so no matter what, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i me the thousands reported dead and many more injured after an air strike hits the market in the field. p. s p. great engine. ah. lower barbara. are you watching else was we were life from london also coming out the south african nations agreed to send troops to mozambique to help in the fight against the ices linked groups. plus, it's time for actions because my people have heard enough maybe as in term

governments that foreign mercenaries could start pulling out in days after talks in berlin to shore of the peace process. and former colombian presidential candidate in good bye to war, faces comes face to face with the kidnappers will help her for 6 and a half years. ah, dozens of people have reportedly been killed in an air strike on a busy market in ethiopia as northern te grade region health workers in the village of to go go, have also told the associated press, the soldiers prevented ambulances from reaching the scene. well, some people have been taken for treatment in the regional capital mikaela, which is about 30 kilometers away, but many more wounded are believed to be trapped in the village. this comes doing some of the most intense fighting since the conflict between the army and t. u. a

regional forces began in november. it's not been confirmed who actually carried out the attack. barton plows is a visiting senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college in london. he says evidence overwhelmingly suggests the e. c o p. an air force is responsible there, frankly, nobody else who could have done it. the error try and air force is not operating in the area. the 2 grams have no air force. who else could have done it? it must have been an ethiopian jet. i don't think that will come as any surprise to anyone. basically the 2 grams have been on the defensive ever since. the war began in november. they were 1st driven after weston to gray, then they were driven off of the capital mckellar. and now they have begun to take back some of the area that they lost. they are fighting and gazed both ethiopian and era trained forces are transform. you may recall have been coming in

from the north. the ethiopians ask them to leave, but they have so far not done. so and a string of tongues have now been briefly retaken by the grands in a very major offensive. they say they have captured up 210000 e. c o p, and troops. now of course, that's not verified, but that's the kind of claim that they are making that they are now on the offensive. they've got the, they say, the peons on the run in some areas. but this is not a wall that's going to be over in 5 minutes. last war in this area. last 17 years. this one's been going long term, right? months. i'll just say, hey, morgan has more now from get the reef and then which is near the border with ethiopia, t region where many people have fought refuge from the fighting. the things to look at as bad as strike. also billions in the town of northwest that to bring capital

mickely. and then there's offensive that has been launched by the green people's liberation front. the life which is the government has been fighting since november . both events are likely to result in more people being displaced. the un has already said that more than 2000000 people are internally trapped inside a great, i'm more than 5000000 are in need of community perry and a for survival. 70000 people have cross interest who down to godaddy and let's say they're spread across refugee camps here. but people who are integral are in dire need of many, perry and assistance, and you may have relief supplies, and the situation is getting worse. it's worth noting that this comes just days after the european parliamentary elections were held and which degree did not take part and because of the ongoing conflict. so if anything people are expecting that the situation integrate will get worse and the tuition will be dire. they're expecting more displacement and refugees here say that they're concerned about their relative. we're still trapped in mentally and other parts of become of the

region because the border areas have been blocked and they won't be able to access the roads to be able to make it to refugee camps. therefore, they will have to suffer from the impact of the conflict. a regional group of 16 southern african nations as approve the deployment of troops. the muslim the to help the government with the ongoing violence. their leaders from the southern african development community were holding talks with the most and be government in the capital. in april armed groups stormed the town of power main. the norse, killing dozens of people, and displacing thousands, hadn't tasa, has been following events from neighborhoods and babylon. what we know so far, what we think, i must say that these troops will do is there will be fight most and be me, for example, they will hope patrol the in the notion coastline. they will patrol the border area with have near, with some of these and need to be coming from there also patrol from the border areas at that neighbor mozambique as well. not in theory,

every country in the reason we have an african me to contribute to the stand by force, but it can not make lee. many countries are having a hard time. you can argue because of the covered 19th and then other talent, they also have, for example, most cutting that he's not trying to raise money to procure vaccines to come back on a virus, but in a big country like so that's what's the biggest economy in the region and they also are going through the economic problems they've had to cut by just to the defense budgets as well as and by way, which is the way to be good army. it says it's, i'm the sanctions that could limited as well in what it could do to help intervene and, and help them be. so all these things are a play. what's important to note is that this wouldn't be the 1st time that sheet from the reason, from different countries that come into another country, for example, in the late 1990 and bob way and goal. and maybe our soldiers to the, the, for the government in the early ninety's than bobby, for example,

deploy too much. i be centralized. i'm big to deal with an anomaly at times it has been done before. the question now is, who, which country is will form part of the stand by force? when would they come in? and what exactly will they do to this must be the libya. foreign minister says foreign mercenaries could begin withdrawing from the country within days following international talks. on the future of libya, she said, progress had been made after representatives of the transitional unit. the government met world leaders in berlin. although no concrete met, as were specified in the final communique, the united nations that says about 20000 foreign fighters for hire are in the country germans foreign. germany's foreign minister said there was an understanding between turkey and russia on the fighters. but warned that any withdrawal would not happen overnight. their exit is part of

a plan to reduce violence in libya. practical mechanisms, not just ideas on paper, but practical and concrete ways of unifying. the libyan army. reintegrating, malicious, withdrawing mercenaries, and foreign forces from libya. securing the border, unifying the libyan central bank to name a few. the people of my country pin so much hope and the 2nd conference of the berlin process. my people are looking forward to seeing more concrete measures which have a positive impact and the ground. it's time for actions because my people have heard enough. well, this is the 2nd conference on libya to take place in berlin. the 1st in january of last year. and that with leader is pushing libby as warring side towards a full see fire. while a deal, 9 months later, to end hostilities included a demand that thousands of foreign fighters leave within 90 days. well that didn't

happen, but the agreement this, that libya on the path to resolving its past the decade of violence and chaos. in march, the rival administrations in the east and west of the country agreed to cease fire and formed the unity government and elections are due to be held in december. adam rainy has more of this from berlin. the prominent role that us secretary of state anthony blink, and played at this conference on when fame, berlin shows that present. joe biden has a stronger commitment to libya than its predecessor, former president donald trump. whether or not they're going to back up that commitment with some real strong measures is yet to be seen. but speaking alongside german chancellor anglo merkel, earlier in berlin. this is what the secretary of state had to say about their commitment to libya. we have a responsibility, particularly in this moment to demonstrate that democracies can deliver, deliver in the lives of our people, deliver for people around the world. and there again,

the example that the chancellors set, the germany set could not be stronger. and today is a very good example of that with the work that germany has done on libya. and the hope of this moment to actually see libya, hopefully take a course of security freedom, independence, backed by the international community. more than a dozen countries, along with the united nations, took part in these talks here in berlin on wednesday, and they all agreed that libya must be free of foreign fighters. free of mercenaries hold elections on december 24th. and that all these militias in the country are demobilized and disarmed and folded into a single node. it was already here and one coming out of this a lot of phenomena is, of course, that you are not so much detailed, specific measures about how all these countries in the us are going to help build a stable peaceful and democratic libya. people in madagascar are on the verge of

starvation after the worst drought in 40 years. the un food agency says there's a desperate need for aid with malnutrition, more than doubling in the past 4 months. i lexia brian reports this days at wasteland and southern madagascar was once airable and fertile. but years of drought mean only a few patches of green remain. the lack of water has destroyed crops and sandstorms cover whatever's left and a layer of dust. the food here has nearly run out. many families are forced to eat and sick the leaves to survive. it took me that in the morning, i prepare the plate of insects. i clean them up as best i can give them. there's almost no water. my children, i have been eating this plant every day for 8 months because we have nothing else to eat and no rain to allow us to harvest what we have sewn. 8 groups a warning of catastrophe, especially for children like these 2 now orphans after the mother died of hunger,

the arms of wasting away, while they stomachs obliterated by malnutrition. and they had allowed if i look it up, i rely on god. today we have absolutely nothing to eat except cactus leaves that we are trying to clean up. we have nothing left. their mother is dead and my husband is dead. what do you want me to say? our life is all about looking for capital lees again and again to survive. medic ask is, southern region is the epi center of the crisis. more than a 1000000 people, about half of the areas population need food aid, and the karone of ours pandemic has made everything worse, flowing the delivery of much needed supplies. many of these women and children have walked for hours to get help, were facing the worst drought, and over 40 years. and this is an area where people depend on their own agriculture, home grown school, meals, small holder farmers. this is out, they live down here,

but with drought back to back to back. people can't survive. and so the government partner with the world food program, others were doing the best we can. but it's a terrible situation who reigns during the c as planting season suggests get another harvest will fail. the us food agency saves the world, must act now, or a generation could be lost to famine, alexia bryan al jazeera. so the come in this half hour, 9 cat separate his leader is walk free from prison. phil vowing to win independence from spain and putting the paper to bed for the final time. press freedom stuff. where is another major blow in hong kong? ah

hello june. might be the month with midsummer's day, and it is often unreliable weather wise for europe. this is the exception, in fact, where there's been disappointing. i've been under statement for the british charles and much of central europe, particularly france. these wandering france produced a huge amount of cloud, therefore, low temperatures, rain, and hail, and by contrast, much of eastern europe and western russia has seen an extended period of warms. it was up in the 30s in sweden a couple days ago that cooled down a bit, but moscow's at 36, the n as at 33 and down through croatia. that was greece. we talking about the 30s in big contrast to maybe 22 in paris. that's quite possible that moscow will break . it's june record next day or 2, the record being 34.9. we forecasting 35 or 36 until the thunderstorm start to cool things down after that. and it's been thunderstorms and they'll be more of them. rain,

hale and disappointment in the fact that no sunshine it'll be wide spread throughout central europe. there's an exception, down in spain and portugal, the south spain is quite warm. but if you're not there or you not mentally or further east, it remains disappointing. the who's the be part of the debate itself defeated the end because it 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 where the command was white, man, touching aloud your dream, where a global audience become a global community. jumping to the comment section, and part of the discussion. there are like kinetic efforts to silence bell opinions on the online faith on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back. as a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, dozens of people have reportedly been killed in an air strike on a busy market. any fuel p as northern region, some of those injured taken to the regional capital making there, but there are reports of soldiers stopping ambulances reaching the troops for $167.00 african nations will be deployed to mozambique to help fight i saw in the northern capital, then gather progress and libya as interim government as foreign mercenaries could begin withdrawing from the country within days. the foreign ministers had progress had been made on the issue. of course, the leaders in berlin. although nothing concrete was

iran says it stopped an attempt at act of sabotage against its nuclear program. although its release no details. this comes after the us sees the 33 media websites that links to iran on tuesday, the government into iran, as condense the moon, calling it a breach of freedom of speech. the u. s. previously sanctioned the rounds revolutionary guard and state media outlets, making it illegal for them to do business with americans. that department of justice is accused. the radian media of spreading this information in as well. me check on the con john the, what the us did to iranian websites was a breach of all principles of freedom of speech, which the united states is proud of. they restricted freedom of speech. we condemn this measure. we will use all our legal and international means to counter this wrong policy of the united states. it is not a constructive move at a time when nuclear talks are underway in vienna. by re in toronto more now on the iran's reaction. while these sites are all off branches,

off shoots of the official fate, tv websites and belonging to the states. and these have been really, there's been a lot of anger by officials from various levels of government we heard from wrongs had her on the un mission. who said that the radians will pursue this a through legal channels that it is shameful. we also heard from the countries communication minister, who said that this is not something the u. s. is able to do because it's illegal. he called the illegal act. we've also heard from the countries for ministry who issued a statement saying that this was a shameful act. dot carried out by the u. s. government, and it's not, it's a double standard for them when they preach about democracy for them to do this, to the iranian sites. 9 capital and separate his leaders avow to keep working for the regions independence as they were released from from prison. they were pardoned by the spanish government for their role in

a bid to break away from spain 4 years ago. but it's a risk for the prime minister who's hoping it will start talks between the region and the nation. so nigga, yegell reports the day they had waited for the leaders of catalonia secessionist would leaving prison surrounded by porters and old home. and to continue the campaign for capital and independent length of the wrangler political, we want to transfer to the field of politics, all aspirations, commitments and ideals. because there is no ideal and commitment, more nobles, and that of the freedom of a country, the independence of our country, than the republican values than the commitment to social justice and the freedom of all people. with their freedom comes conditions. all mine have been borrowed from public office and their pardoned wrestler not committing what the spanish government would consider serious crimes. they had each set more than 3 years

behind bars for their roles. in the 2017, a legal independence referendum triggered off the worst political crisis in spain, in decades. a crisis that may have recently ab, what is by no means most spaniards outside of catalonia, against the pardons. but there were very few options available to help resolve the current situation. please prime minister federal sanchez has banked on the move ending the political path. yea, and he says is to kick start talks and secure reconciliation between the central government capital a nationalist. but it has drawn fury from his political opponent, jacqueline governor, and the lovely people double the next. sort of it up, you have placed yourself on the wrong side of history, which will not absolve you. if you have any dignity left you should resign today and submit this decision to the judgment as the spanish p. sanchez will meet the cattle and lead a pet otto. this on tuesday,

an opportunity which he hopes could lead to better relations with a pro independence movement. but he runs the risk of gambling away. he's minority government, so the diagonal i'll just there of a former columbia presidential candidate who was kidnapped and held by far cripples for 6 and a half years has come face to face with her former captors on live tv. ingrid based on cor, was held in the jungle after being captured by the revolutionary armed forces in 2002. she was appearing before columbus truth commission, which was set up after the 2016 peace agreement between 5 and the government. good morning for founder and peer to who is in the colombian capital both. so tell us a little bit more about what her reaction was. well, angry and cor, spoke at the end of this event. she was the last victim to speak and she had some

very strong words for her former captors, while also at trying to insist on the need for reconciliation and hope in the country. she said that she expected the former members not only to ask for forgiveness, but also speak in detail about what they did today, ordered to be orders that they made in the jungle, saying that yes, it's good that they express that they feel shame of for what happened for the fact that they've used to keep mapping in a systematic way, but they need to speak from the heart. she doesn't want to hear them speak in political terms, that that's what they are victims and the entire country is expecting of them. this,

despite the fact that she thinks that this event, this meeting is necessary to move forward to, to talk to a new generation of columbia. and to make sure that what happened to her and to thousands of other colombians will not happen again. you know, we had a, you know, i would never have imagined in the depths of my captivity. that one day i would have had the possibility of a human dialogue with my old captors. what i want to tell the country in this difficult situation, we find ourselves in that violent, never has been and never will be the solution. strong words from her and just to remind viewers, she was of course, appearing before columbia as truth commission, which was set up up to the peace agreement back in 2016 between the fica and the government. tell us a little bit more about what columbus truth commission is doing right now,

what it's trying to achieve. well, it took many months if not years of work to organize an event like this when, where you have dozens of victims of kidnappings, of their relatives coming together to face their captors. where you have former 5 rebels coming out and describing what they have done. and asking for forgiveness, the publicly, the truth commission is trying to do just that to tell the truth of what happened doing the many decades of internal conflict in columbia. today's event is about the 5 g rebels in particular, and the systematic use of kidnapping as a war, crime doing columbia internal conflict to finance there war against the state. but the truth commission is also working in studying what happened was the crimes that

have been committed by a paramilitary groups by the state. this trying to bring all the different actors and victims of this conflict to gather, to try and tell the true story of what has happened there at least to come with close as possible to the truth to help. also, victims obviously feel better to work together in finding the correct ways of repaired the victims in many ways. and it's also building a number of reports that will then be used by the countries prescribe. you know, that has also been created by the peace agreement that has been side by the colombian state and folk rebels, back in 2016 and their investigations and in preparation

of the sentences that they will then present on the is responsible of war crimes. it's a very, very complicated that work that will soon and hopefully it will help this country move forward and trying to achieve reconciliation. and also in the words of the president of the truth, commission, making sure that these kinds of crime will remain in the past and will not happen again in this country. i listen that i'm pretty with the latest from the colombian capital booklet palace. andrew, thank you. russia says it's committed to strengthening ties with me and mars military it comes is the head of the job to visit small school may now lying met with rushes, defense minister at a security conference in mars. army has been blacklisted by several western countries after it seized power in february, rights activists of accused russia of legitimizing the job by continuing bilateral

visits and arms deal. and another new trial has begun for me in march, the pose leader on some few cheap in this case, she is charged with violating the colonial era official secrets act, which carries a jail term of up to 14 years. the military has already brought a series of criminal charges against her since taking power in february. so she has been detained ever since. the 1st person in hong kong to be charged under china's national security law has gone on trial. tony and kit is accused of terrorism, and inciting is the session for driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers while flying a protest flag. last july, he's been denied the jury for his trial with the government, citing concerns about the safety of jurors. when meanwhile, hung calls last pro democracy newspaper has published its final edition. the apple

daily's closure is seed as the end of the new year of media freedom in the city and follows the freezing of its assets. earlier the chief columnist of the popular tabloid became the 6 the staff member to be detained this month under china's national security law. the papers owner jimmy lie has been in prison since december on charges of taking part in unauthorized number. we will worry about reporting subjects associated with the national security low such as topics related to sanction and independence. this will create a chilling effect. people may avoid reporting the sort of you do not report on that is the safest approach as people don't know where the red line is. and that's exactly a month until the opening ceremony of the tokyo olympics, has many people in japan, not convinced that it should actually go ahead. during the pandemic protests there is used the occasion to gather outside japanese olympic headquarters,

calling for the government to cancel the games, which already been delayed by a year. in the latest poll only around a 3rd of japanese say that they want the games to go ahead. well, live pick organizers, say this taken every precaution now including an alcohol ban for spectators. and literally, the prime minister has told the vatican not to interfere with a propose the law designed to combat homophobia. but that argue says parliament is free to discuss. the draft legislation is italy is a secular state. the vatican has formerly opposed the bill saying that in its present form, it could restrict the religious freedom of the catholic church. the law would extend additional discrimination, protections to the l g b p community. one of the, like a lot of the main content of a legal system contains all guarantees to ensure that laws always respect constitutional principles and international commitments including the con,

caught up with the church. i would also like to point out that secularism is not the states indifference to the religious phenomenon, but the protection of cultural diversity. but you can find that much more on our website. there's our top story that meeting in berlin about trying to have elections in libya in december. ah, now reminder of our top stories on al jazeera, dozens of people have reportedly been killed in an air strike on a busy market in ethiopia. as northern te grade region. some people were taken for treatment in the regional capital mickely, which is about 30 kilometers away, but many more wounded are believed to be trapped in the village. is comes during some of the most intense fighting.