Severely limit free speech. 17000000000. 00 worth of weapons for saudi arabia, less than 6000000000. 00 and much needed aid for yemen. You report criticizes g. , 20 nations about peter simply the school lympics chief thomas, but says athletes at the turkey game should get vaccinated against both 19, but they wont be forced to begin this news hour with the situation in northern ethiopia, where rebels and t. Grey have refused to give in to government demands to put down their weapons. 3 days ago, Prime Minister issued an ultimatum. Stand down or face more attacks tuesday. He didnt leave it on that threat with new airstrikes and his government froze. The Bank Accounts of 34 institutions linked to graze leadership at the Ethiopian Air force says it carried out the airstrikes near the regions main city. It is the primary base for bt great Peoples Liberation. Front told pti p. L. F. Which governs there are bad says that his forces are now preparing for a final attack. He says the conflict will end when the t. N. F. Is brought to justice and its leaders have been replaced. The u. N. And foreign leaders have called for mediation, the request which has been largely ignored by both sides, the government to put extra troops on monday. And as more soldiers move in civilians are for leave. The un has called it a full scale humanitarian crisis. An estimated 27000 people have crossed the border into neighboring saddam this situation to study the, you know, what 50000 people, you know, that know the city might be starting to see the services you when its your job, your city street clothes, your student, you and other service providers, and you can see some stories over the system. Some provision, much more needs to be done. Ramadan has more now from fish in central. The Government Forces have their eyes on the calendar, the cup, the title of thats a good regionals. They say theyve been cutting out of products on the outskirts of the cup because of the ticker, very rigid and security sources. Tell us that the next 48 hours will be really cool. Szell in this flight. The European Security forces cut out a multipronged of hock on mackellar. The couple of region goes to great Peoples Liberation. Phones is putting on this has lost some pounds of closer to 200 columns of hope and claiming the been clean. For most of the past one of weeks. Government forces are helping foreign minister. These folks with something buckled in outside, where the government, another suburb. But they say theyre sure that the 16 the visions from at a trailer fighting a long pipe line with these forces. Lets take a closer look at the Northern Region of tikrit. It is a semi autonomous area governed by the 2 great Peoples Liberation front is estimated to have up to 250000. Scientists say gray was the front lines in ethiopia during its 2 year conflict with eritrea and large amounts of military equipment are still still there. Despite ethnic to grains only making up 5 percent of the population, they controlled the National Government to nearly 3 decades. That was before Prime Minister, obviously it comes to power in 2018. That shift in power tend to tension to great leaders defied government twice. Once in refusing to join his Coalition Party and then september by Holding Elections against the orders of the central government. It was a big is the ethiopian minister in charge of democratization. He says the t. P. M. Left have forced the government to military action. The government has no problem with mediation. You know, the detail is short and the footage of our defense forces, our soldiers, who are our desire to defend again, people from any possible for innovation who want to go in and could possibly negotiate away under the horses of you know, well or to do so only hand of it if you just got out of being anything to do if your people it is in the mass killing without 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 ground 0 as to should be handed over about to us are sort of just what under the peoples, you know, it should be good. Should also be freed and be allowed to be members, a functioning government of all defense forces. And number of things can, can do this that we can on that, which is with all these things out. And the suspect why our soldiers who are out of there is open to defend it again, people from any possible for innovation. So there has to be condition at least 18 people have been killed and Dozens Injured. After the engine of the boat exploded in the north atlantic city. It happened off the western coast of africa around 150. 00. People were thought to be on the boat, mainly from senegal, gambia said to be making its way from cape to spain. Joins us now from dakar. In senegal. Nicholas, so 150 people thought to be on that boat. 80 bodies found this is a real tragedy. Whats the latest . It is a real tragedy until the 1st one came. There was another explosion, another 145 People Killed just last week. Most of those are migrants from senegal, or from again, trying to make their way to the European Union that is to the islands of the canaries to the southern border and southern border of europe. Now, early this morning, he kept 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 they arrived on the scene, they saw all men, women, children holding on to plastic barrels only used to contain food. Now the vessel exploded. Obviously its made to carry humans. It has happened before that 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, kim, 17000. 00, 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. He calls them camps of shame because they have little access to running water. There are rats, he says that are there, 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 migrants that are waiting for their papers to be processed him. Because i remember a few years ago, you know, its a different group. Were hearing about lampedusa all the time. Now were hearing about the Canary Islands. Really, quite often you have been reporting on this journey that people are making from west africa to the Canary Islands. Why are we seeing this increase now . Well, you know, before people from senegal again via would travel through the sahara desert, through mali, on to libya, to cross the mediterranean. Now theres been a government to government negotiation between the libyan government, the tunisian government, and the European Union to try to stem out those roots. Its also become very dangerous for migrants to go to libya and given the circumstances in which the situation is in libya. So its really the fact that this route is relatively more safe for migrants to take. But the timing is interesting. Its 2020 year where countries, especially in west africa, has been, have been badly affected by the corona virus outbreak. Not that there has been a big death toll or a lot of people being infected by the corona virus, but because of the economic fallout. So construction sites have stalled. Theres less work available. And so weve met parents who have pushed their children to Young Children as young as 14 or 15 to embark in those journeys. They believe that they have a better chance of not only seeking asylum and getting granted asylum because they are minors. But they have more opportunities in countries in europe than they have at home. And thats why so many are here. Are willing to take this dangerous risk despite the dangers ahead. Kim, thank you so much for that. There live from dakar. And these 36 civilians have been killed in an attack on 2 villages in the democratic republic of congo that happened in betting in the northeast. The attack began on monday night and continued into the morning rebels from the Ugandan Allied Democratic forces are suspected of being responsible for i do our head on the news, our including social media executives in washington for perry right now. If the tough questions from congress about censorship and the president ial elections, u. S. Secretary of state might bump aoe is in turkey. But well tell you why hes not to meeting with any government leaders. And did support the n. F. L. Star who is set to miss several games with broken ribs and a collapsed lung some Big Decisions in u. S. Foreign policy, a being considered by the trumpet, ministration as its time for the white house draws to a close report suggests that just last week, trump asked his officials for options on attacking iran as may nuclear sites. He said to have been talks out of it, iran has said any such move would be met with a crushing response. Theres also been talk of the Trump Administration planning to designate yemens who the rebels as a terrorist organization. The Foreign Policy publication says its another initiative in the works before joe biden takes over in january. And the head of nato has warned against removing u. S. Troops from afghanistan too quickly. Reports suggest looking to home of the number of personnel by january or now a closer look at the involvement of u. S. Troops in afghanistan, there are around 4 and a half 1000 soldiers stationed there right now, alongside other nato troops that Training AfghanSecurity Forces more than 2400 u. S. Troops have been killed since american involvement began back in 2001. At its peak in 2010, some 100000 u. S. Soldiers were in the country fighting al qaeda and the taliban. Well, recently peace negotiations between afghanistans government and the taliban have been taking place in qatar. Those talks of the result of an early a deal signed between the taliban and the United States. Sunday at mit is fellow at the center for International Security and cooperation at stanford university. He says, an american withdrawal would mean mess incentive for the taliban to deliver their side of the peace. Still, president tom as has been mulling this reduction since, you know, since july of this year. And i think he has sought options from the pentagon to go down the deal, and the pentagon has slowed him, in fact, at the images, which is why he is now fired. His secretary of defense mark at the time we had with their loyalist, which is as you said, the u. S. War in a couple needs to win. You know, in terms of implications. I think this decision was certainly spent on the taliban on the ground that i wondered supposed to do in that part of it even mean the u. S. And the taliban in every 25. Negotiating with your gun government. There was a little bit uncertain counterterrorism getting involved in those think they have not been you know, because the question mark on the other one is getting a lot of international terrorists. And now with the u. S. Putting our troops in that pressure and deploy the taliban to deliver on those on those guarantees will go down the chief executives of facebook and twitter to appear before members of the Senate Judiciary committee. To answer questions about social media around the president ial elections. Its their 2nd hearing in 2 months. The hearing was called by republican senator Lindsey Graham in october, when the social Networks Limited the reach of a New York Post article, which was critical of president elect joe biden. Both Companies Say they restricted the article because it contained false and leaks material. Lets get more now from White House Correspondent kelly heloc at washington. D. C. Kimberly. So this is a republican led committee, but democrats have also had issues with these social media platforms, right . Absolutely. Kim, youre right, this is a sort of a bipartisan gripe about these social media companies, but for different reasons. As you point out, the republicans who control the senate calling this hearing. Because they believe that in the lead up to the u. S. Election, that there is a disproportionate amount of censorship, of conservative thought. And specifically the argue that you talk about there. The article with regard to joe biden, his son hunter biden, and a laptop that allegedly had very damning information if you well, this is something that was flagged repeatedly as being false by twitter. But democrats have also said that theyre not happy with some of the claims of the u. S. President being promoted on twitter as well as that he won the election that theres been voting irregularities. So theres a feeling overall that this is arbitrary in terms of the flagging that takes place by the left and the right. And its hardly the free flow of information that the internet was purported to initially promote. So these are the issues that are being explored in this hearing, and we expect that this will have a little bit more in terms of fireworks than the last time. Both of these gentlemen appeared before congress. Well, as we can see, that hearing is happening right now. Kimberly, can you tell us a little bit more about the article which sparks this are in the 1st place, this New York Post article and why it was initially taken down by the social media platforms . Yeah, theres a little bit of controversy around twitter and its decision to do this, something they actually had to walk back. What this is, is it was an article by the New York Post, which is known as being conservative, leaning and terms of its, its articles and editorials, and it published a report that how the information that hunter biden may have exploited some of his fathers connections. For business purposes, in other words, the position of joe biden, when he was the Vice President favored his son. But what twitter alleged is that this was a tainted illegally. This was hacked from a laptop that was sent in for repair and it contains private information. Now what republicans are arguing is that that has never really been an issue before for twitter. So this was arbitrary. Now what we can also tell you is that democrats have their own issues and that is that they believe there is promotion of hate speech. And also that theres unfair competition and potentially theres also privacy issues. So there are a broad range of issues on both sides that are concerning what this could really lead to, in terms of this hearing or ultimately legislative changes. Because both sides are looking for reform of whats known as section 230 of the Communications Decency act. That is essentially allows for these companies to have a munity from 3rd party content. Both democrats and republicans are seeking to change that. Ok, thank you for that. As i watch house correspondent Kelly Holcomb band live in washington d. C. Americas top diplomat is in turkey as part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe bus. My pompei, i did not meet turks politicians or even officials and say a thing elves, a meeting with the head of the Orthodox Church in istanbul for pay was also set to visit georgia, israel and number of gulf countries. So im costello is live for us now in istanbul said it seemed a bit odd to the, the american secretary of state coming to turkey, but not meeting with the president or, or even the foreign minister. Whats this about . Well, kim, actually support post office. They explains it as a scheduling issue due to packed program in istanbul, and this 10 day trip that includes europe and the middle east. But however, the Foreign Ministry ankara explains it as a start because apparently mr. Paul asked to meet the turkish president and the Turkish Foreign minister in istanbul, not in the capital and from ankara we heard that this is totally out of diplomatic residence. And if you are coming here for a bi later meeting, you have to meet us in the capital, not in istanbul, not the porn your requests. So basically, this is how ankara sees it. But i must say that also the perception here in turkey is that this is not seen as a diplomatic trip, but this is not seen. This is another, this is not announced as a, as an individual trip because some, some parties in turkey also criticize the u. S. Secretary of state for spending u. S. U. S. Taxpayers money for such as it also some circles it is in turkey, could size the turkish government saying that they are, they are treating mr. Pompei or this way because hes already an outgoing secretary of state, and this is a green light for the new newly elected president joe biden, who also has concerns over turkeys military military actions in syria, libya and other places. But i uncorrupt hasnt welcome this also Foreign Ministry spokesperson called the visit