i would dispute that the sec the election itself the lead republic of northern cyprus october on al-jazeera. our world has reached an agonizing milestone the loss of 1000000 lives from the coverage in 1000 pandemic. a plea for unity from the u.n. secretary general as global deaths from coronavirus hits and inevitable new milestone. i'm outta my he's in and this is al jazeera live from doha. 123-451-2345. into the task. some covert 19 continue to rise the white house promotes

a new rapid 15 minutes testing kits also ahead. the death toll rises as our media and azerbaijan fights over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh. and the president's under pressure to keep a promise to legalize abortion in argentina. the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus related deaths has topped 1000000 and even with that figure the true number of cases is likely to be higher still because of the number of cases that go on to texas it's these are the latest figures from the johns hopkins university tracker you can see that figures already soared be yawned the 1000000 mark within the past. a couple of hours the

number of recorded infections is now more than 33000000 the us brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases in those 3 countries also account for nearly half of all global deaths well the u.n. secretary general has been reacting to what he called a mind numbing figure but antonio could tears also called on the world's not to lose hope and urged people to continue observing necessary precautions to curb the spread of the virus our world has reached an agonizing milestone the loss of $1000000.00 lives from the cover in $1000.00 pandemic it's a mind numbing figure yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life there were fathers and mothers wives and husbands brothers and sisters friends and colleagues the pain as mean multiplied by the 7 minutes of these disease research infection kept families from bedsides and the process of mourning and

celebrating a life was over and maybe impossible well the u.s. remains the worst affected nation joe castro has more from silver spring in maryland. $1000000.00 plus deaths worldwide we know that at least one in 5 more deaths due to co but here in the united states the us total death toll is still far surpassing that of any other country in the world how public health officials here are also concerned now that although things seem to be under control to an extent they're fearful of a 2nd wave and they're looking particularly at places like new york city which saw a catastrophic loss of life in april then seeming to contain the virus successfully only to have new hot spots there flaring out in these days that we're experiencing now president trump though saying that this nation is turning

a corner on the pandemic he hosted a rose garden event at the white house today in which she announced the distribution of $150000000.00 rapid coded diagnostic tests they would produce results he say he says within 15 minutes 50000000 are going toward vulnerable communities including nursing homes the remaining 100000000 to states and territories to be given out in schools and in work settings last week we grocery store miles so 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 as we've conducted more tests than the entire european union and more than all of latin america combined. this is not the deep brain biopsy that we talk about

this will generally done by a health care provider but it can be done supervised 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 than this this is a very sophisticated little piece of cardboard with lots of antibodies and incredible technology into that. when you breakthrough tests they're being announced at the white house but despite all the testing and the claims by the u.s. presidents one in 5 of the world's coronavirus stats have been in the united states the daily death so is own that's a klein there but there has been another surge in new infections and with it fears of a 2nd wave kristen's salumi has more. anthony and rosemary terrio were married for

65 years they died in new york 5 days apart during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic they met when my mom was like 17 and they were together ever since i moved to queens. and oh gosh right after they got married the disease has made its way through new york in the terrio family now it is the midwestern united states that are seeing the most new cases which are on the rise for the 1st time in 8 weeks as the nationwide death toll tops 200008 family members had it you know it just it went the whole gamut my my sister was taking care of my mother she quoted and she gave it to her son and her son gave it to his partner and my my brother gave it to his wife and my other brother caught it gave it to his wife while the other family members have recovered the impact of the disease is still being felt experts attribute the recent spike on the reopening of schools and universities as well as

large end of summer gatherings but the terrio also blame politicians and ordinary people across the country they feel aren't doing enough to stop the spread is some seeing so much josh. people not being careless where a mask can stabilize their story other old people are i don't want this happens you know when they can just be responsible and not complacent with something that they may survive but it doesn't necessarily have to be no person it can be a woman battling long you know breast cancer a little battling leukemia or something like that in just a mask you know for a few minutes a family struggling with loss and hoping that amid the uncertainties of a pandemic others can be spared their pain christine salumi al-jazeera new york.

well as american as the cost of its response over in south korea the daily infection rate is down to double digits let's head to seoul and brought my brights rob cypher korea appears to be one of the covert success stories have they done it . i don't think there's any secret remedy they tended to do what most other countries have done but they took it from the very start very seriously and did it in a very timely fashion in some respects south korea maybe already had a had a head start and advantage in that it's been through an experience of pandemics before it was a badly affected by sars in 2003 again from china and also by mers from the middle east much later so it already has in place very good public health systems for detecting dealing with outbreaks and pandemics in fact they do a twice annual exercise simulation run but by all of these public health officials

in the last one was done just last december so they're already looking around with the system in place but also working very closely with with private companies there are a lot of large corporations here and very early on the government got together with those companies and said ok we're going in the tests we're going to need a lot of them we can guarantee we will buy all of these tests off you they fast tracked what the system to put in place so they set out from the very beginning a very good tracing and tracking system which is really kept the numbers very low we had a large outbreak in february in daegu down in the southeast of the country and we've had a small outbreaks since then but you have a lot of public cooperation the government says wear masks everyone wears masks the economy has never actually closed down people talk about lock downs and there have been certain restrictions on some companies here in south korea but basically the economy has kept going so now while other countries have seen their economies

crater of had severe economic devastation the latest prediction is that south korea will see a contraction in its g.d.p. of just one percent but i think the most a telling factor is the actual number of people who died from. 19 people often make the comparison between south korea and the united states because we had our 1st case on exactly the same day 21st of january when you compare the number of people who have died it is well over 200000 people in the u.s. now the population here in south korea is much smaller it's only around about a 6 or a 7th of the population in the u.s. but as of tuesday morning the total number of people who died here in south korea stands at 407 goodness robert great there very sobering number thank you very much indeed mcbride reporting live from seoul well let's see this trailer where we can speak with dr sanjay at 7 he's an associate professor of infectious diseases with

the straightly in national university and joins us by skype from cambra great to have you with us here on al-jazeera 1000000 korver deaths around the world but we do appear to be in a much better police to fight the virus than we were 6 months ago ever the success rate i was we've been hearing seems to vary depending on what part of the world you're in what would you say is hampering the global effort to tackle the coronavirus is that public health infrastructure or is it politics. yeah that's a good question and i think that will vary according to the part of the world you're in now there have been a lot of good things and of course the untreated into cooperation and vaccine development has been amazing but we're not looking at getting a vaccine to well into 2021 so if you look at the success records places

like vietnam which in its 1st wave actually only had about 300 cases and 0 debts which is quite extraordinary you were places like south korea which your colleague just talked to us about and thailand which is doing extremely well now in new zealand there's been a lot of engagement and cooperation from the public and in the places now where we're seeing surges such as in europe we're seeing a lot of protests and anger with the public about the government's policies particularly with regard to lock downs of where remarks so i think public engagement seems to be so important so pivotal in getting this response what terms of actually tackling this virus do you think that governments need to employ the sort of draconian measures that we have seen in places like china that the locked owns the invasive tracking and of people with cases do you think that

we need to restrict people's rights and freedoms to get the virus under control because that seems to be feeding into a lot of the the hesitancy in reluctance in places like the u.k. the united states and so on. yeah look at it depends what you look what your policy is are you trying to eliminate the virus from your region as it have no cases at all or are you happy to have control where you accept small numbers of cases and try to live around that now not if you're trying to even if you're trying to live with a small number of cases there needs to be a threshold beyond which you have to respond and try and reduce that number of cases before you gave it before every exponential growth and the only way to do that is to get people to get tested quickly and isolate themselves while they're waiting for their test results and have a quick turnover of test results because people get frustrated and angry otherwise

so talk about these rapid point of qantas that was mentioned earlier in the sharks are really important but inevitably there will have to be with a big outbreak some sort of rain fencing some sort of restrictions and as long as the government engages with the public and said no this is only for a finite amount of time here is our road map these are the targets hopefully everyone will cooperate and things will improve but that's why we need a vaccine so these sorts of things don't have to be worried about ok well fingers crossed that vaccine come sooner rather than later at the center and they aka joining us from cambridge thank you very much indeed thank you and the questions so many of. these times says how does one green during a pandemic a correspondent agent brian shares the experience of mourning his father from

a distance that's on between us you can find it on the a.j. go section of our website as al-jazeera dot com. still ahead on al-jazeera bit of good news at last for some refugees are stranded on a greek island the remain in desperate conditions. for. 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 clayton prairie's down across lace into the the great plains sweater weather around the eastern seaboard but where we need the rain over towards the west where we have those fires burning unabated i'm afraid the extreme heat. the low humidity and the

driving rain 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 last wednesday's picture more the same $37.00 celsius in l.a. is around 10 degrees above the seasonal average so the heat wave continuing more showers longer spells of rain though up towards the legs up towards the midwest and there's that wetter weather around the eastern seaboard pushing up into that eastern side of canada and actually runs down. florida some parts of florida 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 the warm over the weekend but cloud right easing that heat but they will be for the showers to come.

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that's according to the johns hopkins university tracker want to 33000000 people have been affected all white. the u.s. preserve and india account for nearly half of all the world's coronavirus deaths. been in the united states. a fierce fighting between azerbaijan and armenia has killed dozens of soldiers and at least 11 civilians the conflict in the region of nagorno-karabakh escalated show at play on monday science painted each other with rockets and artillery in a new runs over the decades old disputes wellman foresee a walker has this report card. a. 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 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 real. 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 media 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 instead panic at the care of our 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 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 war al-jazeera tbilisi. france's president says. governments within 6 weeks. of the resignation of the prime minister designate. reports from belief. there was an opportunity for. president. who visited neighborhoods

damaged by the devastating explosion at port. it's. first. before. accused of betrayal. partisan government to deal with the deep economic crisis. in. lebanon is in desperate need of financial assistance to rebuild what was damaged by the. economy and other international powers have refused to provide.

those who want. the international community. gave them another 6 weeks to. whose house was destroyed in the explosion a new deadline. changed much and the ruling class accused of decades of corruption give up power she says the one thought of. 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 saw. what i am asking from this big old leg 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 macro is expected to meet spell original position leaders for atlanta taken off scalia on choose day he's in the lithuanian capital where he's been holding talks with president gitanes noseda they've agreed to push the european union to decide on sanctions against della reese over alleged election fraud and human rights abuses. now authorities in northern california say at least 3 people have died in

a fast moving wildfire thousands have been forced to leave their homes as nearly 30 major fires burned across the state more than 800 firefighters have been struggling to control the latest blaze in the wine producing napa valley region north of san francisco california is suffering its worst wildfire season in 18 years. saying in the u.s. and the only police officer charged in connection with the shooting of briana taylor in march has pleaded not guilty former detective brett hankinson is charged with endangering taylor's neighbors by firing into an adjacent apartments brianna taylor was shot dead in the police raids on her home in louisville kentucky back in march sparking mass and see racism protests across the u.s. the 2 other officers involved in the shooting were not charged. hundreds of refugees have been allowed to leave the greek islands of less posts or been

transferred to the mainland after being granted asylum they were all residents of the maria camp which was destroyed by fire earlier this month families and those needing medical attention are being prioritise stephanie decker results that port. this is the moment they have been waiting for for an incredibly long time the ferry now with around 700 people on board families and people classified as vulnerable being taken off the island on their way to athens with official asylum status they've had an incredibly long wait here in the stream a difficult conditions of course that following an incredibly lengthy and dangerous journey that they made to get here to greece this is their dream this is the dream to gain asylum to get off the island and then to start their new law is what we understand from the ministry of migration is that they will be taken to athens they will be housed in hotels and then at some point in the future they will be moving

on to other european countries we've watched them arrive here bus by boss getting off. the buses with their lives really their lives packed into plastic bags getting on that ferry that we weren't allowed to talk to any of them but we could sense people waving particular when the ferry started to move waving singing a lot of smiles i think certainly at clare to say an incredibly happy day for those on board. there's been violence during pro-abortion demonstrations in mexico's capital the rally was planned by a number of feminist groups they were books point police as they tried to reach the zones an area of mexico city protesters are calling for abortions to be it's legal . and hundreds of women in argentina have gathered in the capital calling on the president to fulfill his promise to legalize . borsch and their nearly half a 1000000 illegal unsafe abortions are performed in argentina each year and many

die from complications associated with the procedure to resemble reports live from one of these. here this year it seemed argentina was ready to debate once again the legalization of abortion in this mostly catholic country. it was a complain promised by precedent out of the farm and this but then the fund demick happened and the now barry says the government is using coronavirus as an excuse to postpone the debate in congress. if the government says it's not a priority and yet the government acknowledges it is a matter of public health they're delaying the debate there's a social crisis and abortion and contraceptives are crucial because it's affecting the poor we need answers and a law that protects women. in the times of covert 1000 the green scarves that have come to represent the call for free and safe abortions have been replaced by green

masks but the goal remains the same. in argentina abortion is legal only in case of rape or if a woman's life is at risk but hundreds of thousands of abortions happen in a calander stein way using pills and other methods at home amnesty international is part of a campaign to raise awareness on the consequences planned to stand up oceans have on women's lives. in the aftermath of the your pick up the. the i'm asking you to do. it in 2018 the bill was rejected by the senate after clearing the lower house it was the 1st time the bill was debated in congress but even though for a man this was keen on seeing the debate in congress once again women here say the government is prioritizing the relationship with pope francis who is also argentinian out at alexander but the baghdad now we are hearing the pope is

planning to come to argentina next year and the government wants to guarantee those negotiations because the pope is helping with the international monetary fund to pay the foreign debt but women will continue to die so we will continue to demand what we believe is our right. to a right that this women say has been denied for far too long that is how will. i am this is al jazeera these on the top stories coronavirus related deaths some surpassed 1000000 that's according to the johns hopkins university tracker more than 33000000 people worldwide have been infected with the virus the u.s. brazil and india account for nearly half of the world's coronavirus stand.