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 anal his eda. ah, ethiopia as government denies targeting to grind based on their ethnicity as it comes under pressure to release dozens of detained united nations dom ah, heather and kim vanelle. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up in germany, calls on russia to intervene in the migrant crisis on the border between ballard, bruce of holland the you and describes the crisis as intolerable a draft of the cop 26 agreement urges deeper emissions cuts and sooner it's i to

say it fails to properly address the climate emergency class or to call reporting from the islands in northern scotland, where the power of the sea is driving the green revolution. ah, the ethiopian government has detained more than 70 world food program, drivers, un, and humanitarian sources say they were arrested during government raids, targeting ethnic to brian's. although the government has denied this in an interview with al jazeera day earlier, 16 u. n. workers were detained in the capitol. the rebels integral i have been making claims in the past week that they had captured towns on the main highway to audi. some of our the head european human rights commission, daniel kelly says he's deeply concerned about the mass arrest of ethnic to grinds, monitoring and following up saturday stuff. not just see christine,

but actually hundreds of different. and there appears to be ethnic elements to the saturdays, which what he says in a sense largely a need to grant. so i've been targeted to for house search and race, and we've been following up the case of hundreds of people. i do understand that the set of images he gives power to the police to a suspect to address that people on the ground. so for a reasonable suspicion, but we are concerned about our risk of the state of emergency and is directives to being applied in the wrong way. which is why we have already expressed a concern and we continue to morning task database. so several people read one is saying is the state minister for foreign affairs. i spoke with him

a short while ago. he denies the allegations of arbitrary detentions. there is not systematic iris scenes. the state of emergency is actually said by the government. then people are the jail and citizens of watching out their neighborhoods in each other for possible attacks. so people might, might inform the police if they see something unusual with something i missed, the police might have added that some individuals, i kind of like that. but if an obvious system, i think it might be from why didn't grew up, it would be from walks of life if there is any kind of information for the police. but if the police doesn't advocate reason to suspect, then it would be released. so this is very much an interesting time and it might be caught up ended, but it won't be out of their background to be very clear. you cannot tell us why these people have been arrested. but you are telling us that as far as your

concerned people and not being arrested based on their ethnicity, i want to ask you about the 16 un personnel and some 70 drivers for the world food program, who've been detained by ethiopian authorities. can you tell us why people and anyway, because you know, we're out in any conflict and, and a number of paras, growth might have their own element us. and if the police might have found out some suspect, then they will be bound to pay. and then also to do investigation. if any individual does not have adequate evidence to judge against them, you must be released but are pending. some people will not get that my truck systematic, but because we're in complex situation, you know, how many people are being attacked and how many adults are being done. and then you know, a number of actors. so you must have been much careful individual and that that being said must be done in the hospice at the lee and then police must do their job . but we would also look into that the process,

if there is any eval advocate and that much and together might so and, but i don't think that that is that fair to somebody got to about a day when the stuff dad knows. obviously, just because working for anyone, an institution, that's a state of emergency, a nation wide state of emergency has been announced, but i just want to be clear on what you just said. so you're saying that these people have been detained from the united nations and the world food program who have been taking, attempting to take much needed aid into the try region. that they are accused of being part of a terrorist group. is that right? that that left, that must be left for the police, then i don't have that that did because i'm not in the investigation team. but if it could be tipped off for any kind of regular activities and police must go, they don't. if they don't have any evidence, it will be released, but it's not because they are working for. he made an activities if not because they are loading that money and food because if that is so there are more than $800.00 tracks which are still held by t p live and now carrying trucks carrying

a combatant is from which entered from our part carrying food, now they are transporting combatants in low and also going data. so if that happens, then that's what criminal activity said. you'll get a choice for us now and id some about samuel. it seems there are conflicting statements on whether the ethnic to grinds are being targeted for arrest. what are you hearing on the ground? well, daniel buckler told jazeera, saying there is an ethnic element to the hundreds of people that are being detained since the beginning of this state of emergency that the parliament in october almost a week ago. but we know that many people are being detained, but the government isn't assisting. this has nothing to do with their background ethnic background, but has everything to do with them. being supported or suspected of

supporting the pair left, which the job and parliament has declared as a terrorist organization. earlier today it's hard to read that tweeted saying some he said, most initiative piece initiatives are in support or are to make the prime minister be i'm a look good indicating that also the open prime minister tweeted yesterday saying that he's willing to work with friendly nations giving you a glimpse that there might be hope for negotiation and this conflict of the gotten a year ago and has killed thousands and displaced millions of people. but that you've done done president is, is due to host a summit to try to solve the issue of the fuel. the u. s. invoice has been coming back and forth, trying to speak to the leadership of us for less the t p left, which they're finding it difficult because they've been declared as

a terrorist organization. but so far, there hasn't been any indication that this conflict up the gun again a year ago is heading to the sub, a red one who sent the statement i just spoke to earlier today said that the teacher left will not be coming to the sub its will never happen, he said, and were watching it closely, but it seems in the sub, it seems everything is business as usual and that the time. but at night there has been an increasing level of arrest and check points and asking for a these knocking on people's door and neighbors pointing out other neighbor saying they suspect them of something and the police, detaining them. so it's been a real stressful week for you for your patience. and again, it's only been a week since this state of emergency was enacted. and it's supposed to be 6 months with the right to extend it for another 6 months by the government. samuel, just to remind us of where we're at in terms of the fighting,

where the t p l f is because it wasn't that long ago that our local authorities in the capital were urging people to register their weapons. so where are things that now in terms of the fighting on the ground? well again. busy read one who sent said the fake news being distributed, including he pointed out one international media saying that they said that the t p left was in the subgroups of d'silva. they also claim that they were coming into the some of what was in ours, but that did not happen. but again, it's really difficult to verify the information because the difference between the tea pair left of the open side with the same fox and their version are totally different. the site hasn't even recognized dessie and control chart falling in the

hands of the t p. i left the have said as why things going on and those s and they also said 100 more than 100 people have been killed. but again, i'm not into national release. the report today saying that there are money troops, people of troops that violate the sexually violated young women and, and generally women and i'm high region. and the human rights watch also released a report saying young kids from 6 to elders and 80 years old, sexual violence victims, cant even access the most basic health care because of the lack of transportation and a blockage that has being going on in terms of the route to, to great. so again, the reports and accusations and contact positions goes on, but again, this conflicts up, begun a year ago is producing more victims. why did

a thank you for that update. so you'll get a total lie for us and the sum of all and miss santa national says it's documented 16 cases of women being raped by to grind rebel fighters during their recent advances in the european conflicts the organization. so that happened during the group to take over of a town in horror in august. part of a statement from the secretary general read the testimonies we heard from survivors describe despicable acts by the t p l fighters that amount to war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity. they define morality or any iota of humanity. miss hobb park. ly is horn of africa research for amnesty international. he says the global community must take action against those responsible for these attacks. and to be just wanted to do kind of, i mean, i'd like to be responsible at also part of that investigation should

find out several of the commanders, at least in one case, one of us and who looked online. it was the 1st one who wrapped up and sent it out before the address followed. so it's very difficult to make a judgment monetary set to make. that's why i just read this point. as soon as i get out of i've added slap notes spoken out because i'm i've got this wider crimes and times i get the money is proven to labor and that international. so i mean, i already got, i got a message. i can't really, jack, i can't persecution expect that,

that government states to fail to bring them to justice. the have that content and that's internal. national. yes, fellers has accused the you of provoking a refugee and migrant stand off on its border with poland as an excuse to impose new sanctions. it's the latest in the back and forth about negations and the crisis that's left about 2000 people stuck in freezing and dangerous conditions on poland still step. the dean baba has mall. yeah, they're not asking for much. in fact, these children just want water. journalists are banned from this area, but the person filming the scenes on the border between bella roost and poland says there are babies as young as 2 months old. here. some families haven't eaten for several days. at night, temperatures drop well below 0. at least 2000 people, many of them iraqi kurds, and now stuck in make shift camps along the razor. wire. social media footage from

recent days shows refugees and migrants escorted by mass bella russian security towards the border. sometimes shots of fire and people have often been beaten as in these pictures, filmed by polish forces. mom know, the moment you says the government of alexander lucas shanker is playing a dangerous game in retaliation for sanctions imposed over human rights violations . for its pot. russia, a traditional backer of belarus, is accusing brussels of being hypocritical. she said you can create in the situation is indeed very tense and there's a tendency to escalate tensions that causes concern. it's apartment that the humanitarian catastrophe is looming against the background of europeans, reluctant to demonstrate commitment to the european values this away near poland. neighbor and fellow a u member has now imposed a state of emergency along its border with belarus. this is the prime minister

visiting border guards on wednesday. in a phone call, german chancellor, angular merkel has appealed directly to russian president vladimir putin to exert his influence on the regime in minsk. but as governments play the blame game, the humanitarian situation becomes more dire by the day. nadine baba al jazeera united nations human rights chief michel basetti, has called on states to resolve the migrant crisis. in a statement she said, hundreds of men, women, and children must not be forced to spend another nice and freezing weather without adequate shelter, food, water, and medical care. and on to international law, no one should be prevented from seeking asylum listing as donna kane, who is following developments from berlin and dominic, usually, or recently things have been a little hostile between you and poland. but this is obvious, label seems to be changing the situation. some was changing the situation very radically to

a certain perspective. remember that until this particular situation had begun to develop, we hamp's what would appear to have been a war of words to some people between the polish governments and suddenly the way that the punish government was applying in laws in its territory. and what you was saying and yet now there's no mention of that. remember that the polish government currently is facing daily fines because of some of the rulings. it's come up with recently, fines from the e. u. and yet now you have very senior representatives at the e u level, saying that they have solidarity with poland. and that there are mechanisms that can be put in place to allow poland to receive assistance with its order, with the integrity of the infrastructure of its border with belarus, showing quite hair the the, the, the mood music is changing in the course of the last few days also,

but it's also worth making the point that whilst there have been expressions of solidarity with the polish government from brussels, there have been other voices too, which have been slightly discordant with what has been coming from the e u. so for example, philipo grande from the high commissioner for refugees for the united nations factory saying that he is aware of pushback that have taken place. that means where polish officials have physically pushed back migrant refugees. we've tried to get into poland from belarus through that barbed wire fence through those fencing thing that should not be taking place. that is not something that the polish government should be doing, given its commitments to international human rights and the treaties that it is a signatory to. so lots of different voices there. and then if we consider the polite all those people on that border, they are in a physical geographical area where they know that neither government to get

a russian nor the polish government really wants them there. the temperature as we were hearing in the dutton nadine baba's report is regularly below 0 and is going to get worse over the course of this late autumn in north eastern europe. and so they don't know what's going to happen to them. they know they don't want to stay where they are, they don't really want to go to poland unless it allows them further into the e. u to germany. it's more than 700 kilometers from that alter poland border with belarus to the nearest german border. what will they do? how will they get that? what sort of reaction will they receive if they get through the polish border? when we know the reception they've received is not particularly warm. it would be perhaps warmer from some perspectives. for those who get to germany, we know that over the course of the last 5 weeks or so on average, more than a 1000 people have done precisely that journey. so lots of forts being expressed at a ministerial level in all sorts of european capitals right now. but for the people

physically at that border, there is only uncertainty. i thank you for that. that only came for us and been so head on al jazeera killing and torturing civilians. more evidence emerges against me and mars, made a treat. they could tantamount to war crimes. how a wave of the contagious delta variant is challenging. china's covered 0 strategy ah look forward to brighter skies. the winter sponsored my cattle at ways. hello there. there's a contrast to the weather when it comes to south asia, it's looking finer and dry up in the north of india and pakistan as well as bangladesh. but down in the south, well, it's getting

a real focus. we've read warnings out for camel not do an under pradesh on thursday . we've seen flooding here when likely to see more. and this is a story for sure, lanka, we've got some flooding happening in the south, more intense rains to come, and that's thanks to the north eastern one soon as well as low pressure that's worked its way west across the bay of bengal. now that rain does these slightly come friday shifting up to more central areas. but we are expecting another round of rain to come into play as we go into the weekend. that would move across to east asia. we've had a bit of a wintry mix in the north east of china, snow storms here, i see conditions. they continue on thursday, but by the time you get to friday, they'll push out to the east. it does start to dry up the temperature picking up slightly. so some of the story for the korean peninsula, fine and dry up in the north showers in the south. and we are low pressure pushing across into japan, bringing some of the heavy rain to the north of han shoe box for tokyo. it remains fine and dry. the temperature is sitting at 21 degrees celsius with sunshine,

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you're watching ours, is there a reminder our top stories, the cell here of his government? his told al jazeera, it's not targeting to grind based on their ethnicity. independent human rights commission and anti sub abbas is hundreds, have been detained. the latest group arrested include $72.00 world food program drivers. fellowships as accused the e u of provoking a migrant stand off on its border with poland as an excuse to impose new sanctions . if the latest allegation in a crisis that's left about 2000 people, dangerous conditions on poems, puerto u . k is released to draft gaap $26.00 deal, which urges countries to step up their climate goals by the end of next year. leaders are asked to revisit and strengthen the 2030 targets on tuesday unless

warned emissions pledges made bart made so far will lead to a global average temperature rise of 2.4 degrees celsius. this century, the target is 1.5 degrees. it's going out at andrew seventies, lie for us in glasgow. andrew, what does this draft agreement say? does it go far enough? will effectively says that we, we will see a ratcheting up of the procedure in terms of reacting to increase temperatures. already a raft of measures that have been agreed, but this in particular is different because it's meaning there will be accountability of all countries within a year. that's a get things right. and furthermore, the year after in 2023 heads of state will be brought together a to again review the situation to see if they're on target right now. as you pointed out,

that 2.4 degrees celsius prediction is gloomy. because right now, of the agreements that i had all the promises that have been made for carbon reduction for emissions a control for helping poor countries to convert from, from fossil fuels to green power. all of these initiatives are not enough to put the world into a safe place. so the worry now is that cop 26 may not be delivering something important, but it could just be a stopping point in a process effectively as a some, a climate activists are saying it is kicking the can down the road. now that is a real worry and there's evident concern at high levels for us. johnson, the u. k. prime minister took a train at this morning in his head right now. he didn't use a private jack, which you used when he went back to london last week. there's also

a presence here of antonio could perez, that the un secretary general, and he treated a short time ago, an appeal a for more ambitious climate action. climate action means millions of lives saved an new green jobs created and trillions of dollars in economic game. so evidently, he's concerned about the situation. ballast johnson will be briefing journalists in a short time about the latest he's engaged with negotiators and also on the phones. no doubt, the heads of state. this draft text as it's called as a draft text of a communique. effectively, at this draft text probably isn't going to be the 1st, there will be several. now in terms of the history of corp sessions, drop texts in are invariably watered down as when all the various parties get stuck

into the negotiations. but there is a hope that could be a pumps up or to have more meanings or have more edge. it can't be rolled out because it happened with the paris agreement back in 2015. when you have that 1.5 degrees celsius, enshrined in ink and the world watches that with great concern. so not all hope has gone there. us a couple of more days to go with this. and we will be taking that tab that speech from barnes johnson. you k prime minister alive our for now. thank you for that and use him in glasgow as the wild looks the solutions to global warming, scotlands orkney arden, sorry, the forefront of the renewable energy revolution is net clark reports the islands had a heritage of innovation dating back thousands of years. the story of invention on these remote islands is coming full circle. cultural and architectural innovation flourished hair way back in the elliptic times even before the pyramids were built

. 5000 years on orkney is again at the vanguard of the future. we all know i didn't fit on the range in castro through the north sea and the north atlantic, where the tides career back and forth between the islands and the u. k. mainland and in the title raises, does power power that can drive all walls. this is the orbital oh to the world's most powerful title turbine. roaches spin in the ebb and flow generating enough electricity for 2000 homes. it's just one of many prototypes being tested by the european marine energy center. here on orkney research suggest title power could provide up to 10 percent of the u. k. electricity with the same guaranteed output as gas or co title. and she's really interesting because it's entirely predictable . it's driven by the position of the moon and the position of the earth and the sun

. so we know where the tides are going to be when the thoughts can be running a 1000 years from today. some of the machines are on the sea bed. some of the machines associate on the surface, but altogether they actually provide a huge energy. so stance available. the island is him, have already capitalized on another force of nature. community owned commercial scale, wind turbines. they help generate more electricity than is required on the islands . the surplus being sold on to the u. k. mainland. there's also a huge, offshore wind project planned and green. hydrogen is already being produced to palm marine and road transport. i spoke to dr. sandy ker of harriet, what university he told me, the arcadian green revolution has turned the island economy around. we get students that come here from around the world under keating's that come back to learn about renewable energy in this community. and a number of them, steve. and jacob jose with the local air renewable energy companies must really

reverse in the you're the brain tree that we see around the rest of the case. while there's still a long way to go. these islands a well on the road to carbon neutrality, wind and tide, a driving a seismic change, giving the rest of the world a glimpse of things to come. nick, clock al jazeera, the balcony islands, scotland for my french president. fonts are alarmed as testifying at the trial of 20 suspects links to the paris attacks that took place in 20. 15. alarmed wasn't these thought the font stadium when the 1st attack a destination. his vest gunman later opened fire and several other parts of the capitol, including the that's a com concert, whole $130.00 people were killed. it was the country's worst atrocity since world war 2. natasha baba is live for us now in paris. natasha. tell us about why i decided to take the stand on the

form. the french president has been in the court testifying for well over an hour. now he said that he thought it was very important that he explain the events of that evening. his role in those events and also the decisions he made off there, but also the decisions leading up to that attack. there been many question in the sense that attacked the 2015 as to whether or not more could have been done to prevent them from long said that intelligence made it very clear and fraud that i saw a clear threat to fraud that they wanted to target french interest and they wanted to target 5 locations and people in the country, but he said the problem was there was a threat every day. we didn't know exactly when or if the next, when the next attack could take place. i can say he was off. why fraud was chosen in his opinion as a target he said as far as he knew that the.