like the city we said, we need to take america to try to bring people together trying to deal with people who left behind the in the us files, the pressure on ethiopia, demanding further action to in the crisis in te gray with millions displaced and in desperate need of aid. ah, hello and welcome. i'm peter w, watching out to 0 live from the also coming up. israel rejects you and calls for an independent investigation into possible war crimes. in garza,

hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie is sentence yet again over his road and the 2019 anti aging protests also had fatal politics. why so many regional candidates in mexico's local elections are being killed? ah, the you in refugee agency today expressing growing concern about the crisis in ethiopia is northern te gray region. there are reports that hundreds of refugees have been taken from displacement camps by soldiers. this despite increasing pressure from the us where you feel p has government to bring about an immediate end to the violence or face sanctions. allen fisher reports now from capitol hill fighting glucose to the c o. p s t group region 6 months ago. your p and trips back by allies. the energy and army claimed the t great people's liberation front was behind attacks on, if in military bases us as seen. the government has

a strong ally in the horn of africa, but is growing frustrated at the scale of the fighting. the senate foreign relations committee was told. the situation is horrific with thousands dead, we estimate that there are approximately 2000000 internally displaced persons. 63000 refugees and 5200000 people in urgent need of assistance. the united states condemns in the strongest terms, the brutal killings, sexual violence, including gang rape, forced removals, wanton destruction of civilian property. and there is a stock warning, the war could spark ethiopia as 1st famine in more than 40 years in ki gray. after more than 6 months of hostilities, approximately $5200000.00 people are in need of assistance out of a total population of $6000000.00. approximately 2000000 of them are children. joe biden wants me to cease by the senate, has unanimously called for the withdrawal of if you'll be in troops,

secretary of state antony blank and says what has happened in the great amongst 2 ethnic cleansing. but with testimony of brutal sexual assaults as well, the us isn't ready to declare war crimes are being committed just yet. we are acutely aware of the need to determine whether the conduct meets the legal standards for across the primes and we are actually, and we are acutely waiting for that determination. we haven't any of us. we believe in fact, these are war crimes and crimes against humanity. so and i understand the concerns of such a designation, but we cannot turn blindly away when such things happen in the world. yoyo has been one that faces strong economic sanctions if the fighting continues, but it has dismissed us interference in its internal affairs. us invoice to the region is headed back the next week, hoping strong messages from washington might force

a change on the ground. island fisher. i'll just see the capitol hill. the red cross as people integrate are at risk of severe long term food shortages ahead of the planting season. falling essentially like seeds and fertilizer are running low organization is providing supplies to nearly 40 villages across the region. but the constant threat of violence means working on the land has become difficult when moving since october 25th. we've been living in fear how children are suffering. we are fearful. whenever we hear the sound of corrugated iron, we all run thinking it's gunshot. we run through the hills and mountains. where the situation has hurt us a lot. we all lift or holmes with nothing, and our children have been exposed to different diseases. there's no school. all the children and women are hiding in the mountains. well, about a quarter of all schools in ethiopia, degree region have been damaged by the conflict that's according to

a report from human rights watch. it's documented a tax on all sides. the group accuses government forces of using high school as a military base. witnesses also reported seeing troops bringing women into the school who would leave badly beaten days later. fisher beta is the human rights watch, one of africa director and one of the report authors. she says they called on the if you can government to stop the practice of occupying schools. what our report shows, in fact, who are warring parties have been implicated in attacking, pillaging, but also occupying schools across the p k region. now we hone in on one particular school, which is a very historic school in the capital of the region mckinley, which is the actually your homie school where we basically find, found that for months and on 2 separate occasions, european government forces occupied the score. but not only be occupied it,

they 40 find it, they used it as a key watch tower and based in the capital mckinney but they also destroyed a lot of property and find it and pillaged much of the property in the school. so this is not only an impact on school children's ability to receive an education now, but also has a much longer term impact on school children's ability to, to, to receive the education they've been missing for the last 6 months. keep carpet. this is obviously going to be ensuring accountability for the abuses which these communities have seen happen. as i said, there is a real fear of returning to school because forces that have abused and have destroyed the schools often around you and human rights council is to investigate potential war crimes. during the 11th a conflict between israel and hamas, it will look into allegations of abuse on all sides across the occupied territory.

and israel palestinians welcomed the move, but israel called it shameful christian salumi reports now from the un in new york, as palestinians in gaza. look for away forward amid a 10 sees fire with israel. the un human rights council is looking back at the conflict and how it played out. the organization of islamic cooperation along with palestinians requested an investigation into possible violations of international law. her masses, indiscriminate rocket fire into israel was a clear one, according to high commissioner for human rights. michelle bash lay, but she says israel's response which killed $254.00 people, including $66.00 children, might also qualify as a war crime. this by israel cleaned the menu, is building one hosting armed groups or be used for military purposes. we have not seen evidence in this regard. such light,

re serious concerns of compliance with the principal distinction and proportionality under international law. the council voted 24 to 9 to open investigation. israel however, refuses to participate. another shameful day for the you and human rights council, which not only defends democracy trying to protect its people. but it what washes, a brutal genocidal terrorist organization. the don't only indiscriminately attacks is ready civilians, but abuses palestinian civilians in gather using them as human shields. the u. s. who secretary of state recently visited the region and other western allies did not support the move saying it threatened to imperil recent progress towards peace. but the palestinian authority and hamas, welcome the move out of those. what happened in the gaza strip is a fully fledged war crime that the world watched happened on their television. now we need to further step to be taken,

which is to actually punish the occupation of that. but away from the politics. many see this investigation as important for shutting light on the ongoing struggle of palestinians under occupation. what has come up and this coming up in this room, guys, concert is the tackling and investigation of what is called the root causes of the recent round of bivens. and these are the institutionalized discrimination and the method oppression that israel imposes on palestinians. this is at the heart of what is happening right now. the united nation has been down this road before on israel and palestine since 2005, the human rights council has had 9 sessions on the situation in gaza. and while israel sees this as bias, others in the international community see it as evidence that something has to change. kristen salumi al jazeera, the united nations, us asking for $95000000.00 in an emergency appeal for garza to cover humanitarian needs the next 3 months. the money is mainly for rebuilding hospitals,

schools and sewage and water facilities. friday prayers have been held without incident at one of his lamps, holy sites. around $40000.00 palestinians arrived to worship at the alex um, of compound and occupied in jerusalem. now that's in stark contrast to the scenes of violence from just a week ago before the si, fi was agreed between israel and how mass human also aids and garza. she tells us now how people there are mocking the day. today we're witnessing in the late afternoon a couple of events that have been arranged by him as the brigades of the central gall this ship. we're going to have real. 6 service it's going to be a ceremony to pay tribute and remember in the end, in appreciation of the people who have been killed in this war at all to the south and governor in ratcliffe. we are going to witness another event,

which is military ceremony. where a sound bray gates are going to show off some of the military what's that they have used in this war? in addition to some rockets that they have loans launched in this war that has entered in service very recently in this war. so this is basically, this past week, we've been witnessing a lot of events like that. and these events are mainly to deliver a message between us and the people that there is a strong bonding going on between them and message by having to engage the people in all its actions and to pay tribute to their relatives in kids who have been killed in the support, hundreds of people in indonesia rallying in support of palestinians protest is our

den. i'm saying, the israeli occupation of palestinian territory. the happy multiple protests of our recent weeks, mainly many of them urging the us to support palestine the hong kong media tycoon. jimmy lie has been given another prison sentence for taking part in anti paging protest in 2019 the pro democracy activists and billionaire is already serving a 14 month jail term on similar charges. 7 other leading activists will also sentenced life assets were frozen this month under pages national security laws, katrina, you reports now from beijing, democracy activist and media. ty could give me lie is no stranger to courtroom. on friday, he was handed another sentence 14 months in jail for his role in protest against the chinese government. on october 2019, he's already in prison for earlier demonstrations. this extends his term to 20 months form a democratic hong kong legislator albert her and 6 others received 14 to 18 months

in prison activists. se badging as slowly smothering the territories pro democracy movement above the majority of the problem. democracy at base the leaders and now being detained in prison and so on. and meaning that the chinese authorities do not intend to allow any room for the move in existence for the movements activities. the verdicts come just one day after hong kong legislative council. many parliament approved sweeping changes to the territories electoral system. china's communist party canal vet candidates for the territories top job now held by beijing back to carry lam critics including the us secretary of state antony blinking. say the overall undermines democracy and prevents people in hong kong from having their voices heard. they jing says the changes will ensure stability after the historic and at times violent unrest of 2019 team will truly the previous

system had defects. these changes will help hong kong got back healthy and orderly track. this will encourage prosperity, democracy, and usual stability in hong kong authorities and hong kong have also for the 2nd year in a row council. the annual visual commemorating the gentleman square crackdown on june 4th sight. he concerns around the pandemic. hong kong was the only territory on chinese soil with those killed in the kingdom and was stand up for the government in 1989. well remembered here on the mainland, the event is robbed from history books and any mention of it on line. quickly centered jimmy lies, assets were frozen earlier this month. and hong kong banks were warned this week not to deal in his accounts or risk 7 years in jail. the 73 year old belinda and founder of the apple daily newspaper pieces. a raft of other charges including offences under a national security law is found guilty. he could be sentenced to life in prison.

katrina, you are the 0 paging still come on this program, russia ones of delays for flights coming from europe as tit for tat measures escalator. but the force lending a passenger jet in minsk and putting 3 religions under one single roof. the foundation delayed for pioneering building projects in berlin. ah hello. once again, the also receives in southern china, working on the flood defense is here because of the, the my you front which is bringing some more, very heavy seasonal res. have asked the weather system that has been producing those heavy down pools and 97 rivers at warning level at present. that line of clattered rain rows all the way out to the east to japan, and it will continue to just get pushed out into the open water just pulsing that

heavy rain out of southern parts of china. north of that's fine and dry some pleasant sunshine is essential. china, up toward the north of the country, wanted to shout into the current peninsula, wanted to shout to into northern areas of japan as we go through saturday and on into sunday, we should become fewer and further betray, but said is the case across the company's their northern areas of china, fine and dr. 30 celsius, they're in shanghai rank, he's coming down, cross southern part of china. so further flooding concerns going on, his fighting concerns too into parts over in the china. some heavy examples coming through here could see some heavy rain just pushing towards the philippines as we go on through saturday. and the usual rational showers across a good part of south east asia by his showers tearing to the south west of india. road tropical side found now bringing some very heavy rain towards the north. the

be part of the debate itself distinctly the end closing in the us or in the u. k, because it will just come back again when no topic is off the table. what we wanted to talk about were these men with white men talking loud and clear where a global audience become a global community, jumping to the comment, fraction, and part of those discussion. there are like kinetic efforts to silence fell opinions on the online based on al jazeera. ah, the me welcome back you without to 0. my name is peter w. your top stories, the us refugee agency says it is deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of

people have been taken by soldiers from camps in ethiopia, northern te gray region. the u. s. is wanting sanctions against the government could be imposed. now. the human human rights council is to investigate potential war crimes. during the 11th a conflict between israel and mass, it look into allegations of abuse on all sides across the occupied territory. and israel, the hong kong, mediate. i couldn't, jimmy law has been given another prison sentence were taking part in anti paging protest in 2019 the pro democracy activists, and it is already 7014 month sentence for similar charges. russian aviation authorities have announced any flight from europe that avoids bella. russian airspace may have to wait longer to land. many airlines are staying clear of bellows after the forced landing of a passenger jet in minsk last week by the roost is accused of facing a bomb threat in order to arrest a journalist who was on board the flight. you has imposed sanctions on barrows, but russia is standing by its ally. re challenge has more now from london on the

impact this is likely to have on european ation. what it esentially means is that they can't really take it for granted that they won't be significant delays if they're trying to get to russia and inventing better rates. now, the russians are saying that this delay in the granting of permits is just a bureaucratic issue to do with the extra paperwork, essentially in applying for change flight routes. that won't be the way that it's being interpreted in european capitals. they will see this as a deliberate pushback from russia a way for russia to increase the burden on european airlines that are trying to comply with the new advice to go around better race. and to basically make this a political issue, it's already political issue,

but to heighten this kind of stand off in russia itself, the, the, the kremlin is saying that this, this, this issue over the nation shouldn't stand the way of better relations, or improving relations between russia and the european union, they have broadly welcomed this announcement. there will be an international investigation into the incidence last weekend where the plane was diverted to minsk, bought the criminal, saying that it doesn't want to many of these such investigations. because according to the kremlin, they can get the right information from the man who is at the center of it. that is alexandra lucas shanker, the president of betters who is now in saatchi and about to meet with president putin himself. well, the bell rational positionally dispatched lana, taken off sky a has renewed her calls for the european countries to take even stronger action against the president. mr. lucas shanker took him off. sky is in the netherlands,

where she's met with the dutch prime minister. she's calling on nations to isolate bellows using sanctions. luca shanker has cracked down on protest against his rule . germany has acknowledged it did commit genocide in namibia. in the early 20th century, german forces kill tens of thousands of indigenous herero and nom up people after an uprising against colonial rule. after 5 years of talks, berlin ruled out reparations, but agreed to provide $1300000000.00 in aid for development projects. now maybe as governance called the announcement a step in the right direction, but says a formal apology and reparations should follow. germany's foreign minister says berlin plans to support namibia and the descendants of the victims. it besides the whole to deny it. we will now officially call these events what they were from 2 days perspective, a genocide in doing so,

we also acknowledging our historical responsibility in the light of germany's historical and moral responsibility. we will ask namibia and the descendants of the victims to forgiveness. when that scene is this, i'm good minds and as a gesture of recognition of the incalculable suffering that was inflicted on the victims, we want to support and may be the descendants of the victims with a substantial program amounting to 1100000000 years. and this will focus in particular on rebuilding and development lab, and then muslims, jews and christians are to be united in worship under one single roof in germany. work has started on berlin's house of one, which hopes to forge greater understanding between the 3 religions is not in baba. the celebrating the start of a multi faith adventure 10 years in the making. in the heart of berlin. they've laid the foundation stone of a building, housing, a mosque, a synagogue,

and the church. it's called house of one is what is representing the 3 abraham religions. the idea is to provide a space for events involving people of other faith. so none situated close to the city sprung up is actually on the site of the famous st. peter's church of berlin, landmark finally destroyed by these germans in the 1900. 60 s. after lying in ruins, up to the 2nd world war the projects pastor. so he's glad they're not just rebuilding the old house of worship for me as we don't have enough tuition. and we have enough churches here in berlin. it's much more exciting to explore something new. what's changed in our society? that's what most people are. how can people of different religions and cultures live together peacefully? and how can we respond to that? we couldn't be to help. and during the recent escalation of violence in israel and palestine into community tensions increased in germany, the president of the buddhist toggle parliament spoke and showed black. he won't anger over his radio stripes with spinning over into anti semitism. spoken

thursday's event, the use undistributed. the recent anti semitic riots following the escalation of violence in israel misuse, religion for political ends. that's why dialogue between religion is so important and why we need more exchange, more education, more knowledge about each other and more interest in each other to survive the last 2000 years without optimism. so yes, we will also get here a new stars and something new where muslims, christian, jews can respect each other and maybe also at the end, love each other well in his home to more than 18 mosques in islamic press spaces. but this will actually be the 1st in the city center, the house of on the passive 11, solve all the problems. we need to acknowledge that there are political responsibilities involved in our task is to provide people with prayer and teaching to convey a vision of peace. so they recognize that we are different where one human family

house of one is partly funded by the federal and berlin state governments. it's expected to take at least 4 years to complete, but it's backers hope it will be a place of peace and dialogue for many generations. nadine baba al jazeera, the west african regional blog echo was, is courting an emergency meeting to discuss the political crisis in molly, after the army overthrew the interim president and prime minister military says the 2 men have been released from detention after agreeing to resign. but neither of them has actually been seen nick hawks and this update from pamlico, with the latest on their possible whereabouts. we only have the military as word from for, for it, because since they were released, according to the statement made by the military, from the camp of cathy, which is where we stand right now. just 24 hours ago. we haven't seen them. there has been no official statement made neither by the what the former president of

transition, by in doubt nor by the prime minister marked our one. we know they've been driven to their houses of official residents under escort and are being held or rather guarded by the security forces. the core of the military unit. that's that, that, that's led by the vice president. i see me going up. he says he's not the president because according to the charter of transition, he cannot be the president, the president has been, has to be chosen by the on the chart, the council for national transition. however, he says he is the chief of that transition. possible sanctions will be discussed on sunday when the heads of states are west. africa will meet now they have put in sanctions when there was the qu last august, which involved closing off the borders and freezing any transactions between neighboring countries. and that has a crippling effect, not necessarily on the military, but on ordinary millions were already suffering from the insecurity situation. well,

the navy candidates for next month local elections in mexico have been murdered. the president blames criminal gangs in his 1st report from the area. obviously it was john holeman reports now from mitchell can state on her drug cartels and gangs of fighting for control when, when a local candidate in come a wheel mexico film the video to start his campaign, he didn't expect the shot summed up the major issue in the biggest elections in mexican history in a little more than a week, most positions in the country will be voted on minus the presidency and criminal groups of fighting to get their candidates into power, wiping out rivals. there have been more than 80 politicians killed during the campaign. always going to come up with i was, this is a truck of memo valencia running for mayor of morelia on

a security platform. he wasn't in it. the that he himself was accused of involvement with the car. so when he was a met in one of mit because most vile of regions 8 years ago, he maintains that the clean governance is all but impossible. i want to keep them they are, but i assume that there is, there are municipalities with 3 cartels operator. imagine a life of an official there between a rock and a hard place. finally, the on the one hand, the presence of really dangerous criminal groups. and on the other, the difference the authority of that could go for many of the most violent parts of the country. but politicians aren't just victims. that can be benefits deciding with the criminals to power money. in certain regions, it can seem like everyone's in on the game. those questions arose again when it emerged of the candidate for the ruling party. marina, the measure of the town of where tumble was wanted by the us drug enforcement

agency, the d. e a. we went, that was kim. why is that exactly why i'm on that list. i don't know, but i think it's because of a situation that my father lived through. once upon a time. i deny categorically that i'm a criminal but were helpful to you. does recognise the criminal groups have a grip of politics in his state? there are many public officials specifically michoacan that have looted the municipality, and they're directly linked to other criminal groups. whoever gets into office and met because violent hinterlands is likely to feel the threat and lu, organized crime that can only be bad news to democracy and mexico citizens on your home. and i'll just say to mit your account, and you can watch the premier of john's new special his program, the full report living in mexico kills and that's 1930 s gmc, this sunday may the 30th on this channel, al jazeera australian farmers in the state of new south wales and queensland are

suffering an unprecedented plague of mice, millions of swarming farmland schools and hospitals causing fires. and with the destruction and threatening harvests, the government has ordered 5000 b, b to poison from india. the federal government hasn't approved. it's use some critics where it could kill wildlife or family pet experts say the mice could reach sydney within weeks. ah, welcome. if you just joining us, you're watching al jazeera. i'm pizza, toby, let's update your top stories. the refugee agency says it is deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of people have been taken by soldiers from camps in ethiopia as northern te grey region. the u. s. is wanting sanctions against the government could now be imposed. the un human rights council is to investigate potential war crimes. during the 11th a conflict between israel and hamas,

it'll look into allegations of abuse on all sides across the occupied territory. and israel palestinians, welcome to move, but israel called it.