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a new art exhibition, sharing space with the pyramids for the 1st time. and is for the real madrid, inflict more misery on barcelona. and speaking of bitter rivals, liverpool record, their biggest, when at majesty united homicide la, grab the hectic in the 5 and mil. ah, we begin this news all in ethiopia where the country's air force is conducted more strikes into growing. it's part of a campaign by the government to intensify the aerial bombardment of rebels who control most of the northern region. the military says it hid facilities run by the to grind people's liberation front and the town of ottawa as well as a training site. the air force has been carrying out raids in the region for the past week. as for the united nations to cease humanitarian lives,

the capital mckelly. despite warnings of a worsening humanitarian and hunger crisis, samuel get it. you is an ethiopian journalist in the south of up. he says the government is suspicious of the un despite the need for humanitarian aid. the chilton government is assisting that there are targeting military sites and places where they think the t p enough as training their troops. so they're saying the targets are not every they ethiopians who reside in the to grey region. again, it's to destroy that element. so for the t p left that they declared as a terrorist organization, the ethiopian government has been accusing the un of providing weapons. even resources are and you know, giving some kind of explanation of their success, the success they've been having since mid june. but in terms of ethiopia, ethiopia,

again, as a very, you know, a powerful country in court in, you know, this economy compared to other african countries perhaps. but it's still on a depend on nation, and this will impact it in the long term because there are money, money, part priorities. and this conflict up, begun to november is again, in our far region and upon our region, affecting millions of people in need of government support. the prime minister has been saying that this is about respecting the constitution of the country. it's defending its independence. that's why they've been having disagreements with perhaps the u. s. government, the bite and administration in washington dc. and other countries that have been pushing for if you're going to have some kind of negotiated c swire. but they've been saying from the get go that this is a local issue that be sold, that should be sold by the theo and government. but again, it's are facing so many people that are now in need of immediate support on that

bride and is the strategic advisor with san re such sense, a think tank focusing on politics and security in the horn of africa. he joins us my scott from nairobi. thanks for your time. how were evenly or unevenly matched are the t p ls and the ethiopian government forces in terms of military capabilities? it's a good question because on the one hand, ethiopia is a state, a government which had until recently one of the most powerful military is on the continent. and it has access to military assistance from allies. it has been purchasing weapons and ammunition, including drones, but also conventional armaments for ground forces. for the last few months. i, while the t d f for the to grand defense forces. i is isolated as a blockade on the,

on the to gray region which means they don't have resupply. but at the same time, it is the to grant forces that seem to have taken the advantage of the initiative. they have retake and control of most of to gray region, and they have now taken the offensive into neighboring alpha and i'm hotter regions with the intention of lifting the blockade on to gray and bringing ethiopian federal government to the bargaining table. are these air strikes then going to impact the t p ls in any meaningful way? well, it's hard to say because we don't really know the nature of the targets. but these are the areas that have been bombed. the facilities are far behind the front lines . they are at best sort of dual use facilities that could be civilian,

might have been re purpose for. ringback for military reasons, but in general in warfare, you know, this sort of strategic bombing aiming for targets that really don't have any tactical or immediate value has a very mixed record at best. and in some ways it seems to be galvanizing the 2 grand defense forces and their supporters to say that the federal government is really just intent on bombing the civilian population and using the blockade to starve the population, cuts out medical supplies and forced the population into submission, so it's really a strategy that could cut both ways. where is the a t p i left getting it, getting its resources from mainly from the c o, p, and national defense forces. the grand forces have really almost

perfected a method of allowing these jo can federal forces to enter an area to take the offensive. and then through envelopment maneuvers to cut off large units and to acquire the weapons, the ammunition and the vehicles they possess. while taking large numbers of prisoners in the same time. so actually the government and the fact that it is, it is really on the back foot in this conflict is the main source of supply of the tour in defense forces. they do not have as far as i think, any analysts have been able to determine any external source of support, a loan in the prime minister or the ahmed consent at all about the actual cost, the economic cost of this conflict. well, it seems that he has chosen to prosecute this conflict to

defer this 6 and possible regardless of the cost. and if he is economy is now in serious trouble. its credit rating has tanks. foreign budgetary support has been cut off. the us government is considering imposing sanctions and yet prime minister abby seems to be convinced that the greater threat comes from that to gray and people's liberation front. and it and its forces. and so is prepared to put everything on the line. and i would add that that includes the issue of the constitution and what federalism really means it has to do with also if your peers electoral system, everything in a sense is, is being shelved or suspended while the federal government prosecuted this conflict

. all right, randy. good to have you on the program. sort of laying it all out for us. they have met, bride and strategic advisor with some research. thank you very much. thank you. the leader of columbia's biggest drug cartel has been arrested dark and toner of sugar, who also goes by the name or tonia, was captured in a remote corner of the jungle. president iran bouquet says it's the biggest blow to drug trafficking since the death of pablo escobar in 1993 frank gupta. with this report. dido antonio osha guys, widely known as a tonio, and had been on the run for more than a decade. columbia most wanted and most fear drug trafficker, now finally in handcuffs after being hunted down by soldiers, put the world's largest cocaine producing nation or tornadoes. arrest is the biggest victory in its so called war and drugs in nearly 30 years. as verse l.

goldberg, this is the hardest blow that has been dell to drug trafficking in this century, in our country vehicle. and this blows only comparable to the fall of pablo escobar in the ninety's. he was captured at his high doubt in jungle near the border with panama. more than 500 soldiers were deployed, one officer was killed yarmouth, glad guitar. we began and important satellite surveillance mission against him, with agencies from the u. s. in u. k. where with each movement with trace analysts with communications were the 50 experts and signal intelligence permanently covering the area with an exact coverage that allowed us to indicate what his movements were you to get him from his hiding place. born into rural family or tonia was a hard and fighter who switch sides from far lab. gorilla to far i pan notary groups in 2012. he took over as the leader of the gods class from his brother who was killed by police. he's wanted by the us from porting tons of cocaine for years from south america. the kaufman says his crew has been behind some of the worst

violence. columbia has seen since the signing of a p steel with fark rebels in 2016. there is the possibility that these bring down levels of violence, especially on the communities that he, beth, had been affected by these large organization. but, but indeed, i mean, there is no an effective a solution to the drug trafficking international drug trafficking problem. jose, by beheading these type of organizations, that once all there been narcotics problems in the world. no, nor in columbia. many fail toenails arrest mealy to a power struggle, and a tough war that could worse and the violence. priyanka got their alta 0. ok, we have to correspondence with us this hour in a moment. will go to mike hannah in washington where sugar has been wanted by us authorities the 1st it's got our son therapy at the who is in bogota. alessandra so

what is going to happen next? then yes, kim looked the minister of the fancier in the columbia spoke earlier on sunday. and he said that the next step will be to comply with the extra addition of tonya to the united states. and that the minister of justice here in columbia is already moving forward in that direction. so most likely we will see that with tonya, unless of some surprise, last minute surprise, in court, in the united states, most likely in new york in the coming months. it's unclear how long the extradition process will take at this point. but there's no doubt that the colombian government believes that they need to comply with this request from the u. s. that goes back more than a decade. actually. australia was indicted in the us back in 2009 not only on

charges of shipping tons of cocaine to the united states, but also for recruiting children, killing police officers, among other charges that he's at requested by the united states. and again, this has been the case for more than a decade. the minister of the fancier says that that request that as fence and that the columbia will comply with it, what they will not say. colo military thies own record is that also they believe that's the best option forward because many here don't believe that colombian prisons are safe enough to cut all the ties that often yet has with this organization. the fear being that he could continue sending orders from a colombian prisons or be in touch with the other parts of this organization. it's allison, there around p a t. they live for us in bogota. thank you very much. let's get the

reaction now out of the us with my candidate and washington mike, tell us about the us efforts to capture and also to extradite who sugar what as he heard mentioned that goes back to 2009, which was the 1st time he was indicted in the us court in new york. there was subsequent indictments in other cases in new york. busy as well as in miami, at that stage, the state department put a $5000000.00 reward on his capture. so the indictment has been in place. he's been a wanted fugitive in the united states for more than a decade at this particular point. now this note word from state department, exactly as to the process in terms of getting extradition. there is an extradition treaty in place with colombia though it is very complicated and there has been a lot of eagles are legal arguments about that in the past. but hearing there's that, the colombian authorities are saying that extradition will go ahead. okay,

clearly it appears to be a pro forma decision. it is now up to the u. s. to put in the formal request for extradition and carry it on from there. now the charges that he is wanted on in the us all money laundering as well as belonging to a terrell organization. this relates to the people that he employed coming from left and far right wing groups classified by the state department as terror organizations. so he faces a number of charges within the united states should. and when the extradition process gets completed, not clear how long this is going to take. also not clear in which court he will be tried once and if he comes to the united states, am i can i think that update their my can in washington dc. do more head on usa, including protest isn't sudan a met with tear gas. the blocking of major bridging the casket. a kidnapping of

petrol truck drivers fuels more on rest and haiti and in sport, france finally has a motor gp well champion all the details life in the usa. ah . people in whose breakfast all went to the polls on sunday to vote in the presidential election. the incumbent shove cath mozy jojo is expected to when he's taking a 2nd term in office and faces. no real opposition? mere harding reports, even before these votes are counted the results of this presidential election and whose pakistan are all but certain incumbent president, chef cut mir's. yes. is expected when another 5 year term as there is no real opposition running against him. despite that, these voters are hoping to bring about whatever change they can king initially there the next 5 years, i would like to see live in standards raised to highest salaries, no poverty,

better employment and housing. that would make us all happy. yeah. mirrors you, you have came to power in 2016 after the death of his mentor, islam cat, him of who ruled the central asian country for 27 years. with a history of authoritarian rule, the country has never really had a truly democratic election. have the best of a pretty bad lot. there's not now, no one has been able to, has been allowed to emerge to be true to, to do, to be able to mount the, to challenge to mr. new york. with everything that i've said, the positive trend, you have to obviously admit that the economic indicators of slip simply because of called it ninety's. the pandemic has hit is becca stands, economy hard raising unemployment and the cost of living, especially in rural areas. even the problem with the, the main problems are in the region, not the capital in the capital. everything is more or less fine. people have water,

gas, electricity, in the other areas. unfortunately, there's a lack of all of this view mirrors you. yes. has been credited with helping to boost to arisen and ties with foreign powers. but the country now has to navigate new boundaries with new neighbors in afghanistan, the taliban. the us is still interested in continuing its military relations with a, with, with respect to send. and obviously russia is considering judge, the size of soft power, cannot be power, et cetera. the big question is whether you know the situation, it was in the janice that will spill over to these countries. there's a lot of concern that they at least stay secular and do not full upgrade to the extremist influences. as mirrors have went to cast his own vote at a polling station on the outskirts of the capital touch, can't his chances of winning remain around 90 percent. leah harding al jazeera libby is electro commission says it will soon begin. candidate registration for december's elections for the countries to rival legislative houses have yet to

decide how the vote work. the 2020 political deal between previously warring side means that both must agree on a constitutional basis before the elections can actually take place. my train is in tripoli, explains more about what's yet to be agreed ahead of the elections. we're just 2 months away from the scheduled nationwide elections in libya, but there's still some question that's what kind of election libyans will see. will they be a general election when we see parliamentary elections? we see a parliamentary presidential election simultaneously. those are questions that have yet to be resolved, as the size have yet to agree upon a constitutional framework for those elections to be held. now earlier today, imagine say at the head of the high national electoral commission said a few things. one, he said the commission will not deviate from its commitment to implement free and fair elections. he says we plan on opening the door for candidates to register and

the 2nd half of november. and this is really where the divide happens. who can run for president? what kind of powers does the president have? according to the libyan political agreement, signed in 2015. the high council of state, based in tripoli and the house of representatives, the parliament based and eastern libya, have to agree upon this framework to hold elections. here and in tripoli, they've set some conditions. they voted on the conditions for who can run for president. that bar you have to control if they're in the eastern libya they've allowed. they voted for conditions that allow who have to, to, to, to run for president. now whether or not the very aside the high council state and the parliament can agree upon a framework within these couple of weeks of, in order for the election to be held us schedule. we're not really sure. and we're going to have to wait and see what kind of solution the various sides come up with an order for libyans to be able to carry out the vote. protest is backing the

military have briefly brought major roads and bridges to dawn's capital. the tension submit between the generals and the pro democracy movement together with fond declare the protest isn't call to relations of solid, between the military and civilian sharing power and a fragile transition government. it's supposed to lead to don't election of long time data. all the share was pushed from power in 20191 out from morgan on the basis development, sin call to the response comes after the processes in front of the presidential palace where they've been teaching assistant for over a week. now, try to expand the area of the sits in to try to pressure the government and to dissolving itself and a new cabinet be formed by the prime minister. now the reason why they states that in front of the presidential palace is because most of them are pro military. they want the military to take over and take charge of the country. many of them coming out of their that they want the military to handle the affairs of the nation until

elections are held because they said that the government is not representative. now the governor of harpoon issued a statement just after the dispersing of the protest saying that those who are behind the blockade of the breeches and the roads are members of the former ruling party, which is out from power on april 2019 following months of anti government process, he said that there are also parts of the group that are participating in front of the fit in and trying to the stabilize the, the country and trying to make it very hard for people to move. so that people can be frustrated to the point that they're drawn into violence. now again, the system has been going on for more than more than a week with processes demanding that prime minister to dissolve his cabinet. and that's the result of a split between the 4th of the freedom and change coalition. that the ruling coalition, that is right now running the government around $700000.00 people have been hit by extensive starting and south stood on the 3rd straight year of finance. further

endangering lives in the wilds. youngest country he set by civil war, hunger and corruption. the un says southward on is always being prone to cyclical routes and floods. climate change is making these disasters even worse. hundreds of people in haiti and protesting against the government's failure to end more than 2 years of severe fuel shortages. prices continue to thaw and thumb petrol stations of closed thou gangs, and started kidnapping and killing fuel trunk drivers. i know to palo reports from puerto prince ah, fires burning in the streets of the haitian capital, while protest, super worsening insecurity, have swept the city in recent days. demonstrations over fuel shortages are also becoming a daily occurrence. there are fears, the city would come to a standstill if supplies aren't resumed soon or late. that was the that was the government is not doing its job. they are the ones that you give us security. they

should do everything to make sure pumps have petrol. so we can do what we have to do by plug that despite some gas stations already running dry cues of motorists keep growing as detention at home when the problem is the people in government, the richer fighting the pool so motorists tell us fuel is becoming so hard to come by, it can take days to get their hands on only a few gallons across the haitian capital. many petrol stations have closed their doors all together, creating a black market fuel. in recent days, the price of gasoline has gone from $10.00 to $15.00 per gallon and it's the cost that's only getting higher as the fuel shortage. worse. delivering fuel to residents has become more difficult as violence linked to criminal gangs spreads to more parts of the city. gang members have made a lucrative business out of extorting and kidnapping petrol delivery driver. the

transporters are threatening a strike to protest against violence directed towards delivery personnel, men and some not very good guys. a reason why there's no petrol is that some of the drivers have been kidnapped previously, but their truck can be the owners of paid for the truck to be released, but lift the driver behind and they will kill, was given up. that's why drivers enough good to go to the cargo terminal because they may go kidney. guys. though, the recent abduction of 17 mission years by haitian gang has captured global headlines, violence and kidnappings are challenged, that most residents here face on a daily basis. and between increasing insecurity, fast rising fuel prices and in economic crisis exacerbated by the ongoing coby 19 pandemic security experts say the situation is a ticking time bomb for social unrest. manuel of a low al jazeera, puerto prince, still ahead on al jazeera and tackling skyrocketing rance and berlin will tell you what could happen balances of apartments owned by big corporations. i met or any on

a wild or hunt tuscany will tell you why the hunt for this animal has taken on greater meaning and in sports, real madrid, a rival with right, we're back to normal and i assert you read me and potentially event the whole western asia attempts to back down to where they should be, the winds up particularly strong. we're waiting for the change of season. well tempted to show that that has happened. we have briefly had some snow once again northern pakistan, but this might be a significant change that normally when the commander western russia ought to bring temperatures down. the 1st thing it's doing is producing significant rate in the

form of thunderstorms for azerbaijan and iran, and probably those fell across it took my son as well, cold enough to show some mountain snow, but nothing worse than that. just yet. the picture to the side of the radio, but it says so through tropical after a weakening bomb to means very few, sharon and somalia or ethiopia, but conveniently him his the rift value part of it just west the rif valley. so through d, r, congo, you got significant, right? again, the rainy's coming south with the suns is going into anger angola, but he hasn't really left nigeria behind a gap on old cameroon. so this is sidney, where it is wet, but not solely where it is wet. it's got a wide band of right the moment for the south still. and you can link it up with this system which is bring significant right to the eastern side of south africa. and southern parts of bows i'm big that system will carry on to 2 days. ah, well is experiencing unprecedented extreme weather reco temperature's being set

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ah, talking out is there a reminder of our top stories? the sound? if you're the air force is conducted more strikes into grime as the government intensifies aerial bombardment of rebels, you can fall most of the northern region. the air force has been carrying out raised in the region for the past week. diver, antonio sugar. the leader of columbia is largest drug cartel and has been arrested . sugar, also known as a finance, is the most high profile drug trafficker to be captured since the death of pablo escobar in 1993 people in his back hast on hand to the balls on sunday to vote in the presidential election. the incumbent shall cut smoothly. oh yes,

is expected to wit. let's go back now to the rest of diary. antonio shook off the leader of columbia's largest drug cartel. as we said, is the country's highest profile crime boss to be captured since the death of pablo escobar back in 1993, said jo guzman is a director and co founder of columbia risk analysis. he says this arrest will have little impact on the drug war. the basic equation of the drug war, which is a very inflexible supply and in elastic demand coming from the united states and europe. another consuming countries suggest that changing auto nil are, is going to be quickly replaced by other drug king pins. we're going to continue taking advantage of that basic equation that their supply and there is demand. and people will continue doing cocaine in the pacific coast and in the caribbean coast where that london wolfol operates. these.