they told us that they so look what happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice. the minutes are just something war too often to donald trump pardons, michael flynn, the former national security advisor had pleaded guilty of lying in the washer investigation. otherkin but all this is are just there are live from doha. also coming up. one of the graces to footballers of all time dare go by a donor has died. argentina else is 3 days of mourning. and these are live pictures of fans, and what a side is said, a vigil for the football legend to have a live update fears of more violence in ethiopia's to great province. as the

government's deadline passes for the region's forces to surrender. u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor, michael slid. it comes just 8 weeks before he vacates the white house and it takes direct aim at the russia probe that trump always claimed was a political witch hunt in 2017. michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador. trouble alst his full pardon on for a number of u.s. . lawmakers have condemned it as a blatant interference with the justice system. a little earlier us president elect joe biden, used his thanksgiving message to urge americans to come together and stop the spread of the coronavirus. he said the grim season of division would soon give way

to light. well, let's bring in rosalind jordan, who's in washington d.c. roles. let's start with michael. flynn, president, had at one time, really tried to distance himself from from, than after the guilty plea. but he came back into the fold as the narrative around the so-called, russia hoax sort of came into focus. so house is going to go down with trump supporters and also with his critics. well, certainly those who support the u.s. president who feel that he has always been targeted since he came into power 4 years ago. certainly applauding the president's decision to issue a long expected part of this is something which trump started talking about nearly 9 months ago. this as michael flynn was trying to change his guilty plea and accusing the federal prosecutors of basically entrapping him. there's been a legal saga that really has overhauling the trumpet ministration. the allegations

of russian meddling in u.s. political processes of corruption and of other untoward possibly treasonous behavior by members of the trumpet ministration, as well as by some of trump's outside supporters and roles. as i mentioned, joe biden has given a thanksgiving address. tell us more about what he had to say. well, essentially the president elect was trying to appeal to americans who are just as people around the world have been dealing with nearly 9 months of trying to cope with the cold. at 19 pandemic. there have been many numerous calls from public health experts for people here in the united states to not gather in large groups for the secular thanksgiving holiday which starts on thursday. but many people have decided to ignore that it flies and are trying to gather with relatives people they

may not have seen for much of 2020. the president elect said in his remarks that this is a time of resilience, and he's trying to appeal to the american public's better nature. this is a bit of what joe biden had to say earlier on wednesday. this is the moment we need to steal our spines, redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight. let's remember, we're all in this together. sounds trite to say we were all in this together. for so many of us is hard to hear. this fight isn't over. we still have months of this battle ahead of us. as an example for americans on the thanksgiving holiday, the president elect said that he, his wife, dr. jill biden. their daughter and her husband would be celebrating the holiday, not with the powerful of grandchildren and friends and others, as they had done in years past. ok, thank you for that, rosalind jordan,

their life ross in washington d.c. . well, global coronavirus cases have some pasta 60, many end. the u.s. has the highest number in the wilds. we'll have a roundup from across the wilds a little later in the show. the football world is in mourning for argentinian legend. donna who's died of a heart attack at the age of 60 just weeks after a brain surgery. he's regarded as one of the greatest if not the greatest player of all time captained argentina to victory in the 1986 world cup. this is what assad has, where fans are celebrating his achievements as a memorial outside his childhood home in the outskirts of the capital, headstocks looks back on mad, honest, turbulent life. the infamously referred to

a hand of god and the unique gifts of diego, armando marathoner, appeared 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 their national hero. and the global football superstar is impacting club football meant he was playing for his country as a teenager, a prolific creator and score a goal for just $1.00 metres, tall, stocky, and powerful. his skill and balance made it unstoppable. the $986.00 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 gold in world cup history. marathoners argentina went on to lift that world cup in mexico. a good team made

great by one player. there 4 years later, they lost the trophy as west germany gained revenge in the final. but marat donna 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. off 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 world cup . in 2004, he spent time in intensive care after a heart attack and his weight fluctuated. jaring 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 and out

of cup by the germans as well. in 28 team, he took over the mexican 2nd division club, derogate dissin, aloa, but it wasn't long before you return to argentina to lead top flight team, give nasi adel a 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. let's go live now to terry's a bull in

a side is where madoff. fans are still gathering tears. just tell us what's happening there where you are along here right on the front row for the photos were people continue to iraq to put tributes to the water mondo . but i don't know, many of them who have spoken to both from qana believe that's the thought that he left argentina to our young people who are sold out, came here to celebrate not so many who strive to start also his lunch before. but he had many flaws, many mistakes, 100 dollar bills and drug addiction, but still he gave argentina and $986.00 world. many here. he's a national hero, he's much more than a fool for, for many of those polling or about to come on from one of the poorest areas of when a fighter from learned to make it to the top of the world,

to the 1st teams in the world. he won a $986.00, he scored 2 goals against england after a very painful war between argentina and the england. and that's why i like to say that's a man that because it was a very correct record. and that's something that people talk about that he was the front of the in fact, he died on november 25th the same day that you know, after died 3 years ago, a friend of a war, charles, a former president cristina fernandez what we're hearing crap being about oh, not talk, he said wake up across a bunch of cameras just like when i'm away. 5, 195. he was a 5th time or one champion from argentina. so he belongs at the presidential palace and crescent iraq. numbers have secured 3 close of morning. that's important. the one that i don't i use for argentina, that is a bowl that or with marijuana fans,

young and old soon, but it's not as thank you, donna was equally popular in the italian city of naples, thanks to his incredibly successful spell with the city's club napoli, there he is regarded as an adopted son of the city. these are live pictures from naples, florida to help when there are only 2 italian league titles and 9 187990. the mayor of naples has announced renaming the stadium after him. is be in sports correspondent. he says madonna was more than just an athlete announcement from the naples, major of the naming stadium where they said, your mayor is at the moment called the some power center ball. so many i thinking we are switching from the name of a saint to the name of a god, because these is how much of the honor was held in naples. so we are not talking

only about a legend, a sports star of the whatever we are talking about. an icon, an icon has j.f.k. was as mary lee malvo was an icon of football. and we all are, when there is an icon that is dying and we feel a soul stuck because it's all as easy for a little part of us is also going away to understand. the importance of mother donna is not about what actually not only about what he did on the beach, he's even outside. that is the serve, the biggest largest city in italy by far the never won anything title before. in spite of them being mad for footballers and always walls of these advantaged in they tell young culture, italian economy, something that was really felt by the nepali towns. well modeled on a didn't win any champions league, they won 2 titles is a lot, but not that much,

but not only at napoli on the football map, it pulled on a cultural level of naples on the football map, on the cultural march on the intermission of lump it still ahead on al-jazeera coronavirus cases, a surging across latin america. we'll have a live update from mexico city and valley is the big held across the world to mark the international day for the elimination of violence against women. but it's looking like a soggy thanksgiving for the eastern seaboard of the united states. not cheap, bad at the moment, but this must have cloud gathering across the great plains. that's going to push

its way for the race was quite an intense area of low pressure. this one, it brings the rain across the appalachians, over towards the mid atlantic states stacie new york, seeing some heavy right wing, but also seeing some of that wet weather. not rain that just makes its way across the panhandle into the deep south is going to linger here as we go on into friday. some big downpours around louisiana, mississippi, alabama could cause some localized flooding, but it should turn try by this state. as we go towards the weekend, pushing up towards that eastern seaboard by this stage when she weather cool enough into central and western parts of canada, some snow coming back in across british columbia, some heavier right, around the coast, west coast of the u.s. . we're generally fine and dry and there's some wintry flowers there on the southern end of the rockies pushed further south, still fun to drive across much of mexico. we still have some showers lurking around nicaragua and costa rica easterly winds driving those showers in here. so somewhat the weather still implant affright as we go through the next couple of days. we'll

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you're watching out, is there a reminder of our top stories this hour? u.s., president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor, michael flynn, 2017. michael flynn. pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador u.s. president elect. joe biden has used his thanksgiving message to urge americans to stop the spread of the coronavirus. he's asked people to forgo traveling, but said the grim season of division would soon give way. tonight's the football world is in mourning for argentinian legend donna has died of a heart attack at the age of 60 is regarded as one of the greatest if not the greatest players of all time and captained argentina to victory in the 1986 world cup. after nearly 3 weeks of fighting in northern ethiopia, a deadline imposed by the central government for the 2 grave regions forces to

surrender as parts. the federal army says it has surrounded to gray's capital mackellar, a claim disputed by the 2 grains. the government is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000. people. as a deadline approached avia rejected demands for dialogue and urged the international community not to interfere. others there is hands on. there are reports exclusively from inside the great products. on the right up front line in southern tikrit, better all reinforcements arrive and helicopters, hover above the ethiopian government has maintained that. this is a law enforcement operation against what it calls a treasonous group. then it is. and i don't know which of it under the 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

reading. the book at this building has been set up to receive fighters from the tea, grab people's liberation front, who've surrendered ahead of prime minister. 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, the team leader has reiterated his rejection of the ultimatum. he says his fighters will continue their struggle against the federal government until the end, with on the other side of the battlefield in mecca. the t.v. 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 europe, more than 41000. 4 displaced ethiopian families in the hands of reef state. she says hundreds are arriving 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 got 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. 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'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. germany is extending virus restrictions until late december. chancellor angela merkel says the infection rate remains to higher and warned that some measures could stay in place into january bars and restaurants are closed. schools and some shops remain open. mask wearing will be mandatory in busy public areas. you must know the measures taken on october 28th have all been extended for the time being until december 20. and we issue as the federal government and the states agree that due to the very high level of contamination, the restrictions will have to continue until the beginning of january. because the

u.k. is causing billions of dollars from its overseas aid budget saying it can no longer afford to meet its legal obligations because of the economic impact of the pandemic . chancellor, she sent out rejected criticism from the opposition who called it a moral failure. i have listened with great respect to those who have argued to retain this talk, 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 poor its spending, the equivalent of 0.5 percent of our national income on overseas aid and 2021. allocating 10000000000 pounds at this, pending turkey is registering a surge in covert 19 as a symptomatic cases reveal. the scale of the hour break more than 20000 new cases were reported in 24 hours by far the highest recorded since the outbreak began. its

because the health ministry is now including asymptomatic cases of the total world health organization says 1500000 cases of corona virus have been detected across the americas in just one week. that is the highest, a weekly caseload. their infections are particularly high in the u.s., brazil, and mexico. many countries were slow to impose restrictions to control the spread of the virus. john holliman joins us now live from mexico city. john, just give us a picture where you are in mexico. also what's being said about why the numbers are so high across that in america. more generally. exactly, i think the situation in mexico there's various factors that sort of echoed across the region. one of those is the amount of people that work in the informal economy in mexico, that's between 50 and 60 percent in the region as a whole, talking here about latin america. it's more than half of the work that's done in

the region is in the informal economy. and what that means is people don't have steady jobs, they don't have that safety net. so they have to go out on the street. they have to go out to work whether they like it or not. a lot of people put it to us. we are talking to them, even i get coded, or i go or i die of hunger. so that's not a very palatable choice to many people and it doesn't help to stop the sort of chain of infection. so many people have to go out. another problem that's true for mexico and across the region as well. is health problems in mexico, 3 quarters of the population, the adult population suffer from obesity or being overweight. and that's echoed in several other countries in latin america. also a lot of diabetes, a lot of junk food being eaten in this region because it's cheaper basically, the eating of the food is also another problem in that the urban population, 80 percent of latin americans live in urban populations and that's higher than

a lot of other regions in the world, and that basically means obviously that you've got more people concentrated in those spaces and it also adds to the infections. now there's another thing which you sort of reference there in the introduction, and that's the attitude of leaders. now, president and the and others, manuel lopez, obrador to mexico has been criticized for several months, especially at the beginning of the pandemic. he was still hugging and kissing supporters not wearing a face mask. and i think a lot of people thought, well, if the country's figureheads not taking this particularly seriously, why would the population do that? and of course, some people in mexico, they have to go out. they have to go to work. we have also seen, we've been going around the city mexico city, a lot reporting from different areas. definitely people who perhaps aren't taking this is seriously as they could do that maybe reflected other countries through brazil with other leaders like president and those men will preserve the daughter. ok, thanks for that update there. john heilemann live from mexico city rallies have been

taking place in cities across the world, calling for an end to sexual and gender based violence. i am introduced capital santiago, women's rights groups marched to the presidential palace. domestic violence has been on the rise during the pandemic. activists say $130000.00 cases of domestic violence are reported in chile every year. for more, let's go live to our latin america and it's had to see a new man in santiago. you see a, we say women's rights groups, but this is a, you know, an issue for the entire community. what a protest is they're calling for probably hold on a 2nd while just a few minutes ago. i had hundreds of people around me, but everybody's kind of run for it because police have been a, have tried to disperse. the women who are marching to the presidential palace with tear gas and with water cannon are now moving up this avenue sent that was main

thoroughfare there calling for 1st of all for the end of impunity. i would say that's the number one demand, because sex offenders, people who even men who kill and be to their wives their girlfriends are unknown. women, domestic violence, violence in general against women is very, is very rarely punished or. and if it is punished, it's with very light sentences. so we've seen this year, for example, the case of a man who had been in prison. he will, who had been sentenced to 15 years for killing and mutilating his former wife. he was allowed to get out early on good behavior, and then he turned around and, and killed 2 more people. women of course. so this is the sort of thing the women say can no longer continue, as well as the growing consciousness of sexual harassment in the workplace in public transport all over for many years. women were quiet here in chile, they didn't talk about it. they were embarrassed to say that they had been molested,

for example, by their brothers, their cousins or their fathers, grandfathers. and now women are daring to come out because they say that the feminist movement has made them realize that they are not alone. and that they have a voice, and that was, has been heard very, very loudly all over latin america. but it's especially here in chile where radical feminism is growing as well. so that there's a kind of a revolution going on. not so much behind the scenes anymore. but right out here on the streets. ok, i think i have to leave it there. listen human there live for us in santiago. thank you. tension between colombia's government, former fox rebels is playing out on course 3 ministers, including the attorney general. and the police commissioner are a pairing at colombia's peace tribunals. wednesday's hearing follows protests over the handling of the 26th in peace deal. former rebels say the government isn't sticking to its side of the agreement, which ended more than 50 years of conflicts. addresses in bangkok of call to on

their king to give up a royal fortune of tens of billions of dollars. thousands of able have been rallying outside thailand's biggest bank, which is mostly owned by the monarchy protests as have broken a long standing to boo. by criticizing the king several face police action for allegedly insulting. the royal family and oil tanker has been damaged by an explosion of saudi arabia's southwestern coast. it happened near the city of chicago, not far from the border with yemen. the greek operators of the m t. a guardian taga say it was attacked by an unknown source. no injuries have been reported. in the trial of a saudi women's rights activist has been transferred to a court dealing with terrorism related cases. and how to do was among a dozen activists arrested in 2018 and accused of harming saudi interests of the

family and rights. groups say she's been held in solitary confinement and assaults that while in prison. saudi officials have denied allegations of torture through has been on hunger strike for the last month. cyclonic has made lad fall in south eastern india, bringing with it, winds of 120 kilometers an hour and heavy rain, and more than 100000, people moved into shelters ahead of the storm's arrival is expected to bring widespread destruction to homes and farmland and to cause power outages. local pharmacies have cancelled trains and flights results there and these are the top stories. u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor. michael slater. in 2017, when pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador, a number of u.s. law.