Mexico takes a step closer to legalizing marijuana and becoming the largest legal market for the drug. And with the sports, including the rafa nadal, which is the last for athlete acb finals for the 1st time in 5 years. Welcome to the news. The United Nations has called on ethiopias warring sides to stop fighting immediately. So aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. The government launched an offensive into grey region 2 weeks ago. Both sides accuse each other of killing civilians in air strikes and indiscriminate attacks. Now the uns Refugee Agency says its preparing for as many as 200000. 00 people to seek refuge in sudan. So far more than 30000 have fled humanitarian workers. The millions of children are at risk, and refugees are in serious danger of an outbreak of disease. Well, have a morgan joins me now live from and state in sudan near the ethiopian border of the been following events very closely for us. The influx of refugees, as we said, does continue. And the numbers seem to be increasing in terms of those that are looking for help. Yes, indeed. Spoken to the Sudanese Commission of refugees and they say that at least quiet hundreds have come into this camp here near the border near this today. And, if youre a border, and theres just up until about 12 g. M. T. , the final tally that the commission usually takes comes around 15. 00 to 16. 00 g. M. T. They say because as the hours progress and as the sun cooled down, they started gathering more people from farms. People who were fleeing across the border and rather than coming through to the end point, they got lost and its farms that surround the area. And so they were brought by the military and by the sudanese authorities. They say that the number of 500 just here in this camp alone is just the beginning of the tally that theyve been taking since morning. And they say that they expect that number to double by the end of the day. And this is just here. There is another border point, a border reception point in the neighboring state, of course. And thats also been expecting a receiving rather hundreds and hundreds of refugees where a day now the United NationsHigh Commission for refugees says thats up to 2000 refugees arriving every day. They say that at this point they were expecting about 20000 refugees, but that number has reached 33000. Meanwhile, the Sudanese Commission of refugees say that the number is actually closer to 40000. And theyve been calling on the International Community to bring more aid to those. This place, and they say that the number will likely rise up until up to 250000 in the coming weeks to few months. Of course, you can see behind you the beginnings of a, perhaps a well planned operation. And thats the real issue now is trying to get the right in to help the people that need it before an outbreak of disease starts. Yes, indeed. Now the United NationsWorld Food Program has started delivering aid along with the United Nations commission for refugees. And the United Nations childrens agency, the World Food Program says that it has put in stock a supply of supply here in the camps. And they say that its enough for about 60000 people. But thats, of course, if the numbers stay stagnant as it is, but thats not whats happening. Thats not what weve seen. We see an influx of refugees. We see the numbers rising by the thousands every day. And so people here are concerned that this aid will not suffice for a month. And weve spoken to the World Food Program representatives here just a few hours ago. And they say that theyre trying to bring in more aid. But then the logistics and the infrastructure of the country means that theres only so much they can bring per day, but theyre trying to stock up as much as possible, expecting, obviously an influx of refugees expecting more refugees because they say they dont know whats happening on the other side of the border and that they should always expect for higher numbers. Obviously the biggest people who have been infected impacted by this conflict are our children, which the United Nations childrens agencies, are more than 40 percent of the people who have been flowing in many of them suffering from diseases due to the days of tyranny. Just 2 weeks ago, while he was preparing for her sunday now is operation. He was born with a cleft lip, which has affected his ability to drink milk and along with it his health. But just days before they were due to return to the capital of, if europe is not integrated region, the situation changed dramatically when we were due to go back for his last check up before the operation, the fighting started, all the roads were blocked and we couldnt get to macquarie, people were being killed and there were bombs being dropped, so i fled with him and my family. Now we cant even get a doctor to check on him. We cant even get him his vaccination, let alone have hope. Youll get an operation here. The family now resides at this refugee camp in if i should go in sudan of state, there are more than 15000 if you can refugees here in what was once a largely uninhabited area. Thousands more. If you have fled to neighboring state to escape the fighting, integrate. But it to hell are you on her 2 children are some of them. Her infant son has been suffering from breathing problems and she says shes been struggling to get him the care he needs. He has one block nostril and doesnt feed except from a bottle, but i dont have formula for him because weeks fighting me came here. And the Health Care Center doesnt have formula. So i have to go looking around for that. But i dont know where ill get the money from. The camp has only one Health Center to cater for the thousands of children here. Mothers wait for their turn to have their children seen by doctors. Many children exposed to the horrors of conflict in the 1st years of their lives. According to unicef, 40 percent of the refugees arriving in sudan are children. Some have been separated from their families and the process of tracking them has started. Others have arrived with malnutrition because of the days they spent walking with no food and all have been affected by the conflict integrate in a way that will likely impact their childhood. The uns childrens agency says that chris tricked it access, and the ongoing communication blackout in the tigre region has left an estimated 2300000 children in need of humanitarian assistance. And as more and more refugees arriving, sudan is rising concern over their future. Remember, this is the time school started, children will actually miss this years school. And most of the children we saw yesterday come there are school age. Unfortunately, they will not have school this year. So we have to actually come up with alternative and programs already within the next month or 2. Were hoping the crisis will stop, the fighting will stop or will be able to go back home. But if thats not the case, we have to be in place to support them. What do you do says she hopes the conflict ends soon so that she can return back home with her family. She says she wants her child to be operated on, but more importantly, wants him to grow up with no memories of the horror thats forced her and her family to leave their lives behind and seek refuge here in sudan. People, morgan, aljazeera and of out of state. So mcconnell is the heard of the u. N. Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in southern and eastern africa, joins me now via skype from nairobi. Good to have you with us, miss connell, on the program. I mean, whats the situation on the ground as your personnel see it right now . So inside of the fear, as you know, its incredibly difficult to verify information, but we are gravely concerned for the plight of civilians who are inside of tikrit who have now been subjected to more than 2 weeks of fighting. And we are concerned that we will continue to see more displacement of those fleeing the country as well as of those who are fleeing to find safer places within 2 gray itself. Speaking to our correspondent who are you may have just heard a short time ago, she talked about not just hundreds, but thousands of people arriving at to sort of reception border areas in sudan. What sort of numbers are you allocating at the moment or planning for our initial planning figures to hell with 20000 people and that has already been fast. It passed, as you heard that as of today, there are at least 33000 people whove arrived into sudan. So we are now looking at a planning figure of up to 200000 people. And the reason why weve risen at that high is because we need to prepare. As you heard, the people arriving into sudan are arriving into extremely remote areas where theres very limited infrastructure and we have to mobilize a full scale response. So were planning up to a figure of 200000 people to make sure that we can put in place the supplies in the services that people are arriving after that long and exhausting journey so desperately need. But when we talk about infrastructure and getting it in place, what type of infrastructure are you talking about . So you heard the challenges of the Health Center, the local Health Center thats being overwhelmed. So were talking about health services. Were talking about making sure that we have the systems in place to deliver food to all of these people who are arriving. That is hot meals that are being provided. There are Water Systems that are being put in place, but we need to do much, much more to cope with the scale of the influx. How much is covert . 19 a consideration. Considering recent reports suggest that its now on the increase across africa. Obviously the focal point for us here in this conversation is sudar coded 19 is of course a consent. And as you said, we have seen in recent weeks an increase in the number of countries across the region. So we will be doing absolutely everything that we can in the response, if it to ensure that were protecting the people who are arriving from coke at 19 in the way that we respond to the crisis. And in the way that we distribute aid a bit, its something that were going to have to factor in and deal with as we move forward in this incredibly fast paced response to hail. Its not just the organization that has to respond. Its the Sudanese Government to how well coordinated is that effort between aid agencies like yourself and the government in khartoum. So every single day as you heard from here, but there are ongoing conversations between the aid organizations who are on the, ground led by the Refugee Agency for the u. N. , with the government of sudan to make sure that we are joined up in the planning to make sure that we mobilize as rapidly as possible the assistance and the support that these people so desperately need from a caller from the u. N. Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. Thanks for joining us from nairobi. Thank you for having me. So how you can an opposition politician, bobby weiner has been released on bail after being charged over actions likely to spread to corona. Virus. Officials have accused the president ial candidate of violating covert 19 restrictions or campaigning for the upcoming poll. At least 28 people were killed during protests by his arrest on wednesday. Lets get more on this from our correspondent michael ware. Watching this developing situation from nairobi in neighboring kenya, we were expecting that court appearance. And what seems to have happened as he said, he was charged with offenses that relate to the risk of spreading. The coronavirus is the president ial election campaigns began just over a week ago, has repeatedly drawn crowds that are much larger than the limit of 200. 00 people that were specified by the ministry of health and the electoral commission. Now the Authorities Say that this is a Massive Health risk from all the wind supporters say that the efforts to stop these events going ahead simply every direction on their right to hold their political activities. An attempt by the government to try and cover up how popular bobby wine actually is. Now for other opposition, candidates have suspended their campaigns in protest against the arrest in the charging of the wind. And we thought we were in possibly facing Ongoing Court proceedings in the weeks ahead. We dont know what this is going to mean for the campaigns, but this election is nearly always just on the 2 months away. So that would still otherwise be quite a lot of campaigning and rallies to be held. Were waiting to find out if theyre going to be allowed to go ahead. Or if other opposition candidates are actually going to visit their campaigns. And of course, the death toll does continue to rise in the wake of his arrest on the disturbances that have followed. Whats the latest youre hearing about that . The Police Spokesperson said when speaking to the browns, just a short while later today that the number of People Killed was 28. But a place pathologist, speaking to a news agency, said that theres actually 37 bodies that he has counted since in related to the protests in the unrest that began on wednesday. After what we were, i was arrested in the east where he was campaigning. News of that hes particularly popular among young people, particularly popular in towns and cities in urban areas. Uganda, the capital is the biggest city, many of his supporters out on to the streets. Thats what prompted the crackdown by police and soldiers. Now in that press conference, the Police Spokesperson said that no police had been ordered or instructed to shoot at people. But that does contradict some of the things that weve seen in videos, at least, we dont know because to the orders, but there are plenty of videos circulating on social media where police and soldiers are seen firing weapons towards people. We dont know if thats with metal bullets or rubber coated bullets, but the gun, the red cross did report least a dozen gunshot wounds in the number of injured people that they picked up for the moment. For the update, thanks very much from nairobi. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour, including why these protesters in south africa are rallying against a school in cape town. Where doubletons transfer, overturning the election result near 0. His lawyers resort to increasingly wild claims. And new zealands Prime Minister draws the womens rugby team against some of their faces, rivals as they prepare to defend the world cup travel, host exams in sport. Army says it has entered a district thats been under armenian control for almost 30 years. Its one of 3 areas that armenia has to hand back as part of a cease fire reached. Just over a week ago. Russia helped broker the truce and has peacekeeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer. Armenians angry about giving up the land and have been protesting to demand their Prime Minister. Resign as a by john in armenia, sign the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over nagornokarabakh. Well, lets take a closer look at the regions being handed over that region alone. Is nearly the size of the disputed nagornokarabakh region. Armenia must hand over 2 more areas in the coming weeks, including the held by jar region on november, the 25th. On december, the 1st it will have to hand over the last chin district, and that includes the important code or connecting the corner, got a back to armenia, that is now under the control of russian peacekeepers. Azerbaijan will keep all its territorial gains, including the corner of arc 2nd city shusha. Some of binge of it has more from a down. Weve been told that that is exactly the same as what we, what we saw in physically which was a ghost town just to give you an idea of where we are. These are actually the trenches on top of which were standing for about 30 years. This is the area which the is very army, was using to go back to the dude go towards the front lines and were just a few 100 meters away from the defacto border, which has existed for about 27 years and about 10 kilometers away from the town center where weve seen some social media pictures of the azeri army moving in and taking control of large parts of the city again, which was a ghost town. So adam was one of the most Populated Areas in the gorn, a car about one of the 7 regions around nagornokarabakh, which were taken by the area by the Armenian Army in 1903, when they moved in. And it was about 10 percent of all of the rajon territory. So now it is being handed over people. Weve been meeting on the street on the way to the border, waving their flags coming out in support and asking us, has somebody been to the other side . Has somebody been to their mosques or somebody seen their homes . So theres a lot of anticipation here because people want to go back, theyve been living away as i. D. P. s, and they now want to return to their homes. But it is not going to be easy or quick, because the military has been telling us that all of this area is littered with an exploded munitions and landmines. And this is a very troops begin retaking land. Many armenians are packing up and leaving the area, hala abdul, hamid has more from luncheon. There are very few people here at the moment weve bathed, weve barely seen any civilians. Weve seen some of the armenians who had stayed here to defend their area. You probably see behind me, theres also the russian peacekeepers. Theyve been deploying mass. Weve seen huge convoys of them along the road. Now theyre lachine district, is the last one handed over. It was actually the 1st one to be captured by the armenians back in the early 1990 s. Simply because it is the lifeline. Now gorno karabakh of the is this one road that goes all the way from armenia, from gori, is the border town all the way to stay by my character. And that one is going to stay open for axis and only civilian armenian civilians. And it will be under the protection of the russian peacekeepers. Thats one of the reasons why i held by john another district, a bit further north from here on the western flank of nagornokarabakh was delayed in the handover simply because at the moment this road is not ready ye