french tea colonization on al jazeera. we know what's happening in our region. we know have them get to play thief, that others cannot. if i, as i said, i'm going the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. ah. ready a spiraling humanitarian crisis now complicated by a diplomatic one. the united nations tells ethiopia it has no legal rights to expel 7 of its officials. ah, uncommon, santa maria, near, and doug home with the world news from al jazeera. doesn't matter whether it's in 6 minutes. 6 day or 6 week, we're going to get it done. as president mate's fellow democrats,

as the party remains divided over 2 massive spending bills. also, the former georgian president because hawkish villiers detained just hours after his return from an 8 year exile and a potential game changer, a new pill for coven claims to half the risk of hospitalization and death. ah, lover in the united nations has told ethiopia, prime minister does not accept the country's decision to expel 7 of its senior personnel. ethiopia says the officials are being removed for meddling in the internal affairs of the country. the announcement came off to the you and the aid chief said a de facto blockade all night to the region was causing severe malnutrition among children you and says it could affect humanitarian operations. that helped me and 5000000 people in the war torn fig, i region, our diplomatic editor james base as more from the united nations. for now the u. n

. is not withdrawing the 7 high level members of its staff. that the government of ethiopia say, should be expelled from the country. the you and 2nd, general antonio terrace picked up the phone to the theo, p, and prime minister abbe ahmed of the you and says that it doesn't accept the principle that these staff are now. persona non grata and it is the long standing legal position of the organization not to accept the application of the doctrine of persona non grata with respect to united nations officials. this a doctrine to the applies to diplomatic agents accredited by one state to another state. the application of this doctrine to united nations officials is contrary to obligations under the charter of the united nations. however, the ethiopian foreign ministry has doubled down, issuing a new statement, giving more details of what it says is the meddling by the 7th staff in internal affairs. it also says that a discussion of the issue by the un security council would be

a blatant violation of its national sovereignty. but that discussion has taken place at close session of the security council coming as it is now october under the presidency of kenya. a neighbor of ethiopia that has close relations with the country. i asked kenya's ambassador whether by its actions, ethiopia, now risk becoming a pariah state. the kenyan government in our delegation, certainly is, is not considering a questions about paris state or, or what the response of the philippine government is. we are considering all the statements, including some of the communications or from the foreign ministry by twitter. and we are continuing to actively be informed and trying to be responsive to the situation as evolves. but we have every hope that it will r got in a positive direction. so what is the next step? i am told ireland is currently circulating the draft of a statement to all the security council members. all of them though,

must agree before it is issued. more on this from david dell contact, who is the campaign lead all stop to great famine. this with their refugee international, he says the situation and the region really is not desperate. since the blockade came into effect on 26, june, less than 10 percent of the necessary supplies had reached the region. agencies have since exhausted nearly all the supplies that were preposition in the warehouses, mccarren leaving the vast majority of the operation suspended until more supplies are allowed in for the civilian population, which is mainly comprised the women children at the elderly. as you can imagine, seeing from recent reports, the situation is a slow and people march toward starvation. since the blockade came into effect communications in today into an adaptation to have been cut. so it's very difficult to hear from, to get indians themselves or to speak with them as to what's happening to them and their family. that's one of the aspects of the blockade through my contacts and

those of refugees international. we know the situation is becoming increasingly dire. the absence of food aid, nutrition supplies, medical supplies, and fuel, oh, to to truck water means the situation every day gets worse. the absence of banking facilities means a good indians can't access theirs. their savings and banks do to buy it or supply some buy supplies for their families. the absence of commerce means that they can't share or, or purchase items in the market. so these dynamics make for a particularly serious, serious situation and his own growing worse by the day on the weather news on the white house, it says the u. s. president and members of his democratic party have made progress . they try to rescue job items, economic agenda in a rare move foreign american president biden met with his party members on capitol

hill. divisions among democrats threatened his ambitious plans with progressive, vowing to block a one trillion dollar infrastructure bill. unless there is larger social spending and a greater focus on climate change, i'm telling you we're going to get this. oh matter with doesn't matter whether it's in 6 minutes, day or 6 weeks. we're going to get it done. more on this one with rosalind jordan in washington. it comes down to whether members of congress in the president's party can agree on terms on both the social spending slash environmental bill, as well as on the infrastructure spending bill. if they can work out their differences on one, the actual price tag for the 1st bill, because there are some in the senate who say that bills just simply too expensive at $3.00 trillion dollars. as well as work out the idea that there's going to be

a guarantee that that bill is going to be passed if more liberal members of the house of representatives actually decide to vote for the infrastructure bill. so there's a lot of horse trading that goes on here. they're supposedly going to be at least one more vote on friday evening in the house of representatives. but we don't know what time that votes going to happen, and exactly what they're going to be voting on. they have usually isn't just, all right, we're going to vote on a bill and let's go. there are a lot of procedural steps that have to be voted on before you can actually vote on a measure. and given that there is an, as of right now and announced a decision on what to do with the social spending flash environmental bill, it's not clear whether or not they're going to get that worked on this weekend. but as we heard from president joe biden, he's not apparently old that worried if he says, you know, i can wait 6 weeks,

it does just make it work. let's make it work the right way in order to get most of his goal. because after all, this is a negotiation. the former president of georgia, macau soccer field has been detained just hours after arriving back in the country for the 1st time in years. he'd only posted a video and facebook saying he wanted to support the opposition in saturday's election despite the risk of his arrest. it was 2013 when soccer and he left georgia. that was when his 2nd term, as president ended years later, he was sentenced in absent here to 6 years in prison for an abuse of power. the charge he called politically motivated for from forced to walk into police. i understand that he was actually detained here in tbilisi, having somehow escaped authority since posting that video early this morning from by to me, which is on the coastal, which is on the coast here on, on the black sea,

he made it to tbilisi and he then said that he said he faced likely arrest. we then had a statement from the prime minister saying that that arrest operation had been carried out. and we've now seen a smiling recall sacristy being taken into prison. we understand that prison is en, route savvy to town, not far from the from to b. c itself. i really that just kept an extraordinary dane, george and politics because mickle sec s v a has made disappearance on the eve of municipal and meryl elections, which the opposition consider is really important because they hope that georgia public will come out to more and vote decisively against the georgia dream government, so make off suckers, really has picked this moment. now. finally, after all these years to return and shake up the georgian political c. no lawyer known for his decades long battle against the u. s. oil giant chevron has been

jailed for criminal contempt. stephen danziger was sentenced to 6 months in prison by a new york court. okay, stems from his fight on behalf of ecuadorian villages to prove chevron polluted the amazon rain forest. back in the 19 ninety's, kristen salumi reports now from new york. stephen danziger arrived in court to a hero's welcome. but the environmentalists indigenous groups who gathered to listen to the judge were deeply disappointed by his sentence 6 months in jail on charges of contempt of court. the only thing that would have changed today's outcome is the one thing that was never ever gonna happen. which was for steven danziger to stand up and say, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i joke on chevron. it was back in 2013 that danziger won a $9500000000.00 settlement against the oil giant chevron in ecuador. soon after

winning it, chevron took him to court in the united states on charges of bribery and witness tampering federal prosecutors declined to take the case, but judge louis kaplan appointed private attorneys, attorneys, who once worked for chevron to prosecute it. and in a trial without a jury found him guilty, the contempt charges stem from his refusal to comply with court orders. and the appeal of that case, gentler and a prescott pushed back against claims that danziger was being over. punish saying he'd spent 7 years thumping is know, is that the justice system and even if chevron were the bad guys, that didn't make danziger a good guy. but danziger now forbidden from practicing law, has already spent 2 years essentially confined here in his manhattan apartment, monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet. the reason i'm locked up is because we were successful. okay. i,

along with other lawyers helped indigenous peoples in ecuador when a historic $9500000000.00 pollution judge, when it got chevron for the deliberate dumping of billions or goals of cancer causing waste into the amazon. that's an historical fact that case has been affirmed on appeal by 28 appellate judges, including the highest quarterback woodward canada form for, for purposes, you know, so why, why the, why being locked up a you on human rights committee on arbitrary detention has called for his immediate release saying the judges in his case lacked objectivity and impartiality. chevron has even stated that they spent over a $1000000000.00 in prosecuting danziger and defending chevron. and obviously this is a message to any human rights lawyer go up against the big corporation. and we will take you down, destroy you dancing her plants, you appeal the sentence. as for chevron, the company has yet to pay a penny in damages. kristin salumi al jazeera new york. the news ahead stopped

from entering parliament police in tennessee, a bar low makers from their own place of work. ah versions in chiles. the country lifts, one of the longest locked downs and the world, but the pandemic does still close friends. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways voted wills best. a line of 2021. hi there, welcome to your world. whether updates for asia will start in india. there are some problems, spots out for the north b har states, also the se tamela do both of these states, we could see more than $200.00 millimeters of rain within the next 24 to 48 hours. so flooding a big concern. we've got sas, iconic storm golub around the gulf of all mine. it skirt it through that south of

pakistan. dropping about a 100 millimeters of rain in karachi. here it is targeting southern iran on saturday. and by sunday it will veer toward the west and it's got oman and mos got in. it's cross harris. now for indo china, it's been particularly soggy. over the last little bit. we've had to back to back tropical storms as some spots have picked up about a meter of rain. and this is the seen in thailand, widespread flooding and you know, on saturday still these pulses of heavy rain, the darker the color, the more intense the rain is falling. it is dr. for eastern sections of china. so shanghai rate down to hong kong with the high of 32 degrees cipher mentally has pulled away from japan out toward the pacific, but it's less some tropical air in behind. so tokyo may get to 30 degrees on saturday. that's well above average should be about $22.00, and you'll keep that temperature steady in the days to come. that's it for now until next time. take care. the weather sponsored by cutter airways voted will best airline of 2021. this is one of the most astounding,

the logical revolutions and all of this make our planet great. we have to meet the seo tool emission targets liquid casa, meet mitchum in motion. many to be mind to where people are just talking about wind and solar. is it that's going to solve the problem? it won't. the world of business in commerce is driving energy transition each the promise of clean energy and illusion for topside of green energy on al jazeera with ah, the top stories this, our on al jazeera, the united nations, as told ethiopians, prime minister does not accept the countries to city to expel 7 of its senior

personnel. if you're, if you says the officials are being told to leave because they meddled in the internal affairs of the country. the white house says the u. s. president and members of his own democratic party have made progress as they try to rescue drive his economic agenda. divisions among democrats threatened his ambitious plans with progressives bound to block a trillion dollar infrastructure bill. the former president of georgia miguel soccer street has been detained. just hours after arriving back in the country for the 1st time in 8 years earlier, he said he wanted to support the opposition. in saturday's election. police and in his ear has stopped m pays from entering parliament. there were reports, politicians were trying to return to work at the end of the summer recess. during their break, of course, president sky side suspended the parliament and in smith as mo, from tunis junior. he was elected politicians should be in parliament or by the 1st day back after the summer break. mohammed romani was one of only 2 tried. they

didn't get very far, lulu. i came here and found all the doors closed. i want to say either there is a parliament which is open for us to work or to be dissolved. we will, if you will, actions. parliament was suspended on july 25th by present, kai signed. but he now rules by decree. good is it because of cov 19 to nice? is economy shrunk by 8 percent last year? youth unemployment is at 36 percent. the dina has lost half its value. that's why many tunisians seem to support the president's decision to put the countries 10 year old democracy on ice. but 2 months on that still no recovery plan a no promised crackdown on widespread corruption if a mahash huh. the president says he has proof of corrupt people. ha. so then they should be sent to prison wash. he's not done that yet. on wednesday, the president appointed national a boot and his prime minister. and a 1st time a woman has held the roller. luckily, jim moss, if you hold all the power generic,

you know, one looking over you, there must be a time when these extraordinary measures expire. having a female prime minister isn't enough. she said, there must be partnership with civil society and not all political parties are equally bag. now we can't save the country without working hand in hand. the president side says he will appoint a committee to help amend the constitutional to establish a true democracy in which the people are truly sovereign on earth. that could be a long process. the economic crisis is more urgent. the central bank says it has less than $200000000.00 in the treasury. it needs one and a half $1000000000.00 every month to pay wages and meet debt repayments, obligations impossible, without help from foreign lenders. bernard smith, al jazeera judas. the crew leader in guinea colonel. my married and boyer has been sworn in as intern president. he led last month's military take over that asked of the long term lead alpha cons. a numbers military government unveiled

a traditional charter on monday that it says will steer the country back to civilian rural. regional block eco asked though is demanding elections be held within 6 months and they calling for condos release. cutter is preparing to hold its 1st legislative elections on saturday. voters will choose 30 of the 45 member. sure. a council, a body which dates back to 1972, but until now was fully appointed by cutter is a mere jamal, a shale reports from here, and i'll drive around the country, capital doha. and you can't miss all the new buildings, roads, and infrastructure projects. but the gulf states fast paced development isn't limited to urban modernization. cutter is marking a major political milestone. it's 1st ever legislative elections. candidates vying for a place in the legislative body called the short council have been campaigning for 2 weeks. election posters and banners are on display on almost every major road across the country. until now, the council has been mainly a consultative body,

made up of 45 members appointed by the countries ruler. but that's all changing. on saturday, quantities will elect 30 members to serve on the council, which will have the right to draft laws, approve or reject state budgets, question and even sack government ministers. another 50 members will be appointed by the amir, meaning 2 thirds of the short a council will be elected. going to be that the money not to nice every not useful hearted is one of those vying for a seat. the former country diplomat shows me around his home district of a walk and recalls the major transformation. it's gone through since its dependence on pearl diving more than half a century ago. he tells me the upcoming elections will be majorly significant in shaping cutters identity. usually an upper wind with thinks and only 80 it's, it's a unique system that is not be like the western democracy. and this not like the

dictatorship that a in some other areas, some other countries in the region. and we are trying to develop our own weight and deliver it to the people where as the participation can be in a wide and vigorous keel. shannon la cutter has long been regarded as one of the regions leaders when it comes to women, empowerment and the country is looking towards saturdays polls as another opportunity to further that lena duff are. is one of about 30 female candidates whose names will be on the ballot pay her and stands a strong chance of winning opening an oem left. and i believe that nations can only rise to the efforts of their people. that's why i decided to share the responsibility that cut those leadership has in legislations and in serving the people and addressing the issues that mattered to citizens. especially women because they are the backbone of society. the excitement isn't limited to those contesting, foresee in the shorter council for countries over the age of 18, this will be the 1st time in their lives. they've been able to vote in

a legislative election. a thought that in myra, i will vote for a female candidates. i am extremely happy though we are participating in the info and in historic process. and because of its importance, women's participation is in february and we should support each other. and the challenge for the members of cut out his 1st ever elected. sure council will not simply be how to serve the people. but for many of these new legislators, it will be how to navigate this major new adjustment to the country system of governments. as part of continues its push to becoming a source of reform and modernization in the region, jamal al shall al jazeera doha. with non experimental oral coven 19 drug has shown it can cut in half the chance of hospitalization and death. for patients at risk of severe disease, the phase 3 trials of the anti virus pill was in fact so successful that external

monsters called an early end to the stage pharmaceutical company. merc is seeking emergency use for authorization in the united states. while the trolley tracks 775 adults with mild to moderate coven, who, because of health problems we considered at higher risk of severe defeat disease. half got the 5 day course of the pill. the other half got a placebo. of those who took the placebo 14 percent well, hospitalized compared with 7 percent of those who received the drug treat mark says they were no deaths in the drug group during the time period compared to 8 deaths in the perceived group. the data has not yet been published or peer reviews. we spoke to it up because i have shower about this and internist and primary care doctor. he says the pill is a very significant development. it is a real game changer in our treatment of the school pandemic. that has in so many ways, shut down civilization. so it's a very exciting day to good day. but this is

a drug that mark has developed i. my understanding is that there are other pharmaceutical companies that are also very competitively going to be bringing their versions of this drug, this anti virus agent to the marketplace. and basically what it does is it inhibits the replication of the virus by causing errors in its genetic code. remember, it's an r n, a virus, so transmit r n a to r and a, and this new medication. quite shockingly, because the conventional wisdom was that we could not come up with an anti viral medication to treat an r n, a virus like co, 19 a low and behold, science as delivered once again. now, this is all preliminary. now this has been peer reviewed, but i can tell you this. if a phase 3 trials gets shut down early because the data looks good, that's a very promising sign. this is an amazing, i mean this may be actually from

a scientific point of view in more startling development than the vaccine itself. kind of phone is become the 1st us state to make it compulsory for school children to be vaccinated against kind of in 19 don't gavin use them says the move could go into effect as early as january. the mandate is pending approval from the us food and drug administration, for 12 to 15 year olds, the f t a did fully approve vaccines for students over 16 in august. but of course, for celebration and chilly instead of emergency imposed to stop the spread of cove, it has finally been lifted. strict nighttime curfews had been in place since early 2020, but after a recent decline in infections, life is returning to normal. for many, a senior man reports in santiago, ah, free at last, it's a sentiment shared by millions of chileans, after 18 months of the state of emergency imposed by the government because of the pandemic, a non interrupted curfew. one of the world's longest,

forced people to rush home early every day. now chileans are hoping to get back to a semi normal life. ah, disconnection bars will also finally be able to reopen until the wee hours of the morning. once a year. more lateral. we are very happy, this is good for the economy. and for people state of mind it's been too long. i've been yeah, boy, solid. some unfair to me. it was about time. and now we can finally go out at night and have a social life that we really needed. you know, we love me so far. they've been more than 3700 grown virus related deaths in chile, and some 1600000 confirmed cases. health officials and politicians concede that the long running curfew had become unnecessary. but truth be told, it was becoming almost impossible to enforce. yet not everyone is happy about the restrictions being lifted doesn't get with them at all. the other. my friends are going to want to kill me, but i wish we still had the curfew. i could tell guessed that it was time to leave,

or i could leave early by just saying, oops, thomas curfew time to go. although there is no longer a curfew, plenty of restrictions still remain over. 19 infections have dropped dramatically in chile, more than 90 percent of the target population has been fully vaccinated. and some people have even received a 3rd dose. what if you can see, you still have to wear a face mask everywhere except while easy. and you also have to show go for vaccination to enter most places. chili's borders are now also finally open to international travelers. a lifesaver for the crippled tourist industry. but any one who enters the country must go into quarantine for 5 to 7 days. it's at last, at least half full. unfortunately, these new found freedoms could disappear if infection rate begin to search. once again. to see a newman, al jazeera santiago. finally,

thousands of students of illustrate self milan to push for action on climate change . global leaders, a meeting in the city to hammer up plans ahead of a urine environmental summit. next month. in grand sca adarine reports from milan o enough talk, it's time for action. that was the clear message. climate act this good at a tumor can thousands of other student protesters had for world leaders? they're all gathering in milan. 40 united nations calls. it's pre comp $26.00 summer. held ahead of the main climate conference in scotland in november, ministers from all over the world have gathered here to discuss the climate crisis . and they are pretending that they have solutions to the climate crisis and that they are taking sufficient action. but we see so there, lice and we see through that blah, blah, blah, and we are tired of it. oh students in their thousands demonstrating is part of the fridays for future global protest movement. that tune back helped launch this

friday with the pre cup of meetings taking place in the city. the crowd was larger than usual dogs. the 5th one friday mulanda filled with anger, frustration, and impatience. they want us to listen to the crime problem. they want to know, we want to go to mentally cynthia house and we want them to know that we are here and we one go away until the listen. we want the climate change now because our food or doesn't wait for us it's, it's really important for us, this alone. we can do anything basically, but we're old. got it today. and we can do everything if we really want to. and so we came here signing for the things that we really care for. it's important to, to give pressure to, to the authorities, to, to, to, to let the message we heard this was, this happened a day after a youth for climate conference in milan, or hundreds of young activists from around the world proposed strategies to tackle

the climate crisis. coming out at the conference, many delegates expressed cautious optimism that leaders would follow through on promises to act swiftly and boldly. oh, the mood though on the street is different. many young activists said, trust between them in world leaders is broken and it likely won't be rebuilt until a major climate solution plan is put in place and soon adarine al jazeera newland. ah, these are the top stories on al jazeera, the united nations, as told ethiopia as a prime minister. it doesn't accept the countries decision to expel 7 of its senior personnel. if he appears, as the officials are being told to lay.