donald trump national security advisor, michael flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in the russia investigation. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up in prime minister orders a final offensive on gray as the deadline passes for the regional forces to surrender. police in the indian capital region, state thousands of new delhi to protest against laws they say,

will affect their livelihood and tributes poor in football legend, diego maradona, who's died of a heart at the age of 60 u.s. president, donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor michael flynn. it comes 8 weeks before trump leaves the white house president elect. joe biden is pressing ahead with his transition. plans is delivered. a thanksgiving speech. cautions join the pandemic. jordan reports 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 flints crimes, namely,

prolonging to federal investigators about his contacts with the former russian ambassador to the u.s. sergey kislyak flints case was part of a legal black cloud that hung over trump's entire presidency. flynt 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 told fled a political victim back then. meantime, 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. we can't have it better. we can't let it happen for our country to be turned around because

we won pennsylvania by a lot and we won by a lot. anybody watching television the night of the election? which thing, when i was called by the biggest going to come people bring graduation to begin with. and all of the ballots were dumped all over the place and a lot of newer, bolder, more compassionate chapters, 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 food bank, while bitly 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, russell in jordan al jazeera, the white house here appears. prime minister says the final phase of the offensive of the northern region has begun in a statement telling residents to stay indoors as the army is being ordered to move in on the regional capital. the government imposed deadline for to ground forces to surrender expired on wednesday. there's been nearly 3 weeks of fighting with hundreds killed and tens of thousands displaced. in this exclusive report from inside to great province, it has been translated on the right 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. 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, leader has reiterated his rejection of the ultimatum and says his fighters will

continue their struggle against the federal government until the end on the other side of the battlefield and says it's standing its ground. and that its fighters are ready to die, defending and its right to govern itself. there are conflicting claims of victory on both sides and a communication blackout in the region makes it difficult to verify information. the prime minister has met has said this operation will end when the who he accuses of destabilizing the country and undermining his leadership, are brought to justice. the province in northern the u.n. is warning of critical region and food is running out for the area. $6000000.00 people, a little food program estimates more than $100000.00. refugees in that area will run out of food. and one week's time, tens of thousands have fled the region. thousands of angry farmers are arriving in new delhi after a 200 kilometer march, calling for change in them,

nor demonstrate as a marching on the capital, despite facing police, tear gas, water, cannon, and blockades. they want the central government to scrap 3 laws, which they say hurt farmers by removing a guaranteed minimum cell price for the project. speak now to elizabeth prada shoes as the protests in new delhi. what's happening there? liz and elsewhere in india. good afternoon, dora. well, there has been a really big police and paramilitary presence in and around new delhi's main point inside months. and until a few moments ago, there was a large crowd of protesters behind me because protests aren't allowed in the capital by more than 30 people are allowed to gather. the crowd was taken away by police now fondness from 5 states planned to march to the capital against these 5 goals which were passed by the government. delhi police didn't give mommas commission to come to the end,

citing the record high number of coronavirus cases. but what we've seen a clash is a lot of clashes between farmers and police as police action stage, borders leading to delhi. we've seen police used to cannon tear gas on farmers, but farmers undeterred, have thrown police barricades into rivers. and farmers' organizations have been joined by others, including trade unions, both here in delhi and also in other states including in time and not in west bengal and kerala. and saying that the government and its policies, against farmers and against us is why so many people opposed to these minerals? well, this is a really big issue in india because around hospital, the country's 1300000000 people gook in the agricultural sector. it's a sector that has been, that's been in crisis for decades because of

a number of these incidents, creating high indebtedness. and many people agree that it needs reforms, but they say that the liberals possibly the indian government leave homicide the missi of private investors. these laws, they loosen the rules around around say to around pricing around storage pools, which have protected indian farmers from the market for decades. and this is what harm is a worried about, even though the government says that something called the minimum support price for projects will remain fond say that they will be known will guarantee to surance all of this. and that is, that is why we've seen so many protesting over the last few days. ok, there's a whole keep a close eye on those protests as they continue to develop many thanks. we update from new delhi. the football world is mourning argentinian legendary gemara donna who has died of a heart attack at the age of 16. thousands

of fans have been celebrating his achievements in the capture of what is aras thousands more around the world have paid their tributes, including sports stars, politicians and the catholic pope donna captained argentina to victory in the one $986.00 world cup and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time is about a report from one of cyrus the war that is in disbelief. he's devastated that player the home i don't know has passed away. anything i'm 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 one a 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, i made it to the top for the buffalo club in the world to many of those who came

here to say goodbye to him from. 7 the from some of those are just very poor. oh yes, i'm very favorite people. not only when i was one of their own is from us now in the capital. i mean, i'm, well, i'm one of them, was 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 the magazine asked for plans, islands a goal that continues to be celebrated today. i came because i felt it. he was from here represented us. he waved our flag, gave us troy. 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 that in

america. like he then got on with chalice and vindicated their fight against imperialism. i think you know the name or the i think i dream that being or being a reporter. they get that i'm winning or god. oh yeah. all right. if he hadn't met i don't. i would receive a hero's farewell. he'd be lying in state in the presidential palace around the world. he's referred to as the best football player in the world for his fans. he was a man who in spite of his enormous struggles feel argentina with pride still ahead. sarah, accused of harming saudi arabia's interests. women's rights activists know faces

charges in a terrorism court. plus why foam is in bangladesh, a protesting a plan to repair it. rain clouds gathering across spain and portugal at the moment the central parts of europe. it's absolutely fine and dry say fine and dry. we have got mist and folk to watch out for because high pressure is in charge of light winds. in the morning, frost temperatures struggling to get well to around 5 or 6 celsius for many, but the more active weather is out towards the west. we can see war the way of i suppose more the way of showers latter rolling in behind this weather system. some rather wet weather, which we're talking over the next couple of days in spite of portugal, seeing some heavy rain, maybe 506070, millimeters of rain,

a possibility as we go through. stay so wet or whether they're just sliding across southern parts of england into the low countries. central areas that we go to 0 celsius, the top temperature in vienna. so a cold, crisp day. there will be some fog as well dense fog that some snow to into that western side of russia. moscow 2 celsius. over the next couple days. wintry weather never too far away. dry weather into central parts. vienna warms up to around 2 celsius. we got some showers at this stage as we go into friday, across that western side of the mediterranean, those shot was a weather will also affect the northwest impossible. africa was impairing. coming into america was snow that us mountains but we've never had a president who has literally for 4 or 5 years repeatedly attacked our democracy. you know, blew through the narrative. and finally, i don't have

a narrative. i have a question. you're hitting every where people can't get treated and just feel so even further. join me richelle carey, i'm not proud of my guests from around the world. take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on al-jazeera. top stories this hour, u.s. president donald trump has pardoned former national security adviser in 2017, during an investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election.

thousands of angry farmers are calling for a change. they want the central government and the prime minister of the north has begun after 3 weeks of fighting on the regional capital. let's get more on the story now from malcolm where he joins us live from neighboring kenya on the deadline passed for to ground forces to surrender. the government says it's going to move into its final. 'd phase, what does that involve? well we haven't so far heard any reports of shelling or artillery fire onto the regional capital of mackay. the prime minister of the army issued this ultimatum on sunday, and he gave 2 grain forces 3 days to lay down their weapons or he said,

an assault would be launched on the city. now. prime minister, allawi emmet in that statement that he tweeted just a short while ago as i said, that thousands of to gray and finances of surrendered in the last 3 days. but the last comment that we heard from the t.p.i. less leadership was that they refuted that the government forces. it also said that they'd surrounded the kelly and that they were about 50 kilometers away again to graze military leadership refuted that claim and said that itself had had some military victories. so it's not exactly clear what the positions of both sides are, but one of the things that we have just seen within the last day or to be some satellite images from macquarie, which is a city of about half a 1000000 people showing lines of cars cueing up fuel stations suggesting that there may be rationing or shortage of fuel within the city. but certainly the movements of people that we've seen in the last few weeks and particularly the last few days suggest that civilians feel that they're certainly not very safe. in this

conflict, more than 40000, people have crossed into neighboring sudan where they're currently sheltering is refugees. an unknown number of people are thought to be internally displaced within the to gray region. yes, because of course obviously it has an issue. he said civilians should leave the city. they say they should stay indoors. is there any protection from the onslaught? well within the city, of course, with half a 1000000 people, they're living in normal homes nor the rest and it depends what kind of fighting goes on. but if there was to be a heavy bombardment and there's also been airstrikes in the 1st few weeks, this conflict as well as the use of artillery and tanks. then of course it would be very dangerous for people in a densely populated area. we don't know if people have managed to flee the city or how many of left we also don't know if, if or when this, this onslaught is actually going to begin or what form it's going to take. but

certainly with civilians have been caught up in this conflict. so far, the ethiopian government's human rights commission said that more than 600 civilians were killed in an attack that took place 2 weeks ago when a massacre that it says was carried out by a to grain militia. both sides have been accused of killing civilians with both sides have denied targeting civilians as well. but of course it heavy fighting is to erupt in a densely populated areas and it could be very dangerous indeed, absolutely living there. absolutely, and of course, very hard to get any information whether tacked on occasions blackout from the beginning mark and that many thanks for joining us. very well, our do our best to keep cross all the developments and to very jealous there. of course in turkey is set to hand down verdicts for hundreds of people on thursday suspected of plotting to overthrow president rejected. 4 years ago. is one of biggest cases related to the failed coup with 475 suspects. more than 250 people

died in the attempted takeover on july, the 15th, 2016, parliament and presidential buildings were fired upon in the turkish military chief was taken hostage. turkey says u.s. based political figure for to logo and coordinated the attack with a faction of the military. it's a charge that he denies nearly $80000.00 people have since been arrested, accused of links with glenn and more than 130000, including military personnel have been sacked or suspended from the public sector. let's go live now to 7, closer to she's in istanbul, so sometimes more about this trial, why is it so big with hundreds of suspects and why it's so important? well er, yes, it is the biggest trial since the 5th corps attempt actually, since the famous courts empt in 2016, there were 289 cases. i'm sorry, files and in 275, all of them have verdicts,

but they are waiting for an approval from the court of cassation. but this one, the main trial today is very important because it is also called as air base trial . a race in uncut out was the it was that was the center of the failed coup attempt . and the orders for the, for the plot against the government was given from a conjecture based. so in this indictment in this file, in this case, we are seeing military members, the f. 16 pilots who have bombed the turkish parliament. the special forces have to quarters and other strategic places in unca, along with what, what the judiciary calls the seville in mom's, the civil people of the goodness organization, who were in charge of organizing the actions inside the military. what makes this case import, important and different? is that the, what the civil mom's that the court calls were present at the conjecture airbase at

that night. and in, according to the records, they have talks with fatah. lucky len. this was some preacher who has been in the united states since early 2000, late 1900. so what makes this case different and simple example is that the law who land is named as the mastermind of this failed coup attempt, and those civilian people are actually identified to have taken the orders from fattah luck to them because they received phone calls. that's why this is important and this is going to set an example. and as i said, the other files waiting at the court of cassation will be sealed by this. because this, this trial is not only will not only name it as a coup trial, but the kook trial perpetrated by the golan ists. ok, so then goes up there in istanbul, thanks for them. the trial of

a saudi women's rights activist has been transferred to a court dealing with terrorism related cases. john al hospital was amongst a dozen activists arrested in 2018 and accused of hama saudi interests. rights groups say she's been held in solitary confinement and assaulted whilst in prison. saudi officials have denied allegations of torture, has been on hunger strike for the past month. then maloof is a recent least research director of amnesty international. she says decisions and no general hospital's case appears to have been made all the charlie you know, we're not in a position to speculate or to try and understand the actions of the selfie or for excuse. now it goes without saying that it does not serve their service or their narcisse on the scene when the surgeons and indeed, if you will, who have been calling him and us are facing. he says, or they think think that are happening right now. are with

no, there was no doubt over the weekend one percent think this is a great sense and the women activists though the most pressure in the past 2 years, we are hoping that the press or seem to be unconditional to be so you could end up with this end up this ink, but we are not in a position to 2nd if we are only hoping because we do see that from our standpoint, this isn't the decision. those were arbitrary so far. and there is no way to said what, what what we do know is that there was one day i know it's back to, i've seen has been, infamy can go without any comfort to her. or at this to a lawyer. an oil tanker has been damaged by an explosion of saudi arabia's

southwestern coast. it happens near the city of sure. kc not far from the border with yemen. the greek operators of the m. t tankers say it was attacked by an unknown source. so don's former prime minister has died at the age of 84. his family has confirmed his passing at the hospital in the united arab emirates. they had tested positive for coated 19 has this report came from a family of religious and political figures. his grandfather was the leader of the movement to end the british occupation. marty led sudan for 2, turns in the 1960 s. and eighty's. he was removed both times by military coups sudan buckled under the pressure of religious, linguistic, and cultural divisions. a civil war in the south led to a famine that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. after his 2nd term ended in 1909, omar al bashir ran the country for almost 30 years,

but only with the threat and use of brutal military power. throughout mahdi continued to lead the opposition party against bashir, although often from outside the country and when economic hardships bit, he was quick to back protests against bush years government. in 2014, marty was arrested accused of conspiring with rebels, a charge that carries the death penalty. he spent time in south exile in cairo, but returns just a dawn greeted by large crowds ahead of another mass uprising of a crippling food and fuel prices in 2018. the most important demand is that this regime mostly leave and be replaced by a transitional national government whose judy is to achieve peace and human rights and liberties. the government must implement an economic program that will relieve

the suffering of the people, a reform program and a national conference to draft the constitution. the protests eventually led to the ousting and jailing of omar al bashir full corruption. mati then pushed or transfer to civilian rule political active until the pandemic arrived tested positive for covert 19, he was taken to the united arab emirates for treatment, but succumbed to the virus. he will be remembered as the leader of sudan's largest political party and sudan's. last, democratically elected prime minister thousands of people in bangladesh are protesting against the government. they say will have a negative impact on their livelihoods. officials built on a sure appeal late last year and many who live in the area say it's created hardship for them. and the child who reports this may appear to be a small protest in a remote village,

but its impact could have far reaching consequences for farmers and land right across bangladesh. this people are protesting against government plans to repair a dam. this is damaging their farmland and livelihoods thousands of others whose families have also from this area for generations have staged a week long hunger strike. one elderly protester died and several others have become very ill. but they're determined to continue. mouth was a big come say as there has been famine in the area and their very existence is at stake. now. i have raised an educated 3 children by working on this farm land with my husband. now i can't pay school fees for my children and we can't feed ourselves because we are not able to cultivate in this land anymore due to the dam. we beg you all, please don't take our land. we will never give up our land. in 2010, the government declared this area in national park, a decision that's been challenged in cote. a dam was then built last year to create

a lake and local people say, that's when the life changed. in bangladesh, where a large portion of the rural population is already exposed to a range of natural hazards and their facts of climate change, the construction offered them without environmental impact study has caused widespread concern. it's now threatening the livelihood of thousands of farmers. really just said the dam has also damaged water supplies in but not the pollution from the nearby coal. mine flows through this leg. but since this is a natural free flowing water, the pollution generally don't stay here or affect us because of this dam. the water . now gets stagnant and polluted and there is hardly any fish or earlier this year . rain and floods damage the dam. the government say it's an essential resource and plans to repair it. and the protesters actions are misguided. there's been a lot of work, an investment by the government to develop in this area, like improving the waterways, building across town and tourism facilities. purely state owned land,

but in the last 2 years, the villages failed to show us any legal land ownership documents. but the villagers say they're defined and united and for saving the environment and their way of life is a matter of survival of just 0. bangladesh. with al-jazeera, these are our top stories. prime minister says the final phase of the offensive of the northern region has begun. after 3 weeks of fighting, residents have been warned to stay indoors as the army moves in on the regional capital. u.s. president donald trump has pardoned his former national security advisor. guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in 2017 during an investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election .