one of the bosnian wars darkest secrets. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm lauren taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up coronaviruses on the verge of claiming a millionth life nearly 9 months to the day after it was 1st reported. fighting between armenia and azerbaijan intensifies casualties are reported in the battle over nigora care about. trump on the defensive over his taxes to the democrats have a new line of attack a day before the 1st election debate and. we have seen you have seen no pressure

let down by their own leaders young people in lebanon tell us they're losing hope that the french president can bring change. i'm side of fires and have all the sports arena winning this often running in paris the american is put to a spot in the 2nd round of the french open and the straight sets win. 9 months after the corona virus was 1st discovered in the chinese city of an almost 1000000 people are confirmed to have died from the risperidone illness a sobering figure highlights the need for concerted global action as the world health organization warns the official figure is likely to underestimate the true toll. we collect information on confirmed cases of covert

90 there are other ways then of looking at all cause mortality or excess water as we don't count excess one times in those numbers you see every day and in fact if anything the numbers that are currently reported probably resurrect represent an estimate of those individuals who have either contracted call with 19 or of died as a cause was overruled more than 33000000 infections have been recorded well wide the us india and brazil the hardest hit with $17000000.00 cases between them but infections are once again accelerating across europe after a summer of loosen restrictions tighter measures are being imposed in parts of spain france and belgium while tens of millions are under local lockdown in the u.k. or the united states has recorded the largest share of those deaths with more than 200000 fatalities in the past hour president trump has been speaking about his response let's talk to our white house correspondent kimberly help it as you can be what did the president say today. now the president assembling many of his staff

members as well as reporters in the rose garden to make an announcement that his administration will immediately begin dispatching 150000000 rapid tests as they're known this means you can get the result in about 15 minutes and those will be dispatched to communities across the united states being put through the governors of the respective states and it will go to communities of color nursing homes but essentially the goal in all of this is to try and get students back to work and get economies back to normal now we should point out that the u.s. president made almost identical announcement back in august with regard to this what this appears to be is another incremental step in the president's push to reopen the economy particularly in advance of the u.s. election but many are arguing you know why wasn't this done so much sooner and it would have spared so much of the social misfortune that has taken place in the united states as

a result of these shutdowns that have been going on the ebb and flowing for a prolonged period of time and in spite of these criticisms the u.s. president the rose garden saying that the united states has achieved far more than any other nation last week we course is stork milestone when the united states conducted our 100 millionth test far more than any other country and not even close actually 2nd seems to be india with 1500000000 people and the numbers would be probably at least 50000000 more test by us we've conducted more tests than the entire european union and more than all of latin america combined. and community likely to face questions on his handling of the pandemic the debate. yeah we know that the team of joe biden the democratic presidential nominee is planning on hitting the president hard we do know that the president's handling and

cope at 19 in general will be one of the issues that the moderator of that 1st presidential debate in cleveland will be asking of both candidates now we should also tell you that in the midst of this while the president will have some difficulty in answering some of the questions because of course he's the one overseeing the task force for response currently there will also be questions about the future of the future in the united states is not looking great in fact the top infectious disease specialist saying that the united states is averaging about 40000 new cases of positivity rates every day in other words he says this is not a good place to be and they see some trouble emerging in places that were formerly the epicenter like new york state so health officials watching these numbers very carefully and even in the rose garden as the president was touting success his own vice president pointing out that as there is increased testing in the united states there will also be increased positive cases committee how could thank you very much

. let's take a look closely at some of the latest on the coronavirus around the world starting in india where the number of infections has passed 6000000 there are more than 82000 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours the country is recorded a 1000000 new infections in just 11 days so far more than 95000 people in india have died from carbon 19 mean modest scrambling to contain a significant spike in corona virus cases health authorities are reported 743 new infections during the country's tanita more than 10000 search which began in the commercial capital yangon as now spread nationwide with case numbers doubling every week. russia has recorded its highest daily increase in infections since june with an 8000 new cases have been reported pushing the national tally to more than 1.1000061 people have died in the past 24 hours. hundreds of

teachers have gone on strike in zimbabwe's schools reopen following months of coronavirus restrictions they're demanding better working conditions and access to personal protective equipment the teachers union says salaries in zimbabwe which averaged $40.00 a month are insult and leave staff struggling to survive. for most senior technical officer for communicable diseases at the world health organization for europe is also a researcher at the boston institute for global health he joins us over skype now thanks very much for being with us so it seems that around the world this appears to be a reserved its of cases or will in some case some cases a kind of 2nd wave if you like with all countries not better positioned there to deal with this this latest period. i think countries are better positioned we understand the virus much better we understand the control measures we need to take the question is why are we doing better at beating back the virus i mean in the u.s. for it for instance today the promising missed a new kind of increase of a rapid testing how much difference do you think that will make to to controlling

the patent pandemic and is it something that you see is being rolled out kind of in other countries as well quite soon. if the rapid test is a high sensitivity if it's good at detecting who's positive for coverage 19 it could have a great effect it means more people will get tested they'll be aware of their status will be able to contact trace much quicker and as more people get tested also be aware of the the fact that there is so much virus out there that they need to take the other control measures more seriously face masks physical distance in hand washing now about other countries remains to be seen they need approval of the tests and they need widespread rollout and we need to ensure that the costs of the tests are low is it seems that most of countries are facing a 2nd wave particular places like spain france the u.k. seem to be moving away now from from blanket knockdowns more toward sort of local measures is that you think now that the the received wisdom that actually the knock downs don't really help because they they kind of squash the number of cases for

a while and then they just pop back up again as soon as you unroll. well if you use the lockdown period to increase your testing rapid or otherwise to increase your contact tracing and also sensitize the people to help distribute facemasks jail for example madrid is undergoing a large open large spike right now in the projectile and disinfected into into the metro so you can use the time the lockdown time wisely then i think i think it can be quite useful you know a strong lockdown followed by you know clear action and then and then slowly open up but be very vigilant how concerned are you that there perhaps a suggestion that that in fact people's immunity to it don't doesn't also very long there's a case of brazil with menow us which was a place where they thought they'd reached you know that that nasty phrase had immunity to it because there are so many deaths and so many infections early on and people died and out now the situation is actually coming back quite strongly would that suggest that the antibodies i mean last

a couple of months. it's hard to know and now it's it's one of several examples were looking closely at sweden and other settings where there was a lot where there was a high prevalence but we really don't know yet how long the immunity will last and how strong that immunity will be so i think it is questionable you know moving forward towards the sort of herd immunity strategies that we hear so much about we want to avoid people getting infected. and what about the issue of individual responsibility as you mention the case of sweden and a lot of the talk coming to what the world health organization has suggested that one of the things that they did well was kind of. it's not you know this is a time they say we will have to learn to live with the virus and what they had there was the citizen engagement which was an important part of that is that something you think needs to be improved on rather than locking people down with with with harsh to crane's. absolutely i think citizen gauge mint is is fundamental but not all citizens are able to engage equally in the end facemasks cost money

there's people living in very crowded conditions both urban conditions but also in their own in their own homes and apartments there's people working in crowded settings serious need to make sure that employers and governments are facilitating from the perspective of the structure the ability to control the virus while citizens need to really step up and make sure that they're always focused on physical distancing again hand washing. and wearing face masks physical you know keeping distance and so on thank you very much indeed jeff lazarus for talking to speak to him ok thank you. watching the news hour from london still ahead. hundreds of refugees are allowed to leave lesbos for athens weeks after their homes were destroyed by fire. indonesia's government finalizes a giant mapping project designed to end the land disputes that we speak to the indigenous communities who say they've been ignored. and sport the miami heat set

up a championship decider with their bron james and they just angeles lakers game. fighting between azerbaijan and armenia has continued threatening to reignite a decades old conflict over a disputed region officials are now going to say at least 26 more of its troops have been killed in a 2nd day of fighting international community is calling for an immediate cease fire and a negotiated settlement from enforced you will come without. the. summons to war these armenian reservists are leaving the capital. president nicol passion un called all men into military service of the fighting erupted on sunday over the disputed region of the globe carabao. on the frontline armenia

says it is repelling as area attacks in what both sides are calling a war the last time they fought a full war was in the early 1990 s. after the collapse of the soviet union some 20000 people were killed a ceasefire was brokered in 1904 the sporadic fighting has continued ever since russia traditionally armenia's ally in the region has called for calm. we continue to monitor the situation very closely we believe that the military operation should be stopped immediately and the process of resolving this conflict as well as the consequences of flare up should be resolved by political and diplomatic means. but median and karabakh officials say turkey's involvement is untenable for the little i don't want this is going to work i wanted to clear that not only as a by john but also to key is at war with us they are using the main modern weapons

and ammunition available in the turkish army drones and aircraft hospitals instapundit care about capital have received dozens of wounded soldiers and civilians some patients were moved into bomb shelters you know. when we have 30 wounded and there are operations undergoing some patients who are in hospitals were evacuated into the bunker and the seriously ill people are in the hospital we are working on high alert in a ready to receive the wounded. as a by john says armenian artillery struck well inside its territory 5 family members were killed in the city of nafta than many more were hurt armenia and azerbaijan are also waging an information war releasing defense videos showing air strikes but without context or making claims that have so far proven difficult to verify such

as turkey's military involvement or the deployment by both sides of middle eastern mercenaries to the front lines. regardless the casualty rates a climbing and so far the international response has yet to pull these armies back from the brink robin 1st year walker al jazeera tbilisi. well the fighting broke out on sunday but the region at the heart of the dispute has been contentious for decades the contested nagorno-karabakh area is at the heart of the standoff between the 2 neighbors it's internationally recognized as part of john but the majority of the population living in these red areas are ethnic armenian and it's controlled by armenian forces then you have these shaded areas also recognized as area territory but armenia controls this area too and those small pockets in blue are controlled by azerbaijan and then there's the so-called line of

contact of separates armed forces from both countries in the not going to care about conflict the latest fighting is taking place at multiple sites on either side of this line turkey has pledged to stand by its ally offering it diplomatic and military support seen in closer you has more from there's a capital back. angèle has already shown its side which is siding with us our bridge on and it's so far as personnel are there are many an attack in the tolls area a couple of weeks ago both the turkish president and the defense minister have been very solid about this turkey stance sending it by azerbaijan till the very end supporting them militarily logistically as you know turkey also has a military base in azerbaijan and the have very strong military agreements between the 2 armies circle so support as supports them with ministry logistics with drones

and other defense investor equipment that turkey has been in the region a state a producing for the last couple of years and apparently the turkish strongs. were also used by the azerbaijan military during during this conflict with the armenian side. they say they have been saying for the last couple of days we are going to do what is necessary to be spending by john and to defend the rights because they are our brothers that with blood and everything between turkey and us our bridge on there is the saying we are one nation but 2 different states so you can imagine how tricky is committed to be standing by as our bridge on. as a by john is denying accusations from armenia that it's using turkish fighters from syria in the conflict. it's an accomplice that base this on the ground for us to see it as a piece of propaganda white army and side well to. deflect attention from their

side and deflect on the responsibility for doing that as i've seen it's an actual army or that brings with recruiters and terrorists from middle eastern countries the region is rich in oil and gas reserves and there are concerns the conflict could disrupt global energy markets pipelines shipping oil and natural gas from azerbaijan to the world past close to nagorno-karabakh the south caucasus pipeline transports gas from azerbaijan to the georgian turkish border a backer tbilisi say hasn't pipeline also passes through the region it carries more than a 1000000 barrels of oil per day with most going to europe while armenia is reliant on natural gas exports from russia to us deval is a senior fellow at carnegie europe specializing in the caucasus region he says it will take more than more than international mediation to settle this dispute unfortunately this round of fighting promises to be the worst probably since since

the cease fire and of course the war going on to ninety's was a very low tech of the now as we're seeing today a much more heavy weaponry on both sides sort of destructive power is much greater but but ultimately this is a conflict of identity of territory between 2 nations armenia and azerbaijan and the outside world is not going to solve it there they're going to kind of try and lead this horse to water but they can't make it grow. u.s. president donald trump has dismissed a report by the new york times which claims he's paid hardly any federal income tax in the past 15 years trump responded on twitter calling the article fake news and said he has paid many millions of dollars in tax is under severe pressure head of his 1st televised election debate with presidential rival joe biden on tuesday what is your castro joins us live from maryland so what kind of backlash is trump experienced after these revelations about his finances.

laura the headline from the new york times reporting was that president trump paid just $750.00 in federal income tax in the years 2016 and in 2017 that is significantly lower than even what the average american family paid in federal taxes so certainly the inequality there is something that people are seizing upon that on twitter we saw the hash tag i paid more taxes than donald trump trend on monday with everyone from waiters to teachers to political ponens of president chime in and then there are the potential national security concerns the times reports that after reviewing some 2 decades worth of financial records of president trump that he had long sought to keep confidential that those records revealed the president has some $300000000.00 plus dollars in debt personally guaranteed by him that will be coming due within the next 4 years now

it's unclear who exactly he owes all of that money to and nancy pelosi the house majority leader in the top democrat in the house says that that isn't the curity concern of the people should have a right to know who their president is beholden to as far as owing money on twitter not only saying that this story was false but that he has paid millions of dollars he may well have and other forms of taxes like real estate tax and also saying that the value of his assets are far greater than that of his debts and. to the race. well this coming so close to the election which is in some 36 days when americans will head to the polls weighing whether or not to give donald trump a 2nd term it is damaging information as the saying goes. so there's no more

certainties in life and death and taxes and taxes are that kitchen table issue that every voter in the u.s. can have an opinion about you already seeing these revelations put into political ads from democrats attacking trump you're seeing his opponent in the presidential race joe biden using this against trump as well but it really comes down to tomorrow when we see joe biden and donald trump side by side on the debate stage for the 1st time how biden may use this information in a way against trump in a way that's convincing to voters but then there's also the greater question about how many voters would even care about this would this change their mind about president trump they already support him polls show very likely not with those opinions deeply in among voters and then there's the other question that even if his supporters believed the reporting in the new york times and some of them

probably don't what they care about it or what they think that this kind of behavior is acceptable in a president who has already proven to be very eccentric very different from the norm. thank you very much. steven rogers is a member of the donald for president advisory board and was also an advisor to the truck campaign in 26 he joins us live from new jersey. supporter. does it upset you and it would upset his base that he paid so little tax. no it doesn't in fact your reporter who did a fine job in reporting i must commend her for that she brought up a question that needs to be answered do the people really care i can tell you the american people as far as we know are concerned more about their quality of life about their cut in taxes they see their 41 k.'s and pensions increasing and most of the people i've talked to have said that this is

a personal matter between the president his businesses and the i.r.s. so there's really not much of a backlash or concern that the new york times might be reporting what part of the appeal there to supporters presumably was that he himself will portray himself as a successful businessman doesn't this report suggest that actually he's been losing money hand over fist and when wouldn't that sort of make them think well maybe he's not that great at running things no it doesn't in fact he has been a very successful businessman over the decades i mean just looking at what he's done regard to building in new york city alone but what most people are concluding is that we do have a corporate laws there are laws and there are loopholes if you will that the i.r.s. has built in their own laws and a lot of corporations take advantage of these things the bottom line is did he do anything illegal and the answer is no i took advantage of what the laws provide and what about on the charge of hypocrisy that i was an outright and i'm just saying

i'm into on twitter in april 20. barack obama who wants to raise all the talks taxes and he pays 20 percent on $790000.00 in salary do as i say not as i do isn't this part of the issue here is that actually ordinary people in the states do pay the taxes and trump isn't and so and he's he's doing is he you know he's he's caught in a kind of member of hypocrisy with this. well ordinary people do pay taxes i'm an ordinary guy and i pay taxes but i also take advantage of the laws that give me the avenue to go down and make tax deductions i own a couple of businesses and i do the same thing so so i think what we see happening and we might even find with the new york times in particular and their executives i like to see if they're using the same loopholes if you will that they've described that president trump has when he was a businessman this is all a matter of doing business as corporate leaders there's nothing new nothing extraordinary and it's truly starting to backfire on the democrats believe me it is

just just one quick question one of the things that's or not that i report is that he seems to have borrowed an awful lot of money do you know who's lending this money and is it now at the moment where he could actually release his tax returns and say look ok well i'll put information out there and therefore anyone concerned if we discover that i've got nothing to hide while i don't know about any regards to his business i don't know anything about that but i knew know this that he's been very transparent he has been very consistent in saying that his books are being audited by the i.r.s. and he has nothing to hide and i think at the end of it they will find out that this is just simply another political hit during an election that the democrats hope stick they've got nothing else we're going to find that it's not going to stick in fact it's going to be a on their face so what do you advising him but today it was interest he didn't take any questions or tool of to the news conference on coronavirus is he rattled what do you expect him to say on this during the debate tomorrow oh i believe he's

going to be very very clear that he is the law and order president why because that is what most americans are concerned about cities are being overrun by an archivist the buildings are burning the police are being the funded so when you talk about his taxes and compared to life and death issues in our cities across this country he's going to be talking about law and order stevenson thank you very much indeed for sharing your point of view thank you. right still to come on the news hour leaders unite to save by diversity over the world's worst environmental offenders are absent from their pledge. the right telling app ever is given the green light to continue operating in london. and in sport no sunshine and no problems we'll hear from a new u.s. open champion this past sunday treat and put on.

how the weather is looking very unsettled across europe at the moment lots of clouds swirling away particularly those central parts of the continent cloud and rain over towards scandinavia swartz western side of russia through the baltic states and yet more with the weather streaming in from the atlantic as we go through the next day or so not too bad here as we go on searches day somewhat to weather a few showers around the east the south of england the east anglia and the southeast brightening up as we go through the afternoon some west whether they're making its way into norway down towards the low countries heading towards denmark and that dives all the way down to wards the alps to the east of that some big downpours here we could see some flooding it's a positive the crying pushing across in sioux were northern areas of i remain the airport of the best of the sunshine is going to be across southern parts now was quiet for

a place to syphon italy but also for the balkans 11 few showers still in place here until we go into wednesday that west the weather will continue down towards the black sea there comes an next batch of wet and windy weather coming in from the northwest into the british isles into france as well know the parts of africa generally staying fine and dry pretty as shallow as around central imust from also down into the gulf of guinea and across a good part of west africa. frank assessments saying that. the 6 percent of the. life being sucked is it's an informed opinion which is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many faults of the only a region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after is a proxy because look at present the interest of the libyan people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

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