Warring sides have agreed to hold elections aimed at uniting the country under one government. [indiscernible] host anger in armenia over a deal with azerbaijan to end the fighting. The Prime Minister says it was about preserving what is left. Host welcome to the program. Europe has been called a cautionary tale of the dangers of easing coronavirus restrictions. The World Health Organization issued a warning as the continent is witnessing an aggressive surge in infections. More than 50,000 people have not died from covid19 in the United Kingdom and in italy, 600 23 people died in the past 24 hours. Andrew simmons reports. Reporter for the u. K. Another landmark in the spread of covid and it is causing alarm. More than 50,000 people have tested positive have died. Britains total of dead is not the highest in europe. Nearly 600 deaths on wednesday overtakes figure since may in the first way. Boris johnson every death is a tragedy. We mourn everyone who is calm. We are not out of the woods yet. It does to require everybody to follow the guidance. Reporter elsewhere in europe the spread is on the increase too. In italy where hotels are now being used to cope with an over spell a patients a number of cases has now passed one million despite increased lucked out restrictions, such as influence. Spains number of dead within 24 hours has increased to more than 2400, the highest since the second wave began. France is not using mobile units to treat noncovered patients because of demands on its hospitals. Germany as well continues to struggle. [speaking foreign language] now we have two wards at capacity and we are barely able to do our jobs. Reporter hungary is the latest country to increase its lockdown measures. It parliament has declared a threemonth state of emergency that imposes an overnight curfew. Countermeasures in the fight against covid increase and the race to introduce vaccination programs is also accelerating. The European Union has signed a contract with pfizer, which has developed the front runner faxing with biontech. In the eu says it is buying 300 million doses. Host iran has recorded its highest daily coronavirus test total since the pandemic began. 462 people died over the past 24 hours. The Health Ministry confirmed a Record Number of daily infections at almost 12,000 new cases. More than 39,600 people have died from the virus in iran, the worship nation in the middle east. Coronavirus restrictions are also being reimposed in several states across the u. S. As infections generate more records there. According to the coming tracking project 131,000 confirmed cases were confirmed on tuesday and texas has become the first state to record more than one million cases. Over 162,000 people are hospitalized with a virus. Measures have been tightened in new york and several midwestern states. I tell you this in all sincerity, oklahoma, we are in trouble. Our local and state Health Care Resources are approaching their limits, and if nothing is done soon to score the rising cases our hospitals will be more overwhelmed than they already are and we will not be able to be there for all of those who need it. Host u. S. President donald trump as made his first public appearance since joe biden was named president elect on saturday. Trump mena suvari veterans day trump mark he still has not conceded publicly since losing his bid. He has launched a barrage of lawsuits in several key states, the latest is michigan to block the midwest battleground from certifying its results. Biden marked veterans day at a war memorial in philadelphia before returning home to delaware. He has been able to move has been unable to move into federal office space because of trumps unwillingness to cooperate but his transition plans are moving forward. The state of georgia as announced it will be recounting all those by hand, which was requested by the Trump Campaign. Joe biden secured the election without georgia but he is also leading there by just over 14,000 votes. Officials say the recount will begin at the end of the week. At the current margin stands at 13,000 13111 between the president and Vice President biden. At my office will continue to investigate each and every instance of illegal voting. Double voting, fell in voting, people voting out of state. They do report it. We will investigate it. Every legal vote will count. We will be counting every single piece of paper, every single ballot, every single lovely past legal ballot. Host there is extra attention on georgia because it will have two senate were not phrases senate were not faces in january. Democrats will effectively gain the majority because the Vice President cast the deciding vote in hi. Alan fisher is it washington, d. C. She says even trumps allies say there is little chance of changing results of the election. Reporter there are a series of lawsuits moving their way through the courts but they are not big enough to justify what republicans are saying about widespread voter fraud. In arizona there is a dispute about some balance. In fact 180 ballots in georgia which will now go through a recount. There is a dispute about whether 53 people should have voted, and in michigan a judge has said to the Trump Campaign if you want to bring this case you have got to go back and refile because you do not have the right documents. You are not doing this properly and that seems to be a recurring theme. A lot of times when the Trump Campaign are raising issues in court the judges are simply throwing them out. When it comes to recounts, that you would think that might make a difference in georgia. Joe biden as got a lead of several 1000. Let us go back to wisconsin in 2016. Hillary clinton was fine there, demanded a recount. She got 7138 votes. At donald trump. More than 800. He extended his lead. In georgia they are expecting the same thing to happen there. The secretary of state, a republican who has spoken on this several times and said has said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the state. It is a difficulty for donald trump to convince people that there is a huge problem here. Host libya is expected to hold elections within the next 18 months after reaching a breakthrough through political talks in tunisia. It comes after rival factions agreed to unite libyan institutions. The institutions are split under the u. S. Recognized government in the west and the International Army in the east. A ceasefire was agreed between the warring sides last month. Stephanie williams, the u. S. Acting envoy to libya says representatives from both sides have agreed to elections. Christ today the participants of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum reached a preliminary agreement on a roadmap for ending the transitional period and organizing free, fair, inclusive, and credible parliamentary and president ial elections. They outlined clear steps for reaching these elections. Host we have more from tripoli. Reporter the u. N. Acting envoy to libya seems to be optimistic, especially in her presser today. The most important or outstanding claim she mentioned was the elections to be held after 18 months transitional period, but at the same time she says we still have a lot of work to do. This is the point. The stakeholders meeting in tunisia have to choose a president ial counsel to be composed of three members. The current president ial counsel includes nine members. Also a separate new government. This is the tough task that is facing stakeholders, 75 representatives of the Libyan Society meeting in tunisia sponsored by the united nations. Host 80 of yemens population will experience famine in a month if more money is not provided, a stark warning from the united nations. A humanitarian chief says an extra one . 5 billion is needed to revert revert the crisis. Reporter the Un Security Council were told the warning lights were blinking red with the World Food Program the winner of this years Nobel Peace Prize talking of the risk of famine in months. Literally would like to be pretty clear and blunt about the situation. I do not want a Single Person to leave here without any doubt about the scale of the humanitarian disaster we are now confronting in yemen. We are on a countdown right now for catastrophe in yemen. Reporter s comments were echoed by the uns humanitarian coordinator who made it clear this was a manmade crisis. The yemenis are not going hungry. They are being starved. All of us. Parties to conflict, humanitarian organizers and every one of us should do everything we can to stop this. Time is running out. Reporter that begs the question who is starving yemenis. The wind is not saying but in recent years the bulk of humanitarian funding has come from two countries, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, two countries who were also bombing yemen. This year they reduce their funding significantly. Described as reprehensible. Host still ahead on alll jazeea for an interplay is declared a tropical state of emergency as Tropical Storm eta closes in for another hit and splashing out on singles day. Joint entropy top retailer on the ball but managed to beat shopping records in the worlds biggest sales event. It stay with us. Do stay with us. Meteorologist winter still held at bay in the far northeastern china and siberia but winter does try to get into every now and again. What is remaining of the east asian monsoon catching taiwan and being enhanced by activity in the South China Sea. Hong kong get the edge of it. Otherwise a dry, fine picture with the cold trying to get back in at later in the day and later on saturday. Once again we look to activity in the philippine sea. The typhoon on its way through southern , quite vicious but nothing as bad as goti. When it reemerges into the South China Sea it may strengthen once again. It is going towards vietnam. I think it will lose its wind strength but there is a lot more rain to come. Throughout malaysia and indonesia it is the wet season, so you would expect that, though not particularly heavy. There is potential for heavy rain and sri lanka but most of india is now much more settled. In new delhi, the air quality is hazardous. Food for celebration. Food for reconciliation. And food from ancient civilizations. Al jazeera world goes on a mouthwatering culinary journey from spain to the middle east to discover the Hidden History behind some of the regions best dishes. Savoring the past on al jazeera. Host welcome back. You are watching al jazeera. A reminder of our top stories. The coronavirus death toll continues to mount in europe. The u. K. As reported 59 five deaths in 24 hours while 623 new fatalities were recorded in italy. Restrictions are being reimposed in several states well across the u. S. 130 thousand cases were confirmed on tuesday. The u. S. State of georgia as announced it will be recounting all votes by hand, requested by the Trump Campaign. Joe biden secured the election without georgia but he is also leading their by just over 40,000 votes. Georgia will have two Senate Runoff races in january. Libya is expected to hold elections within the next 18 months after reaching a breakthrough during u. N. Impact political talks in tunisia. Talks will focus on a new Transitional Government to oversee the runup to the elections. A military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the countrys borders and there are reads worries it could lead to a humanitarian crisis. Accusing local forces of attacking a military base. Hundreds have been killed and several thousand people have fled to neighboring sudan. United nations has expressed concern for the humanitarian situation on the ground. We are told communications continued to be disrupted. There are also reports of Electricity Supply shortages as well as shortages of basic commodities such as flour or fuel. It banks remain closed and the shortage of available cash is becoming much more acute. We urge governments and neighboring countries to keep their borders open from people forced to flee from their homes. The u. N. Is also asking ethiopian authorities to take steps to allow the agency to keep providing assistance to safety for refugees and internally displaced people. Host n a she says there are concerns of refugees crossing into sudan are actually fighters. The bordering states already have camps housing or hosting refugees even prior to the conflict that had broken out last week. There were already hundreds of refugees waiting to be processed saying that they want to be moved. They were saying the aid they were receiving is not sufficient for them. They say already 1000 have caused over but that there are more than 6000 awaiting processing. They say that is because they are worried about health precautions. This is happening during a pandemic, and they are saying they are concerned about those people potentially being infected. They are also worried about how they will be able to cope with the number of people, especially women and children who may be carrying other diseases. That is something they are concerned about. The ministry of health saying theyre taking all precautions to make sure they have access to clearwater and there is clean water and there is distance between refugees. The other concern is who among those refugees are militants. There have been reports from local authorities that some of those people who have crossed over into sudan and are waiting to be processed are militants waiting to be housing camps. Host armenias parliament has agreed to trust discuss protesters events that Prime Minister stepped out over dispute. There is widespread people are demanding the council that allows the council to keep blend of fighting. Were voicing the fears of the Prime Minister group. This time they are shouting the Prime Minister is a traitor. The rally was organized by his political opponents, including the second Largest Party in parliament. The message some opposition leaders gave to their supporters is that there has been a national betrayal. It protesters divide the countrys martial law, under which demonstrations are banned in an apparent scuffle with police. Calls for the Prime Minister to resign became letter throughout the day. The ceasefire agreement signed with azerbaijan called on already had to pull out of georgia oriented occupied since 1994 while azerbaijan keeps the land it has regained during the ministry of operations. We have to appear within a military tribunal because he secretary secretly discredited the owner a foreign minister appeared yet again on facebook. The regional capital was under direct threat. The army chief of staff said it was not well defended. Thousands of our soldiers would be in a blockade. It would have lost even more territory. Reporter the protesters went to the seat of the government to say they could not believe it. This is not a nationwide protest but the feeling that the Prime Minister gave away too much are shared among armenians who have not gone down to the streets. Reporter protesters tried to convince others to join. This woman says it is for the sake of saving the region at the self proclaimed republic. The Prime Minister as not responded to demonstrators also demanding for the agreement to be canceled. We are saying he has to go home because he is not our Prime Minister anymore because he cannot sign such an agreement on bath of all of armenia. We are losing everything. We are losing the south of the country. Reporter armenians were unified while the war was going on. Since the ceasefire agreement ended the fighting, National Solidarity seems to be fading away. Host at least three people have been injured by a blast. During a ceremony commemorating the end of world war i. The event was organized by diplomats from across europe and the u. S. Were also president. The man accused of being a financer of the rwandan genocide as pleaded not guilty at an interest of the court. It is accused of funding militia groups and propaganda before and during the genocide. The former businessman was arrested in paris in may after 26 years on the run. It killed in more than just a few months. She described what happened at the court proceedings. Reporter a couple of guessing frail and tired. His lawyers to raise concerns about his health. The judge is awaiting a full medical report but he did follow very can lead to proceedings in court. He did follow as the charges were read out to them. Seven accounts related to genocide, detailing is alleged involvement in that genocide, saying how he used his money to give cash to provide transport, food, uniform, weapons to the militia that participated in the genocide, and how he personally attended some planning meetings and having to get frequent reports from commanders of that unit as well as radio stations were able to spread it. The registrar also saying when he was a rwanda often said the tootsies are the enemy. He listened to that. After his charges were laid out he did not speak but he entered a plea of not guilty. Prosecutors have asked for six months to prepare their case but i have spoken to some rwandans. They are happy to see him in the dog and they are happy he will finally get his day in court. Host thousands have taken to the streets in belarus capital day after crowds gathered to condemn the vote to remove from power. Demonstrators see the move as a coup and say corrupt politicians are now moving ruling the country. The countrys at their in four years. The government of the u. S. State of florida as declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm data eta closes in. It has steadily moved north since hitting Central America and mexico. At least 120 people have been killed and more are still missing. Reporter as the floodwaters begin to reseed the alarming scale of the devastation left by hurricane eta is becoming apparent. More than one week after eta slammed into the region as a powerful category four hurricane rescue workers continued to search for people trapped under mudslides and debris. There are thousands of people in shelters. There are already more than 20,000. 37 damaged bridges. 50 completely demolished. Reporter in honduras, one of the countries worst affected, thousands have been displaced. Many have lost everything and are now forced to sleep on the side of the road. Some parts of the country are still on the water underwater complicating relief efforts. Quite there are more than 100 roads that have been damaged. There are over 70 communities completely blocked. Which means no food out. Reporter over a period of four days eta drenched an area from panama to Southern New Mexico southern mexico. Nine dead and forced thousands of evacuations. It came with tremendous pressure. It quickly flooded the house. Some of our neighbors came together and grabbed destes. That is what we are using now, dishes, reporter torrential rains cause clubbing and cuba as well forcing the evacuations of 9000 people. It is not over yet. 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