Heritage site to ease Traffic Congestion was consigned amongst all. Hell just and environment now ethiopias military says its making gains in the northern tikrit region where the federal government is backing Regional Forces. But the conflict is also raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. Phone lines have been cut off and transport has been halted in and out of the region. The offensive began last week off to Prime Minister ahmed, accuse the Regional Government of attacking a military base, aid agencies, a warning they contre bring much needed supplies into the region because of all this fighting. Thousands of people are already fleeing many to neighboring through dawn. In the ethiopian capital, thousands of people have been lining up to give blood for troops fighting in tigray and part of the drive to rally support for the ethiopian army. Hundreds have been reported dead on each side since the Government Military operation began including civilians who are in development for us. And has this update for us from the ethiopian capital at about, or theyre saying they have gained ground in the western part of the country, close to the border with eritrea. And also on the border, if you have with to done this, say they have taken at the town of america just on wednesday that say they have taken up what they are now, the 2nd tower, which is not far away from the airport. They say theyve also taken the towns off, shoot and shoot out, all of that were lost in city of exit, which has got a lot of this protocol importance here in ethiopia. Of course, most of the fighting salsa has been concentrated on the western part of the to greater region. And it has involved clashes between Ground Troops as well as strikes, targeting fuel and death tolls, as well as the artillery duels which have caused so much casualties on both sides. The government here in addis ababa maintains this operation will not stop until its a she has its objectives of this bombing that the people of militias, as well as bringing their leadership to justice. Well, out of here is have a morgan is near sudans border with ethiopia, where she says, aid workers are already reporting that thousands of refugees have already crossed. They say hundreds of thousands more are waiting asper their estimation across the border across they see open border waiting for means to be able to come into sudan seeking refuge. This the most of them are women and children, but theyre also include former combatants, people whove laid down their arms to seek refuge here in sydney. Is there a terry . So what happens upon arrival . They say is that those refugees are then screened for health reasons. But they also screen to make sure that theyre not armed, so that this conflict does not spill over the border and then comes the issue of settling them into camps already. There were refugee settlements here in the state of get out of as well as the neighboring state of kosovo where refugees are already arriving. All of them have been saying that they already were in need of humanitarian assistance that the assistance was already too little. And that with this influx of refugees, it is expected to reach up to 200000 in the coming 3 days. The situation will be dire and that he wants very organizations here in sudan and international relief. Aid to step up to whats for them to be a crisis. Now moving on and the European Union is demanding that china reverse a new role that, that are for hong kong legislators being sacked. Opposition. Politicians in the territory have resigned on mass in solidarity. On wednesday, china passed a law allowing legislators to be bad if they pose, a National Security threat. Now the u. K. , which handed the territory back to china in 1970, says the move undermines hong kongs autonomy and has summoned the chinese ambassador. The u. S. Has also threatened more sanctions against chinese and hong kong officials. Adrian brown reports from hong kong. Hong kongs Legislative Assembly was quieter than usual on thursday. Now that almost a quarter of its lawmakers have resigned or been disqualified and staging whats likely to be their last protest. The chinese characters say hong kong leader kerry has pulled calamity to the territory and its people shell stink for 10000 years. The slogan was to see played by democratic lawmaker lambchop, who must now give up his office. By the end of the month, i will keep fighting for democracy of hong kong, their version of enda. And together with all the hong kong people and the Civil Society to face against the dictatorship. This is what chinas leaders want to stamp out. Lawmakers behaving badly with those from the democratic camp accused of being the main culprits. Chinas government has condemned the mass resignation of almost all hong kongs opposition as a farce with only themselves to blame for their downfall. Says a sole hong kong delegate to chinas most powerful political body. Its only a little the year. What china has been doing is based on the constitution and basic law, therefore everything should be done in accordance with the law. We cannot bad mouth one country 2 systems and the Chinese Government analysts say hong kongs legislature is set to become little more than a rubber stamp parliament, but dissent outside the chamber will likely continue. What does this mean . This means continuing instability. You can push it down with the police, you can push it down with the rest. But it will just it really. It is not clear what this all means for elections supposed to have been held 2 months ago, but now pushed back until september next year. Because of coded 19 on thursday, chinese officials here in hong kong warned that legislators who resign or have been disqualified, should not be eligible to stand in that poll. Wednesday shake up of Parliament Comes just 4 months after chinas government imposed a sweeping National Security law on the territory that some critics call draconian. And in spite of continuing International Criticism, chinas leadership remains both confident and defiant. Adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong, who turning to the global coronavirus pandemic now and the World Health Organization is warning europe not to risk lifting restrictions to fast countries, and governments across the continent are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading. 2nd wave. Europe has around 10 percent of the worlds population, but now accounts for almost a quarter of all deaths globally. Now standing at more than 300000. 00 on ukraines president has now become the latest wild data to contract. Private 19, a spokesperson for broughton is a lenski told the Reuters News Agency he had been a message to hospital. So he could isolate quite accurately. And Japanese Comic innocent has cut anticipated losses due to the Global Pandemic by 28 percent. But it still expects to lose 3200000000 dollars this year. Makers have been hit hard by the current virus, but nissen says it expects profits to return to prepare endemic levels by december. Well now the u. S. Has recorded its worst daily death toll from 1900 and Health Experts are warning the pandemic that is accelerating. Nearly 2000 more americans died on wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities 2241800. So 241800 people. It was also the 9th straight day that the number of new cases topped 100000, texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases even as the virus surges political paralysis is dominating washington with President Trump refusing to concede defeat to joe biden. White, house correspondent candy, how to standing by for us in washington, d. C. , but 1st. Lets go to john hendren, whos in wilmington, delaware, joe bidens, home state. John biden has been saying for weeks now that dealing with this pandemic is his priorities are no surprises that about his newly announced choice for chief of staff. Thats right, joe biden picked not only a longtime aide, hes known since the 1980 s. , but also the head of the a, bola test force the a bowler as are from the obama administration. Ron klain ran that program, and a lot of democrats say the reason we havent heard more about the bowl of program here in the United States is that it never became an epidemic because that plan was so successful. But the president is not the president elect. I should say is not getting all the information hes, hes not getting the president ial daily brief. The intelligence briefing that would tell him in detail whats going on with covert around the United States. In addition to other threats in the reason for that is that the Trump Administration has refused to certify that joe biden is the president elect. That means biden cant access the money for his staff, but also crucially cannot find out the information in that briefing, even coming to harris, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence committee, is able to get a little more information than biden is because of that. But by and been going ahead and acting like the president elect, he has been talking to foreign leaders in his recently spoken of the leaders of japan, australia and south korea. Talking not just about the election and receiving congratulations from the but also talking substantively about what they can do together to combat both coronavirus and climate change. But hes not going to have a full picture until he gets in on those president ial briefings. And thats not going to happen until the Trump Administration certifies him as president elect. Indeed, john hendren that for us on the ground. And that a thanks so much john. Lets now cross to our White House Correspondent candy how it can be. It really does seem that trump appears to be holding fast to this refusal to concede whats on his shuttle today. Well they are, theres nothing public that is major and this is something that has been going on now for about a weeks time since we last saw the president shortly after the election in the White House Briefing room. No major Public Events scheduled to and we know that the president continues to me with his election advisers about the possibility of potentially reversing one of those states projected for joe biden. And those electoral votes. And as the president continues to do, this Top Democrats on capitol hill are accusing donald trump of obstructing a peaceful transition of power. The republicans should stop their shenanigans about an election that President Trump has already lost and focused their attention on the immediate issue at hand. Providing relief to a Country Living through the cold, with health and Economic Crises when it comes to the election. Republicans, Congressional Republicans dont have the evidence. They dont have the proof. They dont have anything you did as the president congress Congressional Republicans are deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason. But fear of donald trump. Now to be clear, there has been evidence that has been provided by some republicans as well as the president , including evidence of people that have cast ballots that were deceased, in some cases more than 10 years, but in terms of widespread voting fraud. This is something that still has yet to be proven. This is what the Election Campaign says its setting out to do with a number of these lawsuits. But already some of those have not been held up in court. Still, the u. S. President says that the 72 plus 1000000 people that voted for him deserve a fight, and thats what hes delivering. White house correspondent candy. How can they force and washington d. C. . Thank you. Candy. Still ahead for hair on the counter. Theyre reliving the pain of their pot. We hear from people the space that he has acquired by fighting over the nagornokarabakh region and why they fear they may never return in stock and waiting for help. Koreans rushed to rescue those back stranded after typing them to her back as the felony winter isnt far away, but its still not making that much influence on the weather. Even in northern japan, theres a cold front to watch as trails back to just a line of cloud as it goes back towards sichuan. Now the snow is definitely there, but it doesnt really make it across the water so they might get a chill in the breeze. This is on friday in sapporo, and a lot of showers on that coast of honshu. Theyve all gone through the temps much the same sun coming out during saturday. Fine weather for most of the crew updates are in china. There is rain catching the size, a chart of the even. Thats going south following vanco, which is a, thats formally typhoon, probably staying tight fitting for a while yet the cool for its the coast of vietnam. Those are its current figures. The storm surge was realized, and it may still be realized again as it gets close to the coast of vietnam because the winds there coming down will still be at least Tropical Storm strength something vietnam doesnt want. There are some scattered big showers in indonesia, but they are pretty well scott, i know its the rainy season but not everywhere is going to get wet or see every day significant rain fell in there. Lol, which is pretty good for north east monsoon. Most of the rain in the air is for this chennai. Sas was to sri lanka and the old indian plane, much of northern pakistan, is suffering from quite poor corsi. As donald trump and good for america, everything is in disarray. The media, of course, taken every bit of bait that they can to demolish the fact that america has been a force for good in the world. Half of the American People get inspiration from him and the other half cringe, your weekly, take on us politics and society. Thats the bottom line. If you want to help save the world, sneeze and euro. And again, i missed on the attainder. Lets remind you about top stories here. The salad aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster. In the northern tier, a region of ethiopia, thousands of people have fled as if your bismillah tree says its making gains in the defense of that against Regional Forces has been International Criticism of a new rule from china. Thats the to 4 opposition. Politicians of hong kong being disqualified both the u. K. And u. S. , say theyre considering sanctions. And in the u. S. , several states are reimposing restrictions. As corona, virus infections break even more records. The number of new cases that has tipped over 100009 consecutive days now in texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000. On a rival factions in libya have agreed to hold elections within 18 months. The deal agreed and neighboring tunisia will also unite libyas rival administrations into one government. The u. N. Has hailed that deal as a political breakthrough. Both sides signed a cease fire agreement last month in geneva. But our correspondent, Mark Whitaker wahid is in tripoli and says the next step in this process is naming an interim government. There have been a lot of names nominated for these positions, but they are controversial names. The current president ial council includes 9 members according to this roadmap, and i was hit by williams yesterday. The new position council will include only 3 members and also the government should run the country for 18 months before reaching president ial and parliamentary elections to be based on frame that 75. 00, members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum held currently are due to choose among themselves. The members of the newly to be form of government and president ial council, but also it has to take into consideration the conclusions of the military talks held in Circuit Court of the by the 5 plus 5 military commission, which is tasked with implementing the geneva agreement, which is entailing, get the removal of all troops in the disputed areas, especially, and sit and jail for, and also that there was the will of foreign fighters and mercenaries from libya. So both tracks are going, say, meltingly, asleep, and no one can succeed alone. At least 8 peacekeepers are reported to have died after a Helicopter Crash in egypt. The black hawk aircraft went down over the Sinai Peninsula and belong to the Multinational Force in observers that nonis had the 40 year old Peace Agreement between israel and egypt, and 6 americans were among the dead, french and czech nationals were also said to have been on board a u. N. , special representative visiting cats are, has countries blockading the gulf state to immediately withdraw their restrictions. Do han is the special rapporteur on unilateral coercive measure than human rights. Now in 2017, the u. A. E. Saudi arabia, bahrain and egypt imposed a boycott on cattle accusing it of supporting terrorism vehemently denies all allegations earch the them of so do the united arab emirates, the kingdom of bihari, and they are approved probably of just to immediately withdraw all sanctions measures aimed to establish an restrictions on freedom of expression, more them and access to proper to treat various bunter its quarter. 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