1st use of the death penalty and 2 years of prisoners who had all been convicted of multiple murders were put to death by hanging. there's widespread public support for capital punishment in japan. it was my growing criticism from human rights groups. the philippines is still reeling from the aftermath of last week's powerful typhoon. local officials are pleading for aid. japan and china announced they would send power generators, water and food die from wry, killed at least $375.00 people, and displaced hundreds of thousands. malicious, recovering from devastating floods that swept the country last weekend. at least 14 people died and tens of thousands were displaced after some of the heaviest rainfall and ears, malaysia's prime minister admitted the official response has been too slow. i carefully lifted from her flooded home in blankets, rule,

well rescue as take of bedridden, elderly lady to safety by boat in malaysia's richest state slang, or one of the 8 states hit by floods, soldiers, and now helping with the relief operations. roads here are still under water, so stranded residents receive supplies, however they can. oh, but across the country, tens of thousands of bare compatriots are living and evacuation centers. oh, these are the worst floods in years and over the weekend. a months worth of rain fell in just a few days. and while the flood water slowly recedes, anger is surging. this petrol stations owner checks the fuel is still usable and isn't happy with the relief efforts. i'm disappointed with a politician with a member of parliament members always out 5th garmin. they don't come during the

time of disaster. they're the only come the dish. oh this up good. the disasters about there was be it. we will not being warned by the government that the, the where though, will be that serious and that of what we will that series as well. reacted he loved every day. i'll cause our house is like not be everything gone. malaysia's prime minister is my al sabri jacobi mitted that the government's coordination of the disaster response was weak. he promised improvements, but with parts of the country still under water. malaysia's meteorological department is warning of more rain and more flooding in the coming days. to their focus now to the horn of africa, ethiopian government says it's forces or re taking territory after fighters from

the to grind people's liberation front announced their defeat retreat. i should say the central government claims the withdrawal is a result of their recent military push against the rival forces to grand leaders are now demanding a no fly zone and arms embargo to avoid retaliatory restricts it has been a year long war with bloodshed on both sides, but could the tide now be turning in the war between ethiopian government forces and t great fighters? after the prime minister abbey ahmed went to the frontline himself to lead the army of new government forces. have made strategic gains in ethiopia, taking back dessie and comb bolt show in the north, and pushing the tea gray people's liberation front on to the back foot into the camera and afar regions where these satellite pictures show ethiopian forces. mustering this footage from t great tv appears to show how addis ababa might have gained the upper hand. drones

strikes from weapons. some report say come from china, turkey and iran. however, it has been achieved. diplomat. see the withdrawal as a positive move. so in fact, if we do see a movement of to grand forces back into to t great, that is something we would welcome at something we've called for. and we hope it opens i the door i to an i to broader diplomacy that lead follows an international effort to get negotiations in place amid questions about human rights abuses. our office continues to receive credit will reports of severe human rights violations and abuses by own pathis. the humanitarian impact of the conflict is increasingly dramatic. ah, haps, those violations might now abate. and with the debris of war strewn across the country and civilians emerging from the crossway hopes, the piece on the ground beginning to develop. although despite their withdrawal, the t p l f could still have the capability to fight again.

jonah, so i day i data is the director of the institute for peace and security studies at the addis ababa university. any join says now sir, thank you for your time. the to gray forces the t p a left for say their point back to, to gray from neighboring regions. as we've been reporting. is this a turning point in the war? i think the framing must be corrected. is it really withdrawing, or is it being defeated? i thought that must be clearly in for and then yes, it's going to be turning point honestly speaking, as you might have heard some nearly 3 or 4 weeks ago, we were told that our this is to be cultured. tv has come or propaganda was almost deafeningly. on the so they were being defeated and i had to just go back and that is only way for them. so yes, i can say that it just seems to be the beginning of the end,

the beginning of the end. this has been a very, a surprising development just a couple of weeks ago. as you alluded to, there were reports that the to great forces were inching closer to the capital that did not materialize. what you think turned the tide, because people are also pointing in terms of the role that drones have played in this war. to be honest with you in all honesty, that they were $200.00 or about $200.00 plus distance in deborah brown. deborah sienna, but the propaganda, particularly western propaganda made them around. i d. 's, 40 kilometers, which is absolutely wrong. fake news and miss even mentioned to big. and secondly, the government went elected. the government has full support of the if you haven't government, except of course i maybe some people are integrating not even there is

a support from to guy as well. so to me, what helped the government was this full support coming from? if you had been people them, so rather than the machine, of course, the machine has some impact, but basically it is a vision, vision of conflict, a conference, se, if you appear to be together to be kept together, you might well be enough struggling to fragment in buckeyes here, so that is a fundamental force as you know from your philosophy, that idea type of car is invisible. so the idea is unit based on diversity. you develop is trying to get it yes, name from the world mark to be deleted so that i can say the will power of if you people, if an army in the private that that is a miracle if you like. so unity and diversity, what is happening to the people to grind a sense? who are in this about? i mean, what is their position now?

you might have heard it a couple of weeks ago. they were demonstrating, telling the whole world that to grant people have been very thousands of years before the p 0 continue to be without a live in the future as well. so that are part and parcel of if you're going histories or if you're going to people that we want to say it is only that ideological side of the left. you know, this is just the equating noses in germany. german people are such a respected people. no one should equate german people with nothing at all. it appeared to once i don't have to write it, but we have that yet. so just let it turn our attention back to what's happening now on the ground because of course the conflict is now entering. it's 2nd here. atrocities have been committed on both sides according to the united nations. where do you see it going from here? obviously mister abbey, i'm it has now the upper hand. would he want to enter into dialogue with the 2

grand forces reach a cease fire? said richard. a peace settlement piece by piece will means has been abbey armitage. government policy from the very beginning. the government as well as we in this was a site in academia, have all tried our best so as to prevent the company before it takes place. and you might have heard that there is a new proclamation as well. there is a dialogue that is negotiation mediation, almost units have been there from the outfit. so there is but not with people of power or groups who being wanted by the, if you can prosecute a general or people supreme court except that there are so many actors representing degrees, or there are many people and it definitely, it is a divided society. i'm her are far to go to we need to really dal with fully believe in the government also believes and you can see that the proclamations under way and yes there is, but not with kind of just group as,

as labeled by the on house over the how over the years at a editor to the institute for peace and security studies. thank you for sharing your point of view. thank you very much in the for having me. thank you. want to take a look now at some more stories making headlines around the world. a south african court has granted former present, jacob's whom i leave to appeal against a whirling that he must return to prison. he was released from jail early on medical parole to undergo surgery on his resume is serving a 15 month sentence for contempt of court. after he refuses to testify in a corruption inquiry, jack from the turkish li are, has made significant gains after present recham tie a bear to one, launched a series of policies to prop up the ailing currency. the government has promised to compensate lira denominated bank account holders for drops in the value of the

currency, which has seen drastic losses in recent weeks. now here in europe, weather forecast is aren't offering much hope of a white christmas, but temperatures are still cold enough to live in the senses of those brave enough to go for a winter swim and switzerland thousands to parts and a pre christmas dip. la baby. it's cold outside, but for some geneva, that means it's time for a swim. the brave bared their skin in record numbers at this year's christmas cup. after last year's event was cancelled due to the pandemic. over $3000.00 signed up for a chance at glory and frozen toes to set the moral up gone, manifest. this is certainly the biggest winter swimming event in the world. oh yeah . it's that phenomenon of getting together and releasing your joy. the cold water takes us away from all our problems to the polar emma good challenge begins with a splash from a bucket. while it may look sadistic helps the swimmers bodies prepare for the

coming shock. once they've taken the plunge, the contestants have to swim 100 meters, while some are playing to win for others, the reward is a feeling of relief when it's all over. so what did you get horrible for the 1st 10 seconds, but afterwards you feel really good. why are you doing this? workers were having fun or so it was a smile afterwards. exactly the smile afterwards. look well and maybe that explains the record attendance permission once again to do something out of the ordinary. ah . 6 and does it for us? so thank you so much for keeping us company. your database ages. ah, ah, with

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we look at the race to reach survivors of typhoon roy. in the philippines. hundreds of people have been killed and half a 1000000 driven from their homes. ah, irish by means you're welcome to deed up the news asia, glad you could join us. members of the organization of his stomach was petition. oh i see. we fund humanitarian aid in afghanistan through a trust at the stomach development bank. the move agreed to in islam above over the weekend seeks to answer a fundamental question. many countries are facing. with sending financial aid to have gone is done. how does one send money into the country without appearing to legitimize the dollar bond, or we're still inadvertently funding it? the dilemma isn't lost on the militants either who believe they are being wronged. here's it's acting foreign minister on the issue of 30 bonds visitor music.

across the world, it is accepted that if a government has people and if it has a power over its people and if they can maintain security for their people than this government has the right to be officially recognized your home at the moment because that government is not recognized, this is an act of oppression a. and that prevents countries from directly sending money to have gone is done. but there have been calls to release the countries overseas assets. i've gone on central bank has around $9000000000.00 in reserves, mostly parked in the united states. but they've been frozen since the taliban takeover and washington shows no signs of budging. for now, they have gone on reconstruction trust fund, which is administered by the world bank has agreed to unfreeze $280000000.00 for humanitarian efforts, $180000000.00, go to the world food program and

a 100000000 to unicef. i getting money to organizations that units have is one thing using it to deliver it to people is another, as we report enough longest on to day aid, the delivery is its own mammoth challenge. the only road leading into this remote area along the border to pakistan has been partially destroyed by mines. we're driving to an area where the afghani army and the taliban fought for decades . the people who live in this village were caught between the 2 sides. now they suffer from extreme poverty. women and children have been especially hard hit by the situation midwives sent by unicef are trying to help the desperate mothers who am i need medicine. but the streets are blocked her and there has been a drought for years. there has been no rain,

our children are suffering or whatever. i hope they give us something. i need food for my 2 grandchildren. they are sick and don't have enough to eat. we have a bad effect. the taliban used to shoot at the 8 workers, but now the women are allowed to enter the village. how you most of these a hawaii has to bring more medicine here because every day more patients come did get us. a leverage is more. so we're having problems getting supplies, but i thought that he'd have the problem. i'd come with be deco love a lot of the fact that women speak openly with us. anger's, the taliban. i could one of us love of a man. our women must cover their faces. from let's do that papa did that duty was . they push us back up and we have to stop filming only after we are joined by the unicef communications team and their accompanying taliban. does the situation calm down? they drive with us to the next village?

it wasn't that this woman is pregnant. the mobile units have health team examines her. the next hospital is 2 hours away. her children are malnourished. a woman wants to show us how she lives and invites us into her house. her family has many children and little space, no heating and nearly nothing to eat. but this is what i will cook today. i will give it to the little ones so they can have something warm to eat. it's a small bowl of corn meal. that's all we have. oh, i can do more and more people crowd around the unicef edward curse. they don't have enough of anything including food. the needs are so immense and because we're not only providing basic humanitarian assistance, we are also having to support a system from collapse the taliban riding with the unicef workers are heavily armed

. they repeatedly make it clear that in afghanistan, the un organization can only help people in need if they allow it. and john me now for more from istanbul, is john list ali, let the faith leap. what are people in the valley san telling you how bad is the humanitarian situation on the ground? the situation is really bad because what's happening is that prices of basic stables, unit staples, we're talking, you know, rice, cooking oil, things like that. continue to go up. people still don't have proper, you know, settled, incomes that they can rely on. and obviously the foreign aid isn't coming in the way that it needs to. a lot of what's happening right now is a lot of it is being promised, but isn't able to be distributed to the people either because of logistical reasons or pretty soon they will be issues with the winter where a lot of the country special, the most impoverished parts of the country will become increasingly cut off,

so it's very important that before all of the snow and all of the rain hits that the actual humanitarian aid reaches the most remote parts of the country. you know, those were the parts of the country that even under the former republic didn't get much assistance. they didn't get much aid, didn't get much money and now you know, they're suffering even more. and getting to them is going to be even more difficult . i'd like to talk a bit about this distribution process. i mean, particularly when it comes to the taliban and the tennessee that they control, other tolerable helping or hindering agencies trying to reach the people who need help. it really depends on where you're talking about, you know, there are provinces and there i, for instance, couple months ago people were talking about and my don't while that province, when they were trying to distribute who managed terry and aid where the current governor of the province was saying actually, all that money and all that

a needs to come to me and then i will decide how it spread, how it's distributed. and that's a very dangerous thing because you know, this had happened in the past as well during the republic where you would have officials where you would have police, where you would have, you know, the sort of self appointed and a lot of ways, hawkins. the leaders of an area thing, i will be the one to distribute the aid. and what happens then is you don't know if it's really getting to the most vulnerable orifice is getting to the people closest to the people. this was notorious in idp camps at the time, and this is something that people are worried about that if the taller bond take too much influence too much power over this process, that they will do that, you know, that they will essentially repeat this current process. now that's all about have, in the past they have tried to distribute aid in terms of food aid in terms of money, in terms of back wages across several provinces. but of course, they don't have the funding and the capability to do it on a large scale as it could have been done previously. so it's really important that

the u. n. u. other agencies find ways to either work with the taller bond or have the taller bond allow them to work and really distribute the things in a systematic manner. because as i said earlier, as much as you know, the winter advances, the more difficult it becomes to reach a lot of areas of the country. a major concern among countries has been attending a to have gone on either legit promises or partly funded the taliban. do you think these sounds are legitimate? well i mean, internal legitimizing. the taller bond these countries are meeting with a taller one. you know, the, the, you have sent representatives, germany has some representatives, the u. k, the us, you know, they, they flown to door to meet with them. so this is part of the question is if you're meeting with them and you're talking with them, how it, you know, is that not one step towards legitimize ation. if not actual, legitimize ation. if you are, whether you call them the de facto, you know,

foreign minister or the defect or whatever minister, you're still sitting with them and talking with them, right? so there's that. and then in terms of ok, if the money goes to the taliban government, i think then it becomes even more important for these countries to have some kind of engagement in some kind of oversights. if they listen, this is our money, and we want to be sure that it's actually distributed to the people and need this is something that they couldn't really do with the former government. you know, they kept whenever they were these different aid conferences and things like that. they kept trying to put boundaries, limitation say that, you know, you have to curb corruption by this amount. those benchmarks were never really hit . so now it's important for them through not only do something like that, but to try and see if they can implemented this time. we leave it there for the time being, but thank you so much for joining us today. ah, the troops in the philippines have been raising to deliver aid to regents,

devastated by super typhoon ry. at least 375 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after the massive storm hit. last week, half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes. the red cross has already launched an emergency bill. many survivors are desperate. i am hungry, have mercy. that's what's written on this man's shine as he tries to flag down help surrounding him. a fallen power lines, a mangled mass in the carnage. survivors of super typhoon rye have been left begging for food and water. huh. oh, but what is the liam for buddy? what is really important during this situation is water and food. the people are on the stress and they need water. well that though they are so thirsty, helena will begin. oh no. i hope we can fix the supply. the mama

of the little building in a moment, the president rodrigo do tirty, has promised about 36000000 euros in funds to help with the recovery diesel example muggle market. but reaching the people who need help is no easy feat. many areas are still struggling with down communication lines, power outages and blocked roads. the anger and desperation a palpable people here feel abandoned. and the biggest linen guy meliss should've at least given us one fire truck for water. but there is none. none right now. no one showed up. i don't know where the politicians an election candidates are ended up in the let's see what happens when election time comes round. when they come here next, they'll see that they'll be hurt by what the people here will save,

suck it. lemme balancing was as had been and what bow so basil at the monotony. wonderful. the red cross has appealed to the international community for 19000000 years to help victims of the disaster. but with scientists warning that climate change is making typhoons like this deadlier, that amounts of money may just be a drop in the ocean. that's it for today. there's of course, more on our website, w dot com, forward slash asian as ever you can follow us on twitter and facebook. can see you here, tomorrow of, ah, the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the corona virus update, because at 19 special next on d,

w a let us issue. when i arrived here, i slept with 6 people in a room and it was harsh. fear. i even got white hair is learning the german language head. yeah. a lot this kids to me and craig opportunity to interact with the say you want to know their story, my grants verifying and reliable information for my grants. ah, welcome to your cobra 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney in berlin. travel restrictions are tightening once again in europe. last week, germany classified all neighboring nations as high risk, while france band, all tourist and business travelers from the u. k. this,

as the british government says, it's facing a tidal wave of new infections killed by oma cron. the new k recorded a leap of 72 percent and the number of daily cases compared to the week before, at over 82000 cases per day. it's more than any time during the pandemic. g, w correspondence, charlotte chelsea, toll reports from london midst of cheer on the streets of london. once again bringing holly shops in hospitality may will be open. christmas party is still allowed to go ahead as planned, but cov it is causing its dark shadow over the days ahead. experts warm the omicron tidal wave is coming and it's coming at a phenomenal pace. what we know is that it reproduces very, very fast. um a week ago us also we said it the term reproduces every $23.00 days or 3 times a week. i'm putting it very simply. that means.