No more. No more than 18 months. U. N. Led to a preliminary role for libya aimed at ending a decade of violence. Also this hour as Coronavirus Infection soar last year of the World Organization warns against lifting receptions quickly and a controversial plan to turn a World Heritage site in indonesia into a Jurassic Park style tourist attraction. Forces golds mosque is finally gets underway for a 7 month delay. All eyes are on big number who is aiming to win back to back mages out driving his opposition. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin this news hour in ethiopia, where the Prime Minister says military gains have been made in the northern teague, a region where the federal government is battling local forces. But the conflict is raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. Phone lines are cut off and transport has been halted in and out of the region. If the opium Prime Minister abu ahmed says the military offensive had, quote, liberated the western part of to gray. And the regions leaders have been stripped of their immunity from prosecution. But thousands of people a day off fleeing the unrest many to neighboring. So don, as surrogate fears of a refugee emergency aid agencies are warning theyre unable to bring in much needed supplies into the region because of the fighting. The offensive began last week after the Central Government accused the regions forces of attacking a military base. We are told that communications continue to be disrupted. There are also reports of inter in term an electrical Electricity Supply shortages, as well as shortages of basic commodities such as flour and fuel also being reported. Banks remain closed in the shortage of vailable. Cash is becoming much more acute. We urge governments in the neighboring countries to keep their borders open for people, forced to flee from their homes and u. N. H. Shores. Also asking if you open authorities to take steps to allow the agency to keep providing assistance to the safety, safety for refugees, and internally displaced people who are in te great. Lets bring in al jazeera as mohammed oddo, and forest mahmoud. I know its been very difficult to know whats happening integrate because access has been restricted to communication blinds and down. What more are you hearing about the government claims of having liberated areas in the west and the gains they say to have made well, yes. Finally, were not just hearing this from the Prime Minister now were also hearing from his Defense Forces who say they have taken many towns and villages on the western part of that. You very region cruel to the border between ethiopia and eritrea, as well as on the saddams side. They say they have taken the town of a major, which is a Border Crossing right on the border between the ethiopian and sudan. They also claim to have taken the shit and shit out of areas not far away from there, trampled on the ancient city of exile, which was once the city of one of the ancient kingdoms. That is the kingdom. Now, the fighting soul involved Ground Forces clashing and also targeting fuel and death pools, as well as a delivery duels that have led to heavy on both sides. But as i said earlier, it is very difficult to ascertain who is where are his point in time because of the internet and phone lines cut. Yeah, Prime Minister abu ahmed has been trying to reassure the International Community that his country is not sliding into a civil war. But, you know, ray force of thousands of people fleeing into sudan is not easing those concerns. How nervous are ethiopias neighbors right now about the situation . Well, the neighbors, the neighbors are very nervous and they are justified because of how you appear has been. I mean, its, europe is a country that has impact across the whole of africa region, which is a relatively stable region. This is the most populous nation in the region, but also the past 2 years have not been particularly, i mean good for the people of ethiopia because of nick based divisions on tribal, colossal displacement of almost 2000000 people across the country. Already the government has arrested up to 150 people who are armed and the majority of them to grow, they say in different parts of the country. All this is not giving people a lot of confidence. And if the home continues and become entrenched, then it will have a medication far beyond the borders of if you monitor in this. Lets discuss this further. Now with William Davis sent the senior ethiopia analyst at the International Crisis group. He joins us live from the ethiopian capital. Very good to have you with us, mr. Davis. And as you heard, theres been very hard to get independent information from gray. What is your sense of the Current Situation and his government claims that they have made significant gains . Well, it doesnt see d. C. To be the case to some extent. But you know, theres a fairly rural nature to rest. Integrate. So is it the case that the government has entirely controlled all of those areas . And then with regard to some of the territorial claims, you know how sustainable is that position . These are the sorts of questions that we cant be sure of answering and moment. So we know that the federal effort has been focused in west a great resource or been an involvement from her region to some extent what tamara region forces to some extent in that campaign in the west. But it is hard to tell exactly you just, you know, just what extent that control that her right at the i met has told the International Community, have the military campaign will be over quickly . Do you expect theyll be a quick end to this . So is it likely to go on for some time given that theyre the size of, you know, the military on both sides of the forces on both sides . Well, of course we dont know exactly what people mean when they talk about your quickly or blocked. But as you described there, the concern is that if you look at the federal government justification for this intervention, that is that the gray in leadership, which they classed as illegitimate, took over forcefully sections of the federal military stationed in particularly now when thats combined with the existing, strong regional, 6 security apparatus, and militia integrating, combined with the regions history of resistance and fighting battles. Essentially, that raises the concern that despite some of the big advantages of the federal government, we might actually see quite a protracted conflict that could well last weeks. Quite possibly months and that could be devastating for tikrit. Why is abby ahmed who, after all won the nobel peace price last year . Why is he reluctant to engage in dialogue with the to grand leadership as the International Community is suggesting . He does. I mean, any seems even resistant to, to the idea of mediation that is explained very clearly by the governments statements. The Prime Minister initially set a red line has been crossed. The government position has consolidated and built on that since the problem here is that its a great leadership action in taking command of sections of the federal military is considered an act of treason by the federal government and against the constitutional order. Therefore, what the government calls a Law Enforcement effort is to bring degrees leaders to justice and restore the integrity of the armed forces and constitutional order. They say this is an unacceptable breach, and that is why they are not considering negotiations at this stage. Right. Which is of course, hugely worrying, given a possible prospects for the conflict. William davis said, i mean whats happening, integrate is just a force, one part of the spectrum of conflict in ethiopia. In recent months, weve seen an increase in, into calming all violence and violence between communities and so on. How high is the risk of divisions going further . The rest of the country actually sliding into a civil conflict where we are in a civil conflict, a degree region. We have to be clear about that. Were talking about the geographic spread of the conflict. All of these questions are interlinked. If there is indeed something of an even balance of forces, of the conflict becomes tracked, it, the governments resources will be concentrated on that struggle integrate. It will be weakened by that. If it looks to be a miscalculation and this idea of a quick wind does not materialize, that will deal a blow to the governments credibility and embolden opponents elsewhere in ethiopia. This is not happened, but if the conflict does become projected, as seems possible, it could lead to spreading instability. And when davison, thank you very much for talking to us Wayne Davison is from the International Crisis cold in ethiopia. That talks aimed at ending almost a decade of violence in libya have reached what the United Nations is hailing as a breakthrough political agreement, warring sides meeting in tunisia have agreed to free fair and Inclusive Elections within 18 months. The deal would also unite the countrys institutions under one government have been divided between the internationally recognized government of National Accord in tripoli, and a rival house of representatives in the east affiliated with the warlords. Heidi for half talk, libya has suffered violence since the nato backed uprising in 2011 overthrew a long time. But the situation has calmed down after a cease fire was agreed last month in geneva. Today, the participants of the libyan political dialogue form reached a pull limon area and agreement on every map for ending the transitional period and organizing free, fair, inclusive, and credible parliamentary and president ial elections. They outlined clear steps for reaching these elections. There speak to hide in tripoli now, so much more, theres a lot of optimism that libya is moving in the right direction, where some reaction in libya to this breakthrough in, in tunis. Well yes, fully theres a lot of optimism, especially, and the tune that the acting special envoy to libya, Stephanie Williams used yesterday when she said that the stakeholders of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum held in tunisia currently have outlined a clear roadmap to reach a problem in 3 and president ial elections within 18 months. But she also said that in her words, we have a lot of work to do all in me is that we know that it is a tough task, especially in the current stage in tunisia. This is the stage to choose the new president ial council and the new government to replace the current government and position council to run the country for 18 months. As you know fully, that there have been a lot of names nominated for these positions, but they are controversial names the current president ial council. It includes 9 members according to this roadmap, and i was hit by williams yesterday. The new position council will include all the 3 members and also the government should run the country for 18 months before reaching president ial and parliamentary elections to be based on frame that 75 members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum held the currently in tunisia are due to choose among themselves, the members of the newly the to be form of government president ial council. But also it has to take into consideration the conclusions of the military talks held in Circuit Court of the by the 5 plus 5 military commission, which is tasked with implementing the geneva agreement, which is entailing the move all of what all troops in the disputed areas especially incident and their job for and also that was the will of foreign fighters and mercenaries from libya. So both tracks are going good and no one can succeed alone. In tripoli, lets get the view now of a loony whos in libya. A researcher at the university of durham, monitoring the talks into an essentially joins us actually from tunis and its very good to have you with us. The u. N. Has, as you heard, there has hailed a breakthrough in the libyan peacemaking process. Are you as optimistic as they are that things are finally moving in the right direction. Our elections within the next 18 months, feasible, looks fully what really makes me hopeful of what these so human truth is that the fact of the cease fire is all being on the ground. And we have to remind ourselves that libya was the country informed, looked into the cease fire called so i think thats the 1st indication and what really makes me more. And then the other thing that we must look at, or very good optimism again, is the fact that the military truck and the police truck are running together. And it is very important we are expecting to hear tonight the program thats been made by that going to military committee in egypt who has been working on security, arrangements around town. And so that gave us a very good in the u. N. , is talking about reintegrating, the armed forces into a single body. How do you do that with so many different groups, militias on the ground, competing with competing agendas. How do you begin to do that . Well, this is exactly what the joint military committee is working on, and surely it is an ambitious and ambitious start. But i think the other thing that we really need to keep in mind is that also external powers seem to show their support. At this stage, putting its military trial and in particular here and returning to egypt has been standing by this process. And so i think again, like we will see what these committees will come up with in the coming months. Yeah. For sure. Its a transition. Its a transition, so we will have to see, and these will need to be monitored by the u. N. In the coming. It may take some time and he talked about those external powers. What about those outside forces . Not just the usa, but also egypt. Russia, turkey have been backing different sides in this call states. Are they buying into this process . Well, thats it. They think the u. N. Has been good at engaging with these actors. And i think at this point, everybodys taking a step back is waiting to see where the libyans are going to take this process and what their reaction disposes with all. And then it will be very important to continue very tight diplomatic from the station when sure that except the pilots step back and that this process kept going up after this. Thank you so much for talking to us about this and only from durham university. Joining us today from tunis plenty more ahead on this aljazeera news hour, including a warning from the u. S. To china after 4 hong kong opposition politicians are removed from the legislature, hoping to hail a divided country ivory coast as muni reelected president. Any main Opposition Leader hold talks after 10 selections and in school will tell you why australia is cricketers wont be wearing their traditional green and gold in their upcoming series. Thats coming up later with the corona virus pandemic now and several states in the United States. Reimposing restrictions as infections, their shots are more records while than 136000. New cases were confirmed on wednesday, and texas has become the 1st state to record more than 1000000 cases. Measures have been tightened in new york and several midwestern states. I tell you this an all sincerity, oklahoma we are in trouble, are local and state Health Care Resources are approaching their limits. And if nothing is done soon to slow the rise in cases, our hospitals will be more overwhelmed than they already are. And we wont be able to be there for all of those who need it. Ukraines president has been hospitalized after becoming the latest leader to contract over 19 years of mens spokesman told the voices, news agency, the decision to go to hospital was so. So when ski could isolate cold accurately, countries and governments across europe struggled to contain a rapidly spreading 2nd wave, the World Health Organization is warning them not to lift restrictions too fast. The agency says, ah, could result in, a major spike in cases. Andrew symonds reports. For the u. K. , its another spread of schools in the long term, more than 50000. 00, pollute tested positive have died. Britains total of dead is now the highest in europe. Nearly 600. 00 deaths on wednesday overtakes figures since may in the 1st wave. Every death is a tragedy. I mean, we mourn everybody whos gone and, and often either with their families as and friends as well. Were not out of the woods yet. It does still require everybody to follow the guidance elsewhere in europe, the spread is on the increase too. In italy, where hotels are now being used to cope with an over spill of patients. The number of cases has now passed 1000000, as despite increased lockdown restrictions such as here in florence, spains number of dead within 24 hours has increased to more than 400. Its the highest since the 2nd wave began. France is now using mobile units to treat non covert patients because of demands on its hospitals. Germany as well continues to struggle, to have yet spent id say 5 shots you already. Now we have to wards that up pretty much at full capacity. And while we are barely able to do our jobs, hungary is the latest country to increase its lockdown measures. Its parliament has called a 3 month state of emergency that imposes an overnight National Curfew on the ground countermeasures in the fight against covert increase. And the race to introduce vaccination programs is also exaggerating. The European Union has signed a contract with pfizer, which has developed the front runner vaccine with bio on tech. The e. U. Says its buying 300000000 doses, hundreds simmons aljazeera. As bring in china angela in london. China has a lot of concern about the acceleration of cases in europe and the chief has been speaking this morning. What more does he have to say . Well, he repeated those lines that he also read out at the World Health Assembly the other day when he said that we may be tired of covert that it is not tired of us. And he said European Countries are struggling, but the virus has not changed significantly. And nor should the measures to stop it and just a runny 3. How some of these countries are struggling. You heard about the ukrainian president. Logan is alinsky. Will he contract to the virus on monday, along with 2 of his top officials, his defense minister and his finance minister. He was isolating at home with a fever, but moved to hospital today. The his Spokesman Says its not serious, but it is a serious situation in the rest of the country. Its just recorded in the last 24 hours, a Record Number of cases, 11000 bringing the total number to hard of a 1000000. And on wednesday, the government did impose a lockdown, but just at weekends to try and curb the spread of infection. Another country that is, you might think, unexpectedly, suffering is germany. And weve had a very grim prediction this morning from the robert capa institute for Infectious Diseases that is predicting that the number of covert deaths will rise. But its also saying it expects an uncontrolled spread of the disease in some parts of the country and expects that hospital beds will soon fill up. The countrys Health Minister said he expects the restrictions on the number of people who can gather which is currently limited to 10. He expects as restrictions to continue way into january. So that will be slightly depressing news for germany to wake up to today. Italy, you heard in Andrew Symonds package, another country really struggling. And today were hearing from doctors who are calling on the government to impose a 2nd national lockdown. They are reporting that the number of people being admitted to intensive care is doubling every 10 days. Hospitals are running out of beds and we saw footage of patients being treated in their cars in hospital car parks. The Prime Minister just said, because it is true, it is pushing back against those calls. He saying he needs to wait to see whether the restrictions that room posed the new measures imposed last week, which includes closing restaurants and bars at 6 pm. He wants to see if theyre going to have any impact on the infection rate. In the coming days, he says a generalized lockdown shouldnt be the 1st choice because the cost would be just too high. And that is what the balancing act, the government in europe are trying to weigh up the Economic Cost versus the human cost. China intervention from europe, china internet, with the latest say on the coronavirus situation in europe. Thank you. , u. S. President elect joe biden has named his white house chief of staff despite Donald Trumps refusal to concede and allow a smooth transition of power. Ron klein, service chief of staff to both biden and Vice President , president al gore during the obama and clinton administrations. But bidens been unable to move into federal office space or use Government Funds to highest stuff. Meanwhile, the u. S. State of georgia has announced it will recount all votes by hand following a request by the charm campaign. Joe biden secure the election without georgia, but hes also leading there by more than 14000 votes. The recount is set to begin at the end of this week. The current margin stands at 14111. 00 between the president and senator by Vice President biden. My office will continue to investigate each and every instance of illegal voting, double voting. Felon voting people voting out of state. If you report it, we will investigate it. Every legal vote will count. Lets bring in Brendan Oconnor now, who is associate professor of american politics at the United States center at the university of sydney joins us from now. Ben, thank you for being with us. I want to talk to you by the International Reaction to whats going on in the u. S. Weve had many World Leaders rush to congratulate president elect biden. When it became clear hed won, but a week after the election, few of them have spoken out officially about president trumps refusal to concede and his accusations of widespread voter fraud. Why do you think this is and just how difficult is it for them to navigate this complicated transition period . Well, i think it is very good. The very number of democratic leaders, including the private a service dryly a have acknowledged that biden is well ahead in the case states that biden, who saved enough votes to get over 270 Electoral College votes. So that is, i think, an endorsement of democracy from other democracies, the sense of whiting getting up. What does trump going to do . I think is probably frustrating for him, ladies and foreign capitals, peoples around the world as well. So at the moment i doing countries dont want to overplay their hand and but i think it is good that they have seen the general message that they respect the vote. They respect democracy, they wrists, they are for a noble transition to a kid. The problem is no one knows exactly how trump will handle list, and therefore this makes it an incredibly unpredictable and somewhat volatile situation. Some foreign governments, however, including those from russia and china, have refrained from congratulating by what do you make of that . Well, for the russians and possibly the chinese as well chaos disharmony in the United States is a good thing. They see this as a sign that democracies dont work, that democracy sort of cell, how peaceful transitions of care, how smooth governing is, how well the societies around how easy it is to run an election. So i termed as a gift to the russians, is a give to 80 democrats anyway. Then he isnt behaving like an autocrat at the moment, ignoring the basic facts, how much he did not get enough votes in the right places to win this election. How much more damage . I think it. Yeah. How much damage do you think this has done in the air as a whole has done to americas reputation as a beacon of democracy . Can it be undone . Do you think thats damage . I think it can be undone with a record of good Democratic Practice over the next 4 i t nice, you know, its not going to occur overnight just because joe biden has won. The reputation of the United States wont be immediately sort of changed. But if you look at the pew surveys, that the biggest surveys on International Opinion on the United States of america is that his star, who live in many of its ally nations, the papers of those nations have not been taken by Donald Trumps head. And she to democracy is attitude to the rule of law in his attitude to the rest of the world. So america has a, you know, a lot of rebuilding today. But when obama came in in 2009, that being here again, joe biden isnt barack obama there. And so i think a strong seems that he has that America Needs to mend fences. Apologize, go to foreign capitals, particularly of allies, and say, where are you from for conversation . You know, its conversation should be a 2 way thing. Im this point onwards. Lets have a next few weeks and i thank you very much, brendan, a conifer talking to us. My pleasure. Rescue efforts are underway in the philippines. After parts of the north were hit by typhoon of aamco. At least 2 people have been killed and several are reported missing. The storm triggered landslides and flooding, including in the capital manila. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. The country still recovering from a powerful storm that hit just over a week ago. Well, lets get more on the weather now. Heres rob. Typhoon took less than 15 hours to go across the philippines, just north of manila and there it came in as a typhoon. But its still a typhoon with about 150 calories for moving fairly quickly. Westwards that may be the saving grace. Clearly it was windy when it came in. These pictures taken on the eastern side of the islands, then it left a legacy of pretty widespread flooding. This is outside near the city itself, so still metro. Manila was very funny because the river itself overflowed. And this is obviously the result of the things of the water. Now its still fairly warm water and guess where its going not hard work. It is it heading towards the coast of vietnam . Once again, the strength is going to diminish a little bit. It will still be a Tropical Storm. I think water reaches the coast. So theres some wind, there is potential, but of course this part of vietnam and for this season, flooding is probably the biggest risk crosses side of the world. And weve got still to think about a Tropical Storm rapidly going across florida, even as i speak, cause flooding interpret cause a little bit of wind damage. Its barely a Tropical Storm to be honest and it goes across florida. It reaches the warmish waters of the eastern atlantic and is just about gone. Still ahead on aljazeera, we visit the moldovan region, caught in a tug of war between russia and turkey. And women whose gulf heads to a new and controversial territory with the 1st professional tournaments in saudi arabia. Joe, have the details in sports to stay with this. An ethiopian hours to crack and communist rebel, only to be disappeared. A familys tragedy and twined with a violent chapter in the countrys history. When you see the blood, he says are going to be my blood on the wall to a life long search for answers and closure. Finding silent witness on Al Jazeera Young life. This was a foundation where i tried to do something different. When i met daisy, he was the best day of my life. I wish to do could have gone on for ever. Caught up with me and made us all pay the price desean back on aljazeera. The on the on the again, im fully back to go into a house with a reminder of our top stories on this news. Our agencies are warning theyre unable to bring in much needed aid and emergency surprise. In ethiopia, i meet increasing fighting in the north. Thousands of people have fled beyond rest in the region of raising fears of a refugee emergency. Rival factions in libya have agreed to hold elections within 18 months. The u. N. s hailed the deal as a breakthrough talks are being held in tunisia after both sides signed a cease fire agreements last month. The engineer and the World Health Organization is warning europe not to have to cope with 19 restrictions too fast. Governments are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading 2nd wave. Ukraines president is the latest leader to contract the virus. 15, hong kong opposition politicians will step down on wednesday, have made their decision official. They handed in their letters of resignation. A short while ago. The group quit in protest after hong kong disqualified for of their colleagues. China passed a law allowing lawmakers to be barred if they pose a National Security threat. In response to United States has threatened more sanctions against chinese and hong kong officials about adrian brown is outside the Legislative Council in hong kong and explains who the new rules could target. Next. Those 15 legislators who announced their resignations on wednesday are now handing in their resignations to the president of the legislative assembly. This is the latest act in the unfolding Political Drama here in hong kong. And of course, what it means is that for the 1st time since the handover in 1997 will be no effective opposition. All eyes now are on the next here of government as it were. Thats to say, the District Councilors now the prodemocratic camp did very well in the District Council elections. Exactly a year ago, they secured 17 out of hong kongs 18 District Councils. And many of these councilors a very young, much more radical than the, the democrats who have now been removed or have resigned from lets go. And you know, as far as china is concerned, lot of them are not showing sufficient patriotism to the mainland and carry lamb gave a hint yesterday at a Media Conference that, you know, other people, other groups could also be targeted. And the feeling is among many analysts, is that this, these young radical District Councillors could well be next. Of course, along with other elected officials to africa now and the president of ivory coast has met a main Opposition Leader. I made protests and violence sponsored by the recent election, son ouattara and pledged to meet again in a bid to diffuse. The tension is what ties decision to run for a 3rd term sponsor protests and accusations that he was violating term limits. Ouattara came victory in october as election, but the opposition has rejected. The result is in abidjan for assad. What have been the reactions to this meeting between ouattara and people hopeful that it could bring an end to the unrest . Well, its some breaks go expectations from ivorians close to 4 hours after the meeting between what the opposition party, the p. C. I. E. 4 issued a statement listing its demands, saying that yes, the ice has been broken. But again, the demand still exist. They want the freedom of all of position members who are now in jail. They also want the form of the constitutional court, the election commission, and watch this. The most important, of course, for them is the candidate of loss and what they will be, they call an unconstitutional e, elected for a student of ivory coast. They want that to also be addressed in subsequent meetings to be held by the 2 sides. And that will be the biggest sticking point. What are sees himself as a duly elected president of ivory coast . Why, while the Opposition Boycott of that election, hes either believes that he has the mandate to rule for the next 5 years in ivory coast on that and only on the other side. When you look at the ivory coast, abidjan in particular and its surrounding environment, things quiet now. It cannot be divvied up, picking up gradually, but the biggest problem lies not only in abidjan, but also in the hint, the interior of the country. While the opposition has its store home, how would it take this would be a different a different matter altogether. However, what were expecting is negotiations between britain and what sort of what then probably the tension would be doused a little. What would be is to address that issue and i think just on and talk to you is on the run up in your son, by the way, is in detention with the school. Thank you for that. In the United Nations is calling for a government investigation into the killing of as many as 50 people in attacks in mozambique fighters linked to i saw have been blamed for the attacks, which happened in the kabul delgado province. The region is home to a multibillion dollar natural gas project. Thousands of people have been displaced ins. Armed groups began operating there 3 years ago. Amnesty international has also accused mozambique and soldiers of committing atrocities during its crackdown on the violence. Tensions are growing between russia and turkey over an autonomy region of moldova goggles. Yeah. Was once part of the soviet union and russia maintains a strong influence. But turkey also wants to exert its influence and has been helping to finance development projects. Sonja day ago, went to gargle is yet to meet people caught in the middle of this regional tug of war. I must start over, is extremely proud of her heritage. Just gone. She shows us around her house designed to give visitors a taste of culture. And she tells us why preserving it is so important to her. But i want to preserve the heirlooms of my family left behind. Its so important to pass on. Now, traditions folklore, our songs to our children, so they can remember how our ancestors lived. There are 150000 in moldova, thats almost 5 percent of the population. They are ethnically turkic. Their language is also closer to turkish than any other in the region. But they are also often talks christians and strongly pro russian a hangover from the days when it was and of thomas region within the soviet union, it even claimed its independence as a pro soviet republic of moldova broke away from the u. S. S. R. Even today prefers to keep closer relations with moscow and like the Central Government now, which has been seeking closer ties with the European Union. Russias influence is still strongly felt it. Its language and culture dominates as do its politics. But there is another Regional Power us to make its mark a turkey in recent years, turkey has also been investing in this corner of moldova, from infrastructure to hospitals and schools. It has even been funding lessons in the gakkai was language, so it doesnt become extinct here. One way of encouraging ties between its peoples. Where as russia continues to focus on the politics of power and political technology, providing assistance for candidates and Political Parties during the elections between elections. This is what russia, while turkey and russia continue to vie for influence in the caucuses and the middle east, that goes as governesses, that cooperation here between moscow and the e. U. Could offer another way of conducting diplomacy in the region. When you kindness towards a, were in a unique situation, our territory has welcome to the west, aist and other different partners who put in a lot of effort to develop our ptolemy. It brings huge advantages to our country. If there are economically strong stable regions, it drives better development. This is a region that historically has been caught between the great powers for success will come down to which of the competing influences will not only preserve this unique region, but also bring it prosperity. So on and i go aljazeera that goes year old over theres widespread anger and fear in armenia over an agreement which allows areas to keep land captured during 6 weeks of fighting people who were displaced almost 3 decades ago. Say theyre not convinced they can return to the disputed region of megamall karabakh. A warning that some of you may find with witness accounts in osama bin jareds reports distressing. But then they go to hand them to how numbers are sums. She says if my sister wasnt breastfeeding when they shot and killed my mother, she would have starved to death at the road a job or lost her mother, another sister, her father, an uncle in her jelly, in what Human Rights Watch called a massacre over there. E civilians after a deal between other by john in armenia, a village will once again be under as eerie control. But the emotional wounds from nearly 3 decades ago are still fresh. I have great teacher for them today. They say lets go live with her me. I cannot, i even saw soviet troops standing by watching it happen the support of the killers. My father fought in selfdefense. Thats why they took his call after killing him. Many of the displaced people from nagornokarabakh have vivid memories. This woman says she still has nightmares after watching her relatives been killed in their bodies. Burnt. Appears mother in law refuses to dye her hair because decades later, shes still in mourning. And her husband sees no reason to trust russian peacekeepers. I mean, it depends on the person, whatever. He says there were nearly 10000 people live in this refugee settlement, which used to be a tent camp azerbaijan. The government says it has spent more than 7000000000. 00 to develop 11 settlements for the people displaced from the go on a car after the agreement to retake all areas either by yards or government still has to convince people to return home thats likely to take time because of the deep mistrust that exists between ethnic identity than armenians. And many people here accusing the soviets office, illustrating massacres. While to say no, says the committee he leads for the displaced has designed a project called the great return program. It outlines of voluntary gradual return of the displaced, but he wants the International Communitys help in reconstruction and rehabilitation of 700000 people. Nations as well as other International Actors of demonstrate the importance in implementing it all is a lusus which they have adopted for almost 30 years. Of course, the need to step in and render all support in the systems that it turned into and displaced persons. The question remains how many of them are willing to try to live in peace with Ethnic Armenians who also regard to go nuclear about their ancestral home. Some of the job with aljazeera anger is growing in peru over the impeachment of president martin. This car, demonstrators are accused politicians of hijacking the presidency. This guy was voted out of office over corruption charges money and mary know a member of the center right party has been sewn in and will serve as interim president until july. Australia says it will appoint a special investigator to examine the possible prosecution of alleged crimes in afghanistan. The Prime Minister made the announcement ahead of the release of a report on the conduct of australian forces. Civilians and prisoners are alleged to have been killed. Australian special forces were deployed alongside u. S. And allied troops after the september 11th attacks. The government initially tried to suppress accounts of alleged wrongdoing. The man accused of being a key financier of the 9911 then genocide, has pled not guilty at an International Court in the hague. Couple guy is accused of funding, militia groups and propaganda before and during the genocide which he denies the form, a businessman was arrested in paris in may after 26 years on the run ethnic otooles killed at least 800000. 00 mostly tootsies in just a few months during the genocide in 1904, bahrain has named crown prince solomon bin hamad, as its new Prime Minister. It follows the death of haile 5. Been sad. He took power in 1970 and was the worlds longest serving Prime Minister had been receiving medical treatment in the United States. Still ahead in sports these formula one drivers take a spin around based on board ahead of the turkish promptly chose the next the earth, the oh, come back environmental groups say indonesias Komodo Dragon could be threatened by a major tourism project. The u. S. Coal World Heritage site is one of the few places where the Worlds Largest species of message can be found in the wild jesica washington before subject matter. In the center of the vast indonesian archipelago, hundreds of giant lizards roam islands. Fossils indicate that theyve lived here and on some neighboring islands for millions of years. The Komodo Dragon is the Worlds Largest, a lizard known for its venomous bite and aggressive behavior, as well as its size. The majority live here in the Komodo National park. The vulnerable species is protected under indonesian law. The park is spread across mostly undeveloped islands, but the government wants to change that efforts to turn this unesco World Heritage site into a tourism hub are underway. That ignored by accommodated that committed dragons are not used to seeing heavy equipment. So when they get too close, we try to keep them away. So the character wont change that. This video reveals what the final result is supposed to look like. Set to the music from the hollywood Science Fiction film dressing park showcasing what one senior minister has called dinosaur tourism. The government says the project is environmentally friendly. Were not damaging anything. Were improving the facilities and Visitor Management officials on the ground say the construction is taking place without disturbing the Komodo Dragons or the local environment. In the construction has been done very carefully, we havent cut down the single tree, but some are not convinced. The last minute im over, you know, this is a conservation area. Thats the basis of our objection. You see the heavy equipment vehicles tearing the place down. Others are hopeful that if the project is successful, it will create opportunities for the local community. And then hes going to perhaps with this development, all children can get jobs, which island is part of the governments plan to create 10 new tourist hubs around the country. The aim is for these destinations to become the next bali upon environmental groups have criticised. The development in the National Park will be discussed at the next unesco World Heritage meeting. Next year, the unesco World Heritage center told aljazeera it has requested more information from the intonation government about the development. It also said it has reminded the government of the need to carefully assess any potential impacts. Construction is set to finish by mid next year, and at which some fia will change this park permanently and could put its dragons at risk just to washington aljazeera jakarta. Tempus was fully thank you. Take care lympics organizers say athletes taking part will not have to isolate 14 days on the arrival in japan, but its sitting about International Fans is not expected until next year. The head of the International Input committee, thomas bach, will visit tokyo next week to discuss coronavirus measures occurs in the war. You see there are many foreign funds and having them quarantine for 2 weeks and not use public transport is unrealistic. Therefore, Health Checks before entering the country, screening upon arrival, checking their whereabouts after they leave, or responding quickly if they get infected is something that we need to look very carefully at. The most watched event in golf, the masters gets underway later, and most of the pretournament hype has focused on bryson to shambo and how far hes hitting the ball. Hes looking for back to back majors after winning the u. S. Open in september. Having put on a huge amount of muscle this year, he is carrying some of his drives only 400. 00 yards. But one of his rivals for the mcelroy says its not all about distance at augusta. You need to back that up with all other aspects of your game. So, you know, if, if trophies were handed i just for a far you had and how much ball speed you have. Then, you know, ben, id be worried, but thats still a lot of different aspects that you need to master in this game. The masses being played in november for the 1st time, because the pandemic shut down golf earlier in the year, theyll be no fans. But a gust of national say they could be welcomed back for the 2021 tournament, which returns in its usual april slots. But aprils less than 5 minutes were surely no assurance of that. But, you know, i do think that, you know, im encouraged by what took place last week in houston and having, i think approaching the 2000 view to determine what we would need to see check to data. That would give us a high level of confidence that we could bring large numbers of people under the ground. Meanwhile, the ladies European Tour is about to enter a new and controversial territory is latest event takes place in saudi arabia. The 1st of 2 professional womens Golf Tournaments being held in the kingdom start today saw him cup play is georgia hole and charlie hall are among those who will tear it up at the Royal Greens Golf Club on the red sea coast. The 2 events will have a combined person, one and a half 1000000. 00 rule can play at my hoodie week is the 1st and only arab woman on the tour. And she says the focus should be on the positive changes being made for women in saudi arabia. Its really something im proud of really proud of my region, my region in my region, and that you know, so he is making a step forward. Its a big tournament. Its a big statement. As we know it means gar, sometimes not getting the recognition. Its just in terms of prize money and having so put up such a big price to tournaments in a row. Its a huge statement to make that, you know, to close that gap men and women for the tournament has been criticized by human rights campaign. As 19 organizations published a joint letter calling on players to reconsider their participation because of abuses against women taking place in saudi arabia. And its also men is the director of mena rights group. The issue with the tournaments is that players and organizers are actively participating to a p. R. Sports washing exercise by the authorities. So obviously these Golf Tournament is not the 1st and will not be the last for its event being held in the country. But what makes it somewhat special is that its a womans only event, and at this stage its no longer a secret. Then saudi woman are considered 2nd class citizens. It is no longer a secret. That 5 womens rights defenders are currently in prison for demanding gender equality. And so its quite hypocritical to have a womans only event in the care and context. The moto of the ladies, the Golf Tournament, is ladies 1st. And really in a country where ladies do not come 1st, it is a quite hypocritical way to present this event. I think its also quite well known that a lot of these sports event also involve a lot of money. And i know that in relation to previous like football caps and events and were held in saudi last year, it seems that the Public Investment fund invested billions into these events and ultimately teams that the reason why people came is basically for money. So i guess at the end of the day, for some of these players, money comes 1st and human rights 2nd. Right to sports women only w. Series is linking up with formula 1. 00 for next season. The series which launched in 2019 will get 8 support races at grand prix weekends. He uses the same 1. 00 lead to cars as the 4 minute one, a formula 3 and drivers will be eligible for points towards an f. A. , a super license needed to race in formula one. Meanwhile, f one is in istanbul this week for the 1st turkish one precent, 2011 to the drivers alex album and pier ghastly driver of the bosphorus bridge, connecting europe and asia, and then took their cars for a spin around the city streets. Lewis hamilton will wrap up a 7th drivers championship in turkey. If he finishes pedophiles revoked us. Well, after resigning as the head of english football, greg clarke has now quit his role as fee for Vice President. He was forced out of his job at the f. A. Because of inappropriate comments. He made about racism, sexuality and gender during a British Government hearing on choose day. After speaking with the head of european football is now been agreed. He should step down from his position as a u. A. E. For representative on the fifa council. Croatias Football Team has confirmed that one of their stars played hof, their friendly against turkey with kogan 19 defended the magoi, who was captaining. The team only found out about his positive test a half time in istanbul, despite having tested negative just 2 days before. He was substituted off and put in isolation. Diego maradona has been released from hospital in argentina. That 1986, world cup winner spent more than a week recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot and being treated for drug withdrawal symptoms. Hell continue his treatment at home in bournemouth. Scientists australias cricket team has a new kit for their upcoming t 20 series against india, and its not the usual green and gold. Theyve unveiled a special jersey featuring indigenous art. Its aimed at recognising the contribution of indigenous australians in cricket. The womens team also wore an indigenous jersey in a match against england earlier this year. You know, its a huge part of, of our countrys history. Obviously. You know, were very fortunate now to, to be a part of in a way where our culture on our shirts. Certainly for the 1st time and in the mens time. And something that will be really proud of him, shall i write. That is, i hope for now more lights up ali joe, thank you very much for that. Thats it for this news hour on aljazeera. Do stay with us. Came the nowadays with you next with news, but back in just shifts. Examining the impact of todays headlines. The escape from just a mistake, but we dont feel safe here. Setting the agenda for tomorrows discussions. 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