Death by police last week. I live by the model. Numbers dont lie and in, the u. S. Georgias republican secretary of state officially certifies joe biden as the winner there. But Donald Trumps lawyers continue contesting results elsewhere and on paestum with all your support, barcelonas coach little cream and sympathizes with little missy of the argentine says hes angry at being the focus of negative attention at the club. Thank you for joining as the United Nations has called on ethiopias warring sides to stop fighting immediately. So aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. The government launched an offensive 2 weeks ago targeting the grace People Liberation front which governs a t. Grey region in the north. In the past hour ethiopian troops say they have taken the towns of about 100 kilometers away from the regional capital micheli, both sides of accuse each other of killing civilians in as strikes and indiscriminate attacks. The uns Refugee Agency says its her pairing for as many as 200000 people to seek refuge in sudan. So far more than 30000 have fled their humanitarian workers, say millions of children are at risk, and refugees are in serious danger of an outbreak of disease that speak to his mom. And i dont live in this forest mahmoud, so the Government Forces claiming new gains. Whats the significance of these 2 towns aides say they have taken well fully the 2 ton started out which is and his ball for his total times was the capital of the eggs of my kingdom of the queen of sheba fame. You know something if your peers are really proud of, you know, a period in the history that theyre a bit proud of. One abdulla is where the 2nd was an emperor here, and its european defeated the italians in 839, after 5 years of compression of if you appear there by owning the distinction of one of just 2 countries in africa, that was never a call of my so these are great achievements for the if you have good Defense Forces because these 2 times are really a huge part of his new this country. Great. And so the Government Forces now have their eyes set on mick the regional capital of t. Great. If they take mckenna, what would it mean for the conflict . Well, those signify that its almost all the men. If you look at the to get i Peoples LiberationFront Holding on to territory. I mean, if they cant hold the cup at all, it means they are defeated. And mccullough is considered the ultimate prize by the if European NationalDefense Forces, who are now said to be roughly about 100 kilometers from the couple. And they are saying they will launch attacks on the killer from at least 4 different from spot. What is going to be a huge opportunity to the 2 p. L. O. Is that the city is surrounded by hills and mountains, where they have mounted their defenses and a hopeful that will stop their advancing opponents. Of course, both sides are heavily armed and it might not be is easy according to security, to unleash, to take, make, kill it. Been for the european Defense Forces, other towns like a month ago, which they have just claimed to have taken control of. And in the protected conflict, many here fear will not just affect a few opiate but the entire horn of africa. Region. Thank you. Mohammed mahmoud. I dont reporting there live from alabama. Now only i spoke to his sasural, whos the director general of ethiopias Foreign Ministry and a former ambassador to the u. K. He rejected accusations that the theo paean government deliberately cut communications during its offensive against rebels in take. Great. We have people on the ground. We have deployed employees, but entire communication blackout, we have to blame it on t. V. Left and they have to do their part or so. We are doing this in a very difficult situation ourselves. It is that you clearly have destroyed it recently in the communication. Everything we heard Prime Minister abu ahmed say that the people who fled in recent weeks should be able to return. But how and when do you think this could be possible . How is very simple because now the border area is cleared of now the area is very calm. And the fighting has moved into the center of the capital city. The regional capital saw it is easy for us now to repatriate them and we are trying to do that and it is possible to disprove most of them they fled from the border areas, not from by golly. So we would prepare for any eventuality. Even those who would be displaced from it, but the border towns, now its calm, they will come back and most of them are from those areas. And where do we were . Ok, as we mentioned, tens of thousands of ethiopians from the tigre, a region have taken refuge in neighboring sudan because of the fighting al jazeera as he morgan is at a refugee camp in sudan, near the ethiopian border. More and more refugees continue to arrive to sudan with, at least 400 refugees arriving to this camp here. And by about 30 g. M. T. , which is about 3 oclock local time in the afternoon. And that is when the counter top and they were just ration up. Authorities here say that more have arrived evidence. Aljazeera has also witnessed dozens of arriving. But Authorities Say that they will be included in tomorrows tally and not today because todays count has officially closed. Now this is just here in this county. There is also another point in neighboring states there who have also arrived continue interest in the region. Now the u. N. Is quite concerned about the fighting in region, especially because there is a lack of communication and theres a Communications Blackout and lack of access to many tarion systems. There are concerns about the welfare of those who are trapped in the conflict, especially children. And many of them have fled here to neighboring sudan along with their families. Some of them with preexisting conditions, with the impact of the fighting, and in fact, from the conflict clear on their eyes and in their health. Just 2 weeks ago, while he was preparing for her sunday, now his operation, he was born with a cleft lip, which has affected his ability to drink milk and along with it his health. But just days before they were due to return to the capital of a few beers not integrate reachin, the situation changed dramatically when we were due to go back for his last check up before the operation, the fighting started, all the roads were blocked, and we couldnt get to macquarie, people were being killed and there were bombs being dropped, so i fled with him and my family. Now we cant even get a doctor to check on him. We cant even get him his vaccination, let alone have hope. Youll get an operation here. The family now resides at this refugee camp. In a flash, i got into a damp about of stayed there more than 15000, if you can refugees here in what was once a largely uninhabited area. Thousands more. If you have fled to neighboring state to escape the fighting into. Great. But it to hell are you and her 2 children are some of them. Her infant son has been suffering from breathing problems and she says shes been struggling to get him the care he needs. He has one block nostril and doesnt feed except from a bottle. But i dont have formula for him because weeks cage fighting, ethiopian came here. And the Health Care Center doesnt have formula. So i have to go looking around for that. But i dont know where ill get the money from. The camp has only one Health Center to cater for the thousands of children here. Mothers wait for their turn to have their children seen by doctors. Many children exposed to the horrors of conflict in the 1st years of their lives. According to unicef, 40 percent of the refugees arriving in sudan are children. Some have been separated from their families and the process of tracking them has started. Others have arrived with malnutrition because of the days they spent walking with no food and all have been affected by the conflict integrate in a way that will likely impact their childhood. The u. N. Childrens agency says that chris tricked it access, and the ongoing communication blackout in the region has left an estimated 2300000 children in need of humanitarian assistance. And as more and more refugees arrive in sudan, theres rising concern over their future. Remember, this is the time school started, children will actually miss this years school. And most of those children we saw yesterday come there are school age. Unfortunately, they will not have school this year. So we have to come up with alternative and programs already within the next month or 2. Were hoping the crisis will stop, the fighting will stop. There will be able to go back home. But if thats not the case, we have to be in place to support them. What do you do says she hopes the conflict ends soon so that she can return back home with her family. She says she wants her child to be operated on, but more importantly, wants him to grow up with no memories of the horror thats forced her and her family to leave their lives behind and seek refuge here in sudan. People morgan aljazeera and fresh account of out of state staying in africa, ugandan opposition, politician bobby wine has been released on bail after being charged over actions likely to spread. Coronavirus officials have accused a president ial candidate of violating covert 1000. 00 restrictions while campaigning for the elections scheduled in january. At least 20 people have been killed during protests by his arrest on wednesday. Malcolm webs following developments for us from neighboring kenya, who is Senior Police officer, spoke to the press earlier today said 28 people being killed in a violent street, a compiler, a car moving back to normal today. But is violence which began on wednesday to be on thursday morning with separately, a Police Pathologist has told News Agencies the number of bodies resulting from the violence was actually 37. So the numbers and on to toy clear Senior Security officials and police have said it, blame people for rioting and for attacking police officers. Other on the other hand, there are eyewitnesses, bobby wine himself, when he came out of court as well as Rights Groups had complained of on just an unfair and excessive violence on the part of the security forces. Some Rights Groups have accused the ugandan government to weaponize ing its covert 19 response. The un secretary general has warned that yemen is inching closer to the worlds worst famine in decades. Antonio terrorist called for immediate action to stave off a catastrophe. Here many is already suffering after more than 6 years of war. The terraces produced relief funding and a crumbling currency out obstructing efforts to every family. Theres lots more ahead on this news hour, including we are just human and we also have goals in our lives. A difficult pill to swallow for nurses in the philippines. Desperate to work abroad. And the teenager who is causing great excitement in german football thats coming up in sports with pizza. I am thirsty coronavirus pun demi, can do us harm a suitable company, pfizer and its german partner bio tech, could become the worlds 1st companies to seek emergency authorization in the u. S. For their coronavirus vaccine. The u. S. Health secretary alex, as i say, is there plans to seek approval is a light at the end of the tunnel. Mike hanna has more from washington. What happens once pfizer registers the request with the f. D. A. . It then looks at the data that pfizer has collected through its tests of some 40000. 00 people over the past few months. The f. D. A. Then calls a meeting with a group of independent scientists who will then decide whether or not to grant the emergency use authorization based on the data that theyve been given by pfizer. But the real difficulty here is that this is not a routine vaccine trial. This is a new technology which the scientists are going to have to look at. Its completely uncharted water. It is not a vaccine in which a mutant down version of the virus is injected into the system, allowing the body to create its own immunity. This is a case where, a spike proteins are created within humans, d. N. A. , which replicates the corona virus, and trains the body to recognize it should the corona virus into the body. So this is a totally Different Technology which has not been dealt with before. And this in itself is going to maybe extend the period the speed with which these vaccines can be rolled out. Well, that is also incredibly difficult because this particular treatment requires 2 injections over a period of 3 weeks. Now that is a lot of injections, a lot of the vaccine that needs to be distributed throughout the country and the World Health Organization has removed the antiviral drug there from its list of recommended medicines for patients in hospital with covered 19. Its another setback for the manufacturers goliad after the drug received early attention as a potential treatment. And the latest w. H. O. Trial suggests it has little or no effect on survival rates or reducing hospital stays for infected patients. The u. S. State of joy, john has certified president elect joe biden as the winner of the election. Then the certification comes after a recount of ballots. The votes were audited after president Trumps Campaign question. The results and claimed widespread fraud and georgias secretary of state has said as a republican, hes disappointed in the results, but asserts that the numbers dont lie. Im a passionate conservative, and as i said before, im a proud trump supporter. I was with him early in the 2016 election cycle and hes governed the nation by the same conservative principles that i hold dear. Like other republicans, im disappointed our candidate didnt win georgias electoral votes. Close elections, so distressed people, feel their side was cheated. We saw this from the democrats in 2018, and we see this from republicans today working as an engineer throughout my life. I live by the motto that numbers dont lie as secretary of state. I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct. Now, including georgias tally biden, has won the presidency with 360 Electoral College votes. He needed 270. Donald trump fell short with 232 biden, is the 1st democratic president ial candidate to win georgia in nearly 3 decades. Meanwhile, 2 senior republican state legislators in michigan have traveled to washington to meet donald trump. A special rose on them to overturn the results to favor him. Joe biden has won michigan by more than 154000 votes by means legal team has condemned the attempt to set aside the popular vote. The constitution does not permit a state legislature to do with donald trump once the disk of state legislature to do to save legislature is already prescribed the manner in which the electors in 2020 were to be chosen. That is to the popular vote. They cannot after the factual around and change those rules retroactively when i speak to a white house correspondent, kimberly hawke, it could be so that we know whats come out of this meeting between trump and these lawmakers from michigan. What exactly is the hoping to get from them . Well, the u. S. President is clearly still looking for an opportunity to seek a 2nd term. However, as we have been discussing, is that guest mention just now its such a long shot. Its almost an impossibility. Because even if donald trump were able to collect the electoral votes from michigan, he would still be far behind in need to pick up other states. Which so far theres no indication that that would happen. But what donald trump is doing, after having a string of failed legal cases in terms of trying to over turn the vote that is projected it was joe biden, being the president elect is that now hes turning to another avenue and that is in republican legislature. Us trying to convince those republican legislatures to instead put Electoral College votes in his favor instead of for joe biden. Other words, many would argue subverting the democratic process or undoing the will of the people. You have to remember that when it comes to this vote that joe biden has received across the United States, more than 8000000 votes in excess of Donald Trumps count. So this would certainly be something that would be highly controversial, would invite legal challenges and could potentially even cause conflict among americans. So this is not a popular past. Still its one that the press secretary says the u. S. President is exploring as he is running out of time, given the fact that georgia has no certified its votes. And we expect that michigan and pennsylvania will do the same on monday. Can really help get the white house. Thank you. Can be to bella rules now where thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a prodemocracy protesters. Witnesses say 31 year old roman ponder. Ranko was beaten by several men last week before being taken into custody. He died from brain injuries the following day. The authorities have denied responsibility, but the e. U. Is preparing a new round of sanctions. Paul brennan reports hold their hands held high in a peace sign. The mourners filled the area in front of the church in minsk. The death of roman pondering co has given new impetus to bella, who says opposition movement, which has faced a ruthless clampdown by Government Security forces in recent weeks. We will not forget, we will not forgive, was just one of the slogans. The crowd chanted in unison. When you just assume that i have a son, and i understand that any of us could have been killed. But i really want my son to grow in a free, safe country so that he grows up as a free man and can express his thoughts without being punished. So i hope that it will be so. Will your board member from today i have pain in my soul, so i came to say goodbye to a wonderful person, roman on the rank over who died under such tragic circumstances. I could not stay at home. I came to say goodbye to this wonderful young man, beatings and arrests of escalated in recent weeks as opposition. Demonstrators continue to dispute the outcome of august president ial election. A vote in which the sitting president Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory. Because riot police have used tear gas rubber, bullets and stun grenades against the demonstrators. Thousands have been arrested. But the protests continue. Undeterred. The e. U. Has condemned what it describes as the violent repression and intimidation of peaceful demonstrators. And has already imposed sanctions against lucas shank of his son, victor, and 13 other officials. Direct press when they look at a case people has not stopped. We have already sanctioned more than 15 degree duels in 2 rounds of sanctions. And today we have agreed to proceed that we did liberation of the next round of sanctions as a response to the brutality earlier, 30 ts. And in soup all for the democratic rights of debate. People the square where roman bothering to was beaten and arrested was already a focal point for the prodemocracy opposition movement. Now, it has also become a powerful memorial to his life and his defense of the opposition course. Paul brennan, aljazeera azerbaijans army says its entered a district thats been under on median control for almost 30 years. Its one of 3 areas that armenia has had to hand back as part of a cease fire deal signed just over a week ago. Russia held to broker the truce and has peacekeeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer. Armenians are angry about giving up their land and many have been protesting, demanding their Prime Minister resign as a by john in armenia, sign the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over in france. President Emmanuel Mccall has asked Muslim Leaders to accept a socalled charter of Republican Values. The French Council of the muslim faith has 15 days to accept the code. It has reportedly agreed to create a council of which can issue and withdraw accreditation for clerics. The charter will have to keep principles the 1st is that islam is a religion and not a political movement. And the 2nd will prohibit foreign interference in muslim groups. This comes after 3 attacks in september and october, which police have linked to terrorism. Recent comments about islam have provoked widespread criticism and protests in several countries that speak to me about this. Shes a journalist, send a Research Associate or so a center of islamic studies and is via skype from london. 1000000 plus are very good to have you with us. So how is this ultimatum . Because its to meet him, isnt it . To Muslim Leaders going down in the french government, succeed in its efforts to create what it calls an islamic fronts. Well, if a president does succeed, he will be the 1st president in and what i believe is 40 years. This project of creating a islam or france is not a new one. Its one that successive president s have tried to bringing bring into place in which havent been successful so far for a number of reasons. Now we know that the c. F. C. s, which is the France Council of muslims, were invited to the president ial palace on wednesday evening. Theyve been asked to present a proposal for a National Council of the moms which will essentially regulate the education levels he credits haitian of in moms. Now this might in itself, some like a fairly good idea. You know, the idea that there might be some sort of regulation of involved, but i think where some of the pushback is coming from some members of the community is the sense that actually on the lying of this initiative is the idea that there is a conflict somehow between the wide in the sim, community and republican principles. And actually what we found is that, you know, the largest quantitative study of the relationship between terrorism and discrimination in front which was done in 2018. That was done by the sense of the study of conflict in paris. They actually on opposite findings to those which are currently being used to justify these measures. And specifically, they found that muslims in france deeply trust the institutions of the republic. And in fact, they show overall greater support in the wider community. So where is this idea that there is an incompatible coming from the 2 . Most recent attacks were undertaken by individuals who dont appear to have been radicalized in france. One of them was a man who dont you arrived 2 weeks prior. So thats interesting what you say there. Where has this idea come from . Because most french politicians seem to double down on a hardline interpretation of frances secularism. And i wonder what effect that has had on Frances Muslim community. I think its very damaging to the politically instrumental lie of the concept of the which is a cornerstone principle for all french citizens, including french muslim citizens who in poll after poll show support for this principle, which actually on the pins, the right of religious communities in france to practice their Religion Without the intrusion of the states. Now some people would argue that the government creating essentially bodies according to its own rules, is a form of intrusion into the private sphere of individuals. In many ways, dictating what shape islam should have in france. For the Muslim Community could arguably be itself a contravention of the principle of lace duty. And in recent years, we have seen a real conflict between the bodies who hold a seat in france and grow to be the. There were 12 that l. H. D. Thing, which is a body that was designated by the government to uphold this principle, which has been saying, you know, to the government, you guys have basically going a bit far. You are trying to push us in a direction which is not that is true to the meaning of the term right by the government. Supporters will say that after, you know, years of attacks by muslims who had been radicalized at the margins of french, a psyche that it needed to do something. If this plan is not working, what else should it be doing . And thats a really important question. The question is, why are some portions of the french Muslim Population becoming radicalized . And i think the idea of that its somehow a disconnect between our Republican Values and islamic principles would raise a certain number of eyebrows. Among many, i think what youre looking at obviously, is a multifaceted problem, but which isnt going to be resolved by creating more tensions with the very community which should in many way be the governments 1st ally in this struggle. The 1st able to identify of signs that could be worrying. But when the government itself lists signs of extremism, as things like, praying more frequently fasting, becoming more really just during ramadan. These were actual identifying mark is laid out by the government. As signs of radicalization. You were essentially, you know, in many ways throwing the baby out with the ball. Also. Interesting to talk to you about this. Marian, thank you so much for joining us. Speaking to us there from london. Still ahead on this news hour tear, gas is fired at protesters outside a school in south africa, accused of racism against blacks. Students, vietnams warning that facebook may have to shut down its operations. If it doesnt censor more political content and the worlds top story line, mens tennis players will always be training a. T. P. Final semifinals in london. You dont be here with the action coming out of the states. Hello, the arabian sea is quite active at the moment. This master class, he will resolve itself, i think, into a circulation ceasar culture and the whole of africa to model a few showers to form in yemen and amman as well. And then from the levant, across to iran. Another wave is coming through snow for the iranian mountains, sunder storms, rain showers for iraq and the tail off than society, and a change back to cooler weather. But sunshine is showers in the levantine coast, and that continues east was with afghanistan getting more of the significant snow. But a breeze set up down the gulf there hoss 29. I think youll feel the breeze in that and here is the rain down in yemen. And you know where the main rain is this times a year. Its a line roughly speaking from zanzibar westward, but look how far south it stretches. This is the time of year when the Okavango Delta gets full of right, well thats it. And theres rain certainly around here, and it stretches dancer botswana to the heart of south africa, doesnt affect cape times. Temperatures just dropped with a change in wind direction. However, when talk just to the west, youve had your rains, i think so weve got 32 degrees or thereabouts, the next 3 days, little wind, and plenty of sunshine on countering the cost, sambir becomes the 1st african nation to the fall from its debts of the pandemic. Era steps pileups Central Banks think the unthinkable. Negative Interest Rates plus brazil is dumped out of the rankings of the worlds top 10, economies countering the cost on aljazeera. If you want to help save the world, one of the most wanted men on the planet masterminded a 4500000000. 00 fraud. You want to put him in jail, but you cannot help being pressed. Reveals never before heard recordings implicating some of the worlds most powerful players. Everyone would benefit by the abuse of power and corruption, jolo hunt for a fugitive on a just the little to the ear. Youre watching the news hour on aljazeera with me fully back to a reminder of our main stories. The United Nations, us called on ethiopias warring sides to stop fighting immediately. So aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. The government launched an offensive 2 weeks ago targeting the tea. Great People Liberation front which governs the tikrit region. If the opium troops say theyve taken 2 towns near the regional capital, make us all a suitable company, pfizer and its german partner by own tech could become the worlds 1st companies to seek emergency authorization in the u. S. For their coronavirus. On scene u. S. Health secretary alex aceves to seek approval is a light at the end of the tunnel and ugandan president ial candidate bobby wine has been granted bail after being charged with flouting coronavirus restrictions. At least 28. 00 people have been killed in protests over his detention while campaigning in the run up to january seen action. Or for indoor pando is ugandas government spokesman, he says the police acted proportionately. There was a violent riots by the activists of one of the political groups in the various towns encounter and to police intervened. So as a result, peoples consultation with the party did. Did that raising doubt over who ran a shot and chose one dad did raising out of who were bullies, perhaps bystanders, or people who were running in the tents. Hed go to quote in the crossfire under the title that have people who weigh and know or even get by we have cause ordinarily grave eyes who are also. Busy in the hallway or formed in the knee and was trying to escape to safety. So they learn over a few people as when there was a very nice consultation with the protesters a bit later as we were throwing objects, particularly tons, metallic objects, and the pickle bombs at the police units coming to his likability. Even mean you expect a police man or 2 or 3 of them to act in a panic and shoot at people perhaps a day to commit. Or like i have said, there are a number of people all day 2 of the new code through a stray bullet. Not necessarily the police or the basic cable or that the fire had to keep people. The Coronavirus Fund demick now and a number of east Asian Countries hailed for their early success in handling the pandemic are now seeing a shopping crease in cases. Japan is on its highest alert after a record rise in daily infections of more than 2300 is never had a full lockdown in the public decide on following social distancing rules. South korea is on the brink of another wave is registered more than 300 new cases. A 3 month high, the Prime Minister is urging people to minimize end of year parties and stay home as much as possible. And in China Community transmission is remain for more domestically infected kovi 1000 patients have been detected in the Northern City of town. Jane, the area is now being classified as high risk. And in the philippines. Nurses are opposing a government ban on taking work abroad. They say they have the right to pursue work overseas, but the government wants them to stay. During the pandemic, jermain island again reports from manila gary, good bits working as a nurse in manila feels like for survival for more than 10 years. Hes earned around 400. 00 a month and this is barely enough to support his family. Gary has been accepted to work as a nurse in ireland for 6000. 00 a month, a salary that is unimaginable. Here. The Philippine Government in april barred nurses and other medical workers from leaving seeing they were needed to fight the cruel a virus crisis, told me working abroad is not make us any less of a patriotic citizen of this country. For me, it is actually a hero. We act, we are just human and we also have this goals in over lives. The salary here is not to sustain the needs of our families. Gary is among the thousands of filipino nurses who have called themselves prison nurses. They started an Online Campaign to petition the government to reverse its decision. They say it is tantamount to forced servitude. Filipino nurses are some of the most sought after Health Workers in the world. But this fight, this a global study shows that nurses in the philippines receive one of the lowest salaries in southeast asia. The pandemic has highlighted the plight of nurses in the country. And i mean nurses, theres no one number one nurse to 200 patients. If the government wants to really improve the situation here, they need to hire thousands of nurses in government hospitals. Some are nurses who now work in Different Industries like call centers because these jobs simply pay better. Nurses are calling for the chapel band to be removed and for salaries of all nurses in the country to be raised. But the Philippine Government is defending its decision. It says about 75 percent of cities and towns across the country, lack Health Workers, and it needs to keep the current pool of Health Workers. Here during a pandemic, Health Workers tell us no one wants to leave their home country. If there are fair opportunities for all, and most of them had to borrow money or sell their land in order to afford to go abroad. Now deep in debt, they see the government stands is denying them the opportunity to have a better life. Dugan aljazeera manila, spains Prime Minister says a substantial part of the population we vaccinated against covered 1000. 00 in the 1st half of next year. Pedro sanchez says his government will unveil a coronavirus vaccination plan next tuesday. Spain has a 2nd highest number of infections in the European Union with more than 42000 deaths and over one and a half 1000000 cases. 3 days of mourning have been declared in serbia as the leader of the countrys Orthodox Christian church. After the leader of the countrys Orthodox Christian church died after contracting coronavirus paycheck in became ill after attending the funeral of a senior cleric who also died of covered 19. The 19 year old was astonished conservative with broad political influence. He opposed the independence of kosovo, seen by serves as the birthplace of serbian Orthodox Christianity, kosovo broke away from serbia after a civil war. In the 1990 s. , leaders to a budget standoff, putting a 850000000000. 00 Coronavirus Relief package in jeopardy crisis talks were held at a Virtual Summit after poland and hungary vetoed the budget. Earlier this week, the 2 countries brought to adoption of the Recovery Plan over a clause that ties funding with adhering to the rule of law, paul brennan has more from london. Well the 2 countries that are the foremost of this veto threat, poland and hungary, its been pointed out that they did actually agree to this provision of rule of law mechanism back in july. And so the diplomats are rather disappointed that poland and hungary have chosen to take this stance. Now at this late stage, its important, dont forget that the total package is in excess of 2. 00 trillion dollars, dollars worth. And any delay will cause a knock on delay for disbursement of those e. U. Funds. Once the new budget starts a new budgetary year starts next year. But the concern is that poland and hungary are not exactly comfortable bedfellows with the rest of the European Union when it comes to issues of law and order. Since 2015, when the polish government changed and the new law and order party, good lord, Justice Party came in. Theyve been accused of, for example, interfering in the judiciary impacting on media plurality policies which impact unfavorably towards minorities and vulnerable groups. And you can see that thats not going to, it will, it hasnt gone down very well with the european parliament. The fact that so they wanted to have some kind of leverage over poland and hungary. Its important to say its only leverage if the rule of law impacts on the e. U. Financially. So its not in an abstract sense. Its on financial policies. Facebook is under growing pressure to censor more political content in vietnam. The Reuters News Agency says the government is now threatening to shut down the firms operation in the country. Early this year facebook gave in to demands to increase censorship of content seen as critical of the state. Or the social media giant says its denied government requests for further restrictions. Opposition activists accuse facebook of being too compliant. Some have had their accounts suspended ahead of plan. Protests. International has also criticized facebook, accusing the firm of putting profits before human rights. Lets speak to toker bought this. Hes a director of net store. Org, an organization that monitors Internet Access worldwide, his via skype from london. Very good to have you with us. So facebook, it already complied with the request in april to significantly increase its censorship of was seen as on by state posts in vietnam. Can it do more, really, to resist the vietnamese governments demands at this stage . So this is really the latest development in a long running really accomplish between this huge company and the state in vietnam. So this has happened since the start of the year. Theres been some degree of throttling around the early months of 2000. Weve tracked so it is regions that in terms of tree net blogs. So what this is all about is about getting pace book to restrict content on its own. And this is political speech. So that is, is its directly critical of the state and also state figures. So this is against local laws, but it doesnt necessarily violate facebooks international approach to expression. Now this is remarkable because its the 1st time weve seen a country really pressure a Company Using technical matters. This is something that you might expect to happen, perhaps at negotiation table or in a court of law. But now youre seeing restriction threatening even locking up the entire place, but when you try to get a company to, to react to it. Now mate is of course, a major market for facebook where i think it owns revenue of the a 1000000000. 00 when it have no choice and to bow to this additional pressure when it prioritized profits overwrites the thing. And this is the thing. So we know that censorship intersections happen around the world, it happens a lot, for example, across the continent of africa, several countries. But this is a huge market is an emerging market, and its also a Gateway Country market. Direct 1000000000. 00 by some estimates for pace book, and they have to choose between pandering in terms of a human rights perspective to local laws and retaining that protection is market already being cut up. And if you look at this now, facebook is a member of the global initiative, for example, where has commitments to uphold is a legally binding commitments. And what happens in that country cannot sit by and what happens in the next country. So what happens from this point on is really crucial, not just for vietnam, Civil Society there, which hasnt always had best hand. Its also critical who are free to expression of human rights around the world. But its not just that nom, is it . I mean, facebook has long ses criticism from my scopes of being too compliant with government censorship, in requests in countries like cuba, india, israel, morocco, pakistan, and turkey. We have facebook or tamely restricting posts that governments seem sensitive or off limits. You wonder how the company can evolve and you know, can maintain talk about maintaining service for free speech when all this is already happening. Right. And we tend to hear the voices of those who are censored. And on the other hand, these companies are being pressured by these countries. Theyre getting cease and desist letters. Theyre getting all kinds of countermeasures which perhaps let visible. And this is the structural blocking of their service in vietnam is one example, but its presumably going on in other countries. So this is a company that has equipment to its shareholders. But that commitment also includes a commitment to our whole human rights to protect free expression, particularly pression, in the political sphere. So, what he does in vietnam absolutely does relate it to what is going on in the u. S. And across the west europe. And also some countries which dont have this kind of emerging market shyam. So its really going to be interesting to see what they do, but also very unpredictable. Thank you so much for talking to us about this talker from that black star or joining us from london. Thank you for your time to south africa now where theyve been clashes outside a high school where people have been protesting against racism. The school is accused of discriminating against black students. Gas was used outside at a school in cape town, which allegedly held a graduation event where only white students and teachers attended. The school denies this and says the function was a private event. Some of the miller has more from near the school in cape town. A number of members about 2000 of them in fact tried to move closer to the school. You see behind me there now behind a Police Barricade, but to keep them back. Police once again, fire tear gas and stun grenades to use water cannon. To prevent these protesters from approaching the school, they say only 500. 00 protesters are a would be allowed through. And the size, reese, which is why we see this Police Barricade in the heavy police presence. Protesters here have in fact been quite peaceful. And theyve also accused police of being heavy handed. But also apart from targeting the school, theyre also angry with police saying that theyre racist and they wouldnt respond in the same manner to white protesters or if marches were white, it wouldnt be the same scenario. So people here are angry. Now timothy, the target is bracken file high school, which they accuse of racism. This goes back to a function that was how the year in function for final year students, once the official trance and interview function was canceled by the school because of covert 19 restrictions. It appears as if students had their own private function. This is what the school is saying. But there are black students at the school who say theyve been discriminated against, and none of them were invited to this function they werent allowed to attend. Weve also heard a number of former and present students say that this goes back years and this is a school with has been a lack of integration, a lack of black teachers. And theres a greater problem of racism at the school. The school has demanded that it has rules were admitted that some work has to be done in that theyre now listening to hope that students feel still ahead on aljazeera a ruptured cable spell the end of every known telescope, been quiet and in sports a 2nd member of south africas cricket squad tests, positive a call that 19 just a week out from the limited overs series against england. Stay with us. Peter scott. The details coming up welcome back. The world famous observatory in voiceover, a goal is to shot down ending 57 years of groundbreaking scientific work. The u. S. National Science Foundation made the decision after 2 major cables ruptured, causing significant damage. Victory gates. And he has the era cboe, observatories, vast reflected ish and powerful telescope have been used by astronomers around the world for decades. Its analyzed the distant planets found asteroids heading toward surf and hunted for signs of extraterrestrial life. Nestled in the puerto rican jungle, its played an Important Role in space, exploration, and a few movies, including the James Bond Film goldeneye. But 2 accidents have forced the us national Science Foundation to call time on the facility. It has been a very iconic instrument that for many years the Largest Telescope in the world until the chinese came only this year. One of the main discoveries you need was the 1st 6 us all a planet which you seem to stink, to see planets orbiting pulse arse, which was something i couldnt believe that you could discover that with a, with a, with a telescope like this one, hundreds of astronomers have been posting messages online using the hash tag. What arac. By means to me. Hurricane maria, battered puerto rico in september 2017, and the observatory was badly damaged. But operations were finally stopped in august this year, when one of its support cable slipped and fell, ripping a 30 meet a hole in the reflected. All these a structure has been knocked out software because of all these years in the, in the couric and area. Not also the telescope problems weve with funding in the last 20 years, theyre having problems with funding for the national Science Foundation. And scientists not being pushing to keep the telescope going on. T. V. This couple of accidents happening just a few weeks ago. Engineers scrambled to devise a plan to preserve the structure, but failed, bringing to an end, 57 years of scientific discoveries, victoria gate, and be al jazeera tampas for science. Thank you for early barcelonas coast road. Kiran says he understands why he is angry at being the focus of even more controversy at the club messier, tried to leave at the end of last season, has been accused of running a reign of terror by the former agent of east teammate and one griezmann. He was mobbed by reporters after returning from International Duty with argentina and said he was tired of being blamed for all the problems at the club. Barcelona play Atletico Madrid on sunday. Premier lovell, i can understand leos anger. I think we should have more respect for him. I think its disrespectful to ask him about and one right after a long flight. So this could be the medias intention to create a controversy. Things arent looking too good for bosses, rivals real madrid, either they strike or luka ya bitch has tested positive for corona virus. And will most rails leader match against your which was on International Duty with serbia before testing positive it in hazard and casimir . Or among the other high profile role players have contracted the coronavirus creek level m. P. R. Courses accused pfieffer and some african countries of failing to protect players from covert. 19 during recent International Matches to libya, august players contracted the virus well playing afghan qualifiers, including their top scorer usaf, l r r b on duty with morocco. These are pictures of morocco training only of this month, but africas governing body care has defended its protocols, saying they had achieved the desired results. And the egypt, muhammad, sold socalled covert 19, shortly after attending his brothers wedding in cairo, where he was pictured without a face mask dancing with dozens of people, missed both egypt games and will miss at least one liverpool match. But his manager, youre going plop, has defended him. But brothers wedding is a very special moment where i can say about my players. They are incredibly disciplined. They really know about the situation, but sometimes it doesnt work out like this and something happened. So now we have a situation we are in, but all the rest is just between moore and me. Teenager yusuf, mukoko is set to become the youngest ever bundesliga player in germany. He turned 16 today and has been given clearance to play for your daughter months in the game against her to bill and on saturday. Is a striker and a scored an incredible 141 goals in 88. Hes matches for dortmund since 2017. He was born in cameroon, but raised in germany, and the clubs sporting director has warned against, under realistic expectations. Do you miss proposition . The boy has just turned 16. He is certainly the future an important part of the dortmund future. But i dont like what im experiencing every day at the moment, and we should all take our foot off the accelerator pedal a bit, camp down and let things develop naturally. Tennis where the more never talk of each has reached the semifinals of the a. T. P. Finals in london. Jock a bitch was up against. Germanys alexanders vary of on friday in a winner takes all Group Stage Match the winning 6376. He will face u. S. Open champion, dominic tees in saturdays semifinals. This is also the 1st time since 2004 that the semifinal lineup peaches each of the worlds top 4 rent to play is really in the 1st set here. Couple of record chances i managed to do so well in important moments in you know, contrary to, to the last match against one year, i just managed to find the right shot. At the right time, a 2nd member of south africas cricket squad has tested positive for covert 19 ahead of the limited overs series against england. The other named player has been moved away from the hotel where both teams are staying and placed in isolation. Despite the 2 cases, the series is set to go ahead and will be south africas 1st International Action for 8 months in and have reported no positive coverage 19 results. Meanwhile, englands all rounder christian auden is eyeing a piece of history in the upcoming series. He needs to take 3 more we gets and he will overtake stuart broad record of 65 for england in t 20 internationals. So secret to look at up on me a little under. This is just to give everything i can team and towards a winning cause. And it is a part to the Rugby Championship and argentina are looking to build on their incredible win over new zealand. The pyramid has stemmed the rugby world with a 2515 victory last week in sydney with their 1st ever win over the all blacks. They were a lot of emotions on show and their coach wants them to keep that intensity against australia on saturday. We dont want to change. I think motions are a very good thing and passions are very quickly within our control to the way we play there was a lot of this is the way we should american skier, michela shafran is preparing to return to racing for the 1st time in 300. 00 days. The 2000 and pick and threes arm world cup overall champion will end the longest break of a career at livi in finland on saturday. Schifrin hasnt raced since january the 26th because of her fathers unexpected death. And then the coronavirus pandemic. And will finish with the oldest trophy in sport sailings. Americas cup defending champions team. New zealand have launched a new yacht which they hope will help them retain the cup, which will take place in oakland next year before that challenging teams from italy, britain and the United States will race each other in january. And the winner will take on new zealand in the main event in march thats sold through with. Thank you very much for that. Thats it for this news hour on aljazeera for me. 30 back to the whole team here in doha. Thank you for watching live from london news center next to stay with us. Decades ago, manila was called the pearl of the orient. The manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the citys grandeur. But decades later, the theater has become a symbol of moneyless to now the Philippine Government is changing their government buildings. The universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. But rebuilding the lives and a city from scratch has proven difficult. And some experts seem manila has never truly recovered. Do you feel validated in south way . Is a type of performative activism. Lets go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist. The lights are on, theres nowhere to hide. Join me, richelle carey, is up at the front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some Straight Talk and political debate from us on aljazeera. T. V. Is indiscriminate, but it quickly from the racial divisions in American Society coldly planned to be. Its a roof over in the racially segregated city of chicago. The majority of deaths have been black and latino residents. Faultlines asks why i think its become entirely clear here such a thing. Theres structural racism, the great divide 19 and race in chicago. On aljazeera u. N. Aid agencies ramp up efforts to help the thousands of ethiopians flooding into sudan and call for an immediate ceasefire in t. Grey. Hello im barbara starr, youre watching aljazeera live from london, also coming up ugandan president ial candidate bobby wine is charged and released on bail as the death toll rises from the protests over his arrest that Republican Leaders fly in from michigan to