every heavy shelling reported in the capital of ethiopia's tikrit region, the u.n. calls for immediate humanitarian access. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up, thousands rally in france against police brutality and a new law that could ban sharing images of officers. iran violence revenge for the death of a top. you can, scientist accusing israel and the u.s. of trying to create chaos in the region. firing squads and poison gas, the trumpet, ministration expands methods to execute prisoners.

so we begin with breaking news from ethiopia and the military offensive in the north integrated region. within the past hour, ethiopia's army says that it has taken full control of the region's capital city. the people's liberation front earlier said artillery and air strikes were being used by the army. prime minister had warned of an imminent intensive offensive on thursday that follows weeks of fighting that fits have left thousands dead. and let's get more the very latest from across what malcolm webb, who's more as you developments from neighboring kenya and malcolm. so what more do we know about this latest news? well, just a short while ago, the ethiopian military's chief of staff posted a statement on facebook saying that the 0 pm military was in from control of the

city of mcalary. that's the regional capital of the to gray province. now this follows reports that came a few hours, few hours earlier fighting that the government had begun its assault on the city. this follows as you mentioned, 3 weeks of fighting, leading up to this. now it hasn't been possible to verify the claim that the government side has taken control of the city has very little access in the area for journalists to humanitarian workers. it's been largely sealed off and we haven't yet heard any comment from the tee p.l.s. leadership on this yet. but if it is indeed the case, it would suggest that the large numbers of fighters and substantial military hardware that the t.v. l.f. is widely believed to control, are actually already being tactically, retreated into the nearby mountains. and it would appear that the chosen not to use the resources that they had to fight to control the city. this will certainly be a relief for many people, rights groups and others have been warning of a potential disaster if there had been heavy fighting and heavy shelling on the

city. some rights groups and even said that shelling the city itself could have constituted a war crime. and if that is, it goes, it makes you think that there's a long way to go yet. it is an incredibly complex situation. tell us a little bit of how we got to this point. well, the t.p.r. left who were controlling the kelly at least until a short while ago dominated ethiopia's politics and military for nearly 30 years. now, 2 years ago, prime minister of the army took over that followed waves of protest throughout the country. now i.b.m. had promised reforms that it was in the process of those reforms that the t p l. s said that they were on fairly targeted in crackdowns on past rights abuses and corruption. this is what led to the breakdown in communication between these 2 sides. they stopped recognizing each other and that escalated into armed conflict that started a few weeks ago. now the t p l f began as a guerrilla rebel movement,

fighting from those very same mountains, against the regime that preceded them in the marxist regime that controlled ethiopia in the seventy's in the eighty's. and now, a lot of people fear that much as the government side may have taken control of the sticky and most of the, of the region, the reserve risk of a protected guerrilla war following on from here, or american tanks, or was it mark more of the reporting from iraq. well the united nations is pushing for ethiopia's government to grant the teams access to, to provide much needed food and shelter. they're also concerned for the 100000 eritrean refugees who've been living integrate for years. the conflict has pushed more than $40000.00, people from ethiopia into sudan, about $600.00. refugees are crossing the border each day. the un's appealing for $150000000.00 in aid to provide water shelter and health services over the next 6 months. it is in the camp in gaza,

if in sudan where many are being relocated, a refugee camp here in sudan's got out of state has expanded since it was 1st opened just over 2 weeks ago. now when it was 1st opened it hosted about 200. if european refugees fleeing from the conflict in the region, now the camp hosts more than 7000, if european refugees and this place is becoming sort of a permanent shelter for them until things ease back home and they say it's safe for them to return. now this is the only formal refugee camp here and about of state despite sudan hosting more than 43000. if you know 3 g.'s over the past 3 weeks escaping from the conflict in the region. the other centers reception center in neighboring states and look to hear a lot of state are all just reception centers, including village 8, which is about 30 kilometers from the sudan. if you're a border that hosts more than 15000,

if european refugees now most of them here stand under the scorching sun waiting for food aid and waiting for food distribution. but they say that this is much better than being back home, not knowing what they could have faced. many families speak of leaving their loved ones behind of witnessing people being slaughtered of atrocities. they say that forced them to flee and come here to sudan seeking refuge, but able organizations say that they need help in terms of responding to the influx of refugees. they say that in the coming 6 months, they expect up to 200000. if european refugees to come here to sudan seeking refuge from the to great region because of the conflict, should the fighting continue. they say that they need financial assistance or funding for the programs to be able to respond to the refugee crisis that is unfolding. because sudan as a government, despite hosting them already hosts nearly $1000000.00 other refugees in various other states and therefore will not be able to cope with this crisis on its own. so

while the aid organizations are sounding the alarm and calling for support to be able to respond to this current unfolding refugee crisis, people here say they'll wait to hear and till things are safe before they go back home and take their region. and if you're really my colleagues around the united nations high commissioner for refugees, and he says, support is needed for the refugees. i want to join those who are, who are calling even more urgently for mediation and end of conflict. because this is what these people around me are fleeing and they're still fleeing. the numbers have decreased the numbers of our rivals, but still they're in their hundreds for a day yesterday, i was at the border and i met people just arriving more than 500 arrived yesterday through the various crossing points. i want to be on record to praise sudan for having kept its borders open. sudan already has a 1000000, refugees, countless displaced people,

and yet it kept its borders open. it provided the 1st assistance and now i'm here to coordinate and boost international support to sudan and mobilize resources for this response to be effective. the u.n. a.c.r. is response or was a little maids. many reporters were on the ground before your own teams, including our own reporters. why is that? why was it difficult for you to get this operation under way? i think we actually moved quite quickly. it's a very remote area. as your correspondents know, all the logistics is difficult, so we have to gear up. but i think that now the response is, is functioning. we have some challenges. people are arriving at the border in various points. we have to transport them to sites like this one where i am. it's an 8 hour drive through difficult, broads, on the flimsy buses. it's not easy to do all this. it takes a bit of time, but i had meetings with the authorities here in the region today. and i think we

are beefing up by the way. i'm returning to her to him tonight. and i am going to appeal on behalf of all humanitarian agencies for $150000000.00, for the next 6 months. we need to be ready for a few months of assistance hoping that they eventually people can go back and, but many of the refugees aren't using official border crossings. from what we understand. so how is the u.n. a.c.r. able to ascertain the number and the current needs? well, the sudanese government is receiving them or so at an official border points wherever they have access and then they transport them to the official once where screening occurs, registration 1st assistance. and then for those who want transport to a more stable places, many people don't want to move from the border. they're watching what the situation, how the situation develops in the gray region of ethiopia. and they're making a decision whether they want to go back or stay in sudan for another while it's complex. to iran, where the supremes leader says,

there will be retaliation over the killing of its top nuclear scientist who factors idea was ambushed by gunmen while traveling with his bodyguards near the capital, tehran on friday, western and israeli intelligence of suspected factors, idea of masterminding, a secret weapons project? well, the president hassan rouhani says at tehran's nuclear program is peaceful. the killing will not slow it down. he immediately blamed israel, whose embassies around the world have now been put on high alert. an initial, a severed, assess a nation, shows that our enemies are experiencing anxious weeks. it feeling that the era of the, of pressures is fading away and the world circumstances a changing they want to make the most of the remaining weeks and days so that they can create uncertain conditions in the region where the assassination threatens to increase tensions between iran and the united states in the final days of the, donald trump presidency. i said rick has more now from terre. this is s., a nation of iran's leading scientists isn't like the assassination we saw earlier

on in the year of general qassam. so the money that was a military strike on iran responded militarily. now there is some dispute within the political factions in the country about what the response should be. now the conservatives who dominate parliament, now they're calling for a tough response, but also for iran to stop i.a.e.a. inspectors. in fact, there was a protest outside parliament where people were asking for revenge. and for those inspectors to be stopped inspecting nuclear sites. now that's referring to the 2015 nuclear deal, which iran has been reducing its commitments to. and what's left of that is the fact that i.a.e.a. inspectors can inspect iran's nuclear sites without any prior warning without notice. and conservatives are calling for them to be stopped. now the reformists and the president has done rouhani, now they want to wait. they also want to response, but they want to be restrained. they want to wait until president elect joe biden comes into office. and hope that the united states will rejoin the 2015 nuclear

deal and lift those sanctions as far as they're concerned. that would be a victory for iran. but there is a view in the west that iran is a belligerent country. but the reality is iran is very restrained, is very strange and precise and its decision making. but what we do know is that the supreme leader of this country has called for a response, and there will probably be one we just don't know when that would happen. where that will happen and what it will be. luckly peaceful mass protest in paris have descended into violence with shops, satellite into a gas fired tens of thousands gathered to rally against the new bill aimed at restricting the film in publishing of police offices. images will now tensions have been rising in things, getting pretty heated on the streets, has been to gas fired at this protest. march and protesters launched fireworks at the police lines and put up barricades and threw stones. and so full things have been satellite as well. the protests have been fueled by

a recent video of paris police it beating a black music producer. in his studio 4 of the officers involved have been arrested . the president tomorrow macro says the incident has brought shame on the country. he's called for his government to fight discrimination and to restore confidence in the police. still ahead here on al-jazeera, voters in indian administered kashmir vote in the local elections while opposition candidates. they were prevented from campaigning at a red protest in the cuban capital. dozens of artists joined the demonstration in havana calling for the release of the jailed. right. it's been raining heavily in eastern iraq and the western side of iran less have released who sat. it was great deal of crowd around your notice this figure $109.00

millimeters in the last 36 hours on the western side of iran is significant. this is a mountainous area. this would have caused flash floods. this would be rain, the snow with some highs in on sunday to be more snow falling in iran up into azerbaijan as well. the following weather is largely fine. not particularly colder up to nearly 20 in beirut, and this line here through saudi arabia's focused scattering of outbreaks of light rain. i suspect this clears through which took matters down. then the next better shot is coming through into cyprus and the levant. that will be sunder, stalls as well. i suspect tanzania did catch some pretty big rain earlier in the month. and zanzibar, surprisingly has been a focus in the last couple of days, $43.00 millimeters since yesterday, didn't see much this month. 205 doesn't seem much, it's a bit more than the average, but not a huge amount. so, east africa's not particularly worth the moment. there is significant rain inland in the rift valley dancers. and towards south africa. i'd like to see some in

malawi or think not but johannesburg. oh yeah, that's 3 thundery days. frank assessments, you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries. what is the situation? there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions. how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration? he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. how will a place like it live? get a back seat when there's no money at all. the rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story on al-jazeera.

but again, you're watching al-jazeera among the top stories this. and we have breaking news from ethiopia, where the army says it's taken full control of the city of mecca, the capital of the region, and it's feared that sells and died there after weeks of fighting to grain leaders say ethiopian forces bombarded the city and its offensive iran's supreme leader is feeling retaliation for the killing of a top nuclear scientist. iran is playing such attention on israel. the european union has described the killing as a criminal act, and it's strange largely peaceful protests in paris have descended into violence, but shops set alight and tear gas 5 tens of thousands have gathered to rally against the new bill into restricting the filming in publishing of police officers and hundreds of police and paramilitary personality deployed to control

protesters in and around india's capital. thousands of farmers have refused to move to a designated area and blocking roads and border crossings around new delhi. they're angry about new laws. they say could put them out of business in his agriculture minister and secretes talks. this, with, has more from the protests. we want, the single border crossing between the states of haiti and delhi with thousands of farmers remain camped out. this busy national highway has become a track to city with farmers vehicles as far as the eye can see. and a very close have been converted to temporary homes because the farmers say they're not going any way. they are refusing to go to the grounds on the outskirts of the city that the government allocated to them to protest. they say that if they aren't allowed to march into the center of the capital, new delhi, that they're going to block highways around the capital and they're going to cause as much disruption as possible until the government of appeals these farm. here

they are raising farm union flags. they are making speeches, criticizing the government and its policies. the government, meanwhile, is appealing to them to stop the protests. they've invited them for december, the 3rd day, the 1st round of talks didn't go anywhere. and that's because they say that the government is not the sure and that a guaranteed minimum price for they produce will remain. and that this is not good for farmers. and it's going to leave them at the mercy of large corporations, allowing private companies to buy from farmers directly. indian administered kashmir, or heading to the polls for the 1st time since the indian government revoked the region's autonomy last year. but opposition candidates say police have been preventing them from campaigning freely toward his more it's been more than a year since new delhi stripped the autonomy of indian administered kashmir. effectively an exciting parts of the disputed territory. these local elections the

1st since then seen by many in this region as a test of how unpopular that policy is and opposition coalition. the group car alliance has been campaigning for the area, special status to be restored. but candidates, say police have used security concerns as an excuse to harris them. it's been very difficult right from the word go into the whole court. it takes me almost from the morning we're going to go back to the supposed to be in the india's decision to revoke self rule. in the majority, muslim populated region has caused anger, and many kashmiris are determined to make their voices heard. what is i thought? i wanted to buy a car going out. we'd planned to buy a car, the elections, but after the group got alliances, fog, it come perilously think. we decided the real cost i would get to be d. p

a. d. m. one of the members of india's governing hindu nationalist, b, j, p, have been campaigning hard graft and got aboard. the party's, you've joined hands under the good car alliance, our corrupt politics delivering justice. people have understood this and are now following us. political analysts say there's a lot at stake for the government in this election. if you have significant waters torn out, you will the government if we have a definitive show, the world that yes, people of kashmir have gone silent for some reasons with the situation. and now they are back to life, not only for their normal life, but even for the political and democratic life. everything is back to normal and that is what the government of we haven't tried to project out of these elections. the elections are happening across the region in 8 phases and will end on december the 19th with results expected. 3 days later. the jury gating be al jazeera

cycling god, he has killed at least 8 people in the space, thousands more northeastern somalia. the storm is the most powerful to hit the horn of africa since records began brought 2 years worth of rainfall in just 2 days. and the u.n. is warning the cyclon could worsen a locust infestation sweeping across the region. posing a greater threat to somalia's food supplies with fewer than 60 days until president elect joe biden takes office the u.s. justice department to schedule the number of federal executions. and it has expanded the methods that can be used beyond lethal injection, clearing the way for poison gas and firing squads, where it's allowed under state law biden is against the death penalty and says he will work to end it. mike hanna, has more from washington d.c. . news of these new protocols only came out because it was printed in the federal register as it has to be by law. the impact of this though, is to give the federal government a far wider range of methods of execution to use normally,

it has been by lethal injection, but the justice department is now saying that it has got to keep the option of using a form of execution used in each particular state. now states decide what form of execution they use most have used lethal injection. however, some have moved away from that because of the shortage of the drugs needed. so the justice department is attempting to say that it needs to do this to fall into line with protocols exercised by the states in which a federal execution will be carried out. now this is significant because the 5 executions have been shared between now and the 20th of january when joe biden comes into office 3 of them this month and 3 to next month. so this now the justice department is able to exercise what form of a death sentence is pickable to a particular state where it's carried out. it must be noticed as well. is that the

death sentence, federal death sentence was on hiatus from 2003, before justice department reinstated federal death penalties earlier this year. and since then, there have been more people executed by the justice department. then there were in the last 50 years, new restrictions will be imposed in los angeles county in california from monday in response to a surge in coronavirus cases. health of issues, health officials have issued a stay at home order, which will last for 3 weeks. private and public gatherings of people from different households have also been banned. this comes as a number of recorded infractions rose by 2000000 in 2 weeks, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to $13000000.00. more than 400000, people have now died from growing a virus in europe because the continent undergoes a 2nd wave of infections. despite that, france is reopening stores ahead of the holiday season. the president tomorrow micron says the peak of the wave has passed in the u.k. . that accounts for nearly 2 thirds of europe's death tally is brace for n t

a look down protests later on saturday, rory chalons is in london with more on the future of restrictions. on december 2nd, england comes out of its 2nd national lockdown and it goes back into a 3 tiered system where different regions of the country will be put under different tiers of lockdown. now we've had one of these systems before, before the 2nd national lock down, and it's going back to that. but the tears are slightly tough. and in some cases, and there are many m.p.'s, particularly on the right wing of their governing tory party who are not happy about this. and think that this is sacrificing the economy on the altar of public health and that the 2 should be better balance. there's going to be

a vote on it in parliament on chuse day. there are also protests being planned against these lockdown measures for the for england's are on saturday. michael gove's, one of the big hitters of the government's cabinets, has basically come out saying that this is absolutely necessary that you have to do this to protect the national health service. i think the warre, amongst some m.p.'s and worry amongst some people in the public is that there seems to be no exit from these tears that it's some kind of purgatory. 2 and that, you know, you might get as the sun newspaper or a paper is reported, the country might be languishing under these lockdown measures through until, say, april of next year. and that's a rather grim proposal for many people around the country. pope francis has elevated 13 new cardinals during a formal ceremony that took place at some peter's basilica about to consider. one

of them is wilton gregory, who is the archbishop of washington d.c. . he's now made history as the 1st african-american to receive the highest rank in the catholic church. gregory said he sees his appointment as an affirmation of black catholics in the united states. pro abortion rights protesters a march in poland's capital of warsaw after last month's ruling restrictions restrict ruling restricting access to the procedure. there have been daily protests since the constitutional court out more terminations in cases of birth defects in october. a proto now has some of the strictest abortion laws in europe. on thursday, the european union voted to condemn the decision, saying it restricts women's rights. antigovernment protesters have been back on the streets of thailand's capital of bangkok, calling for political change there, demanding the resignation of prime minister, probably with a chair. not sure a new constitution and reforms to the monarchy. the demonstrations have stepped up

this week despite threats of legal action. several protest leaders were charged earlier this week. in chile, an attempt by the government to review, revoke a pension fund bill has provoked anger. of protesters blocked the main roads in the capital santiago, as he tried to reach the presidential palace. and he's used tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators. they want access to their retirement funds to help them through the economic crisis, which the government hoess russian opposition. politician, alexina valmy has called on the e.u. to impose sanctions on some of the country's oligarchs. he was addressing the european parliament's foreign affairs committee by video link about the is recovering in germany from a poisoning. he says was ordered by the kremlin. it had been, you know, the russian oligarchs not just got some new ones like these must be real targets. more than 100 cuban artists have for held

a protest outside the culture, ministry, and have done are against what they say. it's a state crackdown on dissent that comes off. the police broke up a hunger strike calling for the release of a jailed rapper carlos has more beat. it was a rare show of public dissent on the streets of havana. protests like this are not allowed on the island, but many of cuba's most prominent artists say they've had enough of what they're calling a government crackdown mainly against younger people. you know, i would argue that it's time for dialogue and i think it's important that young people are heard and we're going to work for that. this demonstration follows a police raid on the headquarters of a prominent dissident group. its members were holding a hunger strike, demanding the release of a rapper, jailed for 8 months for insulting a peace officer. cuban authorities say they violated coronavirus measures,

but they accuse the government of using restrictions as a pretext. the government authorities dressed as doctors and got into the ambulance and came here and into the houses doctors there broke down the door of the house, beat them rights groups and the international community has criticized the action with a top u.s. state department official calling on cuba's government to respect human rights. the artists say they want to back down until they've met high level officials. the government monopolizes mass media in cuba and claims. these groups are funded by the u.s. government to subvert the state. those protesting hope the rallies like these will help take their course to a wider, international audience. cari leg al-jazeera, slight nudge in the direction of our website. i'll just use the address on the stories they were covering. right there. lots of comment and analysis to answer the call. the interim.

all right, let's have a recap of the headlines here and answer and breaking news from ethiopia. 1st where the army says it has taken full control of the city of mackellar, its sea capital. it's a great region where it's feared, thousands are dead after weeks of fighting marcum web is monitoring developments from nairobi in kenya. we haven't yet heard any comment from the t.p. ls leadership on this yet. but if it is indeed the case, it would suggest that the large numbers of fighters and substantial military hardware at the t p l. f is widely believed to control. it actually already being tactically, retreated into the nearby mountains, and it would appear that chosen not to use the resources that they had to fight to control the city. this will certainly be a relief for many people rights groups. and.