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most dramatic demonstrated in the struggle for a better speech. last passed on to grand leaders vow to fight on after the government announced it had taken control of the regional capital. hello there, i'm more a car owner says al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. dozens of farm workers killed in northeastern nigeria in the worst attack in months. blamed on baccarat. volatile in paris is protesters oppose a new security bill to restrict reporting on police brutality and
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a group of cuban artists say the government's agreed to discuss greater tolerance for independent expression. after days of unusual protests, prime minister ahmed says the 3 week military operation in the northern region is over. ethiopian army says it has gained full control of the regional capital macallan, despite as a grenade has vowed to fight. meanwhile, the u.s. state department says 6 explosions. have been heard in the eritrean capital last, mara late on saturday. there's been no claim of responsibility, but to grand leaders have accused eritrea of providing military support to the ethiopian government. about morgan reports from the streets on the 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,
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the federal army launched what it called its final phase of the fighting. these 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 not fully taken control of nicholas city as of this afternoon, our army is hunting 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
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since the start of the fighting. even prior to the attack on the to grand capital. 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? the head of the un 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
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a decision. concern is legitimate, so we continue to be with them. here, we're stepping up the operation. 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 450000000 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 will continue fighting against the federal government. it seems even with the government forces appearing to take control of the region's capital. the conflict in may be far from over and professionals. he says continue joe, that it's not settled. people as to this being until a legit government is restored and said right, which the current government is. there's going to be any peace integrate. these,
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the 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 before november for to grow was one of the most riches in the country. and there was a very successful election, there was already accessible government in the end, an elected government of the 1st word is trying to destabilize the federal system and a single political narrative. so that the problem so differently the people up to great will continue to resist. millions of to grants are cut from their words. there is no interest is not the banks are closed every to grants. bank account has been closed for about one week in a public service. if a person gets sick, they can go ospital. so apparently it's very difficult and we can hear anything
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about our family. so i have never heard of my family for 23 days now. dozens of farmers have been killed whilst working and rice failed. nigeria's northeast local officials say boko haram fighters killed at least 43 people tying some of them up before slaughtering them. at least 6, others were injured and 8 people are still missing off the attack them. i don't very nearly 2 and a half 1000000. people have been displaced by more than a decade of violence in the region. when interest joins us live from the capital. so i can tell us what happened to wife alma as well being talkative well, a lot of these groups are farmers like migrant families who are contracted to walk on farms in butner states. remember, areas that are in my degrees, a lot of money, for example, where the bodies were taken is a very far from the capital. cocoa bushay is where the incident happened. they were contracted to go and harvest rice from the fields and then book or i'm surrounded.
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rounded them up, tied them up, and then see if this throat this is a typical book or a metallic weight when it's close to a like city or a military base, which is in that over the years in the northeast of nigeria. and it's still happening, using guns or heavy weapons will attract a military attention. so that's, that's the situation. what, what we hear now is that at least 8 others have been missing, 6 have been seriously injured. and we expect the death toll to rise because of this a very of some of the injuries that the victims got at the, at the scene of the incident. actually one report just suggesting that these families or other these controversial because were in fact people who traveled some hundreds of kilometers from so-called estate to come and work on these farms in borno state. so how is saying the government and security forces responding to this
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attack? the statement we heard we, we had from the president was that he condemns the attack. the military is not responding to our inquiries about what's the situation and what measures they are taking. but we understand that in most cases, when these attacks happen, and this is your forces suddenly to arrive on the scene, they launch a manhunt, which may or may not end up getting book or arm. and one surprising thing is that for a very long time, these attacks have not happened close to a degree as it is. this is one of the most devastating attacks this year. in fact, conducted by book kwara. and people believe that these are members of the book quite himself hibernating at that, within my degree or around the city. so there's a good forces are still strategizing on how to deal with the situation. and we've
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seen these attacks not only in a degree, but in faraway places in bugout, we've seen in the last one or 2 months when more than 20, where more than 20 people were killed by book or on. but those cases were actually an attack or a raid bible quote. i'm not the way we see or we saw it yesterday in borno state people having a strong throat slit bible koran and the numbers are, it's just devastating ora. that's a great sum situation after the interests. thank you for joining us there from a u.s. appeals court in pennsylvania has thrown out donald trump's latest attempts to contest the presidential election results. judges unanimously dismissed the lawsuit that sought to challenge the state's role in voting. no, it was as a child, as well as failed to prove a single role in ballots, was fortunately cost or counted by who won the state by more than 80000 face. a time campaign has now lost all withdrawn dozens of similar cases. corona virus
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infections in the u.s. have doubled in november compared to last month. more than 205000. new cases were confirmed on friday. there are concerns that those numbers will rise significantly in the next 10 days following the thanksgiving holiday weekend. more than a 1000000 people transited through u.s. airports on friday and most in a single day since the start of the pandemic. as a hope grows on the prospects of a coded 900 vaccines. so to do the warnings of accessibility and availability in latin america, remote communities in the amazon jungle and andes. mountains have been hit hard by the pandemic, and experts are now facing further challenges in getting the future vaccine to those who need it most. and reports from the 4 covered 19. many indigenous communities in the colombian, amazon have developed eco friendly tourism to supplement their traditional hunting
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and fishing. when the pandemic hit, business died my way or the tourist europe. europeans came away with it. he did jungle and came to our community. and when the pandemic are right, everything collapsed. they struggled on and now with a vaccine on the horizon, they're planning for a new start, a better tomorrow. one of the, some of it, 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 pause for us to reflect. but it's also been very important because it helps us to project everything that we have been working on in terms of tours of. however, health experts have warned it will be difficult to get the vaccines to some of latin, america's more remote corners, where conditions might not exist to store them. that's not what these potato farmers working high in the peruvian andes. want to hear the best thing?
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personally, i have some savings from the potatoes i've sold. so with that, i'm maintaining myself. if my savings dry up, how will i sustain myself as i hope that the pandemic goes away? the coronavirus of hit remote peasant and indigenous communities, particularly hard with economy struggling. they see the price of their produce tumble. studies show that 90 percent of those living in remote rural areas are eating less well off 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. capri and the rest of latin america, latin america has recorded nearly 30000000 cases of coverage 19. the more government measures to contain the virus are coming under increasing pressure. a future beyond the pandemic is in sight, but it's strewn with hope and obstacles. when osiris
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still ahead, hang on al-jazeera. my bangladeshi work has hit hard by the pandemic arriving back home without wages, physically tortured, or in coffins. i'm just saying is how we can help people right now in a crisis. they've got skills, let's use it to fix that and laid off bush's stance or workers take their skills to a new stage and find it could help the climate is distinctly gloomy field or whether the good part of eastern europe has been cold . been persistent fog for a while and over the top of that this cloud. yes, admittedly says some of the fog will lift, but it's still cold in the snow fall and the lights are from probably austria
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eastwards for the next day or so that's going to be the story. if you're in western germany or beyond that is still cold and frosty in the morning briefly before the sun comes out afterwards. can these unsettled weather in the central med that's going towards greece? but vienna represents majority, i think, with temperatures dropping in the wind, picking up as a cult southeast would be wind chill to add to those snow showers for the sun will be a rarity. i think the snow proper will go down to his ball guerrier and rumania, maybe significant snow. i think during monday was rain, then coming to replace it was a slight rise in temperature for the british isles and the low countries, spain in portugal. fairly nice looking. same is true of spain. if you're in greece and turkey, think it shows think of thunderstorms to clean cyprus, so or 3rd day or 2, then you've got the unfolding low to the west of portugal, which means rain down the coast of morocco and even into western sahara. and all this time, argyria, tunisia, and libya. look,
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cheri frank assessment. you've got colleagues on the ground at the canaries. what is the situation there? some of the one doctor and one nurse or $1.00 to $200.00 people informed opinion. how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of, i mean, he comes into office for the huge amount of foreign policy experience. in-depth analysis of the day, global headlines. how will a place like good little get the back seat when there's no money at all? the rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story on al-jazeera.
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and then again, what uganda is there as a reminder of our top stories this hour, a leader a region has vowed to fight on despite the prime minister declaring an end to the 3 week military operation. if the military says it has gained full control of the 2 grand caps, dozens of farmers have been killed whilst working in rice fields in. nigeria's north, east. local officials say baka around fighters killed at least 43 people tying some of them up before slaughtering them. and the u.s. appeals court in pennsylvania has thrown out donald trump's latest attempt to contest the presidential election results. judges unanimously dismissed the lawsuit that sought to challenge the state's malin voting law. protesters end guatemala. have battled with police as anger grows over the proposed budget. the government has begun, crisis talks to revise the budget. critics say it favors businesses over
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impoverished people. protest as are demanding a new budget which addresses the country's rampant poverty health and education problems. artists and activists in cuba say they've reached what they're calling a historic agreement with the government over freedom of expression. the 2 sides held talks following a rights protest outside her violence, ministry of culture. the artists involved in the talks say they've won an unusual government fowle, of greater tolerance for independent art. we will bring the 2 agendas together to see if we can reach a consensus between the world of independent art and the world of government institutions in cuba. we along with people who have much more experience debating the government, think that in spite of everything, even though we didn't agree on 8 points, what has happened today is historic in this country a referendum is being held in switzerland on whether businesses should be held accountable for rights violations
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committed abroad, voters will decide if should be liable not only for their own actions, but those of their foreign subsidiaries and partners. supporters say switzerland's, many large corporations should be held accountable to account for environmental and human rights violations. the government argues it would create legal uncertainties and put jobs at risk. balkan neighbors montenegro have expelled each other's ambassadors in a tit for tat rao montenegro made the 1st move saying the serbian ambassador had continuous the meddled in the country's internal affairs. in retaliation, serbia gave his counterpart 72 hours to leave once negra is currently governed by a pro european party. next week approaches serb coalition will take office. india's government says it will meet farmers union leaders next week following days of demonstrations. thousands have been
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staging a sit in the capital new delhi to protest against a bill they say could devastate prop prices. farmers haven't agreed to the talks and said they don't plan to leave, scrapped the one year. there has been no payment yet for the to work in crop. there is no decision on the pricing yet against the 3 new laws that reduced recently, the price of power has gone up. the government is planning to privatized greens. it has made false promises, farmers in the trouble and hassle more than 100000 people joined demonstrations across france on saturday, protesting a controversial new security law. legislation aims to limit people's right to take video recordings of police officers. the protests come after 2 high profile incidents of police brutality and reports from paris. despite some clashes between demonstrators and police, this protest in paris was largely peaceful. thousands of people gathered in the
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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 of police on duty. the french government says it would protect the identity of police officers. those here say it's an abrasion of rights. it's important not to let this law passed 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. and then 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 off to the broadcast of this shocking video. a black music, brutally beaten by police. and earlier in the week, an inquiry was opened after some officers were filmed, beating migrants, and journalists, as police cleared a migrant camp. without such videos,
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people here say some police officers could act with impunity. it's not only these protesters that are angry about the law or a number of m.p.'s and senators have also expressed concern. and even the un's human rights council has called on grounds 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 clause, they will continue to protest. the tasha butler al-jazeera paris shops in france reopened some of the country's lockdown. restrictions are eased customers at one store and that with applause as they entered. there are so limits
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on the number of people allowed inside france's partially measures after its 2nd nationwide lockdown. more than 600 delegates have attended germany's far right party conference despite surging covert $1000.00 infections. those attending were required to wear masks after a top court dismissed a complaint against the regulation. most political parties in the country have moved their conferences online or delayed gatherings in an effort to curb infections or $150.00 people have been arrested at anti vaccine anti lock down protests in london, demonstrators gathered in the capital, demanding coronavirus instructions and mask 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 affairs in the u.k. will close permanently as a result, leaving thousands out of work. but a project in the city of manchester is helping former backstage workers to retrain
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and as general reports, it could also help u.k. cut carbon emissions when coded 19 brought the curtain down on live entertainment, thousands of stagehands technicians and said builders found themselves out of work some have made their way here because my partner was also made redundant and i had to bring in the money for the families that would 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 that 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 houses to enough of a reduction and a 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
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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, what 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. it's got to 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 mcharg. 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 like. 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 in theater, instead of on the trailer with a piece of set that's when you built and you're just putting stuff together with
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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. joho al-jazeera manchester. north korea is tough, toughening its border measures at sea in an effort to fight off, coronavirus is working out new rules for venturing into open waters to prevent what it calls unhygienic materials being brought back to shore. experts have questioned north korea's claim that not a single virus case has been found on its territory. earlier this week, south korea says the north and banned sea fishing in its attempt to control 19.
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although it is in indonesia have set up a 2 kilometers safety zone. following the eruption of volcano taller, it's in limbo. east nusa terra tenggara is in southern most province. the ash column has surpassed 4000 meters above the peak. ily were told last erupted in 2012. the u.k. and france have signed a new deal aimed at limiting the number of migrants crossing the english channel. human rights groups of criticized the deal that increases surveillance, calling it profoundly disappointing this year. hundreds of people have been caught trying to cross the channel in small boats. this new package today that i have just signed with my french counterpart. the french interior minister effectively doubles the number of police on the french beaches. it invests in more technology, so more surveillance mall radar technology that supports the law enforcement. and
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on top of us, we are now sharing in terms of toughening our border security. so on the french side, in particular, they are now focused on strengthen the border security because we are seeing fewer migrants now in small boats, but we're seeing displacement into other areas such as lorries, rights groups say thousands of migrant domestic workers in the middle east are at risk of physical and sexual assault and poor working conditions, the human rights agency brac says a number of bodies of female workers have been sent back to bangladesh from the gulf in the past 3 years. turnberry chowdhry reports from bangladesh. the cries of relatives as another call from arabs from the middle east at the international airport terminal in september 2019. manuel can sway free markets and was found hanging from a selling friend at the home where she worked as a domestic helper in saudi arabia. her body has still not been returned home and i
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will be more disciplined. this is the employers paid for her 1st 8 months of work, 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. nor john used to work as a domestic helper in saudi arabia, unable to cope with their buz. last year she managed to escape back to bangladesh. a model doesn't go to work. i was little 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 hanged me by a ceiling fan with
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a rope. i almost died, but got saved by the children. many women are also victim to human trafficking, gangs, 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 you not to receive like domestic work must be recognized as a legitimate form of employment. workers' rights must be respected. many women are dying, committing suicide or 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 sold
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victim to south asian sex trafficking gang in the middle east. she returned home 7 months pregnant while color the big and returned home with a head injury. now she suffers from post-traumatic disorders, like just being in college, the big a many others who manage to survive through these odell's 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 be childfree, i'll just money gone bangladesh. the house there are these top stories.

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