claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals. people in power in vested with weight of the far east on al-jazeera. donald trump pardons his former national security advisor, michael flynn, updated guilty to lying in an investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election cycle. romney watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha, also coming up morning from our dollar tributes pouring in for the argentinian football. legend, who's died at the age of 60 and fears of more violence in ethiopia. stingray province. as the government's deadline passes for the region's forces to surrender,

plus the. 2 growing desperation, the surgeon deaths thousands more migrants seek asylum on spain's canary islands. welcome to the program, u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor, michael flynn. it comes a tweaks before he vacates the white house president elect. joe biden is pressing on with his transition plans. he's delivered a thanksgiving speech urging precautions during the pandemic, also in jordan reports now from washington. d.c. . thank you very much, even as he refuses to concede that he lost reelection to joe biden. u.s. president donald trump gave a gift to his 1st national security adviser general michael flynn, a pardon for flynn's crimes, namely,

prolonging to federal investigators about his contacts with the former russian ambassador to the u.s. sergey kissling at flynn's case was part of a legal black cloud that hung over trump's entire presidency. flynn son responded on the conservative social media site parlor. thank you from the bottom of my heart president trump and a big middle finger to judge emmett sullivan, and tropes ally, republican senator lindsey graham, cold flu, and a political victim. back to the mean time democratic, congressman adam schiff blasted trump's decision. it's no surprise trump would go out as he came in, crooked to the end. earlier, trump called in to a hearing convened by pennsylvania republicans to see whether president elect joe biden's victory can be thrown out because the election was rigged. and we can't let that happen. we can't let it happen for our country to be turned around because

we won pennsylvania by a lot and we won only by a lot. anybody watching television the night of the election with wow, i was called by the makers going to come people bring graduation and a big win and all of a balance. we jumped all over the place and a lot of things. newer, bolder, more compassionate chapter tropes, complaints about politics. far cry from the incoming administration's call for national unity and resilience on the eve of the u.s. is suck your holiday. thanksgiving. vice president elect called a lot. harris and her husband visited in washington foodbank, while biting, delivered a speech calling on americans to find their resilience in the face of the culbut 19 pandemic. 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. joe biden's call for reconciliation and unity. a marked contrast in both style and substance from that of donald trump. russell and jordan al-jazeera, the white house. now the football world is mourning argentinian legend. diego maradona who died of a heart attack at the age of 60 $8000.00 fans of the paying tribute and celebrating his achievements in the capital born as irene is buried on, i captained argentina to victory in the 1986 soccer world cup and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, david stokes looks back on his turbulent life and outstanding career he, infamously, referred to a hand of god and the unique gifts of diego, amanda o'meara doner, appear to come from a higher force. born in 1960 and raised in

a shanty town on the outskirts of one of said 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 a goal, was just $1.00 metres tall, stocky, and powerful. his skill and balance made it unstoppable. the 986 world cup was his time. marathon of the player, the man, and caption lated 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 believable quality to many the greatest individual goals 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 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 junior, 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 co-belligerents as well. in 28 teams, he took over the mexican 2nd division club to sin a lower,

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, it makes it to hospital 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. whether 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. and pope francis has also paid tribute to maradona describing him as a poet of soccer. the argentine born pope, who was an avid soccer fans. he had fond memories of the times he met marathoner

and was remembering him in his presence on to the news now where after nearly 3 weeks of fighting in northern ethiopia, a deadline imposed by the central government for the 2 gray regions forces to surrender has now passed, the federal army says it has surrounded to graze capital micheli claim disputed by the to graham's. the government is threatening the use of artillery on the city of $500000.00. people, as the deadline approached prime minister of it, ahmed rejected demands for dialogue and urge the international community not to interfere. al-jazeera reports exclusively now from inside to gray province. on the right front line in southern tikrit, federal reinforcements arrive and helicopters, hover above the ethiopian government has maintained that. this is a law enforcement operation against what it calls a treasonous group. then you're just going to get our little 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. and it's wednesday deadline for the t.p.o. left to put down its weapons. government forces here say this man was among those who surrendered. we are being treated well. we are not enemies, we are all fellow ethiopians. we are all brothers. i hope this will come to an end and peace prevails across the country. as fighting continues in northern ethiopia for the 3rd consecutive week, p.l.f. leader has reiterated his rejection of the ultimatum. he says his fighters will continue their struggle against the federal government until the end on the other side of the battlefield. and 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, 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. the province in northern, you, more than $40000.00 ethiopians, and fled into sudan. have a morgan, is that a come for displaced families and if a shot in saddam's got every state, she says hundreds, a 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're 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. global quote, a virus cases have surpassed 60000000, the johns hopkins university tracking here shows the us has the highest number of infections in the world and deaths 2400 people died of cope with 19 in the past 24 hours. a 6 months. high cases also accelerating in latin american. john paul reports from mexico city. 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 and it doesn't help to stop the sort of chain of infection. so many 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 than

eating other food president and that, and those men 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? so dance for prime minister maddy has died at the age of 84. he was being treated for coronavirus at a hospital in the united arab emirates who had the were sudan's last, democratically elected prime minister before a military coup led by omar al bashir took over in 1989. well, still ahead here on al-jazeera. why diego maradona's rise from humble beginnings, resonates with so many of his fellow argentineans and senior colombian ministers are called to account for the ongoing killings of these former rebels to stay with us here on al-jazeera.

we've got some nasty weather now making its way across the southern parts of india . this severe cyclades seem to become very severe. cyclic winds over 140 kilometers pratt's of that at its maximum intensity. that is erratic, quickly to a category one hurricane if it were in the atlantic storm surge, make major concern. coastal flooding on the cards over the next couple of days, and either the next 24 to 48 hours, some parts could see maybe 200 to 300 millimeters of rain is making landfall in the next few hours just to the south, the chennai. and as we go through thursday that wetter weather will spread across a good parts of honor, but dash, it will make its way further west, which as we go on into where friday, and eventually it will drift out towards that western side of india through my

heart russia passing out into the open waters as we go on through the course of saturday, but red morning, same force for good parts of southern india. so widespread flooding. a major concern. on the other side of the arabian sea, we may will see some flooding into the middle east over the next day, or 2 as well. some wetter, whether they're just around northern parts of the region, cloud and rain into saudi arabia and wetter weather. also heading down towards kutta france once had, a vast empire spanning several continents. but by the 1940, s., the french were forced to confront reality and demand dependence. and a fast part of a new documentary series, al-jazeera looks at how the colonial i'm asking. conflict in our jury, our full scale war in indochina. blood in tears,

french to colonise ation on al-jazeera. all oh, of the bucket, watching all jews are with me as a whole rama. reminder of our top stories, u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor michael flynn, betrayed guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in 2017, joining an investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election. also the number of recorded coronavirus cases worldwide. as the past 60000000 in the us 2400 people died of covert 19 in the past 24 hours a 6 month high. in the world of football this morning, argentinian legend, diego maradona, who died of

a heart attack at the age of 60 is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and captained argentina to victory in the 1986 world cup. well, our dollar was widely admired at home. his rise from extreme poverty to global star remains a source of national pride trees about the war that is in disbelief. he's devastated that player the home i don't know has passed away then sad because i knew this was coming. not so soon, but the people that surrounded him never helped and he didn't want to be helped. i can't believe it is my god. it's the worst day of my life. thousands of people gathered in the center of want to site is to celebrate my bonus knife and his love for argentina's national team. not only for argentina, he was a national hero, a man who came from kind of the forest service. i'm going to focus on made it to

the top for the buffalo in the world to many of those who came here to say goodbye to him on the from some of those are just very poor. i'm very favorably on the matter. when i was one of them is from a snob in the capital. i mean, i'm, well, i'm one of them. is it for me he was like the love of my children. i did not want to have this news. i am destroyed. i was too young to see him play, but i know every goal by heart, he gave us dignity so many times. the people here celebrate the goals against england in the 1986 world cup 3 years after the war between both countries over there might have enough folks inside a goal that continues to be celebrated today to be everything i came because i felt it he was from here representing us, he waved our flag, gave stroy. he filled us with joint from the english. we did not wage war against them, but with the hand of god, he gave the people back their soul. and men supported leftwing leaders in modern

america. like he then got on watch and vindicated their fight against imperialism. i think that one man i don't know will receive a hero's farewell. he'll be lying in state in the presidential palace around the world. is whispered to as the best football player in the world. he's fund, he was a man who in spite of his enormous struggles field argentina with pride and just won a fight. the bodies of 8 migrants have been recovered on spain's canary islands out

of their boat capsized on tuesday. the boat was one of 17 intercepted in the island's waters in just 24 hours. these migrants hit rocks and capsized off. lenzer wrote in spain's canary islands. they had travelled 1500 kilometers in a small fishing boat from north africa. we were young, main says out full of optimism to the tourists. paradise 8. drowned in their quest on tuesday. hundreds have suffered the same fate. in the last month. in 24 hours, 17 votes were intercepted off the canary islands, 450 people were rescues with the search continuing into the following day. more than 17000 migrants have arrived here this year. it's a 1000 percent spike on 2019. politicians blame the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. and opportunistic traffickers for the search. the italian and

spanish prime ministers discuss the crisis on wednesday. border controls of the italian and spanish governments are a fish and an effect of the problem is what we do with these human beings that are trafficked by mafias. and that run the risk of dying in this case, for example, in the atlantic as a consequence of trying to reach the canary islands. the european union has struggled to come up with a plan which eases the burden on the mediterranean countries taking most of the strain we want to work so that the mechanism of responsibility at a european level is met with solidarity. and we need to work in order to have affective mechanisms on the european level, because it can't be the country of the 1st arrival that bears the burden of all the migratory flows. back on the canary islands shell, a stretched beyond capacity. spain says it will provide more tents. hotels are being turned into temporary accommodation, but it's hard to keep up. more migrants have arrived in november than the last 4

years combined. charlotte dallas al-jazeera. germany's extending coronavirus restrictions until late december, chancellor angela merkel says the infection rate remains too high and water. some measures could stay in place into january bars and restaurants are closed, but schools and some shops do remain open. now the u.k. is cutting billions of dollars from its overseas aid budget, a move branded by opposition m.p.'s as a moral failure. the government says it can no longer afford to meet its legal obligations because of the impact of the coronavirus. 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 poor spending, the equivalent of 0.5 percent of our national income on overseas aid in 2021.

allocating 10000000000 at this pending review of the trial of a society women's rights activist has been transferred to a court dealing with terrorism related cases. jane, who was among a dozen activists arrested in 2018 and accused of harming saudi interests. families rights groups say that she's been held in solitary confinement and assaulted while in prison. saudi officials have denied the allegations of torture. she's been on hunger strike for the past month. just as a bank called, called on the king to give a payroll fortune of tens of billions of dollars. thousands of people have been running outside thailand's biggest bank, which is mostly owned by the monarchy. protestors have broken a long standing to be by criticizing the king and rallies have been taking place in cities. apartment cities 2nd place across the world,

calling for an end to sexual and gender based violence and violence against women is being called the silent pandemic, especially in latin america, where lock downs have led to an increase in cases. semen has more from the chilean capital, something these women are chanting, what has become an international feminist anthem? it's called a rapist in your path. it was 1st performed a year ago. here in chile to paris says it wasn't my fault or because of what i wore or where i was. the great beast is you see all day long. there were performances and demonstrations to mark international day for the elimination of violence against women tend to thousands of women have been victims of gender violence in harris meant more often than not carried out with total impunity. these purchase represent victims of femicide. but

today we have each other and we today we have a movement that we having come to the table and have it be able to be detained. thanks be the first 3 years chilean will into the back seat in the feminist movement, but not anymore. no, not when i will get what i mean. we didn't talk about it before. how could we say that a cousin or a priest was doing something so awful to you? but that's changed dramatically thanks to the younger generation. these women are demanding to tension and stronger penalties for domestic violence, rape, and sexual. harris meant that just by growing awareness, violence against women is on the rise, particularly domestic violence. and this has been politically extreme during the pandemic here and in practically all of latin america. and while the government and lawmakers promise that they would take action legislation that could make the

difference continues to sit at the bottom of the pile. in part its own mexico, 10 famous sides, are committed every day women marched to demand in the troop unity. as we're going, we'll also get, i mean, i live in fear of going out and never returning to live to see my mother and family . that's what living in mexico is like for a woman. yet from one end of latin america that to me other women are standing up to say enough's al-jazeera santiago. staying in the region, colombia's peace corps has summoned senior ministers to a public hearing over the deaths of former fark rebels. at least $243.00 have been killed since the government signed a peace accord in 201600 m.p.'s. he has more from bogota. 3 ministers deter any general and other high level officials were summoned for the 1st time by

colombia's peace court. but in the end, mostly deputies arrived to respond to a thorny question with killing the mobilize fighters in the country and what can be done to protect them. x. fighter is being killed every 5 minutes by no doubt a truly alarming figure. more than 200 of them, 40 former fighters have been killed since the story of the colombian peace deal. 4 years ago. hundreds more have been tracked, and that means a worsening of security in areas where reciprocal criminal groups fight for control of drug trafficking routes and other illegal activities. the court ordered the government to increase protective measures back in april, but the killings continued visibly emotional fark sen victorious. and dina said the government is to blame. it was a point when, i mean, unfortunately, this sort of being here celebrating the advances of concentrating peace. we are

holding this hearing for the killings and prosecution of those who gave up their weapons. these are systematic killings, not isolated incidents. there are clear patterns from of you know, the fledgling peace corps has been at odds with the right wing government of uganda . a critic of the peace accord, the judges repeatedly questioned the government about the lack of effective measures. but officials say there's, it's an uphill battle when they're not being killed due to the negligence of the state or its lack of concern. all x. fighters need to understand that we are doing everything we can, and we want to do more. there's much debate about this killing the ex-parte combatants and why the government things says that these murders are not systematic in nature and respond to a number of both. but others are servers in says that these killings instead show that the conflict in the country is not over. and instead it has simply mutated the

unwillingness of the convent government to recognize the system and to society of the killings basically ignores other experiences of transition to peace around the world in which this sadly is a common feature. and i believe it, it hampers their kombi in state's ability to provide the protection. the return of violence in many areas of colombia means that the spike, the accord real peace in the country, remains elusive. anderson m.p.s. means the whole role. never mind of our top stories. u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor. michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in 2017 during an investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election and also in jordan has more from washington d.c. .