gedion timothewos we have to win _ are doing. gedion timothewos we have to win there _ are doing.e have to win there but i _ are doing. gedion timothewos we have to win there but i thank i have to win there but i thank you very much forjoining me from addis ababa. hello there. after the rather cloudy weather we had to contend with last week, this week does promise something just a little bit brighter. certainly it will be largely dry with some spells of warm sunshine. having said that, no heatwave on the way, temperatures will be nothing exceptional for the time of year, but the high pressure firmly building in and taking control of our weather. that is why it will be mainly dry and settled but the winds around high pressure flow in a clockwise direction so we will pull out air down from the north and not tapping into any of this heat across parts of southern europe. so as we head through monday, we will start off with a lot of mist and murkiness and a lot of cloud around, much will break up, though, to reveal some spells of sunshine. i think it will stay a little misty and murky

my guest is ethiopia's attorney general, gedion timothewos. is his government leading the country to disaster? gedion timothewos in addis ababa, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it's a pleasure to have you, mr attorney general. now, when we last spoke to each other nearly nine months ago, you seemed very confident that your government was about to crush the forces of the tigray people's liberation front. are you now prepared to say that your government's strategy has gone disastrously wrong? mr sackur, as i have stated back then, we are in a position to retake mekelle and we are able to finalise the initial phase of the operation within a matter of three weeks. we took over mekelle. we established an interim administration. we invested on rehabilitating tigray and remember, it was a conflict that was forced upon us. it was not a conflict that we got into by our own volition and willingly. so that's how we see the situation. well, you haven't answered my question because since then and of course, yourforces did take mekelle. since the

my guest is ethiopia's attorney—general, gedion timothewos. thanks for having me. it is a pleasure to have you, mr attorney—general. when we last spoke to each other, nearly nine months ago, you seemed very confident that your government was about to crush the forces of the tigray people's liberation front. are you now prepared to say that your government strategy has gone disastrously wrong? mr sackur, as i started back then we are in a position to retake mekele, and we're able to finalise the initial phase of the operation within a matter of three weeks. we took over mekele, we established an interim administration, we invested in rehabilitating tigray. and remember, it was a conflict that was forced upon us.