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 koori. what i am doing is not all that different from my passion, helping others. if you appease government, says to gray and forces have 72 hours to surrender as soldiers get ready to surround the regional capital mccalla. i know i'm maryam, namazie, and london. you're watching al-jazeera also coming up a lifesaving development in the u.s. battle against the coronavirus immunization could begin early next month. a pledge by the world's richest nations to the world's poorest g. 20 leaders commit to fair access for corona virus, vaccines. and the polls close and became a fast so in an election,

overshadowed by violence stained by claims of voter fraud. in a dramatic escalation, ethiopia's prime minister is issued a 72 hour ultimatum to forces in the dissident region of to gray. says the great people's liberation front has 3 days to surrender, or brace for an all out assault on the regional capital. the reuters news agency has been reporting that to gray and forces have destroyed roads and bridges to slow the government offensive down. the ethiopian military plans to surround the city with tanks and artillery in an effort to end the nearly 3 week war. this is, according to a military spokesman, and in an address on state t.v., residents were told to save themselves and leave the city while they still have the time to do so. prime minister ahmed says, all humanitarian needs will be addressed and that his government would help with

the eventually return and reintegration of refugees. as mammadov brings us more now from ethiopia's capital. the government forces idea to reach the outskirts of the city of mccullough couple of the to grow region, but they are already talking about how they are planning on how they want to see start city, which is not only the biggest city in the to grow region but also the stronghold of the 2 p.l.o. leaders. prime minister of this government does spirit to see cup should. now they're saying to finish the wall, what is going to happen in the mountainous areas surrounding mckillop? there will be needing tunks and also to living fired into this city, targeting military installations there on the differences of the t.p.s. . they're saying there were also use franks and drawn up tuck's against the

defenses on its outskirts before you feel pressure. difference forces can advance towards the field or fields on the outskirts of the city. they have been dropping overnight and lift lots warning civilians not to go anywhere near military installations and to stay at home. but it's not known what the civilians who are already facing. shortage of food and every other basic essential can do other than flee. well, tens of thousands of refugees have fled the conflict crossing the border into sudan . unicef says about 45 percent of them children. the u.n. has asked for $200000000.00 to help fund the refugee crisis in the country. estimates more than 200000, people might cross the border in the next 6 months, often without food, water, or basic supplies. many of the people who fled to sudan say they now have nothing. it's a good there. you know what her, in the stuff here is very expensive. there is no movie food, water,

shelter, where a little kid is with us. and they are starving here. there are a 1000000 that, you know, are going on, we're going, we came with no means we are poor people. we were told not to go to work not to go out. there was a curfew where we came from. we had to labor in the fields and we were not allowed to do any other work. we were like prisoners, it's, you want to say this, but the games people, this elimination want to get people. so it is just unfair to them. it's not just to see if you saw this, we need freedom more than any form or done come from the race which comes we need to figure, we need to walk to our country. so we need the freedom that you in the united nation is to mr. summit big social want us to, you know, we are in need in this whole lives. so in a commissioner, so i have a responsibility on us. what yan's has been, is the emergency coordinator with the u.n.

refugee agency for sudan. he describes the challenges the agency is facing when tackling the crisis order. the 1st challenge is that in just over 2 weeks about 40000, people have by now fled to sudar units. you are in our government partner corps. we have registered these people here. they need immediately food, safe drinking, water, shelter, and sanitation at the border. they don't get sick. so, so this is a challenge in a very remote area of sudan. the other important point right now is to decongest the border points. these people cannot stay at the boat in the border area, that's not the place to have a refugee camp. so we are currently building a new camp, further inland, and about 70 kilometers distance from the voters who go. i just met myself, a family with a young baby, and i asked that of the mother how old is that? believe you? she said it was 10 days old. so basically this family has crossed the border with a newborn. so there are very moving scenes here and very difficult scenes,

i think for everybody and sudar. now, this difficult situation comes to an already challenging situation with all the circumstances to die in hosting 1000000 refugees already 2400000, internally displaced. now this comes as an additional burden. nevertheless, would have seemed when visiting the border areas over the last thing is the local communities there should have the little they have to where you were coming to the refugees. the authorities here have also been great. they've allocated lines for the construction of a new camp, the border so often for those who need to seek asylum. so at least you know, that's the most immediate protection we can offer. united states is hoping to begin a sweeping program of vaccinations against the coronavirus and early december ahead of the white house vaccine task force says it plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year 2. that seems right for prevailing early december is

said to be 95 percent effective. our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. so i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people to be immunized across the united states across all states . in all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine., well, here in the u.k., regulators could approve the pfizer biotech vaccine for use this week, citing government sources. the telegraph newspaper is reporting formal appraisal of the vaccine is about to begin in person. the national health service has been told to prepare to administer the vaccine from december 1st if successful it would be approved in the u.k. before regulators claim its use in the u.s. . of course, the challenge in the long term is to make sure that these vaccines are distributed

around the world. simon clark is an associate professor in cellular microbiology at university of reading. he says distribution in the developing world in poorer countries could be difficult. distributing is going to be the really difficult think this, we know the face of accede that it requires storage at minus 70 to minus 80 degrees . and of course in many parts of the world, maintaining a cold chain like that is already difficult. so that level of severity of colds, and i'll remind you that a normal domestic freezer is a minute, minus 20 degrees, adds the serious never the complexity. so the developed world, it will be a relatively straightforward, although not without problems along the way. and in the developing world, it could be more difficult. the moment all at risk people and the body from about the age of 60 needs to be vaccinated, because we don't know whether it's even possible to vaccinate against transmission

of this virus. we know from the data that we have from pfizer already, that it gave us protection against disease and it's getting sick. we have no idea currently whether it predict protect speed will from actually picking up the virus at all. so it's entirely possible that people will be able to pick the virus up and pass it on to others, but not get sick themselves. so, if it can't do that, then all of a sudden you need to vaccinate. basically everybody. well g 28 is a promise to spend, i laugh at making, she'll cry and vice vaccines distributed if any around the wealthy. but concluding that summit hosted by saudi arabia, a few specifics on exactly how it would be gang taint diplomatic editor james bays, reports. saudi arabia's king solomon concluded this 2 day summit conducted by video conference and handed over to g 20 presidency to the italian prime minister giuseppe content. but then in a previously unannounced appearance,

the king's son, crown prince mohammed bin sound man, made his own address to a man who's in day to day charge in saudi arabia and who human rights campaigners blame for the continued repression in the kingdom. said the g 20 is actions to greatly help the world deal with the pandemic of the fish in light of the outbreak of causes 19 of and its health, economic and social repercussions that at this hour, in a, our coverage has been important more than ever or to have been about how that together we have addressed this challenge with seriousness necessitated by the responsibility to preserve human lives, protect livelihoods, mitigate the ensuing damage, and demick, and raise readiness to face any which are crises, god forbid. but compare that with the demands of the international medical and humanitarian community. the u.n. secretary general, who is one of those who took part in the g 20, made it clear at a news conference on friday. how much money was needed to get the vaccine to the

poorest parts of the world. but 28000000000 more needed, including 4200000000 before the end of the this funding is critical for mass, many affecting procurement and delivery of new covered 1000 vaccines and pulls around the world. that funding was one of 2 main asks by the secretary general, but it's not here in the final declaration by g. 20 leaders. he also lost that debt relief offered by the g. 20 earlier in the year to some of the poorest countries on earth. because standard to middle income countries who need it. again, it's not here. and the g. 20 have fallen short. james pose al-jazeera of the united nations. earlier we spoke to justin darbyshire, chief executive of help page one of the aid groups that signed a humanitarian appeal to g. 20 leaders. he says, the commitment from the leaders today doesn't go far enough to help poor nations in the crisis. u.s. secretary general was very clear in his letter to the g 20 leaders in the run up to

this that we needed to see the access to cope with 19 tools exaggerator locally a.t.t. accelerator. and it came back facility scaled up to have essential medical and prove basic health care in developing countries because of their we care systems. and because their economies are left equipped to cope with a challenge. we need that support and it isn't report coming through this g 20 summit. and fortunately we're going to see the ramifications of the current 1000 pandemic bengt populations across lower income countries in the coming. and in the coming months, we need early action to support the undermount tradition that resulting from a pandemic and the impact of the global economic recession. climate change is on the g 20 agenda as well in his final address to those leaders. u.s. president on a trunk,

defended his decision to withdraw from the paris accords to protect american workers. i withdrew the united states from the unfair and one sided, paris climate accord. a very unfair act for the united states, the paris accord, was not designed to save the environment there was designed to kill the american economy. i refuse to surrender millions of american jobs and send trillions of american dollars to the world's worst polluters and environmental offenders. and that's what would have happened. well, the trunk campaign has given notice that it's going to appeal into session by judge to tonight's request to block joe biden's win in the crucial state of pennsylvania . a federal judge dismissed the will see on friday saying the plane to prevent state officials from sense of fine results was without merit. it was yet another legal setback for the trauma team in the former governor of new jersey, fellow republican, chris christie, and trump. ally says the legal campaign has become fosco. the president's legal

team has been a national embarrassment. they won't do it inside the courtroom. they allege fraud outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom, they don't need fraud and they don't argue fraud. this is what i was concerned about at 2. 30 in the morning on wednesday night. listen, i've been a supporter of the president's i voted for him twice, but elections have consequences and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn't happen. still ahead for you on the program has been fearing what a modest city demonstrators storm congress, enraged by a controversial budget getting the band back together, the traditional sound of mariachi bands to the streets.

hello once again, big temperature swings and quite big storms as well as the latest cold front is on its way through south australia some storms right up to the northwest where the rains are showing themselves to court promising the moment. so adelaide dropped 10 degrees at 24, melbourne about the same, but 20 is going to be rather different today. on monday the sun should be at this, storm's running through a city the eastern side of victoria and new south wales with a real circulation in the tasman heading towards new zealand. at the same time, been nice and warm in person is given you 35 degrees on monday. on tuesday it's 33 little difference. really. very slow warming trend though for melbourne. adelaide at 25, at least in adelaide because you got rain for the north island of new zealand winters tucked in though for east asia, all of northern china, the korean peninsula, and some parts,

particular carder of japan have felt winter from particularly good in the northeast of china on friday, vaastu across good, beautiful wintry soon. the moment for most is rather dirty craggy the same is true in beijing, the clouds increasing 7 degrees here, who had overcast as spots are right now. both not. beijing shows a trend to stay level until thursday, when temperatures drop again and winter makes another bite. an invitation to ban witness to all that life office. the highs, the lows, the trials and tribulations, the unseen movements, and everyday miracles, the injustices, the defiance. the tests of character and the personal victories, the witness. documentaries, with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. the

with the the i can back our main story. ethiopia's prime minister is issued a 72 hour ultimatum to forces in the distant region of to grey, urging them to surrender or brace for an all out assault on the regional capital mackellar, the reuters news agency reports that to gray and forces have destroyed roads and bridges to slow down the government offensive. in our other headlines, the united states is hoping to begin a sweeping program of vaccinations against the corona virus in early december. the head of the white house vaccine task force as it plans to vaccinate 20000000 people . before the end of the year and g 20 leaders have promised to spare no effort in

making sure coronavirus vaccinations are distributed fairly around the world. but wrapping up their virtual summit hosted by saudi arabia. they gave you specifics on exactly how this would be guaranteed. now to be polls have closed in the presidential and parliamentary elections that millions of voters turned out despite fears of attacks. and the allegations of fraud president ma christian club or a is seeking reelection and is challenged by a dozen other candidates in a race. many expect him to win ahmed address reports. watched by observers and journalists, president mark christian keyboard goes to cast his ballot, hoping it will help keep him in power for another 5 years. the source term has been overshadowed by attacks by armed groups that have killed more than 2000 people and taken over large areas of land. if you look for a look at moderates who look, this is about became

a fossil as democracy. it is also about the development of picking a fast, but it is also about peace in our country. so it is important for everybody to go and vote and choose the one who will lead this country tomorrow. that is all that we are asked. their talks are forced more than a 1000000 people from their homes. the opposition hope the insecurity will work against boris efforts to be reelected. one of his main challenges and the man he defeated in 2015 is different jobbery. he also voted in the capital. he repeated his accusation, the vote has been bricked. all these facts of alleged fraud are before us. this is why we decided yesterday to file a complaint with the prosecutor of the kenya 1st. so we are well aware of the slowness of our own judicial institutions. what we want is not to wait 2 or 3 weeks after the elections for a decision. we want it to be decided now. in upper response, the election commission called a press conference halfway through the voting process. the dow lost some little

words, everything went well. even in areas we suspected there would be trouble. there was no voter fraud or irregularities, but election didn't hold in other areas. despite the allegations is excited. i am so happy to vote for the 1st time. i feel like my ballot will help to change something in this country. initially, i didn't want to vote, but the election in the us motivated me. this is a 2nd election since for president place comported was toppled from power in 2014. after weeks of street protests. his party said it's ready to return to government, but the opposition is seen as divided, and that could end victory took a bori. i nearly say the opposition's best hope is a 2nd round. that will give time to present a united front supporters of the government and the opposition agree this poor, landlocked country needs peace and security. the question of who is best qualified

to achieve that could be determined in the next few days. and although many here are relieved, the election has been there are no guarantees, a touch would come in the days and weeks ahead. a comedy greece al-jazeera. now tens of thousands of people have taken part in the largest rally seen in better routes since president alexander lukashenko is contested reelection for more than 3 months now, since the battery's has been gripped by weekend, protests. western governments have refused to recognize the question because when marching through different neighborhoods in the capital, mr. testers chanted, long live better, a better russian human rights group has said that. more than 200 people were detained and also claims that many will be sent by police during the protests or now to guatemala, because protesters and police have been clashing there in the capital, after hundreds stormed the congress building and set it on fire tear gas was used to clear the crowds,

many people have been angered by the parliament's new budget bill that protesters say disenfranchises. indigenous people or about manny explains what tomorrow's congress building a blaze ignited by protesters are good at a controversial budget. the demonstrators had forced their way into the empty building from fast day, or they were quickly dispersed by riot police as firefighters moved to contain the fire. though both the protest a close watch of all the city, thousands gathered in central plaza. they say the boat, it was negotiated in secret, i wouldn't know off benefit the people if they don't go, there is no way to show our anger how fed up we are. we are tired of so much abuse by the authorities. so how come they're getting into debt? the people are tired and will not tolerate any more to push it through. cuts to education, health spending and social programs, but increased politicians,

expenses. critics say the budget benefits private companies that have links to the government. the budget was destroyed or broke the camel's back. the thing is that people were upset that the government mostly because 2 independent make their government back in march, raise money that we were supposed to be for economic aid. but the aid never made it to the people who need it the most. so that's the main concern of people. what i'm all is president aleksander day condemned the violent protests on twitter, saying those who participated will be punished with the full force of the law. his vice president says a budget should be vetoed, but in the end it is in the country's interests that we both tender a resignation. him as president and i as vice president of the republic. what a moment's complained the budget was passed when the country was busy dealing with

the devastation caused by 2. hurricanes. alongside the pandemic, the world food program says guatemala is already one of the most unequal countries in latin america. don't the streets of the capsule, guatemala city, police cracked down hard on protesters. i was walking and they grabbed me. i didn't do anything. i had my constitutional right to strike. but they say they have nothing to lose and will continue to protest until their demands are met. al-jazeera, with crown of our status and infections across latin america and the caribbean, continuing to rise. governments are putting their faith in vaccines when they become available and ready for use. but there are growing protests about the way governments across the region have been handling the pandemic. thank you. sean reports from desirous the number of people killed in infected by the coronavirus

across latin america in the caribbean, continues to rise. so too does anger at the way governments have been handling the pandemic. protests in mexico with more than 1000000, people infected to brazil with more than 6 and a half 1000000 hopes rest on a vaccine. we know that they're leaving a vaccine challenge. in fact, late the sick, but i was actually from lucky if you make the vaccination 80 percent of the population, we want the $1000000000.00. but already weak economies have been devastated by the pandemic with businesses closed thousands losing their homes and health service is stretched to breaking point. all are impatient to see an effective vaccine introduced that then show me the medical care vaccines and medicines must be free

and universally available to us. few others are expecting the vaccine to be free, but affordable and easily available. argentina has already bought 9000000 doses to cover 10 percent of its population and solidarity other key elements in the fight against the pandemic. and this fight is not just a task for government. it is a collective responsibility for the internal community there across signing a great global solidarity pact, international health bodies, pharmaceutical companies, banks, donors and governments working together to ensure that when the vaccines already they'll be available and affordable to wall in america. and you know, in latin america, the exact same pattern is followed as in the united states. there are some countries that have a regulatory authorization for use in emergency situations. and in others, we are working to make this happen. 23000000 people across latin america have been infected by the cold 19 virus. nearly 700000 have died. several countries

including argentina, mexico, peru, and chile are in the gauche ations to ensure they don't miss out when a vaccine is ready. trying to fallon, the host, an expectation of an imminent end to the nightmare, against growing impatience at the measures imposed to try to control the pandemic. when osiris now sunday marks and cecilia day, the painter in saint of music in mexico, that usually means a huge procession of mariachis on the country's most famous music styles parading through the capital. but this year's event has been called off and the mariachis themselves a struggling to get by on home and reports from mexico city. oh, if you've got a birth, a wedding, or even a serenade to take to your lover's window, this is who you bring with you in mexico. when you would offload, the sewing, twined with the country's d.n.a.,

but it's hard to think of a party without them. the problem is that since coded celebrations have been thin on the ground, and the suffering, marco's montes has been playing for 33 years and can't remember a worse time. and what they're not going to cut it off out of would have to stop working for 4 and a half months. people don't come together boldy because they're frightened of getting infected. that's been really tough for us. as other engagements have dropped off, depressingly funerals have become among the biggest earners. this square is the heartland, and it would normally be humming with groups waiting to be hired. a person got about these like the spiritual center for money at tis in mexico. everybody knows that after you've had a couple of drinks, you can come here and ask your favorite song to be played, usually by a universe of different groups that are just waiting for you. but over the last few months, what the muddier to telling us is that instead of music coming from every direction, it's just been silent here. and it's not just the economic impact that's hit hard

in a job where they constantly exposed to large groups of strangers. and most, but they don't want to stop by, you know, that. i mean, we've lost a lot of colleagues because they've had to go out and provide for their families. i don't have an exact number, but maybe 50 of them, including someone i played with. he was only 29, admits crew, still wrecking up code, the cases, the bars and restaurants have been allowed to reopen with restrictions. and the money is slowly returning to places like the to numb. the cornerstone of got to the plaza the last 100 years because normally this place would be full of money out, you know, what a menace, what a little for the magic. we have at least 4 groups of mariachi playing here tonight . if things were normal with around 300 people listening to the. 1 police from our course, he's playing a game, as well as a certain amount of get to know one of the. it's like when you're in love with a woman and you see her again after a long time, you have such

a beautiful feeling. that's what it's like now about playing my violin. every song as opposed to help for his fruit concert. these men and their families depend on the music going on your home. how does it or makes her city long? the mariachis in mexico and everything else right here, al jazeera dot com, reminder of the headlines this hour, ethiopia's prime minister has issued a 72 hour ultimatum to forces in the dissident region of ted gray. that says the great people's liberation front has 3 days to surrender, or brace for an all out assault on the regional capital mccalla, the reuters news agency reports that to cry and forces have destroyed roads and bridges to slow down the government offensive. civilians have been told to get out while they still can.