So we begin with breaking news from ethiopia and the military offensive in the north integrated region. Within the past hour, ethiopias army says that it has taken full control of the regions capital city. The Peoples Liberation front earlier said artillery and air strikes were being used by the army. Prime minister had warned of an imminent intensive offensive on thursday that follows weeks of fighting that fits have left thousands dead. And lets get more the very latest from across what malcolm webb, whos more as you developments from neighboring kenya and malcolm. So what more do we know about this latest news . Well, just a short while ago, the ethiopian militarys chief of staff posted a statement on facebook saying that the 0 pm military was in from control of the city of mcalary. Thats the regional capital of the to gray province. Now this follows reports that came a few hours, few hours earlier fighting that the government had begun its assault on the city. This follows as you mentioned, 3 weeks of fighting, leading up to this. Now it hasnt been possible to verify the claim that the government side has taken control of the city has very little access in the area for journalists to humanitarian workers. Its been largely sealed off and we havent yet heard any comment from the tee p. L. S. Leadership on this yet. But if it is indeed the case, it would suggest that the large numbers of fighters and substantial military hardware that the t. V. L. F. Is widely believed to control, are actually already being tactically, retreated into the nearby mountains. And it would appear that the chosen not to use the resources that they had to fight to control the city. This will certainly be a relief for many people, Rights Groups and others have been warning of a potential disaster if there had been heavy fighting and heavy shelling on the city. Some Rights Groups and even said that shelling the city itself could have constituted a war crime. And if that is, it goes, it makes you think that theres a long way to go yet. It is an incredibly complex situation. Tell us a little bit of how we got to this point. Well, the t. P. R. Left who were controlling the kelly at least until a short while ago dominated ethiopias politics and military for nearly 30 years. Now, 2 years ago, Prime Minister of the army took over that followed waves of protest throughout the country. Now i. B. M. Had promised reforms that it was in the process of those reforms that the t p l. S said that they were on fairly targeted in crackdowns on past rights abuses and corruption. This is what led to the breakdown in communication between these 2 sides. They stopped recognizing each other and that escalated into Armed Conflict that started a few weeks ago. Now the t p l f began as a guerrilla rebel movement, fighting from those very same mountains, against the regime that preceded them in the marxist regime that controlled ethiopia in the seventys in the eightys. And now, a lot of people fear that much as the government side may have taken control of the sticky and most of the, of the region, the reserve risk of a protected guerrilla war following on from here, or american tanks, or was it mark more of the reporting from iraq. Well the United Nations is pushing for ethiopias government to grant the teams access to, to provide much needed food and shelter. Theyre also concerned for the 100000 eritrean refugees whove been living integrate for years. The conflict has pushed more than 40000. 00, people from ethiopia into sudan, about 600. 00. Refugees are crossing the border each day. The uns appealing for 150000000. 00 in aid to provide water shelter and Health Services over the next 6 months. It is in the camp in gaza, if in sudan where many are being relocated, a refugee camp here in sudans got out of state has expanded since it was 1st opened just over 2 weeks ago. Now when it was 1st opened it hosted about 200. If european refugees fleeing from the conflict in the region, now the camp hosts more than 7000, if european refugees and this place is becoming sort of a permanent shelter for them until things ease back home and they say its safe for them to return. Now this is the only formal refugee camp here and about of state despite sudan hosting more than 43000. If you know 3 g. s over the past 3 weeks escaping from the conflict in the region. The other centers Reception Center in neighboring states and look to hear a lot of state are all just Reception Centers, including village 8, which is about 30 kilometers from the sudan. If youre a border that hosts more than 15000, if european refugees now most of them here stand under the scorching sun waiting for food aid and waiting for food distribution. But they say that this is much better than being back home, not knowing what they could have faced. Many families speak of leaving their loved ones behind of witnessing people being slaughtered of atrocities. They say that forced them to flee and come here to sudan seeking refuge, but able organizations say that they need help in terms of responding to the influx of refugees. They say that in the coming 6 months, they expect up to 200000. If european refugees to come here to sudan seeking refuge from the to great region because of the conflict, should the fighting continue. They say that they need Financial Assistance or funding for the programs to be able to respond to the refugee crisis that is unfolding. Because sudan as a government, despite hosting them already hosts nearly 1000000. 00 other refugees in various other states and therefore will not be able to cope with this crisis on its own. So while the aid organizations are sounding the alarm and calling for support to be able to respond to this current unfolding refugee crisis, people here say theyll wait to hear and till things are safe before they go back home and take their region. And if youre really my colleagues around the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, and he says, support is needed for the refugees. I want to join those who are, who are calling even more urgently for mediation and end of conflict. Because this is what these people around me are fleeing and theyre still fleeing. The numbers have decreased the numbers of our rivals, but still theyre in their hundreds for a day yesterday, i was at the border and i met people just arriving more than 500 arrived yesterday through the various crossing points. I want to be on record to praise sudan for having kept its borders open. Sudan already has a 1000000, refugees, countless displaced people, and yet it kept its borders open. It provided the 1st assistance and now im here to coordinate and boost International Support to sudan and mobilize resources for this response to be effective. The u. N. A. C. R. Is response or was a little maids. Many reporters were on the ground before your own teams, including our own reporters. Why is that . Why was it difficult for you to get this operation under way . I think we actually moved quite quickly. Its a very remote area. As your correspondents know, all the logistics is difficult, so we have to gear up. But i think that now the response is, is functioning. We have some challenges. People are arriving at the border in various points. We have to transport them to sites like this one where i am. Its an 8 hour drive through difficult, broads, on the flimsy buses. Its not easy to do all this. It takes a bit of time, but i had meetings with the authorities here in the region today. And i think we are beefing up by the way. Im returning to her to him tonight. And i am going to appeal on behalf of all humanitarian agencies for 150000000. 00, for the next 6 months. We need to be ready for a few months of assistance hoping that they eventually people can go back and, but many of the refugees arent using official Border Crossings. From what we understand. So how is the u. N. A. C. R. Able to ascertain the number and the current needs . Well, the Sudanese Government is receiving them or so at an official border points wherever they have access and then they transport them to the official once where screening occurs, registration 1st assistance. And then for those who want transport to a more stable places, many people dont want to move from the border. Theyre watching what the situation, how the situation develops in the gray region of ethiopia. And theyre making a decision whether they want to go back or stay in sudan for another while its complex. To iran, where the supremes leader says, there will be retaliation over the killing of its Top Nuclear Scientist who factors idea was ambushed by gunmen while traveling with his bodyguards near the capital, tehran on friday, western and Israeli Intelligence of suspected factors, idea of masterminding, a secret Weapons Project . Well, the president Hassan Rouhani says at tehrans Nuclear Program is peaceful. The killing will not slow it down. He immediately blamed israel, whose embassies around the world have now been put on high alert. An initial, a severed, assess a nation, shows that our enemies are experiencing anxious weeks. It feeling that the era of the, of pressures is fading away and the world circumstances a changing they want to make the most of the remaining weeks and days so that they can create uncertain conditions in the region where the assassination threatens to increase tensions between iran and the United States in the final days of the, donald trump presidency. I said rick has more now from terre. This is s. , a nation of irans leading scientists isnt like the assassination we saw earlier on in the year of general qassam. So the money that was a military strike on iran responded militarily. Now there is some dispute within the political factions in the country about what the response should be. Now the conservatives who dominate parliament, now theyre calling for a tough response, but also for iran to stop i. A. E. A. Inspectors. In fact, there was a protest outside parliament where people were asking for revenge. And for those inspectors to be stopped inspecting nuclear sites. Now thats referring to the 2015 nuclear deal, which iran has been reducing its commitments to. And whats left of that is the fact that i. A. E. A. Inspectors can inspect Irans Nuclear sites without any prior warning without notice. And conservatives are calling for them to be stopped. Now the reformists and the president has done rouhani, now they want to wait. They also want to response, but they want to be restrained. They want to wait until president elect joe biden comes into office. And hope that the United States will rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal and lift those sanctions as far as theyre concerned. That would be a victory for iran. But there is a view in the west that iran is a belligerent country. But the reality is iran is very restrained, is very strange and precise and its decision making. But what we do know is that the Supreme Leader of this country has called for a response, and there will probably be one we just dont know when that would happen. Where that will happen and what it will be. Luckly peaceful mass protest in paris have descended into violence with shops, satellite into a gas fired tens of thousands gathered to rally against the new bill aimed at restricting the film in publishing of police offices. Images will now tensions have been rising in things, getting pretty heated on the streets, has been to gas fired at this protest. March and protesters launched fireworks at the police lines and put up barricades and threw stones. And so full things have been satellite as well. The protests have been fueled by a recent video of paris police it beating a black music producer. In his studio 4 of the officers involved have been arrested. The president tomorrow macro says the incident has brought shame on the country. Hes called for his government to fight discrimination and to restore confidence in the police. Still ahead here on aljazeera, voters in indian administered kashmir vote in the local elections while opposition candidates. They were prevented from campaigning at a red protest in the cuban capital. Dozens of artists joined the demonstration in havana calling for the release of the jailed. Right. Its been raining heavily in eastern iraq and the western side of iran less have released who sat. It was great deal of crowd around your notice this figure 109. 00 millimeters in the last 36 hours on the western side of iran is significant. This is a mountainous area. This would have caused flash floods. This would be rain, the snow with some highs in on sunday to be more snow falling in iran up into azerbaijan as well. The following weather is largely fine. Not particularly colder up to nearly 20 in beirut, and this line here through saudi arabias focused scattering of outbreaks of light rain. I suspect this clears through which took matters down. Then the next better shot is coming through into cyprus and the levant. That will be sunder, stalls as well. I suspect tanzania did catch some pretty big rain earlier in the month. And zanzibar, surprisingly has been a focus in the last couple of days, 43. 00 millimeters since yesterday, didnt see much this month. 205 doesnt seem much, its a bit more than the average, but not a huge amount. So, east africas not particularly worth the moment. There is significant rain inland in the rift valley dancers. And towards south africa. Id like to see some in malawi or think not but johannesburg. Oh yeah, thats 3 thundery days. Frank assessments, youve got colleagues on the ground in the canaries. What is the situation . Theres only one doctor and one nurse or 2200. 00 people informed opinions. How big does Foreign Policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration . He comes into office with a huge amount of Foreign Policy experience. Indepth analysis of the days global headlines. How will a place like it live . Get a back seat when theres no money at all. The rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story on aljazeera. But again, youre watching aljazeera among the top stories this. And we have breaking news from ethiopia, where the army says its taken full control of the city of mecca, the capital of the region, and its feared that sells and died there after weeks of fighting to grain leaders say Ethiopian Forces bombarded the city and its offensive irans Supreme Leader is feeling retaliation for the killing of a Top Nuclear Scientist. Iran is playing such attention on israel. The European Union has described the killing as a criminal act, and its strange largely peaceful protests in paris have descended into violence, but shops set alight and tear gas 5 tens of thousands have gathered to rally against the new bill into restricting the filming in publishing of Police Officers and hundreds of police and paramilitary personality deployed to control protesters in and around indias capital. Thousands of farmers have refused to move to a designated area and blocking roads and Border Crossings around new delhi. Theyre angry about new laws. They say could put them out of business in his agriculture minister and secretes talks. This, with, has more from the protests. We want, the single Border Crossing between the states of haiti and delhi with thousands of farmers remain camped out. This busy national highway has become a track to city with farmers vehicles as far as the eye can see. And a very close have been converted to temporary homes because the farmers say theyre not going any way. They are refusing to go to the grounds on the outskirts of the city that the government allocated to them to protest. They say that if they arent allowed to march into the center of the capital, new delhi, that theyre going to block highways around the capital and theyre going to cause as much disruption as possible until the government of appeals these farm. Here they are raising farm union flags. They are making speeches, criticizing the government and its policies. The government, meanwhile, is appealing to them to stop the protests. Theyve invited them for december, the 3rd day, the 1st round of talks didnt go anywhere. And thats because they say that the government is not the sure and that a guaranteed minimum price for they produce will remain. And that this is not good for farmers. And its going to leave them at the mercy of large corporations, allowing private companies to buy from farmers directly. Indian administered kashmir, or heading to the polls for the 1st time since the Indian Government revoked the regions autonomy last year. But opposition candidates say police have been preventing them from campaigning freely toward his more its been more than a year since new delhi stripped the autonomy of indian administered kashmir. Effectively an exciting parts of the disputed territory. These local elections the 1st since then seen by many in this region as a test of how unpopular that policy is and opposition coalition. The group car alliance has been campaigning for the area, special status to be restored. But candidates, say police have used security concerns as an excuse to harris them. Its been very difficult right from the word go into the whole court. It takes me almost from the morning were going to go back to the supposed to be in the indias decision to revoke self rule. In the majority, muslim populated region has caused anger, and many kashmiris are determined to make their voices heard. What is i thought . I wanted to buy a car going out. Wed planned to buy a car, the elections, but after the group got alliances, fog, it come perilously think. We decided the real cost i would get to be d. P a. D. M. One of the members of indias governing hindu nationalist, b, j, p, have been campaigning hard graft and got aboard. The partys, youve joined hands under the good car alliance, our corrupt politics delivering justice. People have understood this and are now following us. Political analysts sa