A look at how the black lives Matter Movement has impacted its electoral process. Will start with the escalating situation in ethiopia, where forces in the to grey region have confirmed they did attack a military base which sparked a federal government offensive in the area official from the to great Peoples Liberation front. The t. P. L. F. Says that it was a preemptive strike. Since the fighting began its escalated rapidly with reports of rockets hitting civilian areas, forcing thousands to flee. The countrys Human Rights Commission is sending a team to investigate reports of a massacre in one area. The government blames forces loyal to, to grays leaders. An allegation that they deny aljazeera as Mohammed Atta reports. Now from the city of gonda on the border of the tigre, a region. Its huge by every measure, because from that time the Prime Minister has accused the p. L. F. That they have cut it out. These are talks at the basis of the north and they have loudly rejected that statement saying they did not carry out the attack and accused the if you have been Defense Forces of firing the bullet. Now with this admission from sickle today in the hierarchy of the c. P. L. And it shows that there is no, i mean, i doubt that it was the people of who carried out. And he says that they did that because one side, they were talking about an ethiopian Defense Forces, sounding the man on the other was his highest authority. That is the eritrean president who is not any friendly to them because of the walls they have for who will hear him when they were in power. The t. P. I. Left and he said they did what was supposed to have been done. A preemptive strike trying to change the law. And we did mobilize those who did not agree with us, and you products that we in 45 seconds. They had finished that operation all together. Thousands of people aside, the violence many crossing the border reports from covering the border more if you can refugees arrive at medina state. Theyre fleeing fighting in ethiopias degree region. Arrived here 4 days ago with her children and pregnant sister from she says the fighting in the region forced her and her family to flee with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Then i guess we saw people being slaughtered, there was blood all over. We fled because we didnt want to die. Some women lost their husbands. We came with nothing but our lives, no money. These clothes were given to me by the people here. Thousands of refugees have crossed into sudan over the past week. Many recount similar stories from the region where the if you being government has imposed a telecommunication blackout since the start of an offensive against the Peoples Liberation front. The government wants to get rid of the t. V. So if the people are living in conflict, their people have been slaughtered with knives. Pregnant women have had their bellies opened, the government is bombing civilians and killing us all. So these authorities have closed borders with since the start of the conflict. And there are challenges in responding to the influx of refugees, aid organizations in relief services, which refugee thats because up until last week, this place was largely an abandoned town. And even though this is a temporary shelter for refugees before the camps elsewhere to arrive seeking safety on an already dark humanitarian situation, refugees here say there are shortages of Drinking Water and food. So dense commission for refugees says nearly 1000. 00 people are being which is to daily and have called for more action to respond to the situation. For Research Showing a refugees here is great and we hoping to authorities, International Community chain to be in because the situation is unbearable. There are so many refugees to come in. Most of them walking for hours and days. Most of them are scattered in farms nearby sticking their way here. New refugees are being just every hour the day and her family try to settle into what is now their new home. She says she doesnt know how long theyll be here. But until the fighting stops, she says you want to go back to make a draw. Any theo, morgan, all does iran, medina, to money . And god, if so, damn, its the final day for Ethnic Albanians to leave areas of nagornokarabakh that will be handed over to some set fires of their homes as they left the 1st hand of armenian controlled land. Azerbaijan is expected to happen on sunday. Its part of a peace deal, which ended 6 weeks of fighting decades of differences over the disputed territory. Who i dont think you want children, you know, many are crying and want to return home. Its very hard such a sore. In the end, we will blow up or put a fire to the house, not to leave anything to muslims. 0 of the 100 reports. Now from walda in armenia. Well, there actually coming down this road, heading into arlene proper and facing uncertain future development. Now weve been all the way inside and theyre going to care about which is that district where about 4 to 5000 who are living. And i have to say over the past few days, all we have seen is a village, one after the other. People have already evacuated the area. Weve seen some people burning their houses, saying that they were, theyre not going to leave them for anyone else to live in meaning as there is if and when they come back to this district. Weve seen power lines cut. And weve seen also a really great sense of loss among the few remaining. Theyre chopping wood, theyre still taking whatever they have left to join their families across the border in armenia. So you really get a sense that people are fleeing, theyre desperately scared about what could happen next. Even though we have seen the russian peace keepers making their way in, in large numbers, very long convoys for armenians. That would be really a symbol of protection. But they dont feel safe at this stage still regardless, and they have by and large, already left the district a big job that has been following developments from the very capital baku. There is anger in azerbaijan, about the reports that civilian infrastructure is being damaged. Weve been speaking to a series whove been, whove lost their lungs and how were became refugees about 30 years ago when they were forced out of their lands. And they say they are saying that this shows that the armenians are do not want peace, and they want to destroy everything which wasnt even dares to begin with. In the areas that other forces have retaken, there is a curfew which has come into effect on the areas that are under their military forces, their civilian infrastructure. The police stations, which were moved out in 1992, have been asked to come back in and try and put some semblance of civilian infrastructure in place. But these are mostly areas where civilians have fled. Very few people remain and mostly held by military personnel. Its obviously trying to get access to these areas, but we did told by the ministry of ministry of defense that these are littered with landmines and explosives that armenians have now on the way out. Just spoke to some people in the d. Mining operation who told us that they have lost colleagues in the last 48 hours or who tried to go to the area to make sure that it is safe for people to go back. And there was a note, a lot of hope and anticipation that there will be some sort of peace about it is going to take time. This is being taken 3 decades in the making. And it is going to take possibly a few months before you can actually see people going back and some semblance of normalcy returning. Theres a lot of hope from azerbaijan on the inclusion of turkish troops and not just the russians. The u. S. President to spoken publicly for the 1st time since his election lost a job by donald trump updated americans on his response to the coronavirus pandemic. But he also inched closer to acknowledging that he may not be leading the countrys next administration. Alan fischer reports from washington incredibly, this is become a rare thing. Public remarks by donald trump his 1st since the election. And this was about protecting his legacy. But administration has initiated the single greatest mobilization in u. S. History. Pioneering developing and manufacturing therapies and vaccines. In record time, there was no talk of the election result. This was an update on the fight against corona virus, the hope provided by a vaccine. But there was almost the slip almost an acknowledgment. His time in the white house was coming to a close. Ideally, we wont go to a lockdown, i will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully, the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which of ministration will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. The president has been adamant. He continues to fight in the courts to overturn an election. He claims without evidence was stolen from him, but hes running out of road. His campaign has dropped its action in arizona where joe biden has been declared. The winner cases in michigan and pennsylvania have run into legal difficulties. Law teams have quit the fight because lawsuits being dismissed by judges who seem quite exasperated with lawyers representing the trump campaign. Who simply do not have facts. The president s own Cyber Security experts have declared the election to be the most secured in american history. Something the president was keen to take credit for while at the same time, claiming it had been rigged by the democrats against him. Another sign, the white house is moving towards acceptance of the result from monday, joe biden will start receiving the daily intelligence briefing. Something the trumpet ministration had blocked since the election. Biden campaigns, reaction about each passing day, lack of access to current classified operations or back channel conversations that are happening really with the american peoples interest as it relates to their National Security interests. Donald trump is arguably the most successful president in modern history, but he left the rose garden, refusing to take questions about the election result. And if his days in the white house were numbered, alan fischer, washington, a weather update, thanks to an aljazeera, then 5 percent of the folks said that entered the hospital with kobe, dont make it out. Sounding the alarm urging people to act u. S. States see a steep rise in corona, virus infections ahead of the countrys holiday season. Picking up the past columbia resumes exhumation, says the country comes to terms with the dark chapter of its history. Hello, beijings air quality. There is nothing like as bad as it was this time last year. All the need, the year before and there is being stirred up anyway, but to some degree. Brother breeze is trying to bring winter in further north. But as you can see, mostly were talking fine weather a few rain showers north east of china wanted to maybe in japan, but it looks much drier than yesterday. For example, in honshu and her car there this rain further south. And thats really being prompted by vanco as it makes landfall in vietnam. Lets be literal saturday, already sunday. Then it just becomes a rain mess, some of which will come across into usenet. Otherwise, a quiet time of china, the northeast monsoon, blowing enough not to really enhance the rain chennai mbenga lose southwards. And that rain coming through pakistan will help to steer up there in both the hole and eventually comes across to new delhi. Both of which are seeing has to say, and im so thats a good improvement as the winston sings up. But off we see will not last. Weve seen a few showers run through this fog middle east, but not bloody that mostly in iraq. Recently, the next systems already bring in the eastern med, by the time we get to sunday, its pretty wet in the lebanon war, gang life. This was our foundation. And what we are i tried to do something different. When i met daisy, he was the best day of my life. And i wish that day could have gone on forever. But my past caught up with me and made us all pay the price of daisy and max on aljazeera. Moving forward. Our get this is i was there and thats for much of the main news. This out forces in the to great region of ethiopia have confirmed that they did launch an attack on a military base that sparked a federal government offensive. Thousands of people are fleeing the fighting has been reports of rocket attacks, out of a massacre of civilians. Saturday is the final day for Ethnic Albanians to leave areas of the going to come back that will be handed over to azerbaijan. Some people said 5 of the hoboes as they left the 1st handover is expected to happen. On sunday. U. S. President donald trump has admitted that he may not be leading the countrys next to the ministrations. Its the closest hes come to a promising that joe biden will succeed him from speaking publicly for the 1st time since by was named president elect. The coronavirus pandemic is gathering speed in the United States with record numbers of infections recorded. Dany, Public Health experts are warning the situation could get was rob reynolds reports. 19 cases are skyrocketing across the u. S. Hospitals in multiple states are running out of beds and protective equipment. Doctors and nurses are once again exhausted. Like every hospital across the country were overwhelmed or were getting overrun, governors across the country issued dire warnings, mandatory mask wearing orders, and restrictions on businesses and social gatherings. The dreaded winter surges here, infection records are being set and states across the entire country. We report, record hospitalizations and deaths day after day on hospitals are full. 5 percent of the folks at that and or the hospital with covais dont make it out. One in 20, california joined texas as the 1st states recording over 1000000 cases each. Meanwhile, president elect joe biden, and his covert 900 task force are still barred by the outgoing Trump Administration from getting briefings on the situation. Its imperative that our team and our experts have that access. Some states like new mexico have imposed a near complete shutdown, but biden will not order a nation wide freeze when he takes office on january 20th. Were not in a place where were saying, shut the whole country down. Weve got to be more targeted. Americans are getting ready for the thanksgiving holiday, which traditionally involves big family gatherings. Public officials are begging them to limit groups. We must tell you, you must cancel the normal thanksgiving plans. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control forecast deaths could reach as many as 282000 over the next 4 weeks. Robert oulds al jazeera, well, there are warnings that europe will face a hard winter amid a resurgence of corona virus infections. Italy has reported its highest have a number of new cases, almost 41000 in a single day. Regional leaders warned of the Health System that is at breaking point cases in germany have surged to almost 23000. 00 in the last 24 hours. Officials are set to meet on monday to discuss at the current restrictions have slowed the diseases. Spread. France says that its 2nd bashful lockdown would be eased for at least another 2 weeks, but it appears to be working with the country, seeing a drop in the number of infections and some cautious signs of optimism from the u. K. 2 statistics that show the spread of the virus appears to be slowing aljazeera, as paul brennan has more now on the situation in the u. K. , very cautious. Its very difficult to read much into one day to another statistics when the overall trend is quite clearly still very high. That said, though any potential glimmer of hope is always seized upon by both the public and the politicians. And one bit of good news is from monday, family and friends of people who have relatives in care homes, for example, will be able to get regular testing to enable them to visit those relatives in those care homes. Because at the moment the residents in care homes have been effectively shut away from from the outside world. And its not good for them or for the people who are wanting to actually see them. But the glimmer of hope has got to be put into context as well because this advice thats been released by the Scientific Advisory group or admit emergencies. The governments scientific advisor sage saying that if there is a return after the current lockdown, which finishes at the start of december to the previous tiered system, then there will be a resurgence and we will be effectively back to the where we were before this National Lockdown was imposed so its pretty bleak advice from the scientific advisors and theyre warning that unless the, our number this reproduction rate is kept very low then christmas and those kind of religious festivals around the end of the year could also be put into doubt as far as family mainly goes, iran has denied reports that one of our top leaders was killed on its soil. A New York Times report says that al qaeda is 2nd in command of ahmed abdullah, was killed in tehran in august. He was accused of helping to mastermind the 998 bombings of 2. U. S. Embassies in africa. Irans Foreign Ministry describe the reporters false say that al qaeda has no presence in the country. Brazil will hold local elections on sunday and for the 1st time black candidates will be in the majority. Racism runs deep in brazilian history, but activists say the change is coming for port self from rio. First there was the murder of my friend the day after the Brazilian City Council shut down. Really, she needed to use a gun or high profile murder. Amid thousands of thanks to brazils black community, the dendrite floyds death in the United States last meet the mission, black wives matter of protest, world war 2. Similar but separate events that have helped inspire a new generation of blacks. 20 brazilian politics and shaped their own destiny. Their in a social be seen on sundays, municipal elections. More than half of the candidates are people have color numbering, whites for the 1st time in history. 40 year old age, a madam said he was born and raised here in guillotine, e. G. , one of reals favelas or slums. A long time activist, she helped found the favela front, a Political Movement for blacks from poor neighborhoods. Now shes running for city council. Dont want to express a big black women are extremely active in poor communities, but to make a real difference, you have to be empowered. You have to hold a pen in your hand and sign the laws that will change this very equal and racist society lacson browns account for 56 percent of brazils population, but injure much higher unemployment and poverty rates than whites. And theyre poorly represented, partly because theyre underfunded. Brazilian parties receive public funds and free radio and t. V. Time to run their campaigns. The Party Leaders have been distributing money as they please favoring white men. Mostly, a Supreme Court decision this year is now forcing parties to share the phones fairy even more a suitable got to choose good. As lawyers, we use the black lives of the movement to plead our case. We argue that an Unequal Society leads to violence and in this sense, brazil is doing worse. The United States police fire has killed 200 36. 00 africanamericans in 2019. In brazil, it killed 4353. 00 blacks during the last elections like candidates received up to 3 times less money than whites city council or candidate. Almost like a mule to says that parties are not yet fully complying with the new law, but believes change is inevitable. Were seeing a current political consciousness amongst blacks, women and minorities. He says their purchase of patient in future elections will only grow. And so will their chances of being fairly represented. Monica and i cant just sirrah. Rio de janeiro colombias special justice tribunals, the exhumation of bodies in the northwestern town of debate. But Officials Say that at least 15 extrajudicial killings were committed by the army. Experts from colombia or an earthing mass graves near the northwest town of the Army Officers that testified that at least 50 People Killed by soldiers and falsely presented as rebel fighters to boost the stakes are buried here already, 54. 00 bodies have been recovered but only 4 identified the burials tonight for more than 2 decades after one of the darkest chapters of the countrys civil conflict. Disappeared in 1997 until today 2020. That means that we look for him for 23 years. Family members line up to give blood samples to help identify the dead through d. N. A. Matching and his daughter are still looking for 3 of manuels children. Perhaps will find one of the bodies find out where they are. One thing is to know where theyre buried. Give them a funeral. Another is having no idea of what happened to them. Official estimates say that some 200000 bodies still need to be discovered in colombia. Its just one of many tasks that the peace tribunal is addressing as the country tries to face its past. The act that congregates us here and did a bieber central part goes beyond returning these bodies to the family that reiterate unwavering commitment with truth and justice. Yet the tribunals created under the 2016 peace accord with 5 gravels has been at the center of political attacks. That some criticize the fact that former rebels to tell the truth and compensate big things can avoid prison. Others believe the tribunals is biased against the military and politicians allegedly involved in war crimes. Former president has been leading the charge recently calling for a referendum to abolish the courts altogether. But some observers say, what critics fear, the most is the im bailing of evidence showing collusion between the military paramilitary in powerful elites. Former president he said that stronger proceedings, especially restriction of peace from the commission for millions of victims of colombias long internal conflict. This is the 1st real opportunity to get a glimmer of justice and relief. I listened to the manufacturers in ivory coast say that theyre running out of Raw Materials violence over talked to strangers election. Serious economic disruption of address reports from at this cocoa processing factory workers prepare the last talk of beans for production there where that some of them may be working their last ships opposition protests against president Alassane Ouattara 3rd have forced Manufacturing Companies to cut production. The factory manager says they have received only 40 tons of cocoa beans in 2 weeks, instead of a daily consignment of 320 tons before the political crisis. The current political crisis has strangled towns like yemen, so cruel and many others were hit by violent demonstrations. Farmers were scared, no one wants to take chances as there are many incidents where truckloads of goods were burnt. Constitutional changes enable president ouattara to run for 30. The opposition call it illegal, sparking protests that killed more than 85 people. 2 weeks after a tourist reelection. Tensions remain with clashes erupting in various parts of the country, impeding the delivery of Raw Materials. Factories need for production code in cocoa, the countrys biggest export producers say the disruptions caused by the president ial election. As this struggling with the effects of covered 19 would be felt for a very long time and more damage could be done if the political situation is not resolved quickly. With some considering cutting jobs, market truck driver ends a drought or brings a truckload of yams. He says many of them spoiled because his truck was held up for 3 days. Its hard to the crisis has affected the transportation of products. There were barricades and entire highways cut off. For 8 years, ivory coast has seen consistent Economic Growth of 7 percent, making it one of the best performing economies in africa. But experts warned that continuing violence and uncertainty could be devastating for the businesses, both in the short and long term. In the short term, the economy will contract rescission of sorts. Even if you dont have a recession in the short term growth will drop. What we see is growth will be around 1. 3 to 1. 5 percent next year. He says the basic infrastructure of the country requires this and please this will help i have recourse return to decent Economic Growth. But right now, there are growing fears that the political crisis will go on. More people will lose their jobs and the poverty already 47 percent or rise. How many degrees aljazeera millions of people around the world are celebrating the hindu festival of lights. The Golden Temple in indias Punjab Province was illuminated for the valley celebrations and scaled back this year because of the coronavirus pandemic in new york state, the Empire State Building was lit orange to mark the celebration. And the tapes, Britain Museum was transformed into a neon os installation. And its good to have you with us. Hello, adrian finnegan, here in doha. The headlines on aljazeera forces in the to grey region of ethiopia have confirmed that they did launch an attack on a military base that sparked a federal government offensive thousands of people fleeing the fighting, been reports of rocket attacks, and a massacre of civilians. Mohamed atta reports from the city of gonda