the difference is this is. so much of what we use in college that matter to you. the u.n. says food is running out for tens of thousands of eritrean refugees inside ethiopia's tikrit region. and again i'm just as you take this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a blockade breakthrough on the horizon foreign ministers of council and kuwait and saudi arabia say progress has been made in resolving the gulf crisis. the coronavirus pandemic continues to bring bad news to the u.s. economy which remains the wilds of western fictive country. in bangladesh transfers

hundreds of or hindu refugees 20 isolated island despite concerns from the un and rights groups. now the united nations says it's concerned about the situation facing refugees inside ethiopia is tikrit region about 100000 refugees from neighboring eritrea house there but they have reportedly been fleeing in search of safety ethiopia's army has been fighting regional forces there for about a month. ethiopia has hosted eritrean refugees now for almost 2 decades most of them are in the team grey region which borders eritrea many of them fled political persecution and mandatory military service the un's access to routes needed to for refugee camps housing refugees in tigray have all been blocked since the recent fighting began it's been calling on the federal government to open up access and on tuesday the un said food has run out for nearly

a 100000 refugees who were sheltered in tikrit. while malcolm where this following this for us from neighboring kenya. you and bill frist for the coordinates a coordination of humanitarian affairs said as reports of continuing fighting in many parts of the c. gray region last week prime minister ahmed said that the government forces were in control of the region the government military operation was over that followed government taking control of the regional capital of micheli but their enemy that c.p.r. left said that it wasn't over they filed to continue fighting on the c.p.l. as reported still control thousands of fighters in substantial stocks of military hardware researches say that thousands of civilians being killed in the fighting there will have been reports of massacres of civilians by militia aligned to both sides the leaders of both sides deny it but it's very difficult for anyone to verify any of these claims because there's almost no access to humanitarian workers

human rights workers and journalists well earlier i spoke to an exile and he's the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council and he says access to the g. grave region has long had you. and we're very worried we had 100. 90 on the ground but many of them had to flee that suburbs this is been was known for some time now 96000 eritrean refugees came to t. great because they felt it was safe that they say they've fled from persecution in every trachea not we don't know at all and hopefully convoys will reach there is parts of the great now monday just over the weekend we will have access now next week for the 1st time in more than a month if we did this tribute in october. but since then we

couldn't do distributions we couldn't be with the refugees and nor the other people . we know are. in there i'm now in. i was in the refugee camp just came back from the et that people who flee from the great tell about violence they tell about widespread insecurity of course there are many more internally displaced inside the great then there are the 50000 refugees who have come here we need access wetland it seems to happen next week the prime minister has been able to come under regional conflicts mediated peace between at the opiah and eritrea hopefully that will now also be talks really conciliation. and in t. great we do not need another conflict and not not the refugee on the horn of africa there are up too many people suffering there from the poor. now saudi arabia's

foreign minister says all the nations involved in the gulf are close to finalizing an agreement after significant progress was made over the past few days castle has now been under an illegal land sea and by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt since june 2017 president time senior adviser jared kushner recently visited both riyadh and on the foreign ministers of cas and kuwait also says that there had been some progress. if i thought mali as a constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the interest of the peoples within this context we express our appreciation for the latest if its budget cushion or the us president's advice about it we have achieved set in far better set septum point of time more than a year ago and then things has slowed down and right now there are some movements

that we hope that this will put and for this crisis because we see and we believe actually that got a few and it is very important for the security of the region for the stability of that region and for for the sake of our people this need this crisis needs to end my one bashar out of there is senior political analyst has more on this. i think we are. heading towards the last phase if you where before. clearer more comprehensive statement is made about the resolution of the gulf crisis my sense is that perhaps there are one or 2 issues still lashed to be ironed out and and there's guns that has to be some sort of an ok engine for them to actually sign on whatever the deal is now we all know that there is a gulf a gulf summit happening. maybe next week or so right usually it is in the middle

of the in the beginning a middle of december and i think probably the going to be a good occasion for the kuwaitis to introduce the new agreement between qatar and the other gulf countries so all in all i'm probably heading towards that and 2nd the all the signs are positive i think it's just worth mentioning just for our own sanity that push not played an important role in the crisis itself 3 years ago when apparently according to former secretary of state rex tillerson. question our meal when he was in saudi arabia doing that meeting between president trump and god and his gulf allies that there was something cooking against caught up and he remained silent he didn't even tell his own secretary of state so really when it comes to question i mean it's nice that everyone you know is being thankful and appreciative and all but i think when it comes to solving this crisis this has

been a goal solution to go from. well turning to the corona virus pandemic now and more than one and a half 1000000 people have died from the 19 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths happened just in the last 2 months with several countries reporting record numbers of deaths and cases the resurgence of the virus is stalling the u.s. economy's recovery new numbers show it added 245000 jobs back in november that's the slowest month of growth since the recovery began back in may the u.s. also remains the world's worst affected country it's currently reviewing the fire as a vaccine for approval and hopes to release a decision this month the u.k. which was the 1st western country to approve that vaccine has come under fire from regulators they've suggested their approach may have been too hasty well let's speak to alan fischer who is at the white house for us alan pressure is clearly on the u.s. to get their own vaccine rollout started. well certainly the f.d.a. the food and drug administration they came under pressure from the trumpet

ministration to push forward with the vaccine approval they wanted to know why the u.k. was in a position to approve it sooner than the united states there's a meeting eliot this week between the head of the f.d.a. and mark meadows who's donald trump's chief of staff quoting to stephen hahn that meeting was robust which tends to mean. the diplomatic language for people shouting at one another and certainly the said that they will go through the process as quickly as they can then the f.d.a. here in the united states intends to hold public meetings on the 10th of december into the vaccines there the evidence from the drug companies will be presented people will be able to ask questions but it's expected that these vaccines will get imagine say youths authorization pretty quickly after that the trumpet ministration then hopes to have $20000000.00 vaccines heading out across the country very soon after that in the days immediately after approval they will go into front line

workers in the 1st instance and they're talking about somewhere in the region of 50000000 vaccines being available by fairly early next year but certainly the f.d.a. under pressure to produce results quickly given that the u.k. is no moving forward with his vaccine program and all this as well saying these latest u.s. job numbers not very good news talk us through this. no great toll 245000 jobs added in the last month that's the lowest number since april if you just compare it to last month 610000 jobs added so you can see that the concerns about the coronavirus certainly causing some problems industries that have been affected hospitality entertainment transport all done in leisure industry down as well those providing transportation for companies like amazon it's gone up as have jobs in we are hosting again related to the retail sector but online retail those who

would go into a store know one of the many many jobs there they're simply not in the position to do that with many people keeping a hold of their money ahead of christmas wondering what's going to come they going down deeper into the figures it looks as though those who've been doing reasonably well throw the pandemic they're still doing ok but those who've been struggling particularly those ending less than $60000.00 a year they're still facing real problems what that's going to do is put more pressure on republicans and democrats on capitol hill you know they've been talking about a covert relief bill for a number of weeks some would even suggest it's been in the what for months they haven't got close to a deal yet given these new figures there's going to be a lot more pressure on them to do something particularly because the relief measures that were in the previous covered bill begin to run out at the end of december so a lot of families facing a very uncertain end of the year and the job figures suggest that things are improving much either and don't seem to be improving because that is the can sound

the thanksgiving vacation and also the upcoming christmas vacation could see a bigger bigger numbers of the covert virus biting into not just the number of people affected but also into the u.s. economy. all the latest for us from washington thanks so much tom. well british prime minister boris johnson says bret's that talks with the european union have reached what he describes as a difficult point the e.u. says a postbox a trade deal depends on the u.k. committing to a level playing field for competition rules and standards germany says it wants an agreement but not at any price while france has threatened to veto a bad deal negotiators are hoping to settle on a plan by early next week. well still ahead here on al-jazeera egypt's human rights record in the spotlight as international pressure forces it to release 3 rights group employees. and promise continues to block major routes into the indian capital as

a standoff with the government continues. hello it's looking nice and quiet across the good parts of china over the next few days off pressure in charge so it's settled and lousy dry some sunshine to try to into the korean peninsula for the time being and it will become increasingly drawn into japan we have got showers straddling honshu want to shop showers pushing into that western side of honshu maybe some wintry flurries into the north of hoshi for a time over the high of ground and wanted to shower still in place of its woodstock years ago on through saturday but sunday was fine and dry temperatures picking up to around 15 celsius so we go with that clear skies across the south korea spotting sunshine coming through here want to wintry flurries into north korea into the

northeast of china but for much of china it is settled and sunny although because see some showers there into will hound showers longer spells of rank continuing across southern parts of india coastal a few showers the northern areas off franka cycler brevik continues to move across the south 65 kilometers per hour so it's weakening in terms of those waves still plenty of rain around is staggering along at just 4 kilometers perasso where we are seeing the right it's got to linger for a little while yet was seen about 100 millimeters of rain into that eastern side of the recently well right to come. captaining a leading youth team at 16 years old. takes determination. to that staying on top of your game at school. the whole family is together and shares a sacrifice is necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming

a professional footballer. by today's your home on a jersey you know. they're watching al-jazeera let's remind you of our top stories here this hour the un's refugee agency says eritrean refugees in northern ethiopia have fled their camps because of the conflict and there are more than 100000 refugees in the region and there are fears they have limited access to food. the foreign ministers of saudi arabia cattle and mediator kuwait of all signaled progress is being made on resolving the gulf dispute saudi arabia's foreign minister says

a final agreement is within reach. and the current virus pandemic is continuing to stall the u.s. economy as recovery has added $245000.00 jobs in november that's the slowest month of growth since may. now the international watchdog says iran is installing new more advanced equipment to enrich uranium the i.a.e.a. says centrifuges are being added to the underground plant in the tunnels under the nuclear deal only less efficient machines can be used iran's leaders recently passed a law allowing for more enrichment and limiting watchdog inspections well let's speak to our correspondent he joins us now from tehran also just what do we know about what's going on in the towns. well our information is coming from the international atomic energy organization agency not from iranian officials they have yet to comment on this but what we understand is that iran has . is going to install 3 cascades of r

r 2 centrifuges each cascade is about $174.00. centrifuges that will go into now towns that means that the number of centrifuges operating out of that facility will reach about 5500 now under the nuclear deal iran is not allowed to increase the number of enrichment facilities within these nuclear sites but clearly iran has decided the time has come yet again for them to break away from their commitments all this comes as the parliament has passed a very urgent law limiting iran's. activities with the atomic energy agency in their cooperation in light of the assassination of the high ranking nuclear scientist last friday the president hassan rouhani has said that the government has now 2 months before they have to implement this new law and this all means that the incoming u.s.

administration of president like joe biden will have a small window of opportunity to try and see what they can do if there is any appetite on their end to return to the nuclear agreement the plan is for iran to try and lift some of the sanctions the u.s. has imposed since they withdrew from the deal the nuclear deal in 2000 and. 2 also in the iranian capital tehran for us thanks so much to also. the un's refugee agency says bangladesh must not force or hinge refugees to move to an island off the coast which is prone to storms and flooding aid groups have expressed concern that people are being coerced into going there navy officials say more than 1600 for him to refugees are heading to the island of shah from. the u.n. says it's ready to evaluate conditions in the new location if the government will let them. know that they're forcing my son and his family to go he didn't want to go but he forced him i came to see him probably for the last time. really only

ringback my family didn't want to go there taking them by force even if my family goes to the island because the floods. sleep eat my brother and 3 teeth when they brought him here my brother didn't want to go to the other they beat my brother they brought my nieces and sister in law here last night . he has more for us from cox's bazaar. finally the controversial relocation of rowing a reference to remote coastal island a boston charter has started out of $2500.00 listed running as that is $1642.00 knowing the refugees are on their way to this remote island by nebel vessel now the government has come under severe criticism from local and international human rights bodies as well as you and despite all those the government is determined to go ahead and relocate at least a 100000 growing refuges there in phases now we know talking from the refugee

camp as well as. 300 plus were rescued from the boats who are living in that island most of them are not happy with the situation the prefer to stay in the bordering area with me on my where they feel closer to home they can visit their extended families and they can help each other out now there is a lot of controversy this shortlist. made by the camp leader a lot of growing up stalled out there in ties and forcing to putting their name in there we cannot independently verify that the government on its parts of the facilities are good there was never a base hospital at least a 120 clustered villages with good modern facilities despite all the there are still a lot of controversy the government in says the concentration is a major problem in one area and its light security reason to moving there is rowing us to this remote island. have released 3 human rights workers who are being held on terrorism related charges after an international outcry they were working for

one of the last rights groups still operating in the country when they were arrested last month and accused of joining a terror group and spreading false news the arrests were condemned by western governments activists and the un are you saying bony is an egypt and if you are centered amnesty international he says international pressure helped to secure the release of those human rights workers from an egyptian president. it's simply because it shows what we and other human rights organizations and activists have been saying for years which is that in order to have really a change in egypt syria needs to be equal or the needs and public action from egypt allies in europe and in america when we had set we have a clear example where is this pressure work with egypt and as such it's very important that this person is maintained. european and north american states that egypt listens to because there are so many human rights defenders of syria mean behind bars but exactly from the already means behind bars muhammad bucket manual

must be a sop to fit their list that never ends and as such international community is a need to look at this moment as an opportunity not just not this is a very minor victory but it's an important unity because it was out the human rights movement in egypt is it remains to face an existential threat and we would be in the same location 2 or 3 or 4 months is that the message doesn't maintain that coordinate up at the last 40 years under the thrown by administration we have seen that say u.s. which is a major ally and partner to egypt has taken a back role on human rights and democracy issues in egypt and other countries and this has materialized in even more oppression egypt in no where is asian so it is we're able to commit much much more violations against human rights defenders members or vi community christians and many many others including jordan that is

and al jazeera continues to demand the release of john westlock what are you saying he's now been detained without any formal charges in egypt for more than 1400 days hussein was arrested while on vacation in his family in cairo and 26 thing his detention is in violation of both gyptian and international. india's government and protesting farmers have yet to find common ground on a new law that could affect crop prices they're due to meet again on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on thursday ended without agreement farmers are continuing to protest against the legislation that was passed back in september they're worried it'll put an end to minimum crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation elizabeth chronos with some of those protesting farmers. we're the gaza border crossing between the states on the predation and delhi where farmers from the states of all that i can't add author but they where thousands of farmers have gathered here on this highway which means that there's no traffic allowed to come

from those states into delhi this is the smallest off the 3 session protests there are still around 2000 farmers as you can see everybody here is being fed they're fed 3 times a day at all 3 protest sides tens of thousands of farmers remain on the other 2 key highways which are on the borders between the states of how to ghana and delhi and pharmacies everywhere everywhere say that they're not going anywhere even as those talks have been farm union leaders and the government continue the 2nd round of talks took place on tuesday and the main issue for farmers remain with concerns over losing a minimum price for their projects losing elektra's city subsidies concerns that private buyers will have an unfair advantage of a farmers and unions and also they worry about who would resolve disputes over the procurement over prices of the government has said that they are willing to take all of these concerns into consideration even right amendments to these laws the

pharma say that these laws are fundamentally flawed that they were created without consultation with farmers pushed through parliament and that they're not going to end the sit in protest until the laws are repealed and we're expecting the protests to only get bigger there's a nationwide call for protests on saturday ad and accolades from the state of punjab where many of these farmers from planning to go to the presidential building on saturday a number of athletes including a limpet gold medalists to return their national awards to the indian government they say in protest against the government's treatment of fonda's. now you might remember this time last year when israel as president nicholas. playschool survival seems to be hanging by a thread now opposition parties say they'll boycott upcoming elections and that means material is likely to reclaim the only state institution he doesn't control the national assembly has seen him in reports. like in this slum in need and the

state candidates to the national assembly from the ruling socialist party go house to house handing out free face masks and more importantly this paper free to their homes and it's a copy of the ballots all you have to do is vote it's very important missing from the ballot of venezuela's principal opposition parties they've decided to boycott the polls citing probable fraud leaving little doubt about the election outcome. 5 years ago the opposition won total control of the assembly a devastating political defeat for president legal last month. after his $2800.00 reelection was marred by charges of vote rigging the leader of the legislature one by bush declared himself interim president with broad domestic and international support. get despite overseeing the as well as worst ever economic crisis acute shortages of food medicine and even water harsh u.s.

economic sanctions as well as several coup and assess unissued attempts nicole last month has survived. now he is about to reclaim the only state institution he doesn't control all. went 5 years and plots and promises to destroy me enough for 5 years of course through foreign intervention and war from venezuela for 5 years of the scary brits isn't enough. regaining control of the legislature may not give me the international recognition he craves but it could fracture continued support for guide dog as interim president his legitimacy has rested on being the elected leader. if the current legislature. releases. always when you say that you'll recognize kwaito until the end of maduro's time in power how long do you mean one year 520 are we talking about an improved sooner rather

than later that symbolic recognition of why don't split if we can't produce change that's women duras winning the hand. well. with the mainstream opposition refusing to take part in elections that they say will be rigged then israel and who want to voted overwhelmingly for change or apathetic and demoralized . but froom battled president reclaiming the national assembly will send a clear message that he is truly empowered at least for the time being you see in human al-jazeera. now the trump administration has blacklisted more chinese owned businesses as the trade war with beijing continues into the president's final weeks in power the white house barred a u.s. investment of top chip maker c m s m i c and oil giant c.n.n. o.r.c. accusing them of having ties to the chinese military both companies have rejected that decision saying it was based on false or misunderstood information and the

trumpet ministration has also sued a social media giant facebook accusing it of favoring foreign workers over americans the lawsuit claims thousands of high paying jobs were overseas applicants it says facebook refused to consider us workers entirely for some roles facebook hasn't publicly responded to the accusation. and a hollywood fast warner brothers has announced it will make its blockbusters available to stream online at the same time as their cinema releases its a major shift in an industry hit hard by coke at 19 lockdowns the company's upcoming titles will be released on the h.b.o. max platform in the coming months major studios have been forced to bypass cinemas as closure see their traditional revenue streams dry up. and now the original gun used by the late actor sean connery and his 1st james bond film has been sold for a quarter of a $1000000.00 the walther p.p. k. became an icon of the film franchise after appearing in the 1960 to me the doctor

it sold for higher than expected at auction more than a month after the actor died at the age of 90 the winning bidder has asked to remain anonymous. well don't forget you can always find much much more on our web site the address for that is al-jazeera dot com. hello again this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories the foreign minister of saudi arabia cats are and mediation of kuwait have all signaled that progress is being made on resolving the gulf dispute saudi arabia's foreign minister says a final agreement is now within reach council has been under an illegal land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt since june 2017 president thomas a senior adviser jared kushner recent the resident visited both riyadh and doha for talks.