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many more homes and businesses face a similar fate. given 5 days behind themselves in south africa, the former president jacob's whom i found guilty for failing to appear out of corruption inquiry and europeans living in the u. k. face a deadline to apply for the right to remain will tell you was thousands of people could fall through the cracks. i'm devin, actually stored in sweden, match with ukraine at your 2020 has gone into extra time the when that will play england in the course. final goals from my home setting and kept in hurricane enough for to no victory. a great bible, germany at length ah, regional forces in te dry are threatening to pursue what they call enemy forces into eritrea. and ethiopia, zamora regions if required,

that's after retaking to rise main city of macula on monday. and there have been celebrations across the region as local forces claimed victory after an almost 8 months long conflict with federal troops and their allies. if you, if he has government announced the unilateral cease fire with immediate effect, but it's not clear if it's actually being observed. government and rebel forces have been fighting since november when, if you appeal prime minister ivy ahmed sent in troops to out the t p l f. malcolm, where does more now from nairobi on the movements of local forces. we've also heard on conform repel. so they also took the small town of sheer, about 100 kilometers to the west, and a bit to the north, closer to the border with eritrea, eritrea who soldiers have also been involved in this conflict, fighting alongside the government troops, residents from sir i said, the return soldiers that have been there for many weeks left the city and move

north towards the chain border, but the phones are off there as well. it's very difficult to confirm any of that, but it's important to understand that that sci fi that was declared by ibm and government was unilaterally declared it wasn't agreed with anybody because the phones are off. we don't know if the government's upholding a ceasefire and everything that the t p i left of said since didn't acknowledge that cease fire at school and those comments that you mentioned just a few minutes ago about taking their enemies even across the borders, make it sound like from, from that point of view, this conflict isn't over yet. that's well the u. s. is one, the few and the re tray, it will take further action. if the cease fire fails to end the conflict, this comes as a congressional committee on foreign affairs heard evidence on the violence in the region ship attempts, the reports now from capitol hill, the biking ministration. express cautious with peace may be enduring calling. the

spirit declared by the if you can government into crime. but there was a warning about human rights abuses. a commitment that the u. s. would act if it was just the efforts toward a political settlement whipping hamper. we will not stand by in the face of horrors in te grey. the robert go deck did not elaborate, high level throughout the congressional hearing if you refuse position as a key us ally and the region was emphasized, even as witnesses. and then was a congress outlined the abbey, a government's responsibility to human rights abuses and malnutrition. if i leave you with one thing today, it is that usa believe famine is likely already occurring. and ethiopia, here to the part of our committee was flattered. but we are sick and fall into gray bears the hallmarks of crimes against humanity and quite possibly a genocide. but if you, if you're is seen as key to the u. s. a strategic objectives in africa, i'm looking at him, put his criticism of the prime minister prospects for

a durable piece and if you and it's wrote as a responsible regional leader. now in question, as is prime minister the abi legacy on the ground to ground forces that said they had the regional capital mckelly fully under that control. and there were celebrations in the town of mid report that eric trim troops had left a t. p levels are about to push south and east to consolidate its position. notably, it has not been so far. the us is treading carefully. washington has been trying to preserve all options with respect to its engagement with, with they've been trying to use diplomatic persuasion up to this point to get the ethiopian government to relent in its sort of pursuit of total victory in gray. they have not been successful in, in that conversation, but they have withheld some of the most biting sanctions that the united states has

. sanctions related to the human rights abuses that have gone on at the hands of b, o. b, in government troops and their allies in the region. it's clear that the biden administration wants to keep if you can government close, especially as china extends its reach across africa. but there are reports that some members of congress will be keeping a close eye on. prime minister, abba is actions, especially as a way the u. s. is foreign a to budgets shebra times the al jazeera capitol hill. second, look back now at how it all began. the conflict in the northern ethiopian region between the national army and the gray in people's liberation front has been ongoing since november the t p l. f. had dominated ethiopia politics for nearly 30 years. until prime minister i b r made took power in 2018. now you ordered a military operation against a group in te gray last year after he said that it attacked army bases. the t p

less says that it was unfairly targeted, multi gray opposition. parties say more than 50000 people have been killed while the un says more than 350000 have been pushed into famine. and nearly 2 weeks ago, the african union launched an independent inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the region after widespread accounts of massacres and sexual violence against civilians. and on monday the government in the capital, addis ababa declared a see fire in t gray. shortly after degree and forces actually took back the capital mechanism. we can, i think, is a professor of politics and governor and governance in africa at laden university. he joins us now by skype, from laden in the netherlands. sir, thank you for joining us. considering that we're hearing the t p less effective least pression, going into every trail and chasing of the troops that have been fighting against them. and that the seas fire itself, made it sound

a bit temporary from the ethiopian government saying that it was going to last while the harvest was taking place. so much hope you have that this cease fire is going to last. we can say it's difficult. i mean the did the offer is, is an interesting one, but the federal government, we don't know what exactly motivated it. but, you know, it gives an opportunity, certainly to not only the federal government to relent in its, in its campaign and to recalibrate, but also to the t p. fall as it now called on the tv to great defense forces. to do their part in trying to secure a more secure, secure, and more quiet in a more peaceful region to, to, to start, to start with the needs rehabilitation and rebuilding of that area. if they announce that they want to pursue the war interview retreat into other areas, that would not be a good a good good idea. i'm not sure if that's realistic, because if they will do that, they will not only perpetuates the war and, but also provoke serious backlash from armies who will be fighting much more on

their own turf than in but what they are doing now integrate. so it's, it's not basically the conclusion is we can really for, to predict of course, as well as one of the changes has been that the us now warranty few open eritrea, specifically that if they take further that they will act, the u. s. will act if there is an escalation of violence again and an end to the cease fire in a sense the international community didn't really get very involved while the violence was going on for the you think things would be different now if the cease fire was cold off looks the international community of the us and the you have no business in threatening and putting more pressure on the federal government . the ball is now in a court of the others on the, on a t d f. i mean, that part of the problem is that, you know, the, 1st of all, we don't know exactly much about the details of the,

the alleged atrocities and all kinds of messages. which you mentioned in your introduction. we really don't know what is real, what is, what is, what is fake, what is cyber cyber warfare? you have to sort that out. there is no commit. you working. there was a committee working from the u. n. c h r and the job us commission. they will follow that up with other research. then we can have a clear picture of what exactly happened there and don't have the illusion that it will be only your federal government, which has been a foreigner and all sides of the conflict have been accused of mass killings. and even though i agree with you, it's been very difficult, for example, for journalists to really report out of p gray. we have had several reports, for example, continue to sustain sexual violence. but in fairness, all groups were accused of masculine. yeah, exactly, exactly. so now we have the opportunity, the job in the federal forces are retreating and we should have open, open, open access to all areas. we should have a major effort in combating the deferment,

the situation which can lead to feminine in to right now due to the destruction of the harvest and you're jordan award the situation and that is yeah, i hope to t d f. people that the great force is now taking over some of the area and then entering cities will do their parts and show responsibility. and she could kind of know that say open no partnership, no no dispensation to respect and to rehabilitate the area. and that could be done in incorporation with me as part of the river federal army services office, government service and so forth. but if you hear some kind of, yeah, these messages of pursuing the retreat into a retreat are pursuing the federal army. not sure if that really stick into other areas that would not be very helpful, that the owners is now on them to show what they really want to be the one area. so do you think that the statements are done in, in

a way of sort of perhaps saving face if you will, or, you know, showing that there's still a threat? do you think that there's may be no real sentiment behind it? well, we don't know why they will tell you about unity to, to, to do what they think is right for 40, right answer for them to consolidate a power position. but we'll, we'll see, i hope they work out. they kind of know, compromise, a nice real rethinking of what is the, what is that miss challenge? what are the challenges in both the gray and, and the relation of the region of the grade or thomas, are you enough to grade the original state? will the rest of the oh yeah, it cannot it, it should really improve. and there is now an opening that's a positive thing of the retreat. the self, the self impose retreat are the federal army from, from major places in into the way. it's now an opportunity for the g d. s to show what they want and what, what positive role they could play. i really hope something good comes out of it.

what, of course we are all struggling to find out what is behind this whole surprising development? is it militarily? i don't think so. it's not only military is, it's something else. it is political. we don't know. we are waiting also for some explanations. maybe from the federal government about the the rationale behind the says surprising developments and i hope it will come. but most of all, we all want to best for the, for the gray and for the, for the fuel p as a whole. i, i hope really something good will come out of it rather than pursuing other you know, war agenda sh in in the region and being professor of politics and governance in africa at laden university in the netherlands. sir, thank you. thank you. still to come on the news hour, the family of palestinian activists, and these are bound to reject report into his best in custody. russia races the head of the corona, virus thread with suspicions surrounding the vaccine rollout and infections rising

. and could this be the last time that selina williams, features at wimbledon, the legends retires hurt during her opening round? ah, there have been more clashes in the palestinian in a palestinian neighbourhood where is really forces on tuesday, demolished the building to make way for an archaeological park. palestinian for testers have been camped in the city one area in occupied east jerusalem since is really officer, is bulldoze the butcher's shop. it's one of 20 properties being torn down after and he's really court rules that they don't have proper permits. every for fit is in seen one the well right now things have come to some extent. the number of security forces has been diminishing over the last half hour or so. there's not

a volley of fireworks just now, but a couple of hours ago, they will study significant confrontations and machines between security forces and protest is what took place earlier in the evening was a peaceful demonstration outside that demolished butcher shop about a $12050.00 people with chanting saying that they would defend one of the surrounding areas here in occupied east jerusalem. then there was a march to a protest tense. and at that point, there was just a small group of palestinian youth who saw what they thought was a car being driven by a jewish israeli. and they attacked dot com with stones and kicking it shortly after that, the security forces came in and they were confrontation skirmishes. guy was used to try to disperse, the crowd stones were thrown from the crowd. things as i say, have calm down a bit now because this is about much more than one shop. it's about a threat to dozens and dozens of homes in this neighborhood of ocoee bodies to them

to make way for a jewish archaeological talk. there are some 20 homes or buildings in total that are at the threat of imminently getting such a demolition order because they were built off to a law which makes it much more difficult to challenge this kind of thing in the courts. there are another $48.00 cases currently going through the courts and there are more besides that are on the threat. so this is a major threat to a major part of palestinian life. the palestinian president has received a report on the death of an opposition activist with a growing coal for it to be released needs that have been up to died hours after being arrested on thursday by palestinian security officers. he was a critic of the palestinian authority, often accusing it of corruption. his family members want an impartial and international investigation instead of one by the authority itself. well, a short while ago news that a bonus brother son made this statement on behalf of the family webinar. and

alec has, based on what they announce, we can say that this is just evasion. playing games. it's just live in my family, rejects the results of this so called investigative committee. they should have at least had the decency, to show us some of the findings of their cation, the question that is still lingering. was it an arrest, or was it a murder? this is the big question and we wish they simply answered that instead of in in big us statement is bennett brother speaking there were let me have you, but him has more now from ramallah. the family of ms. are been out on monday, has with through the families dr. from this investigation committee saying that they don't trust the results. but according to many we've been speaking through, they were saying that in order to calm down the frustration and the anger in the street, they are expecting the palestinian authority to hold the security forces. the

members who are involved in the arrest which later led to the death of his r, but not to hold them accountable to kind of well the anger and frustration in the street. of course we're going to be witnessing and the following. what is going to come out? we might expect the policy and prime minister or the president himself to be talking about this issue to kind of try and call the stories down. but it is a wait and see at the moment we've been seeing a lot of anger in the st. protesters coming out in the past few days, saying that the palestinian authority has intentionally killed nissan by nat. marian berg, good. he is a palestinian writer and researcher enjoins us from ramallah matter. amber, good. you. thank you so much for being with us on al jazeera, really strong words. i hope you could hear them on our, on our program. they are from these are benefits, brother are saying it's evasion lies that the findings when shared with the family and effectively what they want to know was whether it was arrest or the words that

the brother used a murder or what is your reaction to this report which i mean, of course, hasn't been officially released, but just the way that the whole thing has been handled so far. i don't think this is new from the palestinian authority. i think this was a deliberate and targeted assassination by the palestinian authority. i do not think that it's okay or right to frame this as died in custody. this is someone who is receiving direct from the palestinian authority and from the loyalists for months prior to his assassination. and it is, it is time to start calling it as that political assassination. this is someone that was targeted or his criticism of the corruption of the palestinian authority. and this is someone who we are watching the criminal themselves playing like they can be the defenders like they can be the ones to bring accountability when they were the ones that gave the actual command to target. and his eyes,

which of course is one of the main criticisms of this report, that it shouldn't be effectively an internal report that it should be an international with some kind of impartial investigation. realistically, what do you think the chances of that happening are and what kind of pressure can be put on the palestinian 40 to make that happen? i think it's time to look at the palestinian authority in their political assassination of news article also in their corruption and a tax on palestinian throughout the past years. this is not the 1st time that this has happened with palestinian authority, repression and palestinians have been warning for years that it will come to a point where we will be targeted in our home and we will be killed. and what is happening with needs been that is a showcasing of being bullied in many of the palestinian authority to continue committing crimes. there are crimes with impunity and it's time to safeguard palestinians, but more than this,

it's time to take our warning very seriously. not with peking about the attack about the threats he was receiving and none of them were taken seriously. it's time for the international community to stop tolerant, tolerating israeli colonialism and to stop tolerating palestinian authority oppression as well. to start picking the steps toward both, you mentioned the international community which, which is interesting usually in the international narrative about the palestinian territories. it tends to be in relation to the israeli occupation, or perhaps the split between fact and the mass. often there is little that is said about a lot of the anger that many palestinians may feel towards the palestinian authority for a variety of accusations that they have against it. do you think that this case and unfortunately the tragic death of news that brought up could be a turning point in this thought, just the attention but also the anger of palestinians themselves. i think we really

need to move beyond the focus on the anger palestinian as though that's the trigger of why we're getting attention. what is happening as an injustice towards palestinians? the focus isn't just on the palestinian authority. they go part and parcel with israeli colonialism. palestinian anger is not at the rivalry that's between us and the palestinian authority. all entire global communities have different parties that do go against each other. our problem is with dictator, like per practices, attitudes and perception. our problem is with the killing of palestinians, the silent thing of palestinian, the packing of palestinians from israelis from palestinian authority and any other groups that just wanted to die in silence. so i really think this focused on our anger and the framing of international shift. the narrative is also an insult to

the international community and their own intelligence. it's not just about our anger, we're angry because we are afraid we're going to get targeted and killed. and it is time to start being the practices, not just our response. do you think that will start to happen then? because of the attention on this case? i think i'm palestinians and i'm not the international community. and i'm just going to see what the international community does. will it be complicit with the crime that are happening against us? or will it take a position and move towards the actual mariam for good he palestinian writer and researcher speaking to us from madam, thank you so much for sharing your views with us. thank you. thank you. now, former south african president, jacob zoom has been given 5 days to hand himself in after a judge sentenced him to 15 months in jail. she was found guilty of contempt for failing to appear before an inquiry investigating corruption during his time in

office for me to miller reports. now from johannesburg. it's the 1st time a former south african leader is facing jail time. jacob zoom has been ordered to surrender himself to police within 5 days. he was sentenced to 15 months for failing to appear at corruption inquiry. the constitutional court judges decision leaves the former president with few legal options and the extent to which mister myers attempted to justify defiance through public statements is not relevant. the statements were not for my defeat, it so far to be disregarded. the constitutional court came to nothing but conclude that mister may is guilty of the kind of contempt of court. duma resigned from office in 2018 after his own parties threatened to pass a vote of no confidence against him for allegations of high level financial corruption and croft during his time as president. he's always maintained his

innocence, but it's not cooperated with. investigators. may i ask you then, as to how you plead to the charges that have been put, you need not to do to, to one by one allocations against whom i include many tightens of industry whom he said to have allowed to plunder, state resources and influence state policy, the former president maintains his the target of a political campaign. but the constitutional court has described his defense and attempt to gone up public support as insulting to the people of south africa. years of corruption scandals have left of africa, new leaders with the unenviable task of restoring investor confidence in africa's most industrialized economy. for me, the miller, i'll just 0, janice berg. in the past they, russia reported the highest number of deaths and just one day since the start of the outbreak, 652 people died as the country struggles with a 3rd wave of cove in 1900 driven by the delta variant in the capital moscow,

there are new restrictions targeting people who are not vaccinated. leading some to protest against mandatory jobs. charlie angela has more cases of coven. 19 a rising in russia, with infection rates returning to winter levels and death tolls at a record high. despite the vaccine being available in december, only 14 percent of the population has had 2 shots, mistrust of the state in its medical system, partly to blame authorities who's been accused of mixed messages and now scrambling to contain the search a certain over the last week, we registered a new record of the number of hospitalizations, people in intensive care units, and people that from code. therefore, we took a number of decisions on restrictive measures linked in particular to the mandatory vaccination of service workers. with the criminal is using incentives to get people vaccinated in one region, free tickets to the circus for those who get the job,

no entry to bars and restaurants for those who do not a strict q r code system requires customers provide proof of vaccination or have a negative pcr test to eat and do many unhappy research. and so i don't like it was her point of age. it's restrictions. people from visiting cafe, the vaccine that you know, will not safely from that. maybe you get sick, but there's no point in name. it's making vaccination mandatory that so and it's another set back for hospitality industry already suffering the other pretty much. there are no other options. the only surprise is that people do not need your coach and public transport. fitness clubs be to sell a shopping center. but i guess it's just a matter of time to number a protest nation, dr. faithful, that the sputnik vaccine is still not been approved by the world health organization. an angry that those who refuse it will be shut out parts of society.

alexi racks. as a former employee of the criminal statistic agency, he predicts that forcing vaccinations will backfire if kills only $1000.00 trouble or 2000 probably to get a fake vaccinate. then you get into the kleenex and the doctor gives you. give you a certificate for money and throw out the actual vaccine. and i think maybe in half a year there will be more people safely. looks and 8 and then actually extend on tuesday, scientist admitted that sputnik vaccine is slightly less effective against the delta variant than originally reported. while the government announced a won't be able to vaccinate 60 percent of its population by autumn as planned. charlie angela algebra. the united states has started shipping millions of current of iris vaccines to bangladesh. a white house official says 2 and a half 1000000 will during the doses will be sent by the end of the week.

bangladesh has impose the severe lockdown after noticing a sharp prize and infections from the delta variant areas near the indian border are the worst affected. meanwhile, india's drug regulator has granted a pharmaceutical company the right to import them during the vaccine supply, which is based in mon, by has authority zation for emergency use mother and will be the 4th fact seem to be used in india so far. just 5 percent of india's, $1000000000.00 plus population have received 2 doses of the corona, virus jobs, and children as young as 3 are taking part in a trial of a new corona, virus vaccine in cuba. tests of this so, but on a to job began with toddlers and children up to 11 years old. scientists say an ongoing trial and teenagers is going well. so far. cuba has a long history of manufacturing sporting vaccines and is currently testing 5 different jobs. this is the news our from london still ahead. she let begins the

process of reforming its police force, but abuse victim question. how serious the government really is. and then sport a slip. wimbledon helps. roger federer gets through the opening. ah hello there, thunderstorms and showers a dominating europe this week, but he is still there particularly across southern areas, but it's been knocked out of western russia. this was seen in moscow. the streets were flooded by torrential rains. we had gale force winds and it's a very different picture of than what we saw earlier this month. we had record heat there with the rain is going to continue as we go towards the weekend though, it does dry up and it's still a very wet picture of a central and north west in areas of your we got that swirling weather system,

bringing with it some very wet weather and thunderstorms all the way from eastern areas of france to poland and that falling.