he had ordered troops to respond to an allegedly deadly attack on a government military base in ethiopia gray province leaders there say the to grant people are being blamed for tensions that surfaced as the implemented reforms and postponed elections due to cove it can heal is divided country or will the fighting resume our title today ethiopians. from nobel peace laureate to amount of war. and here to answer that question are 3 outstanding guests it is a great pleasure to welcome them starting with prince. he descends from the family of the ethiopian emperor an author an analyst he also works as an economic consultant on africa and he says the military operation of the ethiopian government in the region did not target the people who take right but the ruthless t p l f party. and it's great to have mcconnell and miss gainor with us once again he is head of migration and diversity at the high and they both foundations and he says the civil war in ethiopia is just the beginning of a long conflict. and finally we're honored to have with us moves saw the month is looming she's ambassador ex

between ethiopia and eritrea. is also. prime minister and. president. he extended his hand to eritrea for reconciliation and return to territories. liberalize the economy. met with leaders from partially divided. celebrated by his followers and internationally hailed as a. peace prize for 20. 200 pm the prime minister. called it. turns just one year later. military offensive in tikrit in the northern part of the country. an ethnic minority and an important part of the political elite of their being the new head of government. if you. continue his course of reform. it's pretty abrupt shift at least that's what it looks like from outside that the prime minister has made ambassador this idea that the prime minister represented the bright hope of africa was it inflated expectations on the part of those of us looking from outside . perfect even today. and why and this is a person leading a country unless he keeps his. peace and stability how can you talk. to stabilize and keep the peace. in order otherwise if you keep. peace laureate to what that's what the

he had ordered troops to respond to an allegedly deadly attack on a government military base in ethiopia grey province leaders there say the to grant people are being blamed for tensions that surfaced as i'll be implemented reforms and postponed elections due to cove it can heal is divided country or will the fighting resume our title today ethiopia's. from nobel peace laureate to amount of war. and here to answer that question are free outstanding guests it is a great pleasure to welcome them starting with prince. he descends from the family of the ethiopian emperor an author and analyst he also works as an economic consultant on africa and he says the military operation of the ethiopian government in the region did not target the people who take right but the ruthless t p l f party. and it's great to have mcconnell in miss gainor with us once again he is head of migration and diversity at the highlights both foundations and he says the civil authorities here. it's just the beginning of a long conflict. and finally we're honored to have with us move us all the money she's ambassador ext

both ethiopia and eritrea have denied the reports. ethiopia and eritrea signed a historic peace deal in 2018, ending two decades of hostilities. a new study shows the number of afghan civilians killed in airstrikes led by the u.s. and allies has risen by 330% since 2017. the udy, pubshed by the costs of war project at brown

the owner of the refugee camp in sudan one of several camps scattered along sudan's border to ethiopia the feeling out with people fleeing the conflict in the neighboring t. region. and. we were in the house have a refugee camp and then we came here we've been here for a week there aren't enough tents or enough water and we're exposed to the sun most of the time. the u.n. says aid groups are struggling to care for the influx of refugees the remoteness of the camps is also a problem. in the 1st 2 weeks they took care of us but after that no one came again a truck comes be food twice a day but other than that there's nothing that i haven't even registered as yet. had so much to do. the refugees torn between the threat of violence into grime and the grim reality of the camp. thanks be to god i'm with my daughters here who take care of me there's nothing here to make me happy as a refugee and this isn't to laugh at all but thanks to the lord at least i'm here with my daughters. refugees continue to pour into the camps in sudan despite ethiopia's prime minister and the ahmed declaring victo

she's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the federal democratic republic of ethiopia and she says ethiopia's current situation is not a civil war nor an armed conflict it's a law enforcement operation aimed at restoring the constitutional order of the country. so let me start by asking you dear madam ambassador there's clearly some disagreement amongst you about the scope of the fighting in a province you say it was a law enforcement operation but the fact is ethiopian generals spoke of being at war the fighting did last over 3 weeks and i witness is reported both artillery duels and also shelling of the capital. so that doesn't really look like lunch. actually when you say it's something like that if it is a different country or different. different people try to fight each other lose equal standing but these are criminals who deliberately attack the national the national defense forces which was there for more than 20 years keeping the country keeping magali and these people not only doing this. extraordinary very devastating. crime they have been doing the same for 20

territorial dispute between ethiopia and eritrea. is also. embarked upon in. eritrea for reconciliation and return to territories. economy. celebrated by his followers and internationally hailed as a. peace prize for 20. 2 is the opium prime minister. the tide turns just one year later. military offensive in tikrit in the northern part of the country. an ethnic minority and an important part of the political elite there being a new head of government whose family is descended from. groups. continue his course of reform. pretty abrupt shift at least that's what it looks like from outside that the prime minister has made ambassador this idea that the prime minister represented the bright hope of africa was it inflated expectations on the part of those of us from outside. it was perfect even today. and why. he is still working. and to keep the peace and make rule of law in order otherwise if you can keep the peace with your own country how can you be at peace on both side of peace laureate to what that's what the lord it peace laureate sheepy received is because

ethiopia tells us how bad the humanitarian crisis is right now. take you very much so 1st the the that's 1st person of the federal government is admitting that the federal government to get there has shut that shop the ed workers so that a stock that itself tells you that that the government you know how much criminals there the program government is even shooting out the aid workers and weak up when it comes to the air to humanise around effect as this very enormous amounts of people are starving there is not access to any health services including one of the major hospitals in the capital is closed people don't have access to any kind of house facility starving artist and thousands of people migrating to sudan i can go on and on that the humanitarian crisis is it's very significant a mere counter here to me. of course of course going on sure sure there is a security framework in the country that prevented this you know free movement of people in organization as you know we don't do the analysis aid workers because of the fact that a state of eme

whether it was the killing and massacring of so many people in the south part of ethiopia the hands whether that or whether it was the dismantling of ethiopian statutes in london believe you me the hand of the tea p.l.f. was always that so i don't think it is a matter of having moved too far and i think oh so we can only come to rest if the ethiopian government will very soon declare the t. p.l.f. a terrorist organization. otherwise things are not going to calm down because if you would give us a little bit of background on these of long running ethnic tensions in ethiopia with degrade but also elsewhere and also why did they explode particularly after this reform process began. how it did constitution of to appear is a multi-ethnic country and which has been living in different models it has been living in a very peaceful manner as the neighboring if this is so the mother if the city is one of its resources actually of ethiopia and whatever happened whatever political system was raining in ethiopia the people managed to leave peacefully together but then you have also undemocratic

the owner of the refugee camp in sudan one of several camps scattered along sudan's border to ethiopia the feeling out with people fleeing the conflict in the neighboring to region. and. we were in the house have a refugee camp and then we came here we've been here for a week there aren't enough tents or enough water and we're exposed to the sun most of the time. the u.n. says aid groups are struggling to care for the influx of refugees the remoteness of the camps is also a problem. i want to warn in the 1st 2 weeks they took care of us but after that no one came again a truck comes with food twice a day but other than that there's nothing that i haven't even registered as yet. had some of. the refugees torn between the threat of violence into grime and the grim reality of the camp. thanks be to god i'm with my daughters here who take care of me there's nothing here to make me happy as a refugee and this isn't a life at all but thanks to the lord at least i'm here with my daughters. refugees continue to pour into the camps in sudan despite ethiopia's prime minister ahmed declaring vict

then to ethiopia. clubs the situation in ethiopia, think it is boring and volatile. controliraling out of with an pollen impact on civilians. amy: the ethiopian government is blocking international observers into the tigray region after ethiopian prime minister abiy ahmed launched a military offensive that has displaced tens of thousands of civilians. it was just a year ago today that the ethiopian prime minister won the nobel peace prize. this way ofelieve life will be death and destruction. amy: is ethiopia now on the verge of civil war? all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the united states has suffered -- recorded 3100 24, 19 deaths wednesday, shattering every daily world record since the pandemic began. 107,000 people across united states are hospitalized with the disease, also a record, and more than 220,000 new infections were reported in just 24 hours. more than one third of u.s. residents live in areas where intensive care units have either filled to capacity or are running critica

can the fragile peace just declared in ethiopia as the great prophets be sustained ethiopia's prime minister of the op ed from the nobel peace laureate to more that's our topic on to the fall of. saddam to the point the good of the mix the t.w.r. of. good in good shape. people who don't claim has nothing to loss of our lives it's important for us to train some of the brain of senior citizens and it's good for children to recall the former civil behavior and it's a lot of fun where's our garage to play come from bands while a little bit of fun is much more than just a childish pastime good shit. in 60 minutes for the team to. translate. carefully. don't suit your needs to get. discovered. the boy. subscribe to a documentary on. the book . the ethiopian leader who won a nobel prize for ending one of africa's longest running conflicts has for the past month been waging a war of his own making in early november prime minister abu ahmed announced that he had ordered troops to respond to an allegedly deadly attack on a government military base in ethiopia grey province leaders there say the to gra

growth slows and soaring covert 1000 infections threatened to worsen the crisis pressure mounts on ethiopia to allow aid groups to reach eritrea and refugees in the northern tier gray region plus. world box office battle global cinema chains are in urgent talks with warner brothers about its plans to stream new releases on my. soul russia is pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale covert 1000 vaccination program teachers doctors and social workers a set to get the locally produced sputnik vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated this month as some western scientists have raised concerns about russia's vaccine because it did not complete all the clinical trials before it was approved live to our xandra got for a who's at a vaccination center in moscow so alexandra the mass vaccination begins today sad. tell us how it's going to be happening and what's been happening at this vaccination center way you walk. so yes we are in the center of moscow in front of the cleaning company behind me is one of the vaccination centers that opened today there is in total 70 o

we start with ethiopia where more than 100 people have been killed in an attack in a western ethiopia region where ethnic tensions have been escalating that's according to the ethiopian human rights commission and the international you talk took place in the region of benny schenkel gomers international says dozens of people are still unaccounted for this comes a day after the prime minister met visited the area calling for peace and for unity following several deadly incidents in recent months in a tweet he said enemies were trying to divide ethiopia along ethnic and religious lines no group has claimed responsibility. elsewhere in the country government troops have been fighting the decry people's liberation front in the north into a growing region since the beginning of november it's raised fears of a security vacuum in other areas of the country elections june next year have for the raised tensions over land and power from us toward to the lawyer and researcher who previously worked with ethiopia's attorney general's office on legal and justice reform efforts and she says that res

ethiopia's prime minister faces criticism for his handling of the 2 great crisis is aid agencies struggling to reach thousands displaced by the violence. so russia is pushing pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale covert 1000 vaccination program teachers doctors and social workers they're all set to get the locally produced sputnik vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated this month while some scientists have welcomed the news others say the data has been rushed out too early the u.k. was the 1st country to approve the vaccine from pfizer and by intake it was granted emergency authorization by british regulators in the 1st doses they're expected to be rolled out from early next week and the american drug maker madonna is filing for u.s. and european emergency approval of its covert 1000 back scene regulators will look at trial data and decide if it is safe and effective enough to roll out well alexandra go try and has more now from moscow on the facts a nation process that. we are in one of the vaccination centers in the south of moscow in moscow cleaning t

job growth slows and soaring kovac 19 factions threaten to worsen the crisis pressure mounts on ethiopia to allow aid groups research syrian refugees in the northern tikrit region and recognize her of women are on the ballot test polls open in kuwait's bottom entry elections. russia is pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale covert 900 vaccination program teachers doctors and social workers are set to get the locally produced sputnik vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated this month some western scientists have raised concerns about russia's vaccine because it did not complete all the clinical trials before it was approved alexandra got 4 has more from moscow. they store for the 1st people open 17 books a nation centers across moscow so city of moscow people can apply for vaccination online exclusively and that this for now only for people working in health care education as well as in social services there are certain requirements for these people apart from their profession and that is that they are between 18 and 60 years of age they don't suffer any

in sudan tell us about the numbers of refugees who are still trying to make that last thing into ethiopia. yes this is the 100 border crossing it is one of the biggest official crossings between sudan and. on this side you can see behind this river which is called the city it dividing the 2 countries and on this side on the sudanese side you can see all these people are refugees these are each appear a few g.'s you don't see anyone on the other side because that's where they came from early in the conflict. that gives you an idea about you know the fear these people in these people to this side of the river looking for protection in sudan also at the center of the village not far from here we have hundreds and hundreds of refugees waiting to be transported within sudan itself situation a bit complex and the number is rising the sudanese authorities told us just a while ago that. the number like a few days ago was about 400 today now it is it has risen to about 800 to 1000 today because there was fresh fighting according to them within each opiate self in the zone in the area. 2270 kilomet

i think we have to recall ethiopia's recent history. it fought a very long war against a communist derg where the t.p.l.f., the tigrayan party, essentially led a counter-insurgency campaign froo the hillverthrow this communist regime. and so i think there's a great fear that they're going to kind of turn to their roots and not fight a conventional fight against federal government forces, buinstead go to the mountains and try for a sort of asymmetral warfare. and in that case, it might not be limited to the tigray region. it could-- you could s conflict spilling over into other parts of the country, i trying to drthese other ethnic groups into the fight that they have started. >> sreenivas: cameron hudson, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: president trump ischeduled to have his fir post-election rally this evening at a georgia airport. we will ve more on the presidential transition and the georgia senate races, tomorrow. that's all for ts edition of pbs newshour weekend. for the latest news updates, visit www.p

the refugee camp in sudan one of several camps scattered along sudan's border to ethiopia the feeling out with people fleeing the conflict in the neighboring t. region. and. we were in the house have a refugee camp and then we came here we've been here for a week there aren't enough tents or enough water and we're exposed to the sun most of the time. the u.n. says aid groups are struggling to care for the influx of refugees the remoteness of the camps is also a problem. in the 1st 2 weeks they took care of us but after that no one came again a truck comes with food twice a day but other than that there's nothing that i haven't even registered as yet. had so much to do. the refugees torn between the threat of violence into gripe and the grim reality of the camp. thanks be to god i'm with my daughters here who take care of me there's nothing here to make me happy as a refugee and this isn't a life at all but thanks to the lord at least i'm here with my daughters. refugees continue to pour into the camps in sudan despite ethiopia's prime minister and the ahmed declaring victory in 2 grim

eat in ethiopia there are more due to notices in prison because of the goodness of sex . a journalist your marriage can happen to commit a crime on his individual capacity most of. you cannot believe someone from criminal prosecution just because he's a doormat you're journalism is not an immunity to. run away from accountable just comes out of the masters as national dialogue mr minister briefly before we go you're. not asked me if you typically have cats in the me there is a kind of security coming up with you released you sick or showing you can little fishes well how does a minister. mr minister you've cut the internet before another regions but briefly before i go i just like to ask you where is the spirit of madame or the spirit of coming together and synergy that abi described that he promised the country when he took office in this conversation we talked about i think violence a military offensive in the north concerns that you are backsliding on security and democracy is this the best that you can offer our offer ethiopia where's the synergy that was promised. no

a gunman attacked in ethiopia, killing more than 100 people.nternational says dozens are still unaccounted for. the u.k. is now facing the threat of two coronavirus variants after detecting a more serious strain in people from south africa. after nine months of negotiations, there are signs the eu and u.k. are edging closer to agreement on a close brexit trade deal. talks continued late on wednesday as they try to sort out final details. u.s. president donald trump is vetoed the country's annual defense spending bill. both the house and the senate have overwhelmingly approved the bill. it is routinely passed. live from washington, d.c., donald trump had flagged a telegraph. >> and today was the deadline. he had to veto it by december 23. he had said he was going to pass it for several reasons, including a provision that was inserted in the bill that would slow the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan that he had ordered. there were also objections from donald trump about the provisions that were going to rename several u.s. military bases that

in the horn where you have shown many issues over the past many decades the conflict in northern ethiopia david beasley is having regional repercussions so don a country already dealing with challenges of its own is now wrapping with an influx of refugees from ethiopia and like us to take a look at this report from al jazeera as mohammad vaal from a camp in sudan the camp is growing more are being brought here in jos are doing what they can disability food and even cash about $25.00 a month to every individual that's helping people are meant to sleep here because they are complaining of the the type of food that is being disagreed on a daily basis since the day they are arrived here so the cash is given them the ability to go and buy whatever they want particularly for the families who have young babies so it's a it's a developing situation and nobody here is expecting to return home anytime soon because they say as long as the each open army is in control as long as there is no locally elected to green government in other cities they don't think they will be safe if they return home davi

and international aid finally arrives in ethiopia today reaching after more than a month to fight to maintain local forces and governments all. i like that the weather is slightly set fabric cross the middle east a little on the cold side but maybe try lots of hazy sunshine a little more clout just coming out of turkey into the eastern side of the mediterranean this sunday's picture one of 2 showers there just making their way into northern parts of syria go on and see monday and that wetter weather that will slide across cyprus coming out of turkey sweater weather there making its way into syria lebanon and jordan south of that it is generally fine and dry with plenty of sunshine a crisp 2324 celsius here in doha over the next couple of days sunshine to across the horn of africa plenty of showers there across into central parts of what weather over towards the gulf of guinea some rather heavy rain that said a possibility into eastern areas of angola as we go through the next couple of days democratic republic of congo also seeing some very wet weather and we got the heavy rain that'

eat in ethiopia. you're to notice he's in prison because of the goodness of sex. john noticed your managed to come up and to call me to crank on his individual capacity more than once for you cannot believe someone from criminal prosecution just because you say your not your journalism is not an immunity to. run away from a counter it just comes out of there as does france nationals a lot mr minister briefly before we go your a lot but ask me if you typically have cats in the me there is a carrier security coming up with you released abuse ago showing you can little fishes well how does a minister mr minister you've cut the internet before another regions that briefly before i go i just like to ask you where is the spirit of madame or the spirit of coming together and synergy that abi described that he promised the country when he took office in this conversation we've talked about ethnic violence a military offensive in the north concerns that you are backsliding on security and democracy is this the best that you can offer our offer ethiopia where's the synergy

ethiopia's prime minister faces criticism for his hand leave it to great crisis as aid agencies struggle to reach thousands displaced by violence india's farmers threaten the nationwide strike as talks go on to resolve the standoff against a new law on crop prices. and a record number of women on the ballots as polls open in q weights on the entry election. and sport the u.s. passes a controversial law to prosecute those involved in don't bring international it's. so that russia is pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale cavan 1000 vaccination program teachers doctors social workers they're all set to get the locally produced sputnik vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated this month while some scientists welcome the news others are saying that the data had been rushed out too early the u.k. was the 1st country to approve the vaccine from pfizer. by and take it was granted emergency authorization by british regulators and the 1st doses they're expected to be rolled out from early next week and the american drug maker is filing for us in a european emerge

is a lawyer and a researcher who previously worked with ethiopia's attorney general's office on legal and justice reform methods she says rest of parts of ethiopia could experience fighting because of the redeployment of military to the tikrit region. that is a fair amount of people have right now because that europe and human rights commission which you just quoted is the one that came up with the most i guess comprehensive information on this today and it has stayed that attack started when the federal troops that were stationed to guard the community. after you withdraw yesterday on tuesday so they would go to escort federal officials where their invention will and date or prime minister and regional officials were there but they didn't exactly say it was the prime minister at the army with a support thing so if the military it out with go and created this vacuum that led to the massacre that we just learned of it a huge problem i mean you we've been hearing this for more than a month now and to grind but have the ball and tire or more than 2 years now deliberation movement in reno

the 1st international aid convoy reaches the capital of ethiopia's 10 grey region where weeks of fighting is that health facilities power lies and. we worked quickly based on the urgency of this pandemic not because of any other external pressure regulator seek to reassure americans of the pfizer vaccine safety as the us hits 16000000 covert cases. exactly 5 years after a landmark deal on climate change was signed and the u.n. chief is sounding another warning about the future of our planet antonio the terrorists use the anniversary of the paris accord to plead with world leaders to declare climate emergencies he says it's vital that nations act now for the sake of future generations so i got reports. behind the crisis of a global pandemic another danger is waiting in the wings the climate emergency fueling global warming and according to the united nations with devastating consequences for humankind if we don't change course we may be headed for to get the stuff you temperature rise of morgan city the goodies the century get any body still be married at your face you get the domestic eme

and on patrol with the sudanese forces holding firm on the border with ethiopia after taking in thousands of refugees from the conflict in take grey. the leaders of the e.u. and u.k. have instructed the negotiators to keep on talking as the clock runs down before the 2 break apart without a trading relationship and a last ditch phone call in the past few hours on delay and boris johnson discussed the final sticking point standing in the way of a post breaks it deal so in a joint statement they said significant differences remain on the 3 critical issues . both sides underline that no agreement is feasible if these issues are not resolved they say without for instructing our chief negotiators to reconvene tomorrow in brussels where the u.k. voted to leave the european union more than 4 years ago now but the route out has been difficult the 3 main sticking points are fishing rights that competition guarantees and how future disputes will be resolved if the 2 leaders can reach an agreement it could still be rejected by member states french diplomats have indicated they could veto a deal espe

on wed looks at recent events and where ethiopia stands now. where the hero peon government troops took control of the to grain regional capital of mackay last month prime minister abi ahmed said the law enforcement operation against the to crane people's liberation front. was over others said the conflict had only just begun. he said no civilians are being killed by government troops both sides have been accused of rights abuses we've seen targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure with heavy artillery fire we have seen widespread looting of private property in many towns in western cheek i we've seen extrajudicial executions of individuals and that's to be linked to the t.p.s. but also prominent business people we've obviously also seen a context of massive restrictions on humanitarian access. the conflict has impacted the region there are numerous reports of eritrean soldiers operating into great eritrea and ethiopia government deny it more than 50000 people have fled to refugee camps in neighboring sudan that reignited an all border

much of the remaining community lives in camps in this region of ethiopia. dangerously close to fighting between the federal government and rebels. that yahoo! has been a key supporter of their cause, some 1700 are expected to arrive in israel the end of january. >> we want to go back to our story about the inspections of mosques here in france that began today. we are joined by an expert in public law. and a researcher at the university of toulouse. think you for joining us, i hope you can hear us right now. we wanted to ask you, outside of france, i think it is fair to say that many people find this hard to understand and perhaps a breach of freedom of religion. how does this square with the french notion of secularism? >> we are all lost in translation not only abroad but even in france. there is a l of difficulty abroad and in france to grasp this notion of secularism. this concept is something that basically means we have a separation of church and state thanks to the law of 15. that means that state neutrality impose upon the state and the civil servic

the leader of ethiopia is to agree region says his fighters are still battling government forces local leaders say government soldiers have bombed one town while fighting is underway outside the winchell capital in the caylee finest declared victory a week ago a communications blackout has made it difficult to assess conditions on the ground . so dan is playing an important role in sheltering thousands of refugees from the t.v. region despite its own economic difficulties and as mohammed vali reports from the sudanese ethiopian border it's not the only challenge posed by the conflict. the sudanese army on patrol near the g.o.p. border it's on the lookout for refugees who might be stranded in the area after escaping the fighting in ethiopia's north integrate region brigadier general because it is proud of his country's humanitarian role for. a bit of muscle real nobleness hold for the 1st 12 days before aid agencies arrived the people of get a reef were the 1st to offer food blankets shelter and comfort to the refugees the sudanese armed forces organized transportation for thousands of

still ahead on al-jazeera the 1st international aid convoy reaches the capital of ethiopia as were very ranging. and will tell you why this in the knees and religious leader handed himself to the police. once again the weather in northwestern europe is becoming increasingly cloudy breezy and not particularly cold that big unfurling low is the reason for it that same time we've still got unsettled weather in the central eastern bed nets been running snow and rain up into the cold air with some interesting results in here for example with freezing rain giving slippery pavements not that much continue the temperatures still hovering around the freezing mark but the focus is going to be up here if the time being tempers in double figures now for london paris and this is throwing rain through france to most countries and towards scandinavia where it's still cold enough at height to be extensively snowy between the 2 still credit quite that the snow stopped falling in the alps after that record was 3 meters in the telling outs but still it's a very active than the southeast corner so was pira

last month's ethiopia's military launched an offensive against local forces in the northern region of t. great the prime minister i.b.m. had called it a law enforcement operation but it spiraled into an entire ethnic conflict possibly killing thousands violence is also spreading among communities in other parts of the country al jazeera is malcolm web takes a look at where ethiopia stands now. where the theo paean government troops took control of the to grain regional capital of macquarie last month prime minister ahmed said the law enforcement operation against the to grain people's liberation front. was over of the said the conflict had only just begun. he said no civilians are being killed by government troops both sides have been accused of rights abuses we've seen targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure with heavy artillery fire we have seen widespread looting of private property in many towns in west and we've seen extrajudicial executions of individuals and that's to be linked to the t.p.s. but also prominent business people we've obviously also seen a context of ma

international aid finally arrives in ethiopia's tiebreak region after more than a month of violence between local fighters and government forces. the u.n. secretary general is urging world leaders to declare climate emergencies in their countries speaking at the virtual climate ambitions summit and turn of the tightest said we need to stop the assault on our planet for the sake of our grandchildren the meeting marks the 5th anniversary of the powers climate accord in 2015 countries agreed to stop global temperatures rising 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. this is a moment of truce this is also note of hope more and more countries have committed to net 0 emissions the business community is getting on board the sustainability train we see city striving to become greener and more live a bull we see young people taking on responsibility and demanding it of others the promise of a net 0 world a reality now on the press to cop 26 i urge everyone to show ambition stop the assault on our planet and do what we need to get in the future of our children and grandchildren that maybe is th

ethiopia says it's captured or killed most of the leaders of the embattled t.v. region as it tries to bring an end to the month long conflict there but the head of the degree and people's liberation front says residents of the region's capital makali have been protesting about looting by at a train the soldiers who support ethiopia it's difficult to confirm either side's claims because there's a media blackout in the area the european union has criticised ethiopia for limiting aid workers access to at a train refugees in the northern t.v. region almost $100000.00 refugees were living in camps there many are thought to have fled during recent fighting but an agreement with the government only grants aid organizations access to federally controlled regions cassar mahoney is the global spokesperson for the united nations high commissioner for refugees she says the u.n. is hearing unverified reports of serious human rights violations in. my colleagues from the u.n.h.c.r. the u.n. refugee agency in ethiopia stand at the ready we are waiting to go in and we're ready to

chronic care patients delivering babies meghalaya is the capital of ethiopia's northern to cry region that became the frontline and a power struggle between the central government and regional authorities. ethiopia's army says it's captured nicolay and declared victory forces from the to cry people's liberation front say they're still fighting back each regards the other as illegal and the conflict has threatened to destabilize the country and its neighbors i will and 50000 refugees have sought shelter across the border and slow down many terrified and traumatized. and more evidence is emerging of mess killings in the region this man tells of a message in the town of make khadra november so now after the fighting began. they just hit everybody they slaughtered them with knives they cut them here with a machete there was so much killing a saw about 300 to 400 people who were dead and it didn't make any of this video said to show the aftermath of the attack which refugees like to blame on the military ethiopia's government though says to gray and forces were behind it an informal group

ethiopia, nagorno-karabakh, and mozambique. james al-jazeera of the united nations, want to look at brazil's amazon rain forest now, which is disappearing at an alarming rate. deforestation, and surged to a 12 year high. scientists say it suffered losses that accelerated right. ever since john bolton, our became president and weakened environmental protections from p.r.t. has our report from the sky large swaths of brazil's amazon are increasingly looking like this, with long patches of rain forest destroyed by fires and logging, and it's getting worse. new government data shows the level of destruction is rose almost 10 percent this year to more than 11000 square kilometers, equivalent to 7 times the size of london. it's the highest level in 12 years. and monday, brazil's vice president promised to fight at the struction point 6 percent is not a number to celebrate. on the contrary, as i said here, i desire is not to have illegal deploring station at all inside. this is what we're fighting for. but environmentalists believe th

says food is running out for tens of thousands of eritrean refugees inside ethiopia's tikrit region the coronavirus pandemic continues to bring bad news to the u.s. economy which remains the wilds of west affected country. and bangladesh transfers hundreds of refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and other rights groups. now saudi arabia's foreign minister says all of the nations involved in the gulf crisis are close to finalizing an agreement after a significant progress was made over the past few days katsa has been under an illegal land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt since june 2017 present senior adviser jared kushner recently visited both riyadh and our hala the foreign ministers of council and kuwait also said there's been some progress. we hope that these. this progress can lead to a final agreement which looks in reach and i can say i am somewhat optimistic that we are close to finalizing. an agreement between all the issues in dispute to come to a resolution that we think will be satisfactory to all we have achieved set i

winning foreign correspondent nima elbagir about the killings in nigeria, as well as the crisis in ethiopia. then we to india where an estimated 250 million workers, farmers, and their allies recently participated in what is believed to be the largest organized strike in history. >> india is my country and delhi is the capital. i'm not even allowed to enter. our home movement has been peaceful. they're shooting this with water cannons. we were also beaten. but no farmers retaliated violently. amy: this comes as indian farmers continue to protest prime minister narendra modi's move to deregulate agricultural markets. we will speak to indian journalist p sainath, founder of people's archive of rural india. we will speak about narendra modi and covid in india. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the united states experienced the worst day of the pandemic so far on wednesday, recording 200,000 new coronavirus infections as hospitalizations topped 100,000 for the first time. 3157 people died of covid-19 on wednesday u

and international aid finally arrives in ethiopia's to grey region after more than a month the fighting between local forces and government soldiers. bought into the program advisers for the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention have voted to recommend the nation's 1st coronavirus vaccine for widespread to use in people over the age of 16 now this will help clear the way for health officials to begin the largest inoculation campaign in american history the 1st supplies are due to reach states on monday more than 297000 people have died of covert 19 of the world's worst affected nation and the u.s. registered another record toll of 3309 fatalities on friday john hendren reports now from washington d.c. . in the nation most devastated by the global pandemic the 1st doses of the 1st approved vaccine or on the move within the next 24 hours they will begin moving vaccine from the pfizer manufacturing facility to the u.p.s. and fed ex hopes and then it will go out to the $636.00 locations nationwide the 1st $145.00 sites in the u.s. are expected to receive the vaccine on monday with

and international aid finally arrives in ethiopia's to grey region after more than a month of fighting between local forces and government soldiers. hello we've got some rather lively weather pushing across the united states at the moment big bank of cloud here sliding through right across the plains as it runs over towards the appalachians pepping up some heavier rain coming through and we got more wet weather putting in some warm moist air in from the gulf heavy downpours there across the deep south with some snow on the northern flank of that central part of kind of the also seeing some snow eastern parts of canada as i see some snow and i've it was b.c. the snow here is well that slow slides right down across that northwest quarter of the u.s. even getting a good way into northern parts of california as we go on into monday that will make its way a little further east with over the rockies heavy rain for a time around the mid atlantic states into new england snow that's still there down towards the southeast will hang on to that cloud and rain across florida for a little while yet

and ethiopia's prime minister faces criticism for his handling of the tea great crisis as aid agencies struggle to reach thousands displaced by the violence. paul russia is pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale 1000 bucks nation program teachers doctors and social workers are set to get the locally produced sputnik of the vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated the smom and baka has this report. it's called covert back trade name sputnik v. off the soviet era satellite that triggered the space race and now russia says it's soaring ahead in its campaign against covert 19. dozens of clinics in the capital moscow have begun inoculating those most at risk from the virus the city remains the worst affected place in the country 1st in line of people who work in schools the health service and social workers the large scale vaccination of military personnel has also begun but each person getting 2 injections $21.00 days apart. i decided to do it right away not to wait it's difficult to say what to expect but i do hope it will stop me from getting ill the rus

says food is running out for tens of thousands of eritrean refugees inside ethiopia's tikrit region. and again i'm just as you take this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a blockade breakthrough on the horizon foreign ministers of council and kuwait and saudi arabia say progress has been made in resolving the gulf crisis. the coronavirus pandemic continues to bring bad news to the u.s. economy which remains the wilds of western fictive country. in bangladesh transfers hundreds of or hindu refugees 20 isolated island despite concerns from the un and rights groups. now the united nations says it's concerned about the situation facing refugees inside ethiopia is tikrit region about 100000 refugees from neighboring eritrea house there but they have reportedly been fleeing in search of safety ethiopia's army has been fighting regional forces there for about a month. ethiopia has hosted eritrean refugees now for almost 2 decades most of them are in the team grey region which borders eritrea many of them fled political persecution and mandatory military service the un's access to