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this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. nearly 50,000 refugees gathered on the border with sudan, as ethiopia launches its final offensive on dissident leaders in tigray province. it's not a war crime, it's a law enforcement operation taking care of the civilians‘ lives and civilian institutions. the uk government gives details of its revised three—tier system of coronavirus restrictions. the prime minister says it will mean a tough winter for many. if we ease off now, we risk losing control of this virus all over again, casting aside the hard—won gains, and forcing us back into a new year national lockdown. in argentina, thousands of people
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lined the streets of the capital to pay their last respects to diego maradona, as the footballer‘s coffin was taken away for burial. this is the scene now outside the cemetery, where maradona will be laid to rest after a private family ceremony. and millions of americans are travelling and gathering for thanksgiving, despite the shadow of the pandemic. hello, welcome. ethiopian government troops are carrying out what's being described as the final operation against the rebel leadership in the country's northern tigray province. the assalt comes as a deadline set by ethiopia for its regional
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opponents to surrender has passed. —— assault. the ethiopian government says it is also distributing aid to people displaced by the fighting. but reports say its troops have been seen stopping people attempting to find refuge in sudan. from the ethiopian border, anne soy reports. a new day away from home, but for these refugees it's a big relief to have made it to sudan. thousands crossed this river on the border, but things have now changed. ethiopian troops are discouraging people people from fleeing the country, we were told. 0ur requests for comment from the authorities went unanswered. but at this camp, a farmer and his 11—year—old daughter are luckily reunited. translation: i was with my grandmother when i started hearing gunshots. when they intensified,
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i asked her to flee with me, but she said no, she was too old to run, so i fled alone. i had to spend a night in the bush. i was frightened. i had no extra clothes and no money, but i was able to cross the border and then i asked someone to call my father. for the older people here, this brings back bad memories of past conflicts. this man is 75, and he wants a resolution to the current conflict but thinks it won't be easy. translation: they will not agree on anything unless the world intervenes. now, there is war and death. things cannot be solved that easily. these people hope this situation is temporary. they want to go back home and continue with their lives. the federal government promised a short offensive but there are fears the conflict could persist and potentially destabilise the whole of africa region. girl sings this is a song for peace.
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it encapsulates the hopes of many here. they have lost touch with those they left behind. their lives are in limbo, as ethiopian‘s current and former rulers fight. anne soy, bbc news. bikila hurisa is an official in the prime minister's office. he explained the latest developments from the govenment‘s perspective. it's not a war crime, it is a law enforcement operation, taking care of the civilians's lives and the civilian institutions. in the military institutions will take the maximum care in such a way that lives can be saved and institutions can be saved. this is not a war crime because this is targeting only criminals who are identified by name, and whose places are also identified. therefore we will not equate this to war crimes. law
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enforcement operations only targeting criminals in the city. when the current lockdown in england ends next week, the vast majority of people will find themselves in tier 2 — which means that mixing between households will be banned indoors. in tier 3, which is even stricter, most of the affected areas will be in the north and central england. the prime minister said the country was facing a "hard winter", and he said he realised the restrictions would cause "a lot of heartache and frustration", especially for the hospitality industry. some of borisjohnson‘s own party have expressed their anger and disappointment at the news. here's our political editor, laura kuennsburg. december will be month four for people in west bromwich — hunkered down, banned from seeing friends and family they don't live with, apart from work or school. covid cases are still high and the market's quietening down. sarah is worried about hanging on.
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i'm struggling to find the money to pay for my pitch. tier 3 isn't going to work for us. we need to drop right back down. michail lost his job last year and now there are fewer people out and about to hear him sing. i can't guarantee getting money every day when i do come out, but it'sjust come at such a time where as i said, it hasjust thrown me, because i couldn't have prepared for this. the prime minister might be out of his isolation now, but the country's a long way from escaping restrictions. if we ease off now, we risk losing control of this virus all over again, casting aside our hard—won gains, and forcing us back into a new year national lockdown, with all the damage that would mean. as we emerge next wednesday, only a tiny proportion of us will go into looser limits under tier i. nearly 60% of england will be under tier two rules, where pubs, shops and restaurants can be open, and some limited socialising will be allowed, but nearly 40% of people,
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mainly in the north of england, will be under stricter rules, tier 3, where pubs and restaurants have to shut, apart from takeaway, and you're not meant to leave your local area. remember, the rules are different in scotland, northern ireland and wales. it's a complicated patchwork and the lines are hard to draw. even inside individual areas there's strife over whether it's fair. by the peace of the canal in berkhampstead, cases are low, but it will be in tier 2, anyway, because in other parts of hertfordshire, the disease is on the rise. gary's sort of grinning and bearing it. we'd have much preferred tier i, because as you say there is so little covid, but if they think it warrants tier 2, we just have to go along with the rules. robert was on furlough, but is now back at work, although has some time for his boat. once the numbers go down, we can start socialising,
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but before that, everyone will have to basically suck it up. what was the point of the national lockdown in england over the last four weeks if more people are moving into tougher restrictions than before? this is not continuing the lockdown. 0n the contrary, across all tiers, shops will be open, but what we want to avoid is relaxing now too much, you know, taking our foot off the throat of the beast now. and if you do get together with elderly relatives, the government scientists suggest if you want them to survive, don't get close. would i encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? no, i would not, because you could be carrying the virus and if you've got an elderly relative that would not be the thing you would want to do. there are doubts about the new system, and a tricky start — after the website with the information crashed at first. we also need to be convinced that the government actually have a plan to get places out of these higher tiers, because at the moment there's just some warm words and not a lot of detail. and some tory backbenchers are angry that their big areas have been
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treated all the same. i think the government's made the wrong call. we have the information that tells you there are different rates of infection. we know how people move around and the tiers should have reflected that. the lines on the map will all be reviewed in the middle of december. depending how we respond, depending how the disease responds, the way we're asked to behave in town and country may change again before too long. donald trump has said he will leave the white house if the electoral college votes for democratic president—electjoe biden. in the nearest he has come to a concession, donald trump said if mr biden is certified the election winner by the electoral college, he will depart the white house. joe biden is due to be inaugurated on 20 january. let's get some of the day's other news... a turkish court has sentenced more than 300 people to life in prison over the failed coup ofjuly 2016. almost 500 are facing charges,
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including a us—based cleric, fethuulah gulen, who is being tried in his absence. he denies the allegations. the drugs company astrazeneca has said its coronavirus vaccine being developed in conjunction with oxford university may be subject to a further global trial. several scientists have questioned the protection offered by the vaccine. in a statement, astrazeneca said there was strong merit in continuing to investigate dosage patterns. a trench is being dug around a rubbish dump in sri lanka to deter elephants from scavenging for food among plastic waste. the mammals regularly go to the landfill site, which is near a wildlife sanctuary, in the eastern town of ampara. plastic from landfill sites is a known killer of wild elephants, of which there are around 7,500 in sri lanka. a funeral cortege carrying the body of argentina's football legend, diego maradona through buenos aires
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has arrived at the cemetery where he will be buried. fans lined the streets to wave their hero goodbye. earlier, tens of thousands of people had crowded into the city center, queuing for hours to file past maradona's coffin and show him their respect. katy watson reports from buenos aires. the tears didn't stop. all day, mourners filed through the doors of the presidential palace. vice president cristina fernandez de kirchner lingering at his coffin to pay her respects. it's been a hero's farewell for maradona. lying in state is an honour afforded to few in argentina. a mark ofjust how loved he was here. argentinians waited patiently for hours. breaking into song to keep the spirits up and to remember the good times. translation: football has died. so we have to remember him in the best way. he was one of the best.
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that goal with the english, we'll never forget that. this crowd here can't be explained just by argentinians' love of football. yes, it's important, but it's much more than that. the people who have come here today saw maradona as a national icon, a man who represented them and did them proud, and it's a legacy that spans generations. as mourners left the palace, for some it was too much to process. it's the only one who actually made all the country proud, no matter what political orientation you have, religious... he came from nowhere and he put our country in the world. in a country hard hit by coronavirus, otherwise strict rules were being ignored for argentina's footballing superstar. but as the day went on and the summer temperatures rose, emotions also ran high. hundreds of fans broke down the barriers and riot police responded. authorities had to stop public
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viewing of the coffin to keep the peace. diego maradona was argentina's wild child, loved despite his flaws, celebrated beyond measure. as his family prepares to bury him, argentina doesn't want to forget. katy watson, bbc news, in buenos aires. jon smith, who was his agent between 1986—1991, joins me now. firstly our condolences. i must ask, you became his agent in 1986, the year where maradona won the world cup with argentina. how did you become his agent, and just what was he like? give us a flavour of him. become his agent, and just what was he like? give us a flavour of himlj became his agent because i was friendly with someone who is playing with tottenham hotspur at the time. and i was having tea one night with
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him, and diego phoned him. and there had been some issues and bits and pieces in his life that he felt he needed a friend to help him with, is respected and dear friend. needed a friend to help him with, is respected and dearfriend. and during the course of our conversation, he told me that he needed to help diego and asked if i would help them. and it had i not been there for tea — and actually that meeting got cancelled twice, so had i gone the first two times, i would've missed the call. so it was pure fate. and we work with him for four years. and he was unique, absolutely unique. if anything, he was two people — he was lovely diego, when you got him on his own, a little boy who still respected and somehow never left the slums of buenos aires, he was very caring and worried about the unfortunates in
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his country and around italy. but when he crossed the white line on the pitch, he was maradona. he was the pitch, he was maradona. he was the star and he felt he had a divinity, the talent given to him by god. and he wanted to win, he wanted to be the very best. and i think he possibly was. when you touch upon that element of someone who is two people, you hear about that so much, especially with the world cup game where you have the hand of god goal, and the goal of the century all in such close proximity. how do you help diego maradona, how do you help someone help diego maradona, how do you help someone like that? he was lovely, andi someone like that? he was lovely, and i keep saying this, he was very engaging, and he was surrounded by people. and he found it very difficult to say no. so there was a lwa ys difficult to say no. so there was always a melee around him, it was nearly a circus, in fact. so for us
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trying to create commercial transactions and manage a situation — and transactions and manage a situation —andi transactions and manage a situation — and i wasn't his daily manager, but we were there with him as part of what you would call today team maradona, it was very difficult. and there were times where we set something and somebody else would say something, and three other people would say something else, and you could just see his head trying to figure out what he should do. it was complicated. but i have to say it was a privilege, as well, a privilege to be in the exalted company. we are seeing the outpouring of grief in argentina, and also in naples — everybody wants to share their emotions about him. he wasjust to share their emotions about him. he was just always surrounded, how does one cope like that? he coped well until he achieved everything.
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and i was fortunate enough to be with him during some of the high moments in his life. when he had achieved just about everything, it's achieved just about everything, it's a bit like they call some people flaw geniuses — i've worked with so many people who are geniuses, and they're flawed. but they're also incentivized to achieve the talent that god gave them. and when he had achieved that, he was very sadly under the influence of people who wa nted under the influence of people who wanted to take him on a different journey. and in the end, as you know, he ended up in some very dark places. but in fairness to him, he shown a very bright light on the world of sports. lets her member him like that. john smith, the agent of diego maradona, thank you —— let's remember him like that. lots of
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tributes to maradona on our website. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come... go! meet the little boy switching on his home town's christmas lights, after people there raised the funds for life—saving cancer treatment. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world — the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number ten to see the queen, she told her cabinet, "it's a funny old world." angela merkel is germany's first woman chancellor — easily securing the majority she needed. attempts to fly a hot air balloon had to be abandoned after a few minutes, but nobody seemed to mind very much. as one local comic put it, "it's not
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hot air we need, it's hard cash." cuba has declared nine days of mourning, following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 1960s. it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war with the cuban missile crisis. this is bbc news, the latest headlines nearly 50,000 refugees have gathered on the border with sudan, as ethiopia launches its final... the uk government has given details of its revised three—tier system of coronavirus restrictions. the prime minister says it will mean a tough winter for many. thanksgiving in the us has coincided with a huge surge in coronavirus cases. wednesday saw more than 2,000 new deaths reported across the country —
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the highest daily toll sincejune. but against advice, tens of millions of americans have travelled for the holiday, including more than six million who have travelled by air since friday — the highest numbers using american airports since the pandemic began. aleem maqbool reports. there won't be a thanksgiving gathering this year for this woman. she's lost six members of her family to coronavirus, including her uncle, dario. he was a man that was dedicated to his family. he was dedicated to his family, to his children, to his wife, he was just an example of what a wholesome family unit looked like. there's been a dramatic surge in new cases across the us, and the health official advice had been not to travel for thanksgiving. but on the eve of the holiday, us airports saw their busiest
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day since mid—march. there were still many feel the risks have been exaggerated. what will you be doing differently this year? nothing. i'm not doing anything differently. for me, it's going to be the same as any other thanksgiving. less travel, less people getting together will slow the spread of the virus, do you agree with that? i agree that, yes, mathematically, statistically speaking, if no one travels, no one will get it. bt this is the united states of america, this is not some country ruled by despots. that argument that american civil liberties are more important than locking down is frustrating for many who are nursing losses. it's a slap in the face for all of the people who died and the families that are suffering, and the people that are now not
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at the kitchen table or at the dinner table for us. more than 1,000 hospitals across the us are once again reporting critical shortages in staff and resources because of the mass increase in coronavirus patients. a poignant holiday for so many who are already grieving promises to be a heartbreaking one for many more. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in washington. mahira khan, one of pakistan's most high profile film stars, is calling for a change to the way romance is portrayed on screen. this year she's been named on the bbc 100 women list. and she says it's about time we stopped making films where women fall in love with men who are abusive. hi, this is mahira khan, and i'm an actorfrom pakistan. also, i'm a unatr goodwill ambassador for my country. i've been approached from the beginning of my career — and not as an actor, even when i was a vj — i was approached to do a lot of fairness cream products
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and skin whitening products. it doesn't make sense to me, it never made sense to me. so i'm endorsing that idea that a darker girl, man, whatever is not as attractive asafairergirl? itjust never made sense. let me tell you guys about this photograph. this was the first time i went as a unatr goodwill ambassador to one of the camps. this one was in karachi. we make passing judgements on refugees — for example, in pakistan, you know? there is a certain idea for what that refugees have brought into pakistan. and there are a lot of times judgement that's passed. so we are there to a raise awareness for that. something happens and there's a lot of noise about it, everybody gets on the streets,
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everybody talks about it in the media — and then what? and then it dies out. another story comes out, another news comes out, or another rape happens. and then there's just another name or hashtag attached to it. six—year—old 0scar saxelby—lee by turning on the city's christmas lights in his home town of worcester in england. the people of worcester, had raised close to $1 million, to send the six—year—old abroad for cancer treatment. phil mackie reports. last christmas, no—one could be confident that this story would have such a happy ending. this was 0scar saxelby—lee 18 months ago, just after his fifth birthday. he had a rare form of blood cancer, and the prognosis wasn't good. that's when the people of worcester answered the call for help. thousands gave swabs to see if they might be a stem cell match, but when the transplant failed, the fund—raising started. they raised three quarters of a million pounds to pay for treatment in singapore.
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now oscar's cancer—free, and back home with his mum and dad. i think just the fact that we have such a strong, committed, loving community behind us, it means the world to us. this evening, 0scar was given the honour of virtually switching on worcester‘s christmas lights, after recording this earlier. ready, steady, go! whee! at the same time, across the city, othersjoined in. merry christmas! top of oscar's christmas list is a chocolate coin—making machine. it's actually a special treat for my friends, because they've done all this hard work for me. ah! 0scar can look forward to many more christmases at home in the city which helped to save him. phil mackie, bbc news, worcester. good luck to oscar and his family.
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that's it from us, thanks for watching. bye—bye. hello there. if you need to head out on the roads on friday morning, fog could cause 1—2 problems, certainly some poor visibility and places particular the across parts of england and wales. the fog slow to clear through the day and it will feel cold out there. two weather fronts, one to the northwest, one to the south bringing some cloud and patchy rain. but in between, very light winds, temperatures have been dropping, it's going to be a very cold start to friday morning. widely around freezing, some spots below and we will also see some fog. indeed, some freezing fog across parts of england into east wales as well. these are the areas most likely to be affected. slightly different across the far southeast, here it's more likely cloud working the odd spot of rain.
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some early sunshine through wales, parts of northern england and then for northern ireland and scotland it's a slightly different story again. this band of clouds and weather friend bringing some outbreaks of very patchy rain, and that band of cloud with those bits and pieces of rain not moving far at all through the day. the fog struggling to shift as well across those parts of england and wales starting off so murky. i think in many places, it willjust linger as low cloud all day long. a bit of rain creeping in towards the english channel coasts. temperatures, if you stick with fog all day long, it maybe just 3—4 degrees. even in some brightness, 8—9 the best we can expect. and then through friday night the fog will once again reform with a lot of low cloud and some spots of rain and drizzle working northwards across england and wales. lowest of which is likely to be across the far north of england, also southeast scotland — some spots here will see a frost because of clear skies overhead. and there will be a slice of sunshine for some on saturday. particularly across scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well. but for england and wales
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a lot of cloud, some misty, murky conditions. temperatures just a little bit higher though it down towards the south, 11—12, possibly 13 degrees. the milder airjust trying to sneak its way in. now for the second half of the weekend, remains in charge — this frontal system up to the far north west mightjust bring a little bit of rain in northern and northwestern scotland. otherwise a lot of drier whether, but again a lot of cloudy weather and any fog for the morning will struggle to clear during the day, and those temperatures for most of us in single digits at best around 10 degrees.
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this is bbc world news, the headlines. ethiopia says it has started the final phase of its military operation against local forces in its northern tigray region. there are fears for the safety of civilians in the area. the uk government has given details of its revised three—tier system of virus restrictions. the prime minister says it will mean a tough winter for many. some of borisjohnson‘s own party have expressed anger. thousands of people have been paying their respects to argentine football legend diego maradona who died on wednesday. police clashed with fans earlier as they tried to shut down access to the presidential palace where his body is laying in state. a turkish court has sentenced more than three hundred people to life in prison over the failed coup ofjuly 2016. almost 500 faced charges — including a us—based cleric, who is being tried in his absence.

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