america decides how to care for a nation. extensive coverage of the us elections. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. 1300 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera i'm kemal santa maria welcome to the news hour now as the fighting intensifies between azerbaijan and armenia the international community races to find a diplomatic solution. also 9 months 1000000 deaths the world reaches a painful milestone in the coronavirus pandemic and still no sign of infection slowing down. afghan peace negotiator abdullah abdullah is in pakistan for talks

a trip seen as key for afghanistan's peace process we will be speaking to him. and fearing for their lives opposition candidates and activists in guinea warn ethnic violence could flare ahead of next month's presidential vote. and install the tampa bay lightning one of hockey's stanley cup tampa bay beating the dallas stars to lift the trophy just a 2nd so. well as the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan escalates diplomatic efforts are underway to try to stop the fighting fronts is calling for an urgent meeting of the minsk group along with russia and the u.s. a group formed in the ninety's to find a solution to the not going to conflict the un security council is also holding an emergency meeting to discuss the conflict later on tuesday.

but this is the reality on the ground fierce fighting reported over 2 nights as a by john says it's taken control of a city in the going to cut about from a 1000000 forces president ilham aliyev says 10 civilians have been killed as a vision and blame each other for reigniting a decades old conflict with this renewed violence which started on sunday. and then this is the armenian side denying accusations that its army is shelled areas just a few kilometers away from the no go knock out about a region both sides accuse each other of using heavy artillery in the fighting and i mean it has also reported dozens of deaths let's put it all on the map for you as well so we can get an idea of where we're actually talking about it's the area in green we're going to cut back a contested region at the heart of a standoff between armenia and azerbaijan it is internationally recognized as part of john but the majority of the population this is in the red areas are ethnic

armenian and it is controlled by amin forces many of syria's were displaced during the war in the 1990 s. we've also got these areas shaded in orange and white there again recognized as azerbaijan's territory but armenia controls the area and finally those pockets of blue very small areas there those are controlled by a well thrown a green line as well i call it the line of contact which separates armenian forces and azerbaijan forces in the conflict all this fighting which was seeing those pictures you saw it is taking place in multiple. sites along either side of that line the most intense fighting it's in the north and the south along that disputed region azerbaijan claims advances into. physically and as well ok is the same problem for a steel worker monitoring developments from tbilisi but 1st we've got cynical sea

earlier in buckaroo in azerbaijan you tell us about where you are today. well come on we are in in. that in a good district this district is known to be a refuge of neighborhoods by the oz there is because here surrounding us there are very big large buildings very old buildings that are left from the soviet times these buildings were actually used as dormitories they for do universities and colleges during the soviet times but when things happened. when iranian if horses took control of the area. as there is had to leave their villages as they were attacked and they were settled in these buildings that were used as dormitories as you can see from the picture that the conditions of the buildings are not good and inside all those rooms that were used by students are

ones are used by the people who have been displaced and just in a one room which is around maybe 15 square meters there are 7 people with children living and they are actually sharing the bathrooms as well. and we have been speaking to people and they explained us for almost 30 years they have been living in these places under very difficult conditions under very poor conditions and they explain to us that they didn't even have water at once so speak to those people who are living in these buildings with their families for almost 30 years and i asked them about how they feel especially about the news that the azari military forces are as advancing in the. regions which are as you have stated for leave and in the eastern part of not going to karbala and they cry they say they want to

go back to their lands and they mention how beautiful land this was the area is. and montanus we are with some natural beauty and these people hope to get back because the conditions here despite the government provides them are not as well as they used to be and they are homesick and have stuff simcoe c.l.u. there and back here giving us a bit of history in context to 30 years of conflicts will go to rome for us to walk in our georgia's capital tbilisi an update from you 1st of all about well $22.00 full days more than that of fighting no that's right we're on the come out and the fighting hasn't let up. both sides using what appear to be heavy weaponry and we're talking about artillery mortars and rocket propelled systems launched from you know some of those mobile types of machinery and equipment. and of course the steady drip of military videos from the defense

ministries showing these kind of precision strikes but that's not taking into account the civilly instead of being caught up in this we've had reports of more civilian casualties on the. i believe another 6 people civilians killed only armenian side 9 year old girl was killed and 2 members of her family seriously injured the big news for the armenians is that they say the as ery forces are shelling out of tennis which is a town that is not in the disputed karabakh region it's actually a little further to the north and west within the republic of armenia proper. at the same time the azeri say that. far in back of firing at them into army territory so again a trade of of missiles and munitions but also

a trade of of of words and accusations in claims and counterclaims so we also know that the territory. is held for for many decades is under attack from the as areas because they say themselves they are retaking lands that belong to them that were lost in the ninety's but the armenian saying that they repel it is airy forces difficult to get a sense of knowing exactly where we're at but it's certainly for sure the violence is showing no signs of abating just briefly robin diplomacy a lot of talk about diplomacy a lot of other players saying when. to dial it down is one thing actually happening . the u.s. secretary of state is in greece and he had been speaking earlier to the media and again like all international parties keeping an eye on this calling for the

sides to stop the fighting and to come back to the negotiating table under the the minsk so-called minsk group which is and has always been. co-chaired by the united states france and russia of course the minsk group hasn't been able to come up with a peaceful solution because ultimately it's down to azerbaijan and armenia to come up with a peaceful compromise. and of course russia and turkey both now exerting their influence in the region. but the diplomatic efforts that we know about so far have not yielded any fruit and the violence continues now into its 3rd day. an update on that situation there with robin forestay walker he's into place he thanks martin. 10 past the news hour here is what's coming up the russian opposition appeals to france's emanuel mccrum to help negotiate the release of

political prisoners. as a pivotal pivotal moment save them coming in the most divisive us election in living memory we will look ahead to the 1st bite in trump debates and in sport asian champions carter get ready for a unique footballing challenge and we will have that story a little later. a 1000000 lives lost more than a 1000000 in fact that milestone the world has now passed the u.n. secretary general has called it a mind numbing figure but antonio terraces called on the world not to lose hope in the face of the corona virus and urged people to continue observing necessary precautions to curb its spread our world has reached an agonizing milestone the loss of 1000000 lives from the coffee in 1000 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 this mean multiplied by the 7 minutes of these diseases reese of infection kept families from bedsides and the process of mourning and celebrating a life was over made impossible it's easy to get caught up in a big number like 1000000 but behind every one of those 1000000 is a family who is coping with quick kristen salumi spoken to one such family in new york who lost their loved ones during this pandemic. 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 then 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 connie 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 masked men can see why there are so many other old people there 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 an old person it could be a woman battling long you know breast cancer or a little child battling leukemia or something like that it is 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 kristen salumi al jazeera new york. so how did we as a global community get to this point and you'll be very familiar with this the johns hopkins university virus track which shows more than a 1000000 people killed by this new disease this novel coronavirus from the outset we have to say that data wise we are dealing with an imperfect science when it comes to this pandemic we only have reported deaths actual numbers

could be much higher and there are also arguments over what exactly constitutes a death from cove at 19 given people have existing illnesses so we go with what we've got and it comes from our world in days here at the university of oxford china was obviously our early focus but by late february iran some european south american countries they're saying debts to the united states that accelerates very quickly yes the curve starts to bend by late june but as the summer holidays kicked in it picked up again it now sits about 200000 these are by the way the 12 countries with the most steps you can see brazil india mexico clearly above the rest and while places like the u.k. italy and spain have definitely flattened their curves between them they still have upwards of 100000 deaths. but how do all those deaths from code 19 stack up in the big picture i mean how many of us actually die in a normal year without

a pandemic well as of 2017 when we had the last most comprehensive u.n. research 56000000 people die every year i'm a vast majority of those come in asia we're talking 31000000 but that's no massive surprise given you've got china and india both with populations above 1000000000. and the biggest killers and this is by some margin there is 31.8 percent cardiovascular diseases there is illnesses linked to heart and blood vessels so let's take out 1000000 covert deaths and if we use that as a percentage of yearly to it it would fit in around here just about hiv aids now let's have a quick look at the daily picture as well at its worst which was here april 16th to be exact 10491 people died from cova 19 on that day now these days well it fluctuates sort of between 4000 and closer to 7000 but again just as a comparison remember we're talking daily here every day around 150000 people die

regardless and nearly 50000 of those are again from the cardiovascular diseases 26000 from cancer and another 10000 from non communicable respiratory diseases now of course none of this is to say that any death is worse or more important than another but the question we are left with this year is how many of these 1000000 deaths could have been avoided well when u.s. deaths were 65000 and there was some research from columbia university it suggested 36000 of those deaths could have been avoided if social distancing measures had started on march 8th instead of the 15th just one week earlier and that number of saved lives goes up to 54000 if it had started on march the 1st again the science is imperfect but it is plain to see that countries which locked down harder and sooner have also been spared the most pain. now u.s. officials say they've started distributing more than 150000000 rapid testing kits

for covert 19 as a result can be delivered in just 15 minutes and they'll be used to ramp up virus detection nationwide have a look at this 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 so let's discuss this joining us from singapore dale fisher the chairman of the world health organization's outbreak alert and response network also a professor in the infectious diseases division at the national university of singapore so brilliantly qualified to talk to us about that what do you make 1st of

all of what we just well i know you didn't see it but it was all billed as a very simple you can quickly swap you know 5 seconds each pop in a thing and 15 minutes later you've got a results is it as good as it seems. thanks for having me i'm come off. you must remember the piece yeah remains the gold standard this is the the one that might tie one to 6 hours and requires a laboratory in an infrastructure so this rapid tests have have a role they shouldn't be regarded as as replacing that gold standard and in fact the sensitivity of these tests is measured against the p.c. and actually obviously the p.c.i. has false negatives as well so. it's not as sensitive. it's not the 100 percent sensitive tests that we would like but it does carry other advantages in that you don't need that infrastructure so therefore an a b it's

a wonderful potential for low and middle income countries. it's it but they're all shouldn't be seen in isolation it should really be same as a as a strategy and for instance if if you can implement good social distancing in moscow where he anyway for instance then then actually testing becomes less critical although obviously it's still important for identifying clusters and out products. can we talk about vaccines please in fact what i want to do 1st of all is just run through a bit of detail for our viewers just to talk about the vaccines and i'll come back to you the vast majority of vaccine still in preclinical stages which means being tested on animals not people 40 of these tests are in phase one which is when they get into a handful of people then you've got phase 2 where they're tested on hundreds of people and then there are 11 promising prospects which have gone to phase 3 where

thousands of people receive the drug confirm its safety check for side effects those sorts of things vaccines developed by the university of oxford seneca and the u.s. biotech firm at this stage so that's good news then you've got china which is given limited approval for use of a vaccine developed by sin of back and in august a russian made vaccine got the early go ahead from president bush and that was before phase 3 testing had even begun so i just wanted to do a little run through that come back to you now vaccines in a guest was saying to me this is a we can't look at it as a silver bullet sort of thing can we think well once there's something successful then. you know a pandemic of. and absolutely. and in fact the constant discussion about back same's troubles me a little bit because i think of just rises unreal expectations in the community that this this whole horror will have a very violent thing where we get

a perfect vaccination one day i am we give it to everyone the next day in the end the pandemic sober it's not going to be anything like that as you point out it's not going to be 100 percent effective. and in fact the w.i. joe is happy to look at anything that's greater than 50 percent a victim of the it's not going to be taken by everyone and i'm actually going to mandate of which which most countries want so then suddenly a lot of pushback from people so if just by doing some massive ads if i'm 60 percent effective or 9060 percent of the population types of then you've only got 36 percent immunity that y. and then there's other there's other. i guess hazards along the way like if it's 2 doses are people going to come back for the 2nd and how will it wear off after 6 months and then you have to start bush during all of the bill and you've already max and i hated hours rather than getting on with the next lot of people if

i don't so much more to learn the way you. can move on but thank you so much for your time dale fisher chairman of the world health organization's outbreak alert and response network. now the afghan government's top negotiator in the afghan peace talks is now in pakistan a dollar bella met with prime minister imran khan talks which is seen as key to the success of afghanistan's peace talks here in doha the countries have had a tense relationship in the past spoke with of them sharing a long border in afghanistan is accused pakistan of supporting the taliban to undermine the influence of rival india but pakistan denies this and in turn it's accused its neighbor of letting fighters plot attacks from afghan soil u.s. special envoy is hoping to resolve the issue he wants both sides to agree that neither the territory will be used to attack the other i'm pleased to say a dollar a dollar is joining us now head of afghanistan's peace council in islamabad thank

you for your time sir do you i mean i've just outlined the issues which afghanistan and pakistan have had with each other for so long do you feel you making progress on this i would say that this is a both sides believe that peace in afghanistan peace in part peace in the region is important for all of us in most of the talks that they had here in islamabad yesterday and today in the return to new through tomorrow will be focused on how we can support the negotiations which are there in peaceful efforts at the same time what are the steps that we can take as far as a student getting the the bilateral relations what can pakistan offer afghanistan in fact not just off afghanistan off the peace process.

i would say that they can use their. influences in sending messages we will come and the message this statement by prime minister brown come calling for a deduction in violence leading to cease fire in also did either countries including the host country which us which is that and the support group of the united states which is not directly involved but at the same time they are all working to get it in support of those efforts pakistan also helped and. we continue to talk to we discuss it how to work together towards the future as well. i don't know how much you would be able to reveal of what's going on within the peace process the peace talks at the moment but i still ask you what's happening how is it going. and i would say that the fact

that. contacts negotiations are started 2 in itself it was historic at the same time the people of afghanistan if you are talking about the people of afghanistan. were expecting the negotiations. to go faster they believe the perception amongst the people is that it's slow but the fact that people are getting out on the table in talking in discussing difficult issues that that in itself is a progress and we hope that it will lead afghanistan it will be the beginning of a process that will lead to a dignified beautiful acceptable peace for the people of afghanistan do you trust the taliban mr abdullah because you didn't previously in your previous roles chief executive of afghanistan i think there was a lot of mistrust there and you didn't want to negotiate with them we saw you

a couple of weeks ago sitting across the table. i would say that i never refused day d.-a of getting to get there in sitting across the table i've always asked in trust of course that has been mistrust in the past there will be is that we are not there in. we should raise all issues and put it on the table in time the common way forward a solution which will send the best best interest of all sides in the people of afghanistan 1st and foremost so it will take time before before we will get that but both sides. shown that they are they need to talk as far as islam in the public of afghanistan is concerned we are determined to be patient and to continue our efforts. chief afghan peace negotiator thank you for your time and we'll speak

to you again once there's more news to come out of the peace process you will come . time for the weather in fact it's our it's our last time with jenny for a wee while so whatever way you've got for us we'll just happily take what you've got if you know says you know just last time around it is raining in the u.k. heavy rain is going to stay raining for the next you know a opposite not an issue because i'm going. anyway they could use the rain actually in the west of the u.s. of course kemal but unfortunately there is no rain look at this clear skies we have had rain and thunderstorms across the southeast but as i say nothing out across the west not have a look at this because this is again images of people fleeing these wildfires this is actually more in northern california not far from callisto and in fact much of the town of callisto has been evacuated business schools leaving the somewhere safe and just look at this because of course homes are continuing to be burned and destroyed and you can see his just in this one particular street several homes actually were destroyed not the problem really is we've got this heat wave that in

place is actually halted towards the south of california time which is well above the average well sondra is in the high thirty's for the next few days it has been very warm in northern california as well but for the next few days in los angeles touches are up to 12 degrees above the average it doesn't help it's been dry it is very windy as well so there's nothing really to help across much of the west meanwhile a very different picture across eastern sections that are all the heavy rain working its way into the southeast the mid atlantic in particular the carolinas again saying quite a bit of heavy rain and as more rain coming down across the midwest this is going to bring in the rain but also some much colder as so here to much as will be below the average minneapolis getting down to 10 celsius by the end of the weekend and new york also staying rather unsettled and a little bit on the cool side kay thank you jamie stay safe. we'll take a break on the news when we come back hundreds of families enjoyed a fire at europe's largest refugee camp to finally being allowed into mainland greece will be in athens with the latest. after more than

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