former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country. ah, to grind forces withdrawal from ethiopia is i'm hora, and a far regions off to territorial gains by the government. ah, hello, i'm mary. m y z and watching al jazeera, also coming up all the program as the army kron variance surges across europe, germany limits gatherings, and the u. k. a just caution head of christmas, a new era in chalet. the former student protested gabriel burridge promises to be

a president that unites the country after winning a runoff election. discovering the devastation of sub super typhoon ry, philippines scrambles to send a remote communities as the death toll continues to climb. ah. only begin this hour in ethiopia. when to grind rebel forces of announced a retreat. walking a turning point in a conflict that has sent shock waves through east africa. a spokesman for the tag ry pupils. liberation front says all fighters are withdrawing to their northern stronghold of tig rye after months of fighting where they took over large parts of africa, 2nd most populous country. if your peers at central government has said the withdrawal is a prerequisite for peace talks, fighting has caused a major humanitarian crisis with international mediation efforts. failing to bring

about a resolution, rebel say there withdrawing. so that aid can enter the region, but central government and addis ababa says it's a cover up for their military setbacks. meanwhile, a rebel own t. v station is released new pictures of the aftermath of government as strikes integrity, drones bond the region for 3 days last week, killing at least 28 people. pictures, show residents carrying dead bodies from a market. dozens of people are being treated for injuries. are going to bring you much more on developments, their integrity after that withdrawal from the t p l f. of course they have just announced that to all try and get some reaction from the region a little bit 8 wrong in the program. ah the u. k. government has warned that further corona virus restrictions might be needed with record case levels reported over the past week. prime minister boris

johnson is described. the situation is extremely difficult and urged caution that senior ministers are believed to be pushing back on implementing any measures before christmas journal. how has our point now, so far in england, government guidance against the omi kron variant has focused on the boost vaccination campaign and the pace of the rollout has shut up in recent days, the rate of only grown infection has soared to with scientists warning the new year could bring thousands of hospital admissions and deaths each day if strict measures are brought in soon. at a cabinet meeting on monday, the prime minister boris johnson was found himself caught between the scientists and rebellious ministers and m. p. 's who say not enough is yet known about omicron . we know that there's been, and i got the data in front of me, 104 hospitalizations from only crohn. the question really is,

does that and there's a lag time of days if not weeks to finding out whether that leads to more fatalities as a result of this, that's if you like the missing piece of the data possible, but we constantly keep it under review in a pre recorded statement, johnson earned on the side of caution, political caution that is less so perhaps in the interests of public health we, we will have to reserve the, the possibility of taking further action to, to protect the public and to protect public health, to protect our chess and we weren't hesitate to, to take that action. but in the meantime, what i would say to everybody is, please exercise caution. the wave of all micron concern, meanwhile, is spreading fast across europe. germany becomes the latest country to confirm plans for new restrictions with social gatherings limited to a maximum of 10 vaccinated or recently recovered people from december. the 28th. while in france,

approval has been given for the use of the pfizer biotech vaccine in children, aged 5 and above. both countries joined by austria in limiting travel from britain, the current omicron capital of europe. but all will know there's no preventing its arrival eventually. back in the u. k. coded 9 teens returned to the headlines, has been nothing but bad news for the prime minister. the next installment in the so called party gates, scandal, features a photo of johnson and his wife joining staff and officials for cheese and wine in the downing street garden last summer. the government insists these were work colleagues joining an after work gathering and that no rules were broken. the public who were under locked down at the time and now facing another difficult christmas will likely see it differently. jonah, how al jazeera london, wherever you are, in the latest developments around e. c o pierre, in the civil war playing out a t p. i've spoken, got to you, read the joins us over the phone from near the to grind capital mckelly. what can

you tell us about this decision by to grind forces to withdraw from these withdrawal from these areas? why is this happening now? this has been in the works for 34 weeks. we do start to freak out some on the line with very little we had a number of reasons why we had to this was strategy for freshman military. we have some close finish. and so what we decided sort of was 22446 from from, from scott. just got in touch with me, right? if you want, you want to negotiate with the government now with us

for the for so long expressing comes back in june, we have not, and we have to declare our intentions membership because we have assistance with them so that it's not going to be. i mean, it's miss always symptoms crisis, which is fundamental problem, but just be the standard which is which is the government which is which is the tradition of trying to find them. and that really miss has been mostly by which kind of the 3 different sorts of you. and so we decided is simply a consideration what he's saying. and forgive me i,

it's the line is a little bit distorted. if you could just speak a little bit more loudly, perhaps that will make it be easier to hear. you can, can i ask you your response to the governance suggestion is tpl. i've withdrawal is not due to a genuine desire for peace. thought that it's the result of circumstances and losses on the battlefield. all my time in whether there was not on because the people who i've been told that will be written by the n d f. know for a fact that the forces that we've known as long as it so it took us about 33 weeks, 2 weeks from, from i thought it was, i'm not saying that they were not conflicts. i know the weight effect from

there was an attempt to my call around we had the challenge hit on and we did crashing with a little bit of time, you know, and it's more than willing to spend in the way of always there. otherwise, people understand fully know forces withdrawn, not because of any pressure from, from, from, from just very briefly is this and now and end to the hostilities is a tv left laying down its arms and prepared to enter into negotiations after what has been a year of brutal conflict in the country is consistent with what we have arrived to the center of the island capital was

taking so far. we are not interested in this not interested in squeezing about again. we interested in security just interested in ensuring that received that was placed on our is broken and we need to do whatever it takes to make sure that our people are free from the title company that has been closed. otherwise, we are interested interested in interested in power. that has been clear. we have been cleared for for a long time in time to do so. if you call me anytime.

thank you. thank you for joining us. get did you read a t p s spokesman? joining us from mckelly in the to the region and really the, the line was a bit problematic there. but we got a sense of the reaction to this story off to the withdrawal from key areas. but it has been a communications black out in the area which has made contacts. obviously quite, quite difficult. want to move on to other stories we're covering now, and israelis finding it citizens from traveling the united states, canada, and 8 other countries because of concerns about the only conveying to the current of virus measures will take effect from midnight on tuesday, israel's largely closed its international orders after the new variant was detected last month, countries experiencing a 5th wave of infections. now. meanwhile, us is seen a 50 percent surge in corona virus cases this month. fears of new restrictions across the country, sore wolf streets, main indices for more than one percent. on monday,

your casino fed straight day of record cases now while estate emergency has been declared in washington, the us reported more than 70000 new infections on sunday. i'll speak to gabriel elizondo who's in new york. what's been the response to the this state rise in a number of on the con, cases are in the country. well, lot of people here in the us are basically saying one thing, not again, they thought this was behind the people here in the us, but it's clearly not when it comes to this pandemic. as you mentioned in washington dc, the mayor announced a state of emergency on monday and re instituted the indoor mask mandate. here in new york city, there are long lines of sometimes hundreds of people that wrapped around the block, people trying to get a tested, there's a new, a new urgency for testing and there simply are not enough testing sites for

enough testing materials for people and testing home testing kits are in short supply as well. i mean scenes of people lining up to get tested, haven't been seen here in new york for almost over a year. now at this point, the city shut dozens of it's testing sites actually. and now it's frantically trying to reopen them again. all over the united states sporting events are, are being delayed or canceled. events in new york city as well. the new york city mayor said that he will make a decision in the next couple of days or so if they will go forward with the new year's eve celebration in times square. that usually brings more than a 1000000 people to times square right now. it's on, but he says they are considering alternate, alternating altering the plans on that. the bottom line is actually the u. s. is averaging about 832150000 new cases

a day. those are cases during the week. the numbers you get on the weekend haven't have a tendency to be lower because they don't get all of the accounting in. but it's about a $150000.00 cases a day. now, in the u. s. a lot of health experts had been warning or predicting that this could be a very long and dark winter in north america due to the pandemic and the new variant. and clearly that is exactly what is happening now. thank you, john. yes, from your gabriel elizondo. notching out there at life in london, still actually on the highlands that is the un pays his respect to the victims of it. they will blast as time is running out to save lebanon. ah,

hello. the weather remains cool, cloudy, but quiet across north western parts of europe. we have got a change coming in as we go on through the next couple of days at the moment. we have high pressure, so very much in charge, so that's keeping it settled. but this high will slide down towards central parts of europe over the next couple of days ahead of that, the winds coming in from a cold, nor the direction. we can see temperature is plunging over the next day or so. moscow, for example, minus 17 celsius that cool. as cold, even from moscow, we have got some winfrey flurries around the baltic states and winfrey weather to write down around the black sea. still a few showers have the high ground of turk, in some lively showers because at east side of the mediterranean, just pulling away from cypress, heading on into the event central part, still quiet for the time being, but i will to was to west his thought. we start see the change some weather weather coming in across portugal. will gretch see cloud and rain also extending up into island into northern ireland into scotland. pushing a little further east with central air is still sing some fine and dry weather for

the time being with early morning mist and fog, we have got one or 2 shares clinging on to the far north of egypt as we go on through tuesday. but fine and dry for much of west africa. ah, i've come back to sarajevo to revisit the fascinating part of pulsing in history. they were crazy, creative, even visionary. they were top lesta, not realistic. it was them as a child during and just pops into people still loved them. it was basically too bad to be true. what they were predicting can comment to heal ethnic divisions and national tensions that exist in both you today. once upon a time in sarajevo on al jazeera lou

ah, welcome back and look at the main stories now. to grind rebels, battling the ethiopian government, say they all, withdrawing their troops from the northern regions of afar and am hora. the group says the retreat will allow humanitarian aid to enter the region. the government is saying it's a cover for that military setbacks. u. k. government has one that further restrictions might be required to keep your mc kong crone of ours varying under control. but senior ministers of leave to be pushing back on implementing any new measures before christmas. now a former left, a student leader is gonna become chili's youngest president. but to $35.00 world gabrielle bart shall soon be under pressure to fulfill his campaign promises. he wants to remain that in america's most advanced economy, which is also one of the most on equal in the world. i, latin america,

editor leasing human reports from santiago. oh, the sound of euphoria overwhelmed the streets of central santiago. barbara with her tens of thousands of jubilee supporters of gabrielle body. each welcomed the impressive in hard, fought victory. the left wing can did. it will become chillies, youngest, ever president. i have the hope of the tiller with social justice a t little it's better for my daughter. the president elect a 35 year old congressman and former student leader literally had to jump over the crowds in time of the barriers to make it on to the stage from where he delivered a conciliatory message to the country in little, you know, our government has the conviction to look forward to the challenges that we have before us. it cannot be just changed by talking to the mirror. i'm not yours to only speak to people who think like me to change the way people who think

differently. we are here to ensure that once and for all the our courses sufficient for all chileans and we can achieve a wonderful life new earlier body to received a visit from his rival conservative kelsey antonio cashed little cast, had conceded defeat just a little over an hour after the poles closed, you look in a folder for me as much as we can get our legitimate differences him said we want to continue contributing to our homeland. was all once again tonight, all chileans govern conservative presidents of us, dumpy, near dak, who also opposed, bought each rush to make the traditional conciliatory phone call. for the 1st time in 40 years, there will be a president who will attempt to change till his free market economic model, which millions of chileans believe is responsible for extreme social inequality in this country. i see on everyone right here next week susan's with their new president that wanted to raises of congress,

which is split 5050 between the supporters and his opponents with me that he's going to have them include consensus. and that begs the question, how long will this enthusiasm last what each acknowledged that he faces, serious economic and political challenges, but for at least a short while. it was time to celebrate a victory that symbolizes a huge leap of faith by the people of chile. see, and human al jazeera santiago police in the philippines is saying the number of people killed by super typhon rye, which tore through the country last week, has risen to at least 375 military helicopters of ferrying food and water to survivors who are living in a mo, areas that have been flooded and more bodies are also expected to be found there. algeria jamil alan dorgan is the 1st jealous to reach the de now got islands, parts of which have been completely destroyed. we are in the town of santos say in

dinner. good province. everywhere we look there is devastation this coast. so community has been completely damaged by typhoon, right. we've spoken to residents who are now forced to sleep by the roadside because their home has been completely destroyed. we've been told we were the 1st journalists to ever visit this community, a community that remains cut off from the rest of the world. there is the bree everywhere, and people are forced to just pick up the pieces. they say they have yet to see any government official. they have yet to receive any aid whatsoever. and the situation is quite desperate. but what we're seeing is just the fraction of the devastation brought about by typhoon rise, fury. there are at least 5 provinces, deeply affected by this site for affecting millions of people. the government says

it is doing the best. it can to send aid to those who need it most, especially those who live in islands like this one. but we spoke to people here who say they're very disappointed about the government response and they feel abandoned and be so even though they can pick up the pieces, it's not going to be easy because it also means that it will take many, many months before they can even feel a semblance of normalcy again or rescue teams or working to free people who've been trapped by heavy flooding in malaysia after more than 3 days of torrential rain there at least 7 people have been killed in tens of thousands, forced to flee their homes, in the deluge started on friday, all the months worth of rain fell in a single day. the states of a hung longer and just around the capital quite an empire have been very hard hit. i think i've seen a movie in 2012. i think this one was 70, that was news happen, nothing or that i'm. i've seen this before,

back in the ninety's, this area had flooding, but this time it's really bad because nobody anticipated this level of flooding that a jury has started deliberations in the try of a full a minute. so to police officer involved in the shooting of a black man during a traffic stop. in closing arguments, prosecutors had kimberly porter was acting recklessly when she shot dante wright in minneapolis earlier this year. 20 year old was killed shortly after being pulled over for having an expired license plate on service, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter test thing. she believed she was discharging her taser and not the hon. gone. let john 100 has been following all of these relevance from minneapolis. tell us more about the closing argument. yeah. well, jurors now are considering the case, they're gonna, they're going to debate until as late as 630 this evening. so it's even conceivable that we could hear their decision today, but it's a tough one. can really parties,

potter is accused of 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter. her defense is arguing, it was a mistake that she reached to her right side and pulled out her service weapon and not her left side. to pull out the taser that she intended to use. she yelled taser taser taser. nobody is arguing that that's not what she intended to do for defense as it was simply a mistake. but they say also that she would have been within her rights to use deadly force. because dante wright was trying to escape from her fellow police officer at the time, prosecutors say there is no mistake exemption to the law. this 26 year, a veteran should have known that she was pulling out her revolver instead of her chaser. and that she is guilty of recklessly endangering people in including dante wright who she shot in the back who then crashed his car. so the jury has to decide they're rather difficult decision whether that amounts to

manslaughter or not. there's some technical wording in the law. one of those charges suggest she has to be conscious of doing so. that is the 2nd degree charge . so the jury will deliberate on the fate of kimberly potter and the most dramatic point in this trial came and she broke down sobbing as she described the shooting that day. later on, she repeatedly sobbed. i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry. while the jury will decide whether she deserves to go to prison for that. all right, thank you very much for minute minneapolis, sir. john henderson voting to us on that case. it is. the jury is started deliberations. now us christian ministry group is saying that ransom money was raised to pay for the release of american and canadian missionaries kidnapped in haiti. but they eventually escaped on their own groups as 12 people fled in the middle of the night, 2 months after being abducted, following an orphanage visit near the haitian capital use of their freedom came out last week, 5 others who had taken at the same time had been freed also in recent weeks,

in christian aid ministries, groups as funds were raised to be used as ransom, but refused to save any of it was actually paid. the gang had demanded a $1000000.00 per person. saudi led coalitions as it's carried out, as strikes on the airports in yemen, capital coalitions, as the strokes were aimed at legitimate military targets. and that the airport had been used to launch cross border attacks. a short time earlier had warned all civilians and aid workers to evacuate. some art is under the rebel control on out to lebanon, the head of the united nations as visiting the country in he's paid tribute to the victims of last year's massive explosion in bay route that killed more than 200 people. the blast was a blow to a country that's already been crushed by an economic meltdown which the well bank has called the worst the planet is seen in a 170 years. around 80 percent of the lebanese population is now estimated to live below the poverty line. eunice,

after saying more than half of all families have had at least one child who skipped a meal in the month of october and 7 percent of families have been forced to send children to work. basic services are also falling apart. in october, nearly 50 percent of households did not have enough drinking water with a 3rd of them siting costs. as the main reason for this, you and chief and turning a terrorist says that lebanon needs more accountability for last year's port explosion. and the politicians need to work together to end the financial crisis, saying a harder has this report now. oh, do you? and secretary general said he came to lebanon as a method of solidarity for a people impoverished by their unprecedented economic christoph, but antonio good 30th, also reminded the political leadership. they have a responsibility to reform and step out corruption in state institutions. the true seas that the lebanese people use to those softening 30 members. and that creates

naturally a great responsibility for their bodies leader to still come together. i mean, this is not the moment for the visions to be explored. lebanon's latest political crisis has paralyzed the government for 2 months. now. at a time when many of the 5000000 people have been plunged into poverty because of the currency crash, lebanon needs urgent assistance in all sectors with particular importance to expanding the social protection network. international assistance has been key in helping the nearly bankrupt country, but the dynamics of the relationship appears to have changed. for example, humanitarian aid is no longer handled by the government. i prefer to call it collaboration for can she been of research because none of us would like to actually to substitute the role of any of the institutions. and yes, it has changed dramatically in terms of inclusion, you know, there was

a much less actually inclusion in, you know, all the meetings in the, in the priority setting. and in the policy dialog, gutierrez, this promising un agencies will remain strongly engaged, and that lebanon is not alone. international aid will help to slow lebanon's collapse, but un officials say it is not a sustainable solution. gutierrez, called on lebanon's leaders to put the lebanese people 1st and promote good governance. and while they have, again promised transparency, there's still no economic recovery plan. 2 years into the latest crisis. a crisis made worst, my last year's exclusion at the report. that leveled neighborhoods and destroyed lives and livelihoods. gutierrez paid his respects to the more than $200.00 victims and called for an impartial and transparent investigation. but like political reform, it's another message that is likely to go unheard center for their elisha zita to

beirut. you can get more on the learn shapes, visit lebanon, everything else we're covering as well right here. al jazeera dot com. ah. just to look at the main stories now. to grind forces battling the ethiopian government, say they are withdrawing their troops from the northern regions of afar and am hora . if european central government has set the retreat was a prerequisite for peace talks to take place. more than a year, a fight has caused a major humanitarian crisis with more than 400000 people facing famine. rebels say there withdrawing. so that aid can enter the region with governments as it's a cover for their military setbacks. u. k. government has wal mart further restrictions might be needed to keep the army con corona virus varying under control more than 91000.