were the exception. and joining us from new york 1st special coverage of. united nations general assembly. on al-jazeera. china and india agreed to disengage troops of the disputed border area soft a deadly confrontation it's. everyone come on santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera iranians are heading to the polls for round 2 of a parliamentary vote delayed since august because of the pandemic also we speak to one person who lost everything even the roof over their heads in flooding in sudan . and ordered to evacuate now people are told to leave their homes as fires burn

across the u.s. west coast. starting with india and china who have agreed to deescalate tensions along the disputed border in the 3 months after their biggest military confrontation in the last 45 years foreign ministers have been holding talks in moscow 20 indian soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat with chinese troops back in june in this border area of the north and the region so we've got a 5 point plan now it centers on existing border agreements new delhi and beijing have agreed to. to quickly disengage the use of firearms along the border is already banned both have committed to continue talking through diplomatic and military channels and to speed up so-called trust building measures is the team at

this hour in a moment reaction from beijing with katrina you starting with elizabeth piron i'm in new delhi tell us more about elizabeth and any reaction so far. hi come on so we haven't had any official government reaction to what came out of the foreign minister's meeting in moscow bosch just in the last half an hour or so we've heard that the defense minister is now holding a meeting with the national security advisor with the chief of defense stuff and with the chiefs of the army with the navy and if false discuss the situation on the border but so far we've had a lot of skepticism about this agreement about this 5 point consensus and that's because independent experts say that it's lacking any operational detail and also because although this was the highest level face to face meeting that of the foreign ministers to have taken place since the current standoff began in may they

have been many rounds of talks at different levels over the past few months and yet we had the worst violence between the 2 countries in june when those 20 indian soldiers with an unknown number of chinese soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat who also had the 2 country's defense ministers they held a meeting last friday and despite that we had both sides accusing each other of firing warning shots in the air for the 1st time in 45 years and that's because of those reasons that the agreement has been met with skepticism so soft botched now that we have this defense ministry meeting taking place waiting to see if anything concrete comes out of that thank you elizabeth in new delhi amounts of budgeting and katrina the view from there one of the chinese been saying. well thomas foreign ministry have released a statement reiterating some of the comments from one either foreign minister and

he was saying that india and china should see each other as partners rather than competitors that they should cooperate rather than go into any confrontation and that really they should work to build mutual trust rather than suspicion as has been the tone for the last few months he also said that china india relations were at a sort of turning point and that there would be no difficulties or obstacles that either side could overcome and working more closely together so very positive very friendly language and they also had chinese state media here the global times the holding this meeting and front page a picture of the indian foreign minister chinese foreign minister along with russia's foreign minister there but when it comes to chinese state media that's really where the friendly tone stops you've really seen a continuation of this kind of aggressive muscle flexing flexing language with chinese state media saying that the implementation of this 5 point consensus really depends on tiley on india being able to keep its side of the bug and so the same

kind of skepticism we're seeing in india is reflected here in china as well not really is in line with some of the rest of language that we've seen in recent weeks from both beijing's foreign ministry but also from chinese state media saying that china will not hesitate to defend its sovereignty that india should be careful because india's military really is no match for china's military but it's interesting to note that one you did stress that there was a sense of urgency that both sides need to in a withdrawal what he called cross-line personnel can excuse me and make sure that there is no further skirmish on the border yet we're seeing a build up of chinese troops in the area still be interesting to see whether chinese china pulls back its troops going forward ok leave it there katrina grab a glass of water once we could turn to you in beijing. to other news and iranians are voting in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections polls being held in 10 constituencies a round of voting that has been delayed. until now by the pandemic more from us had begun to run. 10 seats in the neurons parliament are up for grabs in the 2nd round

of voting favorites parliamentary election so the lowest voter turnout in the history of the islamic republic and resulted in the most conservative parliament in its 40 year history hardliners now make up the majority and that's not good for president has done rouhani is reformist aligned government in june farmer mr jeffords reith was interrupted and heckled in parliament and at least 12 government ministers still have to face questions from politicians next week the same issues still dominate politics the state of the economy corruption and u.s. sanctions englishtown province in northeast iran people want to see action from their elected representatives who said i hope my lawmaker cooperates with the people and his people expect their lawmakers to fulfill their content pledges that in taba actively participated in the fibber voting and god willing will attend this around 2 politicians are encouraging more people to come out and vote. we usually don't worry about small constituencies we're usually just one lawmaker should be

elected concerns about voter turnout always about citizens in the big cities in provincial capitals such as tehran. but the covert pandemic makes it difficult to see how that will happen candidates have been barred from campaigning on the street mo is the health ministry has warned against any public gatherings we ask the candidates to take their campaigns online. while the battle now is for parliamentary seats in 9 provinces results show likely voting intention in next year's presidential election and the results of that will determine how the country deals with the world for the next 5 years. sudan now where more than half a 1000000 people have been affected by the worst flooding there in a century at least 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed and more than 100 people have been killed after the nile river rose to its highest level since records began the flood waters are starting to recede but water borne diseases are still a threat from al jazeera spoken to one man in sudan who quite simply has lost everything

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state of oregon as wildfires spread across the west coast at least 15 people have been killed had to call him as the latest. san francisco don thursday in ominous sign of what the day would bring fires chewing through hector after hector pushed by fast moving winds devouring the dry land in its path and destroying everything entire towns gone. horrible terrible absolutely terrible you don't know where your home is going to be there when you get back we have animals that we couldn't bring with us that are callous hopefully we have place to live because it's our stuff burns down that's it i mean i'm on the fixed income millions told to be ready to flee some making the narrowest of escapes as there is there is a fire 360 degrees around me among the dead 2 found a car that didn't make it through the wall of flames in oregon and

a one year old baby boy in washington state. to put this in perspective in the last 3 days we have lost more acknowledged to 2 fires then any single entire year in the history of the state of washington except 2015 leaders are warning residents the death toll will surely climb there are almost $100.00 fires burning throughout the west the vast majority of them uncontained and growing the fires that are going on in the western united states right now are unprecedented even to our most senior leadership and senior most tenured people on instant management teams in this country we have not seen this before tens of millions of people impacted even those far away in los angeles the pollution level reached a high not seen in 26 years and by all indications. all of it is just going to continue to get worse in the coming days. al-jazeera. in the

news ahead we will see why police stations have become the targets of protesters this is in colombia going. and the calls to boycott disease new milan movie as the film is released in mainland china. hello knowing you're looking suitably like september a bit more like october to be honest wind and rain is a frequent visitor but it's not entirely there all the time and for example much of english looking fine denmark is ok and mainland europe apart for a few showers around the outside dominate the circulations to the slow thunderstorms in the western med affecting sardinia and heading towards sicily and

east in italy the forecast for london is not a bad one really temperatures about where it should be for this time the year so the sunny or partly sunny the hot but if europe particularly southeast corner extends into cypress that here we are still above average by 6 degrees or so as i said most of the european plain is fine the heat in the southeast all the southwest those showers will spread i think through tunisia towards the foot of italy as well still around the alps otherwise just enjoy a sunshine i think the exception probably scotland and also norway and a good part of sweden as well though not hot right hand corner which takes us into the levant has been like this for a while now temperatures extremes they were certainly much of turkey's cool down is 14 aleppo the focus is to 33 injuries for the next 2 days as rather telling strong potentially damaging wind that's for the gene.

although i worked as state with most states require one arrest internment and mass indoctrination all we were children are now in a process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance we're being complicit in the human rights abuses that are trying an australian investigation into china systematic repression of the weakness tell the world on al-jazeera. the. top stories this hour on al-jazeera india and china have agreed to deescalate

tensions along their disputed border it still comes nearly 3 months after their biggest military confrontation in the last 45 years more than half a 1000000 people in sudan have now been affected by the worst flooding there in a century over 100 people have been killed after the river nile rose to its highest level since records began. and iranians are voting in round 2 of their parliamentary elections ballots being cast in 10 constituencies after the 1st one was held in february the 2nd one delayed because of one of us. in colombia petrol bombs have been thrown and police stations attacked during the 2nd consecutive night of riots protesters are outraged at the death of a father of 2 it was repeatedly tasered as he was arrested the mayor of bogota is condemning police attacks on armed people as well as the protest this report now from. for a 2nd straight night demonstrators clashed with security forces as they rallied

against the killing of an unarmed man by the police. i called testers. blocked roads and attempted to burn neighborhood police stations since the riot began on wednesday at least 9 people have been killed and more than 60 were injured by firearms allegedly shot by the police. and. this is happening because people are fed up at some point the pressure explodes and if people need to die so be it but there has to be a solution. the mayor of. this urged protesters to refrain from violence but compared to the police response to the worst days of armed conflict. indiscriminate so far as cannot be considered. this is a direct attack on. civilians in the past majority of them young people. the protests were sparked by. a 43 year old. being pinned to the ground by 2

officers for violating. the agents repeatedly tasered him as he begged please no more he died soon after. his sister in law says that or don't use was assassinated and demanded justice. this wasn't in the piece it was my agent killed my brother in law and it can't and in a disciplinary action it has to be a penal one my brother in law was killed by the violence and the hatred we have nurtured in colombia the last thing we wanted was that his death sparked more violence. the government said abuse of power should not be tolerated. or facing massive acts of vandalism and violence many. demonstrations show p. anger goes beyond the issue of police brutality and we need real fundamental change

in this country and the vandalism doesn't help but is a way to call the government in the people's attention because this year we've seen many human rights leaders killed the economy falling apart we need change it's clear that people's frustration has reached a boiling point with the killing of have yes or no and yes the question now is if these protests will be the spark that will revive the kind of mass demonstrations that have rattled the country at the end of last year i listen to them. we'll return to one of the stories that is iranians voting in the 2nd round of their parliamentary elections are so big with us from tehran for more on this one so i thought we had your report a little bit earlier and what i got from it was that the low turnout in the earlier election this year the 1st round resulted in a more conservative parliament which wasn't good for the president hassan rouhani is this is similar thinking going into this one because no turnout must be a concern with coronavirus. yes the

reason that we're having the 2nd round of parliamentary elections head now is because they were postponed they were delayed in april because of the chroma virus now the 2nd round takes place when in the 1st round that 20 percent threshold isn't reached by the candidates but when the 2nd round happens it's just a matter of who gets the most votes is elected now more doesn't look like the political dynamic in the much of this the parliament is going to change 2 thirds of those seats still belong to the conservatives and like you said it's not good news for president hassan rouhani government now back in june foreign minister divides reith was in parliament to answer questions that he was heckled interrupted called a liar and even one lawmaker shouting death to the reef now that prompted the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini who is the political and spiritual leader of the country to intervene and basically tell parliamentarians to calm down he said that yes they have a right to ask questions and hold people to account but they must do it

respectfully now in terms of voter turnout in the parliamentary elections it was 42 percent nationwide that's the lowest the country has seen since the establishment of the republican hair into her own it was around 26 percent and that low turnout resulted again. benefits the conservatives the hardliners that dynamic is going to change we understand that polls will close around 6 o'clock local time in the evening we should have results by tomorrow the day after but what's interesting about these elections is that the guardian council which oversees the elections that vets candidates and sends out observers ascent tagged 8 special teams to these provinces to monitor these elections and for the very 1st time they've set up a website where individuals can lodge complaints and report any. regularities which hasn't been the case before. the latest on iran's parliamentary vote thank you.

aid agencies say they are concerned the latest fire at beirut's port will disrupt their response to last month's explosion the fire broke out in a warehouse holding food supplies on thursday no one hurt most of the flames now extinguished military police are investigating it's added more strain to the recovery from last month's port blast that killed 200 people and injured 6000. there's been an explosion inside a munitions storage facility north of jordan's capital amman government says unusable mortar bombs were being stored in that warehouse and electrical short circuits being blamed for triggering the explosion no reports of any casualties. now 6 high profile taliban prisoners are being transferred to qatar ahead of afghan peace talks that begin in doha on saturday the presidents have left kabul after months of disagreements over the exchanges this was a precondition for negotiations under the u.s. troop withdrawal agreement between washington and the taliban thousands of migrants

spent a 2nd night without shelter on the greek island of. 5 the largest refugee camp in europe the maria camp was destroyed by fires on wednesday on tuesday i'm sorry and wednesday following protests against coronavirus restrictions the greek government says the migrants won't be moved to the mainland and it could take them days to find them housing. the c.e.o. and 2 other senior executives of a mining company that destroyed ancient caves in western australia are stepping down the company rio tinto has been widely criticised for blowing up a 46000 year old rock shelters in may to expand an iron ore mine in which you can gorge caves are one of the earliest known aboriginal heritage sites. a funeral been held for the latest journalist to be murdered in mexico the headless body of julio was found on the rail tracks in the town of months or longer this is in vera cruz

state where drugs gangs battle for control rights groups are demanding a full investigation into the killing of the 6th reporter in mexico this year. that china's government has reportedly banned local media from covering the release of the new disney movie milan was partly shot in which china is accused of committing human rights abuses against the weaker muslims and the films of female star outrage people in hong kong by backing the police action against pro-democracy protesters there the full story with victoria gauge and be. my father cannot fight. so i will take his place disney has high hopes for me land in china bought a publicist a blackout is another blow for the controversial movie people who kill the star of the land you a fake raised outraged by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protesters in hong kong and this anger it was partly shot in the she jang region where china is accused of committing human rights abuses against muslim week is

this is a very problematic collaboration with a regime that puts muslim minorities into internment camps at a time where this mass internment was ongoing and accelerating and this kind of complicity is just absolutely profoundly shocking hong kong protest leader joshua won't anyone who believes in human rights shouldn't support the movie now it's time for people to through the boycott action to let this need to know that culled out of china should not be the way out and force our parties or any actors that and boss to police brutality the world will get a response and backfired too it was generic soldier the movie is based on a 2000 year old chinese legend of a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to join the chinese imperial army it's tailored to appeal to audiences in china the world's 2nd largest leavy market. media companies in china say they received orders from the government not to cover the release of the movie no reason

was given but some believe it was because of the backlash abroad. again. you're saying that the film involves changing issues right 1st there's no such thing as reeducation camps and changing the establishment of occasional education and training centers and changing is in accordance with the law. film industry analysts say disney should be concerned because the personal views of audiences can impact the movie's financial success victoria gay to be al-jazeera. it's been 6 months now since the world health organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic covenanting is of course infected millions the rich and famous the very poorest in society or birdman it takes a look back at how it spread across the world. what started as a cluster of cases in china has gone on to kill more than 104000 people worldwide

with reported infections close to 28000000. which mark in your hand is the suspected fouth in late december chinese doctors reported treating patients with an unknown illness some worked in the market by the 31st of december china alerted world health organization to what it called unusual phenomena that chinese dr li wendy and would his friends on a social media up that they should take protective measures he was reprimanded by police and accused of spreading rumors 2 months later he died a covered 19 chinese scientists then announced that identified a new virus which would soon be known by everyone as covered 90. the virus spread across china quickly preaching its borders so far 4 cases have been reported outside outside china 2 in thailand one in japan and one of the republic of korea the streets emptied as were han and its population of more than 11000000 people

went into lockdown on january the 24th. a 1000 bed hospital was built to mohan in just 10 days as 17000 infections were reported than on the 11th of march a pandemic with the class we're deeply concerned most by the a lot of mean levels of spread and severity and by the a lot of mean levels of in action. we have that for a man to be our system and that covered 19 can be contacted are used as a pandemic by then the virus has spread to more than 100 countries the world had missed the window of opportunity to contain covered 19 cases in the u.s. began to surge past china at the end of april more than a 1000000 american infections were reported president donald trump said it was no

worse the winter flu u.s. hospitals quickly reached capacity with sick patients and lacking personal protective equipment the staff mass graves were dug in new york for families who couldn't afford a funeral towards the end of march its means they became 2nd to the us in the number of cases of the. one with the deaths also came moments of humanity. italian sang to one another and the porters health care workers which is who paid is in britain and elsewhere. by may brazil became 2nd to the u.s. in the number of reported infections president both in our contract it covered 9000 in july of 2 downplaying the illness for months he was among many politicians who contract to the virus including britain's prime minister boris johnson. with many countries having is not down for suffering a 2nd wave india continued to struggle with almost 4 and

a half 1000000 reported cases. covering 19 has now had an impact in almost every part of the world the i.m.f. says the global economy will shrink at least 3 percent this year the worth since the great depression millions of the jobs international travel is destructive to billions being confined to the home 2020 would be needed for generations to come as the year when a microscopic organism shocked and changed the world. half past the hour al-jazeera these are the headlines india and china are agreeing to deescalate tensions along their disputed border a deal that comes nearly 3 months after the biggest military confrontation between them in the last 45 years has been per annum with the latest from new delhi you

would heard that the defense minister is now holding a nation with a national security adviser with the chief of defense staff and with the chiefs of the army with the navy and the air force to discuss the situation on the border but so far we've had a lot of skepticism about this agreement about this 5 point consensus and that's because independent experts say that it's lacking any operational detail that the headlines iranians voting in the 2nd round of their parliamentary elections ballots being cast in 10 constituencies the 1st round was held in february and when conservatives were the big winners this 2nd round has been delayed by the pandemic . more than half a 1000000 people in sudan have been affected by the worst flooding there in a century at least 100 people have been killed after the river nile rose to its highest levels since records began the flood waters starting to recede but water borne diseases are still a threat. half a 1000000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in the u.s.

state of oregon as wildfires continue to spread across the u.s. west coast at least 15 people have now been killed an aid agency said they're concerned the latest fire in beirut support will disrupt their response to last month's explosion the fire broke out in a warehouse holding food supplies on thursday no one was hurt and most of the flames have been extinguished. and 6 high profile taliban prisoners are being transferred to qatar ahead of afghan peace talks that begin in doha on saturday the prisoners have left kabul after months of disagreements over exchanges this was a precondition for negotiations under the u.s. troop withdrawal agreement between washington and the taliban you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next. russia now seems to be going after the main economic resource which is of oil we bring you the stories in development is the rapidly changing the. president's promise america 1st policy

trigger the trade war that morphed into a technological war continues on al-jazeera. we should look after the homeless off the destroyed europe's largest refugee camps thousands on the greek island lesbos have nowhere to go islanders want refugees gone with forever will the disaster forced greece in the e.u. to rethink their asylum policies this is a story. hello and welcome to the program. thousands of refugees are homeless in greece off to far as destroyed the biggest camp in europe it was the 1st point of call for many asylum seekers hoping to start.