and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. donald trump was given a powerful steroids after his oxygen levels dropped again on saturday his doctors say he is responding well to the tree. and if you continue to look and feel as well as he does today our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the white house where he can continue his treatment course. but i'm a clown this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up cities under fire armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of targeting civilians in the fight for the going to carve out. to press stop us from parties in kurdistan with half the votes but

the election has been overshadowed by allegations of phone by. protest against police brutality in chile after one officer was accused of throwing a teenage boy from a bridge. so the doctors treating u.s. president donald trump for covert 19 have revealed he's now been given the steroids takes a methadone which is usually reserved for patients who are critically ill after 24 hours of contradictory statements about his condition his medical team have admitted his oxygen levels did drop suddenly on saturday and he received supplemental oxygen at least once at the white house on friday morning despite all of that they have once again given an upbeat assessment saying he could be discharged from hospital as early as monday. friday morning when i left the bedside the president was doing well with only mild symptoms and his oxygen was in the high

ninety's late friday morning when i returned to the bedside president had a high fever and his oxygen oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94 percent given these 2 developments i was concerned for possible rabbit progression of the illness i recommended the president we try some supplemental oxygen see how he'd respond he was fairly adamant that he didn't need it he was not short of breath he was tired had the fever and that was about it and after about a minute on only 2 leaders he said ration levels are back over 40 over 95 percent he is the fact of the matter is that he's doing really well and he is he is responding and as a team said if everything continues to go well we're going to start to discharge planning back to the white house. today he feels well he's been up and around our plan for today is to have him to eat and drink. out of bed as much as possible to be mobile and if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today our hope is

that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the white house where he can continue his treatment course. speak to my kind who was outside the hospital with the president being treated among certainly they've been more forthcoming with the details of the president's don't do is still questions to be asked. and indeed yes very much more forthcoming 24 hours ago they wouldn't even confirm that the president had been on a supplemental oxygen now they are confirming that he has been on 2 separate occasions that on friday use oxygen levels dropped hence they moved him to walter reed hospital and then the doctors said there was another episode a saturday in the past 24 hours in which is blood levels dropped to below 94 percent but the doctor would not say exactly how far it did drop the doctors now confirm that his blood oxygen levels are at a normal stage shared by around 98 percent 96 percent is the lower limit off

a normal blood oxygen range but certainly they saying that he is progressing well they talking about him moving him back to the white house in the next 24 hours perhaps but there's another point of concern here nick that needs to be addressed and that is medical experts say that in the course of the coronavirus illness normally you have oxygen drops as radical as this some 7 days off the infection now once again this is raising time lines of exactly when what the president infected because the normal day to live off a big patient indicates 7 days between infection and this 1st massive oxygen drop that the doctor says happened on friday so there's a lot more questions still emerging here and the issue as well of the drug. now this drug is administered only in critical care patients and is recommended by health specialists only when the patient is either on

a mechanical ventilator or receiving oxygen on a constant basis so it is rather concerning many medical experts would say that this is not being administered a to the president. if the president is discharged from hospital tomorrow and that's a big if he would still presumably be confined to quarters with me. indeed he still has to go through the full quarantine period once again depending on what the dates of his actual contact of infection is a step if we know the white house say he was diagnosed with the virus on thursday night but certainly there's a 2 week period that is recommended the president should he say and as you mention that is a may he go back to the white house it certainly would not be back to work as business business as normal he would not be wandering around the west wing he would in fact be in his upper floor residence in the white house. so it will not be

business as usual type scenario even if the president does go back to the white house he will remain in quarantine presumably just with his wife who also contracted positive for the virus but certainly he would remain in extremely strict quarantine for the recommended period of time but one must mention 2 very briefly nic that there is of course a fully equipped medical center at the white house itself and the only reason he was told to walter reed was because of that massive oxygen drop according to the doctors out of abundance of caution they say so he will continue to receive treatment and he will continue to be in quarantine even if he does return to the white house for a month thanks very much indeed that's my kind of hospital where don't trump is being treated. well is enough from dr eric fatal to use an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he says the treatment given to the president's indicated he's on about course. i think tomorrow is ambitious

and again as i mentioned before the trumps white house has a whole surgical unit so being discharged from arlo's pretty meaningless oxygen saturation below 94 clearly shows that he had as he's having a real sort of problem bout with it that's that you sometimes can have no shortness of breath even though you're slightly below 94 percent but it is altogether a bad sign and again trump white house right now always pains everything is rosy the saying goes if someone is in good spirits it just means you're awake if someone is resting comfortably means or unconscious and that's how you read a lot of these press release announcements of people like this so we have to take everything with a grain of salt she's definitely receiving care that no one else in the world normally would be able to match especially the rejoinder on anybody therapy that is

not even emergency authorized disappears emergency authorized but general is there's no authorization no one else in the world can get that drug so the fact that he's was on that advanced drug on the high still spending way which has no proven evidence yet plus ramdass of your 5 day course and his 5 day course will means he still has least 3 more days of it and now that's a muslim which is a last line drug it's showing it seems on a very bad course and he has had a very high risk all right on to other news now and russia is calling for an immediate cease fire and to go to karabakh and says it is ready to help find a solution to the conflict but on the ground fighting between azerbaijan and armenia continues with both sides accusing the other of targeting civilians at least 10 people died during a sustained bombardment of the disputed region reported bennett smith was filming there when the bombs fell. you know 123456789.

this is been the most sustained bombing of japan occurred since 1994 and the end of the war between ethnic armenians in the nagorno-karabakh and azerbaijan from early sunday morning air raid sirens wailed across the city. as a barrel of rockets and mortars rained down. the target where we were filming seems to have been a nearby electricity distribution station now that was a. very close. rocket targeting somewhere near. here. and i think. coming. ok let's go guys come come come.

from. life has moved underground insta panic at 8 days now those who haven't left here have been living like this. we are in a very bad situation we sent all of our children out of the city and we're here for our soldiers for our sons waiting for good news and to get out of the cellars we haven't heard from the fighting we don't know how they are totally armenians are strong we are patient. this apartment building was hit on friday night fortunately the people who live here were in that shelter the shockwave smashed the windows of buildings nearby. weapons technology has advanced considerably in the 30 years since ethnic armenians in the go no karabakh and azerbaijan last fought with this intensity because areas now have help from the turkish military

and it seems precision guided missiles and drones is so. i was 7 years old when i 1st saw war we don't want our children to go through all that that's why we took them to we are brave united that is why everything is going to be ok kind of is going to. carry back infrastructure is being targeted there was a direct hit on the electricity transformers a couple of hours after we'd filmed nearby stepanek or it is now without power. and on the very edge of nagorno-karabakh more electricity transformers were targeted on sunday afternoon we driven past 5 minutes earlier. this on players under pressure like never before as azerbaijan's military forces seem to be trying to completely cut it and its people off from amina bernard smith

al-jazeera nagorno-karabakh. let's get this perspective now from abidjan and hear from see them cause she says the warring sides are no closer to entering into negotiations. i'm with accusations of well those are bridge on and are many against each other for attacking their civilian settlements in a corner car about conflict seems to be transforming into a direct war between our mania and as our page on that within this week top azerbaijan officials including the president have threatened that if our many attacks are a jump from our many in territory those firing positions would be destroyed and today our mania officials said that they hit. again jay aboard again jet is the 2nd largest city of us are big john with 350000 population after that we heard off the show saying that there is then szell area in the city's center was hit by rockets fired from armenia so now everybody is worried as well as

our bridge on retaliate against this attack from our mania because as soon as i heard the incident i spoke to official sources in the foreign ministry and to some academics sources all sides are saying that are many as front to drag as our john into a bilateral conflict because if this happens and they believe our main will be able to regain the. international support all regional support let me say that they've been they find it necessary from the. security collective security treaty organization which are many is a member of but as our bridge on is and by this way russia might be in a whole different and then this question comes up will this turn out to be a regional conflict because if russia is involved turkey might be involved so all these questions are waiting for answers but the coming days seems to be a far from coming around the negotiation table for us are great john and i remain in office szell's. still ahead here on al-jazeera

a food for thought to look at how coronaviruses impacted the distribution of aid to thousands. is back to the beaches in brazil in defiance of coronavirus orders to keep off we've the latest from rio de janeiro. but. it's been something of a wet week around the caucasus and we will see further showers as we go through the next couple of days you can see there larry a clash between black sea between the caspian sea that's sinking further south as some showers become rather intense at times possibility of a little bit of localized flooding into john sliding down towards northern parts of iran elsewhere across the arabian peninsula it is generally try and find lots of hazy sunshine coming through temperatures for the way here in doha to around 35

celsius on cheese day still plenty warm enough i'm sure you'd agree into the forty's once again into kuwait but starting to see the heat just dip below the 40 degree mark there for baghdad might just catch one or 2 showers around the southern end of the red sea plenty a shower as across central africa the showers doing really quite nicely now you can see how they make their way into a good part of angola as they drift over towards capone swards the gulf of guinea and more of the same as we go on through monday further south still well little russia shower starting to show up now you could catch a shower too into southern parts of zimbabwe into botswana some shot was a possibility that see to that eastern side of south africa and then making the way inland job out looking wet by tuesday. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be good because as if you believe that there horo simply

to our democracy one obvious solution is to read from an informed opinion look at checkers don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get a revolution people who call in depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. but again you're watching out 0 remind of our top stories this hour and the doctors treating us president told trump for covert $1000.00 have revealed he's now been given the steroid dexamethasone in which is usually reserved for patients who are critically ill his blood levels have dropped twice in recent days but doctors say

he's doing well and they're hoping he can be discharged from hospital as early as monday. rusher is calling for an immediate ceasefire a new goal of power and says that moscow is ready to help seek a solution to the conflict by john and armenia are accusing each other targeting civilians. a preliminary results now from a coexistence parliamentary election give pro-government parties a bigly of the opposition 3 parties including one whose ticket includes the president's brother are protected to win more than half the votes let's hear now from charles trafford he joins us from the capital bishkek and charles what more do we know about the result. we are give you some more details nick on what we're hearing and as you say well evidence suggests a huge majority for pro-government parties in this parliamentary election. the figures amount to sri parties taking potentially up to 95 of the 120 seats

available the closest the opposition have got any opposition party have got so that one opposition party potentially taking 12 seats similar figures for another opposition party of course this comes after widespread allegations of voter manipulation and vote buying in the run up to this election indeed. we were polling station throughout the day and we had people speaking to us saying that they were seeing evidence of voter manipulation at that polling station what this potentially does though for pro-government parties within parliament is of course it increases their gender gives them more power to further their agenda and what we're looking at potentially is a great a push for more integration with the eurasian bloc that he's led by russia so closer relations with russia they've also spoken about. improving tax

rules here it's widely known in kyrgyzstan that you can to not put too fine a point on it pay. pay the authorities in order not to pay your taxes that have been promised is there to improve tax laws here. and it's also considered that they may well now not be the big push for constitutional reform which was going to potentially lessen the powers of the president something that the opposition were very much keen on what remains to be seen course is the kind of response that we that we may or may not see from the votes of public about the public that is very unhappy with the way that this government is before the opposition plays well back as it stands that we've heard from anybody in the opposition. the opposition parties old already starting to. voice their discontent over these

elections we've heard from 2 opposition parties so far that are rejecting these election results. and of course that has huge implications tension even so analysts are saying for the stability of this country because you know. despite there being great to democracy as we've been saying throughout the day in kyrgyzstan in relation to its fellow post soviet state neighbors in central asia want that freedom so analysts saying is give us. is increased platforms and arenas for debate but the same time greater sophistication for parties to try and manipulate the vote as well or greater determination for them to manipulate the vote and certainly election monitors and experts here are saying that you know there has been great evidence of that and it's we don't in any way want to be

insightful here. not insightful but incite any kind of political instability but the mere fact the matter is these countries very proud of the kind of democratic progress that he's made in the last 10 to 15 years and that democratic progress has has has involved the overthrowing of 2 presidents in revolutions so it's going to be some very interesting days ahead we're expecting the final results of this election to come out in the next couple of days after all the votes are counted manually or that's a picture in. front of the. the united nations refugee agency in gaza is turning schools into food distribution centers to help those most in need of the start of the pandemic unruh was forced to suspend as a because of code 960 restrictions to regain its report. in the

shati refugee camp near gaza city people queue up for food parcels many live in extreme poverty and for then aid provided by is a matter of survival. there are 8 people in my family before the pandemic the economic situation was already bad and now after the outbreak everything stopped no work no life there is nothing in gaza we depend on food parcels and the charity we get from volunteers. and or is working gaza was made more difficult by the us decision 2 years ago to end its $360000000.00 annual contribution the impact of the coronavirus and the disruption to food handouts because of health and safety restrictions has increased anxiety levels say many cause in this. it will be a humanitarian catastrophe stops the palestinians people will not have food to eat most of gaza's population about 80 percent depend on this.

for the blockaded territory with high unemployment and an under equipped overstretched health system these are desperate times the u.n. says the coronavirus is having a big impact on people's mental health you have no hope you have no hope to travel and now you are asked to stay at home. and i really think what we don't see with the eyes but we hear about is that that violence you know aggressive is increasing because of. gaza's economy which was already struggling before the pandemic is under more pressure the u.n. says is unemployment rises more families will rely on feed handouts like these victoria gates and be algis their. a video of a policeman in chile apparently throwing a teenager off a bridge has infuriated protesters the police commanders are denying social media reports were targeting the incident is adding to the long running anti-government anger so hot it has more was the voices calling for change in chile are

growing now and thank you hundreds of anti-government protesters rallied in the cup to santiago infuriated by this video that went viral on friday it shows a riot police officer chasing a teenager who's then thrown from a bridge and lands in a shadow can now face down and motion us he survived and is in a stable condition in hospital but the pictures are being shared widely with public cause and by a position politicians for sunset is chief of police to resign police deny an officer pushed the youngster off the bridge and say much of what's being said on social media is incorrect we're going to meet you we want to clarify the untrue story that this person was held of the bridge by his feet were pushed over the edge by the water cannon and some on social media claim they witnessed fortunately there is a video that shows this unfortunate accident happening during an intense situation with a group of people causing disorder now the prosecutors must evaluate based on the

evidence. following friday's incident read i was thrown into the canal water symbolizing blood highlighting what protesters say has become the systematic government crackdown since last year you'll see a look at when i want to see the police a violent we can't bear it anymore they've rape tortured run people over blinded others and now they're throwing people in the puppet show river. no kidding can i mention the government doesn't want us to protest it doesn't want us to gather together but they don't care that we gather in the subway and on buses like sardines to go talk work the government issued a statement saying it condemns any form of violence adding that the officer in question has been removed from his post. what in investigation is underway the u.n. release that its 8 page invested report condemning the government's response to mass protests of year ago against increasing public transport costs and social inequality was during the unrest $31.00 people were killed and many injured and

130000 were detained hundreds of them reportedly being tortured and sexually abused that's prompted cheney and prosecutors to investigate thousands of human rights violations equal to be convicted by security forces during the protests. since last october a series of cabinet reshuffle has resulted in 3 men success moving parts in charge of the interior ministry which box the leadership changes don't seem to have calm protesters the constitutional referendum is do you want to take the 25th. all to cave in 19 restrictions since march has prevented demonstrations calls are increasing for further protests soon so to hide out and just you know. francisco with 19 outbreak has once again hit record levels with almost 17000 new cases confirmed on saturday the government is expected to announce new measures to curb the outbreak. the death toll in brazil is fast approaching 150000

the 2nd highest in the world after the united states despite reaching its despite rising say infection rates of the mayor of rio is easy restrictions by opening schools cinemas and see it is that many had been ignoring the regulations anyway monica yannick a of has this report. that would have meant bell and her son are going to the movies for the 1st time in almost 7 months with an added bonus the new safety rules allow them to take off their masks to eat popcorn now coming from our 2 but we came because it's extremely hot outside and this is the 1st day cinemas and thirty's have opened so they're still empty i'm not sure it's a good idea to be in a close space but for now it seems safer than the beach in fact they are the only ones here a sharp contrast to the world outside taking a dip in the water and exercising outdoors are allowed crowds of people without

masks are not sunbathing is still for britain but this is one more rule that people have decided to ignore as spring temperatures have risen to a record 40 degrees celsius and brazil's unemployment rate has reached 14 percent beach vendors have decided to defy rio's mayor they're renting chairs and parasols risking a $200.00 fines them especially while working illegally all of us here but if we don't do this we can't pay the rent or buy food we stayed away from the beach for 6 months and can't continue to survive on government handouts which have just been reduced to half. the relaxed atmosphere on the plane as beach does not reflect the stark reality brazil is the world's 2nd largest covert 1000 hot spot in terms of fatalities more than 145000 people died and almost 5000000 have been infected that bell silva says he is aware that brazil may witness

a 2nd wave before the 1st one is over but he's willing to take the risk. to the liberal the rules say we can only be in the water not on the sand but we are paying we aren't fish besides why should we trust the government rios governor is being impeached on corruption charges the mayor is being investigated and the president never took the pandemic seriously besides rio de janeiro 6 other state capitals have seen a slow but steady rise in cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome largely related to covert 19 according to a study just released by the feel close institute is something that we must be extremely careful and extremely vigilant in the next 3 weeks because if we're going out even before those kind of a we know. fussing with a transmission in the next 2 weeks because my salary the increase in the number of

my now is the largest city in brazil's amazon has closed bars and river b. just to contain the fresh surge of coronavirus cases but in rio de janeiro for the moment social distancing and masks seem to have become a thing of the past monica al-jazeera rio de janeiro. so this is our desert these are the top stories and doctors treating us president told trump say his oxygen levels did drop but he's doing well and they're hoping he can be released as early as monday they say he's been given the steroids that's methods and the 74 year old is being treated for a cave it doesn't cheat at walter reed hospital in marion that his liver and kidney function of remain normal and we continue to plan to use a 5 day course of ramdass severe in response to trans in low oxygen levels as.