the wilderness of cambodia is under threat. pillaged for profit by an illegal timber trade one a one east investigates the plunder of cambodia's forests. on al-jazeera. hello i'm watching the news out live from london coming up calls for a ceasefire ignored armenia and azerbaijan continues to face off in a gorney card with reports that fighters from syria have now joined the battle. engulfed by anger protests across india over the gang rape and death of 2 women

from the marginalized community. the e.u. formally don't use legal action against the u.k. over its plans to breach parts of the brics it divorce agreement tens of thousands of u.s. jobs could go as the aviation industry faces ongoing instability caused by the coronavirus pandemic. and scores arrested in hong kong even as new laws and coronavirus restrictions protesters to get creative. hello welcome to news hour we begin the hour with the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia and the disputed negaunee car about region where it's alleged syrian fighters have now joined the battle france and russia are saying they have evidence the fight has traveled through turkey to join the fight on behalf of azerbaijan

accord a car backed his internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but it's controlled by armenian separatists a flare up in fighting over the past week is the deadliest the region has seen in decades well been forced to walk as our ports. the spoils of war shown by as every public television of a 1000000 tanks and other hardware proof the army says of terror truth taken in a disputed new government care about the region all of them with the really believing our neighbor lands from the enemy we see several pieces of enemy heart of them to our military bases currently the fighting continues we are liberating our lands from occupation videos released on thursday show the unrelenting destruction from the air drones targeting armenian guns and military convoys the region is officially part of azerbaijan but it's run by separatists oh medians it has

taken 6 days for world leaders to jointly call for armenia and azerbaijan to return to peace talks known as the minsk process with a warning from french president emmanuel mccrone to turkey to cease its involvement in the conflict this is a pretty dark we have information today that is very clear that indicates that fighters from syria have left their their members of jihadist groups and they traveled via gaziantep to join the fighting into going to karabakh the turkish president richard tayyip erdogan has pledged as a by john his country's full support and says the time for total is over music you should learn given that these 3 mints countries the u.s. russia and france have neglected this problem for nearly 30 years it's unacceptable that they are involved in a search for a ceasefire in the face of these negative developments that came to surface in

recent days but if something is wanted the invaders should leave these lands in order to achieve a solution. the true gains or losses being made on the battlefield and you know this. video suggests it's full suits are resisting and in some cases retaking lost positions but what is known is that the violence continues to injure and kill civilians in the town of marjah on thursday. 2 french journalists and one is no critical condition really interest you which is your. bonus methods as to panic nagorno-karabakh he says neither side in the conflict is willing to negotiate a ceasefire at this point. i mean his defense ministry says that on thursday morning and azerbaijani helicopter was shot down by them and then went on to crash in iranian territory and then there was shelling on thursday afternoon into the go

no karabakh territory and it was during that shelling in a town called martini that a local journalist was killed and he was working with 2 french journalists from le monde newspaper and one of those journalists was also seriously injured are mean is a prime minister nicolle says that he believes turkey is sending fighters from syria and mercenaries from syria to fight alongside the azerbaijani forces and he now says that the front line and the go on a karabakh has become a clash of civilizations and a battle of survival an art suck that's what the armenians call nagorno-karabakh is fighting against international terrorism sponsored by turkey so no mood certainly from the armenian side to look towards a cease fire and talks at this stage. is a senior fellow russia and eurasia program the carnegie endowment of international

peace says that turkey is helping syrian rebels to enter the region. it seems to be you know the turks are facilitating it why is the big question i don't quite understand why a country like azerbaijan which is spent so much money in hansing its military. it is a shia country why they would be importing sunni irregular forces but again they did it in the past 20 years ago and i think. you know the as a bridge on has always had a difficult time when it comes to retaking this territory and i think this is a way in which both turkey and azerbaijan can can have some deniability both to their own populations as well as the international community particularly if this if the war does not go as they as they hope it does. well our other top story this hour protests taking place across india over the gang rapes and subsequent deaths

of 2 women from the marginalized dalla community police prevented opposition politicians from traveling to the site of one of the attacks and emergency laws have been imposed after clashes erupted following one of the victims cremation sara hierarch has more. as news spreads of the gang rape in the death of a 2nd woman from the donitz community these protesters try hard to enter the village where the 1st victim was from but it's now under lockdown an emergency law was brought in on thursday of the days of demonstrations. we have section 144 of the indian penal code active in the district right now which means we are not allowing an assembly of more than 5 people. police went on to detain leader of the opposition congress party rahul gandhi and his sister as they tried to get into hatteras village to meet the victim's family. the police officials pushed me hit me with sticks right now and i fell down i'm not saying anything about that i have no

problem i am only asking this question than india only be an artist people can walk on the road can't govern people not walk in this country only more they can work on a common for the not walk. the latest victim was a 22 year old who died on tuesday on a way to a hospital in luck now in the northern states of into pradesh the same day as the 19 year old 1st victim died after spending 2 weeks in a hospital in delhi police say they've made arrests in both cases and denied accusations by the family the 1st victim of committing a body without their permission thank. you separate cases have reignited protests across several states and online demanding justice for victims of sexual violence. the father if he yogi at atlanta can't protect women that it's better that he should voluntarily step down and resign he can't run the government. if the uttar pradesh government is on the women's side then why of rapes happening every other

day every other day there are sexual assaults and other crimes happening to women we will teach this government a lesson not only did both women live in the same state but they were also both from the daleks community marginalized being at the bottom of india's deeply entrenched cost system despite laws protecting what was formerly known as the untouchables they face daily discrimination for generations so those so-called main dimensions idea regards those actual violence against augusta woman as a serious issue but when it happens to or a low cost woman they are trying to predict their past just in the past right now not coming out as you would want for an upper class woman for instance in the us her head was used she was brutalized she was in the hospital but she was not given to build proper medical care the issue of sexual violence against women has been under the spotlight in india since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a woman in delhi which led to huge nationwide protests and changes to the country's

great pools but this time protesters say it's hasn't been enough to protect these 2 women enter to pradesh sort of hired al-jazeera. well despite being despite the cost in being abolished in $1950.00 still face discrimination and rights groups say women are particularly vulnerable to attacks the word data is used to refer to people once known as untouchables which was the lowest rank of indian society dallas make up 16.6 percent of india's 1300000000 people they face segregation exclusion and violence and struggle to have their voices heard rights groups accuse police of often ignoring reports or complaints made by people from the dallas community right so for more on this we can speak to. she's the director of campaigns for the human rights defenders network joins us now via skype so there's 2 issues here one is the high rate of violence against women

in general in the country which is probably underestimated by the official data and then the to do the particular targeting of these lower cost women are these types of attacks on the rise. these kind of like they are on the rise but these are not or dicked. is this kind of attacks but not meanly or by the police so there's a lot there that there's a huge gap between reporting of the cases and of the cases so if you see a state like you look at it which is the highest population in the country. but the national government got reports view of bugles report it says that it's almost like 60000 cases of sexual violence against women but it did in 2019 which means that this state has a high extent of violence against women and also violence and used to listen across cities and their lives so i would say that the extent of violence and the extent of

discrimination which includes and digital is andre's because it's be there or did not and so there is a sense of this awareness among the community and they are trying to and this is a rights given in the constitution and that's why we can see that it is you can see the numbers going up but i guess the sad thing is that even though the cases are being reported they're not being treated seriously by police in the case that we just heard about in our report just now the victim wasn't even provided with. hospital treatment proper hospital treatment. yeah i think this is not the 1st instance that the police didn't took action immediately. i think my one expedience off looking on the issue of sexual violence against the lets him and i have had to look into it says and in most of the cases the list doesn't take proper action so if the police and take the proper action the medical examination and treatment of

the other set of over off the doesn't happen so the administration the state has the sole responsibility to ensure that the victim and the survivor of any forms of violence which include sexual violence which is i mean yes has to be and this effectively and they don't have laws to predict that they saw people were discovered biz don't cause their loss to predict likes of the men but the problem the problem is with the police but the system they don't take it said see desailly and they're not sensitive to what the men from the communities and that's why you can see this situation what is. seeing it for us today is what's happening in look at the what needs to happen if you have these laws which exist against discrimination but they're just not being enforced. see then down question is the mindset and how do the does one say the system and the say is that the society in general i think despite having the constitution drafted in

150 i think that the major issue is the mindset of the community so this is still. but good to aiding the violence and discrimination is off the same mindset which is there for last 70 years more than 70 years the problem that in a society with the system is this still treat my community as lower. degree doesn't listen to humans so the problem is that this did god accept us as equal citizens of this country and if you don't treat us as it was citizens of this country we are not going to get effective support from the system so listen. in it's very difficult to change this isn't it it's to do with mentality it's to do with the way people are being raised at home it's to do with her this patriarchal attitude and i i know that you you have experience with this yourself you've.

you've endured this sort of personal suffering mean just help us understand you know what what does it what does it do she was a person and can you ever really heal from this kind of trauma. yeah i.e. event through sexual violence at the age of 4 i was a small and i. went to me to my body i was too kind all that incident because it really affects your mind and your soul and your older well being so i began a freak of people whom i don't know and that i was not able to speak too much what happened to me. and it took me a lot of courage and determination to face the reality that yes i am a survivor of sexual violence but that doesn't mean that i can't fight and defend america but the problem is i was just for you all and i didn't have any support and

that i wasn't even lloyd that i have my my body is being abused because i was a child i realize it because somebody was touching me or doing something which was strange and it was not proper but there was no i mean for me. what was happening to me. and really i had been through is that when i see the kind of incident things happen anyway and i believed it to my experience and when i saw that i was of sexual violence i have had several girls from the dollar these in would drive the state that i come from and i have had them do not call list so why have. the dignity and self-respect but also to be fair and for their rights so ensuring that they get justice and i just ask you very briefly. can i ask you very briefly how much of a factor is education in all of this obviously this isn't happening to women it's

happening to very young girls that might not understand it or can't make sense of you know that the what they're suffering and what's just happened to them. silicosis is very important and if you see it the arms of the lip community is very low and specially our minds of the men and girls so in that guess all of. those women die she was illiterate she was 19 years old but she didn't know how to read and like so that's a plus to a bad year one has to do because when she was examined and then she was justified by the police and they asked her well you really she wasn't going what does it mean really so then after a few days and the police asked to be did somebody do something wrong do you she said yes so this means that if you're not educated dick you call will you be a bit about your rights how will you be a bit about good about the laws which are there to particular rights i think this

is something which of which we need to reduce the gap and that's what the actor and do i am going to do is to cream the men activist and also women in the community to get a little bit of that right onto the law what are the laws to protect their rights i think this is very crucial but i do agree with you that education is the tool for them and that's what dr. findon gloucester dushan said that that if you what do you get yourself you have to organize yourself and then only you can and you do it for your rights thank you very much for helping us understand it walking us through that really appreciate it mind you are pretty thank you again my pleasure thank you . you're watching the news hour live from london well still ahead the legal case that could see president prosecuted mexico's leader wins the right to hold a national referendum. and calls for a friday of anger egyptian activists urge people to get out and protest against

president sisi. person's exit from the european union might have just become even more complicated formal talks to hammer out a trade deal by december 31st are set to conclude on friday but now the e.u. is launching legal action against the u.k. of a plans to breach parts of the brics it divorce agreement a less or a formal notice has been sent to the british government which has a month to respond it could eventually lead to a case in the european court of justice the disagreement centers on a bill in the british parliament which would violate international law if passed it could ignore trade rules involving northern ireland breck's it is one of the topics that leaders from the bloc of discussed during a summit that is taking place in brussels this morning the commission has decided to send a letter formal notice to the u.k.

government this is the 1st step in an infringement procedure. the letter invites the u.k. government to send its observations within a month. and besides this of the commission will continue to work hard towards a full and timely implementation of the withdrawal agreement we stand by our commitments. there is paul brennan has more on this now from westminster. the last line of the lane statement i thought was important we stand by our commitments she said and i think that goes to the crux of the exhaust ration that the european union is feeling having seen the british sides in the negotiations essentially go back on the pre-agreed terms of the withdrawal agreement and having given the british 3 weeks to amend the internal markets bill and by the end of september with take out those controversial clauses the fact that they didn't meant it was

inevitable that on the 1st of october underlaying would have to come out with this statement whether it will inevitably mean a day in court is by no means a foregone conclusion there are plenty of ways that this can be avoided 1st of all the british can relent and one route is through the agreements of the free trade agreement before the end of the transition period and the fact that they're still talking they still negotiating in brussels i think is a good sign whether they can do it in time though is another matter the british have set a deadline of the 15th of october the european union i think believes that's unrealistic and things early to mid november is more likely but the fact that they're still talking i think is a positive sign and it's not to get an absolute foregone conclusion that the 2 sides will face each other in some massive day in court. our stories are following more than 80 people have been arrested in hong kong after defying a ban on protests the us came during china's national day holiday which marks the

founding of the people's republic 71 years ago adrian brown has more. under the shadow of covert 19 and deepening concerns over a new security law this was a subdued national day for many people here but at a ceremony attended by hong kong's political elite the territories leader kerry lamb said the legislation has brought stability for you sam again over the past 3 months the plain truth is and it is obvious to see that stability has been restored to society while national security has been safeguarded under people can continue to enjoy their basic rights and freedoms in accordance with the law. some not on the guest list try to stage a demonstration outside the venue. a protest that was quickly extinguished by police. on a day when they were braced for trouble riot officers sealed off

a busy shopping area ready to act quickly to stamp out any signs of unrest they'd earlier denied permission for a march citing covert 19 and the potential for violence you cannot have well organized that lead today but i think most of the hong kong people will come at this with to express their anger. there were many arrests taking to more than 10000 the number of people detained in protests since last june the combined effect of the new security law plus social distancing measures means we've seen no repeat of the mass protests of a year ago conventional demonstrating in hong kong is now effectively over with the movement behind the protests continues so people have had to become more creative in how they protest like displaying the newspaper most critical of the government there was some overt resistance with heckling. and chanting

of pro independence slogans. in the chinese capital beijing the mood was very different not a mosque in sight at a ceremony in tiananmen square a mask of the ring that would be hard to imagine in many other countries today and a reminder of how life in china is returning to normal a weeklong holiday is likely to be a test though of the country's success in controlling the virus adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. now mexico's supreme court has ruled the president under my new lopez obrador can hold a referendum on asking if the state should be allowed to prosecute former presidents protesters gathered outside the court as judges voted 65 in a virtual session a national referendum could allow the investigation of potential prosecution of 5 former presidents for alleged crimes in office and our correspondent money rap lows

in mexico city how important is this photo and when my investigations actually start. well this this boat by supreme court does carry quite a bit of significance perhaps more than anything it's a symbolic victory for mexican president under this model lopez obrador who campaigned under this anti-corruption platform this certainly feeds certainly feeds into the rhetoric that we've heard from the president in the past regarding his his desire to go after corruption and root out corruption in the country but this initiative a referendum that would ask mexican citizens how they personally feel whether or not they agree that aid x. president a former mexican president should not be emu in from prosecution should not be immune from from investigation that is something that just hasn't been done before that aspect of this is without precedent and it's something that the mexican

president has been promoting heavily so in short this is something that makes the mexican president look very good this is certainly going to be a boost for his popularity having that said this vote today in the mexican in the mexican supremes court a $65.00 vote in favor of this referendum is specific only to the question of the constitutionality of the referendum itself there would still be questions and challenges if someone were to want it were to want to a prosecutor a former president of mexico there'd be the question over expired statutes of limitations there would be other legal questions that would make the prosecution of a former president still quite difficult so more than anything that vote today by the supreme court could be seen as a very symbolic victory for the mexican president and so when is the referendum likely to take place. clearing the question of constitutionality in the supreme court that was definitely the hard part at this

point now the referendum is scheduled to take place in june of 2021 so just a little under a year now but again this is an initiative that was widely popular we know that an estimated 2000000 people signed a petition in favor of this referendum so again this vote by the supreme court that happened early on on thursday kind of clears the path clears the air of any legal questions any questions of constitutionality that could potentially stand in the way of this initiative moving forward thank you very much from mexico city. and more than $3000.00 honduran migrants have entered guatemala on foot and a bit to reach the united states outnumbered officials made no attempt to stop them the caravan is the biggest since the corona virus pandemic hit central america and shattered economies making it to the u.s. legally is virtually impossible because of age restrictions. much more still ahead

for you on the program on the brink of a breakthrough lebanon and israel agreed to talk several decades long border dispute. and climbing in a valley says the russian president ordered his nerve agent attack. hello we've got some proper or some weather sweeping into western pa so if you have a spike ling a shallot cloud or rattling in cross the british isles and then we got they say areas of low pressure swirling in from the alliance a lego bricks a very heavy rain and some very very strong winds into parts of northwest. say the worst of those conditions could see around 5060 maybe 70 millimeters of rain from this system and the way in the script in excess of 100 kilometers prasad damaging winds power outages trees down that's certainly

a possibility as some heavy rain also coming in across the good parts off southern england same area of low pressure you can think of as one system radius swirling away and then anticlockwise direction so picking up warm moist air from that western side of the mediterranean and we'll see quite a rash of thunderstorms into southeastern france pushing across northern italy on into switzerland we're moving a little further east which is we go through saturday becoming a little more widespread across northern parts pushing across a good part all of england at also into scotland eventually pushing of the tool scandinavia at this stage bright skies then the across southern parts of europe will areas of africa largely dry and brought the further south every show us the west africa. current tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in the colonial past from economic point of view and. and the 3rd non-agreement physicals

because of the new political realities on the ground are increasing the sense of uncertainty over croons the rhythm on that was the need to review the other night of how the countries through which the male voice can be defeated peterbilt the. struggle over the non 0. 0. keeping law and order is a primary function of any state. in protecting the people became police brutality a domestic incident became a global arc. in a country torn apart by racial inequality. can americans find a leader to unite them. follow the key issues of the us elections. on al-jazeera.

come back a look at headlines now france and russia saying they have evidence syrian fighters have joined the battle over nagorno-karabakh a flare up in fighting between azerbaijan and armenia over the disputed region this past week has been the deadliest in decades. have been protests across india over the gang rapes and subsequent deaths of 2 women from the marginalized community emergency laws have been imposed after clashes erupted following one of the victim's cremation without her family's permission. the e.u. is not chain legal action against the u.k. other plans to breach parts of the bracks it divorce agreement a letter a formal notice has been sent to the british government case could wind up in the european court of justice. well now in all the stories we're following egyptian

activists are calling for more protests against president sisi under the slogan friday of anger they want people to come out into the heart of the capital cairo in tahrir square there's been furia cross the country after police reportedly shot and killed a man while making an arrest in the our near area and look saw it follows nearly a week of protests in several cities over the western economy and rampant corruption all you have on him is an egyptian journalist and author he says that people in the south including unlocks all have long been neglected by the government they have grown over hundreds of years this culture of the personal them that. the best part of the country and its population have been neglected over the dk they know development nothing they will lift. poverty and they have been taking care of themselves for decades and that's why be

indifferent to what's happening in the rest of the country but when be over for it is when the police force they adopt such violent violent means to deal with those that the part of the population feel personally insulted i'm afraid what's coming up is going to be worse. leading russian opposition figures alexina valley has accused president vladimir putin of ordering his poisoning valley was released from a burning hospital last week after treatment for a nerve agent attack he collapsed on a flight in russia's siberia region in august in an interview with germany dia on thursday novelli claimed putin was behind the attack the kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement. meanwhile 5 nations have written a letter to the united nations saying the poisoning of alexina valley constitutes a threat to international peace and security quote james base has more. the letter was written by the 5 european members of the security council belgium

a stonie of france germany and the u.k. in that they call on the russian federation to disclose urgently fully and in the transparent manner the circumstances of the attack on alexina now this letter was submitted to the security council in the final hours of the new share presidency of the council it's now walked out and russia's taken over the russian ambassador and incoming president had this response i would recommend my call exclude all the let the instead of telling us to believe the security council 1st the 1st to fulfill implement what is necessary and what is incumbent on them and that is to provide the reply to the request and to the to the request to the general of the provide information of the case the issue is unlikely to be discussed directly in the security council but last month when the council

discussed the use of chemical weapons in syria a number of countries referred to the nobel nea for another meeting on chemical weapons in syria takes place on monday and you can expect it to be raised again. turkey and greece fortunately set up a hotline to avoid accidental clashes in the eastern mediterranean nato has been working with both countries to diffuse months of tension at the gas reserves germany's been pushing for extensive discussions on the issue and you safety measures follow a light collision between technician point frigates in august affan said it was an accident while ankara called it a provocation. meanwhile there's been a potential breakthrough between israel and lebanon in an effort to end a decades long border dispute countries have agreed to hold un mediated talks the us secretary of state has described the development as historic well the border dispute has stretched into the mediterranean it's been complicated by the discovery of natural gas and oil reserves the resources in a disputed area between the 2 countries could bring

a significant economic boost to both of them out as arizona holder has more on this . gaz an oil reserves believed to be underneath these waters may soon be exploited lebanon and israel have long contested the 860 square kilometers of water the neighboring countries which are technically at war have agreed to talk with u.n. support and the united states acting as a mediator is a significant political development that was announced by parliamentary speaker nabi bertie but he reiterated lebanon's longstanding position that there won't be a deal unless land borders are demarcated along with the maritime border line followed by minute really at the end the united states was asked by both sides israel and lebanon to act as a me buteux and facilitator to drop them any time orders and it is ready to do this this is a framework agreement not a final one the timing of the agreement raised questions since a common desire to exploit offshore oil and gas deposits in the mediterranean has

failed to resolve differences for years the iranian backed hezbollah which fought wars with israel in the past softened its stance it's the most powerful group in lebanon which has publicly entrusted its ally speaker betty with the file this definitely would not have happened without the support of his wife that's for sure now going to main reasons or why we've seen the negotiation one is lebanon is very much need to actually start exporting from block 9 which is the south and i think you took french pressure because it's going to be eating this they're probably forced to actually do solve this issue and number 2 what are the prospects of sanctions by the americans the united states which has been shuttling between the 2 countries for years claim to credit for what it called a historic agreement president donald trump can use this as a diplomatic win as he seeks reelection the u.s. has just brokered deals between israel and the u.a.e. and behind but lebanon's officials insist this agreement can't be seen within that

framework they say. it's not about the normalization nor is it a step towards a broader political agreement and lebanon will change its attitude toward israel but some argue that has already happened an implicit recognition of what many here consider an enemy sent to beirut well andrea norris is a maritime expert and retired u.s. coast guard captain joins me now by skype from new london in the american state of connecticut so it's all seemingly quite positive but how how much work has that left to do how difficult i think it might be to resolve this dispute there's a lot of work left to be done because the dispute these maritime disputes not only involve access to resources but there are sources of national pride and it's not going to be it's not easy for any nation to back down what it claims. it

ridge right in particular waters its sovereignty and waters it's a question of sovereignty that's one thing how also how has he discovery of vos hydrocarbon reserves in the region complicate the efforts. yes 80 so you mentioned complicated before and it's really that's the essence of the dispute these batteries have been undefined for decades it's only really read risen to a crescendo as it were with the discovery of hydrocarbons in the eastern mediterranean so it's the existence of the the maritime the the control over the maritime region brings with the control of the. resources of the water column but also the sun soil and so they any kind of gas reserves

that are in offshore the ownership of the the maritime zone would bring with it the ownership of those reserves so so and yes there is a little that is i think not just a complicated but really the essence of the issue why it's become so important. could it also result in a kind of exacerbation of tensions possibly could well even more instability and we've already seen. as i mean it has led to some of the existence of this dispute it has led to an increase in tension there's been a diplomatic exchanges not directly between the 2 countries but through the to the united nations setting out their positions which really have become increasingly strident in the last couple years of even reference used terms that you know that bring to mind the use of force so it is for sure a flashpoint and so anything the committee done to resolve this dispute would

certainly be would hopefully result in diminished tensions and really be 0 win win for both parties is the united nations convention on the nor of the c. useful at all in this case i guess not if you have competing claims. well you view the convention is business is useful if you have competing claims the issue here is that israel is not a member of the un convention the law of the sea where as lebanon is that doesn't however mean that international law of the sea can be utilized or applied. the un convention hall the sea really doesn't say particularly much about delimiting maritime boundaries it relies upon customary international law and all parties really agree as to the underlying law so so the un convention on the sea itself not particularly much but the law of the sea is what the parties would

be following it all parties are bound to it just because it reflects customary international law international practiced under norris thank you very much. thank you. now denmark has a preview operation of a russian led gas pipeline and its water this country's energy agency made the announcement on thursday the north stream to is a natural gas pipeline system running from russia to germany with 2 lines under construction the german government has recently come on the pressure to pull out of the project off the poisoning of russian opposition figure in a volley project is more than 90 percent complete and scheduled to begin operating next chair well still ahead for you on the news out of hospital cases of rising new knock downs are in place and fresh what for whoa what is european nations rattled by a strengthening coronavirus savage. and then forced labor and worker exploitation why

a malaysian company has been banned from selling its products in the united states .

europe's was coronavirus hotspot madrid is going to head into iraq down in less than 40 hours time but the local government is valued to challenge it a self-governing region initially backed out of spain's plan to impose a partial lockdown on wednesday but madrid's leda isabel day as i used has now reluctantly agreed to a baby yoda. she says her administration will still launch

a legal challenge meanwhile sweden could be on the cusp of a coven $1000.00 resurgence recording its highest a rise in infection all but since june country which famously chose not to enforce a full scale lockdown during the pandemic reported more than 700 new infections on thursday the highest number since june when sweden registered just over 800 cases nearly 6000 people in sweden have died from the virus the country's death rate but capita is several times higher than its nordic neighbors moscow's mayor has ordered what places to make one 3rd of the staff work from home as corona virus infections quite rapidly across russia for the 2nd straight day russia has recorded more than 8000 new cases its highest tally since june will occur in a virus pandemic has pushed many families into poverty with many saying that they have little choice but to force that girls to marry older men for financial support

that seen child marriage rates to the highest levels in 25 year is a report from save the children says 2500000 more young girls are at risk of being forced into marriage by 2025 that's in addition to the $12000000.00 already made to get married every year up to a 1000000 more girls are also expected to be pregnant by the end of 2020 the charities predicting south asia will be the worst affected region followed by west and central africa and latin america well india ashing is c.e.o. of save the children international she explains how the situation has been made worse by the pandemic. it is very much an effect of the consequences on society of corbett school closures results in more children being victims of child marriage we see that the economic consequences pushing. nowheres to make that $150.00 more me and more children will be pushed into poverty that

will have severe effects on child marriages it's critical that leaders around the world realize that the impact of that we often talk about the impact that we come in couple of years but we see the impact now and we see the impact clearly for girls now so there's a need to act immediately and we know because we've been doing this for many many years we know that over the last 25 years we have prevented almost 79000000 marriages and at 6 marriages a minute so we know that it can be done and we think it's critical that we raise children's voices girls voices and that we address immediately an ongoing risk of gender based violence and that we have very clear on using the legislations we already have in many countries to end child marriage and we don't when we don't have this nation to make sure that that is put into place that there's a need for investment now and i do think clear investments in educational systems

to make sure that when schools are able to open again children will be able to return because we know that more than 90 percent of children today are. making i mean are affected by school closures and we see a risk of over 10000000 children not being able to return and particularly girls. now tens of thousands of airline workers are out of a job in the united states after congress failed to reach a last minute stimulus tale as many as $50000.00 a haitian staff face an uncertain future as the travel industry continues to be hit by the krajina virus pandemic it's estimated the air travel is down 70 percent and any gallagher reports it could take years to recover. deserted airports and t. seats and an uncertain future the airline industry has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic only able to survive with billions in stimulus cash from the u.s. government i i. i i that borrowed time has now run out

as airlines begin the process of laying off aviation workers in the 10s of thousands i mean i don't know how to feel right now do i feel sad day yet all scared i feel angry and frustrated and there are so many emotions that are all think there my way and then through the vein the you know 8000 other american airlines flight attendants who were also 'd on the last day of the payroll support program to stabilize our job maintain our health care and we don't know what's going to happen next talks over a new stimulus package of stalled with congress failing to reach a deal that political impasse could lead to as many as 50000 job cuts in the align industry to keep people in this state of worry and uncertainty is just cruel and so this is got to get done both in terms of just human kindness but also in terms of the reality that the funding and the requirements to keep people on the job tens of thousands of workers have already taken voluntary packages early retirement or

unpaid leave the knock on effect to businesses that rely on air travel has been brutal with some predicting that the aviation industry may not return to pre-code levels for years. or you. might be without financial aid aviation experts say major airlines could fold altogether while bailing out their lines is not popular with many industry insiders say it's a vital part of an eventual economic recovery in previous bailouts airlines have been criticized for using the cash on stock buyouts benefits and shareholders not staff now they say it's about their work. it's only c.e.o.'s are here. we have the people the workers who are doing great jobs out there taking care of keeping our country moving her countries are really paralyzed with fear they're out there put their uniforms on going to work every day because you're moving barring any last minute deal with congress the entire industry and the hundreds of thousands who

rely on them for work face an uncertain future and a gallica al-jazeera well argentina says it plans to temporarily cut soy export taxes to help stimulate the struggling economy some 18000000 people in the country are now living in poverty authorities say the increased poverty rate is due to the devastating impact again of coronavirus restrictions i was there is to raise a bow has more from one desirous. no. wonder we don't has been living on this piece of land for 4 months. he moved here with his wife and children because he had nowhere else to live is it because of their mother living with crime here to live with or need these materials with my children i want politicians to know and the president that we need to have a place to live in a neighborhood i don't want my children to grow up on the street i don't have a job i don't have anything else alexander is leaving at anita about an hour away

from the capital one of scientists people started to arrive to this piece of land in july there were around 700 families now there's over 3000 of them an example of the deep economic crisis in argentina a judge has said that people have to be evicted from this place but they say they're going to recessed and that's why they started setting up some tyrus to burn some rocks to confront the police they say that this is the only chance they have to have a home. government figures released this week show that poverty has slowed in argentina in recent months and is battering almost 50 percent of the population and the impact of covert 19 and then they make economic troubles have had a devastating impact. leandra gonzales was forced on the street as a child with his family in 2001 during another of argentina's economic crisis he's now 24 years old and lives here with his girlfriend. so therefore poverty has

always existed since i've had a memory corruption kidnapping losing and with a quarantine it's like 2001 again being on the street is difficult you look around and it makes you angry this isn't a pejorative for us. argentina's economy contracted almost 20 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year even though the country recently struck a deal with its foreign creditors the economic situation has sapped the government's spending power. for social programs that could have helped alleviate the fact of the pandemic on the poor. there's been an impact on production and on job creation and even on the informal work there's great a general quality we're all a little poorer we already were last year and now with greater inequality. arjen times have gotten used to persistent economic troubles although for many it's part of a desperate cycle with each new crisis condemning the most vulnerable to

a life of constant need. and just when the science. the united states has banned palm oil imports from a malaysian company after an investigation into alleged forced labor company says it's disappointed with the move and has been actively trying to fix the situation but palm oil producers have long faced allegations from rights groups over over labor and human rights abuses palm oil is the world's most consumed vegetable oil is estimated to be in close to 50 percent of the package supermarket goods we buy as well as in cosmetics and bio diesel plantations cover more than 27000000 hectares of the earth's surface almost the size of new zealand plant grows best in a tropical climate meaning large tracts of rainforest have been bulldozed to make way for it around $65000000000.00 of palm oil is produced globally every year 85 percent of that comes from indonesia and malaysia about 84 percent of palm plantation work is in malaysia a migrant from indonesia india and bangladesh florence louis reports now from kuala

lumpur. the world's most widely consumed vegetable oil palm oil is founded half of all consumer products from food to biofuel it's also been blamed for deforestation with companies accused of clearing huge tracts of forest for plantations and now one of the world's biggest palm oil producing company malaysia based energy holdings has been accused of mistreating its employees the u.s. has blocked imports of palm oil and palm oil products from the company after a year long investigation by its customs and border protection agency found cases of abuse deception and intimidation of workers. has issued a statement saying it's disappointed by the u.s. decision and that it's been taking steps over the past few years to uphold my best bandit's this is not the 1st time the company has been criticized for labor abuse 2

years ago it was sanctioned by the round table on sustainable palm oil a world certification group that promotes ethical production of palm oil for among other things forced labor and complicity in the trafficking of its workers rights activists in malaysia say the exploitation of workers is a widespread problem in the industry so we have seen. wage. illegal beat. from the work. it's not renewed on time sometimes they're held. because of this but it's really. the use of i work how you work there right. malaysia is the world's 2nd largest palm oil producer off to indonesia the 2 countries combined to produce 85 percent of the global supply malaysia's human resources minister told reporters the government views the allegations seriously and action would be taken

but did not give further details the us import band comes a year after rights groups called on f.g.b. to be investigated over concerns about forced labor and human trafficking on its plantations and it's not the only malaysian palm oil producer on disk routine and he trafficking groups submitted a petition to u.s. authorities in april against another malaysian based plantation company florence louis al-jazeera now subway restaurants are famous for their savory sandwiches but island says they are too sweet country supreme court claims the rolls contain too much sugar to be legally considered bread the ruling was made in a case about how the bread is taxed in island it means the roles offered by the u.s. chain which has branches in more than $100.00 countries can't be deemed a staple food in ireland we're going to bring you much more in just a couple of minutes that's it for the news hour i will be back with

a full roundup of the top stories very short including of course all the latest on that flare up in tensions between armenia and azerbaijan. 40 years ago on october the 6th when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young composer egypt and syria going to surprise war against israel. carter's world promoter so to get into this situation of disaster now in the 1st of

a 3 part series al-jazeera explores what really happened during the 1st week of the war in october on al-jazeera. when the news breaks and the racism protests continue in a number of cities across the united states when people who need to be heard in the south of the area line nearly 500 points with destroyed about 80 percent of this land but i'll just see iran has teams on the ground people are just talking about wind and solar as if that's going to solve the problem if want to bring you more room documentaries and life moves on and online. i know. a manager is a month to find beauty is bronze. doesn't really need. to put this just for you to see. i am sure i've done.

all. my nigeria on al-jazeera. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. calls for a ceasefire ignored armenia and azerbaijan continues to face off in a gorney car back with reports that fighters from syria have joined the battle. oh i maryam namazie and and you're watching al-jazeera also coming out. in gulf by anger protests across india over the gang rape and death of 2 women from

the marginalised dalat community. the e.u. formally launches legal action against the u.k. .