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leaving eco friendly solutions to come back threats to our planet. on al-jazeera., if europe is prime minister says the military has taken control of t., gray's regional capital, but forces they're vowing to keep fighting columns at home and watching i was there alive. my headquarters in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes. violence in paris is protests continue against a new security bill that seemed to restrict the right to report on police brutality . also anger in iran, over the assassination of a top nuclear scientist and
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a promise of revenge in due time. i'm just saying is how we can help people right now in a crisis. they've got skills was using to fix that. the show must go on how u.k. said to technicians last, jobless to take over 19, helping people transform their homes. what is their ethiopia's prime minister ahmed says the 3 week long military operation in the northern tier grey region is over this after the army announced that it's going to full control of the regional capital. but the leader of the great people's liberation front has vowed to keep fighting. government forces have a morgan reports now from the sudan, ethiopia border 2 days after the end of the deadline. if you piers government gave to do to group people's liberation front to surrender, the federal army launched what it called its final phase of the fighting. these
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videos were handed out by the ethiopian government on saturday afternoon. hours later it announce victory, and that its taken over the capital of the northern region, mecca our army after having prepared yesterday on how to control nicholas city without incurring collateral damage on the civilian population of niggly. have now fully taken control of mckayla city. as of this afternoon, our army is hunting them and going after and searching for the elements that are hiding in the holes. and that's the battle for michael. it comes after weeks of fighting integrate. it began in the 1st week of november following a government offensive against the 2 great people's liberation front. the offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base, which came after months of tension between the regional authorities and the federal government. a communications blackout was imposed and access to the region blocks since the start of the fighting. even prior to the attack on the to grand capital.
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fighting in other places in the region forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee. more than 43000, people cross the border into sudan seeking refuge is one of more than 15000 who fled to this camp in sudan's got out of state. obviously, they were looting our properties and wanted to kill us. so we all fled. we heard our people being shot, we saw dead bodies, so my family and i took what we could from our properties. we are farms we should be harvesting, but we left everything behind. some even left their family members. the united nations says it's expecting up 220-0000 refugees to arrive to sudan by april. should the conflict in the region continue? they head of the u.n. refugee agency told al-jazeera that support is needed to cope with the refugee crisis. they tell us, we want to wait and see how the situation develops in degree, in order to make a decision. concern is legitimate, so we continue to be with them. here,
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we're stepping up. the operation at the beginning emergencies are always a little bit slow, but i think it's stepping up quite quickly. and if we get the resources that i'm calling for a 150000000 dollars for the humanitarian community and the government for the next 6 months, we'll be able to have a well organized response here. but we do hope that the situation improves in their country, so they can go back, says it'll continue fighting against the federal government. it seems, even with the government forces appearing to take control of the region's capital. the conflict integrate may be far from over. here morgan al-jazeera state, aside from the global society for to great scholars and professionals, he says the situation in the region is fast becoming desperate, but the grains will continue resisting government forces. joe, that this is not settled and people are protesting until a legit government is restored in which the current government is there's going to
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be any peace integrate. these situations 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 to grab before november for to grow was one of the more bridges in the country. and there was a very successful election, there was already accessible government in the end, an elected government of the oppressed, where 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 up to grants are cut from their words. there is no interest. there is, is not the banks are closed every to grants. bank account has been closed for the past. one week is a public service. if a person gets sick, they can go ospital. so apparently it's very difficult and we can't hear anything about our family. so i have never heard of my family was for 23 days now. reports
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about her on fines, and nigeria have killed at least 43 farmers. now the attack took place in the northeastern city of my degree house work has tended to rise feels the 6 of us were in just the 90 plus still missing. last month, 22 farmers were killed there by violence in the region since 2009. he said $22000000.00 people into flames. demonstrations have been held across france to protest against a planned law that restricts filming, and publishing police officers faces anger against the proposed legislation has been sealed since a video emerged earlier in the month, showing police allegedly beating and racially abusing a black music producer 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 against part of a planned law that would crack down on people's freedom to film and publish images
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of police 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, you know, this or thora 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
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protesters that are angry about the, nor a number of m.p.'s and senators have also expressed concern and even the un seaman rights council has called on frowns to protect freedoms. all that is 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 close, they will continue to protest. the tasha butler al-jazeera paris, iran's supreme leader has vowed to retaliate for the assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist once and for karzai was killed on friday. that iran blames israel. prominent us politician, bernie sanders has condemned the killing, saying it was aimed at undermining diplomacy because mall from tehran.
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protesters outside parliament, demanding revenge. and for iran to stop nuclear inspections by the international atomic energy agency. and the anger follows the killing of top scientists to moss. in fact, it is gunned down by attackers in his car in, a suburb east into 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 path was very important for him and his blood was spilled for it. as i tell the world's arrogance, that if they were afraid of this martyr, 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 there. this path of progress will not be stopped. president hassan
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rouhani blamed israel for the assassination of iran's, most senior scientist been more am what i would 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, asking for the perpetrators to be firmly prosecuted for the work of his are they 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
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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 j.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 bake al-jazeera the front. the u.s. appeals court has thrown out dollar homes latest attempt to contest the presidential election results. judges unanimously dismissed the lawsuit that sought
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to challenge the state of pennsylvania's malin voting law. they also say trump's lawyers failed to prove a single mail in ballot was fortunately cast or counted. joe biden won the states by more than 80000 votes. quote, a virus infections in the u.s. have doubled in november compared to last month. more than 205000, new infections were confirmed on friday, which likely consists of both thursday and friday reports in some cases. now that pushes the total past 13000000, and there are concerns that infections could continue to rise following the thanksgiving holiday weekend. my camera 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,
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some 170000 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 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
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of the day, but this is, continue your baseless charges about election fraud. no mention whatsoever about the coronavirus. kovan son is a physician and professor of emergency medicine in new york. he says what his state experienced in march is now happening around the country. united states america is essentially operating like 50 different countries with their own plan and their own ways of handling code in 1000. so really depends. i mean, i think there overwhelms everywhere. and i think the idea that you have new, what new york city went through in march is now every cross, all 49 other states as are new york city, where i am now. i think we learned fast and we've been through things like 911, the world trade center bombings. we do recover quickly and we do learn from our mistakes and we do adapt. so i think right now we're managing it. it's not as bad as it was in march, when the bombs are much higher now we're pushing somewhat like a 2nd wave. i don't want to speak on behalf of the entire country,
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but i do know what they're wrestling with. outside of new york city is as if they were going through the 1st time. so patients who come in too late with a little examining in their own fluids, in their own long as they're coming in, maybe in cardiac arrest or with the stroke or things where they feel ok. but the aco sent in by their doctors because their oxygen saturation below 92 percent. and those are the people who have silent hypoxia, coping 1000 creates this phenomenon where you look great one minute and then you drop dead because you've been under 90 percent oxygen saturation. the last one week without knowing but new york city, when what i'm saying is that it's a higher health literacy. we've been through so much in march and april that people coming in a lot earlier than anticipated are just testing and testing. they know how to sell well, still ahead hill on al-jazeera concerns that remote communities and lots in america could face major challenges accessing coronavirus not seen and why bangladesh workers hit hard by the pandemic arriving home from abroad without wages, physically tortured or worse in coffins.
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the seasons obviously change no significant rain will come through every few days and in the next day or so, it's going to be the western side of iran. it's already rained heavily here, it will be snow otitis trees up towards azerbaijan. and if you follow this tehran through saturday, it's generally been light. rain occasionally gets on his toes. it doesn't look too active at the moment. then there's a big gap at the moment, it's fine and sunny right back to northern egypt in the event. but there are more showers, gathering in the eastern med and they're shown cells as thunderstorms. again in cypress, at the same time as that snow dies and the sun's back out in iran, but wondering, cloud and showers are still there in central saudi. maybe bahrain, maybe as far south as qatar, but i think not south of all this,
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we come down to the proper seasonal, right. and has been fairly wet recently in tanzania in the still hint that it might be. but generally speaking, it's a bit further west. back into angola, however, determine or indeed in dar es salaam, but the significant rain stuff we probably won't see is further south of the uk of on the delta. in fact, that massive cloud is pretty widespread in the east and south south africa, southern side of mozambique look, particularly wet the end, the weekend, remaining ancient forests, some of europe's most pristine. they are crucial for our society and crucial for our battle against the climate crisis. but illegal logging by a ruthless timber mafia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives. logging in romania is our drug gangs violence, killing whistleblowers,
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amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals. people in power investigate rumania, wake of the far east on al-jazeera, the war oh my own book about your challenges or with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories, ethiopia's prime minister says the week's long military operation in northern t. grey region is now over the army says it's taking control of the capital in the college, but the leader of the 2, great people's liberation front turns down to keep fighting government forces. there are reports of boko haram fighters in nigeria have killed at least $43.00 farmers. the attack took place in the northeastern city of major gury hours workers
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tended to rice fields violence in the region since 2009 has led to at least 2000000 people being displaced and their violent scenes during protests in france against a planned law that makes it illegal to film and publish police officers faces anger against the proposed law has been fueled by a video showing police beating and racially abusing a black music producer or shops in france. have reopened some of the country's lockdown restrictions eased. customers that want storm act with the people as they entered, but there are still limits on the number of people allowed inside. france is partially easing measures after a month long nationwide lock down the 2nd one this year. it's been a complicated year. we're going to lose a little over 1000000000 euros in turnover for this store. so it's very difficult.
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we'll do the sums at the end of december. we want to make up for the loss, but we hope we'll have a good month. and we also hope that clients are satisfied with having a more normal life. and germany's far right f.t. has held its party conference, bringing together more than 600 delegates. despite surging covert 19 infections. those attending were required to wear masks after a top court dismissed a complaint by the f.t. against the regulation. most political parties in the country have moved their conferences online or delayed gatherings in an effort to curb infections. in london, more than $150.00, people have been arrested in anti vaccine and anti lockdown protests. hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the capital, demanding coronavirus restrictions on mass regulations be lifted. england's current lockdown is set to end on wednesday. one industry that's been hit hard by the pandemic. has been live theater. more than half of the theaters in the united kingdom will close permanently as a result,
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leaving thousands of people out of work. but one project in the city of manchester is helping former backstage workers to retrain. and as jonah hill reports, it could also help the u.k. cut its carbon emissions. when code 19 brought the curtain down on live entertainment, thousands of stagehands technicians and said 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 it or it's 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 to the, to enough of a reduction energy demand for us to be able to fill the space of what we can count
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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 and drew glass for it, he knew where to start looking for that enormous new workforce. i see people build sets every day of our lives when i was working, you know, building, beautiful, magical things that entertain people also have to be structurally strong because you know you've got to do a tough number on it and it's got a lift people. but this guy, i just thought, well, i bet they could at least have a go at this and call a silver lining maybe is a bit. mccarthy. situation is i'm just seeing as how we can help people right now or 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 theater if you know it's all right. it's similar to what we used to do billing stuff. but what's different about what we used to do
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in theater, instead of on the trailer, with a piece of set that so many 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 the new green economy that they hope will help save the planet. instead. joe, how al-jazeera manchester experts are warning there could be challenges getting a future coronavirus vaccine to remote areas in latin america. the remote communities in the amazon jungle, in the andes, mountains of been hard hit by the pandemic. many people are impatient for life and businesses to return to normal as daniel the reports now from the argentine capital
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before covered 19. many indigenous communities in the colombian, amazon have developed eco friendly tourism to supplement their traditional hunting and fishing. when the pandemic hit business died, the tourist came mostly from europe. europeans came in, a visited a jungle and came to our community. and when the pandemic of right everything collapsed, they struggled on and now with a vaccine on the horizon, they're planning for a new start. a bet, it's a morrow. but we are preparing for the future. organizing as a community, as is our tradition, to welcome our visitors. but for us, this pandemic has been a pose for us to reflect. but it has also been very important because it helps us to protect everything that we have been working on in terms of tourism. however, health experts have warned it would be difficult to get the vaccines to some of latin, america's more remote corners,
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where conditions might not exist to store them. that's not what these potato farmers working high in the peruvian andes. want to hear in a bet on a thing. personally, i have some savings from the potatoes i've sold. so with that, i'm maintaining myself, if my savings dry up and how will i sustain myself, as i hope that the pandemic goes away. the coronavirus is hit remote peasant and indigenous communities, particularly hard with economy struggling. they see the price of their produce tombaugh. studies show that 90 percent of those living in remote rural areas are eating less in the main impact is pizza cured. and if there is that at unemployment and the poverty levels will increase, peter curity will be complicated for pre and the rest of latin america. latin america has recorded nearly 30000000 cases of covered 19. we more government measures to contain the virus are coming under increasing pressure. a future beyond
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the pandemic is in sight, but it's strewn with hope and obstacles. when osiris rights groups say thousands of migrant domestic workers in the middle east are at risk of bad working conditions and physical and sexual assault. within the past 3 years, at least, 473 dead bodies of female workers arrived back in bangladesh from the goals, according to the human rights agency, b, r. e. c. tom virchow reports from dhaka the cries of relatives. as another coffin arrives from the middle east at the international airport terminal in september 2019, mongo comes. why for him? a cartoon was found dead hanging from a selling fan at the home where she worked as a domestic helper in saudi arabia. her body has still not been returned home alive . we were discipline of this house. the employers paid for her 1st 8 months of work,
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but since then she worked without any salary. she even complained to the saudi police about not getting paid and being abused, but they took her back to the same employer. in september 29th, i was informed of her death in november last year, dozens of bangladeshi female workers sent a video message from saudi arabia, pleading for help to be rescued. lord john used to work as a domestic helper in saudi arabia, unable to cope with debuts last year. she managed to escape back to bangladesh. a model does a little work over there. they would frequently abused me, never gave me enough to eat. i suffered a lot, i worked in that house for 10 months. whenever i demanded my salary, they used to beat me up. once they had me by a ceiling fan with a rope. i almost died, but got saved by they sure, and many woman are also victim to human trafficking, gangs,
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and unscrupulous recruiting agents. a recent study has shown more than 50 percent of female workers paid money to go abroad with jobs. that this by the woman not being required to pay for government sponsored jobs overseas. and most poor woman from rural areas take along with a high interest rate to pay for the cost. social advocacy groups are trying to help improve the situation for the workers. because the rewards of years in the domestic like domestic work must be working nies as a legitimate form of employment. workers' rights must be respected. many women are dying. committing suicide are being abused. there should be 0. tolerance for this. at the beginning of november, bangladeshi woman's body was found in a garbage dump in amman. she worked as a domestic helper for saudi embassy staff in jordan. jasmine fell victim to south asian sex trafficking gang in the middle east. she returned home 7
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months pregnant. what color the big and returned home with a head injury now she suffers from post-traumatic disorders like jasmine and khaled, the bigger many others who manage to survive through these ordeals also face social stigma. and in some cases their families do not want to accept them. while others face long term mental health issues, trying to charge 3 money gone bangladesh. india's government has agreed to meet with leaders of farmers unions following days of demonstrations. thousands have been rallying near the capital new delhi to protest against a bill. they say would devastate crop prices. some have been blocking roads and highways. pharmacist say they don't plan to leave until the law is scrapped. hundreds of police and paramilitary personality deployed to control the protesters . well, evacuations are underway in southern indonesia. after a volcano erupted for the 2nd time in several days. from the eruption on her island,
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rose 4 kilometers into the sky. always use of sort of a safety zone, a warning people to stay away. spanish police have released footage of a 5 hour speedboat chase, in which a gang of drug traffickers was arrested on the way from morocco. the police helicopter filmed them dumping their stash into the mediterranean and even waving at their cameras. $66.00 packages containing 2 tons of marijuana were recovered. as a rule of the cell runner, rewind of our top stories. if you abuse prime minister says the week long military operation in northern t. gray's region is now over. the army says it's taking control of the capital mccallum. but the leader of the to great people's liberation front has vowed to keep fighting government forces.
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