bassa, they're trying to frighten the people to leave it to go somewhere else. the truth is that it got nowhere else to go. so if you missed it online, cat at here with me sound gatlin on al jazeera. ah ethiopia prime minister abbey at mad says he will lead the military from the front lines. his rebel advances threatened his hold on the capitol. ah, hello i'm hasn't think of this is ally from the ha also coming up. get vaccinated all risk dying from coven, germany's warning as cases surge in europe. next door and austria, it's locked down. once again. foremost, south korean president shouldn't do. one has died is autocratic rule in the 1980

spark mass protests and the countries transition to democracy. venezuela's opposition lead a one. why though seeks unity and cause for rebuilding after a heavy defeat and regional elections. ah but our ethiopia prime minister says he'll travel to the front lines on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces. tens of thousands of people are believed to been killed in battles between the 8th, the open army anti ground forces that began last year. victoria gate can be reports, ethiopians, prime minister says it's time to lead by personal example. it's a dramatic new step in the conflict. it's devastated the northern te gray region in a statement released on social media. abby had said, this is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed. i will go to the front line and leave the

military from the ground myself. those of you with your pins, he won't to be remembered by history. for the sake of your country, join me in the fight to day. unless say, it's an unusual moved by the prime minister. i think it is assigned a hope for that. industrial author mobilize all the rest your beans to join the military forces. and though to join the war against the deacon defense forces. but certainly, it is also a sign of desperation. in response to the prime minister's statement, the spokesman for the tea gray people's liberation front tweeted abby's mimicry of ethiopia, as will time empress is taken on an old to palpable skits of frantic overtone. i would have dismiss this as yet another sick joke, abby, would it a military offensive against the t p. a left last november saying it was in response to attacks on army bases. the t p left says it was unfairly targeted. but in june this year to graham fight is re captured the regional capital mckelly. and

then now advancing on the capital at is have a, despite a flurry of recent diplomatic activity, se se far has not been reached. and only say the language used by abby and monday statement is worrying. you don't have a military background if you look at his nobel prize speech from some years ago. they used a lot of war imagery to talk about the latitude learned about the hell of war. but here we are in almost full circle the nobel peace prize winner. using the mult, bellicose language, i'm to try to, you know, ramp up to stakes. ahead of the defense, not only of ethiopia, goodness in life and death, you know, you basically you going to die for the cause. they sides of the conflict continue to maintain hard line positions and if set pre conditions ahead of any negotiations, victoria go to be al jazeera. all i speak now to our boss hagey gunam, while he is a professor of political science at the university of toronto,

and he joins us from toronto. thank you for being with us. let me ask you, 1st of all, what do you take from the prime ministers declaration? thank you for inviting me, and i don't know if this is the right moment. they think he called support his people to mobilize a larger scale about i'm to lazy to this message is very aggressive. ah, many people were expecting some sort of apartment are in terms of making peace and says fire. so he was more or less so mystifying the war and asking every to be an are to be alive and he is ready to be marked here and to die in the budget bit saw he use imagery or otherwise we'll talk to our defeat is italians and not only that, but also he want to model us african ice. the problem as if the war is not only are good as the 2 clients or t p life itself as if the world is weighed against imperialism. oregon peons are

western nurse if you like. so he called upon africans to say, express sorted out, he really took p as in peter p, i was, is sort of victim of western conspiracy. and so i, it is very, very aggressive. and many people are hoping that some kind of solution would be found. but i think this, in addition to the emergency laws where he called or only to be asked to simply use all the bonds are to fight. and the body of the, in me, i simply very aggressive ones. so given all of this war rhetoric right now, is there any prospect at this point of a political solution? i think there should be because no, i really want to say that this war are in. does he not disobey, to be on capital, which has 5 more than $5000000.00 people and also have to order more land, which is the most fertile and the most. now the biggest area,

so i think the american government or with some government do not want to be asked to go to on the city if they could. so i think i b cannot really afford to have mobilized 5000000 people fighting against each other. so that will really lead to a complete genocide. there has to be some soft or solution because many people believe this war cannot be win. militarily. it stated no military solutions that typically us also seems to agree as they don't want to come into the city to say that december, they will like to simply sees a change of government. i don't know if i be is ready to change in a change of government. but i think diplomats have to find a way political way to simply being the son in to because i be cannot win this war because i took the anatomy is relatively weakened as they are losing cities of their cities. and he's going to the bargain far font doesn't change anything because civil war can not be what in back and ground. so it's all the negotiations

are which can lead to some sort or if we were out from this, or what in your view then is that the roots of this conflict because there, if there is going to be any last thing settlement does it have to, does it have to address what, what caused this war in the 1st place? yeah, this is very good question. i think historians when they will analyze the root cause of this problem. but i think there are 3 causes, i believe. i'd be, of course, tried to justify the war as is as sort of law enforcement and because the degree on student obese order. but the reality of course is there was a sort of what i call st aaliyah's between 3 forces. one is of course, somehow nationalism. i'm her region out of state the people who have their own grievances, i get his degree and are 27 years old and also a problem of territory. and then they can government to had also is on problems with the t p a live because they were allies, they were in conflict and then the abby government or who wanted to really,

really to change the course. that means he wanted to re centralized it would be on the state or who simply means he wanted to abolish is a federal dispensation. it's was clear as out i b was more interested in more centralized all imperial estate because he won't believe it clearly said he wanted to restore all the q a p r. so that also a problem for him because the auto struggle who wrote him to power, i was not happy with our big administration because the, all of them at least wanted to have autonomy and the federal system. that what could you see a problem for him because normally i'm now tend to and i was at agreeance with a t p, a lift, whom they ousted from power. now the abbey government doesn't seem to given, was to be honest, used to give them. so i think i've use travel is not only are the, the problem with a t p left, but also again is the sort of population. and also don't forget the abbey arrested

also accused us of the order more lead kidding. of the order, more movement which helping to to come to power, we simply means he's eliminated political speaking. so the problem is therefore the disagreement between keeping a live and abby are going to wait for the to lead your peer. and of course the america who like to see a more centralized power. good to get your analysis. so on this side, bess hagey. grandma, thanks for being with us. thank you for inviting me. thank you. our street has become the 1st a new country to re enter a full nation wide lockdown as infection serge, the average daily desk they have tripled in recent weeks and under the restrictions, people can only leave their homes to buy groceries for doctor visits or to exercise and you, simmons has more when the capital vienna, the lockdown is back in austria, or as europe shivers at the onset of a 4th wave of cobit 90. this is salzburg,

one of the worst hit places where intensive care units are filling up. last month, the national daily infection rates were around $3000.00 cases per day. they're now hovering between 14 and 16000. in the capital vienna christmas lights may be on, but like everywhere else, shopping has stopped for all but essential items. stores are closed, people are allowed out for an occasional stroll in this locked down. there's plenty to see, but not to pie. the manager of this restaurant has closed down and is giving his fresh produce away to locals. he's pessimistic. i think everybody has enough of it and question as oh, why again, wasn't there enough time to prepare? we have the looked on now because obviously it's needed. not far away. the christmas market, usually bright and busy at this time of year is

a sullen place. the lot down a shuttle to last up to 20 days with a review after 10, although many people fear it could last a lot longer. and with the restrictions come, an even bigger emphasis on the vaccination program. only 66 percent of the population have been vaccinated. leaving one of the biggest proportions of unvaccinated people in europe. so the government will introduce compulsory vaccinations in february. it's led to resistance and protest. this woman has just had her 3rd vaccination, a booster jap. yet she says people shouldn't be forced to have vaccinations. we had a to angela who made only marketing for his career and, but he didn't explain and that didn't make a good preparation for, for to, to ensure that everyone will be vaccinated. capitals across europe are watching

austria closely as they consider their own restrictions here. the daily number of deaths caused by the corona virus has tripled in recent weeks. this locked down is a last resort. andrew simmons al jazeera vienna hospitals in germany are running out of intensive care unit beds. chantelle angler mother says the current restrictions don't go far enough. the health ministers urging more citizens to get vaccinated if it am ended, jesus winters, probably by the end of this winter. pretty much every one in germany at a sometimes been said somewhat cynically, will have been vaccinated, recovered or died. or it's true with a highly contagious delta variance. this is very, very likely. i'm sick. a china has maintained a 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic since last year, defending its severe and sudden locked downs. but experts, a warning, the approach is unsustainable. economic growth is slowing and several banks have

cut their growth forecasts from next year. katrina, you has more from beijing. chinese authorities appear to have the country's latest corona, virus outbreak under control. daily reported, cases have dropped to single digits after the delta variance spread to at least $1300.00 people since mid october. but reducing infections has come at a cost, severe locked downs and trouble restrictions are weighing on the country's economic growth. at a time when inflation is also increasing, chinese officials say the impact will be short term, but some analysts believe it's likely to continue next year. oh i. oh. all right, richard. oh yes, people is east morale air, 82. she shaw to charl as in jackson insecurity. last week ratings agency. fitch cut it's focused for china's quote in 2021 to

a point one percent and lowered. it's 2022 forecast to 5.2 percent. several banks have also followed suit. china is one of the few countries still following a 0 tolerance approach to the virus. it's borders had been closed since march 2020, and stood. quarantine remains in place. shelters had become more cautious in their spending. e commerce chide ali baba recorded its lowest sales growth during its annual single state online shopping festival. earlier this month, ahead of the beijing winter olympics in february, authority, se they will further tighten pandemic controls in the coming weeks job owner or mount. we will summarize the experience and lessons learned so for the taking pains to promote the implementation of abdominal prevention and continue to look for pearl vaccination for the public. chinese economy is already under pressure from a crackdown in the property sector and power shortages which have hampered manufacturing. the economy grew by just 4.9 percent in the 3rd quarter. falling

short of expectations. katrina, you are the 0 paging. a former south korean president shouldn't do one has died at the age of 19 june was an army commander who sees power through military cause in 1979. protests against his autocratic rule lead to elections and the countries transition to democracy in 1987 should also spearheaded south korea's successful bid for the 1988 sol olympics, which support the country international prestige. i feel a head on al jazeera, the late is called ruling and thailand leaves several anti wanna keep protesters in jail flood waters, the broad devastation to south sudan also providing plenty more fish or malnutrition right high. ah

ah, look forward to brutus guys with the sponsored by capital airways. it is got cold in china, in the korean peninsula, and in japan, this is the proper winter front on its way through now. so the wind that follows it means those hours for the western slopes of home shoe and hawkeye dough, behind it, it's cold sunshine. it's not extraordinarily cold. average temperature is about 7 in beijing, about 10 in shanghai is down to minus 7 hobbs where you might want it to be. and this pretty draws right most of china that night in hong kong, it rises a little bit about how we get to wednesday, as it does in both shanghai, in beijing, as the sun gets to work, winter sun. but still there in the northeast, wanted to bring yet more rain to vietnam and cambodia and caught a long way north in southern thailand, the peninsula, malaysia and southern being marked as well. so much or at least in the north,

looks potentially still flooded in band archie has been to the for a while now for the se dryer. the still align if no more traditional looking ready for ne monsoon through sri lanka and this part of southern india, northern plate of india in the cities in particular, full of poor quality, stagnant air through the pool in pakistan. and then that circulations heading towards the whole of africa. that's a trough called depression that was off the west coast of india a few days ago. that makes the culture and somalia wet the weather sponsored my cattle airways voted world's best air line of 2021. serious, darkest days, with one man leading the country through uh, pleasant alice out as los legitimacy. he needs to step down how as he retained control through over a decade of war. we examined the global power games of president bashar al assad. we believe assad simply carrying out iranian orders. what keeps you awake at night?

many a reason that could effect in human eyesight, master of chaos on all jazeera blue . the me, again, you are watching as a reminder of our top story, this l. e. c o p s. foreign minister says he'll travel to the front line on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces fighters when the northern region of pushing further south towards the capital at is admirable. austria's become the 1st country in western europe to reimpose, a national corona virus lockdown infections or surging there and neighboring countries. germany's health minister predicts people will either be vaccinated,

recover or die by the end of winter form a south korean president shouldn't do one has died at the age of 19. june was an army commander who sees power through military coup in 1979. these rules spunk nationwide protests that eventually led to the country's transition to democracy. a tie court has denied bail to several prominent figures for last year's protest, which called for a form of the monarchy. the decision is paved away from all criminal cases and jail sentences. and jealous, tony chang has more from bangkok, police shoot rubber, bullets directly protested. the attitude of the authorities in thailand has hardened in recent months. the tolerance of the protest is now very limited. and on, on the other side, attitudes a more deeply entrenched to the language is more hostile and explicit. and although the demonstrators numbers are not as great as last year,

their mood is darker cools for reform of the monarchy have gone unanswered and protest leaders could now face years behind bars. any hurt that could be avoided, evaporated when the constitutional court ruled recently that he been questioning the monarchy is against the law. barracka the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, defendants used their rights on freedom in order to overthrow the democratic regime of government. the king, as head of state, the authorities are now wasting no time criminal cases against the ringleaders are expected to follow swiftly after these bail hearings. i'm got who are one known to his supporters. his penguin faces so many charges. he could potentially be jail for more than 300 years. fact that's deeply disturbing to his mother. why, you know what, i'm going back my, my son didn't talk to anybody. he hasn't done anything wrong, but he's being branded as a rebel. today's hearing is just the beginning of

a person that could say all of those who call for reform of the monkey jailed decades to come with the court, the army and the government. now in line behind the throne, the message is very clear. if you test it issue, there is no end to it, which means that your right to be taken away, including maybe your passport, you get not, you're not get bail. so your basic rights and freedoms will be taken away from you . and it's very clear signal. but it's a bit of silence around the throne has been broken. and while the threat of jail will keep many of the streets showing their resistance in other way, ah, in the cinema and thailand, it's customary to stand for the royal anthem before the main show. today, many people are choosing to remain firmly in their seats. tony cheng al jazeera banker of venezuela's ruling socialist party, has claimed

a victory in regional elections. president nicholas medulla party 120 of 23 state governorships. opposition figures say the result is a blow to the 1st campaign. after a 4 year boy caught that, i said, bo reports when the capital connect us gina? marijuana was surprised by the results of sunday's region elections. she lives in the neighbourhood of my daughter and was hoping for the post to expose the situation venezuelans are facing to day. she's a teacher. oh, her 4 year old daughter has a kidney condition and she can't afford the treatment. no fuss him. it's not easy if you have the expenses we have with a child who has kidney disease and you have to spend a $150.00 every 3 months ago. i have a family, we can barely safe $10.00. yeah, i've gone everywhere to ask for help, but nobody cares. i'm disappointed because i wanted something to change. oh, but in bless, how will the wedding, the center of kodak us?

nicola, my little supporters, celebrated venice will as ruling socialist party 120 governorships in spite of the huge economic crises that's left more than 80 percent of the population in poverty . oh, louder leave us came here because she wanted to congratulate nikolai the old on his birthday. but it's ended up in the and then with the lender. the president takes care of us. we have vaccines face math. and if we have a problem with our salary, his soul said he gives us food. so we can survive on sundays results. where i said back for the opposition, around 60 percent of the population didn't vote. and more than 5000000 people have left the country, even though the ruling party wanting most of the governorships, the national results show the opposition at least 9 points ahead. the problem is their candidates were divided in crucial states after several voice called z up officially decided to participate in the selection, frustrated with the failure of us sanctions to remove nikolai, my little from on. they were offering both them by the president of the servers

from the european union, but there we thought were not what we expected. opposition leader one way though said d, a position meets to work towards unity, the gama. what a gum, how to reconnect what happened on sunday with a solution to the crisis and people's problems and recover the country. that's the challenge we have. and clearly there needs to be a new phase in this process in venezuela. millions of venezuela are caught in economic crises and an endless political battle that had a huge impact on people's lives. venezuelans are desperate for solutions that never seem to arrive biddicks. i will. i'll cedar carrack, us about russian at president, alexander lucas shanker says he wants to avoid confrontation with poland as thousands of refugees and migrants is stuck in linger limbo at the border. he's calling on the you to take in 2000 people. warning the crisis could lead to war.

step vessel force from the bell russian side of the border with poland. after another night and the cold on an empty stomach hope is slowly fading. many managed to get through this crisis, believing that germany would accept them. like what happened in 2015 when the country took it nearly 1000000 syrian refugees. but germany feels increasingly far away in despair. wish and camp just hundreds of meters away from europe. 70 are not going to take you. are going to wait. wait, wait, wait. dozens of people in the camp have left a home country to find medical treatment in europe. some are physically disabled like 5 year old mom was born without last. some struggle to mental issues. i didn't tell the termini. it's saying no. i don't care, i have to give the not the in germany, maybe in another country to deal with me to give them my health. why it's,

i call a g, get better fragile people used by bell. russian leaders look shanker in a cynical power play with europe, with sons, but i will give them myself. jimmy doesn't take them. what can we do? there's no way out. could i do? not do often the images of the can a widely broadcast by, by lucian and russian stay tv, commenting that europe lapse down people in need a visit of the world health organization ames to counter this. i'm in touch with many, many countries, and many countries already to support. there's a lot of pressure on europe to take these 2002 migrants and asylum seekers. will this happen? well, as i was mentioning, just know w to as part of a larger united nation, somebody we're going to meet with you and country team. each of them has it, man, thank you. and h i o n. my mission. as the reason that w cool is helpful is really ensuring that health as a human rights in respect to

a health conditions are rapidly deteriorating. and increasingly, people are asking to be returned home by the russian security personnel or escorting them through the back door. something we are not allowed to film. what people return and here's the result of the sliced august, rated by lucas shank, thousands of death solution. people have told everything to go in this hopeless journey based on some promises you had shown. it's an immigration face and lucas shank or was it a manager before us euro the open border for many it will be back to where they started. after spending weeks been pushed back and forth between one country to try to send them across the border and the other firmly, refusing them step, fasten al jazeera at the bella russian border. while flooding has destroyed or blocked access to many food supplies in south sudan, one food source,

the thriving is fish. how do tassel reports from fungus in south sedans? john les states pulling axes. he hasn't seen floods this bad since the 19 sixty's when he was a boy flood waters have destroyed crops, blocked access to field and reduced grazing land. the $56.00 or else is at least there is an upside to the devastation. more water than usual means plenty more. fish is available, only govern little food for atlanta. sometimes united mission takes long to bring us food on this we, we can survive until they can reach families cut off by the water. now katie, much of this agricultural land is now under water for the 3rd consecutive year, flood waters of risen as excess water flows down the now from neighboring countries . but found these con, survive, unjust fish, malnutrition rates are increasing a spreading a fit food supplies all animal. then we depend on that quote,

a little follow how. what is that under the water? little a little bit more. so we get to the diesel. the flawed community is used to grow sorghum as serial. that is easy to cultivate, but there has been no farming here for more than 2 years. he monetary an aide has also been effected. this used to be offered distribution point where we were distributing for the tool over 27000 people here in oregon duck with this upward from the world food program. but now because of the flooding, we are now unable to utilize this location. some disparate families collect to water lilies to supplement their diet. the dried flowers from the lilies are ground into small amounts of cereal. it's not nutritious, but there aren't many options out here. ah, fish is an essential source of protein when there isn't much else available south to done is no stranger to floods,

but they now becoming more frequent too much water cove at 19 poverty and conflict . make the situation here. dia, people say they'll have to find ways to down preserving their catch is one way to keep food longer. in fact, small scale industries of sun drying the fish have boomed because of the floods, but everywhere they look, people are reminded. the situation here could get worse. water labels are not receiving fast enough. barriers can only do so much to keep the rising water at bay harbor matessa al jazeera jungle estate. felts done. ah, this is exit. are round up at the top stories, ethiopians prime minister says he'll travel to the front line on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces. fighters for the northern t gray region are pushing further south towards the capital, addis ababa.