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because of the pandemic in a country in mourning and thousands in argentina. for world football legend, diego maradona, who's a body is down and as the world of sport pays its respects to marrow donor, we look back at his career and what made him such a special football player. so the ethiopian prime minister has ordered a final offensive on the northern region and says, a humanitarian corridor will be opened up to help those fleeing. the conflict has warned residents to stay indoors after ordering the army to move in on the regional capital of meccano. government imposed deadline for 2 ground forces to surrender that expired on wednesday. and there has been nearly 3 weeks of fighting with hundreds killed and tens of thousands displaced. well, the u.n.

is warning of critical aid shortages in that region. it says that fuel cash and food are running out, and many of those displaced have already fled over the border to neighboring sudan, who morgan is right there. where we are, is a camp that's not far from the sudan, is here border. and it's where more than 15000 refugees have arrived over the past 3 weeks. all of them saying that they're escaping shelling that they've seen people being slaughtered, that they've left family members behind and came here for their safety. they say that because of the lack of telecommunication and because of lack of access to many parts of to grieve, they can't confirm whether their relatives who they have left behind are still alive or not. but most of them say that when they came here, they had to wait for more than a week to be able to access aid and aid aid groups and international organizations . say that that's largely because this influx of refugees happened. all of a sudden they were not expecting it for there. for example, the world food program said that it had to get food from other programs. it has in the country to be able to supply aid for those people who are here more than 40000

. refugees have already crossed into the sudan into the sedan side of the border here and got out of state as well as neighboring desolate states. now the biggest challenge when it comes to providing aid for those refugees, is the fact that most of the roads are very difficult to access. logistically, let's not forget that sadam had a very exceptional flood season just a couple of months ago where most of the roads were damaged. so aid groups say that logistically speaking, moving many of their songs to this area in response with the rise of the refugees would be very challenging. and there are concerns that they would be more than $200000.00 refugees in sudan in the next 6 months later, going to show that they are trying to step up so that no refugee is left in need. or let's get more from oakwood now he's monitoring developments from neighboring kenya. and malcolm. so that if you are from prime minister's order this, this what he calls a final offensive on the northern grey region. what are we hearing?

is it started yet. he issued the ultimatum on sunday and said that to graham fighters that 3 days to surrender lay down their arms and head of what would be a final salt on the final assault on the regional capital of mikhail, which is a city of about half a 1000000 people now since then we've heard conflicting claims from both sides about how close the federal forces are to the city 70 kilometers 50 kilometers, even as close as 30 kilometers. but we haven't yet heard any reports of shelling on the city itself. but this is something that rights organizations have expressed, grave concern about because it's such a dense population of civilians. they're saying be very dangerous if there's heavy fighting there at all. and in case about missed the international said that shelling of the city could even potentially constitute a war crime. so the aid organizations, of course, have been complaining about not getting enough access to the region. and the prime

minister has talked about this humanitarian corridor, or any more details on that statement from the prime minister of the prime minister's office has said that if federal government started giving out humanitarian assistance, food, water, and medicines in the areas that it controls and it said it's setting up for camps for the displaced people. now the un said that about all more than $800000.00, people in the region were dependent on humanitarian assistance even before this conflict began. and the estimates an additional 1000000 are going to need assistance because many of the people who have been displaced by the fighting in some of the smaller towns over the last few weeks. because it's not, the u.n. says it's not possible for their partner organizations to access these people or these places. and it's not known exactly at this moment, how many people need help or where they are. but that statement from the prime minister's office said that they would open up a route for humanitarian supplies to be brought in,

waiting to see if and when that will happen. and when the organizations are going to be able to reach these people or american, thanks a lot of monitoring events. let's bring in matt bryden, he's a strategic adviser to the political think tank and joins us live by skype from nairobi. mr broughton 1st up. this is clearly a highly charged and dangerous situation. the defenders, the fighters, they are well drilled. they are well armed, but how do they match up against a government forces? well, they are probably based on the kinds of figures that we've seen recently more numerous than the government forces with about a quarter of a 1000000 to grand forces including militias under arms and with the ethiopian army at about a total of 140000 troops. not all of which of course could be deployed to to grey.

it would, it would seem to provide the 2 great ends, a numerical advantage, plus an advantage of terrain because it's a very difficult terrain that favors the defender. however, we've also got now increasingly widespread reports of eritrean troops engaging heavily with the to gran's from across the eritrean border. and they have been since the beginning of the conflict reports of militias from neighboring state working with the federal forces. so it's hard to get a sense of the exact balance of forces on the ground. one thing is for sure, is that to gran's, however prepared, they were, are more lightly armed than the federal forces who have much more in terms of artillery, of course air support and heavy when it's sunny to the sun as if this is going to be quickly could be alone, bloody battle could well,

it could mean prime minister abu ahmed has been speaking as though this is the final offensive, and that the conflict will be over within days. but we've been hearing that now for a matter of weeks if the government is correct, then the fall of mckenna is represents the end of the conflict. and they expect to arrest and prosecute p.l.f. leaders. but if the government is not correct, then what we may see is possibly the fall of macadam. but then a grinding, brutal insurgency, the kind of fighting that the t.p. l.f. is historically renowned for. and we don't really know whether or not the tepee left leaders are in mckellar and whether the fall of the town would in any way change the command and control within the the rebel forces. interesting,

it's quite a turnaround. this isn't it for many a woman it wins the nobel peace prize last year in france. and next he's in the midst of this, this military offensive on people. well it's yes it's, it's surprising and i think in some ways, shocking turnaround, not least because we've seen appeals for dialogue from the united nations. the african union from neighboring governments, and prime minister abbey has resisted all of them and said, this is an internal affair. regardless of reports, very trained involvement, regardless of the exodus of refugees to sudan, which incidentally we hear is now being curtailed by ethiopian troops along the border to prevent refugees leaving the other. the other disturbing dimension of this is the statements from the prime minister and senior security force commanders

. really a muddying the waters as to whether, what level of commitment they have to the protection of civilians and seem to be preparing the ground for a situation in which allegations and counter allegations of who has killed, who, and who is responsible for the worst violence becomes really very difficult to determine in the aftermath appreciate broaden the speaking to assume from nairobi from the home. thank you very much. thank you. hundreds of people have been given life sentences by a court in turkey for plotting to overthrow president reza typer 14 years ago. it is one of the biggest cases related to the failed coup with 475 suspects. more than 250 people died during the attempted takeover that was on july the 15th. back in 2016. parliament and presidential buildings were fired upon and the turkish

military chief was taken hostage. turkey says the u.s. based political figure for to look good and coordinated the attack with a faction of the military. a charge that he denies nearly $80000.00 people have since been arrested, or accused of links with gooden. and more than 130000, including military personnel have been sacked or suspended from jobs in the public sector. let's get some reaction now from turkey starting with relatives of some of those who were killed. so those neighborhoods, a lot of the reason we believe adequate punishments were given in accordance with existing laws. we think that justice has been served. the state did not leave martyrs, families, veterans blood on the ground. this trial of 4 years was pointless. this court passed its verdicts as if only approving the prosecutor's notion without keeping any statements or evidence in consideration. we are not happy with this verdict. we will carry it to the appropriate places i want to turkish people to be

sensitive about this. because certainly has more the transfer. now, from istanbul, it is the biggest trial among more than 280 cases that have been filed following to failed coup attempt back in 2016. almost 270 of them have been concluded. there's a verdict for each of them, but a court of because that is waited for an approval. but this, today's trial, which is the high profile, will be setting an example because so far, all those trials, of course, named as trials. and the defendants have been named as being members of colonist group or having organic ties with mr. fit to live in the u.s. space, turkish cleric. but the struggle is important because in this trial, goodland is the main defendant. he was tried in absentia, along with other 6 people who are fidgeting. some of them are fidgeted more than

300 people have life sentences, and 19 of them are charged to aggravated life sentences. there are almost 70 people who have acquitted in this trial, which is an important development of course. but this is setting an example for the others because old, those other trials were waiting this case to be finalized so that there will be in or refuses no rejections, but according to the turkish officers at the somalia story among the among all the cases since the failed coup in 2016. plenty more still ahead here on the news hour, including we'll be hearing from the palestinian families fighting to be allowed to bury loved ones who died in israeli custody. speaking out against a controversial dutch christmas tradition that's increasingly leading to violent protests. 2 goals, pakistan's, cricket team is placed in isolation after some players break. quarantine rules over

new zealand. all right, now argentina has begun 3 days of national mourning for one of its greatest ever football players at the end. your marriage on the subject of these live pictures now from one is areas where his body is present in lie in state at the presidential palace and millions of fans around the world have been remembering marathoners achievements. and some fans of scuffle with police as they lined up to say goodbye, at least a 1000000 people are expected to pay their respects to the legendary number $10.00 . in the coming days, organizers are struggling to manage the crowds during the difficulties of the coronavirus pound, of course. but maradona died of a heart attack on wednesday. at the age of 60. he scored that infamous hand of god goal on the way to winning, in 1906 well, but battled addiction off the field and sports stars and politicians and the head

of the catholic church. pope francis, they've all praised the man many argue is the best to ever play again. let's cross now to of course want to raise about important areas where maradona's body is lying in state. and donna has been there at the government house. someone is there is lying in state, tell us about the mood there and how the country is remembering its national hero, its favorite son, or i didn t. not is in mourning and there's thousands and thousands of people that are coming here that are lining up and this long line here for the communists to go inside the president for far less be able to say goodbye to who is our national hero, the government, or from the surface security operations to try to prevent not only violence but also the coronavirus hunger. argentinos, one of the most perfect sort of countries,

people are, were influenced by asking some of them are not, there's no social reform so suddenly, before, from military concern, but still refer to, well, what's happening here shows the enormous, closer that if you got, i don't know how to get people to mind when you talk to some of those people. many of them come from poor neighborhoods, not only in one of saddam's problem, other parts of the country, but what happened to them, but i don't, i don't, i came from one of the poorest areas of one aside. and he made it through every office from of the world's most famous football club. you also may go through warner work, but 9900 50 that you acknowledge are saying they are not young british family who are in argentina and people here say that, but i don't know that the rest of them mostly because of those 2 famous goals during the world cup against england after the marketing, our fortunes are learned toward

a goal that they say gave argentina to community after losing the war. so as you know, nick, i mean his drive is enormous. for argentina, we have some in court. i mean learn from argentina. history, definitely record on military dictatorship. the world where the united kingdom and people here and i come crying marathoner for us to go so personally, so glad to hear from us cause i love programming for this country. they say that they came here to show their gratitude to those not on. that's right. but what do you think god willing to be waiting here for hours in order to go to be able to go inside of her financial power and say goodbye. extraordinary scenes of people including passionate about a day to marry donna. he was of course, also a controversial figure battled addiction off the field. and i guess you could say his career had its share of highs and lows. plus he was a controversial figure among the best struggles a lot from him,

from an extremely poor neighborhood, something that my whole life. when you talk to people who say that he would like travel, make me a convert, have a gun on them struggle. one for granted, he also struggled with the drug and alcohol abuse. he was a controversial figure to school kids mind. he challenged the poor. that's why, for example, he befriended, figures in love, not money quite like fidel castro, a local guy, travis cristina fernandez de kirchner, always challenging the powerful. and that's what, in a way, people here love football term. and that's why, for example, they remember back in the mountain all 6 world cup, when he made those goals against anyone from said that it was a challenge against imperialism. so there is a lack of around after a figment frequency and you have a foreigner crowd for your truck or people hear what they're saying. 2 if you don't care about his private life, we don't care about his private struggles. he made argentinians happy. one of them, for example,

told us you were the only man that actually made us happy. we have had so many press run from politicians and nobody gave us anything. so we will not or not give up the world. he made us cross cross because i do talk in our front for we're going to war apart from not to know he's not a large crowd because he thought they were. all right, reza, thanks very much. indeed. there is a marathon of supporters lined up waiting that chance to see the legend both come up later this hour. we'll get more on the global response to marathoners death, including in the indian city of calcutta, which had a strong connection with the player. we'll hear more about that from peter in support. to other news now, and hong kong has ordered bars and nightclubs to close for at least 7 days as the city tackles a new spike. in cases of covert 19, many have been linked to a cluster of infections in guns for news. the government's ordered mandates

retesting for people who recently visited those clubs and daily cases in the city of hit to a 3 month high over the past week. meanwhile, germany is imposing strict to lock down measures as it struggles to suppress a 2nd wave of corona. virus infections from december, private gatherings will be restricted to 5 people, increasing to 10 during the christmas period. but chancellor angela merkel has warned that wider measures are likely to continue into january. she, germans to be patient, and restaurants are closed, but schools and some shops say do remain well. merkel is also pushing for a european union vote on shutting ski resorts over worries. they could become coronavirus seat for spreads, but also his government has rejected the idea saying that winter sports will go ahead with precautions there. and france has kept its results open the way it's currently shut down all lives. and meanwhile, england will replace its national lockdown with a system of regional tears. in december,

there are 3 levels with different restrictions, large parts of the country, mostly in the north and center, will be under the strict to paul brennan, who's live for us in sevenoaks, in kent, which will be until 3 pulled small country geographically large population. all about managing different levels of infection like us, what morsi government can say when we have the health secretary might hang caulk, announcing the details of how, how the england will emerge from the national lockdown that was imposed on the 5th of november to give a progress report of how things have gone over the past 3 weeks. and in many ways there were have been positive signs. and he said that in liverpool, for example, where there was that intensive pilots testing scheme. the number of infections been falling dramatically down 2 thirds in the city as a whole. and in the central bar, a liverpool down by 3 quarters. and as a result, liverpool when we emerge from the national lock down into the new tier system,

liverpool will drop from the highest level to free down to t. it too. but there are going to be winners and losers. for example, manchester will stay in the highest restrictive level, tier 3, that means hospitality. venues will have to stay close to pop and take away london though it will stay. there will be only 3 areas which will drop down to the if you lowest level of tier. one reason why i'm standing here in 7 oaks is because kent county called the golf of england highlights the difficulty in putting a county wide kind of assessments on these things. east of cans. the infection rates are very high indeed. for example, it's in excess of 1200 per 100000 population on a rolling 7 day average, whereas here in sevenoaks, the rate is just $76.00 per 100000 population. and you can see why businesses and people here are somewhat that they're being lumped together with other areas where infection rates are so much higher. listen. the fact is that the infection rates in

the u.k. are not going down fast enough for the government. the government wants a little bit more fortitude, a little bit more patience from the population. but the hope of getting out of this sometime early next year. yes, certainly a challenge to manage it all, especially with christmas on its way. all right, paul, thanks very much. kent, well, the british drug company, astra zeneca says its coronavirus vaccine testing has been done to the highest standard that says concerns were raised over the effectiveness of their vaccine, which was produced in partnership with oxford university. well, the university says that some of the trial injections did not have the right amount of vaccine that was due to a manufacturing error, they say, and that's leading to questions about the validity of the results. now, the university says it's discussed the problem with regulators and has agreed to complete the late stage trial with 2 groups. all the while france's health minister says the country will need to be transparent about its immunization program because

of public skepticism. towards vaccines, the government says it could start rolling them out. by the end of the year, france began its 2nd national lockdown last month has seen a drop in cases since them. let's take this all on because chris matthews, a consultant just a came pretty universally and an editor of the naked scientists. he joins us live by skype from cambridge. so chris, with what we'll get on to the public skepticism about getting vaccinated in just a 2nd, but let's just 1st start with this situation. and these concerns about the trial procedures for the vaccine has been quite a lot of strong criticism from some quarters. how much of a setback is this for astra zeneca? well, i actually asked was in a curve, so this may be a serendipitous positive because what they found when they actually analyze their data was that they had one group of individuals who had a 90 percent plus response group to response rate to their vaccine. and another

group that responded a bit less well, 60 or 70 percent. and when they analyzed this, they found that the people who'd had a low dose to start with and then a higher dose next seem to be the higher responders. now they can't exactly account for why that's happened scientifically or medically, but they can account for why it happened in terms of the practicalities of the trial. because everyone was supposed to got the same dose. and it looks like, as you were just saying, there was some kind of manufacturing error which led to a lower dose being meted out to some of the trial recipients. so what do you think the low dose could really a big part of you saying that this, sorry to interrupt there, but are you saying that the low doses could end up being more effective? yes. when they vandalised the data, they have found that the individuals who got a smaller amount 1st and then a bigger dose next actually responded better than people who got to higher doses and at face value that seems a bit paradoxical. and indeed it has got academics scratching their heads,

but there are some possible explanations. in addition to it being just a typical chance, although that seems pretty unlikely. so people are now looking into this to say, well, if this does turn out to be the case, then the 100000000 doses of the vaccine that, that the u.k. has already prior purchased from astra zeneca. instead of treating half the population will actually have enough coverage to go through the entire population because what they've got will go correspondingly further and provide more or improved coverage. and protection that's really interesting is that, let's get on to the broader issue we heard from the potential skepticism in france . because of the breakneck speed of the rollout of the, or the testing of these vaccines. more and more people are getting increasingly worried about the efficacy of them and the safety of them. and it's clearly something that is only going to be exacerbated by what's going on with russia, senator i think that's true. and we've known for a while that we should anticipate some degree of what is dubbed vaccine hesitancy.

there was a recent survey conducted in the u.s. in which about half of respondents said that where they offered a vaccine tomorrow, they wouldn't take it. i think that number has shifted a bit, particularly as we've seen in the responses to the trials, improve, you know, the data come back and very, very high levels of response and protection comfort. to some extent, i think this may take care of itself, because the people who's, who tend to be most likely to say no to a vaccine initially are not those people by and large, you're in the highest risk groups. and since most countries, france among them, the u.k. among them are prioritizing the highest risk groups 1st. those people are much more likely to say yes because they've got the most to gain and the least to lose by having a vaccine. and i think this will lead or translate into a degree of reassurance for other members of the community. when people see that there's been a big rollout that it's been very successful. it seems to be protecting people. and

that will hopefully help to win over those people that were previously so sort of lacking in confidence. but it's certainly a big headache. i think governments appreciate the scale of this problem and they're beginning their mess to manage their messaging accordingly. short, just one very quick, very brief question. if you would, how important is it for the success of the vaccine to nail coded for the majority of people to have it? what kind of percentage of people need to take it well to rein the virus in? we need to achieve what's called population immunity or herd immunity, for some bara says that number has to be very high, but for this virus, the estimates are and it is just an estimate because we have no real world experience yet. but we think it's got to be about 60 to 70 percent of the population that would need to be rendered immune from once through that level. the virus will find it so difficult to spread, that it will essentially just fizzle out as long as we maintain that level of population unity. we appreciate your expertise. chris, thanks very much indeed. that's chris smith, a consultant or just at cambridge university. thanks. still ahead here on

al-jazeera, look at the millions going hungry aid agencies in syria say they have never seen so many malnourished children that they needed. police cleared, regional borders, astounds of angry farmers, head to the capital to protest against laws. they say, when a friend likelihood however, the weather looks decidedly unsettled across the middle east, over the next couple of days if a bit of cloud rolling towards the levant, syria, lebanon, jordan, sings, and what the weather out west, the weather, just sliding across northern parts of iraq, we'll see some showers there, coming into iran, a nice assist law in of west the weather coming, if snored. impossible. saudi arabia down towards the red sea,

pockets of heavy rain that will lead to some localized flooding if anything, because more widespread as because one through saturday could even see want to see showers here in concert. watch out for some out west the weather. maybe a few spots, a fright coming in. however, the next couple days don't bother to wash the car lot to just further south. it's fine and dry. you might just catch just down around the gulf of aden. so we'll see some wet weather or so pushing through here. plenty of showers across central parts of africa as they should do. and they are sinking further now as the south, which is, well, we'll see that west of weather coming down across zimbabwe. seeing some heavy showers, some heavy showers too just coming into the eastern side of south africa, southern parts of mozambique, the west. the weather in south africa will make a swell little further inland as we go on through saturday to some rather wet weather to coming into the baby. looking rather wet

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who'll know, you're watching out 01 of our top stories this hour. but if you have us prime minister has announced a humanitarian corridor in the north, into greater region to help civilians caught in the fighting up. it has also ordered the final offensive in against a grand force into a turkish court has handed down hundreds of life sentences for those accused of plotting to overthrow president rest of type 2 and 4 years ago. it's one of the biggest cases related to the failed coup with 475 suspects. project has begun 3 days of national mourning for one of its greatest ever football players and take them out on a party is lying in state people. as you can see,

queuing up to pay their respects but more on the credit crisis now and the u.s. supreme court has temporarily barred the state of new york from imposing limits on places of worship. the governor andrew cuomo, restricted attendance to as few as 10 worship it's in areas designates, it does coronavirus hot spots. a court ruling said that that was a discrimination against religious institutions. new conservative justice amy kenney barrett tipped, the scales for a 5 to 4 majority in the court before her appointment to the court had held restrictions affecting churches in california and in nevada. but it is the start of what will be a subdued thanksgiving holiday in the united states. president elect joe biden urged people to stay at home and to stay cautious to prevent the virus from spreading. the holiday hasn't stopped president old trunk from making the most of his remaining time in office. he has pollard and his former national security

advisor, michael flynn. 1st 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 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 solid and trumps ally republican senator lindsey graham, cold flu and a political victim. 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. there's no 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? which thing? wow, i was called by the biggest political people to gradually on a big win and all of that balance were dumped all over the place down a lot of honorable 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 biking delivered a speech calling on americans to find their resilience in the face of the culbut 19 pandemic. this is the moment where 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 will move on now to begin if i say where the president has won reelection. according to preliminary results. electoral commission says the iraq body has secured more than 3 times as many votes as his nearest rival, the former finance minister, as if in the after the opposition, his claim as fraud in sunday's poll. but this has been dismissed by the electoral commission. hundreds of thousands of people able to vote because of his violence.

let's cross to ahmed interests, is live for us from nigeria's capital of this win for iraq to portray it. was that a surprise it was a surprise for many because from the start to the opposition failed to organize themselves. a lot of people, supporters in fact were expecting them to present a single candidate to face, cut bori, who had the upper hand before the elections. but they failed to do that, so corey had to face more than 12 opposition. presidential candidates before the when now the, what is important now for quarter is that he has avoided what happened to him in 2015, which is again, going to a 2nd round of the vote. and that was what the opposition, in fact was hoping for all they wanted the 2nd round so that they can unite and present a can one candidate. they can all line behind so that corey can be defeated.

unfortunately, that's not the situation today. so when the election commission in but can a fossil is making the announcements today, supporters or representatives of the opposition parties boycotted the session and of course they are saying that they are going to address their supporters later today, just us president aboard also acknowledge that he's going to address numerous supporters at the party headquarters today. the indication the election commission said if the opposition party send up such a fight with the results, they have 7 days to challenge that is also in court. and the constitutional court has 15 days from the and also and did each of the announcement to pos judgment whether or not they dock since house passed. so the indication we are getting right now, he said the opposition intend to challenge that. they've been saying that even the before the fuss about it was cast saying that the election was raped and that they were not happy with what has been happening. so the biggest question for most

people cannot rest. is that how far will the opposition go? i think going to call in this poll just on to the streets of what good to another city, just around the country. they believe that such will give groups the opportunity to attack targets in particular fossil despite the fact that the election pasta peacefully without many any major incident or attack from the groups that have been bothering the country for the last 5 years. the uncertain situation in the confess after the election, i'm going to say now the family of a palestinian president who died in israeli custody earlier this month says it is planning international legal action to have his body returned. is one of 7 prisoners bodies being withheld on what israel says, a national security grounds. higher force has more now from west jerusalem. knew that his son would never return home from prison alive. 46 year old kemal was

sentenced to 6 life sentences plus 50 years by an israeli military court in 2003 for killing 6 israelis. during the 2nd intifada, or uprising in early november, he died from throat cancer, but his body has not been returned to his family. how the shaheed i just want to see his body. this is for hidden pray for him. this would comfort me to bury him according to religious law. even the crows bury it. in total, israel has withheld the bodies of more than $300.00 palestinians going back more than 50 years. the majority lie in numbered graves. it's a practice that attracted widespread condemnation as a form of collective punishment of palestinian families until 2017, the bodies of prisoners who died in custody in military jails would routinely be released. a change in policy meant that if a prisoner had carried out an attack deemed exceptionally severe, or was identified as a hamas member or sympathiser, their body could be withheld. currently, there are 6 prisoners bodies,

news really morgues. another who died in 1980 has never been accounted for 2019. israel supreme court ruled that the practice of withholding what it called terrorists remains was justifiable under israeli law in the service of national security. that was understood to mean using the bodies as bargaining chips. in negotiations, a mass which controls the gaza strip calls israel stance shameful. it continues to withhold the bodies of 2 israeli soldiers captured during the 2014 war 2 israeli civilians who entered gaza or in 20142015 have also never come back. that is something is totally different because it's going or for the israeli forces on, on gaza strip and hamas succeeded to kidnap or solution, nor the alive or did the soldiers' families have kept up

a long running campaign for their return as israel and hamas have held years of so far fruitless talks through 3rd parties about a swap deal. for now, the closest not come to recovering his son's body has been to retrieve his reading glasses. he says, israel has thousands of palestinian prisoners to swap if it does want to do a deal with hamas. keeping the dead, he says, is merely a punishment for their families. ari force it out 0. western recent. the world food program is warning more syrians have become increasingly dependent on food assistance to survive a record. 9300000 syrians do not get enough food to eat and is in a hole in their reports. nearly half of those are children. 6 months old, a hoodie or waist 3 and a half kilos of malnutrition is becoming an increasing spend a month hearing in children. aid agencies warn nearly 5000000 across the world

ravaged country. don't get enough food to eat. as poverty deepens, the flee he needs most with that's not all she needs, she needs diapers, we need food, and we have nothing displaced by war. have been particularly vulnerable and able to afford basic necessities. health workers who visit the camp say never before have they seen so many cases of malnourished children. the international aid agency save the children, says 65 percent, have not had meat, fruits and vegetables for at least 3 months. and we know this combination and years of conflict, a very cold outbreak. and the dire situation has really affected syria. so when you put all those children, especially very young children just aren't getting your chance to grow up in government held areas, there is

a bread crisis. the cash strapped state has been forced to reduce subsidies and ration a main staple that more families can no longer buy, distribute food across 1600 countries. and so at some points around, hoping that they can also receive the syrian currency has lost much of its value. that affected food prices, which are now the highest ever recorded the world food program says $1300000.00 syrians don't have access to sufficient food and an additional 2 point $2000000.00 are at risk across the country. that is half the population

expired meal because it's cheaper. we also buy the cheapest food for the other kids, so they don't cry from hunger. it's been 10 years of war and displacement. there's still no peace. the battle now is against hunger in every corner of the divided country. seneca, there indian police have closed the state borders to stop thousands of families protesting in the capital of new delhi. they say new laws will affects their livelihoods, some os as much as 200 kilometers to get to delhi. others have been stopped by border blockades, calling for the government to roll back on, you know, was that removed? guaranteed minimum prices for the purchase its head. now from this both foreign news in delhi, there is a big police presence in and around here, new delhi is main approach. as i've done my month, there are police and taking a protest as a way they had gathered to show their solidarity with their opposition to follow

the laws passed by the indian government in september. and it's not just here. the police are stopping people from protesting. police have closed states borders around delhi. there was a canon and tear gas on the borders between fun job. and how do ya know that foam is there undeterred, have thrown the police barricades into the rivers. now delhi police deny permission for people to protest here because of the red line number of people in a virus cases. but these farm laws are a huge issue and india, where around kabul, the 1300000000 people working in the adult hold a sector. they say that these were taken away gallivanting to foreigners, guarantees around prices and leave them at the mercy of private investors and opposition parties to angry about what they say. the way in which the j.p. government passed these laws, they say they pushed them through it without time for proper debate. still to come

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health services. now, more than ever, the world needs w.h.o. . making a healthy, a world for you, for everyone or or or well, public libraries in the netherlands are removing children's books on the controversial, dark christmas tradition of print. it involves a white person dressing up as a black helper for santa claus, and is widely considered to be racist, protest against the tradition of nothing canceled following last week's violent

confrontations between protesters, service and reports. now from most people in the netherlands have grown up with these images of black faced white person who scares and entertains small children this time of the year. but black, pete is slowly making an exit after that have decided to remove books with this image. of course, these books have to be removed because of the current discussion in our society and the new insights we have. they will now be part of our archive and be replaced with books portraying petes in a more neutral way. the removal of these books has led to such controversy and threat that library employees don't want to be interviewed on camera. this shows how deeply divided the netherlands is about this disputed tradition. increasingly, protests against black people have turned violent with supporters attacking opponents and police back to neverland, he was threatened after supporters of black pete burst into his shop and shouted

racist remarks that night his windows were smashed. it's clear that i've become a victim of what you can see and i have been a victim all my life with the tradition of black people. i have no words. i think enough has been said, it's now time to change and people should wake up. a recent survey shows that a majority in the netherlands want to stick with the traditional character of black pete. many also reject the compromise already used in several cities called chimney pete, whose face is covered with some black stains. for while the home bird beak has to be black. and i don't want to discriminate against anyone. to me. black, pete is a mysterious figure, not a person. it's a masquerade and not a skin color. so you can be unrecognizable on the street and children. see you as a fairytale figure. for nearly 30 years, he has transformed into black people in the weeks before the dutch santa claus celebration, reaching its peak on this. like most supporters, he said, it is not

a racist tradition because yeah, white people don't get to decide what is racism. racism is racism, and it doesn't matter what we are looking at. you know, even though you don't, you don't mean it is a body impact and with the best intentions toward people due to protests, the organize over recent years. songs like these about black people have been changed and i figured that was long accepted in dutch society has now become controversial. but as long as libraries can't openly speak about removing books with black images, opponents of black people still have a long way to go. step al-jazeera, remember that's quite right, nick. as we have been reporting argentina, is at the start of 3 days of national mourning after the death of one of the

greatest players in football. but i did 86 world cup champion, died at the age of 60 on wednesday after suffering a heart attack, his body will lie in state at government house in funeral many held a vigil juniors at an international level. married on a school, be infamous hand of god on the way to winning the $986.00 world cup for argentina. 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, he's a, he's a player that has had songs written about him that he's had a, you know, different religions made out of them. didn't matter to me. and i was in argentina. are one of those to me, in my opinion, he's the best player that's ever lived based on being able to see messi being able to see pele and being able to see him play as well. he to me was the best player of all time. the head of guidance of being always an interesting story of, was he

a cheat or was he able to under go and find ways to surpass or circumvent a system that was flawed in terms of refereeing. 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. argentina's current count in the n.l. messi says marijuana was the greatest ever. well, christiane or an elder described him as an unparalleled magician. a minute's silence was held across european football grounds on wednesday evening ahead of champions league games. donna was an inspiration to so many of the current generation of footballers and their managers. it was a bad thing when you know, or really he said no matter what you had done with your lives, it mellow would you have done for our life. i think stressed perfectly with this guy gave us we could do. i wish people would drop number 10

jerseys for all competitions in all teams. i think it would be the most beautiful tribute we could pay to the best footballer in history. it's an unbelievable loss for the world of football. like used to play at barcelona in spain, he's death has made headlines in the city. and fans have been offering their own tributes and memories both good and bad. i was very little when he played here. every kid dreamed of being married on that. when it comes to the person, there are lights and shadows, the artist on the pitch and the demon outside of it. fans gathered in naples where enjoyed he's most successful. spell in club football. lifting to 2 said they are titles. the city's mayor is also urging the team to rename their stadium after marathon. mary is being sports correspondent to understand the

importance of madonna is not about what actually not only about, look at it on the beach. he's even outside naples, that is the 3rd, the biggest largest city in italy by father never won any title before. in spite of them being mad for footballers and always walls of this advantage in they tell young culture economy something that was really felt by the politicians while might have gone on. you know, we never campions league and won 2 titles is a lot, but not that much about not only at napoli on the football, yet pulled on the cultural level of naples on the football. but on the culture i'm up on the definition of marriage also had a huge following in india, and that was largely because of the 986 world cup being the 1st to be broadcast live in the country marathon. i had a particular connection with kolkata,

having visited the city twice, including in 2017 to unveil a statue of himself. and this was the scene at that statue earlier on thursday. hundreds of fans gathered and showered with flowers in tribute to their hero. before i understood for donald, i understood and i don't know, because the man you cutie had was something unfair. growing up, listening to stories from my phone, from my father on people who have seen him play good visualizer mother and i is that you don't need to mourn a man personally. it's not just football tributes. have been coming in from other sports to spanish tennis star. rafael nadal tweeted that marijuana was one of the greatest sportsman in history and that he's death has left a void in the world of sports. and argentina's rugby team are currently in australia preparing for their rugby championship game against new zealand coach. mario gave his reaction to the sad news from how he was he would go

and watched, and he's a rugby football. everything. everything. whenever there was a team injuries, he was there. i liked him before. he was an example. the reason jersey and he had our year the worst job when he was there you was. it was like magic. and just one other story pakistan's cricketers have been saying since isolation, after 6 of the team tested positive a covert 1912. in new zealand, they won't be allowed to train for next month series until they get the all clear. all members of the squad had tested negative for times before leaving the hole. it emerged that some pakistan players were caught on c.c.t.v. breaking isolation rules on their 1st day in christchurch. that's all the sports fanatic. look for see you later. thanks very much indeed. that is it, for this does hour, we'll be back in a couple minutes with another half hour this principle. see them

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the hero. the world needs washing. the ethiopian prime minister orders a final offensive on tikrit and announces a humanitarian corridor to help those fleeing the fighting. this is out there, live from doha. also coming up in the program, a turkish court hands down hundreds of life sentences that the 2016 failed coup, accusing some of trying to kill president about a country in mourning. thousands in argentina bid farewell to football legend vehicle murdoch, his body is now lying.