this is it goes straight into the coffers of. people in power investigation bureau 39 cash for came to. the death toll rises as armenia and azerbaijan fight over the disputed territory if the go on a cut of. money inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. 123-451-2345. into the test i want house promotes a new rapid 15 minute kovan testing system as the world records close to 1000000

deaths. 2 years after the death of journalists more saudi nationals and named as suspects by texas prosecutors. pakistan's highest court is to hear an appeal against the acquittal of a man convicted of the beheading of the journalist daniel. fierce fighting between us a by john in armenia has killed at least $26.00 more soldiers in the breakaway region of not going to cut back the conflict escalated shop play on monday as the 2 sides pounded each other with rockets and artillery and a new round of the decade old dispute 11 civilians have also died robin for sure walker reports. some of. these are reservists. leaving the capitol. president nicol passion yan called

all men into military service after fighting erupted on sunday over the disputed region of the goma carabao. on the frontline armenia says it is repelling as area tax 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 cease fire was brokered in 1904 but 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 a consequences of flare up should be resolved by political and diplomatic means.

but 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 drawings and aircraft. hospitals instead panic at the care about capital have received dozens of wounded soldiers and civilians some patients were moved into bomb shelters you know. 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 airstrikes 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 war al-jazeera tbilisi. deaths attributed to the corona virus about to surpass 1000000 around the world take a look at this the john hopkins university track and puts a number of fatalities globally at well over 999000 then more than

33000000 recorded infections the u.s. brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases those 3 countries also account for nearly hof of all global deaths well the us alone has reported more than 200000 kroner their fatalities officials that have just announced a new rapid testing system to ramp up virus detection nationwide this is not the deep brain biopsy that we talk about this will generally done by health care provider but it can be done supervise it's easy 123-451-2345. into the test twisted 3 times. the adhesive is pulled off and you wait 15 minutes and that is the test it really could not be easier in this this is a very sophisticated little piece of cardboard with lots of antibodies and incredible technology into that. let's cross live to our correspondent heidi

castros in silver springs maryland heidi is it a coincidence that we're hearing about these rapid tests now just as we're reaching that millions death number. well certainly once that goal once that very somber level has been reached it would not be bad press for president trump and so it comes as no surprise that today he announced the deployment of those rapid tests now the u.s. accounts for one in 5 of the nearly 1000000 deaths globally and health experts here are concerned about a potential 2nd wave because in places like new york city which was once the epicenter in the u.s. then seem to have successfully contain the virus well now there are spikes that are of growing concern but the president today in his announcement said that the press

that the country is rounding a corner he says that 15000000 of these rather tests which would generate a result within 15 minutes that these $50000000.00 tests will be going to vulnerable communities including nursing homes and hospitals and that the remaining $100000000.00 will be distributed by the 50 states and the territories in an effort to reopen it having children teachers and people taking these tests in their places of employment. last week we grossly historic milestone when the united states conducted are 100000000 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 $50000000.00 more test by as we've conducted more tests than the entire european union and more than all of latin america combined. is there

a feeling that this is too little too late. but certainly the president's critics would say that and in fact the president's polls show that his single greatest weakness heading into the presidential elections which is in fewer than 40 days are the perceptions of americans on his handling of the pandemic a clear majority saying he has botched the response so the question is whether these rapid tests had been deployed more quickly and earlier perhaps there would have been and that actions and deaths avoided certainly some of the economic hemorrhaging with the jobs losses may have been avoided as well so certainly this is a line of weakness that the president is facing and we may see it highlighted by the moderators and of course by the president's democratic challenger to the white house joe biden during tomorrow's 1st presidential debate will see these 2 men side

by side for the 1st time indeed. for us in silver springs maryland let's bring in chris adelson he is assistant professor of government at the american university joining us from washington d.c. many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera well the government has said that these tests are going to be a game changer in the in fighting the pandemic will they. thank you for having me it's hard to say. that the president has not told the truth about the virus. one of his top advisers the head of the center for disease control in atlanta said that he believes that the president's top adviser who is not an expert in these areas is telling the president if that is giving president false information we know that the president downplayed the virus before and the context here as you mention is the election is coming out the president is desperate to change that perception that the reality that he has failed to respond to the virus so i hope it helps

experts say there's more we need than just testing that we need another test is this enough i don't know we also need tracing we need people to find out who when someone's affected who they've been in touch with and we need people to wear masks which is something the president has not done a good job of telling people to do in fact he's modeling the opposite number of masks let me pick you up on that point you made about enough tests i mean it sounds like a lot of tests but is it and is that enough guidance on how the tests should be distributed across the country well the 1st it's or even the 1st thing before that i should say unfortunately with this in this race and we've we've learned the hard example we don't know for sure that this is correct they're telling us 150000000 tests we have to see if that's right it's a 1st question because they've said things before they were not correct on the 2nd question is it enough i don't know i'm not a public health expert so i want to hear from public health experts about that outside of the administration and inside the administration too but i want to know

more about that it's hard to say whether whether those tests really will be coming how fast it will be coming and whether they will be enough how do you what's the bigger picture here how do things and look like in the u.s. right now when it comes to the pandemic. well 200000 americans are dead. it's hard to even grasp that it's been 6 months that's more people than dying and in large scale wars the united states has fought for that other countries fight it's changed every aspect of life many people i've been home for 6 months my children are home children are going to school in person there are reports of children not having access to school on line a lot of it depends on whether you have enough money or not and i'm concerned personally that children are losing ground they can't make up educationally even those who do have access people are not going to the office people are not traveling people cannot see older relatives it's changed every aspect of life and

right now one of the problems that i see in the united states is we don't really have a lot of hope we we've learned not to trust the administration on this and we don't know when realistically things will get better we've been told before the president said this this virus will go away with the warm weather that wasn't true now he says we're rounding a corner the statistics every day tell a different story we still are leading the world in new cases and we're seeing as many as 1000 people die every single day. it's just changed everything about american life it's been up ended and really it's hard to know when things will move in a positive direction. chris good to get your thoughts chris adelson a 2nd professor of government at the an american you know best. so i had on al jazeera that's it for me this is a national security question. for us because of the house says

tax issues pose a danger for the entire nation. right hailing given the green light to continue operating in london. a real east west split in the weather across north america at the moment we have got some very active weather systems moving through central parts out of the canadian prairies down across lace into the the great plains sweater weather around the eastern seaboard but where we need the rain i was towards the west where we have those fires burning unabated i'm afraid the extreme heat. the low humidity and the driving rains they are set to continue so not a sign of any cloud let alone rain coming in here as we go on through the next

couple of days as well as days picture more of the same $37.00 celsius in ally is around 10 degrees above the seasonal average so the heat wave continuing more showers longer spells of rain though up towards the lakes up towards the midwest and there's that wetter weather around the eastern seaboard pushing up into the eastern side of canada and actually runs down. florida some parts fraud of say some very heavy rain recently in that same area chatham right links all the way back into the east of a mexico pushing down towards the yucatan peninsula where russia showers there across central america and what a rash of showers to now moving into the caribbean too warm over the weekend but that cloud right easing the heat but they will be for the showers to come. overthrow and exiled very point and again i'm saying if you all thought this race

let me tell you an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the true is true she's fine and we need to not only just think she is the story of you know the interesting things return of a president on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour fighting between azerbaijan and armenia has killed $26.00 more soldiers in the breakaway region of nagorno-karabakh at least 11 civilians were also been killed in the latest round of

this decades old conflict the international community is calling for an immediate cease fire. confirmed coronavirus related deaths are about to pass 1000000 around the world according to the johns hopkins university track at the number of fatalities globally is now well over 999000 with more than 33000000 recorded infectious. texas prosecutors have named 6 more saudi nationals as suspects in the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi 20 saudi nationals already on trial in istanbul the suspects and not in turkey and not being tried in absentia and of this month a saudi court jailed 8 people for up to 20 years because she was a prominent critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018. val is covering this for us from

istanbul. according to the announcement by the general prosecutor 2 of these individuals were of fish souls in the in the saudi consulate one of them was even serving as deputy counsel and they are accused of participating in the preparation and execution of the murder of. on october to 2 years ago the 4 others saudi nationals accused of arriving. here in turkey in istanbul on october 10th october 11th and their mission according to the accusation was to participate in the in the in getting rid of the evidence there is a lot of criticism both here in turkey and in the west to the way saudi arabia handled the whole file and the way the trial went on in saudi arabia mr international described it as a whitewash the u.n. which has conducted an investigation and came to the conclusion that there was a premeditated murder against. described the trial and the sentences

as a mockery so the debate is still going on particularly here in turkey turkey is insisting that there is more to tell the world about this trial and that it should not be put to eclipse pakistan's supreme courts will next week hear an appeal challenging the acquittal of a man in the case of a met a u.s. journalist daniel pearl met omar saeed shaykh was convicted in 2002 if luring pelton missing in karate when he was kidnapped and later beheaded has more on this from islamabad. the brutal murder of daniel pearl had their time the wall street journal of south asia our reporter who was in reston gauging and possible linkages between progress on the military and groups outside and richard reid the shoe bomb off he were lured into a trap in the southern border city of karachi by omar shaikh but what then can

wreak their death samia by the lower court and also on death row along with 3 other accomplices however earlier this year the lower court decided to grade the t. accomplished along with omar shaikh however the abduction charge on him still remains that sent a wave of indignation across the world because this is indeed a very high profile case the united states government also expressed its anger with the word day the family of daniel pearl has now decided to take that petition to the supreme court the supreme court accepting that protection and it is likely to start heading the case within the next few weeks aided them for denton ordered while people progress on may have forgotten about what happened to this journalist the international community has not forgotten and therefore progress on your dish or system is going to be under the spotlight it is also important in order to color

chair homered one of the monster minds of the $911.00 bombings i did make it in guantanamo that he too had taken part in that brutal act of decapitation and all dormer shakman or they've been involved physically with that murder he was indeed charged with the kidnapping and conspiracy daniel pearl's family lawyer of course said and bug astonished confident that he's god a forensic evidence and confessional statements to prove beyond doubt that the murder was indeed conducted under a conspiracy hatched by omar shakes and therefore all. we'll be on bulger's on supreme court to see what kind of word dictate comes out great read it goes against at the equator by the lower court or continues to hold that it will be important in dade because progress on the judicial system is under the spotlight. france's president has. a government within 6 weeks. differences led

to the resignation of the prime minister designate today reports. it was a month ago. there was an opportunity. it was here where she met french president. who visited neighborhoods damaged by the devastating explosion at port. of the oceans her anger frustration and a little bit of feel. it's all together. before . it's clear. here it's the youth who are making the change and hopefully it's not for the kids. accused of betrayal for failing to form

partisan government to deal with the deep economic crisis. what you see. is in desperate need of financial assistance to rebuild what was damaged by the. economy france and other international powers have refused to provide. those who want to. protest action that is why many were putting their hopes on the international community but they've been. giving. them another 6 weeks to implement france's road map. whose house was destroyed in the port explosion. much of the ruling class accused of decades of corruption

give up power. he gave them another chance to agree but they won't be able to do that they don't want to rescue the country they want to rob the country but i have hope in michael he made us feel like human beings and citizens of a nation the international community did step in to provide much needed assistance to the port blast victims but in the absence of a political solution there is concern lebanon's parties are tied to foreign countries in particular the united states and iran their power struggle is played out here everybody stepping up. from both sides. so. what i am asking from this big. nation. ok to help the lebanese people france accused lebanon's leaders of holding the country and its people hostage many such as libyan agree. beirut. president mccraw is

expected to meet opposition leaders for atlanta taken off sky on tuesday he's in the lithuanian capital where he's been holding talks with the president have agreed to push the european union to decide on sanctions against terrorists later this week alleged election fraud and human rights abuses. we have to do everything the sanctions are discussed agreed and confirmed as the next leaders summit and then at the meeting foreign ministers this is extremely important in order to perform the regional leader without leaving a vacuum of power and without leaving bella ruse to face alexander lukashenko. united arab emirates back separatists have effectively taken control of yemen strategic island of support truck and l.s.s. of the yemeni president obtained by al jazeera the governor says the southern transitional council now control all government institutions including the main

port the group declared self rule in the south of yemen last april. the only police officer charged in the in connection with the shooting of briana taylor in march has pleaded not guilty former detective brett and kids in is charged with endangering tell his neighbors by firing into an adjacent apartment brianna taylor was shot dead in a police raid on a flats in louisville kentucky in march sparking mass and he races in protest across the u.s. the other 2 officers involved in the shooting were not charged u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says financial information reveals about the president in a new york times report is a national security issue donald trump has dismissed the reporting which claims he's paid hardly any income tax in the past 15 years he reportedly has hundreds of millions in loans which are owed in full within the next few years pelosi said she's concerned about whether it is impacting policy or diplomatic relations. this

president appears to have over $400000000.00 in debts worth 20 whatever it is $1000000.00 in debt to home different countries what is the leverage they have so for me this is a national security question our white house correspondent kimberly helka has more . the u.s. president for his part is fighting back against these allegations not only in a hastily called press conference late sunday but also on twitter in fact here's one of the statements that he made he says the fake news media just like election time 2016 is bringing up my taxes and all sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information and only bad intent i paid many millions of dollars in taxes but wasn't titled like everyone else to depreciation and tax credits now what the president's alluding to here is sort of a well kept secret in the united states if you can afford

a tax attorney if you can afford a high pace high paid or high priced accountant all of this is perfectly legal the question becomes is it ethical is it moral certainly this is the practice of many wealthy individuals in the united states and one would even suggest around the world still he is being attacked not only by prominent democrats but also some ordinary americans concerned about this given the fact that many working class and middle class americans pay thousands of dollars annually in taxes in fact this is the focus of an advert by the democratic presidential nominee joe biden making that contrast that ordinary americans are paying thousands when the president appears at least on paper to have paid just hundreds and you could of course has decided that the ride sharing app is now fit to keep its operating license in london for no 18 months transport authorities in the u.k. capital had denied its license to operate in 2019 he said that was because of

safety and security breaches john hall has more from london. transport for london the body that regulates that oversees public transport in the capital denied. a license back in november last year for the 2nd time in fact citing safety concerns specifically a glitch on the company's app that had allowed a number of drivers to falsify their identity by putting up fake photographs that led to allegedly thousands of basically unlicensed and therefore uninsured rides putting obviously passenger safety at risk had always denied the extent of the problem but not necessarily that the problem had existed they admitted during the 4 day hearing here a number of serious quote serious and alarming failings putting crashes at risk but said that they worked hard to address regulators concerns in the end the judge here the westminster magistrate's court essentially concurred saying that we may not

have a perfect safety record but that it has seen an improving picture with extensive measures implemented to reduce incidents therefore finding that it was indeed fit and proper to have a license for private hire here in london are one of the parties to the case against the licensed taxi drivers association that's the body that regulates all the famous london black taxis said that essentially those admissions by the company were the company trying to pull the wool over the courts eyes by giving the impression that the problem had entirely gone away. it was too big to regulate effectively but too big to fail. hundreds of women in argentina have gathered in the capsule calling on the president to fulfill his promise to legalize abortion protesters and when is it is want the president i'll bet half and under has to submit a bill to congress that will allow voluntary terminations of pregnancy any half a 1000000 illegal and unsafe abortions are performed there every year. a wildfire

in northern california is now a valley has quadrupled in size burning homes and vinnie odds. forcing thousands from their homes more than 800 firefighters have been struggling to control the blaze in the wine producing region north of san francisco bay the nation's largest electric utility has temporarily shut off power to thousands of residents to prevent further 5 is the state suffering its worst wildfire season and 18. is al jazeera these are the top stories fighting between azerbaijan and armenia has killed $26.00 more soldiers in the breakaway region of nickel in a cutback at least 11 civilians have also been killed in the latest round of this decades old conflicts the international community is calling for an immediate ceasefire. corona virus related.