the signal for the death of democracy studio be on the script on al-jazeera, lose the narrative, or have a narrative of how the bush should join me or show carry on up front as my guest from around the world takes the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on our just your pick. ethiopia's prime minister declares victory as the military takes control of t gray's regional capital. but forces that vow to keep on fighting i know they're honest on the attain. this is there at live from doha, also coming up protests in paris against a new law, making it illegal to publish pictures of police offices,

turns into demonstrations against police brutality and get in iran over the assassination of a top, new to sign test and a promise for revenge in due time and cover $1000.00 infections and break more records in the u.s. health experts warn that the west may be still yet to come here appears. prime minister be off meds says the 3 week long military operation in the northern tier gray region is over. this, after the army announced it's now gained full control of the regional capital mecca . but the leader of the people's liberation front has vowed to keep fighting government forces. the tepee l.f. says the ethiopian military used artillery and air strikes to capture the city. and thousands of people are believed to have been killed in that offensive. the united

nations is pushing for access into t. gray to provide much needed food and shelter, and also appealing for a $150000000.00 in aid. the conflict is already forced more than $40000.00 people from ethiopia into neighboring state farm. well, we'll have more on the developing humanitarian situation, but 1st, welcome. where begins our coverage, depending on the, on the whereabouts of the grain leadership and also that, i mean, they, i mean, just a few days ago, we understood they controlled tens of thousands of fighters and substantial military hardware. and they have had several months to prepare for this conflict. it was, it was, it was in the pipeline for quite some time. now the t.p.a. left began their story in the 1970 s. as a guerrilla rebel movement hiding out in the mountains in the to great province of ethiopia, they overthrew in 1901, a marxist government controlled ethiopia in the seventy's. in the eighty's. then they dominated ethiopia's politics. and its military for almost 30 years into prime

minister. the army took over 2 years ago. now, if they do indeed still control substantial numbers of troops and military hardware, then the certainly a fear that they will have taken those back into the mountains and may continue or may resume this conflict as they began as a guerrilla force fighting from those mountain hideout well, a fierce hail mary, mistral, the global society of 2 grass colors and professionals. he says the situation in the region is fast, becoming desperate for those who live there. but he says tehran's will continue the resistance against government forces. joe that is not settled and people is to protest being until a legit government is restored and said right, which the current government is there's going to be any peace integrate these these situation can continue to afaik the entire region. so the program that we hear is not accurate and the people to grow are still resisting the invasion and, and the illegal war against the people. the grass before november for to grow was

one of the most regions in the country. and there was very successful election, there was already accessible government. in the end, an elected government, of the oppressor, of the party, is trying to destabilize the federal system and is still the single political narrative. so that's the problem. so definitely the people up to great will continue to resist. millions of 2 grants are cut from their words. there is an interest of his is not the banks are closed every to grant's bank account has been closed. almost for the past one week is a public service. if a person gets sick, they can go ospital. so apparently it's very difficult when we can hear anything about our family, so i have never heard of my family. well for 23 days now. meanwhile, the u.n. high commissioner for refugees, filippo grandi has visited the club accounts that's nested on board with ethiopia. he told out of there that more support is needed to help the refugees that 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 pray 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. 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 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 tonight. and i am going to appeal on behalf of all humanitarian agencies for $150000000.00, for the next 6 months. i want other news now, and thousands of people have been protesting across france against a security law that restricts filming, and publishing police officers faces anger against that. nor has been fueled by video that place racially abusing a black music producer and about to reports from paris. despite some clashes between demonstrators and police, this protest in paris was largely peaceful. thousands of people gathered in the center of the city to rally, part of a planned law that would crack down on people's freedom to film and publish images of lisa on duty. the french government says it would protect the identity of police

officers. those here say it's an erosion of rights, it's out of bounds. it's important not to let this law pass because it would destroy our freedom to inform, especially when we're seeing lots of police violence. and even if those offices are minority, it is too much. dora tarion trend is pushing us to say to the government, they must stop and change direction and let the police force know that there are these red lines. the protest comes just days after the broadcast of this shocking video, a black music producer, brutally beaten by police. and earlier in the week, an inquiry was opened off to some officers were filmed, beating migrants, and journalists, as police cleared a migrant camp. without such videos, people here say some police officers could act with impunity. it's not only these protesters that are angry about the nor

a number of m.p.'s and senators of also expressed concern and even the un seaman rights council has called on frons to protect freedom. so bad, it's putting a lot of pressure on the french government. the crisis prompted french president emanuel macro to post a message on social media. he condemned the recent images of police violence and urged his government to propose solutions to restore public confidence in the police force and protect rights. but those here say, unless the government scraps the laws controversial clause, they will continue to protest. the tasha butler al-jazeera paris. well, the access to qatar is the representative of foreign relations at the committee for justice and truth for a dollar. he says, by banning the filming of officers, the government has a raving one of the few ways that victims and try to fight back against police brutality. justice department is pretty much not present charges on the, on the, on the police officers that do those crimes. basically,

and they just move them to another part of france. so there is not justice going on in the with cell phone shooting. and filming what's going on to nonwhite people or refugees. you saw exactly what happened in the beginning of the recruit, the refugees. you saw what happened with machetes. eclair was being beat down by 12 agents, police officers, agents, and the fact that the article 24 of the of the new law is trying to prohibit the people to film. what happens to them is pretty much what breaks the camel's back right now to understand the environment i'm living through right now is pretty much trying to manage, manage fear and understand exactly what's going on to the police officers mind was going on in the government. what they try to achieve was the gender because as a,

as a citizen, my father was in this as my grandparents were citizens of france. so in the, in the, in the constitution in the laws, it is stated that everybody is created equal. all men and women are created equal and we have the same rights. but this is not implemented. so this is what i'm living in. this is when i live on a daily basis. iran's supreme leader has vowed to retaliate for the assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist. most in factories a day was killed on friday, and tehran games. israel accusing it of trying to create chaos. prime minister benjamin netanyahu hasn't commented, but has put all israeli embassies on high alert at the back reports from tehran. protesters outside parliament, demanding revenge. and for iran to stop nuclear inspections by the international atomic energy agency, the anger follows the killing of top scientists to moss. in fact, it is gunned down by attackers in his car in,

a suburb in easton to her on friday. his family speaking on state t.v., also called for revenge. he was a scientist and at the same time, a very kind and affectionate husband who loved his country. i plead to others to continue his path and to not let his blood go in vain. his pot was very important for him and his blood was spilled for it, sticks for his own ego. i tell the world arrogance that if they were afraid of this mosque and this country's progress, and if they were worried about progress made by this mosque, you must be scared of his blood a 1000 times more. the world's arrogance has to know that by killing people like factories are the this path of progress will not be stopped. president hassan rouhani blamed israel for the assassination of iran's most senior scientist bin movie, and want to say that the relevant authorities will respond to this crime in a timely an appropriate manner. the iranian nation is smarter and wiser than falling into the trap of the zionist conspiracy. the supreme leader,

ayatollah khomeini, also pledged to retaliation, is asking for the perpetrators to be firmly prosecuted for the work of others to continue. iran has launched an investigation in what is an embarrassing breach of security. but political factions differ about what the response should be. this latest incident will impact on any plans u.s. president elect. joe biden has for talks with iran on the nuclear deal known as a joint comprehensive plan of action or j.c. reached in 2015. i think you will make any negotiations on the j. c. p. a way much more complicated and not just from the american side. i think it's going to be difficult enough for president biden, but it's further complicated by the reaction in iran to this killing, one of their most senior scientists. and you have the upcoming elections in iran in a few months. so it's going to make it even more difficult for the moderates who would like to see a pattern up in the jay c.p.o.

way for now the world is watching and waiting to see what iran will do next. iran's reformists want to save the 2015 nuclear deal. that means waiting for joe biden to take office and hope the u.s. rejoins undef sanctions. the conservatives seem to have run out of patience. i want to stop i.a.e.a. inspections. others want a strong response. the country has fired one, but no one knows where, when or what form that will take assad. big al jazeera, the front, well still ahead here on al-jazeera. the show must go on how u.k. this act, that's what jobless juge have been 1000 helping people transform their thousands of farmers protest in and around india's capital for a bad day. now, fearing me would leave them in a messy, i think for us hello

. this is the season of the northeast monsoon. when winter forms over the land mass, the big landmass of the north east to china in siberia, you get snow showers start to fall and that's happening at the moment. but for the most part, it's quiet just getting coldest nice and sunny by day for the most part. beijing, for example. this persistent northeast means the already continuously in taiwan, the east coast at least the northeast coast. there fairly frequent showers at the moment of rain on the coast of honshu with snow on the mount, you'll see it, i think on with this cold breeze. you know, we pick up big showers again in the south china sea. this development here to watch . so that's significant rain from vietnam, particularly vietnam and cambodia during sunday. and the massive cloud here is edging eastwards through java taking big showers with it is the 2 areas to watch and to the west of java south sumatra, a potential development of a tropical sayto. watch that close to martin just develop into something. and you

might have caught the same sort of thing trying to develop in the south. the bay of bengal. well, we just had one go on land as you know, this one, i'm not sure if it will develop or where it is clearly drifting in that general direction. that's where the ranis, this time of the year for india, further north is caught, was low inequality. so me al-jazeera london pool cost center 2, special guests in conversation. when you say a lie a 1000000 times, that becomes the fact you then can create whatever narrative you want. unprompted uninterrupted, and i realized i was working for something that was evil, you know, being a part of our recreating our maria ressa. christopher wiley. the death of journalism is only the 1st signal for the death of democracy studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera.

and again, i missed all the attainder that's remind you about top stories here this hour. if europeans prime minister says the week's long military operation in the northern region is over, the army says it's taking control of the capital met killing. but the leader of the team, or a people's liberation front, has vowed to keep fighting government forces. there were violent scenes during protests in france against a security hole that makes it illegal to film and publish police officers faces anger against that law has been fueled by a video showing police beating and racially abusing the music that you see and iran is vowing retaliation for the killing of its top nuclear scientist tear on blames

israel for most in fact, result, his assassination. european union has described the killing as a criminal act, and the e.u. and un are both calling for restraint. well, corona virus infections in the u.s. have doubled in november compared to october. more than 205000. new infections were confirmed on friday, which consists of both thursday and friday reports. in some cases, battle takes the total to more than $13000000.00, the number of people hospitalized with kovan $1000.00 has also nearly doubled in the past month to past $90000.00. and experts fear that the record raised of admissions will say. after thanksgiving weekend, mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the pandemic is spread out pretty evenly throughout most of the united states, and certainly these figures are utterly horrific. in november alone, there were 4000000 new cases of corona virus reported. now that is double the number in october, which in itself was an all time record for the month in all on average,

some $170000.00 plus new cases are being reported every day. the 205000 cases reported on friday the slightly skewed because a number of states didn't report on thursday, which was thanksgiving day. so that was 2 days data. but this is offset by the fact that a number of testing centers have closed for the holiday period. so the amount of testing being done is down, so the figures may well be even higher than they appear at present. so of great concern to health workers and health officials and pointing to to the fact that the impact of the massive travel during this holiday week can only be properly gauged in a week to 10 days. and they are fearing that these horrendous statistics are likely to get even worse. there's been nothing from president trump directly seeing the situation for a period of time. now friday he spent playing golf and then went to the weekend

retreat at camp david for the holiday weekend. he has been tweeting in the course of the day, but this is, continue your baseless charges about election fraud. no mention whatsoever about the coronavirus epidemic. and i asked her to bring an advertising. she's a doctor and co-director of the texas children's hospital center of vaccine development. she says the pandemic is taking its toll on frontline whackers. where are definitely a little bit worried. the good news is that i think that we're starting to hear the possibility of having the state of texas of being one of the 1st locations of new vaccines that are being evaluated, including for example, the pfizer. and the more dare nestle will, will definitely hear about that pretty soon. but in the meantime, you know the hospitals, there are getting worried. our 1st responders are getting worried. and i think that we should all try to raise our awareness that we have to be

a little bit more conscious about how we can protect our community. i think that in the last, certainly now, 11 months or so, we have learned a lot more about how to clinically manage these. we know a lot more from what we knew at the beginning of the year. that is certainly not an excuse, right. but i think we, we have our primary care providers knowing you know, how to really manage it a little bit better and how we have been, of course, testing and trying hard to be prepared. but it is a, it is a peak burden. you know, you have to remember our health care providers are on liners, you know, are just exhausted. and i think that as of respect, i think we all have to put a little bit of our own individual contribution to protect not only ourselves our families, but also those who are really active, ending to those who really get sick like ukraine is seeking

a $100000000.00 learn from the wild bank to buy doses of a kind of at 19 vaccine, and also hopes to receive dices from kovacs. that's the global initiative to ensure that all countries have access to a safe and effective vaccine. professor lawrence gostin is a faculty director of the o'neill institute for national and global health. so at georgetown university, he says distributing a vaccine globally will be a huge challenge. first of all, we have to have enough doses. you know, we've got billions upon billions of people on the planet, and we don't have that many vaccines. and so there's going to be a shortage. but even when we ramp up our production, it's going to be a real challenge to get the vaccines to remote rural, poor communities. not just in latin america, but are many low income countries, even in high income countries to get it to rural and poor areas is going to be

really, really hard. getting the health workers that we need these syringes that we need all of the infrastructure. let me just put it this way. this is the greatest global health challenge of our lifetimes. and it's going to be extraordinarily difficult. normally, we tend to think that the 1st people who will get it will be health workers, and then other essential workers. and then the most vulnerable, the elderly people with preexisting conditions, nursing home residents, people like that. but how we get it to poor are disadvantaged communities who suffered really badly with covert in disproportionately. so it is going to be difficult on protesters have gathered interest them for the 23rd week out demanding prime minister netanyahu step down

there. and they either have handling of the pandemic and also if the corruption charges the faith of many of these protesters lost their jobs and then to lock downs and posed to prevent the spread of kind of in 1000. more than half of the theaters in the u.k. will close permanently as a result of this pandemic. and that's left up to $5000.00 staff out of work. but one project in the city of manchester is helping form a backstage workers to retrain and as join her reports that could create as many as 1000000 jobs and also help the u.k. cut carbon emissions when coded 19 brought the curtain down on live entertainment, thousands of stagehands technicians and set builders found themselves out of work. some made their way here because my partner was also made redundant and i had to bring in the money for the families so that we could be able to eat for all of us in the northwest of england, former theater workers are turning their hands to

a pilot program, but with government support could create energy efficient homes across britain and jobs to replace many of those lost our housing is not the worst performing in europe. if we're going to get $27000000.00 houses. so that to enough of a reduction energy demand for us to be able to fill the space of what we can count of the supply. usually we need an awful lot more than our current construction workforce. i estimate that if we're going to bring houses to this kind of standard nationally, we need about a 1000000 people working over the next 18 years to get us to 0. when charlie met, former theatre technician andrew glass would he knew where to start looking for that enormous new work force. i see people build sets every day of their lives when i was working, you know, building beautiful, magical things and stain. people also have to be structurally strong because you know you've got to do a tough number on it. it's got to lift people up into the sky. i just thought, well, i bet they could at least have a go at this. and to call a silver lining, maybe is a bit. mccarthy. what is the situation is i'm just seeing is how we can help people

right now are in a crisis. they've got skills, let's use them to fix this. i was alarmed for 16 years and i feel i feel as though i don't live in theatre if you like. it's alright. it's similar to what we used to do in building stuff. but what's different about what we used to do in a theatre instead of on a trailer with a piece of set that's only built when you're just putting stuff together with physically making things for a property which is night. it really is nice. no one could be quite sure when theaters and live entertainment venues will reopen and play to capacity, audiences, nor what levels of funding may exist to help save the arts after the pandemic. what seems clear is that not all those who worked in the sector before could afford to wait and find out some of put their skills to good use of the tip of a new green economy that they hope will help save the planet. instead, join

a whole al-jazeera manchester. well, india's government has now agreed to meet with leaders of farmers unions following days of demonstrations. thousands have been rallying in new delhi to protest against a bill. they say could devastate crop prices. and they also don't plan to leave until that no is scrapped. hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed to try to control those protesters. elizabeth purana was at the protest. we were at the single border crossing between the states of haiti and delhi, with thousands of farmers remain. camped out this busy national highway has become attractive 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 anywhere. they're 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 repeals these farm laws. here they are raising farm union flags. they are making speeches, criticizing the beach, if you government and its policies. the government, meanwhile, is appealing to them to stop the protest. they've invited them for talks on december, the 3rd, the pharma say 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 on protesters and poland have rallied in the capital against a little wrote a court ruling that could out almost all forms of abortion and already has some of the strictest, emotional is in europe. and last month the constitutional court will to ban abortions fetuses with defects. but the government has yet to implement that

because of the unrest. meanwhile though, in argentina's capitol, anti abortion protesters have rallied against a bill that would legalize abortion. the legislation will be debated next month. many in a catholic majority nation oppose abortion. the practice is currently only allowed in cases of rape, or if the mother's health has oppressed more than 100 cuban artists of how to protest outside the culture, ministry in havana against what they're saying is a state crackdown on dissent and comes after police broke up a hunger strike, calling for the release of a jailed rappa. her leg has 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. going to go without hearing 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. but 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, got into the ambulance and came here and into the houses doctors. they 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 won't 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 rallies like these will help

take their careers to a wider international audience. al-jazeera, now pope francis has elevated 13 new cardinals in a ceremony. at the vatican, including the fast from brunei and from rwanda. among them was also wilton gregory . he's the archbishop of washington d.c. and he becomes the 1st african-american to receive the highest rank in the catholic church. the ceremony is usually attended by thousands but was scaled back because of coronavirus missions there, and these are the headlines if europe is prime minister says the week's long military operation in the northern tier, a region is now over. the army says it's in full control of the capital nicolay, the leader of the tigre, a people's liberation front though, says the army used artillery and air strikes to capture the city, which the government denies after having prepared us to do and how to control

nicholas city without including political damage on the civilian population of niggly chicken control.