuse each other of killing civilians in as strikes and indiscriminate attacks . the un's refugee agency says it's preparing for as many as $200000.00 people to seek refuge inside don. so far more than 30000 have fled their humanitarian workers,

say millions of children and refugees are in serious danger of an outbreak of disease. or morgan is at a refugee camp in sudan, near the ethiopian border. more and more refugees continue to arrive to sudan with, at least 400 refugees arriving to this camp here. and by about 30 g.m.t., which is about 3 o'clock local time in the afternoon. and that is when the counter top and they were just ration authorities here. say that more have arrived evidence . al-jazeera has also witnessed dozens of arriving. but authorities say that they will be included in tomorrow's tally and not today because today's count has officially closed. now, this is just here in the camp. there is also another point in neighboring states there who have also arrived continue interest in the region. now the u.n. is quite concerned about the fighting in a region, especially because there is

a lack of communication and there's a communications blackout and lack of access to many tarion system. there are concerns about the welfare of those who are trapped in the conflict, especially children. many of them have fled to neighboring sudan along with their families. some of them with preexisting conditions, with the impact of the fighting, and in fact, from the conflict, clear on their eyes and in their health. just 2 weeks ago, while he 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 a few beers, 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 fresh a guy in sudan's got out of state. there are 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 and her 2 children are 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 cage fighting 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 u.s. children's agency says that chris tricked it access and the ongoing communication blackout in the region has left an estimated 2300000 children in need of humanitarian assistance. and as more and more refugees arriving, sudan is rising concern over their future. remember, this is the time schools are to start to chill will actually miss this year's school. and most of those years when we come there out of school age, unfortunately they will have school this year. so we have to come up with alternative programs already within the next month or 2. we're hoping the crisis

will stop in ethiopia. 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 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 of out of state. earlier i spoke with who's the director general of ethiopia, foreign ministry, and a former ambassador to the u.k. . he rejected accusations that ethiopia deliberately cut communications during its offensive against rebels. integrate. we have people on the ground. we have deployed employees, but entire communication blackout, we have to blame it on t.v. and to do their part. and we are doing this in a very difficult situation ourselves. it is that you've destroyed it. 3 city

communication and everything. we heard prime minister ahmed say that the people who fled in recent weeks should be able to return. but how and when do you think this could be possible? how is very simple because, you know, the border area is cleared of now the area is very calm. and the fighting has moved into the center of the capital city, the regional capital. so it is easy for us now to repatriate them and we are trying to do that, and it is possible to disprove most of them they fled from the border areas, not from by golly. so we would prepare for any eventuality. even those who would be displaced from but the border towns, now it's calm, they will come back and most of them are from those areas. and where do we were

staying in africa? ugandan opposition? politician bobby wine has been released on bail after being charged over actions likely to spread. coronavirus. officials have accused a presidential candidate of violating covert night illustrations, while campaigning for the presidential election scheduled in january. at least 28 people have been killed during protests sponsored by his arrest on when same web esol in developments from neighboring kenya. it was a senior police officer spoke to the press earlier today said 28 people being killed in the violence, the streets you can borrow a car moving back to normal. today that is violence which began on wednesday to lead on on thursday morning with separately, a police pathologist has told news agencies the number of bodies resulting from the violence was actually 37. so the numbers in part on target clear and senior security officials and police have said that they blame people for rioting and for

attacking police officers. on the other hand, there are eyewitnesses, bobby wine himself, when he came out of court, as well as rights groups had complained of on just an unfair and an excessive violence on the part of the security forces. some rights groups have accused the ugandan government and weaponize ng coded 19 response u.s. pharmaceutical company pfizer and its german partner biotech, could become the world's 1st companies to seek emergency operation in the u.s. for the corona virus vaccine, the u.s. health secretary alex has asked says their plan to seek approval is a light at the end of the tunnel. mike hanna has more from washington. what happens once pfizer registers the request with the f.d.a.? it then looks at the data that pfizer has collected through its tests of some $40000.00 people over the past few months. the f.d.a. then calls a meeting with a group of independent scientists who will then decide whether or not to grant the

emergency use authorization based on the data that they've been given by pfizer. but the real difficulty here is that this is not a routine vaccine trial. this is a new technology which the scientists are going to have to look at. it's completely uncharted water. it is not a vaccine in which a mutant down version of the virus is injected into the system, allowing the body to create its own immunity. this is a case where, a spike proteins are created within humans, d.n.a., which replicates the corona virus, and trains the body to recognize it should the corona virus into the body. so this is a totally different technology which has not been dealt with before. and this in itself is going to maybe extend the period the speed with which these vaccines can be rolled out. well, that is also incredibly difficult because this particular treatment requires 2 injections over a period of 3 weeks. now that is a lot of injections,

a lot of the vaccine that needs to be distributed throughout the country. meanwhile, the world health organization has removed the anti-viral drug disappear from its list of recommended medicines for patients in hospital with over 1000. it's another setback for the manufacturer after the drug received early attention as a potential treatment. and then it is that suggests it has little or no effect on survival rates or reducing hospital stays for infected patients. in other world news, azerbaijan's ami says it's and ted, a district that's been under the control of armenia for almost 30 years. it's one of 3 areas that armenia asked to hand back as part of a ceasefire deal just signed over a week ago. russia helped broker the truce and has been keeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer. armenians are angry about giving up the land, and many have been protesting, demanding their prime minister, resign. azerbaijan, and armenia signed the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over nagorno-karabakh.

they have been clashes outside a south african high school where people have been protesting against racism. the school is accused of discriminating against black students to gas was used outside of a cape town school, which allegedly held a graduation event where only white students and teachers attended. the school denies this and says a function was a private event, has more from outside the school in cape town, a number of years, 5 members about 2000 of them in fact tried to move closer to the school. you see behind me they're now behind a police barricade, but to keep them back. police once again fired tear gas and stun grenades. basically water cannon. to prevent these protesters from approaching the school, they say only $500.00 protesters are good to be allowed through. undersize reese, which is why we see this police barricade in this heavy police presence. protesters

here have in fact been quite peaceful. and they've also accused police of been 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, it wouldn't be the same scenario. so people here are angry. now timothy the target is breckon file high school, which they accuse of racism. this goes back to a function that was held a year in functional final year students. once the official trance and interview function was canceled by the school, because a 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 the suspension they're going to allow 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 great problem of racism at the school. the school has demanded that it has rules were admitted that some work has to be done in that they're now listening to all black students feel still ahead on al-jazeera, mexico's economy is legalese that legalization bill. but he still faces hurdles before doors are open for business. hello the arabian sea is quite active at the moment and this master plan, he will resolve itself, i think, into a circulation ceasar culture on the horn of africa, to model a few showers to form in yemen and amman as well. and then from the levant,

across to iran. another wave is coming through snow for the iranian mountains, sunder storms, rain showers for iraq and tail, often society and a change back to cooler weather, but sunshine and showers in the levantine coast. and that of sea continues east was with afghanistan getting more of the significant snow. but a breeze set up down the gulf there hoss 29. i think you'll feel the breeze in that . and here's the rain down in yemen. but you know where the main rain is this times a year. it's a line roughly speaking from zanzibar westwards, but look how far it stretches. this is the time of year when the okavango delta gets full of right, well that's it. and there's rain certainly around here, and it stretches dancer, botswana to the heart of south africa, doesn't affect cape town, whose temperature has just dropped with a change in wind direction. however, when talk just to the west, you've had your rains, i think so we've got 32 degrees or thereabouts. next 3 days, little wind, and plenty of sunshine. but

frank assessments, if other can public opinion piece betrayed by social media platforms after november? what would be good because if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy, one obvious solution is to break the most informed opinion as lucas said, his dog. anyway, the protestors are going anywhere, either it's ability or the revolution people. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines kill, is it that's really out there on the screen inside story on al-jazeera. the, in the, in the

watching al-jazeera recap of our top stories. the united nations has called on ethiopia's warring sides to stop fighting immediately. so aid can come in and refugees save zones can be set up. in the past hour, ethiopian troops say they have taken to towns near to graze regional capital micheli in uganda. a presidential candidate bobby wine has been granted bail after being charged with flouting coronavirus restrictions. at least $28.00 people have been killed in protests over his detention during an election campaign rally. and us pharmaceutical company, pfizer and its german partner by on tech could become the world's 1st companies to seek emergency authorization in the us for their coronavirus vaccine. the us health secretary alex there are says their plans to seek approval is a light at the end of the top 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. out of president trump's campaign question to the results and claimed widespread fraud. georgia secretary of state says as a republican, his disappointed in the results but says that the numbers don't lie. i'm a passionate conservative. and as i've said before, i'm a proud trump supporter. i was with him early in the 2016 election cycle and he's governing nation by 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 distressed 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. now, including georgia's tally biden, has won the presidency with 360 electoral college votes he needed 270 to win. donald trump fell short with 232 biden, is a 1st democratic presidential candidate to win georgia in nearly 3 decades. to save a republican state, legislator, legislature is a legislative, i should say. in michigan have traveled to washington d.c. to meet donald trump as pressure rolls on them to overturn the results to favor him . joe biden has won michigan by more than 154000 votes. biden's legal team has condemned the attempt to set aside the vote. the popular vote. the constitution does not permit a state legislature to do with donald trump once the disk of state legislature to do to save legislature is already prescribed the manner in which the electors in 2020 were to be chosen. and that is through the popular vote. they cannot after the

factual around and change those rules retroactively committee, how could joins us now live from the white house. so kimberly, do we know what's come out of the meeting between president trump and these legislators from michigan? what's the president hoping to get from them? exactly, we just got some clarification. there is a white house press briefing taking place as we speak with caylee machinating, the press secretary saying just moments ago that the meeting is still imminent. so providing some clarity on the timeline. now also saying it may include more than just legislators from michigan in other words that other states may be involved. so this is a pretty interesting development because what it suggests is that donald trump is it appears trying to use a strategy of republican legislatures where that state has gone for joe biden to instead, as you mentioned,

turn their votes to donald trump when the electoral college meets in mid december, in other words, capturing or what his critics would say is really defying the will of the people that right now, in terms of the popular vote, we have joe biden, with almost 80000000 votes. donald trump about 6000000, behind that so many would suggest to subserve verdun, the democratic process. but as we're hearing from the press secretary right now, they argue that it's legal and as one of many tactics that they are continuing to use, including litigation, in order to overturn the vote now. well again, just very quickly, why are they trying to do this? well, they argue that the votes that came in after election day are illegal, that they should have been counted. the voting should have stopped on november 3rd . when donald trump for a while, was looking like he was in the lead. but as the votes continued to be tallied, they favored joe biden. and as we have been reporting here in al jazeera joe biden,

now being called as the president elect, or in other words, the projected winner. so very quickly again, what they're doing is trying to use this window of opportunity to explore legal challenges and also legislative ones. thank you, ken baker. now can we, how could life for us have the white house now to better will swear, thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a pro-democracy protests. are witnesses say 31 year old roman born dire enco was beaten by several men last week before being taken into custody. he died from brain injuries the following day. the authorities have denied responsibility, but repairing and iran, the sanctions. paul brennan reports hold their hands held high in a peace sign. the mourners filled the area in front of the church in minsk. the death of roman pondering co has given new impetus to bella, who says opposition movement, which has faced a ruthless clampdown by government security forces in recent weeks. we will not

forget, we will not forgive, was just one of the slogans. the crowd chanted in unison. when you just assume that i have a son, and i understand that any of us could have been killed. i really want my son to grow in a free, safe country so that he grows up as a free man and can express his thoughts without being punished. so i hope that it will be so. will your boy. from today i have pain in my soul, so i came to say goodbye to a wonderful person, roman on the rank who died under such tragic circumstances. i could not stay at home. i came to say goodbye to this wonderful young man. beatings and arrests of escalated in recent weeks as opposition. demonstrators continue to dispute the outcome of august presidential election. a vote in which the sitting president alexander lukashenko claimed victory. because riot police have used tear gas rubber, bullets, and stun grenades against the demonstrators. thousands have been arrested, but the protests continue. undeterred. the e.u.

has condemned what it describes as the violent repression and intimidation of peaceful demonstrators and has already imposed sanctions against lucas shank oath his son, victor, and 13 other officials, direct pressure and they look he gains people has not stop. we have already sanctioned more than 15 degree duels in 2 rounds of sanctions. thank today. we have agreed to proceed with the preparation of the next round of sanctions. as a response to the brutality of the assert, it is an insuperable for the democratic rights of the people. the square where roman bonder and co was beaten and arrested was already a focal point for the pro-democracy opposition movement. now it has also become a powerful memorial to his life and his defense of the opposition course. paul brennan, al-jazeera millions of voters in book will head to the polls on sunday. but activists

say the ongoing violence will make it difficult for the country's 6000000 registered voters to cast their ballots, even if they wanted to promote a dealer and her family fled the village or 2 after a night attack by gunmen. although the family was lucky to meet the 2 are good to go alive. many other villages did not. the mother of 4 says she fled without identity documents. that without them would get a say in the elections. i don't have a birth certificate and don't know how to get one. i need that to get a new national identity card which will allow me to receive my voter card. i won't be able to vote on sunday because there's nothing that proves i'm from burkina faso . she's one of hundreds of thousands of broken obvious who have lost voting rights because of the violence sweeping across the west african nation. attacks by armed groups in 2015 marked the beginning of

a violent campaign. baloch aida isolette that feeling that us will fight, killed and displaced more than a 1000000. people in particular, activists say about 1600 communities have been uprooted because of the attacks against civilians and burkina faso security forces. it's a difficult situation. it's complicated and it's the 1st time in our history this many people will be disenfranchised. but it's the reality not because they don't want to vote, but simply because they can't say more than $400000.00, new voters could be added to the register this year because of the violence and widespread displacement. the elections commission has already given up on conduct in the polls and hundreds of villages across the country, back at the shelter for the delos too much as only one wish, that whoever becomes president after sunday's vote will end the violence so that they can go back to their lives, not an impossible dream,

but like millions of other victims of the violence sweeping the sahara region of west africa, the family may have to wait a bit longer to see this dream come true. greece is here. mexico's senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill to make it legal to use my juana. the legislation still needs congress, but the volt is seen as a 1st serious attempt to legalize cannabis in a country that's become notorious for its drug war. john heilemann has a story, makes cars been grappling for years with how to regulate this one. it's been illegal for decades while the war against drugs has raged. now, a new law approved by the senate, which still has to go through congress, proposes legalizing production and consumption with quite a lot of restrictions. i don't would be able to buy up to 28 grams of pole and cultivate full plants for personal use. it could also be imported an export it with

a license. this grower now producing illegally is cool, she slope to mystic. you have a few other folks here and so i decided to grow because i'm a consumer 1st. and i think that right now the conditions in which marijuana is produced and distributed in our country is very violent and very corrupt. and that's the key question. legalizing marijuana, if it makes cars, cartels and gangs who currently run the business. the common consensus is no kind of his production is just a small part of their portfolio which also includes meth, then to new cocaine, and other rockets like extortion. have a look at this, these kind of these plants are actually being grown right in front of makes kerry, senate by marijuana activists who are trying to raise awareness with what's going on. and they have another big question, and it's this group, or communities in the rural hills of mexico that currently grow their crop for the

no case. now get the chance to go legal and on paper under this law, it seems like they will because 40 percent of the licenses to grow marijuana in the 1st 5 years of legalization are serve for them. it's. but in practice, things could work differently in the mountains. minimal risk that if you, as a local peasant prince and say, i will only produce legally. now i want to make a living in a listen to legal terms that you will not get away with. because there is frank power off, organized crime with groups in those areas. and the most likely scenario is unfortunately, that if you have a new look at your market coming into play, that they will try and probably succeed in getting their hands on. the new proceeds on them, your profits. oh, the fear of marijuana activists is that the law will actually only help international corporations get into the mix car market. and so to richer urban

consumers. well elsewhere, the street code of business continues is normal. but in a socially conservative country, really talk of drug legalization is deeply controversial to senators and of the kurds. hope this could be the start of change. john homan out zillah. mexico city. clear again. i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera had 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 if they have taken to towns near to graze regional capital mccully in uganda. opposition, politician bobby wine has been released on bail. officials have accused a presidential candidate of violating.