let's start in addis ababa. how do you view this agreement, will the cease-fire last?e moment i heard about the agreement i was happy and as on any part of ethiopia and any citizen of ethiopia i wish ethiopia to be very peaceful and prosperous. the bloody conflict in the north was dragging us behind. a conflict between brothers. it was emotional and i am happy and the agreement does not indicate one party is winning, it means one family out of the argument. >> how committed to the agreement is the ethiopian government? >> from what i understand, immediately after the prime minister said the government is very committed. they have said time and again they wanted to end the conflict. [indiscernible] the factors were addressed in the argument. no need to wait. [indiscernible] >> this deal has come as a surprise to many. there was not a lot of optimism going into the talks. do you think this cease-fire will last? >> i think it's positive that at least there is a publicly stated commitment for peace. whether it will last remains to be seen. i say that because the european r

let me bring you back in a guy redeem in addis ababa martin raise an important point there. and that is an important question, and that is whether the borders of to guy will be open when will age returned to to guy when will all the obstacles to transport of food and medicine be lifted? you know, i don't know why her in what me kind of did that not to pull out examined or come to that kind of conclusion. you know, according to my understanding that there were and for long for to you to that area, but still, yeah, that is a control of some areas to bite you to finish my defense port. i can understand that that is the my information, the call is important. making an assessment into that in the area that it was there moment of humanity and food and other services. and even today, as of today, i can hear liberated areas, services, electricity, and telecommunication. i've been restored by the government. the issue is, as you have already mentioned in the government, whether the government have absolute power in that area, it's very difficult. most of the services and anybody by t

let me bring you back in gary dean, in addis ababa martin raise an important point there. and that is an important question, and that is whether the borders of to guy will be open when will age return to to guy when will all the obstacles to transport of food and medicine be lifted? you know, i don't know why her in what kind of items that i didn't pull out examined, or it came to that kind of conclusion. you know, according to my understanding, that was, it was and if a port long for to it is that the area, but still yeah, that is a control of some areas by you took the defense part. i can understand that that based on my information, information and assessment into that development in, in the area that it was there moment of humanity and food and other services. and even today, as of today, i can hear liberated areas, services, electricity, and telecommunication. i've been restored by the government. the issue is, as you have already mentioned in the government, whether the government had upset its power in that area. it's very difficult. most of the services and anybody

is this is some consensus in addis ababa? i don't the narrative this something does it seem possible? it is not correct because it is something possible. nobody assume that they would reach that agreement in $67.00 days like recreation. but it happened in the progress is well and in kenya, they also signed an agreement regarding how to implement. so it is possible to solve this complex is funny and some of the services, for example, banking guys, resume in some parts according to government report about 7. so when areas integrate with government control, so the stand by state procedure, but then the support, the national act that's through the process isn't together. sure. your mono martin plow, tick legged re, michael. i really appreciate you. instead, looking forward to talking to you in the future. thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion. cuz our facebook page that facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story can offer during the con

ah, let's not bringing our guests in addis ababa hire a dean to 0. a member of the ethiopian parliament and assistant professor of social anthropology had decided by university in amsterdam, gabriel castell schedule for last year founder and chief editor of to got dot com. that's the website documenting the war intake. right? and in london, martin plowed a senior research fellow at the institute of commonwealth studies. gentlemen, a warm welcome t o. thank you very much for joining us today on a side story. before we get into the details of this agreement, signed by the therapy and government and the t p less, i want to get your initial reaction 1st to the ceasefire. let me start with you hire dean in the sub about how do you view this agreement? will this cease fire last yeah, the moment i had the agreement launch it in pretoria. i was very happy and as any part of the team, and as any citizen of ethiopia i wish you took but to be very peaceful and prosperous and that black conflict in the north was dragging garcia and it is a, it's a conflict betwe

commission accused all sides of committing abuses, atrocity, but also accused the government in addis ababa of using foundation as a weapon of war. and they also accused the retreating army of committing atrocities against people in takeaway, just for the sake of the record. good. yeah, yeah, thank you very much for, for bringing this to, to attention. the whole point about to me. so that document is that let's go back to pre water scenario and lets respect the constitution. so we know what we want to say not awards in terms of jo raffi code content real contest. so we continue legitimate political part of the considering that it would be the least from the terrorist list, and it will start engaging like another political party. so pre water was, there was no originally a conductor election because acting in conducting election is only been run monday according to the constitution. so the whole point is going back before, before what was happened and then re engage in a part of my way. so in this we got to that is not on the me or autonomy has been granted for all ridges. i think the ok, th

addis ababa? so samuel, does this mean that the conflict is over or could there be stumbling blocks ahead? well, it, it means it's over especially on a piece of paper on a document. but it's an open question whether the people will actually accepted on the ground, their husband, misgivings, even from the t p. left side sam saying that the pay left needed to fight more sam saying that they needed to compromise. so this conflict has been a wedge issue among ethiopians, and that's what we're seeing at the moment. so what pitfalls exactly, do you see in the agreement? well, erm, you know, some of the agreed and, and term. so for dis army t p left, which is overwhelmingly supported by a majority of your bents, isn't accepted by people into gray. the people into dry have said they have suffered enough. they wanted the t p a left even quite more. and it's really, really a wedge issue, even if you speak to the people in the cafes and the restaurants in ethiopia, they will tell you different versions of it

as an assistant professor of law at addis ababa university. thank you. thank you. thank you for having plenty more head on his knees. our, including the u. s. condemns north korean missile launches. after it fires more than 20 in single day, kenya sends troops to democratic republic of congo to help fight an armed group. and in baseball's world series, philadelphia take it to one lane over houston. after a crashing when in game 3. o . 4 me israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears on course to return as the country's later exit . polls suggest his right wing block will win his slim majority after tuesday's elections the 5th in less than 4 years. then in smith reports from the la could patty headquarters in west jerusalem. ah, it looks like a baby is back after 60 months plotting his return. benjamin netanyahu seems to have pulled off his political resurrection. according to exit polls. the former prime minister is on trial for bribery and fraud. his critics fear that back in power, netanyahu will bend the legal system to avoid conviction. because lamar bruc

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what matters is whether the authorities in addis ababa or the entire population is ready to do what ity, ethiopia, belongs to tigrayans and tigrayans feel fully represented in ethiopia. if that doesn't happen, there isn't a point for me to make, promises after promise. getachew reda, i thank you forjoining me from mek�*ele on hardtalk. i should apologise to you and indeed to all our viewers, the audio and the video quality is not the best, but it is a hugely important subject and we're happy to talk to you. thank you very much forjoining us on hardtalk. my pleasure, stephen. hello. there is no doubt it has been a soggy november so far — some places have already seen twice the amount of rain they would normally expect in the whole month. wednesday really added to those totals with this band of wet weather pushing northwards and eastwards. lots of heavy, thundery showers with squally, gusty winds following on behind, and all of those weather elements also feature in thursday's forecast. another frontal system pushing in from the atlantic, more heavy rain, more squally winds already showi

the 2nd, a permanent cessation of hostilities was agreed on and on monday, representatives from addis ababa and mckelly meeting kenya's capital nairobi to discuss its implementation. we will have a much more on the story later in the program ukrainians, celebrating in the southern city of her son after the retreat of russian forces. it's one of the most significant victories for ukrainian troops since russia invited. in february, when moscow had claimed the region as russian land for ever joined how reports the 1st time in nearly 9 months, the residence of her son woke to the sights and sounds of a city restored to life. the whole body square in the center. there were meas, freedom and with it comes joy and laughter. it's not peace time as much, but for as long as possible there pretends the russian army has merely retreated to the east side of the disney pro river easily in artillery range. as they withdrew the russians, destroyed critical infrastructure. the tv tower, bridges over the denise growth, including this one near the kafka dam, causing difficult damage to parts of the dam. wall

what matters is whether the authorities in addis ababa or the entire population is ready to do what itke sure that this country, ethiopia, belongs to tigrayans and tigrayans feel fully represented in ethiopia. if that doesn't happen, there isn't a point for me to make, promises after promise. getachew reda, i thank you forjoining me from mekelle on hardtalk. i should apologise to you and indeed to all our viewers, the audio and the video quality is not the best, but it is a hugely important subject and we're happy to talk to you. thank you very much forjoining us on hardtalk. my pleasure, stephen. hello. it's already been an exceptionally wet month, some places breaking record. but again, nearly an inch of rain fell in some parts on thursday along with some really gusty winds. aberdaron on the llyn peninsula, nearly 80 mile an hour, those gusts of wind. even in bridlington, 67 miles an hour. the gusts on this particular weather front, which we call a squally weather front, those winds very squally with the rain pushing through. lots of showers, though, have been following on behind to

what matters is whether the authorities in addis ababa or the entire population is ready to do what itthat this country, ethiopia, belongs to tigrayans and tigrayans feel fully represented in ethiopia. if that doesn't happen, there isn't a point for me to make, promises after promise. getachew reda, i thank you forjoining me from mekelle on hardtalk. i should apologise to you and indeed to all our viewers, the audio and the video quality is not the best, but it is a hugely important subject and we're happy to talk to you. thank you very much forjoining us on hardtalk. my pleasure, stephen. for some places breaking records, almost one inch of rain fell in some parts on thursday along with really gusty winds. aberdaron seeing nearly 80 miles an hour, in bridlington 67 miles an hour, with this particular squally weather front with rain with the winds pushing through, still, gale force winds here in northern ireland butjust a little chilly where the winds have eased and the showers have as we head towards dawn. for the day ahead, dry and bright with plenty more sunshine than thursday, but

mila al jazeera pretoria. holidays to sarah is an assistant professor of social anthropology at addis ababa university. enjoys me from there. now. good. have you at the saw the program, sir? it does seem that both sides have managed to find a way to compromise, but trust and concessions are the important words here. and as the u. n says it's a critical 1st step. how difficult is this move now for both sides as they move forward? great to journey. oh yeah. as you mentioned, that it will be coming from and from what site is you know, previously that was, you know, you need that agreement on from each site, but now we see it kind of very commitment and i can see it. and i try to see the agreement to the draft of the argument and the failure agreement and also the conversation during the on the spot in pretoria, there is a great interest on bar on both part. the said as they went to be determined to in the company, this is the demand of already killed, including the international equipment and i'm happy that was what is out of a very committed and trust will be for us to follow. i hope that ind

the moment and you want to know what's actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababayou'd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. that's a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, you'd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and political mind—sets on the ground in tigray, through social media, through twitter, and other platforms that may be very powerful in ethiopia. and i notice, you're not even on social media. no, i'm not. no. doesn't that make you a bit of an information dinosaur? yes, probably! well, you can laugh, but you're a journalist. yes. you care about the information environment in which you work. cos this is the reality of today. do you spend your whole time on twitter? i don't spend my whole time... do you pick up all your news from twitter? i'm definitely on twitter. or do you pick it up from bbc reporters? no, i pick it up from all sorts of

november, 2nd, a permanent cessation of hostilities was agreed since monday representatives from addis ababa mckelly been meeting in kenya's capital nairobi to discuss how they are going to implement it. will dr. for seeka. i'm this l i. c is a surgeon at 2 grade largest hospital, which is struggling to operate because of the shortage of essential medicines, joins me live now from mckayla. and i do appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. first of all, can you describe for me the situation now? i know it would have been very difficult over the past couple of years with to grow essentially cut off from the world. but how would you describe conditions inside your hospital right now? thank you very much. the hospital we have been dependent on the federal government for budgets, which included the running coast salary and medical supplies, but sees the work records and especially for the month of the supply has stopped. so we don't have medicine, we don't have teams, it's drugs, drugs, antibiotics, laboratory, and especially since last august everything has stopped because more used to com

he joins us live from addis ababa university. thank you so much for being on this news out. this is obviously taken while a large step towards pace. can you just give us an idea of how significant this is free for you? great to join you'll. yeah, it's very significant to people not only to know northern part of the the, you know, us, everybody can remember the water was broken 2 years ago now we, we went into eaten for the last 2 years. so this declaration, this declaration of general 2nd question. it is not on the certificate is up man and secession. hostilities is goodness for, for all of us. and as, as we can remember, didn't base a. ready or than that, that the government was saying it, then it seems to now confidence it's being built by the day between the 2 parties. so this is a big news for us in the bigness, not only, not on all of a lot. so goodness for africa. we want to be a surgeon to it's on providence and then it's significant part b. you want to appeal, what were the reasons for finally getting this deal across the line? what were the sticking points and how w