on al-jazeera i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world. we're willing to fit in taking you into a place you might not. is that otherwise feel that you were there before more world goes into mourning after the death of legendary player. at the age of 60 i'm sam is a. this is al jazeera live from also coming up. a deadline passes for the grain forces to surrender in northern ethiopia. the prime minister is warning the world not to interfere people around the world protest to end violence against women as the u.n. highlights what it's calling a shadow pandemic. plus at

a time of unprecedented crisis, government must make tough choices. the u.k. treasury chief cuts foreign aid looking for savings to support the coronavirus ravaged economy. football legend, diego maradona has died. the 60 year old argentinian passed away on wednesday from a heart attack long considered one of sports greatest players. maradona famously team to victory in the 1906 world cup what's described as the goal of a century. david stone looks back on his life. the infamously, referred to a hand of god and the unique gifts of diego, amanda marathoner appear to come from

a higher force. born in 1960 and raised in a shanty town on the outskirts of one of set is he became the national hero and a global football superstar. his impacting club football meant he was playing for his country as a teenager, a prolific creator and score a goal. just 1.65 meters, tall, stocky, and powerful. his skill and balance made him unstoppable. the 986 world cup was his time. marathon of the player, the man encapsulated in an unforgettable quarter final against england. firstly, what he was to call the hand of god punching the ball into the net. then a 2nd goal of scarcely believe a ball quality to many the greatest individual goal in world cup history. married on his argentina, went on to lift that world cup in mexico. a good team made great by one player. 4 years later, they lost the trophy as west germany gained revenge in the final. but marat dano

was thriving in club football in europe for barcelona in the early eighty's, then napoli in italy, who he took to their 1st, ever italian titles, and where he is still treated as a favorite son of the field, there was turbulence. he was addicted to cocaine and was banned from both club and international football for failed drug tests, one of which ended his $994.00 world cup. in 2004, he spent time in intensive care after a heart attack and his weight fluctuated during battles with addiction. he had 2 daughters through his marriage that ended in divorce, and a son born outside the marriage as well. diego genia, the people's choice, managed his country at the 2010 world cup. he defied many critics until the quarter final defeat against germany. again, he dipped in an ounce of co-belligerents as well. in 28 teams, he took over the mexican 2nd division club, derogate dissin,

aloa. but it wasn't long before you returned to washington to lead top flight team . give nasi a tele platter in true marriage on the style. he stepped down after only 2 months in charge, only to rejoin again. 2 days later, in his last public appearance was at a game on his 60th birthday where he appeared frail and left at half time. a few days later, he was admitted to hospital an initially with anemia and dehydration, but things quickly escalated and he needed surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain. the operation went well, but less than 2 weeks later, he died of a heart attack where the marathon is the greatest ever footballer is open to debate . but his incredible talent and contribution to the game's history make him a phenomenon. is live for

us from one of those and he was recently in hospital for a blood from the heart. well, the news are just starting to sink in here. my brother now is seen as a hero in argentina, and people are just trying to get used to the idea that he will no longer be here. might have or not had a heart attack. he was discovered by a nurse. he was recovering in a gated community about 30 minutes away from the capitol. when a site is about 2 weeks ago, he had brain surgery because of x. lot and he was recovering in that place. and this, in a way, comes as a surprise for most arjan times. he has struggled healthwise for many, many years now he had suffered 2 heart attacks in the past had surgery in a way to try to lose weight and struggled with addiction as a reporter indicated through about his life. but for most starting time, as i said before, he's a hero,

people we've been hearing some of those we have spoken to are saying that for example, but i don't, i made them cry out of happiness because he helped argentina win the world cup in 1906. but now they're going to be crying out of pain. another person told us that now did. all right, i don't know we'll be playing with god, but also the angels and the devils are going to be watching him play. my mother now has a crucial role in argentina. the president has just announced that argentina is going to have 3 days of mourning out of respect for the oh my own now. all right, thanks so much to raise a bow. there are sports presenter. peter stammer joins us now on grief and shock there is to raise about pointed out in argentina, how's his legacy going to be remembered? do you think you can look at meridor mean so many different facets, a complicated man, a genius on the football field. he won the world cup with argentina. he had drug problems, addictions, as we know was in hospital, he's weight, but then he lost

a lot of weight. he try to get coaching rather unsuccessful. you know, we near a successful as he was as a player and something that we probably don't see in the modern game. he was able to go to a relatively small football club in italy at the time called napoli. and he won the city our title with him twice. that's not something that we are likely to see in the modern era, given the kind of commercialization that we have in football in the professionalism that we see today. peter, thanks so much. after nearly 3 weeks of fighting in northern ethiopia, a deadline imposed by the central government for the ground forces to surrender has expired in the last half an hour. the federal army has surrounded to graze capital, mackell a and is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000. people to grand leaders deny allegations their fighters have begun surrendering out to syria's has some reports exclusively from inside to grow province

on the right front line in southern tikrit, federal reinforcements arrive and helicopters, hover above the ethiopian government has maintained that this is a law enforcement operation against what it calls the treasonous group. our morale is high. we're ready to enforce the rule of law for the sake of the fallen, we will prevail over those who had betrayed them. we have another mission, namely to safeguard the renaissance dam until it's fully completed and operational and reading. the book at this building has been set up to receive fighters from the people's liberation front, who've surrendered ahead of prime minister. and it's wednesday deadline for the t.p.o. left to put down its weapons. government forces here say this man was among those who surrendered. we are being treated well. we are not enemies, we are all fellow ethiopians. we are all brothers. i hope this will come to an end

and peace prevails across the country. as fighting continues in northern ethiopia for the 3rd consecutive week, p.l.f. leader has reiterated his rejection of the ultimatum. he says his fighters will continue their struggle against the federal government until the end on the other side of the battlefield and says it's standing its ground and that its fighters are ready to die defending and its right to govern itself. there are conflicting claims of victory on both sides and a communication blackout in the region makes it difficult to verify information. the prime minister has met as said, this operation will end when the t.p.o. left, who he accuses of destabilizing the country and undermining his leadership, are brought to justice. the province in northern, you know, malcolm webb is following developments from nairobi in neighboring kenya. so this deadline has expired. what is happening now?

well because of those communications blackouts that have been in place for weeks, phone lines cut off no internet. it's very difficult to get up to date information, but prime minister that issued this ultimatum on sunday, he gave 2 grain forces 3 days to lay down their arms. otherwise, he said there would be assault and assault on the, on the regional capital of mackay, which is home to about half a 1000000 people. and as you said, the deadline expired half an hour ago, but we have had a few snippets of information very hard though to verify them. but in the region which is to the south, the or forty's there are loyal to prime minister are being made. they support him in a news agency that they've run, reported that 10000 to gray in soldiers have been killed in that 15000 weapons have been recovered. very large numbers, but no response yet from the to gray in leadership. but something else that we have learned this from satellite images in the city of mckelway that people have been

queuing up in cars at petrol stations that suggest maybe there's rationing of fuel or maybe people are fearing the worst is yet to come. and we understand, according at least of the government side, they say they've surrounded the city. what does that mean? is there a siege? are our supplies of things like petrol now are going to become questionable who in this part of, of ethiopia are there only a few rows running through this mountainous area? so if one side is able to cut off key transport routes, then that alone could be enough to stop the fuel supplies reaching the city. city p.l.f. on tuesday, refuted claims that the city had been surrounded, but the government forces have claimed that they're in circumstances just 50 kilometers from the city. lot with 24 hours ago. you know, i don't know if,

if they're closer, but the un human rights chief did also say on tuesday that she was concerned about a buildup of tanks and artillery around the city. suggesting that the u.n. of information to that effect as well. that with half a 1000000 people living in there, then of course if there was to be a bombardment from artillery from tanks from air strikes and it's very hard to see how all those civilians would remain safe. and certainly the movement of people that we've seen in the last few weeks is just that people don't feel safe more than 40000 of fled across to neighboring sudan and on no number of people are displaced within that. a great region itself by fighting airstrikes and both sides are using tanks, artillery and heavy weaponry in the fighting that has gone on over the last 3 weeks . or a thanks so much malcolm webb. here at morgan is that a camp for displaced ethiopian families in fresh agoa. and so than go out of state, she says hundreds continue to arrive every day. more and more refugees continue to

arrive to states here in sudan as well as neighboring states, arrive at the border points where they're being registered by iran is asians and the sudanese commission for refugees before they are brought to the camps. now, most of them arrive to this camp here and get out of state known as village aids, which was initially supposed to be a residence for people who have been displaced by a dam. that is built not far away, but because people refused to live here. this place was largely uninhabited until about 2 weeks ago when the refugees started arriving. about 2 weeks ago when people started arriving 1st here, the camp had about 2 to 3000 refugees. now is houses more than 15000 and authorities here say that's beyond their capacity, largely because the camp is an open space, so monitoring it and save guarding it is a challenge. this also the issue of access to aid distribution as well as clean water, proper sanitation and health care. here say they wait for days sometimes before they are able to get their share of food distribution and get access to health care

. meanwhile, the pharmacies here and the only clinic says that it's running out of medicines and it doesn't have enough staff. so lots of challenges facing this camp at the moment and that's before, of course more refugees arrive with the ultimatum given by the prime minister. made more refugees are expected to come in the coming days. that's because the ultimatum that the prime minister gave was about 72 hours. and of course, upon hearing that many people, according to people who have relatives in the region, say that many people will flee and come here to sudan and it takes them about 5 days. so it's expected that the number of refugees pouring into sudan in the coming days will increase. this is something that sudan says is already beyond its capacity and that it needs help from the international community and international donors to respond to the country's already going through an economic crisis. and it says that without the help of the international community and aid organizations, it will simply not be able to handle the refugee crisis. and in other developments,

ethiopia has pulled 3 of its to grain soldiers from the un peacekeeping mission in south sudan. some the same in somalia where several 100 to ground soldiers serving in the peacekeeping force were and the oil tanker has been damaged by an explosion off saudi arabia's southwestern coast. it happened near the city of not far from its border with yemen. the greek operators of the tanker say it was attacked by an unknown source. no injuries have been reported. still ahead on al jazeera, accused of harming saudi arabia's interests. one woman finally faces trial after 2 years in prison. for how we've got something of a change taking place in the weather across the middle east. at the moment, a little more cloudy. notice across northern parts of the region, but it,

within the next couple of days, many of us can expect to see a spot or 2 of rain there because some western weather, some windy weather moving across cyprus, easing towards the levant, syria, lebanon. jordan, not the way into israel palestinian territories, seeing some very heavy showers, showers there, pushing across northern parts of iraq, easing over towards the caspian sea. northern parts of iran, also seeing some showers. but you can follow this line of wesel, weather, just out of kuwait, across northern parts into central areas of saudi arabia. heavy downpours down towards mecca could cause some flooding here that will sneak a little further southwards. as we go through friday, i said something to watch out for even haven cotta we might see a spot or 2 of light, right? nothing much to speak of the west. the weather will be a little further north and a little further east. come further south and you might see a shot just around southern parts of him on maybe into the gulf of aden. some wetter weather still lurking around here. jerusha showers into central africa will continue to just sneak

a little further. south was even northern parts of the maybe i could catch a shower or to be some showers into zimbabwe. some parts of mozambique and east and south africa. frank assessments, if american public opinion piece betrayed by social media platforms after november, what would be the preferred cultures if you believe that they're corrosive to our democracy? one obvious solution is breakup informed. opinions look at checkers. don't go anywhere. the protesters are going anywhere either. it's ability to get evolution or 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 00.

welcome back. you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now. football legend, diego maradona has died long considered one of sports greatest players. a 60 year old argentinian passed away from a heart attack. an oil tanker has been damaged by an explosion off saudi arabia, southwestern coast, near the city of the greek operators of the empty say it was a tank source. no injuries reported the theo government's deadline for the surrender of to growing forces has expired. the federal army has surrounded to grace california, and is threatening to use artillery on the city of 500000 people. a day after u.s. president elect joe biden announced his cabinet picks. he's preparing to give

a national address on the challenges of the pandemic before the thanksgiving holiday. his speech is expected to focus on sacrifice as the u.s. records its highest daily cope with 19 deaths since may. the latest figures show it's recorded a total of 259000. at least 12 and a half 1000000 infections. let's bring in chad britton. see from wilmington, delaware, and she expect the president elect to give this thanksgiving speech. as i said, what do we expect him to focus on? what will be the main thing? i think, as you mentioned, soothing words of shared sacrifice, getting through the crisis together, a counterpoint perhaps to what we've come to expect from the current president's harangues and stream of consciousness, speeches and space likely over the last several years behind the scenes. however, i think those who need some soothing words,

all the progress is the progressive base of the democratic party. we were told just a hour ago by the transition team. the next draft of cabinet nominees will be coming next, wednesday, december the 2nd, with a focus on the economic team. janet yellen widely expected to become treasury secretary, she was acceptable by both the left and the right. but various other names are being floated around. lots of people from biden's in a circle whom progressives are getting increasingly worried about the members of congress. and tweeting about the long time fiske rule, whole files of austerity, cutting the deficit, cutting the social safety net, as joe biden himself has been for many, many decades. it has to be said, joe biden says he's changed and he won't be be pursuing those sorts of policies, but a lot of money on the national security front. notable by their absence on tuesday, biden's nominees for defense secretary and cia director the names being floated very concerning to progressives, michele flournoy has long been seen as the leading candidate for defense secretary

. she's even more hawkish than tony blinken, who's the secretary of state nominee. they work very closely together there in the last few years. raking in cash from the defense industry, the weapons industry, big tech, but fluid oil is seen as even more of an interventionist in recent weeks. she's spoken out against having some sort of all means. restrictions on saudi arabia because of the yemen war, even though many foreign policy hands have expressed regret, like lincoln actually about effectively green light saying what became the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy crisis. so she was very concerned cia, michael morrell, who's, who's, who's defended cia torture in the past. so far, the outreach to progressive has made it look at could have been a lot worse. but the outreach to the establishment republicans is look, these are everyone you want in our cabinet and you get the sense that progressives are slowly reaching a breaking point. if that continues and they don't get some, some good, progressive dames. and it just continues to be these, these centrists who are saying is, well, look at least offensive to you. they just,

you know, you discover neutral or only vaguely hostile to them. all right, thanks so much. you have returned. see, there iran has agreed to release british astray in academic collymore gilberton exchange for 3 uranium jailed abroad. gilbert was arrested in 2018 after attending a conference into iran. she was given a 10 year sentence for espionage in a secret trial. the identities and locations of the 3 iranians involved has been revealed. it's called the shadow pandemic, and it's in the spotlight as the world marks the international day for the elimination of violence against women. the u.n. has launched a campaign about rising domestic violence. coronavirus started locking women indoors right now. many people are trapped trapped in their homes with and he said, this is the shattered and ending in one we can't call to domestic abuse help lines

in the u.k. when tomei 65 percent in the u.s. and pretty much everywhere reported numbers are rising. these aren't just numbers that you might know if you think someone is in trouble, check in there again, and if everything around is again and again or something about domestic violence. know the details of little services, like how my numbers are. if she tells you what you suspect, that why nice of her children are immediately cool, the protection police and the shadow andranik is spreading right now. let's help each other safely. right now. well, as we heard, the u.n. figures show an increase in calls to domestic violence, helplines across several countries. in argentina, there's been a 25 percent rise during lockdown, or

a close women's rights federation says it's been a more than 30 percent increase in domestic violence cases. there and in bangladesh, a local rights organization says, cases of rape and violence against women bro's by 32 percent between april and september. dozens of protesters staged a rally in dhaka, calling for better women's rights in bangladesh, where they say gender based violence is a systemic problem. child 3 has more feminist across a generation, i will much group that's holding a protest rally in front of the national parliament. this is a series of protests over the last one month that took place in the capital dhaka and across the country, protesting against increased number of rape and violence against women. and children is one of the organizers of what she had to say. this contest is about our march and for our rights to be free from fear of the threat of violence and

violence. during the pandemic, obviously violence against women, this is exasperated. the problem is that we're not looking at deep rooted missile genea and systematic violence in our country. and patriarchy, which is basically making, making everything much worse during the pandemic. just between january and september. like getting to rights group, there's been nearly 1000 cases operate, nearly 32 percent in prison, violence against women and children across the country. woman's group and other activists are saying the government isn't doing enough, although they did come up with that penalty for rape cases. last man, and at least 5 people were sentenced in a rape case across the country. this is spreading. they want this to be stopped. they want government to be very active. otherwise, we'll see this protest rallies across the country in the coming months. the u.k.

government is ditching its target for overseas aid to focus spending closer to home, the moves expected to free up billions of dollars. treasury chief says britain's facing its worst recession in more than 300 years. i have listened with great respect to those who have argued passionately to retain this target. but at a time of unprecedented crisis, government must make tough choices. i want to reassure the house that we will continue to protect the world's poorest spending, the equivalent of 0.5 percent of our national income on overseas aid in 2021. allocating 10000000000 pounds at this pending review or paul brown has more from london. there's been an intense debate about the budget in the direction of travel for this boris johnson government has been set for many, many months,

even years. i would suggest, i mean, in september the 2 departments, the international department for international development merged with the foreign office and many saw that as a hostile takeover by the foreign office. essentially bringing aid into the kind of political sphere of influence of the foreign office and under the foreign secretary as opposed to a separate, almost independent department. totally separate. and the arguments that i've heard today about whether or not it should be a government led thing is a very, i mean, some people say that it's clear that money shouldn't just be spent on things that have no relevance or value to the british public. that said, that sort of things that british aid is spent on are things like vaccination programs and education programs and refugee rights. and those who say, for example, that we shouldn't be spending money over there when we need to feed children here. many n.g.o.s say that's a bogus argument as well because the refugee problem, for example, by educating refugees, by supporting them in their own countries, prevents them from becoming refugees in the 1st place. so the arguments around

backwards and forwards, and one of the big arguments is about the length of time that this cut will stay in place for refuse to knock. it was thought it would make it just a temporary measure. just a year. he clearly said in his speech in parliament that this would last as long as the financial situation was as dire as it is. that opens the way for it to be in place for many years to come. sally women's rights activist has had their case transferred to a specialized terrorism court, according to her sister through all and a dozen other women's rights activists were arrested in 2018 and accused of harming saudi interests. well, just weeks later, the government lifted a ban on women driving, which is what they had campaigned for through has been held in solitary confinement and assaulted while in prison. according to her family and rights groups. saudi officials have denied allegations of torture. lynn model is

a middle east research director if i'm just international. she says arbitrary decisions are being made on hospitals detention. you know, we're not in a position to speculate or to try and understand the actions of the selfie or for excuse. now it goes without saying that it's just not serves their service or their narcisse us on the scene when the surgeons and indeed, if you was to have been calling in spice or us and us were facing pieces or they think think they are up and you know, are in the prison, you know, there was that this will go over the weekend and you know that the emphasis on this thing the 1st that you need to raise that attention off the women activists . so the most pressure in the past 2 years, we are hoping that the press would be cured or seems to be unconditional release of these women to this end up missing the date. but we are not in

a position to speculate with the whole thing because we do see that from our standpoint, this isn't the decisions of those who are popping arbitrary so far. and there is no way for us to said what, what, what, what, what we do know is that there was only one day notice given it's bought a private session. and that theme has been in the meantime bill. so without any comfort to her or access to a lawyer. and let's take you through some of the headlines here and i'll just say to now football legend a grandma to donna has died long considered one of the sport's greatest players, the 60 year old argentinian pasta way from a heart attack today is about as small one a side as he's a hero, people love with.