2015, or turks are still painful memories and deep divisions. In ethiopia, the struggle for control of the tikrit region appears to be worsening. Amnesty International Says hundreds of civilians have been massacred. All the Human Rights Group is unclear who is responsible . Some witnesses blame forces loyal to the 2. Great Peoples Liberation front. Un is warning of a humanitarian emergency. More than 4000 people cross from ethiopia into sudan in just one day. If your b. S. Federal government has appointed a new head of the region, Prime Minister of the ahmed says the offensive will not end until local leader. Its removed. Ever morgan has more from god that he found saddam there. The ethiopian border refugees continued to arrive at the sudanese European Border here in the state of qatar yesterday. Authorities went to check out the situation of the refugees and what is happening at the border. They say that more than 11000 have arrived over the past 3 days in to get out of state as well as neighboring states. And they say that more than 20000 are at the border waiting to cross into those 2 states seeking refuge from the conflict that is currently unfolding. And its a great region if you appear. Now, whats happened upon their arrival is that they are screened for health reasons. But also for security reasons, because some of those who have arrived so far are former combat sense. Who put down their arms, fleeing the conflict and coming to seek refuge here and about if they sudanese Authorities Say they are quite concerned about what is unfolding. One exhausted in these cover, the Sudanese Government announced that it is shutting down its borders, hearing about it as well as neighboring states and deployed more than 6000. 00 troops. And it comes at a time when the sudanese Prime Minister on the lam dog is the head of that, a god, thats the east african bloc. That brings together a group of nations including sudan and ethiopia. He has called the Prime Minister and expressed his readiness to mediate in the conflict. And its a great region expressing concern that is something that the head of the Sovereignty Council also expressed in this b. S. The security and Defense Committee meeting on monday. But the 2 sides, the Prime Minister of sudan, abdullah and the head of the Sovereignty Council both met with the security advisor of the g. O. P. And Prime Minister abu ahmed, who said that this conflict will get, will be sorted in the shortest time possible. And that mediation by sudan or by egads, is not needed at the moment. Sudan has said that it is worried about the humanitarian situation, and its urging all sides for restraint and says that the situation is quite dire and very volatile and that all sides should try to resolve the conflict as soon as possible. Lets take a close look at this region to grey is in, ethiopia is northeastern highlands on the border with eritrea, and still its home to be eaten and could armor and to claim people together, they make up about 6 percent of ethiopias population to graze, governed by the 2 great Peoples Liberation front from the regions capital mckayla, the lift dominated the countrys military and Central Government before it took office in 2018. Its estimated the p. L. F. As a quarter of a 1000000 fighters, and a lot of military equipment was up against ethiopias military says its made gains in the west to agree and response to attack on one of its federal military bases. Bryden is a Strategic Advisor of some research. Thats a think tank covering the horn of africa. He says this escalation is cause for concern not only for 2 grains, but for other ethnic groups. One of the alarming things about this conflict is the speed with which it has shifted from a discourse over constitutionalism and political principles like federalism to one that has taken on a a viciously ethnic character really in the space of a matter of weeks. So where this began, if the dispute you could say, began with the government of abbey akhmed, postponing National Elections because of the coverage. 19 epidemic to graze, saying this is illegitimate. Going ahead with its own elections as constitutionally mandated, the federal government calling that illegal, that at that level were talking about highly sophisticated state functions and issues. But now if you look at these statements from the government and from social media mouthpieces on various sides of the conflict, this is being characterized less as a kind of precise Law Enforcement action by the federal government. But as an offensive against the people of to gray and to grains outside the 2 great region, finding themselves arrested, detained, questioned, some prevented from leaving the country even those some with dual nationality and foreign passports. And so this is beginning to, to take the character of an ethnically fueled conflict and as other ethnic groups see this evolving, i imagine what the anxiety and the concern that the federal government could use similar tactics against other regions. Other groups is simply going to grow security and Election Officials from the u. S. Government have released to statement declaring this is a president ial election. The most secure in American History is that theres no evidence that Voting Systems were compromised. Despite this president , donald trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud on special reports. Its unusual for donald trump to keep such a low profile. Hes made one appearance, but hasnt spoken in public for a week. His twitter feed continues to push claims of a stolen election on thursday. He tweeted a report alleging 2700000 votes were deleted from Voting Systems across the country. The company who made the machines says that didnt happen, and no Government Election watchdog insists the election was the most secured in American History. The elections, infrastructure, government, coordinating council, and the election infrastructure sector, coordinating committees, part of the department of Homeland Security issued a joint statement and emphasized in bold type. There is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes changed votes, or was in any we compromised. One of the major contributors for making this the most secure election in u. S. History is the fact that there were large numbers with vote by mail. And actual having physical paper ballots, one of Donald Trumps closest aides has reportedly been seeking out. Officials in various government departments, he considers insufficiently loyal to donald trump, with the intention of firing them. One of the people behind this report has told friends he expects to be called in the coming days. On capitol hill, democrats continue to urge their republican colleagues to accept the election result and get back to business when it comes to the election. Republicans, Congressional Republicans dont have the evidence. They dont have the proof, they dont have anything. Neither does the president , Congressional Republicans are deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason, but fear of donald trump. Ok, the biden team is pushing for access to the daily intelligence briefing. They got them during the campaign, but have been blocked since the election by a white house contesting the result. Will republican senators have expressed concern that could impact u. S. Security well stopping short of contradicting the president . Look, one of these 2 men will be the president United States after the Election Results have come in. And i think at this point, just as a matter of protecting our nations interests, i do think that both the president and his and his competition here, the Vice President biden should have access to those classified reports. President trumps legal team insists theres a process to follow that could take some time and it continues to fundraise to help the president s efforts in court. Alan fischer, aljazeera washington and china has become one of the last major countries to congratulate president elect joe biden. U. S. Relations with beijing have been strained on trade technology and security of the trump administration. In the latest spare us, the us president has banned americans from doing business with companies that are links to the chinese military. His executive order claims that beijing forces chinese firms to help finance and modernize its military. That takes effect on january 11 days before trump is due to step down. Lets pick now to Gabriel Elizondo who is in wilmington, delaware. Gabe, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson from china was the one to issue this congratulations message to joe biden. Did biden responded. Oh, no, biden hasnt responded. Hes actually taking a couple days off. That is beach home, just not too far from here in wilmington, here in delaware. Were not expected to hear much from him publicly over the next day or 2, as he takes a little bit of rest. However, there are a couple things really to point out here on this. And that says that theres widespread bipartisan support in washington for a tough stance on china, on multiple different issues. So that probably wont change when joe biden takes the presidency on january 20th. Its also important to point out that biden himself, during the campaign. And even in this transition period has not released any sort of detailed plan on how we have ministration expects to deal with china. But thats sort of expected because all you really have to do is look back to the 8 years. Biden was Vice President to barack obama and a lot of bidens key Foreign Policy advisers. Right now, either formally or informally, are people from that administration of long time ties to china and dealing with chinese china policy with the u. S. So that will be something to keep a very close eye on. So what you can do is just look at the Obama Administration policy towards china, and youre going to probably see something very similar where it differs now is how, when it comes to trumpet ministration, what youre probably likely to see under a biden presidency when it comes to china is more strategy and the less rhetoric thats for sure, particularly in some key issues. Now, it comes to what youre probably going to see under biden is hes going to probably elevate issues such as democracy and human rights at the same level as economic trade issues and tariff issues with china. That necessarily wasnt the case under president trump, but there could be some key area years of agreement between washington and beijing during a biden presidency. 2, particularly one is on Climate Change. Biden has said that is one of his key priorities and you cant really deal with Climate Change on a global level without engaging constructively, with the Worlds Largest carbon emitter, that being china. So that could be some areas of cooperation. And then also on the global pandemic, the United States has, you know, pfizer and other companies that are very close to a vaccine here. China has several Companies Working on a vaccine. So that could be an area where theyre able to cooperate, either on Research Science or distribution. Ok, thank you for that. And willing to delaware, still come here on aljazeera. A warning to people making holiday plans. This cover 90 cases continue to rise in many European Countries. And the Nicholas Hoult in the sillies fishing town of who are where dozens of families have lost relatives trying to make it by boat to europe. Find out thats why so many continue to make this dangerous journey. And there were about see the weather in the levant, deteriorate again by which i mean west and windy. The last nights concert here is iran showing itself as snow the high ground of afghanistan, the shah is going to show talents for the gulf, as well, with a couple of days or a day of strong wind dancer cutter. As an example, the change is just about to take place here. As you see in the eastern med folks would suggest sunday showers are quite likely on saturday. Although that breeze goes to the showers for sunday and monday and only widespread. The be there will say this though, doesnt look quite so nice in lebanon, syria and stretching a bit further south and towards gaza. Maybe you light have rather wet, starts to the following, working week. Southern africa is seeing the showers get further and further south and go is a good focus and congo. But i think well also see it come right down. Once more into namibia for sas is mostly dry picture, putting wind hook, youve got thunderstorms, gusty showers, i think on saturday and sunday before on monday the wind swings around to the southwest, not a particular woman. Direction of the wind hooks or right joburg back up to 30 degrees and i want to own up to 35. Ok time. Im in i. T. Frank assessment because dont any way the protest is any way either the bullet will get the news from. I didnt depth analysis of the dates, global headlines is it . Thats really the inside story on aljazeera, on charges. Of course, the once mighty financial capitals of the world have been reduced to ghost towns by the pandemic. Could they reinvent themselves . Plus to accuse president of the Central Bank Governor after the summit law steps down as finance minister counting the cost on aljazeera gorging on just their reminder of our top stories this hour. Thousands of people pouring across ethiopias border into saddam to escape fighting between the army and 2 great regional forces. The federal government has appointed a new head of region. Top u. S. Election officials have described the president ial vote as the most secure in u. S. History comes as more republicans break ranks with donald trump over his refusal to cooperate with president elect joe biden. China has become one of the last major countries to congratulate president elect. Joe biden becomes a president. Donald trump banned americans from doing business with companies links to the chinese military. The u. S. Top Infectious Disease expert says the country can avoid another coronavirus lockdown if people get serious about social distancing and wearing masks. Dr. Anthony fauci called for vigilance during the wait for vaccines. On thursday, the u. S. Reported more than 150000 new cases in just 24 hours. If the 10th consecutive day and infections have been above 100000, several European Countries have warned that its too early for people to stop planning end of year holiday travel. Thats as Record Number of corona, virus infections, excuse me, are reported across the continent. Among those as the u. K. That recorded its highest number of infections on thursday, on a cane is in berlin, he says, not all in countries that have opposed hotshot downs and actually seen that quantifies cases drop. We know that in many countries across europe, across the european union, the trend of new infections remains upward. Certainly, that is the case in germany. Its also the case in poland, where the numbers being reported far more than 20000. 00 per day. And yet, in other countries around the european union, certainly over the course of the last few days, the trend has been either of a plateau in the number of new infections or a slight drop. Certainly, that has been the case in 2 of the benelux countries. In belgium and in the netherlands where a plastering effect has been reported. But as i say, it is important to put these into perspective. Because we know that across the european union, there are many, many countries with very many risk areas alone here in l. A. And one in every 5 before we intensive camp beds available to emergency workers or hospitals for 4. Covert patients is currently being occupied by a covert patient and only one in 5 of the intensive care beds. Beds now are available for anybody else as it were, which explains why there is a real concern about the figures coming out. So its a bit of a Patchwork Quilt as it were across europe. Some countries that are in harsh lockdown a seeing a plateau in effect, or as others say, you know, plants are in effect just, you know, its one of the u. K. Prime ministers. Closest advisors is to step down at the end of the year. Dominic cummings says he had always planned to quit when the breaks. The transition period was over on december 31. Hes credited with masterminding breakfast and reelection earlier this year and was criticized for flouting coronavirus restrictions at the diamond is associate professor of Public Policy at Queen Mary University of london. He explains how Dominic Cummings became out of step with the british government. I think that the underlying its you is that it appears as if Dominic Cummings has lost the confidence of the Prime Minister.