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2 years of conflicts, but now one step closer to piece, ethiopia is warring sides agree to end hostilities. it talks in pretoria ah, hello i mariam demising in london, you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. kenya deploy troops to the east and democratic republic of congo was fighting against m. 23 rebels intensifies rein exports from ukraine. a back on russia reverse is its decision to block shipments via the black sea and the federal reserves. latest move in the fight against inflation. the benchmark interest rate is height for the 6th time this year. ah,

lo welcome to the program. a p. steel has been agreed for the northern ethiopian region of tag ry ending hostilities in a 2 year conflict that killed thousands of people in displaced millions more. the agreement was broken by the african union and came off to talks between the ethiopian government and the to grind regional leaders in the south african city of pretoria. the conflict started almost 2 years ago now and the take why people's liberation front attacked army base is in the northern region. since then, both sides of launched counter attacks and years of fierce fighting has been a rapid escalation since the collapse of a 5 months cease fire in august, which prompted the african union to step in last month and broke her talks for me to mila has more from pretoria, after 10 days of talks in pretoria, ethiopians federal government and the t great people's liberation front, reached an agreement to in the fighting. the talks mediated by former nigerian

president alyssa gunner passenger and former canyon president, who ro, kenyatta did is the beginning of a little time for it to feel for the honor of africa. i'm indeed, for africa, i'll say, let me get into some goat, but leaves no done without seeing improper juice and of journals fishing what we are trying to achieve for ourselves over the years. and that live african solution for african problems. the 2 year conflicts killed, thousands of people enforced many more from their homes. t gray in ethiopia, north has been under a blockade for 17 months, with no banking, telephone and internet services or media access. but the grand delegation says it's

made painful concessions, and the trust must now be rebuilt out. people have been killed not only for bullets, but also for lack of food and medicine. our children do not go to schools or hospitals. i'm not functioning because of the work. humanitarian aid is now expected to resume the t p. i left dominated ethiopians politics for nearly 30 years. until prime minister abbey armored came to power in 2018 as both sides fought for territory. human rights campaign has of want of potential abuses by both sides and the conflict. it is now for all of us. one of this argument, we must be truth was a letter in the spirit of the sacrament. the people of your backs, but that more than that fixed of the sacrament they had in mind peace and harmony. it is an development international cools for an end to the war. have been mounting

in recent weeks. while the federal government has been assisted by troops from neighboring eritrea, that country was not involved in the talks. this is not the 1st time there's been an agreement to end the fighting a previous c speier fell apart in august this year. this time though, the appears to be a greater commitment and optimism that this agreement will hold from me tamela i'll to 0 pretoria will the us ambassador to the united nations linda thomas greenfield, believes the deal is a significant step forward. i am delighted to hear of that that these talks have led to a cessation of hostilities. ah, this is an important a movement because what it means is that lives will be saved. we don't know what the next steps are, but we support the efforts of south africa, kenya, and the

a you as well as the un to find a way forward to in this horrific war. now speaking tar diplomatic added to james bay's un high commissioner for refugees says the conflict has caused enormous suffering from millions of people. he does all so prevented humanitarian agencies from having sufficient access to people the need. it's interesting that there was a phase, you may remember after the initial escalation, where acts as improved. this is because part is to, to conflict, gave more space to humanitarian agencies and there was a rather extended course if you wish m. so what i, what we read is the african union mediator saying this is the beginning of peace. so we have to hope that this is really a milestone towards a better trajectory,

a better direction. because otherwise, we will continue to see an escalation. in schuman life's lost, or at risk of, of, of severe suffering. ah, canyon president william router has announced a deployment of troops to east and democratic republic of congo. soldiers will form part of a regional force aiming to crush the m. 23 rabble group operating in the east. but the rebels are just one of more than a 100 different on groups faced in easton, d r. c. they say they are fighting to defend the interests of the ethnic tootsie minority. the m 23 emerged more than a decade ago when they seized the city of gun on the border with rwanda, and named after a march 23rd, 2009 p steel. with a previous to it see armed group which they say the government did not honor. m 23

signed their own p. steel and 2013. after defeat by government, troops and in ice and nations backed forces. most of its troops surrendered across the border in uganda, and will moved into refugee camps. m $23.00 splintered into several factions, but early this year, 2 of the main ones came together to launch this latest offensive algebra is malcolm web. now reports the people here angry un peacekeepers they say have failed to protect them. this un convoy was withdrawing to the regional capital goma following his tax by the m 23 rebels, widely seen as a proxy neighboring rwanda democratic republic of congo. his army and the un have failed to stop and $23.00 advances in the last year. people here fled to fighting and made barriers to defend themselves. because in the god got to go muslims to

keep a thought that shot into the air. and the conway broke through the body. they did not comply with instruction. we had talked to them with a lot of stone, and we've had to stop the vehicles and then the crowd fund them down on monday, people protested in coma again through when the military aggression congress, government expelled rwanda's ambassador and the coolest au number from the one the u. s. as it concerned about ruined the military involvement in congress. rwanda denies it now kenya says its troops will join the conflict canyon. president william router announced a then to congo under the banner of a new east african community regional force regional heads. a state agreed to it earlier this year. and it is, i was sponsibility to confront criminals, terrorists, and all negative elements, including groups. not clear where they'll go. at least you know,

5 on route, including m $23.00. you canden troops were already in congo when the agreement was reached. they entered a year ago. it was you, candice and rwanda's invasions of congo in the 1900 ninety's, led to to wars involving dozens of countries from africa and beyond. congos, vast mineral wealth was at the center of it. people in eastern congo have suffered instability ever since. congress governments, as it needs foreign, military support, rights groups and political opposition say, bringing in more foreign armies. once again will be disastrous. malcolm web al jazeera, russia says it will rejoin a deal that allows ukraine to export grain through the black sea. as part of the agreement moscow guarantee the safety of the shipments washer had previously suspended its involvement, accusing ukraine of attacking its fleet and crime mia?

ari faucet reports on this now from keith. despite russia, suspension of its part in the deal on saturday, the black sea green corridor has remained open for business, recently departed, ships full of ukrainian produce, waiting for inspection of his done bull, united nations and turkey. working hard to restore russia's participation in confirmation of success came in a message handed to the turkish president, mid speech russia, salma book on fame shores, municipal russian defense minister, mister shaw, google, the national defense minister, who lucy, a car and expressed at the green transports will continue as agreed before as of 12 pm today. so long as it's been russia stopped, it's cooperation of this attack on its black sea fleet in crimea on saturday. it alleged it had been launched by ukraine, at least partially from within the grain corridor. ukraine denies using the corridor for military purposes,

and neither confirmed nor denied. it was behind the attack me if i did it. then we demanded assurances and guarantees from the ukrainian side. nothing like this would happen again, that the humanitarian coroner would not be used militarily in our turkish partners mediate. our defense ministry has received information from the turkish science that ukraine has given such a shouldn't say. let me pretend, went on to say that russia reserve the right to withdraw from the deal again in the future. if you crane went back on such assurances, but that it would not impede ukrainian grain from reaching turkey. here in t if a senior advisor to the cranium president said, rushes escalates re threats. and blackmail had failed because the deal had been shown to work even without russian involvement. for decides when ukrainian security analyst says an important element, mr. key is leverage over russia company now because our church. yes ma'am. now that there she will continue for the russian federation for charge of georgia. she would

be the last probably decision that most the least beneficial. ah, so that is definitely the implants, their readiness. but few expect plain sailing. russia had been accused of deliberately slowing the inspection process at his done bull. something now possible once again, the deal is due to expire or automatically renew if none of the parties objects on the 19th of november, or if will sit al jazeera keith march most glad on the program. as anger on the streets have shall and co protest to say tara laws have been used against peaceful anti government demonstrations. and joe biden is ready to move out threats to u. s. democracy. he makes his big speech out of the midterm elections. ah.

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ah, i'll come back watching al jazeera ly from london a quick look at the main stories. now. the african union has announced a p steel between the ethiopian government and to grind forces. d o marks a major diplomatic breakthrough off to to he is a fighting. it's killed thousands of people into space. millions can near is deploying troops to the democratic republic of congo to help fight am 23 rebels. the deployment comes off to the un mission, has withdrawn its troops from a key military base in the east, where the rebels are trying to advance. russia is rejoined a deal that allows ukraine to export grain through black seaports. moscow saying that it will guarantee the safety of these treatments. they also reserve the right

to put out again if conditions of the deal all violated. we've been falling development in the united states, where the federal reserve is increased its benchmark interest rate by 3 quarters of a percentage point as the country fight soaring, inflation is the 4th time in a row. this is happened the 6 time this year. after keeping the rate at all, just below one percent for almost 2 years, it marks the latest effort to contain spiking costs, and it comes days before the us, mid term elections. white house, as a federal reserves move, will help to bring down inflation job returns. he brings us more on this from outside the federal reserve that comes to the federal reserve. if that movement is gonna affect all sorts of emerging markets and others with balance of payments issues and going to create a global recession. so this is what for important. it's interesting when drove when the statement for written that came out about an hour ago just over an hour ago, because it suggested that maybe the interest rates like could be being moderator,

potentially, even coming to an end. in the coming months. you saw the financial markets off the rejoice, and then they will, they went up. but then when jerome, how sort of speaking the federal reserve chair, just under an hour ago, dropped the chair because like, well what are your exactly saying? what is the decision? and people rather like some sort of certainty. so he drove out was just say, look, really the main questions for federal, you know, how fast, how high, how long should interest rates be high as the federal attempts to get inflation down to 2 percent. but then he also no decisions been made whether whether interest rates will continue going up, whether they'll be moderated in december. so the market was suggesting that they were expecting a half a percent to a slightly more perhaps in the next in december. and then down to a quarter percent, maybe in january, but he's either completely not give a good idea of what the phone is. he says these decisions have yet to be made, but he did keep on saying we may have a long way to go in raising interest rates. so that speaking a lot of people,

because there is that sense of effect has been moving far too quickly. o u. s. president joe biden is giving a speech in the coming hours. he's been on the campaign trail urging people to vote and warning that democracy in the u. s. is under threat by right wing groups. he dress, come 6 days before americans cast their ballots in the mid term elections while i white house course wanted. kimberly, i'll get joyce's now for a bit of a preview. so obviously a great deal at stake in these elections and joe biden wants to make it clear that the country's democracy is under a. so what can we expect to hear from him? yeah, that speech is actually set to begin the in the next hour the present should be leaving the white house say in the roughly the next 45 minutes or so. and if he starts on time, the speech should begin shortly thereafter. and the prophet is really set to make a case that democracy is under attack. really laying out that these are dark times

in america. that the images that americans saw shortly after the presidential election and 2020 in january of 20, 21 january 6th. to be precise, where there were hundreds of american storming the u. s. capital trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. that that is possibly set to happen again as a result of the mid term congressional elections set to take place on tuesday, quarter to the why has press secretary. there are dozens, if not hundreds of, of politicians and supporters of those politicians. conservatives in the united states that are not only denying the results of the 2020 election but also laying the groundwork to potentially do the same again with these legislative elections. so we expect that the u. s. president is set to really say that democracy is under attack and democracy is on the ballot. come tuesday, the november elections for the really what is pivotal for the president of his

democratic party to try and keep control of normally the house of representatives, but also the upper chamber of the u. s. senate now for their part republicans not taking to this very well. they say this is an attempt by the president to smear millions of americans who support the republican party. and really they say that this is just a president who is, you know, struggling in the polls and is looking for a way to re direct voters attention given the fact that right now, they're focused on the fact that the president's policies are working. they say that there's high energy cost to and threats gas with as high food prices, reco high inflation. and this is a president really trying to deflect from some of those negative headlines. so a lot of tit for tat, going on right now between the 2 parties. but as the president who right now has the prime time address a head really trying to capture the headlines in the final days of campaigning. really trying to lay out a contrast between democrats and republicans and make the case that democracy is at

stake. and that really, this is something that voters should be focused on in the final days before they make their choice of who and which party will control congress for the remainder of his 2 years in office. now thank you very much. i white house correspondent, kimberly how can that? thanks. kimberly willis, inflation, health care and police finance is some of the top issues for us voters now, but priorities differ depending on the age we spoke to. to vote, as you told al jazeera what they expect their elected officials to accomplish and joshua gibson, a student here at the university of illinois, chicago, an agency voter. hello, my name is richard stewart. 53 o voted from the south. he said of chicago, i'm also a barber and about that rupture public safety. there are several issues that are in a very pressing to me as a voter and a young person. and for example,

to wish and being pretty high, i do find it pretty hard to pay in on a consistent basis. safety is really important. once you get older cars within the community, they are living. i see a lot of old people, they worry about going to, they cause crammed, i would say that violence says and rather concerning man about once or twice a month, we do gets a public service morning and from the college saying that a crime was committed. it does still scare me that something like this could happen relatively close. it need to be some polish before police need to get educating this sensitivity with the community and get to know to in visuals in the community . like i'm a public safety advocate that we are, he abuse on the ground dylan with a lot of issues. dick a certain balances, chicago with inflation getting very high and with wages not growing as fast. it is more difficult to see a future where somebody like me credit and be able to raise a family, buy a house, or be able to maintain a stable work. life environment is very hard when you own fix income as an elderly

. when you're in a fixed income, you only getting a certain amount of money to pay your bills to feed yourself, to back close and houses. so if we can find a way to get back to that solid middle grounds, then we're more likely to be united as a society and generally happier. i'm a moderate, independent vocal. so the while those like awful grass, why? thank you. the shoreline canal protest continuing their against the government's use of terror laws against demonstrators and a crippling economic crisis. police politicians and business leaders warned against the protest, but organized as went ahead anyway. michelle fernandez has more in this from colombo, where the rally took place. ah, united by frustration, anger, and a need to speak out. thousands of she lumpkins from different communities, faith and background, came together in colombo. they demanded an end to the government suppression of

peaceful protest against the economic crisis. it brought the country to a near standstill and left people struggling to get by activists. joseph stalin is free on bill after being charged in 4 different cases related to taking part in protests. gabriella g watson, about alcorda, audi, about one of our neighbors we label can't live. the cost of things are 3 times out of the people salaries. father farmers labors fishermen can't survive while the government wants to stop people taking to the streets. that is what this repression is about. on, on a larger buckley who will not let me model the neglect other demonstrators say they want the government to stop using terrorist law as against protested. and to repeal the prevention of terrorism act, the media was used against these 2 student leaders who spent more than 10 weeks in detention. the crowds want them released police road to protest leaders warning of

the election. and they were out in force to stop the march. tempers flared from anybody can do. oh, but what not. what they're doing. it is not that right. i might then, i'd rather be the yard the think the end, the, the, the end protested said president runner vicar missing. who was elected by parliamentarians, but has no mandate. they accuse him of being a proxy for the roger puts a family rule forced out of office earlier this year. i'm a family, i'm prostate. i want to turn this a direction. these are scenes. the government tried hard to avoid claiming they would deter investors and scare away tourists when it's trying to rebuild economy. the tourist industry and business community echoed that view. the human rights commission has wound the police that people's right to express themselves must be

respected. it's an absolute free for all other traits of colombo as thousands of people go on to the 3 to voice their frustration. their said, despite government assurances that things are on the mend, it's certainly fields different day to day. minute fernandez, auto 0, colombo, thousands of supporters of brazil's outgoing present jarboe scenario of continue to gather on the streets of rio de janeiro. a reject the result of sunday's presidential run off, nor asking the military to keep him in power. while snar himself hasn't yet conceded defeat, his laughter rivalries ignacio de la to silver, but he said that he would respect the constitution. allows him by boys government expects its mays harvest to nearly harm this year. the country has been facing poor rainy seasons. the farmers have been encouraged to grow traditional crops, more resistant to droughts. harm were task reports from wood z, a dry reaching where farmers struggling to make a living. abraham chima qualities,

making sure his plough is ready for the field. he hopes to start planting soon. as long as there isn't another drought this year. last season he and his wife emma grew sorghum, millet sunflowers and maze. but they made crop zimbabwe. staple food didn't do all . we are fitting challenges of climate and also a decision for a little rating for andy, if the buttons run for distribution is very poor, i even would say so for mays 2, royal i, we are facing challenges. it's one reason why the government once more farm was to go traditional crops such as minute and forget the country experience of the lean season every year from october to march is the driest period before rain start. when families a few to no food stocks, as government, we came up with a program where we say is region where the farmer is found. that determines the type of coffee letter from

a should and must grow in these dry and other teachings are small grains or what you tend to additional grades are the most adaptable type of prompt that are suitable for these environments. many farmers are growing traditional grains, but on a small scale maze is more popular here and, and important cash crop. abraham's families is at 1st, they weren't sure about growing a lot of sorghum, but it paid off. the family sold most of what was harvested and this is what's left in storage, 13 bags of sorghum. it's enough to keep them going for a few months until the next harvest. humanity and agencies and the government plan to feed more than 3000000 people during this lean season. getting more people to grow, additional grains could take some time, but low yield, recurring droughts and food shortages are encouraging. more families to embrace drought resistant crops. and as they require less fertilizer and more,

you tricia's more not believe they could be the way to go harder. matessa al jazeera woods, zimbabwe, a criminal gang. as of doctor, at least 39 children who were harvesting crops at a farm in northwest nigeria. police had thousands of gunman on motorcycle surrounded the farm outside my room village. enough a scary district have been ransomed, demands for their release. authorities of launched a rescue operation. bandits were forcibly angry that the farm owner hadn't settled a balance with them. on november the 2nd, his international day to end impunity for crimes against john las 35 john must have been killed while on the job this year alone. one of them was al jazeera is sharina block lay a policy in american was shot dead by his writing forces while on assignment in the occupied west bank. in may. no one has been held accountable.