q. d.a.p. unscripted and al-jazeera. choosier . every. ethiopia's prime minister says the eritrean troops will withdraw from all over to great region after 5 months of fighting. a lot of adrian forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up china says it's sanctioned organizations and individuals in the u.k. for reports of the abuse of muslim weakness. we will buy my 130 in office 7 minutes to 200000000 shots peoples are u.s.

president joe biden outlines his priorities as criticism mounts over a migrant crisis at the southern border. stuck in service efforts continue to free the container ship that's run aground costing billions of dollars to global trade. ethiopia's prime minister ahmed says that eritrea will withdraw its forces from that all the t. gray region where they've been accused of killing civilians rape and torture the conflict began late last year when the ethiopian government launched a security operation against the region's former governing party the tea great people's liberation front a group the prime minister accused of destabilizing the country at attacking a federal military base that has now admitted that eritrea and soldiers joined the operation if you p.s. human. rights commission and the united nations to investigate the allegations

let's go live now to kenya's capital nairobi catherine soy is monitoring developments from ethiopia's prime minister is in eritrea tell us more about this statement. yes we're waiting for the prime minister to return back to the capital of ethiopia where hopefully we're going to get more information on the timelines when exactly they re tran troops are going to withdraw from the areas in northwest to grow where they've occupied but the statement itself was very brief it just said that the prime minister held discussions with every crass president that a fair work and where it was decided that those troops will be pulled out and this comes off the back of another statement that the prime minister made in parliament earlier this week where he told parliamentarians and admitted for the 1st time in many months the ira tran troops are indeed integrated says that the reason why they

are in there is because of a threat to the security of the. he said that forces that the to grand forces are launched a rocket into asmara the capital a very tragic and also that if you're going federal forces have been pushing the t.p.a. forces back to central or to the central to greyback temecula the capital and because that created sort of a security lock the security issue and those border areas than the eritrean forces had to come in to sort of provide a buffer zone and to protect their country as well so it's going to be interesting to see how long their region forces have to pull out of those areas people have accused this forces of human rights abuses including killing and destruction of property as well as rape calls for a full investigation into those allegations of human rights violations. is the government likely to allow the u.n.

or even its own human rights commission to carry out invest best occasions on the ground. why on previous occasions when atrocities have been reported in other parts of ethiopia the government has been very reluctant to have human rights organizations and other independent bodies coming in to investigate and this time around the accusations are quite strong we have had from people in tigger i've very traumatised talking about what has been happening in the last few months the government the thing that it's going to investigate what we have been hearing so it's going to be interesting to see which bodies are going to be allowed to to grey which what is that going to be allowed to investigate but a lot of people think that this say that this investigation needs to be independent because this complaint that are coming out of there is a very horrific we also have from the us thing that there needs to be

a ceasefire but the prime minister has said that what is going on now is a sort of a cleanup exercise a low enforcement issue he said that most of the basic services integrate have resumed to normal but a lot of people that we've talked to a very traumatised indeed it is catherine sawyer reporting live from nairobi catherine and. china has sanctioned a number of british politicians lawyers dog and for what it calls lies and disinfo mission. measures are in response to sanctions by the u.k. u.s. canada and the e.u. suspects its human rights violations against the wiggers in the region. thembi inches high who now. runs on chinese individuals and entities so-called human rights issues in a based on lies and disinformation it breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations it interferes in china's affairs and undermines

bilateral relations the foreign ministry has summoned the british ambassador to lodge representation and express opposition and condemnation have decided to sanction individuals and for entity's. of hong kong's government has told 14 countries to stalk stop accepting the british national overseas passport it wants them to recognise its hong kong passport instead a dispute over the travel document began earlier this year after the u.k. introduced a pathway to citizenship hong kong residents who want to leave life out of beijing to train you is that what message is beijing sending with these new case sanctions katrina. well the aging is sending the message that it's becoming less sensitive to criticism from the west and that it's not afraid of standing up to what it sees as attacks against what it considers its core interests now we've had

since beijing has issued their own sanctions a response from the u.k. foreign secretary dominic rather who says that beijing should allow access to international human rights experts to sion jiang if it has nothing to hide and we've seen this tit for tat between beijing and london becoming increasingly hostile and what as a result has happened is this deterioration between the 2 states now beijing has issued sanctions on 9 individuals and 4 entities in the u.k. which includes a travel ban as well as the freezing of assets in hong kong macau and on the mainland and this comes after the u.k. joined canada the u.s. and the e.u. and sanctioning shinji on government officials for what they say are human rights abuses in the state against the weak and muslim minority now china has consistently denied these claims the u.k. says up to $1000000.00 we girls are forced to work in labor camps there yet to follow canada and the us and saying that this is genocide but still beijing is

furious about this they've continued to deny this and say that these are not labor camps that these are vocational training centers designed to improve the economic opportunities of the weakest and tell us more about this controversy involving the british national overseas passport. well the hong kong government has written to 14 states saying they should no longer recognise the passport which is essentially a defacto u.s. passport given to many hong kong residents allowing them to access the u.k. originally this only granted about 6 months of work and living access in britain but in january boris johnson's government expanded that right saying being no holders could use it as a pathway for migration and they did this as a result of the many political changes we've seen take place in hong kong over the past year including this national security law which bans subversion and under which we've seen dozens of dissidents pro-democracy activists and journalists

arrested the u.k. says that beijing is simply not holding up its end of the bargain and ensuring that hong kong would have democratic freedoms for 50 years after the handover now we haven't heard specifically responses from these 14 countries as to whether they're going to pay heed to this letter from the hong kong government more still likely to ignore it and many of these governments including islands japan south korea in italy have said that they would continue to recognize to be a no as a valid travel document all except hungary which has said that they're currently reviewing that travel policies of 0 as the trainer you live for us there in beijing china many thanks indeed the u.s. president says that north korea will face consequences if it chooses the path of escalation on thursday pyongyang confirmed that it tested a new guided missile north korean officials say the weapon which is believed to be a ballistic type will act as a deterrent against any bill a true threat it was the 1st major provocation since joe biden took office in january robert broad reports now from seoul. north korea has been as you might

expect heralding this as a major military success it has released through the official north korean news agency still pictures of the launch showing suitably jubilant north korean senior officials cheering one of the missiles on its way interestingly absent from the picture is the north korean leader kim jong un himself normally he is depicted watching these great milestone military achievements he wasn't apparently at this launch but they have released more details about this particular type of missile saying it is a newly developed missile an improvement on existing technology also the fact that they say it traveled 600 kilometers i'd also capable of carrying a payload of 2 and a half tons now military analysts are looking at that and saying that if that is the case then this would certainly be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead this is a short range missile so you're talking about hundreds of kilometers rather than

thousands but that certainly is of concern to north korea's neighbors emmons who think rebels say they've launched multiple attacks against saudi oil facilities and military locations fire broke out on an oil terminal in thursday after it was hit by a missile saudi arabia's defense ministry says it will take deterrent actions to protect its oil facilities saudi coalition fighting in yemen says it's intercepted and destroyed several explosive laden who think drones aimed at the kingdom. we're going to weather update baxter on al-jazeera then struggling to survive we look at why unemployment in indonesia is at its worst level in more than a decade. and why conspiracy theories and mistrust are affecting mexico's covert 19 vaccine rose.

how i once again welcome to another look at the international forecasts of seeing the showers across south asia just sinking a little further south was recently said that the hevia rain just coming back into parts of somalia and that wet weather will stay in place as we go on through the next day also with some of the showers will start another little further north as we go through saturday and on into sunday said turning a little wetter into southern parts of the philippines northern areas or in the way of sunshine van showers and that's the case too across a good part of india china will want to showers into southern areas of thailand shows continue meanwhile across northern parts of australia but i am pleased to say has now brightened up around that eastern side of the country another weather system just rolling through the bike that's going to introduce some wet weather in sea victoria through tasmania another spell of wet weather coming through here brought the weather does come back in behind the scenes a model where the recently into the outback of south australia still one or 2

showers to come here as we go on through saturday sunday is fine and dry for much of all some showers there just pushing across the far north of the country temperatures over towards the east side getting up to 30 celsius in brisbane a 26 there for sydney brighter skies coming back into victoria but it will cloud over with spells of rain for new zealand. in russia not. to force. if you think fame fortune and how i thought when i went to investigate on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right. washington.

hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour if you know p.s. prime minister of the albertsons the ever travel with towards forces from little than t. grey region ever trained troops and faced widespread allegations of killing civilians rape and torture china has sanctioned a number of british politicians lawyers and organizations for what it calls lies and disintegration about suspected rights abuse in june chang several western nations taken similar actions against beijing. the u.s. president says that both korea will face consequences if it chooses the path of escalation going on confirmed on thursday that it test

a new guided missile north korean officials say the weapon will act as a deterrent. $65.00 days into the job u.s. president joe biden has finally held his 1st news conference he outlined his of ministrations multiple domestic and foreign policy priorities and his plans to tackle them plus a growing refugee and migrant crisis in the us mexico border took center stage as a white house correspondent kimberly helka reports. he started with good news for americans and a new vaccination goal after already meeting his initial target of administering 100000000 vaccines in record time we met last week by day 5842 days ahead of schedule not a dam set is 2nd goal that is we will by my 100 day in office have administered 200 shots of people's arms but joe biden solution to the problem of migrants

attempting to enter the united states from mexico is less clear he denied the surge was due to his policies it happens every single solitary year there is a significant increase the number of people coming to the border in the winter months biden reminded reporters the united states mexico border remains closed and there has been no significant change in immigration policy although it's under review he said now is not the time to come and despite promising transparency biden declined to reveal when reporters could too are overcrowded facilities housing thousands of unaccompanied minors images released earlier this week showed children asleep on floors in crowded conditions asked whether this was acceptable biden responded angrily that's a serious question right to accept them coming. on foreign policy biden also

promised to respond to north korea if it chooses to ask ali but that the path to diplomacy remains open he also reiterated a may 1st deadline for withdrawing remaining u.s. troops from afghanistan is unlikely it is not my intention to stay there for a long time but the question is how and in what circumstances do we beat that agreement that was made by president trump to leave under a deal that looks like it's not being able to be worked out by outlined his policies in detail and dispelling domestic criticism that he was too old and unfit for the job president biden told reporters he is committed to helping americans recover physically and economically from the covert 1000 penn demick that's why he says he'll be in pittsburgh next week to unveil his plan to rebuild america's

infrastructure and bring back jobs can really help get al-jazeera the white house republicans in the u.s. state of georgia pasta new law imposing greater restrictions on voting access it includes limits on early voting and additional voter id requirements for mail in ballots it also gives more power to the state legislature which is currently dominated by republicans critics say that it's an attempt to make it harder for minority groups to cost that ballots it's $1.00 of the walls biggest container ships and it's stuck in one of the world's most crucial waterways and adviser to egypt's president says the maritime activity will resume in the suez canal within days but others fear it could take weeks to dislodge the vessels charles stratford reports. 400 metres long and weighing 200000 tons stuck in what's often described as the most important shipping lane in the world a maritime accident with global implications the ever given container ship became

wedged across the suez canal and choose day when high winds blew her off course about 12 percent of global trade passes through the 193 kilometer long canal which connects the red sea with the mediterranean providing the shortest link between asia and europe the vessel carrying around $20000.00 containers is registered in panama are operated by the taiwanese transport company evergreen marine it was sailing from china to the port city of rotterdam in the netherlands when it got stuck the japanese owner has apologized but says the situation is extremely difficult and there's a citizen that's present that traffic along this year's canal has been disrupted due to the incident and local authorities are working under the issue using tugboats but there is no it's method time for it to be dissolved this image posted on a ship tracking website shows the backlog of at least $150.00 vessels stuck in the northern entrance of the canal at ports 8 in the middle in an area called the

bitter lakes and at the southern entrance at sue is the vast majority of oil from the gulf is transported to europe along the canal oil prices rose sharply on thursday. industry experts are warning of a flood of insurance claims covering the vast amount of cargo being held up including automotive palms and consumer goods but ships and officials say at least 8 tug boats are trying to dislodge the vessel which experts say could take days if not weeks well the few days of course is very very costly each day and people have made estimates of $3810000000000.00 of trade going through the suez canal absolutely fundamental for europeans applying chains not just about oil it's just as important the goods coming from the far east china and so on china number one trade with the european union containers may have to be offloaded in order to lessen the wait ships now face the prospect of having to travel thousands of

additional kilometers around the southern tip of africa a huge cost and potentially delaying delivery of goods by weeks it's a cork in a bottle and there's no way to go in as you've described the ships that are stuck throughout the canal and at the north and are in a precarious position and they name may not be able just to turn around and take another course as long as it and expensive as it is to go from the mediterranean around africa and vice versa the suez canal thora he says around $20000.00 ships pass through the canal last year egypt billions of dollars in total fee revenue the ever given is $1.00 of the largest container ships in the world but for every hour and every day it remains stuck and stationary there are concerns about the financial fallout and impact on global trade chance trotted out as air.

argentina says that it's suspending flights from brazil chile and mexico to prevent the spread of new strains of covered 19 the measures will come into effect on saturday the government says it's concerned about the rising number of infections in neighboring brazil which has recorded more than 12000000 cases and tina has reported nearly 2300000 interactions so far more than 200000 people have now died from the virus in mexico since the beginning of the pandemic and the government is facing an uphill battle to roll out vaccines in rural areas. holeman reports now from mexico city. some miguel is a small mini supine a teen so the mets where news and updates about the coronavirus pandemic can be limited to rumors about the government's covert 19 vaccine program the pizza be everywhere. somebody goes home to several indigenous communities and not everyone

his speak spanish to an interpreter recover them and also tells us she stays abreast of pandemic news through the radio but she says she has no plans to get the coded 19 vaccine. these happens when people don't know how to find traditional medicine which exist for many illnesses i believe in god he gives me life and he will protect me. recalled is not the only person in town feeling hesitant so p.p.o. garcia says he also sees no need for the vaccine adding that kobe has not affected his community. so put a kidney for me as i say to each his own i tell my family to not get the vaccine if god says our time is up then our time is up there's no need to run and hide it's good that the government is worrying about the people but on the other hand we are free to make our own choice. local leaders say that while everyone over 60 years old is eligible only about half of registered to receive the job you see you every

other year there i think people should just accept a vaccine this community needs it and why because here there are no doctors and there are no hospitals close to us some girl isn't the only place in mexico where people are refusing the vaccine since the country started its national vaccination program dozens of communities in the south of officially expressed opposition to it but that isn't the biggest obstacle to everyone in mexico getting the job. though the overall rate of coronavirus contagion in the country is on the decline experts warn that vaccination if it's a fool and sure what's needed to curb the outbreak. i think the lesson developing countries must learn mexico latin america africa eastern countries is that we have to produce our own vaccines we can't be relying and waiting on the good will about that system vaccines because that's what's going on. there are several towns in southern mexico like some hugo that been largely spared from the worst of the coated 19 outbreak but authorities are still asking

residents to ignore conspiracy theories about the vaccine and get the job to continue to keep this region free of the virus john home an al-jazeera. bangladesh is marking 50 years of independence in the 17 array of its founding father on this day in 1971 the country broke away from what was then east pakistan india's prime minister narendra modi is among the world leaders attending the ceremony in dhaka a number of people were injured when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets people protesting against his visit they say that modi has persecuted muslims in india talvi a child free report style from dhaka. well that's a major day in bangladesh 50 years of center near center near celebration for the father of the nation and 50 years of relationship with india who was a key ally in the instrument and getting bangladesh liberated from then pakistan visit by prime minister nor in their more of these very symbolic it's significant

it is showing an alliance that there's been a little cooler relationship past few years of trying to warm up their relationship looking at neighbors fostering the us policy several days of protest in bangladesh by the left wing as well as by the religious right wing they've been saying that prime minister more the this big party has been cracking down on most lands that are also critical of the citizenship act and the cracking down in kashmir as well as the water sharing issue the border killing all those have been played down by the government saying it's an independence day celebration we're just inviting a head of state is nothing to do with politics there's also a significant amount of strategic relationship between china and bangladesh india is trying to woo bangladesh into its corner china's right now the biggest supplier credit for bangladesh a country that is growing very rapidly one of the highest g.d.p. in the world its status from least double up to double up country developing

country rather so both countries china and india have been playing with bangladesh to bring it into its influence so this visit has many implication. unemployment in india has risen to its highest level in more than a decade with millions of people out of work out of the say the economic impact covered by team is disproportionately affecting poor communities many still haven't received the social aid that they were promised more than a year ago. jessica washington reports from jakarta. in the indonesian capital this travelling band goes from believed to be a lage. they perform because they love music but also out of necessity. a lot of again they don't go together i really want to go back to work if it's available as a woman i cannot rely on street performing for too long there is a lot of risk. like millions of indonesians she lost her job last year.

according to the government statistics agency the number of unemployed people in indonesia it's at least 10000000 the highest in more than a decade single mother she was an administration assistant at a factory but she says she never had a formal contract she lost her job when the pandemic began and is now trying to sell homemade snacks and in around $2.00 a week. financially it has been very hard for me i have to rely on my neighbors for food the majority of indonesia's working age population are informal workers with no contracts no fixed salaries and no employment rights the official data doesn't account for the informal on registered workers who have had their hour was reduced entirely most were already on low wages to begin with and now they face even greater financial hardship. experts say the statistic of

10000000 unemployed only tells part of the story we have on that employment of what could have been 1000000 up to 15000000 and the new workforce almost cut the 1000000 people affected by the coffin and millions of indonesians are classified as me a poor all living below the poverty line despite the country's progress in reducing poverty. social aid never reach to many struggling households and others say they were suddenly cut off with no warning how they got there he said i don't know why i don't get help anymore and i also coordinator and he also doesn't know the government has pledged to improve its data collection so people in need are able to receive assistance. we realize there are more people who need assistance because of the impact of the pandemic and there must be an adjustment in our poverty alleviation programme then ya lost his job at

a coffee chain 3 months ago now he's using his skills to support his young family by selling drinks on the street. by entering the income is very different compared to when i was working and i really want to go back to work but during the pandemic i think it will be difficult millions of indonesians are navigating this same challenge and doing whatever it takes to get by without knowing when things will get better jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. it's good to have you with us hello adrian said again here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera if the o.p.'s promise i'll be al that says that eritrea will withdraw its forces from little than t. grey region eritrean troops have faced widespread allegations of killing civilians rape and torture they've been supporting the ethiopian military and fighting forces from 2.