Human rights and severely limit free speech. 17000000000. 00 worth of weapons to saudi arabia, but less than 6000000000. 00 in much needed aid for yemen. Youve reported criticizes the g. 20 nations. If you simply go to school for limpets, chief thomas bosses athletes at the tokyo game should get vaccinated against the 19, but they wont be forced to we can this news hour with the situation in northern ethiopia, where rebels integrate, have refused to give in to government demands to put down their weapons 3 days ago. Prime minister abi ahmed issued an ultimatum stand down or face more attacks. Tuesday he delivered on that threat with new airstrikes and his government froze. The Bank Accounts of 34 institutions linked to to graze leadership. The Ethiopian Air force says it carry delta strikes near the regions made city of mackay lay. It is the primary base for the tiebreak Peoples Liberation front or t. P. S. If which governs there about. It says that his forces are now preparing a final attack. He says the conflict will end when the t. P. L. F. Is brought to justice and its leaders have been replaced. The un and foreign leaders of called for mediation are requests which has been largely ignored by both sides. The government deployed extra troops on monday and does more soldiers move when civilians are fleeing. The un has called it a full scale humanitarian crisis, an estimated 27000. 00. People have crossed the border into neighboring pseudo discreet cities to be yeah, but 50000 people, you know, that know the city by the most part in the city, youre starting to see the services youre in. Its your job. You see these 3 girls used to be in the service providers, and you can see in some stories of this instance, a position that much more needs to be done. Has more from ethiopias capital, addis ababa. The european Prime Minister ahmed, is promising a crucial and decisive face in the fighting that the grey region of more from ethiopia, he says his forces are now were ready to take the city of mechanic up with all of the to great region. He made that announcement of to the expiry of a 30 day that he had given to degree fighters to surrender themselves to the Ethiopian National defense forces. Security sources have told him visit of the next 48 hours will be question as the European Forces launch a tux on mckinley for multiple fronts. The sources say that the fighting is expected to get more intense. If European Forces near the mountainous areas surrounding the couple of the to give a region mckayla the to grow Peoples Liberation front leadership who are engaged in the conflict with the government in the suburb say that they had a very to defend their positions to the last month the been complaining about civilians getting hot in aesthetics carried out by Government Forces in mcmullen. Something that has been rejected and refuted by the government in the december. Late last week, the t. P. A. Live fight and send up to 3 missiles across the border to us. Mother, a couple of at a trailer, something diplomats say could bring in a train into the fighting. But the tibial of later should maintain, is that they are already fighting at a tree and forces on the ground and say that up to 16 divisions of the trim forces present and helping Prime Minister its forces. Something that is of a body of nice. Lets take a closer look at the Northern Region of 2. Great. It is a semi autonomous area governed by the tick rate Peoples Liberation front is estimated to have up to 250000 to gray was the front line for ethiopia during its 2 year conflict with eritrea. And knowledge amounts of military equipment are still stored there, despite ethnic to grains only making up 5 percent of the population. They control the National Government finale 3 decades. Thats before Prime Minister abi, of that came to power in 2018. That shift in power turned to tension after to great leaders to fight up its government twice once and refusing to join his coalition party. And its attempt by Holding Elections against the orders of the Central Government was and is the ethiopian minister in charge of democratization. He says, the tape e. L. F. Of force the government into military action. The government has no problem with mediation, but 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 would possibly negotiate wastrel of their south under the horses of you know, well now that you had on earth, there is only hand of it if you just got out of being anything. How Little People it is in the mass killing we can cite 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 of the people that are involved in separation 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. A number of things can, can be listed. We cannot know, which is with all these things out and the suspect why our soldiers are under the accountability there. If who are out there, it is all them to defend it again, people from any possible for innovation. So there has to be condition. Well, earlier we spoke to, brad said, and eritrean journalist living in exile in the u. S. , he says, Prime Minister on the op ed wants to see an end to the t. P. S. If saddam is receiving more than 10000. If its from dubai, if you ban forces that have been bombarding a friend of rubber examples are involved. And to that in the conflict and sort of other countries other never encountered from south sudan, probably kenya. I mean, sudan duty in all this camp knowing of this is already coming to know god goes about so far. I think they dont want to listen to anyone. Because what i am as and says, and what he says are they are trying to finish off the bill that they have that kind of revenge against them. Definitely tell it instead of and was in with the people organism, the wisdom with the leadership that i wouldnt have written. It was written because they dont want to have to sit on their land and otherwise that we might get them. And whats being done the chief executives of facebook and twitter are pairing before members of the Senate Judiciary committee to answer questions about social media and the president ial elections. It is their 2nd hearing in 2 months 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 is opening statement. Twitter is c. E. O. Of message. It was wrong to block the post. We made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in your vehicle were changed. And according to your we block them from being spread. Further, consideration with little distraction was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours. I hope, desire straits. The rationale behind our actions demonstrates are believed to be, but it was stakes, and the changes all transparently to the public. I believe this was the largest Election Integrity effort by any private company in recent times. This is what people expect of us, and im glad that from what weve seen so far. Our systems performed well. Election interference remains an ongoing threat that will never fully be solved. So we continue to improve with each i watch it. Your integrity work is really only half the story. We also ran an unprecedented Civic Engagement program to encourage people to take part in our democracy. Lets go now to our White House Correspondent kelly hellcat to ken lay a bit of contrition. Very guess you could say from tresses dont say, dont so much from facebooks zuck of cows. That herring been going yes, jack dorsey seems to be getting a disproportionate number of questions. Republicans really unhappy over the limiting of information that they say adversely affects conservative causes. Not only that New York Post article, but also senator ted cruz, grilling the twitter c. E. O. Over the alleged apparent what sort of looking for and corporate position on the issue of voter fraud. Essentially saying that, you know, he doesnt know whether it does or does not exist. Something that jack dorsey admitted yet twitter is taking a corporate stance on some of the president s claims, for example, that theres been widespread voter fraud. Vote rigging, even as the department of Homeland Security has said, that is not the case. Still, this is something that conservatives argue that twitter is a platform as well as facebook for exchange of ideas. And that is sort of the concept of the internet overall. And they are not living up to their responsibilities and also not living up to responsibilities. Allegedly, according to some of these senators, is google noticeably absent from this hearing. So a lot is being delved into in terms of the sort of role that social media has to play. Not just for this election, but for Upcoming Elections as well, because pretty important questions, considering the amount of power platforms have. Chemically we mentioned the original New York Post off of coal, which sort of spocks republican are in the 1st place. Tell us more about that. Yeah, the article was controversy alive and you heard jack dorsey talking there about their decision to limit the article. What happened . This is what got even the press secretary here at the white house just furious is that they were sharing this article, many conservatives that was not particularly flattering to joe biden. What it was with an article that alleged that his son hunter biden had taken advantage for business purposes of some of the policies put in place by his father when he was the vice president. Now whats significant about this is the point that twitter was making is look at this article was written based on information that was gleaned from a laptop that was under repair. In other words, hacking it was private information. Conservative saying yeah, but thats never stopped. You with other kind of articles that are shared on social media, so they feel they are as a centrally saying that there is bias. Something that the social Media Networks are denying. Still. We know that liberals are also concerned. Democrats are saying that theyre concerned not just about the president s claims, that they say are ranias and fraudulent, but also that there is hate speech that needs to be taken into consideration unlimited. So it seems both sides are concerned. Want to try and make some legislative change, but for different reasons. Ok, thank you so much for that. Ken lay how compare our White House Correspondent but i, had on the news hour including concerns about u. S. , president all trumps plans for a troop drawdown in afghanistan. Nato ones withdrawing too quickly could pose a risk to a secretary of state by is in turkey, but well tell you why hes not making any government leaders. Class in sports, new dates are confirmed for the Club World Cup in qatar on details. Coming up with peter de france, palm of his debasing a proposed law that bans the broadcast of Police Officers faces. Critics say its an attack on free speech that could lead to impunity for Police Violence. Thats all about love told from paris, french documentary the monopoly of violence, exposes and examines Police Brutality in france, focusing on recent protests, but also taking in the suburbs. A harrowing watch, it uses footage shot by journalists, all members of the public showing clips like this though, may not be possible in the future. The french government has proposed a new security law, part of which would crack down on the broadcast or sharing of images of Police Officers. Filmmaker david de freyne says the bill destroys basic freedoms. That over the lawmakers want to stop the free circulation of information and knowledge because in the last few years, france has discovered Police Violence. Its something that, in reality, has existed for a very long time in the suburbs, but was not documented in this way. Video has been used in several high profile cases of alleged Police Violence in the country, the death of delivery man, cedric sure, via during a police check in paris in general, was filmed by a possible by footage the lead to an inquiry in parliament m. P. s debated the bill if passed, a person could be jailed for up to a year and find more than 50000. 00 for broadcasting sharing identifiable images of a Police Officer with the intention of harming them out. So i journalists and opponents. The law gathered to protest. Campaigners fear that if journalists and citizens are dissuaded from filming the police, it will make it harder to hold some officers accountable for their actions, and some may act with impunity. But the government says the law is necessary to protect the safety of Police Officers. You say its not about stopping journalists from working. The law doesnt impact the right to inform for journalists or citizens. But it prevents Police Officers from having their identities put on line with cost of violence or to be subject to reprisals. They can have grave consequences. Protect the police for violence. One on duty is essential says this police union spokesperson, but he says the new law is not the answer. A lot of the government would clear on the role of the police what they can and cannot do in the schools would not be necessary. Only rested demonstrations and recent attacks have prompted the government to take a tougher line on security. But instead of working on building more trust between Police Officers and the public, some say the new law threatens to erode it. Natasha butler just 0. Paris. The french government has been on a growing pressure to address long running complaints of Excessive Force by police. In june, for least 5, tear gas to disperse, a rally of supporters of a french black man who died in custody in 2016. Since the start of the Yellow Vests Movement in 2018, a number of protesters have lost their eyes or hands because of stun grenades used as crowd control measures. And in 2017, the un published a report finding 3 incidents of suspected excessive use of force. One of the 3 was and another was theo, the haka, who was reportedly raped, beaten up by a Police Officer. With more on this, were joined by paulina this mail in paris. She is a spokeswoman for reporters without borders, is calling this law or could obviously have some very far reaching implications for journalists. What are your Major Concerns . Good evening. Our major concern about the solo is so lack of clarification. According to your report, i just heard from paris, its very clear and in how far the once a journalist issue that well be able to go well, the prosecutor, well be able to look into the journalists to email and personal things or words on the social Networks Just to remember to not be kept. This ban on filming. It is a ban on the fuming police is intent to harm and we consider that threaten the press freedom because of its article 24. That puts the journalist and the High Pressure with the risk of one, your prison and 45000 euros, or rather the whole of the questionnaire. Doesnt it, polly . When you talk about intent to harm, i mean, who decides what the intent was . How do you, how do you prove the intent . Right . Exactly. The prosecutor will have means to show this intention to harm, but its too vague and we are asking for clarification. How far will the prosecutor be able to go . Thats one of the question. Plus the fact that it will have a Chilling Effect on other journalists. I mean, no one wants to be prevented to do the job on the field. And no one wants to be as he did. And therefore talking about interpretation. Weve talked about that word intent. Then theres that word harm, i mean, what happens if youre a Police Officer is filmed and hes emotionally harmed, hes upset about it. I mean, is that basis for prosecution . Not for prosecution, probably, but at least for that long standing by the Police Officer on the ground. So he would tell the journalists to stop filming in order just to not to be and to avoid disposable band. So it would be an afghan on press freedom and the right to inform because the journalist would be stopped from it. So one sequence is one of those. The proponents of this is saying that the purpose of the law is to stop Police Officers from being harmed after theyve been identified. Your we, we both know that footage can be taken out of context that perhaps Police Officers could be filmed that could be taken out of context. And perhaps they could be in harms way. I mean, do the proponents of this will have a point to notice that you are not on the ground to arm police and this is a fact