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inspiration for the new frugal speech station route invisible to you finding a lot in the mail seems hong kong's pro-democracy activists. joshua one remains in police custody after pleading guilty for his role in the anti-government protests in doha, everyone. i'm kemal, son for maria. this is the world news from the diet humanitarian situation escalates along ethiopia's border with sudan, close 240000. people have fled the fighting and are in desperate need of help. a corona virus vaccine by mid december top health officials in the us, the too fast track and immunization program. and after decades of fighting and
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being forced from their homes as serious head back to rebuild their lives, to revive a culture. so hong kong pro-democracy activists, joshua wall has pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly during last year's mass protests. he was joined in court by 2 other activists, agnes chow, and ivan lam. the 3 will be held in custody until sentencing nest next week. i'm sorry and could face 5 years in jail. last years protests outside of hong kong's police headquarters were triggered of course, by the introduction of the controversial extradition bill. well ahead of his appearance in court one promised to continue his fight for freedom. perhaps apologies. wish me to stay in prison, but i'm persuaded that neither person balls the election bias nor any other
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arbitrary power will stop us from activism. what we are doing now is to explain the well of freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love. so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of the court now in hong kong. so he says, dear that the prison bars won't stop them, but the reality is it could be up to 5 years behind them. absolutely. while we saw that prison via a police vehicle with darkened windows to take them away, where they'll be in custody to the detention center, they'll be in custody on cell sentencing next week. long as he wouldn't be surprised if he would be taken straight to jail and this is what he expected. the prosecutor spent most of the day's proceedings presenting evidence against the 3, mostly in the form of video footage, showing the events of the night of june 21st last year,
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showing thousands of protesters who blockaded the police headquarters. but focusing on the 3 for a long ivan, the i'm an agnostic, chanting slogans. and calling for the police commissioner to come out and face the public. it's worth noting that all these 3 are between $22.00 and their mid twenty's all very young. but it is just about 4th time he'll be going to jail the 1st time was back in 2017 when he was just a teenager. back then, the whole city was in shock. and he was seen as the city's one of the city's 1st political prisoners. but things have changed so much since then in hong kong, where the jailing, the charging arrests of democracy activists or political activists and protesters has become a very frequent occurrence. right. that's the bigger problem with an update from outside court in hong kong. thank you. dave. on to other news and ethiopia's prime minister has given forces in the northern territory region 72 hours to surrender.
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government troops plan to encircle the regional capital mackellar city under the control of the people's liberation front. reuters news agency reports its forces have destroyed roads and bridges, trying to slow the advance of the government small from having to do now in addis ababa, who describes the government's plan to advance on the city. the government force us i'd yet to reach the outskirts of the city of mccullough couple of the ticket 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 great region but also the stronghold of the t.p. leaders. prime minister of this government does spirit to see that cup should. now they're saying to finish the wall that is going to happen in the mountainous area surrounding macquarie, and they will be needing tunks and also to living fired into this city, targeting military installations there on the defenses of the t.p.s.
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. they're saying there were also use strikes and drone attacks against defenseless, on its outskirts. before a few appeared, national defense forces can advance towards the field fields on the outskirts of the city. they have been dropping overnight and lift. lets 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. the other side of things, of course, is that nearly 40000 refugees have fled the fighting in ethiopia, and headed to sudan and the u.n. has warned that number is likely to increase. it's also 12000000 people intake. they are in urgent need of food, medical supplies, and feel. the european union's pledged nearly $5000000.00 in aid.
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well, a groups are calling for immediate action as a new report from refugee international which wants a ceasefire urgently negotiated. it warns that if the conflict isn't resolved, it could spread to other regions of ethiopia. the group also wants access to the region restored to allow to be brought in without restrictions across the border in sudan, refugee international says more camps are needed for refugees along with a big boost in humanitarian assistance. so far his evoke and 2 camps trying to cope with this influx of refugees to some of them have experienced life in these camps before reports started refugee camp in sudan's got out of state is need too many refugees. but not that has this fight. her parents fled to the camp in 1085 to escape war and famine back in their home country. she's back to the same old camp. this time with her 10 day old child
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who she gave birth to while fleeing conflict in ethiopia, stigler a region of the more data i want to marry to give birth to my child. but then the fighting started and you had to flee. i gave birth to my child while i was running away to come here. he was born on the road. now i'm back to the camp where i was born as a refugee, and my new born is at the same camp also was closed in the year 2000, following the return of most of the refugees who once lived in the camp and back to ethiopia. but 20 years later, the camp is open again to cope with an influx of ethiopian refugees who started arriving to sudan. 2 weeks ago. all here have escaped from various parts of degree . nearly 40000 refugees have fled to sudan altogether, following a government offensive on the to great people's liberation front. the offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base, which came after months of tension between the regional government and the federal government. had hoped not to come back to the camp when he left here 2 years before
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it was closed. but he says the fighting has left him with no option. they're killing us. integrate. there are people being killed, our own children. bombs are being dropped on buildings. it's sad that many of us are displaced again, but we want to live. we don't want to die in war. more than 6000 refugees now live in the camp. it's opened less than 2 weeks ago. even though receiving refugees isn't new for the owner of the number of those arriving here has been increasing so fast that many of them are still without shelter access to basic services such as clean water, food and healthcare is also challenging. for many, this place is once again providing them with a refuge in the united nations says it expects 200000 refugees to arrive to sudan in the coming months if fighting, integrate along with lack of humanitarian access continues. so these authorities
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say the camp has a limited capacity and more camps need to be established. and we're urging donors and international organizations to help us cope with the situation because it's very dire. some organizations are provided aid, but there's too many people for the state, and for a few we're going to zation. they need services and they need care, which we can't provide alone. sudan already has its economic problems. so we need the international community to help us with this crisis. that has says, she told her children would never live the life she had left. but with 3 generations of refugees in her family, she wonders when the search for a permanent refuge and stability will end. he will morgan al-jazeera, get out of state. yemen's heard the rebels. so they've launched a missile. and aramco fuel distribution station in saudi arabia's western port, city of jeddah, saudi arabia's not confirmed or denied. the claims spokesman says foreign companies operating in the area should exercise caution warning. their military operations will continue. health authorities in the gaza strip say the recent rise in corona
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virus infections could overwhelm the medical system within a week. they warn critical patients will soon be turned away as intensive care units, a near capacity, gaza population 2000000, people there in its medical system has suffered from an israeli and egyptian imposed blockade. well, the u.s. says it is hoping to begin a vaccination program against covert 19 as early as december 11th. ahead of the white house vaccine task force plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year. that announcement comes during a surge of new infections across the united states. as mike hanna reports from washington hundreds of thousands of americans are heading home for the thanksgiving holiday. and health officials view these long lines in the airports as ominous predicting that the already calamitous coated figures could rise even further. as
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the consequences of this mass travel are measured. despite an urgent call from the centers for disease control, for all americans to stay at home, more than a 1000000 passengers traveled on friday alone. and now i am nervous. but i want to be with my babies. i feel safe to fly. i think. i think we should all, why should you feel the nation's top infectious disease expert at the round of sunday talk shows right now. the curve is like that. it's going up at a very rapid rate and you looked at almost every single day. in fact, gives you another record. the long lines that persist at testing stations around the country are tangible evidence of the absence of any federally controlled testing program. just one of the reasons, say, health experts, why the virus has not been brought under control? the only ray of hope in a bleak winter, the possibility of new vaccines show is on the way. traditionally, historically,
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the wreck scenes have crushed epidemics, like smallpox and polio, and measles. we can do that with the magazines that are going to be coming online. experts from the food and drug administration are reviewing the data from what the makers claim are highly successful vaccine trials. the f.d.a. will meet with independent experts next month. and if it's decided to grant an emergency use authorization, it's possible doses of the vaccine could begin to be distributed within days. 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 who would be immunized across the united states across all
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states. president trump has claimed the unprecedented speed of that scene development as a personal triumph. but while continuing to play golf for the 2nd week in a row, he still refuses to accept the outcome of the election. and with no formal transition and place, there is the real danger of the pandemic continuing to bloom in a vacuum of national leadership. mike hanna al-jazeera, washington in the news ahead, the children's lives at stake is international donors considered the future of aid to afghanistan. frustration grows in latin america over the economic devastation caused by the pandemic had over the time being, the weather pattern is set over europe or the weather is coming in from the
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atlantic windy wet not particularly cold for the british isles. scam a view in the far north of mainland europe, those winds being quite strong and some baltic quite strong, coming into arland and scotland as well. but in between, every now again, it gets briefly breezy through germany. but the rain and snow falls in both areas who are 1st snow of the season 2 days ago. and the cold air eventually ends up over the central med where it's been particularly story. just recently. there's a picture of a tuesday, again, mostly a sunny picture. but not very warm and freezing by night. in the central med, then that revolving storm system is already affected. southern italy, it's currently affecting a will be effect your monday tunisia, algeria and libya did forecast to tunisia is a fairly windy one, but the winds are easing during monday, showers monday and tuesday, or rather better day on wednesday. the bulk of north africa is enjoying a rather better day to be a moment. there are a few showers around coastal nigeria and back towards sierra leone and beyond the
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temperatures. 32 in banjo show a great deal of high you coming land a bit. and we've seen temps in the forty's. so this part of west africa is quite hot. but frank assessments, if other can public opinion please betrayed by social media platforms after november. what would be? because if you believe that there horowitz into our democracy, one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion. just look at checkers, don't go anywhere. the protesters are going anywhere, either. it's ability to get revolution. people woke up in depth analysis of the day's global headlines. who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera?
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so the top stories this hour on al-jazeera, joshua warner and 2 other hong kong pro-democracy activists have pleaded guilty to charges relating to last year's protests. they will now be held in custody until sentencing. next week could be 5 years in jail for them i merely 40000 ethiopian refugees have arrived in sudan, fleeing the fighting between government troops and forces in the to grow region. if you have his prime minister has given the group 72 hours to surrender and the head of the u.s. vaccine program says the 1st shots could be rolled out as soon as december, the 11th, plans to vaccinate 20000000 people. before the end of the year. world leaders are due to meet virtually to decide how much international aid afghanistan will receive
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for the next 4 years. many contributions are expected to be reduced though, and the un's child agency says that is hurting efforts to tackle malnutrition among a growing number of children from kabul. failure, contraflow reports a year after omar was born, his body started to swell and his mother rushed him to kandahar as hospital for urgent treatment pressure doing what he should is the idea of them. he got missiles, now he's feeling better, but doctors told us he's malnourished. and admitted his hearing this war was what it did for john and didn't know her son suffers from acute malnutrition. so didn't the mother of 10 month old to la was admitted with diarrhea. both survived, but the u.n. styled agency. unicef says nearly $800000.00 children under 5 suffer life threatening monitor nation, and nearly 200000 of those cases developed in the 1st 5 months of this year.
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most children are covered, so we would have no way of really know him. what happens to 400 or 500000 of these children? most of these children will die of pneumonia or die riya, that because of death, it is their malnourished state that puts them at risk when they catch something else. and so their desk would be labelled. otherwise, unicef says more than 2 and a half 1000000 children face acute malnutrition. the number has doubled within the last 3 years in afghanistan as it suffers rising poverty, violence, unemployment. and the pandemic and international aid to afghanistan has fallen in recent years. a meat concerns among donors over instability and corruption. that's left hospitals struggling to cope with the support. if we lose the support of the international red cross, we will not even have a bandage to offer the supplies that we get from the government for the entire year
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or not enough for a month, especially right now, because we have more patients than usual doing that got. 2 out of ghana, stans, largest children's hospital in kabul facilities are limited care. there are only 2 rooms available for morris children. and if there are not enough, that all here for the treatment of life threatening conditions like him only up and wanting to head not survive. units of supplies in a traditional milk to help treat the children. but there is a temporary storage. the situation has been made worse in the country by the spread of it. 19 raja countries like afghanistan when they, when they undergo a shock like cold it is just one shock to many and we have a huge number of children into, into erm. you know, very severe malnutrition and we need and then we have to focus on treatment and operation. and are, it's good to do
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a little bit in mexico. but right now the situation is quite dire in terms of treatment. and we just don't have the funds even to with talks between the government and the taliban taking place in qatar's capital doha. many are hoping peace may be possible. but many children facing mala, tradition and famine will have to survive the coming months if they're to have a chance to see it. kabul governments across latin america and the caribbean are among those putting their faith in corona virus. vaccines as deaths and infections continue to rise across the region, has that story from the number of people killed in infected by the corona virus across latin america in the caribbean, continues to rise as 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
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a vaccine. we know that they're leaving the vaccine challenge. in fact, late the thing. but i was actually from blocking the americans are going to be, you know, if you make the vaccinate, the 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. but scenes of medicines must be free and universally available. a few others are expecting the vaccine to be free, but affordable and easily available. argentina has already bought $9000000.00 doses to cover 10 percent of its population corporation in solidarity of a key elements in the fight against the pandemic. this fight is not just a task for governments. it's a collective responsibility for the international community that requires
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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 has been followed as in the united states. there are some countries that have a regulatory authorization for use in emergency situations. and in others we're working to make this happen. 23000000, people across latin america have been infected by the coded 1000 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 on a vaccine is ready. trying to balance the hopes and expectations of an imminent enter the nightmare against growing impatient of the measures imposed to try to control the pandemic. from the al-jazeera, one of firing from latin american, our police in colombia say,
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an attack that killed at least 8 people on saturday is linked to drug trafficking. as a group of heavily armed men opened fire in a dormitory at a coffee plantation in the region in a separate attack on sunday. in the southwest region of coca left at least 5 people dead. as the country seen, a rise in attacks as rival gangs battle over control of the country's lucrative cocaine trade. the bodies of more than 110 people have been found in a mass grave in mexico's so let's go state. it's unclear how they died, but the state and its capital, a known for high levels of drug cartel violence. 30 of the bodies have now been identified. and protesters have gathered outside supermarkets across brazil, over the killing of a black man by 2 white security guards. it happened outside a supermarket in the southern city of port on thursday that sparked a wave of angry demonstrations and calls for
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a boycott of the shopping chain where he was killed. u.s. president donald trump's legal team is appealing against a pennsylvania court ruling that dismissed an attempt to invalidate millions of malin votes. a federal judge said the trump campaign lawsuit was without merit. another legal setback in trump's bid to overturn the results of the u.s. presidential election. and another senior republican senator is urging the president to begin the transfer of power. this is alaska, senator lisa murkowski, who said it's incumbent upon everyone to ensure the integrity of the election process is respected and to uphold americans. faith in our electoral processes. she went on to say, president, trump is had the opportunity to litigate his claims in the courts. of thus far, found them without merit. it is time to begin the full and formal transition process. from his lawyer, rudy giuliani though, says the ruling helps bring their case closer to the supreme court. but the former
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governor of new jersey, fellow republican, chris christie, says the legal campaign's just become a fuss. 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 plead 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. i voted for him twice, but elections have consequences and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn't happen. spain is to send extra police to target human trafficking in senegal, this year, more than $18000.00 people left senegal by boat to seek asylum in spain's canary islands. that is a 10 fold increase on last year. more than 500 died trying to make the journey. and about half of the arrivals and most deaths have been in just the past 30 days. spain's foreign minister has met senegal's. president macky sall in dakar to
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discuss the increase in migration said they must know they learned years ago from the beginning of code. we know that one of the risks during covidien postcode is immigration, because covert is destroying african economies, as it is also had a huge impact on european economies. we knew that one of the consequences of this pandemic was going to be an increase in migration. there is also a great concern in this country from the president of cynical for all these human trafficking networks that thurston rich, very few and sick and put at risk a large part of the young population who leave this country. a large part of them die on their journey. she, europe imagining arrival at a place where they will be welcomed with open arms. a ceremony has been held in armenia to commemorate those killed in the conflict in the going to cut about prime minister. he called tend of the service alongside religious leaders. the fighting
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between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians and soldiers. last week, the suicide signed an agreement to end the 6 weeks of fighting. and i think armenians in the going to carve out also held religious services to commemorate those who died. memorials took place across the disputed region to mark the fighting that began in september. as part of that peace deal, i mean, troops are drawn from destroyed as it comes back under control. many who were displaced from their decades ago are now preparing to go. but then reports what i say has the support since the 1970 s., has been known as a car about google in 1000 music went quiet in the 1990 s., when bombs and bullets echoed through lugo in a car, in a conflict between other by john in armenia. the folk singer was forced from his home, but since then the award winning artist has lived close by on the i mean either by
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john border here on the a very controlled region. the recent conflicts or shells rained down on villages on both sides. but that didn't stop him from doing what he loves most i've done is my heart and soul. that's why i live here. i never stop singing even when the shells rains down . after getting back. i'm very happy. many of his friends were forced from their homes in the 1990 s. as well. an estimated 200000 were displaced after more than 70 percent of our was taken by armenia. now they plan to go home when armenian forces have a draw on. the wagons are still there and have aged as well. people lived inside and under the rail cars for years. it's the end of the line now, but this used to be a real link between art and kind can be arsed to find occurred. the tracks have
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been severed, but not the links. famous for racing and riding the car by horses are a symbol of the region inhabited by ethnic armenians and as eerie the horses exercise for an hour a day. and now this step farm has more than $260.00 thorough bred. reputed stallions are worth so much that selling 10 a year before the horde stable. displaced from his home in the e.u. has been an f one trainer for over 40 years. now eager to return, he says the weather in water and car will be like white de mint for the horses, or even the horses around the peace. like people very sensitive and i could tell the horses felt they were being kicked out from their own land. i feel very emotional. one of them is cleared of mind in infrastructure. 3 developed a plan to review worldwide auctions in car of the people that the horses, their music is all displaced from the region where it originally belonged to. and
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they can't wait to return home down to 0. funding activists known for raising awareness of a debilitating degenerative disease has died at the age of just 37. patrick quinn was the co-founder of an internet phenomenon. you may remember the ice bucket challenge, a hugely successful fundraising campaign which raised more than $220000000.00 for medical research into a less commonly known as the gehrig's disease. when i was diagnosed with the illness in 2013 and helped drive this viral social media campaign that took hold a year later. the are in these, the headlines, joshua wallman 2 other hong kong pro-democracy activists have pleaded guilty to charges relating to last year's protests. they will be held in custody until sentencing next week.
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