Approaching 500. 00 per day, iran prepares to enter its 2nd lockdown and desperate for food aid. Were live in sudan, where thousands of ethiopian refugees who fled fighting are struggling to survive a welcome to the program. Beisel says its behind multiple rocket attacks in the Afghan Capital that killed at least 8 people. The interior Ministry Says dozens more have been injured. The reports schoolgirls running for their lives after a rocket lands near the school, part of a coordinated attack on the capital. Kabul. More than 20 rockets landed in residential areas near the green zone, where many embassies are based. Witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was time to cause maximum damage. What they could. It was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. So we took them to hospital and we thought it was around 9 am. Rockets hit the bakery wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. Lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. I thought his claimed responsibility for the attack. It came as the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei arrived in cattles capital. Doha. He said tool to talk to both Afghan Government and taliban negation has involved in peace talks that it shows richies and security didnt just rest. Yet again, the sort of weaponry get into the city. And secondly, its part of the trends were greater violence in the city 90 assassinations, unity even at a time when taleban said that they wont be launching attacks incentives, eisel has been behind recent attacks on the capital gunmen stormed kabul university, 3 weeks ago. At least 22 people were killed. The government says in saturdays attack, fighters fired the rockets from the back of 2 trucks. Its investigating how the vehicles managed to enter the city and get so near to the heavily fortified green zone. The tory gate and be al jazeera visiting consulate, speeches, Stephanie Decker joins me now from doha, where the meeting is taking place. And of course, the attacks in kabul will be at the forefront with the secretary of state, as he meets the emir of qatar. Yes, that was his 1st meeting. My players been in doha for around 4 hours now. He then met with the deputy Prime Minister and hes now meeting according to his schedule, alter the governments delegation with the taleban delegation to hail. As you mentioned, to me today, the fact has been played by i think the certainly the security situation is a concern that has actually been an uptick in violence over the last couple of months. These protests track combat between the government at the taleban starting september. They pretty much put on hold that even start to delve into the difficult issues. Theyre still dealing with technicalities and sticking points about what you know the structure should govern the talks. So it just shows you just how complicated it is. These are 2 sides that have no trust. So i think certainly the message from the play was of course, the outgoing secretary of state is to try and get these sides to, to get the technicalities out of the way and stay because she takes on the really difficult point, sir. You know what that should be, is a countrywide cease fire and also what a political power sharing structure should look like. But anyone who goes out at politics will tell you, it is going to be very complicated and like the person, of course, not a competent, complicated process of sort of the one from both sides. A secretary of state wants qatar to perhaps recognize israel. Qatar wants to make sure that the blockade to that its been experiencing for nigh on 3 and a half years is lifted. Whats going to happen . Yes. What is going to go to this is ministration that they would like to see some kind of movement when it comes to the music of the gulf, paid on. So you took the other countries have theres been talk perhaps of lifting partial of the flights. But the fact that perhaps Qatar Airways and flights could be flying over saudi arabia and bahrain, something theyve not been able to do for almost 4 years. But again, none of that is confirmed. You know, qatar has been issued for this role under the table, recognizing it or not really doesnt make that much of a difference. I think the sticking points here are going to be iran, for example. Of course, we know that this is a ministration, extremely hard line against iran has good relations with the right. Its one of the demands of the blockading countries that qatar cut its ties with iran, something its refused to do. So i think even though there are differences when it comes to these 2 sides, they are of course allies. This country hosts the biggest u. S. Base in the region. And i think interesting, you know, i compare and double trumpet not admitted defeat when it comes to these elections and matters of it has already pulled the president elect joe biden to watch later on that. So i didnt see when they discussed that or not, but certainly serious topics to be discussed. And thanks for the update stuff to go. Now the resurgence of covert 19 around the world has forced many countries to tighten restrictions. Polands Prime Minister is urging families to cancel travel plans, schools, bars, restaurants and theaters will also remain closed until after christmas. Canadas largest city toronto is going back into lockdown. Prime minister says the normal holiday is out of the question. In order to get through this winter without overwhelming our health systems, without losing too many more of our loved ones, we need to do one last big effort these coming months and it starts with the coming weeks of really tightening up, which is why im back here in front of my house telling you its time. Its time to tighten up. Singapore and hong kong are perspiring. The launch of their quarantine free travel bubble after a rise in infections in hong kong. And japan is scaling back. Its government backed campaign to encourage domestic tourism, and tele cases have reached record numbers for 3 straight days. Well, irans, experiencing a 3rd wave of coronavirus transmission, and authorities are struggling to contain it. Then are bringing in a 2nd lockdown to try and slow the spread, said, because more from the capital tehran, nearly 500 people have been dying from covert 900 every day in iran, as it battles a 3rd wave of corona virus and daily infections. A number more than 13000, thats the highest the country has had since the start of the outbreak. Current prevention measures dont seem to be working. Now the government has imposed a 2 week lockdown that had more the main goal is to control whatever the wireless and reduce it to a minimum rate. And to renew the number of gathering from people commuting. And for some places we had no other choice than in the past, we asked people to abide by protocols for their own health and of unused classroom medical staffs, people to abide by protocol. So this pressure can be removed as soon as possible, or more me only essential businesses are allowed to remain open. And some people say they need help to assure when its closed, we have no other source of income, but there is no other choice. We should do something to curb the chain of the virus. Its tough, but theres no other choice. We need to be patient. The infection rate reduced, i dont think 2 weeks is enough to control the situation. I agree with the idea of closing down 100 percent, yet many other problems will be created that i dont agree with. Like financial problems for people. Shopkeepers still have to pay rent and their employees will receive no salary. Private vehicles are banned from the roads from 9 pm until 4 am. Travelling outside cities is also prohibited. The government says people found to be breaking the rules will be fined, but its facing criticism over its handling of the pandemic. 2 officials in the Health Ministry have resigned and issued open letters. Reza says the government has mismanaged the crisis and disputes statements made by the Health Minister about the countrys progress in finding a vaccine. The closure of businesses is making life worse for many in what was already a tough Economic Situation because of u. S. Sanctions. The grand bazaar here in the run would usually be packed with shoppers, but its closed. Many agree the lock down is needed, but livelihoods are at stake. 10000000. 00 families are to receive around 4. 00 a month for the next 4 months and a 40. 00 loan. But many say thats not enough. The challenge the Government Faces is whether it can persuade people to keep abiding by restrictions when they need to work to feed their families. I said big aljazeera to her on. The United Nations says a full scale humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in northern ethiopia. The un has called on warring sides to hold fighting immediately. So more aid can be delivered and refugee safe zones can be set up. The government on the to great Peoples Liberation front, both accuse each other of killing civilians and as strikes and indiscriminate attacks during the 2 week long offensive. Paulson is a senior official at the world food programme, who is on the ground in the refugee camps in sudan. He says, the priority right now is to ensure that the thousands of refugees arriving there have enough to eat. Well, the tosca say, currency, even h. R. Reports that some 35000 people have a right as of yesterday and probably more are coming across the border today. What we are doing right now is trying to assist them at the Border Crossing and then trying to continue to add assistance once they settle in one of the camps with longer term assistance. So initially we do live to contribute 2 units. There are 4 hot meals and we also provide them at high energy biscuits. Once they settle in the camp setting, we provide them with a monthly ration that should sustain them. Here we also have to work with partners, other than u. N. H. C. R. , working with minister of health, with unicef, to work on the nutrition programs to make sure that women and children get the right situation should they have suffered before or was coming here. Both the United Nations agencies that work on the medical side n. G. O. S are working hard right now to cover the medical needs. W. S. P. Focus right now on food nutrition just except for and to some extent also providing i think the support for agencies responding to this crisis. Protesters in thailand are demonstrating again to keep up the pressure on the government, demanding changes to the education system, which they say is archaic. Student led rallies have been held since july, calling for a new constitution reforms to the monarchy and the removal of the Prime Minister is not the demonstrations in bangkok. Its another day of no uploads listed here on the street. On bangkok today is the turn of the facts to pick up on how exposed many of them are under the age of 18. And despite the fact theyve shot down a major commercial hub, the no sign of the police today the atmosphere. Is it much more relaxed, unlikely that were going to see the tensions on the belly or in the wake. But this is a week where those tensions have ratcheted up, particularly on the clashes on tuesday. Between antigovernment protesters and yellow shirts, romana kiss on the police that sent more than 50 people to the hospital. And those protests are likely to be repeated again. After the protest, leaders announced that this coming wednesday, theyre going to head to the ground from the g. B. , or which is of fundamental importance to the moment. He believes its enormous. Well, those marches are lucky to be the 1st they defended by the police and the bell. See the amount of yellow shirts coming out on the street. Many bad luck and so on the clashes. But once again around these protests, the dissent bother them on. Well still ahead here, ill just an, excuse me, this is g 20 summit is taking place virtually stopped it from generating controversy and michigan legislators to look at yet another major blow to Donald Trumps bid to overturn the election to stay with us allan, now we can look down from space, you see this beautiful picture which is cold air stream, your siberia, across the very warm waters of the seas, a japan producing showers, and we still have a system going on sunday. Significant rain. By this time sue the western side of honshu northwest shoe, possibly biggest by far card, and the same is true for north korea. But its the water that is generating these storms. It was rain if you like, the cold esto there. Beijing having had some snow before we see it melt the grounds, not cold enough yet. You got the sunshine a plus for on sunday. How it is probably subzero and have the rest of china. A lot more cloud than there was snow springs across young. Just looks as though it wants to hit one hand. This is its general direction of flood. How far as the winter come, probably will happen is the limits. Weve got 7 degrees rising to 10 by wednesday in rain, not snow. South of that and a few more shots of lp in the south china sea. Nothing like what was there before. There are no tropical cyclones. Its just a standard flow. The northeast monsoon with the heaviest rain, of course in indonesia sudden sumatra. Some parts of southern tot of the next couple days couldnt rule out a few showers with vietnam, but then nothing like as heavy as they would. American people have finally folk in america as i see it. When america is off balance, the world becomes more dangerous. The world is looking at us little mixture of sadness and with the election behind us will the Republican Party dump trucks the fuel weekly, take on us politics and society. Thats the bottom line. Play an Important Role protecting you and. Ringback ruth welcome back. Youre watching officer with me so rahm, a reminder of our top stories multiple rocket attacks in several parts of the Afghan Capital have killed at least 8 people. One rocket landed near a school in kabul, forcing students to run from the building. Beisel has claimed responsibility. The resurgence of covert 19 in many countries is tightening restrictions that canada has the latest. On its largest city, toronto is going back into lockdown. The pandemic is expected to be the main topic of discussion at the g. 20 summit being held by saudi arabia. The United Nations says a full scale humanitarian crisis continues to unfold. The northern ethiopia, the un has called on warring sides to halt fighting, so more aid can be delivered, and refugee safe zones can be set up. G 20 Member States are expected to focus on an action plan for covert 19 at this years summit. Saudi arabia is hosting the virtual event, but there have been calls to boycott is over. The kingdoms human rights record accounted summit is also being held online to highlight some of those issues. Our diplomatic editor james bays joins me now from u. N. Headquarters in new york and james, lots money to look out for. I suppose we begin with, of course, the saudi hosts and a virtual meeting. Theyre already in the limelight for many a wrong reason. The war in yemen, human rights abuses, to name but 2, but covert 19 seems to be topping the agenda. Absolutely topping the agenda. This summit is the code 19 pandemic. And certainly some of been critical of the g 20 back in 20082009, the last financial crisis. Many believe it was the g. 20 that had leadership of the situation. And some say it is the 20 has not risen to the occasion this time they have come up with some debt relief. But there are those that say that debt relief needs to be extended in terms of both scope and duration. They also say the g 20 needs to fund efforts to try and get the vaccine to everyone, the most needy on the planet. Now that a vaccine is going to be available, opening the summit, king selma said they were trying to help the most vulnerable people. But im going to say, this is been an extraordinary year. The cove in 1000 pandemic has been an unprecedented shark that affected the entire world within a short period of time, causing Global Economic and social issues. Our people in economies are still suffering from the sharp. However, we will do our best to overcome this crisis through international cooperation. This is a very different sort of g 20 summit. In fact, it looked more like zuma meeting. Its all being taken place virtually. That means its being truncated there on the bilateral meetings, there are the formal dinners, theres not the formal pomp that you see at these occasions. And that i think is a little bit of a blow to saudi arabia the hosts. Because i think theyd hoped that theyd get this as a way to try to rehabilitate their reputation sitting next to the king. As he spoke was his son mohammed bin sultan who runs day to day affairs in the kingdom. Human human rights campaigners say is behind repression. Inside the kingdom, saudi involvement in the war of yemen, they say, may have had a hand in the death of the journalist jamal khashoggi. These were all things the saudis wanted about what behind them, but they dont get the p. R. Offensive. Theyd hoped for because of the virtual nature of this summit, of course, will monitor things with you, james, as the day progresses. Thank you. James bays, our diplomatic editor there. Now the Italian Government has issued a final warning to egypt to cooperate in the investigation into the murder of an italian researcher. Comes nearly 5 years after julia ragini disappeared in january 26th. Seen the newspaper, la republica says, Prime Minister just said, because a day and president told president of the fattah elsisi to allow the National SecurityAgency Officers involved in the crime to choose a lawyer for them in italy. Regina disappeared in january 26th, seen his body was found with signs of torture. Next month in the desert outside of cairo. Donald trumps latest attempt to overturn the u. S. Election result appears to be slipping away. Michigans Republican Leaders met with him at the white house, but certain there was no new information that would change joe bidens victory in the state. Trump is reportedly putting pressure on politicians in republican run states to ignore the popular vote and send to the Electoral College who will install him as president of fisher house more from washington d. C. Thank you very much. The event at the white house was to talk prescription prices, but donald trump couldnt help talking about the election claiming pharmaceutical companies. The lead news of a covert vaccine to hurt template eclipse. Big pharma ran millions of dollars of negative advertisements against me during the campaign. Which i won by the way, but find that almost 74000000 votes. We had big pharma, i guess we had to mediate against we had big tech against us. We had a lot of dishonesty against us, while joe biden spent his birthday meeting with Democratic Congressional leaders to talk postelection plans. Donald trump was meeting republicans from michigan to the white house denying reports the president wants them to stop the state certifying bidens when there he routinely meets with lawmakers from all across the country. But one democrat from michigan says, this is anything but a routine meeting. Joe biden won 14 times greater down the truck winner state 4 years ago. The president is trying to, i dont know what word you call it, cheat his way to victory by pressuring local officials. After the meeting, the 2 republicans said that had no new information to change joe bidens victory in the state. Adding the result certification process should be free from threats and intimidation. And joe biden has legal team called it an abuse. Of course, the use of office. Its an open attempt to intimidate election officials. Georgia is the latest state to certify a joe Biden Victory after a manual recount of 5000000 votes. He becomes the 1st democrat to win the president ial race in the state since 1902. There are 2 recounts underway in counties in wisconsin, but its unlikely they will change the result there. President elect joe biden, no stands on 306 Electoral College votes. Exactly the same number. Donald trump achieved 4 years ago when he claimed a landslide victory. Alan fischer aljazeera at the white house. Evan resnick is an assistant professor in International Relations at Nanyang Technological University in singapore. He says, the president s behavior is amounting to a threat to National Security. The realization that this is over is increasingly permeating the holdouts in the Republican Party, but ever so slowly and there are a few more voices you see some of the sort of the more moderate reasonable characters in the party. People like senator mitt romney, senator ben sasse, of nebraska being a little bit more overt in their criticism of the president. But its still laughably minor in comparison is sort of it when you recognize the regis misbehavior that the president is engaging in. Its the sort of behavior that 2 bit dictators of banana republics engage in that the u. S. State department routinely condemns for that sort of behavior. So this is were really in uncharted territory now in terms of this president s behavior. But we shouldnt be altogether surprised given the manner in which hes comported himself over the last 4 years in office transitioning from one administration to another, especially from one from from the administration. One party to another is a massive undertaking. I mean, if you look at just the department of defense alone, its the largest agency, the largest employer in the world. So the extent to which a transition is seamless allows the Incoming Administration to better deal with emergent crises and other sorts of domestic or international problems. That occur in the bin, its very early months. And so given that we are that the u. S. Is already deeply in mashed in a terrible domestic and international crisis. In the face of the covert, 1000 pandemic, every minute counts. And this and for the transition to be delayed as a result of the president s personal pique or ego bruising, is, is really upsetting. This area army has entered and done just rick, thats been on the armenian control for almost 30 years. Now. Its one of 3 areas, armenia has had to hand back as part of a ceasefire deal to end 6 weeks of fighting over the disputed region of the go to a car or bus or some, a binge of it has more from inside the area. Theres nothing but destruction in this area. The mosque behind me used to be at the heart of the, of the city, which has been abandoned and vandalized as well. Weve been speaking to people whove been trying to come back here. We were actually at military court for hours and people want to come back in the military has been telling them that they cannot come back. Because of the danger, had some Officials Say that about 150. 00 mined in a matter of a few hours as the military forces were moving in, were cleared from this area just to our right used to be the Cultural Center of the city of ground once known for is for its music for its vibrant society for the culture, as well as a merchant hub during even during the soviet times. And all of that seems to be gone. Youve been hearing from the very government, the president think that this is a victory, that they have a huge on the military front. But it is also a victory here that not a bullet was fired and not a single life was lost. And theyve got an act, and its worth reminding people that this is one of 3 regions surrounding the newborn a car, back region, which the armenians are going to give back to azerbaijan and their russian peacekeepers are going to move in 9. People have been released unharmed after a gunman took them hostage in the georgian capital, tbilisi. The interior Ministry SaidPolice Arrested the gunman after several hours of negotiations. He reportedly did not ask for around some, but had a list of demands for the government. The incident happened at the offices of a micro finance organization. How fast all Sea Levels Rising scientists hope a new observations will help. And so all of that at a launch late on saturday, as part of a joint project between nasa and the European Space agency, rob runnels, houseboats Developers Say the ocean measuring satellite sentinel 6 will provide irrefutable evidence of how the seas are rising due to human caused global warming, the satellite, which resembles a large gadget festooned orbiting doghouse, can quantify ocean rise to within a centimeter. The main concept is that has a radar altimeter on board, and it, it fires a pulse of the Ocean Surface and you measure how it takes that also to go out and come back. And from that you can him for the height of the satellite above the Ocean Surface. And so when you take the height of the satellite and you subtract off that radar measurement of the height of a satellite above the Ocean Surface, then you have a measurement of the height of the ocean. About one 3rd of ocean rises due to thermal expansion. Water that absorbs heat, expands like mercury in an Old Fashioned thermometer. The rest is due to the melting of glaciers and ice caps in greenland, the antarctic and elsewhere. So these 2 elements to get america would be the product of sentiment 6, very relevant for a, for the society. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected that oceans could rise more than 60 centimeters by 2100 endangering millions, if not billions of people who live near the sea or in storm prone areas. Scientists working on the sentinel 6 program say it will provide unambiguous data to grab the public and policymakers attention. It was going up, we can show people the data. And i like to think that, that most people out there can still be important by looking at, you know, real data. Its not some cloud model thats predicting whats going to happen. Its actually measurements of whats really change, whats changing, and why climate is changing because were getting c o 2 and other Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere. And we need to start moving on to Renewable Energy sources and stop burning fossil fuels. Central sixs mission will last 5 years, a messenger in outer space bearing a message to humanity that it must change its ways. Rob reynolds aljazeera watching aljazeera with me. So robin a reminder of our top news stories multiple rocket attacks in several parts of the Afghan Capital have killed at least 8 people. One rocket landed near a school in kabul, forcing students to run from the building. Eisel has claimed responsibility stephanie to accountable, told them trapped, im told between the government and the taliban. Starting tomorrow they pretty much bet on the whole the i havent even started out into the difficult issues. Theyre still dealing with technicalities taking place about what else structure should govern the toll. So officials who just happen to hold is easy to cite