if you want to help save the world, sneeze into your elbow this team will make us proud to be american. president elect joe biden unveils his team and promises to restore america's status as a world leader. followers of a roman, you're watching al-jazeera life. my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 30 minutes, pledging to pull hong kong's political system from cale's chief executive, kerry lamb lays out her priorities for the year ahead. also concerns over possible war crimes. in ethiopia's, northern tier gray, a government deadline for regional forces to surrender is drawing close and their

lines predict losses from the global pandemic will be far worse than expected. calling the crisis devastating and unrelenting welcome to the program, joe biden. is forging ahead with preparations to take over as u.s. president as his margin of victory keeps growing. pennsylvania and the voter have now become the latest states to certify the president elect as the winner and biden has formally unveiled some of his top team. pretenses reports. president elect biden was unequivocal as he presented his national security appointments and nominees. it's a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. once again, sit at the head of the table, ready to confront our adversaries, and not reject our allies ready to stand up for our values. much was made of the

backgrounds of the nominees as examples of the american dream. linda thomas greenfield, nominated as u.s. ambassador a 100 mile costs are latino immigrants nominated to lead the department of homeland security. and avril haynes, the 1st female director of national intelligence. if confirmed mr. president, you know that i have never shied away from speaking truth to power. but for all the talk of diversity, this is a national security team that symbolizes the return of the washington foreign policy establishment after 4 years in the cold. none more so than secretary of state nominee tony blinken, deputy secretary of state under president obama, and the long time foreign policy adviser to biden, he's going to be followed more of an advocate for u.s. military intervention around the world than the president elect's lincoln has spent the last few years, consulting for weapons manufacturers and big tech america at its best, still has a greater ability than any other country on earth to bring others together to meet

the challenges of our time. but biden has pledged fresh thinking on foreign policy . perhaps a recognition that a key reason that some voters switched from the democrats to trump in 2016 was their disappointment that president obama had not brought the change in foreign policy. he'd promised, and biden's incoming national security adviser did speak of an approach to foreign policy, not traditionally expressed in washington, the alliances, we rebuild the institutions. we believe the agreements we signed, all of them should be judged by a basic question. will this make life better, easier, safer for families across this country? our foreign policy has to deliver. it's biden is making one key change, a special presidential envoy for climate. john kerry will sit on the national security council with a pledge to make the environment central to a policy making across government. but there is some skepticism of the washington insiders being chosen will be the worms to deliver

a fresh policy thinking. the president elect is promising. she returns the old 0. wilmington, delaware, in a brief white house appearance u.s. president donald trump has taken credit for a record day in the markets. the dow jones index reached a historic high on choose day following the transition developments and progress on coronavirus vaccines. now, hong kong's chief executive kerry land says her urgent priority is to restore the territories political system from chaos. she's giving her annual policy address to the legislative assembly. she said the government would begin a public education program to enhance understanding of the rule of law. comes high profile opposition activists are awaiting sentencing for their roles in pro democracy protests. on don't see funds through collaboration with various stakeholders at more targeted public education activities will be carried out. including educating the group on the proper understanding of the rule of law and promoting their law abiding awareness and research on the rule of law and related

data compilation will be conducted with sites through enhanced efforts in promotion and explanation. to clarify misconceptions and understanding the department of justice will continue to showcase how horrid mesa nutro and effective internationally for deal making. and this be a resolution services brown is monitoring events for us in hong kong. and adrian. caroline started to speak 2 hours ago. she should be finished very soon, and it's back to, to touch on one of many topics. what has she been discussing? well, as you rightly point out, so she is still talking. she began talking at 11 am local time, and it's still going some 2 hours later as you rightly say, this has been a keenly anticipated address because of course, she was supposed to have given it 6 weeks ago. but then just 2 days before she was supposed to have given that address, she was summoned to beijing for talks with china's leaders. and i think it's fair

to assume that president xi jinping has head some sort of input to offer for what she's had to say today. there has been a strong, robust defense of the national security law that china imposed on this city on july the 1st carol am said that law was needed because the city had been threatened, its national security had been threatened by external forces. and you also said that foreign countries, foreign powers were intensifying their efforts to interfere in hong kong's internal affairs, reminding the world that hong kong's affairs are very squarely china's affairs. now, it's possible. she had a message there for the u.s. president elect joe biden, because of course, he has said that china will be one of his top foreign policy ideas projects. and so perhaps he had a message there for him because of course, china is hong kong is part of china. therefore, hong kong will be very much in his crosshairs in the months and weeks ahead. carol

lam at the center of her address today wanted to talk about this ambitious project that's taking place just across the border from here in guangdong. and this is the chinese leadership idea to basically link this city with 9 others in southern china and create this sort of vast i.t. and financial hub. but of course, before that vision can be for 3rd world. hong kong has to get covert 19 under control. and we've had an upsurge of infections during the past few days, and china's leader are effectively saying until you get covert 19 under control. the border between hong kong and china will remain closed and of course, getting that border open is so important for hong kong, right? now, because its economy has been reeling, not just from the effects of, you know, the protests which have now largely been suppressed. but also of course,

from the effects of covert 19, as well as the, the repercussions of that national security law. what carry around was trying to do today also was to deliver the people of hong kong. some hope. also, of course she wants to do something about her own approval rating, which is very low right now. just 26 percent compared to 64 percent. when she took office just over 3 and a half years ago, and a reminder also today. so she was addressing very much a sort of shrunken legislature because there are no opposition figures sitting in that parliament building. today. they are be there resigned or been disqualified, which of course means they carry for the past couple of hours has been addressing very much an echo chamber i guess for the moment. adrian, thanks course, we'll keep monitoring what caroline says through the day and join you as and when things are now the ethiopian government says to grow in regional forces have started to surrender. its government gave them until wednesday to lay down their

arms or risk a final assault on the main city mccarley. it's warning people to leave the area to graze. leadership denies, surrendering, and claims. an ethiopian military division has been destroyed because human rights commission is accusing members of a train youth group of massacring an estimated $600.00 civilians. earlier this month in a report it says the attackers targeted non to grain residents of my country. a small town in the west of the region, it says victims were killed with the collusion of local security forces. well, as the government threatens what it calls a final offensive rights groups are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility of war crimes from both sides. when conducting cooperate outside of a galley, there are some rules, food should be respected. so international human rights lawyer standards and international humanitarian law standards. so that didn't work cripes. so violation

of his basic standards about civilian protecting civilians. what targeting t.v.'s can amount to what? according to that open law and according to the international laws, egypt has sainted about a fight. many of the families trying to escape the fighting to grow have been separated in the exodus. more than 40000, people have crossed into neighboring sudan as there is a morgan. those trying to find missing family members when fighting came to her hometown of make out there and if the degree region to testify fled with most of her children. but she had to leave her 2 eldest daughters behind integris capital, another high. then they went to study mccully with this school in the fighting started and there was no way for me to contact them. now i don't know where they are and how they are doing. they said they didn't have enough money before the fighting started. $1.00 is $14.00 and $1.00 is 15. are they being feed? are they being taken care of their only children?

since the fighting started integrate in early november, more than 40000, people have fled to sudan states of aid organizations say more than 5000000 are trapped in the region with no access to humanitarian aid. sudanese authorities say nearly 3000 people arrive every day, get as they had while i arrived here 2 weeks ago. since his arrival has been searching for the parents of these 3 children. when the fighting came to the town of mark kendra, everyone started running. these 3 siblings were in the town and seemed lost. so i took them with me. i tried to look for their parents, but i couldn't find them or even used loudspeakers among those displaced. when all filed, i came with him to this camp. his government has imposed a telecommunications blackout in the region since the start of the fighting with malfunctioning fourline. so internet access families who have left loved ones behind say they're not sure if they're still alive. most have started the process of tracking their parents or children, hoping they've arrived in sudan, but are in

a different camp. and as more of arrive, the number of families separated by the conflict is rising sudanese authorities say they're not sure how many children have been separated from their parents or how many mothers and fathers left their children behind. aid organizations efforts are being made to reunite families. as you know, children and women are always the this reporting that in fact, if we have social workers who are working with them as well as the police and they are in safe place at the moment. and we're going to be starting with our c.r.c. . but for those like me who have left their children behind, the process is yet to start. she says she can only pray her daughters are still alive and someday make it to the camp. if not, she has to wait until the fighting and to go back and look for them. and she's not sure how long that will take people morgan al-jazeera out of state. at least 4

people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off spain's canary islands. about 35 people were on board when it smashed into rocks off the coast of lines are all see local media, say 14 people are still missing. more than 18000 refugees. migrants arrived in the canaries by sea, from africa this year. well still ahead here on al-jazeera, pandemic, painful london's fame to black cabs. why? the crisis is driving one in 5 off the road. women in mexico fight back against rising violence during the pandemic. we'll bring you one survivor story to stay with us. hello there would you believe we've got rain in the forecast for the middle east over the next couple of days. doesn't that say about at the moment? i know largely clear skies lots of hazy sunshine as we go through wednesday into

thursday. showers will increase across the eastern side of the mediterranean there, pushing towards the levant. some wetter weather coming in here. as we go on through thursday. so syria, lebanon, jordan, israel, palestinian territory, seeing some wetter weather, back cloud and rain, that stretches all the way across into southern parts of the caspian. northern areas of iran down across the way line of heavy rain could see some flooding here all the way down into central parts of saudi arabia. south of that, it'll be fine and dry dry here in connecticut, a stiff wind, $27.00 celsius, either side of the water, much of iran will actually be dry along with pakistan and afghanistan, and a good part of india by this stage, but down into the south. for the cool cyclon and never makes its way in as we go on through wednesday into thursday, some very heavy rain coming through here. red warning is in force for tamil nadu on wednesday. those warnings extend up across andhra pradesh as we go on into thursday . some parts could see 200 to 300 millimeters of rain in that wetter weather.

pushing right up the east and gets but dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic. let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage. what's the lay of the land there? stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption, it is real reporting. it's not and your team challenging assumptions and the official line. we all decided we need to cut our score. we don't want to rely on authority, and it's vilest thing, post on out his iraq. what

you want is there with me to help run a reminder of our top stories. joe biden is forging ahead with his preparations to take over as president as his margin of victory keeps growing. he's formally unveil some of his top 2. well, pennsylvania varda have become the latest states to certify him. as the winner. ethiopia's government claims it falls into gray, have begun to surrender. they've been given until wednesday to lay down their arms . but to gray's, leaders are denying the claims and say they've destroyed a government division. and hong kong's chief executive, kerry lamb says urgent priority is to restore the territories political system from chaos in her annual policy address. she also says the government would begin a public education program to announce understanding of the rule of law. let's get more on this. joseph change joins me now. he's a political scientist and pro-democracy campaigner usually based in hong kong with

joins me now via skype from canberra in australia. good to have you with us, mr. chang on the program. how much of the delivery of the address from carry lamb is about what beijing wants really just to be rubber stamped by hong kong legislators dysart very much in 9 with policy towards hong kong. are there are 2 main themes in a policy address. there is a strong defense of the political suppression in the territory and beijing's interventions, political interventions. you'd have to be in suggested that the whole of allegiance require, and this may be strengthened so much so that it will be easier for their parties to disqualify their just rate of council or candidate. is there just councillors and even the incumbent civil servants? the electoral arrangements we also be altered so death. residents,

hong kong residents, been mentoring or maybe boat, you know, coming down so you know, actions coming seem. so if i just a truck quickly that just because also the but the beginning of her speech this morning also talked about how there needs to be more public information available on the rule of law. or there would be more of a push on that front. that sounds a little bit like the states telling the public. this is what the rule of law is. yes, you are right. our policy announcements from beijing and interpretations of the basic law. but our national committee, the standing committee of the national people's congress, people are being told, as you suggested, that the new parameters of the basic law of the one country 2 systems are

being modified. and the caravan administration has also suggested to strengthen education of the, of the students so much so that they have a better understanding of beijing's definition of the basic law. and of course, an end date is a 2nd, the theme. namely, the introduction of many integration measures and facilitation measures to strengthen integration of hong kong into the area that is steeper river delta. it has to be admitted. indeed of course yes that, that is, that is happening too. and of course just finished her speech 2 and a half hours. it was in length, i mean, many of the challenges, but hong kong, really on the economic front, the momentum for her and her administration, they revolve around the downturn in business caused by covert 19. and the fear of chinese influence you might say in the provinces,

seeing some of those businesses relocate, especially in media and finance areas. yes, your transfer it has been reported that the political center to septa's of hong kong, especially foreign correspondents, be locating to other areas outside hong kong. the information industry probably has been following suit, and you knew of the trade to spill speech in china and the united states. hong kong, naturally is star, less attractive to multinational corporations has a pretty hip to enter the china market. are the economy of hong kong is expected to strength by 6 point one percent disappear. the government has been spending a lot to prop up the economy to detune of about $40000000000.00

industry or a lot to think about a lot to unpick as we take on board. what courage to say. joseph chang, thanks very much for joining us from cambra sir. thank you. thank you. international human rights groups have denounced state harassment of a group of activists in cuba. members of go on hunger strike and protest against curbs on free speech. they say they've been repeatedly detained for peacefully protesting last week's around and stuff. an outspoken rap artist trees about reports. images such as this are unusual in cuba, a group of dissidents trying to protest in the center of have anna. before long pro-government civilians harassed the protesters. the demonstrators have come here to denounce the detention of singer. then he said lease who has openly criticized the cuban government. early november, the police entered his house in havana, so elise asked the officer to leave and then insulted him calling him a coward in

a uniform. they're not came but not so they wouldn't see my face plotting to kidnap if they think they are going to scare me. they are wrong. i am ready to die. 3 days later, he was detained and sentenced to 8 months in prison, accused of contempt. he later appeared in a video aired in a government website where he seen during an interrogation by state security very, very difficult conditions and prisons and access to other things and people he had. and if they have any type of place and presence, when i am with people, i charge serious offenses. and i do. and so we know that he's in a maximum security prison and so nice. he's part of a larger movement known as sunny. see that i have been on hunger strike for 6 days, demanding his release. i am an artist,

i am sacrificing my own. it's more carrier more. you go in my dreams here. everything's in my friend is released. i'm tired of seeing my friends to tell you that i'm sacrificing everything for the freedom of cuba. in the past year, economic strive has increased in cuba. over $1000.00 has shown the country into a full fledged recession only compared to the special period. the crisis in the 1990 s. caused by the collapse of the soviet union that left this island without a crucial economic and political support. and that's why complaints against the government have been on the rice rice. i have to remember and fresh massive social expression against the government or the worst years in the economic situation to be sure you know,

it's right. if you don't have, if you don't have, i don't know. it must basic elements. and if you didn't have some rights, it's a mixed. if you can't find it, generate a life change. the government says these people i, backed by cuban americans in the united states, are trying to destroy cuba's revolution. but these people say they no longer tolerate the government's harassment and are willing to sacrifice everything for change. and now the aviation industry is reporting larger than expected losses due to the pandemic describing the crisis as devastating and unrelenting. the international air transport association had predicted a $100000000000.00 loss by the end of 2021, does not raise that to 157000000000. passenger numbers are expected to drop below 2000000000 the share, and that's less than half of the number in 2019. well,

italy has reported its highest daily death toll. since march 853 fatalities were confirmed on tuesday. the health ministry also registered more than 23000, new infections. more than 51000, people have died so far. the 2nd highest in europe and france will start easing it's not done from the weekend in a televised address to the nation. president manuel micro-loan said the worst of the 2nd wave was over. my concerns a national vaccination campaign will begin in the coming months. but will not be mandatory women in mexico have been facing high levels of violence during the current virus pandemic. and average of 10 women are murdered every day with nowhere else to go. victims of occupied a government building in the capital, mexico city. al-jazeera met with one of the women who founded the refuge. we want to show all the women there. we are not scared anymore. when my name is

eddie, come out of the mist in my daughter's victims of violence. on november 2nd 2017, my 7 year old daughter was 6, fully abused by my brother in law. she was 7 and my brother in law was 43. i reported it to the police, but i had to spend 2 years fighting for justice just for the investigation against him to begin with. but we lost our home, our job, and everything we had when i started making dollars for women. and sadly, most of them told me stories of this exile violence that they too had suffered. and when they lend to what happened to my daughter, they said that they were proud of my struggle is this is the situation is worsening. right now. jule independent, gender violence has increased. we believe the root of all of these is

a national. the authorities did apathy. they know wanting to work for women, but we decided together with other women to occupy the building. on september the 4th, the building has been converted into a shelter for women who are victims of violence with the children. they can come here without being judged. on the contrary, they are left because we speak to understand them. the rest of their, all of these changes and you have 2 options. you either stay at home crying or you go out and fight. i realize that if you want to change things, you have to go out, go out and burn things, break things, go out and scream. because if not, no one sees you know, when he is you. and that apathy is the worst thing in the world. the global pandemic is taking its toll on london's black taxi cabs demand has collapsed. many

of drivers of quit and so-called taxi. graveyards are starting to appear around the capital. as paul brennan explains, in a field just outside london is an extraordinary sight. there are more than 200 london cabs here, gridlocked in the green belt. this is one of the city's growing number of taxi graveyards vehicles that no passengers want to hire and no driver wants to rent. we are struggling with some finance companies because they need their funds paid in. however, if you're not renting the vehicle, you can't. you can't pay what's not coming in between june and november of this year. and then the $4000.00 of these iconic london black cabs came off the road. that's more than 20 percent of the total. and they're ending up in graveyard such as this a couple of 100 here. hundreds more, other garages on lock up areas all around the capital. and the question is whether any of these vehicles will ever make it back out onto the road again?

among those drivers still clinging on at the taxi ranks, the view is bleak. yesterday i worked 6 hours. i went to only were 28 pounds. so today nearly 4 hours now, i have done only 2 jobs. cab leaders warn that with more than a quarter of the current fleet being 0 emission electric vehicles. taking taxis off the road is actually doing more harm than good. we were an industry back in march. that was a best in 50000000 pounds a week in new electric vehicles, a new electric infrastructure. and those vehicles now are in danger of being repossessed. we're in position where we could be going backwards rather than forwards. an absolute disaster that sentiment is indorsed by this clean air campaign. i have not had the support that other sectors of the economy had of had. and what i would like to see is the government putting support in and using this moment that the billions and hundreds of billions of money that are being spent

into driving the taxi industry and other industries towards much cleaner vehicles., since its introduction in the 1950 s., the london black cab has been a british design icon. but nostalgia and style cannot by themselves. keep these vehicles on the road. paul brennan, al jazeera essex. what your desire of means the whole romney mind of our top stories. joe biden is forging ahead with his preparations to take over as president has his margin of victory keeps growing, but he's formally unveiled some of his top team while pennsylvania and nevada have become the latest states to certify him as the winner. it's a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure. it's a team that reflects the fact that america is back.