Saudi arabia. But less than 6000000000. 00 and much needed aid for yemen. You, report criticizes g. , 20 nations. Begin this hour with the situation in northern ethiopia, where rebels into grey have refused to give in to government demands to put down their weapons. 3 days ago, Prime Minister ahmed issued an ultimatum to stand down or face more attacks. On tuesday, he delivered on that threat was new airstrikes and his government froze. The Bank Accounts of 34 institutions links to to greece, leadership. The Ethiopian Air force says it carried out the strikes near the regions main city of mikhail lay. It is the primary base for the 2 great Peoples Liberation front, or t. P. S. If which governs there are. The ahmed says that his forces are now preparing for a final attack. He says the conflict will end when the t. B. L. F. Is brought to justice and its leaders have been replaced. The u. N. And foreign leaders have called for mediation request, which is largely been ignored by both sides. The government deployed extra troops on monday and is more soldiers move and civilians are fleeing. The un has called it a full scale humanitarian crisis. An estimated 27000 people have crossed the border into neighboring saddam. This iteration is very simply the you havent yet got 15000 people, you know, what number is it a life . Because i didnt seem to be able to study the services with you when its your job. Youre seeing his red cross listing aids and other service providers, and you can see some start of the system. So that provision, but much more needs to be done. Otto has more from ethiopias capital, addis ababa. They feel to be a Prime Minister. But this promising a crucial and decisive face in the fighting that to get a regional mall from ethiopia. He says, these forces are now were ready to take the city of mechanic up with all of the to get a region. He made that announcement of to the expiry of a 30 day that he had given to the great fight us to segment of themselves to the Ethiopian National defense forces. Security sources have told him visit of the next 48 hours would preclude forces launch a tux on mechanic from multiple fronts. The sources say that the fighting is expected to get more intense. That if European Forces near the mountainous areas with a couple of the to go to a region make the to grab Peoples Liberation front leadership in that conflict with the government in the suburb say that they had a very, to defend their positions to the last month have been complaining about civilians getting hot in aesthetics, crowded out by Government Forces in mckennitt, something that has been rejected undefeated by the government in a disability. Late last week, the t. P. A. Left fight to send up to 3 missiles across the border to a smart, a couple of at a trailer. Something diplomats say could bring in a train into the fighting. But the tibial of later should maintain, is that they are already fighting at a tree and forces on the ground and say that up to 16 divisions of the trim forces present and helping Prime Minister its forces. Something that is of a body of nice. Lets take a closer look at the Northern Region of tikrit. Its a semi autonomous area governed by the tigre, a Peoples Liberation front is estimated to have up to 250000. 00. Families to gray was the front line for ethiopia during its 2 year conflict with eritrea and large amounts of military equipment are still stalled there. Despite ethnic to grans only making up 5 percent of the population, they control the National Government for nearly 3 decades. As before, Prime Minister came to power in 2018, that shift in power turned to tension to great leaders defied of its government twice once and refusing to join his coalition party. And is that tempered by Holding Elections against the orders of the Central Government . Is the ethiopian minister in charge of democratization . He says the tea p. L. F. Of force the government into military action. The government has no problem with mediation, but you know, the detail is short and the footage of our defense forces, our soldiers, who are our desire to do so. Yet again, people from any possible before you know, issue who, what could possibly know where you told yourself under the horses, you know, you know where the hour is only handoff. So if you just got out of being anything to do, if people it isnt it is done so, but there are conditions, you know, there are conditions that the billet has to meet. They have to hand over those top leadership positively that are involved in supervision of these crimes. Oh, today should be handed over about to us. Our sort of just what i do that has you both. You know, it should be good. Should also be freed and be allowed to be a member of the functioning of them and develop within forces. And the Little Things can come to this that we can on that, which is with you, believe where all of these things out and the cesspool why our so it is. And as it got people to go with who it out there is open to defend it. To get them to before them any possible for innovation. So there has to be condition. The chief executive said facebook and twitter are pairing before members of the said Judiciary Committee to answer questions about social media and the president ial elections. The 2nd herring in 2 months. There was called by republican senator lindsey graham, i dont talk about when the social Networks Limited the reach of a New York Post article critical of president elect joe biden. Both Companies Say they were stripped of the articles because it contains false and leaks. Terrio. We made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in the article were changed through hacking and according to our we block them from being spread. Further consideration, weve made a distraction was wrong, and corrected it within 24 hours. I hope this is the straights the rationale behind our actions demonstrates our ability to keep our mistakes and the changes all transparently to the public. I believe this was the largest Election Integrity effort by any private company in recent times. This is what people expect of us, and im glad that from what weve seen so far. Our systems performed well. And election interference remains an ongoing threat that will never fully be solved. So we continue to improve with each i watch it. But our integrity work is really only half the story. We also ran an unprecedented Civic Engagement program to encourage people to take part in our democracy. And i speak now to our White House Correspondent kelly hello. Can really seem like a bit of contrition there from dorothy dont so much from from zaka. Hows the herring been going . Yeah, youre absolutely right. In fact, senator mike lee having to point out a number of times where there have been socalled mistakes made by twitter in terms of its sort of limiting of information, some calling it censorship. Alleging that this is cherry picked and disproportionately affects conservatives. Well, they have defended both facebook and twitter that they are treating both conservatives and liberals on the platform. Equally, they have acknowledged, at least in the case of twitter, that there are times that they have made mistakes. Now, noticeably absent from this hearing is google, and that is also coming under the radar in terms of the scrutiny on capitol hill. In fact, they made a statement that google is doing even less than twitter and facebook to live up to its responsibilities in terms of the free flowing information on the internet, or at least whats purported to be. So this is just part of the back and forth that is going on as these hearings take place. But overall, what this is really about is why there were a limiting of information according to republicans, prior to the u. S. Election and how moving forward this can be changed. So that upcoming elections, that users can be confident, not only of the information, but that it is being fully censored even editorialized committee. They are talking about a lot of things in this herring. But tell us about the original post on google, which spawn republican are at least in the 1st place. Yeah, youre absolutely right. So this hearing because the republicans control the senate, they call this they were upset because of what you heard there the apology from jack dorsey. There was a near post article that was based on information that was gathered from a laptop that was brought to a repair shop by joe bidens, son hunter biden. Now the allegations of this article was that, that hunter bided, took advantage of his fathers time in office for business purposes. And conservatives believe this is information that should have been able to be shared freely prior to the election and maybe even have had an impact on the election. They say that joe biden really didnt face any scrutiny or much scrutiny as a result of this action by twitter. So this is something that they acknowledge that should have perhaps been looked at more carefully. But we should point out that democrats are also unhappy, but for different reasons. Theyre not happy by claims by donald trump, that he won the election that there was voter fraud, vote rigging. And theyre also concerned about hate speech. So both sides are in fact now asking for a legislative change and thats what this hearing is all about. Seeing how section 230. 00 of the decency Action Communications can be revised so that companies are not sort of immune as they are right now from 3rd Party Content on their platforms. Ok, i think i can help about. I want house correspondent these days the refugees have been killed and Dozens Injured when the engine of a boat exploded in the north atlantic c. It happened off the western coast of africa. Around 150 people were thought to be on the boat from senegal and gambia was said to be making its way from cape to spain has more from dakar. In senegal. Early this morning, the camp virgin coast guard were alerted by fishermen that there was a fishing vessel that exploded on board were not fish, but schumanns that were on their way to the Canary Islands. When the iraq over to on the scene, they saw men, women, children holding on to plastic barrels normally used to contain food. Now the vessel exploded. Obviously its not made to carry humans. It has happened before the vessels Fishing Vessels explode because they dont have enough fuel to travel for such long distances. It was on its way to the Canary Island, where this year alone, 17000, african, west, african migrants have come to the Canary Islands seeking asylum. These are not migrants fleeing war, but looking for economic opportunities. Many of them come from senegal, gambia or even morocco, and the mayor of this town. Our green green on the Canary Island says that they are held in camps because in camps of shame because they have little access to running water. There are rats, he says that are, there are cases of coronavirus. Now the spanish authorities are not allowing the media to enter those camps. There are so many migrants in his town. Thats normally a resort town for tourists that hotels normally filled by tourists are now being used by migrant that are waiting for their papers to be processed. Still ahead on, aljazeera u. S. , secretary of state mike pompei or gays in turkey, will tell you why hes not meeting with any cabinet pleaded i was on the job close to the border with newborn. And ill tell you how one minds are being hit by other by joining forces before civilians get moving. We got some cooler weather on the way for parts of the arabian peninsula. We already have cloud and rain across Northern Regions of the middle east pushing up towards the coke system. Thick cloud. Some outbreaks of rice and sharon, around damini, azerbaijan, jewel, just sinking further south as into northern parts of terror. And as we go on throughout weds day snow said the winds pick up that wind blowing away temperatures here in doha will struggle to get to be 2728. 00 degrees over the next couple of days. Its just a sad possibility for the strength of that. When that we go, those showers, sinking little further south would seem to those more than sections of iran just 9 celsius there in toronto, sweat course reason it is generally fine and dry with plenty of sunshine. The sunshine stretches across the whole of africa. But we have got a developing system out into the right to say that will keep an eye on for next week, but the way to stay dry want to see showers into central parts of somalia, some heavy showers there into kenya, pushing up through a good part of tanzania, those shouts, of course, stretching right across the central belt of africa, the seasonal rise doing quite nicely. Lets say good for the south with some heavy showers too. Into angola, botswana could see some showers along with that eastern side of south africa with this day an outspoken writer killed in a car bomb outside his. They return home in 2005, accusations, speculation, and denials. Aljazeera will charge the life. And finally down samir, kassir journalist, academic and political activist, sami, across the killing of a journalist on aljazeera, who now youre watching aljazeera reminder, the top stories this hour. If you obviously air force says its carried out strikes near the main city of the tikrit region after a deadline passed. And the government has frozen Bank Accounts, links to, to grays leadership, chief executives, all facebook and twitter right now, bearing 4 members of the senate Judiciary Committee on the questions about social media and the president ial elections. It is their 2nd area, tribbles based 80 migrants to be killed and Dozens Injured. The engine of a bulge exploded in the north atlantic. See it happen next, virt, the western coast of africa. The French Parliament is debating a proposed go all the bans, the broadcast of Police Officers faces. Critics say its an attack on free speech that could lead to impunity for Police Violence reports from paris. French documentary, the monopoly of violence, exposes and examines Police Brutality in france, focusing on recent protests, but also taking in the suburbs. The hiring watch, it uses footage shot by journalists or members of the public. Showing clips like this though, may not be possible in the future. The french government has proposed a new security law, part of which would crack down on the broadcast or sharing of images of Police Officers. Filmmaker david says the bill destroys basic freedoms. Of the lawmakers want to stop the free circulation of information and knowledge because in the last few years, france has discovered Police Violence. Its something that, in reality, has existed for a very long time in the suburbs, but was not documented. In this way, video has been used in several high profile cases of alleged Police Violence in the country, the death of delivery man, cedric should via, during a police check in paris and generally was filmed by a possible by footage the lead to an inquiry under the new law, a person could be jailed for up to a year and find more than 50000. 00 for broadcasting all sharing identifiable images of a Police Officer with the intention of harming them. Campaigners fear that if journalists and citizens are dissuaded from filming, the police will make it harder for officers to be held accountable for their actions, and some might act with impunity. But the government says the law is necessary to protect Police Officers. You say its not about stopping journalists from working. The law doesnt impact the right to inform for journalists or citizens. But it prevents Police Officers from having their identities put online with cost of violence or to be subject to reprisals that can have grave consequences. Protecting the police from violence while on duty is essential says this police union spokesperson, but he says the new law is not the answer. A lot of the government would clear on the role of the police what they can and cannot do in the schools would not be necessary. Only rested demonstrations and recent attacks have prompted the government to take a tougher line on security. But instead of working on building more trust between Police Officers and the public, some say the new law threatens to erode it. Natasha butler, aljazeera paris. Americas top diplomat is in turkey as part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. But bible pair did not meet with turkish politicians or officials. Instead, he held a meeting with the head of the Orthodox Church in istanbul. Ok, it was also said to visit georgia, israel and a number of gulf countries. The u. N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees is warned. It is facing a financial crisis and its financial chief says that could lead to disaster and staged a protest outside headquarters in gaza, city against a reduction of their salaries. The agency has asked for emergency donations to help make up a shortfall of 70000000. 00, avoid the suspension of essential health and education services.