protect the people for the profit, and this is one of the meltdown on the roof. oh, this is al-jazeera. hello, i'm sam. and this is the news hour live from doha. coming up, a football world goes into mourning after the death of legendary player in sport. we'll look back at the life and legacy of marijuana and the tributes being paid. following the argentinians, passing at the age of 60, also ahead of the deadline expires for the ground forces to surrender in northern ethiopia. prime minister is warning the world not to interfere. an all time career

is headed by an explosion at the saudi arabian terminal in the red sea. and people around the world protest to end violence against women as the u.n. highlights what it's calling a shadow. pandemic football legend, diego maradona has died at the age of 60 inserted while the sports greatest players . the argentinean famously led his team to victory in the 1906 world cup. he suffered health issues for many years. down the went emergency brain surgery just weeks ago. or go live shortly to terrorise a bow in argentina where 3 days of mourning have been announced, but 1st david stokes folks back home out of the honors life the infamously referred

to a hand of god. and the unique gifts of diego, amanda o'meara donner appeared to come from a higher force born in 1960 and raised in a shanty town on the outskirts of one a set is. he became their national hero. and a global football superstar is impacting club football meant he was playing for his country as a teenager, a prolific creator and score goals. 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. marriage

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 and to the quarter final defeat against germany. again. he dipped in and out of cup by the germans as well. in 28 teams, he took over the mexican 2nd division club to rot us to sin aloa. but it wasn't long before you return to argentina 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 has the greatest ever footballer is open to debate. but his incredible talent and contribution to the game's history, make him

a phenomenon. let's take you now to some live pictures coming out of the we can see diego maradona's home just outside we could see the police forces forming that to keep control the situation on the stand, also journalists forming. but you can see them on the right side of the screen. clearly an important story in argentina. speaking of which let's go over to today's a boat shoes line for us in one of the must be a state of shock. our people taking this in when as you just said it i didn't, tina is in shock and the news are slowly sinking. that dear, what a man no matter the now is dead. he died of a heart attack where he was, we were seeing earlier in the pictures in a gated community, just outside when our side, if he was recovering from brain surgery, he had

a clock and he was operated about 2 weeks ago when he was recovering. there and subtly this latest news shocked most of the population he had struggled for the past 2 years. he had had 2 heart attacks bypass gastric surgery, among other problems among them, drug abuse and alcohol abuse, something that marked his whole career and his whole life for arjen. time still on what i learned is much more than a football player. he's considered a hero for many a man who came from extreme poverty in this country. and that made it in a way, as many say here to the top of the world to the most important teams in the world. the man who won a world cup for argentina, who scored 2. historic goals for most argentines, against the united kingdom, after a painful war between argentina and the united kingdom, and also a man who'd be friended many left wing leaders in this part of the world, among them feel that castro, who also died on november 24th 25th, 4 years ago, are

a close friend of the oh, i am on the morrow and he was also killed. stuart chavis to a will more doubtless, will just tweet it, for example, that it was what i want my mom. i don't know. it was a man who defended and fought for the poor. we're hearing precedent are radical fundamentalists who are saying that their goal is the man that represents argentina in the whole world. and that argentina cannot be thankful enough. and that's why the president has called for 3 days of mourning. now we're hearing that some of his fans are planning to gather, not far away from where i am right now. so this is certainly a painful but also a historic day for argentina. all right, thanks so much to raise a boat there. let's bring in our sports presenter pete is damaged his here and peter shocking news for the world as well. how important he was for argentina, but he had an appeal outside of the borders of that country. right? oh, absolutely, no doubt about it. remember this is

a man who started his career in origin, soudanese hometown with argentina's juniors moved on to boca. 'd juniors but then he went to europe and played football. so loner famously for not pulling in italy as well, but he won the city of 1st time in that club's history. and then of course, he made his name on the world stage as well. most famously, mexico 986, when he kept in this country to the world cup title so absolutely no doubt about it . this is a man who was well known throughout the world. and then of course, throwing all the eccentricities in the end, takes the controversies and you have a very colorful figure who everybody really knew who he was really. everybody knew who he was, how do you put the legacy of a figure like dawn? how the do you put that legacy together and say what he will be remembered for the most very difficult, isn't it? because on the one hand, he brought so much joy to so many people with his deviling football skills and it

says, 000 and exactly. on the other hand, you could argue as a cheat, the hand of god, goal against england, in 1906 where the cross came in, he gets up to hit the ball instead of hitting it. he punches it past the goalkeeper, but then 5 minutes later he picks up the ball on the halfway line dribbles past of the england team to score you'd be one of the greatest goals ever. you decide, it's certainly something that's going to divide opinion. i think it may depend on where you're from. if you're from argentina, absolutely no doubt about it. if you're from england or brazil, maybe not so much, but everyone can agree a very remarkable, unusual character. absolutely no doubt about it. thanks so much peter. and peter was the humor a little bit later in the news hour for more reaction to the over madonna's death. for now, let's get some other news after nearly 3 weeks of fighting in northern ethiopia, a deadline imposed by the central government for the ground forces to surrender has passed. the federal army is surrounded to graze capital mcalary,

and is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000. people to grand leaders deny allegations their fighters have begun, surrendering al-jazeera reports exclusively from inside to a province. you know, on the riot front line in southern federal reinforcements arrive and helicopters, hover above fools who does exactly as the ethiopian government has maintained that this is a law enforcement operation against what it calls a treasonous group. then you're going to get, i don't know much about them that they do not show up. 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 . this building has been set up to receive fighters from the people's liberation front, who've surrendered ahead of prime minister abi admits 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, 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, but the prime minister ahmed, has 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, hasan province in northern utah joins us

now, live from nairobi in neighboring kenya, he's following developments there. so the obvious 1st of all malcolm is this deadline has expired. what is happening in theory right now? or because of that communications blackout, because the phone lines in the internet are being cut off for weeks now. it's very hard to know exactly what's going on, but hasn't yet been any statement from the ethiopian government saying that they've started the offensive. prime minister issued this ultimatum on sunday and gave to green forces 3 days to surrender, lay down their arms. otherwise, he said there would be an assault on the city of mackay home to about half a 1000000 people. the government side had said that its times and artillery had surrounded the city about 50 kilometers away. but that claim was refuted by the to gray military leadership. it's not clear exactly what the situation is or if they

are indeed within range of the city. but the un's human rights chief did say on tuesday that she was concerned about a build up of tanks and artillery around the city of mackay. of course, we've half a 1000000 people living there if there was to be heavy fighting using these heavy weaponry in and around the cities that they could be quite dangerous for the people there. but there's also been growing diplomatic pressure on both sides to try and bring them to the table and, and try and prevent this conflict dragging on or getting any more bloody the most recent voices to, to join. well, the 3 african union envoys, former african heads of state who were due to arrive in addis ababa today, prime minister ahmed said he'd meet them, but he said he's open to anything except talking to the degree in leadership. european union leaders, european government leaders, met in new york the security council tuesday for a closed door meeting. we don't know what the outcome of that was yet over the

latest for us to join in the diplomatic pressure is joe biden's, newly appointed security advisor. so we don't know if this diplomatic pressure has had any effect, or if there is indeed an offensive going ahead or not yet. all right, thanks so much malcolm were all here. morgan is at a camp for displaced ethiopian families. and so i shall go in sudan's, get out of state, she says hundreds are coming 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 8, 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. 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's take 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 along the story, still coming up, make tough choices. bouquet, treasury chief cuts foreign aid, looking for savings to support the crowd. a virus ravaged economy and 3 colombian ministers summoned to called by former fog rebels say the government is failing to comply with the 2016 peace deal.

and oil tanker has been damaged by an explosion off saudi arabia, southwestern coast. it happened in the city of chicago, not far from its border with yemen. the greek operators of the tanker say it was a tank fire, an unknown source, no injuries have been reported. or bill law is the editor of arab digest and middle east analyst. he joins us by skype from glasgow. good to have you with us. so let's start with the location of this attack. what does it indicate? well, it's, it's close to the border with yemen. the suggestion is, all of we don't know yet that these are behind the attack that this themselves up not claimed credit for it yet, which i think is interesting. because after all, it was the journey that a missile attack on an oil storage facility in jeddah, on an on monday and that it take credit for that attack. i think we'll just have to

wait and see and not jump to too easy conclusions at this point. about what's behind the attack? i do think it does are 2 of the saudis, so vulnerable and, and, and security issues that, that they face. because after all, was in september about 2019 that each of the province, the saudi aramco facilities were struck by a combination of that missiles and lone attacks that clause abstention, and significant damage to who he said, said, we can hit you anywhere at any time in saudi arabia so i think this is another instance of the saudis, perhaps not able to provide the level of security that they need to do given the threat that the who did this and indeed iran poles. glad you mentioned that because could we say that whoever's done this attack? it underscores that the vulnerability of the saudi oil installations and industry

have not decreased despite the measures taken since the attacks of 2019. yes, i think that it is important to underline that because after all, the saudis were embarrassed, given the extent of the defense center. they had courtesy of many expensive american weapons that the this attack, which we believe came from iraq, probably from a arabian supporter, really backed militia. rather, that it was carried out with such skill and such a diversity and the saudis, you know, needed to shore up their system defense of this. now they have done that somewhat. they object said that knocked out. so who the missiles, which no doubt they have. but still, this does not raise this very serious question. the ability or inability of the saudis to protect the chigger live there ramped up to sillett east, leaves them still very vulnerable. what does it also say about international

shipping? well, if you're in the insurance business, you're going to be looking to raise your premiums. perhaps. i think it makes it once again a risky move seen in the past with the shire see coming off of the east africa that this is, has been a risky business. the situation is dangerous because these are the kinds of things that can escalate into bigger and broader issues. and that's why i think it's important for you when to step back and, and not immediately assign blame to these. but bear in mind that the iranians themselves will, in you use this kind of asymmetric attack to send some messages. now on the weekend, don, i'm sorry, on the weekend, benjamin netanyahu mentored my hero and bob insult ma. and now with having

a conversation about iran and what's up of that of that conversation, i have no doubt. there have been suggestions that donald trump has a parting shot might take some sort of quite serious military action against iran. something that they really ends are saying, well, you know, you've got to think about this, the saudis, you better think about your american friends and, and what we could do to you if the americans attack us and equally to the united arab emirates. so i think there are what he says in the region who are saying, let's, let's calm down on this one, let's not escalate it. all right, it's good to get your faults and analysis on that. below day after u.s. president elect joe biden announced his cabinet pigsties, 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

has recorded a total of 259600 deaths and at least 12 and a half 1000000 infections bring in. she have returned c. in wilmington, delaware, and so the vice president expected to speak what kind of so the message might we expect from him? we're not sure about the specifics. we're just getting that phrase from the transition team that these will be words about shared sacrifice and getting through the crisis during the holidays. we all know if we're talking about biden becoming a soothing figure as opposed to president trump. the main story here in wilmington is a great deal of tension between the progressive wing, the progressive base of the democratic party and the transition team. we're big told that the next raft of nominees will be announced next wednesday. they will be

the economic nominees, janet yellen expected to be treasury secretary, she's seen as acceptable by both the left on the right. but a number of the figures are being that mentioned who are part of biden's close circle. and we've seen biden is favoring those who've been with him for many years . so he has a lot of advisors who for a long time have spoken about the need for austerity, cutting the deficit, axe, slashing for social safety net, very much as biden has for decades. biden now says he's changed his opinion that he's no longer a deficit hawk who wants to slash social safety net. but as we're seeing more and more progressive members of congress and others say look, we will start acting and we will make our voices heard if you do appoint any of these people to these posts. similarly with national security, notable by their absence cheers day. the defense secretary nominee there and the cia director nominee michele flournoy long been seen as the the shoo in for defense secretary that no longer seems as certain policy because biden is as apparently having some 2nd thoughts because he doesn't have such

a close relationship with her but also because she's seen as even more hawkish than those who were mentioned on tuesday, who were introduced to us all to say that when they were largely liberal, interventionist, michele flournoy goes a step further. and biden has had a tough as whether in the past about, for example, the afghan surge under obama biden was against that biden was against libya, michele flournoy all for that. michelle and i also has like lincoln, but what i mean, they've been working together at the same consulting firm and have been taking in lots and lots of money from weapons manufacturers. so not get all the rest of choice. so progressives, again saying look, we're getting a bit concerned, especially also with the cia director possibility mike morrell is being mentioned. he's defended cia torture in the past, and we're seeing the progressive base now say look, we're reaching a limit now, because biden has been talking about getting republicans in the cabinet, but not having progressive figures like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. and the press is saying, look, you called us, keep saying to us that these appointments are as bad as they could have been while

you then give the establishment everything that they want. so there's a bit of tension developing. definitely. thanks so much. you have a tendency that now north central and south america have together reports of more than $1500000.00 cases of cope with 19 in just the last 7 days. the world health organization says it's the highest weekly total. since the start of the pandemic, infections are surging, particularly high in the united states. brazil, and mexico. john holeman is live for us in mexico. so 1st of all, let's start with what's been happening across latin america. why are those numbers really accelerating right now? yeah, it's a real soup of different factors actually that have come together over these months . one of them is the underlying health problems that a lot of countries in this region experience when talking about diabetes, but we're also talking about people being overweight or obese. it just,

for example, in mexico 3 out of 4 people, adults are overweight, so that doesn't help. you can also tie into that. the fact that, especially in latin america, more than half of the work done is in the informal economy, that means that people don't have steady jobs. they don't have a safety net when they don't go out to work. and that means that they've got to get out in the streets despite the fact that infection might be rampant. for example, we're seeing at the moment 10000 cases of coded reported just last night by the mexican government. but people still have to go out and go to work. a lot of people have said to us, even code that gets me, i'm going to die of hunger, that's not much of a choice. there are another couple of things as well. and that's that health services across this region don't tend to be universal with the exception of a couple of countries. most countries have gaps there. so people that are in a serious state with coded are automatically getting treated. and there's another kid element here, and that's there in latin america,

there's about 80 percent of the population is in urban areas that's higher than most other regions in the world. so if you have a lot of people, obviously in a concentrated urban space, that's not going to help you deal with infections. there's a lot of different factors, some of the manmade and some of them not coming together to cause this situation which coded as you say is exaggerating. or ron, thanks so much. john homan there much more still to come. hong kong's laid outlines plans for the coming year and defends china's typing, greg, and more reaction to the death of football legend, diego maradona hateable cover tributes coming in from around the world.

hello. 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 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 corsa, 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 society something to watch out for. even here in contra, 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 ace. 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 make a little further south was even northern parts of the maybe i could catch a shower or 2 the way some showers into zimbabwe. some parts of mozambique and east and south africa in a notorious motorcycle minniti like him isn't one pia to direct event is to state to play. economists have to empower the women, sat up all month, sit in ride jets, and cuts and redefine their status in society. this is that nigeria's women will come will witness an al-jazeera. 'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell, denied the right to a fair trial. no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent,

mahmoud hussein, his crime journalist, to demand new truly and boy solidarity with all detained journalists. sign the petition. free to say who's come back, you're watching al-jazeera time to recap, our headlines, football legend daughter has died long considered one of the sport's greatest players, 60 year old argentinian passed away from

a heart attack. the theo pm government's deadline for the surrender of the ground forces this past, federal army has surrounded the grace capital. mccalla is threatening to use artillery on the city of 500000 people. a loyal tanker has been damaged by an explosion off saudi arabia, southwestern coast,, near the city of the greek operators of b.m.t., a grotty say it was attacked by an unknown force, no injuries been reported. it's called the shadow pandemic. and it's in the spotlight as the world marks 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 trying to trapped in their homes with enemies. this is the shattered and in one we can't call to domestic abuse help lines in the u.k.

when time by 65 percent in the u.s. and pretty much everywhere reported numbers are rising. these aren't just numbers. if you think someone is in drug, check in there again, and if everything around isn't something about domestic violence. know the details of level services like how my numbers are shown to you. she tells you what you suspect that has children are in the protection police. schatten andranik is reading 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, morocco's women's rights federation says there's been

a more than 30 percent increase in domestic violence cases there. and the bangladeshi local rights organization says cases of rape and violence against women, brose by 32 percent between april and september. activists in bangladesh is capital dhaka, demanding action against what they say is a systemic problem. child or has more feminist across 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 protest is about our march and for our rights to be free from the threat of violence and violence. during the pandemic is exasperated. the problem is that we're not looking at

deep rooted missile engineered, systematic violence in our country. and patriarchy, which is basically making, making everything much worse during the pandemic, just between january and september, cutting to rights group has been nearly 1000 cases operate for 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 coming months. but on a computer is chief of the women's rights and gender sanction at the office of the

un high commissioner for human rights joins us now from geneva. good to have you with us. how unprecedented all these numbers, the rise in violence that you know, some of the numbers i read. yes, thank you. and with, even before the pandemic, the numbers were quite impressive. un women published a study that showed that 89 percent of women almost one out of 5 that suffered by ends at the hands of an intimate partner. receive months now. and now, as we've heard with the pandemic, the numbers have gone up across the globe in all countries for a variety of reasons. because women have been stopped with their oppressors because they had less access to support services need to be shelters in. and because also that less access to their support networks,

and there are estimates that for every 18 months, a knockdown and dishing of $50000000.00 women will experience no doubt. there are other challenges in this pandemic in the dark, like emotional abuse and other things which can be recorded so easily. right? yes, there is many forms of violence. violence takes many different shapes. of course we all week about domestic violence, but violence is not only physical causes that it can be emotional. we've also had reports of an increase often seems by a child in forced marriages for example. another concept then becomes violence and one gentleman to nation goes into to ration our cries, of rent and security. and when we go to school, these are also forms of violence that tend to increase. and how does this impact

others? especially children right off and when the woman is the target of this kind of violence and behavior, it impacts others in society, absolutely. basket women, 1st and foremost. but it also impacts their lives and around them. in the weakness when we try much time can mean you know like men, your changes upon these 3 men have experienced on themselves. that's cheap. that done violence are long lasting and on the women maybe, but not all right, thank you so much for your time. it's been good talking to you for thank you very much tension between colombia's government and form a far cry bulls is playing out in court 3 ministers,

including the attorney general and the nation's peace commission, have been summoned by colombia's peace tribunals. the wednesday hearing follows a series of recent protests over the handling of the 2016 peace deal. former fog rebels have been growing increasingly angry about what they say is the government's failure to abide by the terms of the agreement. human rights groups say more than 240 former rebels have been killed since the deal was signed. the accord ended 50 years of fighting. nearly 13000 fog rebels handed over their weapons, but in return, the government recognized the group as a political party. critics say the agreement of wrongly legitimize fark and its fighters go live now to understand that i'm petty in bogota. so what's come out of the hearing so far? well sammy, the duchess and old justice peace tribe. you know,

we were expecting to hear directly from the minister of defense, the minister of the country's attorney general. all these high level officials have been summoned to participate in this public hearing. instead they say in deputies, in how to respond to a very thorny question, which is, as you were saying in your introduction, who is killing 4 more fight fighters at very high numbers and why there are different response to this question. they are presenting different motives while formant, the former fighters, and that many of the judges here believe that the killings are systematic in nature. that there are repeated patterns in the rural areas of the country where the state hasn't been able to come in. and where number remaining get

our troops are fighting for the control of the critique of drug trafficking, illegal gold mining leases, tech t.v. in the areas in that fire fighters are being killed because they are critics of what these groups are doing in this territory. and that the government hasn't done enough for the chief inspector to tribunals say here that a former fighter is being killed every 5 days. and that this needs to stop in this fight. having ordered back in april to the government to do more of these killings said, have to and can these killings end up putting the entire peace accord at risk? must be a concern for people that that is indeed a major concern. and remember,

we're not all the here looking at the killings of former fighters, but also community and social media. there's in these areas where a sweep of the plane patient of a number of reforms that are part of the peace accord that would have promised to bring real trees in the country. he said that peace remains and do this. if we are seeing bad, major increase in the level of violence in these territories, at least 7 massacres have occurred in the last year. that is that the killing of at least 4 people in the same day and to end these numbers keep growing. and now the government is saying that indeed they are doing a lot, but critics of the government insist that that repeated criticism of the accord part of the right wing government has hated at the spear for it this violence to return in these areas. the expectation is for to

cover to do more to try and defend these people. and the other important point in that hearing so far was the fact that at least 94 of our fight there is had to be requested for more security measures. but these securities haven't arrived and they have you. all right, thanks so much when, even if analysing the impacts at least 40 people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a truck in brazil, it happened in sao paolo state. most of the victims died at the scene. it's not yet . how many survivors there are? the u.k. government is ditching its target for overseas aid to focus pending closer to home . the moves expected to free up billions of dollars. treasury chief refused to night, 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 of paul brennan is in london, says the government has wanted to reduce its foreign aid spending for some time. 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 or 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 refused 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. hong kong's leader has praised the city's contentious security law, which was imposed by beijing saying it's brought back stability and policy address . carrie lamb also spoke about better educating young people about respecting china from hong kong. a jim brown reports kerry lamb insists this was her policy address and not one dictated by the leadership in beijing, as she both defended and justified china's tightening grip here. in the past year or so, hong kong's experience the most severe political challenges since its return to the motherland. one of her urgent priorities is to restore hong kong's constitutional order and political system from chaos. the large scale and often violent protests ended after the imposition of

a national security. lauren july that had restored stability, lam said, but warned more measures were needed, including a wide ranging program to educate hong kong's youth on the rule of law. students were often at the front lines of the demonstrations. hong kong has become an obvious, gaping hole in national security and presented significant risks to the country. lam's policy address last year was disrupted by opposition legislators. but there were no protests this year. after pro-democracy, politicians resigned as a group after 4 of their colleagues were disqualified before this policy address carried arms approval rating was a dismal 26 percent compared to 64 percent in the months after he took office more than 3 and a half years ago. but analysts say there's no chance of losing a job any time soon as he continues to enjoy the support of president xi jinping lam had

a lot to say on wednesday speaking for more than 2 hours. unveiling $200.00 proposals including the greater bay area project. that's china's ambitious plan to link hong kong to 9 cities in guangdong province, creating a vast finance and information technology hub. hong kong's future warned was tied to closer economic integration with the mainland, where coded 19 appears to be largely under control. and economic growth is returning. adrian brown, al-jazeera, hong kong. all right, let's catch up with all the sports news in a moment. we'll have all the reaction and tributes to football legend. diego maradona. after his death, aged 61 hasa time,

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now the world of football is in a state of mourning, and peter is here to explain why. thank you, sam, you're quite right. donna has died at the age of 60 on the world's greatest ever footballers. he pretty much singlehandedly ladies country argentina to the world cup. in 1906 donna had successfully surgery on a blood clot on his brain earlier this month and was discharged from hospital. but just 2 weeks later, he died from a heart attack at his home in buenos aires earlier on wednesday. joining me now from miami is one angle who is the latin american correspondent for the audio

sports in spain and a holder mismo in the u.s. one. thank you for your time. madonna. with a complicated man to say the least help best should we remember him? we have to remember him based on its complexities as well is and his simplicity is what we have to see where his background was coming from. one of the poorest areas of one a site is in the late fifty's and early sixty's to be able to emerge into the superstar that you became the footballing icon that he emerged into. you have to understand the desire for him to you know, you will to overcome all those social adversities, obstacles he had to overcome. not only in a social standpoint, but also for me footballing standpoint and become the player that he became of course his skill had a lot to do with it. his vision, his intensity, as flyer were able to carry him on outside of the football pitch. sometimes for better sometimes for worse, but of course he's a very complex being that not only surpassed football, he also engaged in

a lot of social aspects of what argentina and latin america big team throughout the sixty's, seventy's eighty's. and even today, there was a dog's side as well. one thinks of the drugs and the hand of god, which was blatant cheating. that those kinds of things make him more relatable to fans. it made him extremely relatable to fans. and i mean, he made an imperfect demi god, if you will. it made him an individual that yeah. ok. his life isn't perfect. and he tried to overcome them and it would always that time succumb to those, you know, lesser demons. at times, the hand of god ends up being always an interesting story of was he a cheat or was he able to under go and find ways to surpass or circumvent a system that was flawed in terms of refereeing. and now with the art people make that same type of a comparison, what dealer maradona would have gotten away with in today's football. but that

again is a different story, but he is definitely one of those beings that were able to surpass a lot of those things and become a player that had this incredible pedestal. but more importantly, he was a player that many related to because of those imperfections. one today we have the messy v, rinaldo debates, measured on his traditional comparison was with pele. it's all subjective, of course. but when does marriage on a rank in the old time listing your view? and there might be a dose of romanticism when you ask me, or because especially with, with what's gone on and seen what argentina people are crying in front of his house right now. as we speak, they somebody who is no longer called to some politics. now they give out monday night. i don't know, just minutes ago the mayor of naples announced that he's a player that has had songs written about him that he's had a different religions made out of them out of the me and i was in argentina. are one of those to me, in my opinion,

he's the best player that's ever lived based on being able to see messi being able to see clearly and being able to see him play as well. he to me was the best player of all time. but again, it's kind of unfair for the present players as they don't have a full body of work. and it's also unfair for past players to be put in these generational caddy corners that end up kind of overhyping summer because of exposure. and maybe underwhelming lee. i guess underestimating others because of that same reason. thank you so much for your time, really appreciate it. now, thank you for having me on pleasure. a minute's silence will be held in tribute for marijuana before wednesday's champions, league games, and other legends of the game have also been paying their respects. brazilian hero pele said, i lost a great friend and the world lost a legend. adding certainly one day we'll kick a ball together in the sky above former england player gary lineker who was beaten by merit on his argentina in the quarter finals of the 986 world cup said by some

distance, the best player of my generation. arguably the greatest of all time. hopefully you'll finally find some comfort in the hands of god. christiane, a rebel that said good bye to a friend, calling him and eternal genius and one of the best ever an unparalleled magician. and his former club napoli in italy, tweeted the world, awaits our words, but they are no words to describe the pain we're going through now is the time to grieve, real madrid managers in addition to the dances fixture, congestion is a ruining the entertainment value of football the coronavirus pandemic has squeezed the already packed schedule and rail, have several players out injured and head of the champions league game against inter milan, including captain sergio ramos. and callum benzema. midfielder luca moderate, has also complained about fixture overload in a series. it's true, there are too many games. we're playing every 3 days between our national teams,

europe, league and everything else. and it seems like they're always wanting to implement more matches, more competitions, and nobody is asking about the health of the players. there are lots of injuries, not just in our squad, but in squads around the world. we also have to think about coronavirus if we're going to test positive or negative. and that is mentally exhausting to. we need to look at the players more because even more players are going to get hurt and who's going to play the matches then? right now, the asian champions league is being held in a bio secure bubble in cutter spain, ambassador knowledge and understanding yesterday. now place a japanese side vessel. coby, the world cup, went to school and brought in the sisters. they be china's 2 time champions. league winners. ever grand 31 vessel remain top of group g. . south korea's john book motors secured their 1st win of the tournament by beating australian team sydney. f.c. one will soon you know, was the match winner with ago just before half time to invoke remain 3rd in group h. . while sydney are thought of with no wins from their 4 games, we're looking at

a possible delays for the 1st grand slam of the tennis season. that's as organizers of the australian open tried to negotiate with government officials on how players will quarantine tennis australia is trying to find a way to allow players to train or compete while still in mandatory isolation. the tournament should also begin in mid january, meaning competitors would have to be in melbourne next month to complete all the procedures. but with korean state officials say they still have not finalised all the plans. that's largely built by the light boy, you know, away coach. so i think that still much, largely by the north, it's not the only option. you know, as you know, the french open, i think, was delighted. boy, by many months some women didn't occur at all. but look, i still think it's much more likely that it will be a shorter rather than a long life. as important as a tennis tournament is, we're not going to jeopardize our coronavirus status or anything other than the

highest standards. people have to quarantine the could be on another world championship trophy this weekend as make sure america son of formula one legend michael closes in on the if 2. title. the 21 year old german has a narrow lead going into the last 2 races of the season. both of those will take place in bahrain, but 5 other drivers also have a chance to clinch it. and the route for the next edition of the back already has been announced from january 3rd to 15th. the race will take place exclusively in saudi arabia. the race covers more than 7 and a half 1000 kilometers. before finishing in the city of jeddah, i'll be here again later with more sports news, sami, and some much peter brings us the end of this news. our barbara starr is up next in a couple minutes from london with the colorful bulletin. so stay with us.

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