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2 growing desperation on Spains Canary islands. Welcome to the program, the us president pardoned his former National Security advisor michael flynn. It comes 8 weeks before he vacates the white house president elect. Joe biden is pressing on with his transition plans. Hes delivered a thanksgiving speech. Cautions during the pandemic, also in jordan reports now from washington. D. C. Thank you very much, even as he refuses to concede that he lost reelection to joe biden. U. S. President donald trump gave a gift to his 1st National Security adviser, general michael flynn. A pardon for flints crimes, namely, prolonging to federal investigators about his contacts with the former Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kissling at flynns case was part of a legal black cloud that hung over trumps entire presidency. Flynt son responded on the conservative social media site parlor. Thank you from the bottom of my heart president trump, and a big middle finger to judge emmett sullivan, and trucks ally republican senator lindsey graham, cold flu, and a political victim. Back to the mean time democratic congressman adam schiff blasted trumps decision. Its no surprise trump would go out as he came in crooked to the end. Earlier trump called in to a hearing convened by Pennsylvania Republicans to see whether president elect, joe bidens victory can be thrown out. Theres no election was rigged, and we cant let that happen. We cant let it happen for our country. Like it had to be turned around because we won pennsylvania by a lot and we won only by a lot. Anybody watching television the night of the election . Which thing . Wow, i was called by the biggest political people going graduation there on a big win and all of a balance would jump all over the place down a lot of horrible things. Newer, bolder, more compassionate chapter tropes, complaints about politics, all far cry from the incoming administrations call for National Unity and resilience on the eve of the u. S. Is suck your holiday. Thanksgiving. Vice president elect called a lot. Harris and her husband visited in washington foodbank, while biting, delivered a speech calling on americans to find their resilience in the face of the culbut 19 pandemic. This is the moment where we need to steal our spines. Redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight. Lets remember, were all in this together. Joe bidens call for reconciliation and unity. A marked contrast in both style and substance from that of donald trump, russell and jordan aljazeera, the white house. The football world is in mourning argentinian legendary gemara donna who died of a heart attack at the age of 16. This is because i recently fans were chanting his achievements, the captain dodging teener to victory in the 1906 world cup and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. David stoats looks back on merit on his turbulent life. He, infamously referred to a hand of god and the unique gifts of diego, amanda omeara doner, appear to come from a higher force. Born in 1960 and raised in a shanty town on the outskirts of one a set is he became their national hero. And a Global Football superstar is impacting Club Football meant he was playing for his country as a teenager, a prolific creator and score a goal, was just 1. 00 metres tall, stocky, and powerful. His skill and balance made him unstoppable. The 986 world cup was his time. Marathon of the player, the man and caption rated in an unforgettable quarter, final against england. Firstly, what he was to call the hand of god punching the ball into the net. Then a 2nd goal of scarcely believe a ball quality to many the greatest individual gold in world cup history. Marathon is argentina went on to lift that world cup in mexico. A good team made great by one player. There 4 years later, they lost the trophy as west germany gained revenge in the final. But marat donna was thriving in Club Football in europe for barcelona in the early eightys. Hes the napoli in italy who he took to the 1st ever italian titles and where he is still treated as a favorite son of the field. There was turbulence. He was addicted to cocaine and was banned from both club and International Football for failed drug tests. One of which ended his 994. 00 world cup. In 2004, he spent time in intensive care after a heart attack and his weight fluctuated. Jaring battles with addiction. He had 2 daughters through his marriage that ended in divorce, and a son born outside the marriage as well. Diego genia, the peoples choice managed his country at the 2010 world cup. He defied many critics until the quarter final defeat against germany. Again. He dipped in and out of cup by the germans as well. In 28 team, he took over the mexican 2nd division club, the rod us to sin a lower. But it wasnt long before you return to argentina to lead top flight team, give nasi adela platter in true marriage on the style. He stepped down after only 2 months in charge, only to rejoin again. 2 days later in his last public appearance was at a game on his 60th birthday where he appeared frail and left at half time. A few days later, he was admitted to hospital initially with anemia and dehydration, but things quickly escalated and he needed surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain. The operation went well, but less than 2 weeks later, he died of a heart attack where the marathoner is the greatest ever footballer is open to debate. But his incredible talent and contribution to the games history make him a phenomenon. Nothing is after nearly 3 weeks of fighting in northern ethiopia, a deadline imposed by the Central Government for the agree regions forces to surrender has now passed. The federal army says its surrounded to graze capital michela, a claim disputed by to grans. The government is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000 people. And as the deadline approaches, Prime Minister ahmed rejected demands for dialogue and urge the International Community not to interfere and result reports exclusively from inside the great province. On the right front line in southern tikrit, better all reinforcements arrive and helicopters, hover above the Ethiopian Government has maintained that. This is a Law Enforcement operation against what it calls a treasonous group. Then youre going to get, i dont know what our morale is high. Were ready to enforce the rule of law for the sake of the fallen. We will prevail over those who had betrayed them. We have another mission, namely to safeguard the renaissance dam until its fully completed and operational. This building has been set up to receive fighters from the Peoples Liberation front, whove surrendered ahead of Prime Minister and its wednesday deadline for the t. P. O. Left to put down its weapons. Government forces here say this man was among those who surrendered. We are being treated well. We are not enemies, we are all fellow ethiopians. We are all brothers. I hope this will come to an end and peace prevails across the country. As fighting continues in northern ethiopia for the 3rd consecutive week, leader has reiterated his rejection of the ultimatum and says his fighters will continue their struggle against the federal government until the end on the other side of the battlefield. And the t. V. Says it standing its ground and that its fighters are ready to die, defending and its right to govern itself. There are conflicting claims of victory on both sides and a communication blackout in the region makes it difficult to verify information. But Prime Minister ahmed has said this operation will end when the t. P. O. Left, who he accuses of destabilizing the country and undermining his leadership, are brought to justice. The province in northern you, more than 40000. 00 ethiopians, enough fled into saddam to morgan is not a common for displaced families in the fashion in saddams and got to be stage. She says hundreds are coming every day. More and more refugees continue to arrive to states here in sudan as well as neighboring states, arrive at the border points where theyre being registered by iran is asians and the Sudanese Commission for refugees before they are brought to the camps. Now, most of them arrive to this camp here and get out of state known as village 8, which was initially supposed to be a residence for people who have been displaced by a dam. That is built not far away, but because people refused to live here. This place was largely uninhabited until about 2 weeks ago when the refugees started arriving. About 2 weeks ago when people started arriving 1st here, the camp had about 2 to 3000 refugees. Now is houses more than 15000 and authorities here say thats beyond their capacity, largely because the camp is an open space, so monitoring it and save guarding it is a challenge. This also the issue of access to aid distribution as well as clean water, proper sanitation and health care. Here say they wait for days sometimes before they are able to get their share of Food Distribution and get access to health care. Meanwhile, the pharmacies here and the only clinic says that its running out of medicines and it doesnt have enough staff. So lots of challenges facing this camp at the moment and thats before, of course more refugees arrive with the ultimatum given by the Prime Minister. Made more refugees are expected to come in the coming days. Thats because the ultimatum that the Prime Minister gave was about 72 hours. And of course, upon hearing that many people, according to people who have relatives in the region, say that many people will flee and come here to sudan and it takes them about 5 days. So its expected that the number of refugees pouring into sudan in the coming days will increase. This is something that sudan says is already beyond its capacity and that it needs help from the International Community and International Donors to respond to the countrys already going through an economic crisis. And it says that without the help of the International Community and aid organizations, it will simply not be able to handle. The refugee crisis says of sapan 60000000, the Johns Hopkins university tracker here shows the u. S. Has the highest number of infections in the world and deaths. 2002400 people died from cave in 19 of the last 24 hours, a 6 month. High cases are also salaries in latin america, home and i reports from mexico city, the situation in mexico, theres various factors that sort of echoed across the region. One of those is the amount of people that work in the informal economy in mexico, thats between 50 and 60 percent in the region as a whole, talking here about latin america. Its more than half of the work thats done in the region is in that informal economy. And what that means is people dont have steady jobs, they dont have that safety net. And so they have to go out on the street. They have to go out to work whether they like it or not. A lot of people have put it to us when were talking to them. Even i get coded, or i go or i die of hunger. So thats not a very palatable choice. To many people and it doesnt help to stop the sort of chain of infection. So many people having to go out another problem thats true for mexico and across the region as well. Is Health Problems in mexico, 3 quarters of the population, the Adult Population suffer from obesity or being overweight. And thats echoed in several other countries in latin america. Also a lot of diabetes, a lot of junk food being eaten in this region because its cheaper basically than eating other food president and that, and those men will preserve the daughter met her has been criticized for several months, especially at the beginning of the pandemic. He was still hugging and kissing supporters not wearing a face mask, and i think a lot of people thought, well, if the countrys figureheads not taking this particularly seriously, why would the population do that . Well, still ahead here on aljazeera, protesters go into hiding after claiming guineas election was rigged. They say dozens have died in the unrest and senior colombian ministers are called to account for the ongoing killings of former funk rebels. Those stories after the break its looking like a soggy thanksgiving for the eastern seaboard of the united states. Not cheap, bad at the moment, but this must sort of cloud gathering across the great plains. Thats going to push its way for the race was quite an intense area of low pressure. This one, it brings the rain across the appalachians, over towards the mid Atlantic States stacey new york, seeing some heavy right wing, but also seeing some of that wet weather. Not rain that just makes its way across the panhandle into the deep south is going to linger here as we go on into friday. Some big downpours around louisiana, mississippi, alabama could cause some localized flooding, but it should turn try by this state. As we go towards the weekend, pushing up towards that eastern seaboard by this stage when she weather cool enough into central and western parts of canada, some snow coming back in across british columbia, some heavier right, around the coast, west coast of the u. S. Were generally fine and dry and theres some wintry flowers there on the southern end of the rockies pushed further south, still fun to drive across much of mexico. We still have some showers lurking around nicaragua and costa rica easterly winds driving those showers in here. So i somewhat weather still implement friday as we go through the next couple of days. Well see some wet weather through the a winwood hours. Elsewhere is fine. Dry demain, the intersection of reality and comedy and poster volution, tennessee, a mission to entertain, educate and provoke debate. Through satire, how weapon of choice and internet look at what inspires one of tennessee is most popular comedians to make people laugh. Miten is yeah, hang on aljazeera. Welcome back. Youre watching aljazeera with me, so rob, never mind vaal top stories, u. S. President donald trump has pardoned his former National Security advisor, michael flynn. He pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. In 2017 during an investigation into russian meddling in the president ial election. Also the football world is mourning argentinian legend, diego maradona, who died of a heart attack at the age of 60. He is regarded as one of the greatest the greatest players of all time, and captained argentina to victory in the 1986 world cup. If you have us Prime Minister is rejecting International Mediation efforts to end the crisis in the Northern Tier gray region. A deadline issued to 2 graham forces to surrender has now passed. Regional leaders deny that surrounded by government forces. Now the bodies of aid to migrants have been recovered to Spains Canary islands after their boat capsized on tuesday. The boaters one of 17 intercepted in the islands waters in just 24 hours reports. These migrants hit rocks and capsized off. Lenzer wrote in Spains Canary islands. They had travelled 1500 kilometers in a small fishing boat from north africa. Was young mayne says out full of optimism to the tourists. Paradise 8. Drowned in the quest on tuesday. Hundreds have suffered the same fate in the last month. In 24 hours, 17 votes were intercepted off the Canary Islands, 450 people were rescued with the search continuing into the following day. More than 17000 migrants have arrived here this year. Its a 1000 percent spike on 2019. Politicians blame the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. And opportunistic traffickers for the search. The italian and spanish Prime Ministers discuss the crisis on wednesday. Border controls of the italian and spanish governments are a fish and an effect of the problem is what we do with these human beings that are trafficked by mafias. And that run the risk of dying in this case, for example, in the atlantic as a consequence of trying to reach the Canary Islands. The European Union has struggled to come up with a plan which eases the burden on the mediterranean countries taking most of the strain we want to work so that the mechanism of responsibility at a european level is met with solidarity. And we need to work in order to have affective mechanisms on the european level, because it cant be the country of the 1st arrival that bears the burden of all the migratory flows. Back on the Canary Islands shell, a stretched beyond capacity. Spain says it will provide more tents. Hotels are being turned into temporary accommodation, but its hard to keep up. More migrants have arrived in november than the last 4 years combined. Charlotte dallas aljazeera. Germany is extending coronavirus restrictions until late december. Chancellor Angela Merkel says the infection rate remains too high or more and some measures could stay in place into january bars and restaurants are closed, but schools and some shops remain open. Mask wearing will be mandatory in busy public areas. You must know that the measures taken on october 28th have all been extended for the time being until december 20. And we issue as the federal government and the states agree that due to the very high level of contamination, the restrictions will have to continue until the beginning of january. The u. K. Is cutting billions of dollars from its overseas aid budget, saying it can no longer afford to meet its legal obligations because of the Economic Impact of the pandemic. Chance. Soon, i can reject of criticisms from the opposition who called it a moral failure. I have listened with Great Respect to those who have argued passionately to retain this target. But at a time of unprecedented crisis, government must make tough choices. I want to reassure the house that we will continue to protect the worlds poorest spending, the equivalent of 0. 5 percent of our National Income on overseas aid and 2021. Allocating 10000000000 at this pending review, sudans former Prime Minister and he has died aged 84. Hes been treated for coronavirus at a hospital in the united arab emirates, and the worst sudans last democratically elected Prime Minister before a military coup led by Omar Al Bashir took over in 1989. Protesters have clashed with Security Forces in guinea after the opposition calls for nationwide demonstrations against president alsa conde. He was reelected for a 3rd term last month, but the opposition says the poll was rigged. Activists say 49 people are being killed in recent unrest and hundreds more have been detained. Nicholas sac reports now from dhaka in neighboring setting up. Sheriff is in hiding. Fearing for his life, the government accuses him of creating unrest at home as president of guineas traders. You yet, hes calling on commerce to seize in protest against what he describes as a fraudulent election in which president alpha conde won a 3rd mandate. Abdullah has been living in neighboring senegal since last months elections. Im scared to go home to my own country where there are attacks and arbitrary arrests as trade union leader. I cant stand by and let this injustice take place and tolerate what is happening. The family of 68 year old ibrahim, i so say he was tortured to death by Security Forces. After spending 3 weeks in Police Custody for protesting against victory. We were all there when Security Forces men carrying machetes and bats, and to the house. Thats when we fled. The Security Forces are meant to protect us, not kill us. The protests are happening across the country with people calling for justice and defying a government ban on demonstration. Human Rights Groups believe more than 50 people were either killed from Bullet Wounds or died in Police Custody. Guinea security minister denies any wrongdoing accusing human Rights Groups of tarnishing his countrys image. Said, this is all fake news. Theres an Ongoing Investigation 20 out of season of been made, showing that bullets were not shot on people, but inserted in the bodies. Its just sponsible to say that the government does not care for the victims, and few is anger. Since the president ial election, guinea is on a high alert with Security Forces closing the land borders with neighboring countries, including senegal, home to a large guinea and community. And so trade between the 2 countries are stalling. Hundreds of thousands are stranded here. Unable to return home to a country where Political Violence is escalating sheriff abdullah hopes gideons will eventually break free from alpha conde is rule and the Police Killings will stop. So he can finally return home. Because hawke aljazeera the car, now the trial of a society womens rights activist has been transferred to a Court Dealing with terrorism related cases. And jane was among a dozen activists arrested in 2018, accused of harming saudi interests. Her family and Rights Groups say shes been held in solitary confinement and assaulted while in prison. Saudi officials have denied allegations of torture. Been on Hunger Strike for the last month. An oil tanker has been damaged by an explosion of saudi arabias southwestern coast. It happened near the city of shook, not far from the border with yemen. The greek operators of the mt. Ugly tankers say it was attacked by an unknown source. Protesters in bangkok have called on the king to give up a royal fortune of tens of billions of dollars. Thousands of people have been rallying outside thailands biggest bank, which is mostly owned by the monarchy. Protestors have broken a long standing to be by criticizing the king has made landfall in southeastern india, bringing with it, winds of 120 kilometers an hour and heavy rain. More than 100000 people moved into shelters ahead of the storms arrival. Local authorities have counseled trains and flights columbias piece quarter 7, senior ministers to a public hearing over the deaths of former rebels. At least 243. 00 rebels have been killed since the government signed a peace accord in 2016. And thats despite repeated calls for better protection. He has more from bogota, 3 ministers, the attorney general, and other high level officials were summoned for the 1st time by colombias peace court. But in the end, mostly deputies arrived to respond to a thorny question with killing the mobilized fighters in the country. And what can be done to protect them . X. Fighter is being killed every 5 minutes, by no doubt are truly alarming. More than 200 of them, 40 former fighters have been killed since the story of the Colombian Peace deal. 4 years ago. Hundreds more have been tracked and a worsening of security in areas where reciprocal criminal groups fight for control of Drug Trafficking routes and other illegal activities. The Court Ordered the government to increase protective measures back in april, but the killings continued visibly emotional fark, senator victorious. And dino said the government is to blame. It was a quick one. I mean, unfortunately, this sort of being here celebrating the advances of concentrating peace. We are holding this hearing for the killings and prosecution of those who gave up their weapons. These are systematic killings, not isolated incidents. There are clear patterns from of the owner of the fledgling peace corps has been at odds with the right wing government of uganda. A critic of the peace accord, the judges repeatedly questioned the government about the lack of effective measures. But Officials Say theres, its an uphill battle when theyre not being killed due to the negligence of the state or its lack of concern. All x. Fighters need to understand that we are doing everything we can, and we want to do more. Theres much debate about this killing the exparte combatants and why the government things says that these murders are not systematic in nature and respond to a number of both. But others are servers insists that these killings instead show that the conflict in the country is not over. And instead it is simply mutated the unwillingness of the convent government to recognize the system and to society of the killings basically ignores other experiences of transition to peace around the world in which this sadly is a common feature. And i believe it hampers their kombi in states ability to provide the protection. The return of violence in many areas of colombia means that the spike, the accord real peace in the country remains elusive. Anderson m. P. s rallies have been taking place in cities across the world, calling for them to sexual and gender based violence. In chiles capital womens Rights Groups marched to the president ial palace. The violence has been on the rise during the pandemic. A lot in america tele, seen human has moved in santiago. Police have been to have tried to disperse. The women who were marching to the president ial palace with tear gas and with water cannon. Theyre now moving up this avenues and that was main thoroughfare. Theyre calling for 1st of all for the end of impunity. I would say thats the number one demand. Because sex offenders, people who even men who kill and beat their wives, their girlfriends or unknown women, domestic violence, violence in general against women is very, is very rarely punished or, and if it is punished, its with very light sentences. So weve seen this year, for example, the case of a man who had been in prison. He will, who had been sentenced to 15 years for killing and mutilating his former wife. He was allowed to get out early on Good Behavior and the need turned around and, and killed 2 more people women of course. So this is the sort of thing that women say can no longer continue, as well as the growing consciousness of Sexual Harassment in the workplace in public transport all over for many years. Women were quiet here in chile, they didnt talk about it. They were embarrassed to say that they had been molested, for example, by their brothers, their cousins or their fathers, grandfathers. Now women are daring to come out because they say that the feminist movement has made them realize that they are not alone. And that they have a voice, and that voice is being heard very, very loudly all over latin america. But its especially here in chile where radical feminism is growing as well. So that theres a kind of a revolution going on. Your child is there with me still rom, a reminder of all top stories. U. S. President donald trump has pardoned is former National Security advisor, michael flynn. He pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. In 2017 during an investigation into russian meddling in the president ial election. Several u. S. Politicians have condemned the park and