to the kazakh people who lived in the vicinity. the motives make little difference . rewind, silent on al-jazeera. donald trump pardons michael flynn, a former national security advisor had pleaded guilty of lying in the russian vest to go shoot either in combat al, this is under the law or from dakar, also coming up one of the greatest football those of all time. diego marat daughter has died. argentina announces 3 days of mourning. these are live pictures of fans and where the side is that a vigil for the football legend. we'll have an update from the argentine capital

fears of more violence in ethiopia's to break provinces. the government's deadline passes for the region's forces to surrender, and u.s. president has pardoned his former national security advisor, michael said it comes 8 weeks before he vacates the white house and it takes direct to aim at the russia problem. the 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 trumpet ounce to his full pardon on, twitter and number of u.s., lawmakers have condemned it as blatant interference with the justice system. and this will be a u.s. president and next 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. tonight let's bring in roland. jordan,

who's in washington. d.c. vall said start with michael flynn, how this plot and comes as no surprise does it. no, it doesn't come as any surprise. the president donald trump had suggested as early as in march that he would probably offer a full pardon to michael flynn because of what he called a political witch hunt against the man that was his 1st of 4 national security advisers. of course it is worth reminding our audience that michael flynn lied to federal investigators about his contacts with the russian ambassador to the u.s. at the time sergey kiss. and that was because the investigators were concerned that those contacts between kislyak and flynn might have been part of an ongoing russian government effort to contaminate or corrupt the u.s. political process. and possibly to well corrupt the incoming trumpet ministration as well. now while michael flynn did not go to prison,

he had been convicted and was then trying to return reverse his conviction, i should say. because of what he called, entrapment by federal prosecutors. this is a case that certainly laid a very heavy cloud over the trumpet, ministrations 4 years in office no longer though with a pod. in the meanwhile, as we said, joe biden has given a thanksgiving address. tell us more about what he had to say. well, basically, joe biden was trying to summon the courage of the american people on the eve of thanksgiving, which is of course, the major secular holiday here in the united states. he was acknowledging the fact that people are feeling very stressed out. and very emotional about the fact that the covert 1000 pandemic is preventing millions of people from gathering all of what is traditionally a very family oriented holiday in large part because people are afraid of

contaminating those in their families or in their circle of friends who may have compromised health issues and certainly there is a real concern with the rising number of covert 1000 cases here in the united states. that trying to prevent large gatherings is really the only way to was stop the spread and make it possible for health care workers to actually treat those who are infected with cope at 19. this is just a bit of what the president elect had to say in his address on wednesday. this is the moment when 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 always 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. now even though millions of americans have decided to try to engage us

in some sort of short quarantine, in order to gather with their relatives on this holiday weekend, the president elect offered up his family's example. he, his wife, dr. jill biden. their daughter and her husband will be gathering for a very small celebration on thursday, and he's urging millions of americans to do the same thing. ok, thank you for that update there. also enjoying life ross, washington d.c. . thank you. all the football world is in mourning for argentinian legend, diego, our donna, is, dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 weeks after brain surgery. he's regarded as one of the greatest if not the greatest player of all time, and captained argentina to victory in the 1986 world cup. this is beside us where fans are celebrating his achievements. there is a memorial also outside his childhood home in the outskirts of the capital, but as you can see, many thousands of people there right now in a point to size. david stokes takes a look back now and on his turbulent nice,

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 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 of 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 gold in world cup history before

marriage on his argentina went on to lift the 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 donna was thriving in club football in europe for barcelona in the early eighty's, the 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 fluctuates 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 carbon edgemont as well. in 28 teams, he took over the mexican 2nd division club, derogate to sin 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 marathoner is the greatest ever footballer is open to debate. but his incredible talent and contribution to the game's history make him

a phenomenon. well today is a bow is in when a site is where fans as you can see, a celebration in the life of one of the greatest sports to us along new york right on the front row for the photos where people continue to arrive to put tributes to the water mondo but i don't know. many of them who have spoken to or from the full cannot believe that the crowd that he left argentina to earlier people who are friends are here to celebrate not only through strength, but also his lunch before. but many floors, many still struggle with the friction with an alcohol abuse and drug addiction, but still he gave the monkey $86.00. well, he scored 2 goals. the come after a very painful war between argentina and the england. and that's why not come home

to think for a month because it was a very political and that's something that people talk about that he was the front of the fact he died on november 25th, the famed day that the month after died 4 years ago. a friend of a wartime former president cristina fernandez. the question that we're hearing about being a matter or not. we will talk, he's awake at the presidential palace just like the monkey 95. he was a 5th time serving a long time count from argentina. so he'll be long after precedent for power and precedent. i got a phone numbers have secured for me, close of the morning. that's incurred from the moment. i don't know for argentina, bardon, his rags to riches story made him hugely popular across the world. and one city that's remembering the football genius is naples, thanks to his incredibly successful spell with the city's club. there he is regarded as an adopted son of the city holds up only when there are only 2 italian

league titles. 898-7990, the mayor of naples is knowns there, renaming the stadium after him. earlier we spoke to latin american football journalist while he explains why madonna was so loved across the world. 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 a point to cite is in the late fifty's and early sixty's to be able to emerge into the superstar that he became the footballing icon that he emerged into. you have to understand the desire for him to be able to overcome all those social adversities, obstacles he had to overcome. not only in a social standpoint, but also from a 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 war, it will 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 became throughout the sixties, seventies, eighties. and even today, the head of guidance of being always an interesting story of, was he a cheat or was he able to undergo 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. still ahead on al-jazeera. the legacy of political violence in guinea speak to dissidents who have gone into hiding after the president won a controversial term,

accused of harming saudi arabia's interests. the women activists case is transferred to a terrorism crime course but how i once again welcome to another look at the international focus on a dry across a good parts of china, a good part of japan as well, but some places of cloud clearing away from the eastern side of china's we go through thursday, some heavy rain just around shanghai. it'll show up as it goes through the weekend fare. not fighting, try to wade through much of the korean peninsula. and japan, one or 2 hours, maybe just picking up a little more moisture as they drift out into the, the sea of japan edge towards northern parts of honshu towards chicago. but in between the friday, it is generally settled and sunny. and you can see much of eastern china will be

settled and sunny as we go through friday. so that's why weather stretches down across a good parts of china on shore showers drifting some wetter weather in vietnam, one wanted to showers to coming into new zone that will see some wet weather. once again is essential in southern parts of the philippines. quite scattering of shall is there right across a good part of southeast asia as we go through the next few days, the seasonal rains, looking pretty active. it's a very active rain to, into southern parts of the, by a single nasty system. this one, this is neva, bringing flooding rains and sue a good part of tamil nadu. and also for much of on top of the ash of the early 20th century arab literary scene. and a feminist writer had to have her time. so why did

her story and in such tragedy now jazeera well disposed the life and why? of maisie arda on al-jazeera. you know what challenges there are under of our top stories this hour. u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor, michael flynn. flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador during the investigation into interference in the 2016 election. u.s. president elect joe biden has used his thanksgiving message to urge americans to

stop the spread of the quote. a virus results people to forgo traveling but said the grim season of division would soon give way to college. football world is in mourning for argentinian legend. diego maradona has died. soha stack at the age of 60 is regarded as one of the greatest players of all taller captained argentina to victory in the 986 world cup. these are live pictures from a vigil in what assad is. after nearly 3 weeks of fighting in northern ethiopia, a deadline imposed by the central government for the 2 grave regions forces to surrender has passed. the federal army says it has surrounded stingray's capital mackellar, a claim that is disputed by the to gray. its government is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000. people, as a deadline, approached prime minister ahmed rejected demands for dialogue, and urged the international community not to interfere reports exclusively from

inside to great province. on the right, up front line in southern better all 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. then you're just going to, there's another little bit of it under the do not, you are. 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 and 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 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 well, the 41000 fans of bell fled into sudan to mold, and those that have for displaced ethiopian families in facade got to restate,

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. 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. a prime minister

has died at the age of 84. his family has confirmed his passing out of hospital in the united arab emirates was infected with a chronic virus. he was saddam's last democratically elected prime minister for a military coup, led by omar al bashir took over 989. germany is extending coronavirus restrictions until late december townsel. i'm a muggle says the infection rate remains too high and warned some measures could stay in place until january bars and restaurants are closed. shops and some so i schools and some shops remain open. mass wearing will be mandatory in busy public areas. on a cane has been following developments from berlin. over the course of 7 hours, chancellor angela merkel, her federal cabinet ministers, and the 16 prime ministers of germany states talk through how this country should proceed during the course of this pandemic. what new measures are necessary and

they have agreed to prolong the existing lock down light as it has been called, which means that schools and other educational establishments can remain open bucks . there has been a tightening of the rules in some parts of life in germany. so that means that almost immediately only 5 people from different 2 different houses will be able to meet together. and this will go right the way through to just before christmas at which point that rule will change just like the east. but in principle, what matters here is that the lockdown that's been in place for many weeks now will continue. and we're pretty clear also the government saying that they can foresee circumstances in which this lockdown light might go through, right. the way to the end of january, what mrs. merkel has said is pretty clear that they believe she believes, and her government believes that they have broken the exponential growth in this

2nd wave of corona. but the numbers are still so high that they feel that these measures are required. and one final thought, anywhere in germany that will have an incidence of new infections of $200.00 or more per 100000 residents can expect to find itself going back into a much harder lockdown than is currently the case. that is one of the main things that stands out from this meeting that has taken so long between the federal and the state ministers. turkey is registering a surge in covert 19 as asymptomatic cakes is revealed. the scale of the all break, more than 28000 new cases were reported in 24 hours by far the highest recorded since the outbreak began. the world health organization says 1500000 cases of corona virus have been detected across the americas in just a week. that's the highest weekly caseload. there 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 home is in mexico city. he explains why the numbers are so high and that in america, 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 that informal economy. and what that means is people don't have steady jobs, they don't have that safety net. and 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 when we're 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, it doesn't help to stop the sort of chain of infections or new people having 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 president and the and those money will preserve the daughter met her 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? protesters have clashed with security forces in guinea after the opposition called for a nationwide demonstrations against president of condé. he was re-elected for a 3rd term last month, but the opposition says the poll was rigged. nicholas hoult reports from dakar, a neighboring senegal. sheriff is in hiding, fearing for his life, the government accuses him of creating unrest at home as president of guinea's

traders union. he's calling on commerce to seize in protest against what he describes as a fraudulent election in which president alpha condé won a 3rd mandate. abdullah has been living in neighboring senegal since last month's elections. i'm scared to go home to my own country where there are attacks and arbitrary arrests as trade union leader. i can't stand by and let this injustice take place and tolerate what is happening. the family of 68 year old ibrahima, so say he was tortured to death by security forces after spending 3 weeks in police . custody for protesting against condé is victory or fashion or not. we were all there when security forces men carrying machetes and bats, and to the house. that's when we fled. the security forces are meant to protect us, not kill us. the protests are happening across the country with people calling for

justice and defying a government ban on demonstration. human rights groups believe more than 50 people were either killed from bullet wounds or died in police custody. guinea security minister denies any wrongdoing accusing human rights groups of tarnishing his country's image for services. this is all fake news. there's an ongoing investigation 20 of the proceeds of been made, showing that bullets were not shot on people, but inserted in the bodies. so it's response of all to say that the government does not care for the victims, and few is anger. since the presidential election guinea is on a high alert with security forces closing land borders with neighboring countries, including senegal, home to a large guinea and community. and so trade between the 2 countries are stalling. hundreds of thousands of are stranded here, unable to return home to a country where political violence is escalating sheriff abdullah hopes good deeds will eventually break free from the condit is rule that the police killings

will stop. so we can finally return home because hawk deckard protests is a band called have called on their king to give up a royal fortune of tens of billions of dollars. thousands of people have been rallying outside thailand's biggest bank, which is mostly owned by the monarchy. protestors have broken a long standing to brew by criticizing the king. several of them face police action for allegedly insulting the well family. the trial of a saudi women's rights activist has been transferred to a course dealing with terrorism related cases. regime al has, who 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 assaulted while in prison. saudi officials have denied allegations of torture, of those being on hunger strike for last month. then man move is a middle east research director for amnesty international. she says decisions in

the case appeared to have made been made to arbitrarily. you know, we're not in a position to speculate or to try and understand the actions of the so far. it goes without saying that there are, or there are, seems, there is an individual's fight and he's, or they are now there was no doubt, very awkward. and under an unprecedented tense, the 1st, the initial days of attention of the women's activists though the most pressure in the past 2 years. we are hoping that this quest will be, or it is through the un convention, will be nice of women activists and up date. but we are not in

a position to speculate. we're only hoping because we do see that from our standpoint, the decision that the citizens of the forward arbitrates offer. and there is no way for us to add what, what what, what we do know is that it was only one day notice if an advantage i had. and that same has been at the mikado, so without any contact to her or access to a lawyer. thank you. once again, is there our minds now on our top stories? u.s. president, donald trump, as part of his former national security adviser. so not to be guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador during the investigation and to interfere into the 26th election doesn't. jordan has more from washington d.c. .