exploring how the coven 19 pandemic struck the nation. it's continuing impact and the lessons learned for the future. join me fade as those are for context india. and alex is eda. we understand the differences and similarities of culture across the world. so no matter what newton winter been use in current for that matter to you, ah, poland warns of escalation after blocking hundreds of migrants and refugees from crossing the border from belgium. ah, other i'm kimbell, this is al jazeera alive from dull ha, also coming up. the risk, the fuel be a descending into a widening civil war is only to real un security council has

a dire assessment about ethiopians conflict. and to warning there's only a small window of opportunity to act. according to don orders, internet services that was blocked since military take over to be restored. the world bank says things are getting worse for people in gaza despite signs of hope for the overall alice tinian economy. ah, the e u is accusing bella bruce of destabilizing the block by encouraging migrants and refugees to cross into public rushes. president is backing the leader a fellow ruth sand is expressing concern about the build up of polish troops on the border. the u. s. refugee agency is alarmed, as, as thousands of vulnerable people must not be used for political purposes or challenge reports. oh,

don't go in the middle of every humanitarian crisis. there are always human faces. and these are the children, women and men stock in a deadly stand off on the poland. better roost border thousands and now and make shift camps along the razor. wire humanitarian group say they're lacking food and medicine. social media footage from recent days shows several 100 refugees and migrants escorted by that a russian security heading towards poland. the large numbers have escalated a crisis that's been boiling for many weeks. many, if they can get into the, you don't want to stay in poland where they know they're not welcome. no, we are going to get money. gemini died, no form of the month, thousands of feet entering the plot through better roost at 1st, by lithuania and latvia. now, mainly through poland. the e u. accuse is better. russian leader, alexander lucas shanker. of orchestrating ways of migrants and refugees. in

retaliation for sanctions imposed on his government for violent crackdowns on the opposition. on monday, poland said it had withstood attempts by migrants to force their way across the border. or the dorothy of accused batteries have tried to spark a major confrontation and immobilizing soldiers and close the border crossing. prime minister mateusz more of it, ski has been visiting troops. who would think 23 months ago that we will be dealing with actions that are characterized by the use of human shields. look a shame because machine uses the video weapon in a hybrid wall. what we can see today, a new methods and you are passing against the nova mental, but potent authorities have been accused of illegal behavior to forcibly transporting people. they've caught back across the border rather than offering humanitarian assistance and the chance to apply for protection as being little coordinated action from the you. germany is urging member states to do more russia

. a close ally and advisor to better roost says the crisis as a result of the western policies in the middle east and urges it to help batteries know us looking to get us to the root of the problem is the policy carried out by western countries including nato and a u. member states regarding the middle east and north africa as they were trying to impose a western style that a life. several people along the border have already died from exposure. that could be many more to come, rory, talents out to 0. so mccain is following the story for us from berlin. dominic tell us more about the e u response. so far. the e u has been responding to the situation on that frontier between yellows and poland with expressions of solidarity for the polish governments from different

levels and at the highest level at the e. that's from president a sarah font, a lion who said that she wants to see tougher sanctions against bella. russian officials, including the president lucas shanker. she's also said that she believes is a her words that the government in minsk is instrumental ising. refugees and migrants, in other words, is using those people on that border as an instrument of their foreign policy playing out those people's lives against the european union. and she has had some degree of support from other ministers in different governments and member state. suddenly here in germany, the interior minister, the caretaker, interior minister, jose of offer has applauded the approach of the polish government. in so far as the erection of a fence along that frontier is concerned. we see also that the lithuanian parliament has enacted a state of emergency for its stretch of frontier that it shares with belarus. so

very clearly you have the european union, both in brussels, but in other members stood in member states to express in solidarity with those governments who are having to reckon with what's being what with what they're facing on their borders with vieira's. the thing to take from the e u wants to preserve the openness of its inner hopes to do that by bolstering the controlling and securing of it's out of orders. specifically with the arrows i done, i came in berlin, thanking for that diplomatic efforts to stop the conflict in ethiopia, from escalating into a full blown civil war, a gathering pace, the african union envoy. how does he go on our thumb? joe has traveled to the horror and far regions the rebels from to grime the north have been expanding their control to the south, prompting

a government offensive last month. the african union is mediating between the government and the rebels to withdraw troops and get humanitarian access and to try . there is a crippling shortage of food and fuel. there. the u. n says, know the 400000 people and living and famine like conditions and the federal government is accused of blocking aid. i have had a dove, has more from the some of, according to lose said one of us hunger. he's a former president of nigeria and his now that special envoy of the african union to the horn of africa, and is the one who's leading the faults by the african union to try and bring the 2 parties in this conflict. 2 talks, he says that he will have a pull on full dialogue by the end of this week and above all, apart from a sci fi, what he was to see is the establishment of a humanitarian quotable to feed those people who are living in some in like conditions full 100 thousands of them. and again,

the millions of us were living well, having a food shortages, but just in the to gray region, but also in the neighboring alpharetta and aha to region where the conflict hus spilt over. in the past a few weeks, a president obasanjo has already visited to gravity. he has been to mckellen, met with the top leadership of the to guy people's in the british, i'm from fighters. and this morning he traveled to the i'm hot region and also that i'll foot region. and he seems to have also the support of at the united states with the state department saying that it is walking with african union and realizing a negotiation between the purchase. in the conflict here in ethiopia, definitely feltman who is the you and the u. s. special envoy to the home of africa returned back to i'd is today the days of the living full neighboring kenya. so we're seeing a lot of woman of the prime minister just a few hours ago to tell that his government was ready to walk with

a few of his friends. a court incident has ordered that internet services be restored more than 2 weeks after most with locks, the national consumer protection council, sued telecommunications companies over the shot town. a face arrest if the court's decision isn't implemented. the outage was imposed to prevent protests and a campaign of civil disobedience after military takeover on october. the 25th or so soda is in hudson with the latest wait. a few places in the country are having the access to the internet. the that the reason for the internet blackout for the god that the army is to limit, to reduce the mobility of the protesters and to limit the abilities of the mobilization at the to f to prevent them a, to organize the mass protest against the government. so, so for the court decision is not implied here, and the mass gatherings are not there but the but the internet,

black old is not only restrict shit restricted, the mobility off did the protestors, but also making the life extremely difficult for the journalist in the company. also to perform, they are a journalism as well that protection council says that if the court that the court decision is not applied or implied by the authorities from monro, they are going to put another request on the general court to arrest the director of generals of this to the telecom companies and did it. so if the court tomorrow release a, an everest wear and then will it be able to be implied or not, who is going to arrest this? people will policy be able, in case of such a worthy will policy, be able to really arrest this, the record gems of the telecom companies against the warders off al, we'll have all now we need to wait and see to morrow pro iran factions in iraq have

reached an agreement with the government in baghdad to ease tension over election results. it comes days after what was described as an assassination attempt against prime minister. most of them a drunk targeted his residence on sunday, but he escaped unharmed. there's been no claim or responsibility, call them. he says the attack is all well known and would be expose, move on. so i had a lot for us now in baghdad. my mode, do we know what this agreement to de escalate involves? what? confessions might have been made welcome made on his visit to book as was 1st of all, not hours for public. he met with prime minister marcella called me along with a political leaders of the she leaders the last. she posed that last in the election, along with a military commanders of the pro reign armored groups hearing and groups in iraq.

his message was very clear that iran does not want any escalation in, but the dad, for the time being end of the differences between the factions should be settled down. now, we know that he also mentioned that he was very keen to confirm that neither iran nor its allies in iraq have anything to do with the assassination attempt. but meanwhile called me himself following the assassination attempt. he stated that in his words, we know those behind it and we will expose them we, we understand that he is most of probably alluding to iranian backed proof, iranian on with groups and iraq. and meanwhile, general frank mackenzie, the commander of the central command, he reportedly told one of the american news agencies that iranian backed groups are

behind the assassination attempt that targeted governments residents. on the early hours of sunday, we know that pre reading groups have been accused civil of times of sending jones trying to target u. s. facilities u. s. military basis. last one of them was in september in the june that was trying to target a beetle airport in north iraq in it bill or it put that have been us led coalition forces there. and that was at the tug, but they denied that and say they deny that and say that could be a 3rd party a trying to for men to violence between the cause of government and its opponents or it's adverse as but meanwhile, they have been denied that they have been denied and we had an exclusive interview with place, has only approved irina and political leader. hearing that he literally said that

there is a 3rd party that day recognize through intelligence information that indicated that there have been have been other parties involved in destination attempt that they try to create case embedded that i sent my mode of law ahead for us. and back then, thank you. still had on al jazeera, what's causing and alarming dangle break in indian country still working to recover from a devastating wave of covered 90. and france formally seals an agreement to return artifacts that were taken from its from a colony. ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle ways now as cool down in china ne monsoon is settled in which tends to enhance the rain

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the me watching l. just reminder of our top stories, this all of the you as accusing bell roof of the stabilizing the block by encouraging migrants and refugees to cross into poet rushes president is backing the leader founder was and is expressing concern about the build up of polish troops on the border, the african union, special envoys in ethiopia, to mediate an end to the conflict between the government and rebels from the region . he's hopeful that a deal can be reached by the end of the week. according to don, has ordered the restoration of internet services more than 2 weeks after most with locks that were shut down to event protests and a campaign of civil disobedience after a military takeover in october. the going to some breaking news now

back to e. c. o, p and reports are coming in that 9 un staff members have been detained in the european capital, addis ababa. we also understand that the united nations has asked e t o p, a foreign ministry to release those detained staff. of course, there are fears that was happening in ethiopia right now could escalate into a full blown civil war. this conflict which is ongoing between the central government and the fight from the t grind people's liberation front in the north. those fighters have been moving south people in the capital, addis ababa had been asked by local authorities to prepare to defend themselves. so of course there is a lot of concern about what is happening right there. right now. there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity hopes, in fact, that perhaps an end to this conflict could be inside, but obviously now, as i said, we are hearing in that breaking news about 9, you and united nations personnel have been detained,

and ideas are by we will bring you more on this making story as it comes to hand. and parts of india are seeing a significant spike in dingey infections. most are in 8 states. hospitals are being asked to redirect, covered 19 beds to taken patients with the mosquito borne disease. have natal reports from new delhi? this was supposed to be a festive time for the cautious family. they're sending out invitations for their oldest son's wedding next month. but the sudden passing of his aunt combination, davy days after she contracted dingey means celebrations, will be muted. to legally ricky daniel garcia after she went on the ventilator, the doctor warned us that we're doing he patients, laker? there was only a 5 percent away with the title even after the fee was up, say to you did the disk of organ failure. her treatment took a financial tool on our family. india has reported more than 120000 cases of genji this year, while pen jobs case load has reached an all time high. several other states have

reported more cases over the last few weeks compared to the same time last year. in new delhi hospitals like this one are converting other wards to cope with the influx of patience. the city recorded 1100 cases last week at par with the total case count in october. at least 10 people have died, beth dang hickok. the current situation of dingey is very bad in delhi. we are getting many cases of favor, almost 250 to 300 cases of fever, and out of that to 70, to 80 percent and angle cases. exports blame the extended monsoon this year and improve testing for the recent optic in cases change in rainfall. pattern, coupled with rapid openings ation could increase dangly season in india and make it more deadly. but another issue is that the o system go, we'll use the state health systems. and all the, you know, system is getting

a stronger in terms of testing dingey and report recording as well as reporting. so maybe this done also, this is having an impact on the number of cases. while some civic bodies have carried off fogging and fumigation to arrest the spread of dingey, the central government has dispatched public health experts to several states to improve testing and manage response. the local re, 19 caseload in the country has made it easier for the underfunded health care system to address the dingey outbreak, even as an organ say to vote for this is c a sergeant places of the vehicle virus exports say, cases of both diseases. wilson, declining in a couple of weeks as temperatures continued to dave ahead of winter park in the middle al jazeera, who jelly. in o'connor, the 1st polio vaccination campaign since the taliban came to power is being launched. the aim is to immunize millions of children against the crippling disease

. and his mom involve reports. the campaign signals change in policy to vaccines from the country's new rulers. medical volunteers in the african capital cover going from door to door to deliver anti polio. but the problem that you do want to come point during this campaign around $1300000.00 children will be vaccinated. we have 7130 volunteers carrying out the program. the ultimate aid, though is to reach all eligible children below 5 years old. a total of $10000000.00, including about $4000000.00 remote or previously inaccessible areas. benefiting vaccines. enough, gunston hasn't always been an easy process where they got me out of them. like as the challenge is massive when traveling between provinces and there isn't much transportation. it's not easy for the teams to go to the rural areas to vaccinate the kids working soon. we had to wait until afternoon because the regional counselor wasn't allowing us to start vaccinating. we got harassed on the road

because we are women working on this program. before coming to paula, the tiny body part of the prevented the delivery of vaccines in some of the areas under their control. the allegedly used to warn villages against the vaccines as a western plot to steady lives. muslim children, that stamps seems to have changed on the coach in the now with the grace of allah. we look after all the 34 provinces and 400 districts. there is no conflict now, there is peace and coordination under the tale. bon us. we are in coordination with all ministries, media groups, international health organizations, and donors. aversion to vaccines. how of us to link as among presidents in the fall flank regions campaign us are trying to both gain access to and spread the wellness in those areas. vaccines are coupled with an extra those of vitamin a to help strengthen the children's immune system. the u. n. is planning more

vaccination companies in both of got a son and pockets on the only 2 countries where polio is still in demick 100 fun or 0. we're going back now to solve about where we have mohammed had though, to get more on that breaking news out of ethiopia, where we understand at least 9 un personnel have been detained in the south bar and also their dependence on what more do we know that's all we know right now kim, that mine you and workers on the defendants have been defamed, according to a deputy spock's while son for the you and was picking from new york. his name is for harm huck. and he says that the ministry of foreign affairs are with your p has also been informed and urged to release both mine, you and workers,

and they are a dependent. so it looks like it's the government, but as detained them from the conformation. we're getting from the united nations. we don't exactly know why they have been detained by the government. we know that you and workers enjoy some sort of diplomatic immunity. we are yet to hear from the european government as to why this 9, you and workers have been detained mohammed. it seems like a really unusual move. i mean, just to give our view as some, some background. i mean, the federal government has been describing the situation saying that fighters from the tig wry people's liberation front are the ones in the wrong that they are the ones that are under pressure trying to keep the country together. and the you know, has been saying that they've been open to getting humanitarian access into take wry and, and yet then to detain you and staff. i mean, it seems like a very unusual mood wallace

simpson rustic by all measures you uns, tough getting at us. that is really rare. and, and hot off usually they get p n g posted that, that, that declared persona among gout don sent out of the country. if the government is unhappy with their conduct. but now we're seeing a situation where they have been detained and not just them, but their dependence. obviously the government would, in the coming hours come up with an explanation for this. but we know this is a very unusual times, and if you up there with a wall intensifying in the past few weeks. and of course, this is something that's going to complicate the humanitarian situation. one of the key things that the diplomatic community and the international community is seeking to have a cease fire in the fight. thing is to ensure that base the humanitarian corridor and the roads are open, full aid work as to get food much needed food,

aid to more than 400000 people who are living in famine like conditions in the to gray region. and this incident is probably going to add on to all these miseries that we've missed seeing and thumbs of the humanitarian situation. and if you appear then also, as we've been saying, you know, at the same time as, as this florio of diplomatic activity to try and find a way to end this fighting out. we'll come back to you when we know more for now. thank you for that mohammed o. in oliver former george and president mc hale sank. ashley has been transferred to a prison hospital. he's been on hunger strike for more than a month, one in jail, soccer field support his have rallied to call for his retakes. he was arrested last month when he returned from exile of to been convicted in absentia, of abuse of power, france and beneath i have signed off on documents to return $26.00 artifacts. amanew mccomb met the names presidents, patrice talent in paris on tuesday. the pieces, some of africa,

most significant artworks were looted by french colonial troops in the 19th century . the touch of butler has moved from paris with quite an emotional scene at the lee said, the french president, the manual macro and the presence of benito patrice tunnel, holding a ceremony to formalize the return of the 26. also fax to ben in macro said that there was a breakthrough moment and his stoic moment as these artifacts would embark on a journey home. the presence of benito said this was not just about the restoration of these works to been in. this was about been in regaining some of his soul. he praised the matter of my call for breaking the 2 of restitution of our works. now these 26 hours was comprises various objects. we're talking about fact use palace door. there's even a throne. they are known as the album, a treasures,

and they were looted by french colonial forces in 1892 from west africa though then brought to paris, where they've been in various museums ever since for over a century. most recently, they were displayed to assa museum and central powers for people to see them. before they return to benito. so the french president of my microphone, they were ready wraps up there in craig there at the airport. they all ready to go . they will leave at the same time as the president has been in, and they will make their way back home. and this ends a very long process, which starts at several years ago. satellite images of head to show china has built mockups of a u. s. navy aircraft, carrier and destroyer, and it's on north western desert. they believe to be part of new target practice. this tensions rise between washington and beijing over taiwan and the south china sea. trying to government hasn't commented about the satellite images. at least 26

children have been killed in a school fire in the southern town of morality and dozens more severely injured. after 3 classrooms, made of straw were destroyed in the place. the children who died aged between $5.00 and $6.00 comes only 7 months after a similar tragedy in the army left. 20 students dead. for astronauts have returned to earth after spending 200 days on board, the international space station space ex kept short splashed down off the u. s. state of florida overnight, during their mission they worked on the exterior of the i assess and paste tested the 1st to the pep is grown in ah, this is al jazeera, let's remind you now of the top stories in breaking news out of a p o. p, there are reports that 9 un staff members have been detained in the european

capital d sob of all un security officials have visited the detain staff and have all the european ministry all far.