the u.s. community is most impacted by kind of it 19 as the incumbent president seeks a 3rd term and the opposition has formed an alliance against what course will the country take struggles with often violent protests october on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow the president trumps doctors say he continues to improve revealed he's been given a steroid usually reserved for seriously ill patients after his oxygen levels drop

twice. report from they're going to care about capital as rockets rain down knocking out power and driving residents of the disputed region underground. police in baton rouge to use water cannon to disperse tens of thousands of protesters demanding the release of political prisoners. and the london marathon defies the pandemic and throws up a surprise winner. 48 hours after the u.s. president was taken to hospital with code 19 it's still not clear how sick he actually is doctors treating donald trump say they've given him dexamethasone a steroid the world health organization only recommends for severe cases this after his oxygen levels dropped briefly on friday and saturday but they also insist he's

doing well and could be discharged from hospital as early as monday mike hanna reports from bethesda where trump is being treated. the team of doctors of urge for another update and the president's personal physician 1st explain the reason for the particularly rosy prognosis that was given 24 hours ago saying he was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of medical team and president. didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so you know it came off that we're trying to hide something it was initially true i feel much better now in an overnight video tweet to president trump said he was feeling well a sentiment supported by his doctors who are now saying he may return to the white house residence as soon as monday but dr sean connelly confirmed what he would not in the 1st public briefing that the president received supplementary oxygen on at

least 2 occasions the 1st on friday he was not sure to breath he was tired had the fever and that was about it and after about a minute on only 2 leaders his situation levels were back over 40 over 95 percent. stayed on that for about an hour maybe it was off and gone another critical piece of information that the president is now receiving the steroids dexamethasone which is recommended only for critical care the deck cement the zone use again is extremely extremely worrying sign their veto it says it's only used for critical and severe patients it actually recommends against people who are not serious and i age also so it's only for serious patients who are i don't ventilators or supplemental oxygen which trump does barely 54 so he's on a really bad trajectory i don't know if tomorrow tomorrow is a little premature discharge. questions continue about contact tracing in the wake

of president trump's movements the white house says it's directing this in cooperation with the centers for disease control team. but many who were at this crowded rose garden last saturday say they have not been contacted. authorities in minnesota where president trump visited on wednesday say they've launched their own contact tracing program in the absence of any white house direction this apparent lack of any central direction reflects the limited federal response to the pandemic as a whole during the months in which more than $200000.00 americans have died there has been no federal tracing program established. 100 joins us live from outside walter reed military hospital in bethesda john this has been an ongoing uncertainty as a his health. that's right the information we have

been getting here at walter reed military medical center has been at best. less than transparent yesterday that dr john connally was asked directly whether the president had been at any time on oxygen the doctor repeatedly said he was not on oxygen now well today we've learned that he has twice had supplemental oxygen and that suggests that he has had some problems breathing the doctor said that his his his oxygen level in his blood went down to 93 percent 95 percent is considered the bottom of the normal levels so there is still a possibility that the president is struggling with this disease we know that because of that powerful steroids on it's really only given if you heard in my candid story to people who have a severe case so we're still waiting to hear 2 more candid

information what we have right now is is contradictory the evidence suggests the president has really been struggling with this disease he's a man of 74 he's also technically obese that's a co-morbidity that makes this case a little more complicated so you've got that on the one hand and now in the other hand you have the doctors saying that it's possible the president will return to work at the white house on monday now it's true that the white house has a full medical unit there and they would be able to take care of the president but you would want to hear if he were in severe need of things like oxygen and immediate treatment so we're really waiting to hear some more transparent information and it seems like what the white house is giving us is pretty much the same kind of rosy scenario it's given us on coronavirus all of these months so we're waiting to hear. a little more information to be honest and tell us bit more about the efforts to do contact tracing for those who might have crossed the president's path while he was potentially contagious.

that's right in other countries there can be a robust contract tracing regiment in this case people who are very close to the president say they haven't been contacted at all rudy giuliani is the president's personal lawyer he says he's doing a do it yourself contact tracing chris christie the former governor of new jersey he helped coach the president for the debate last week he says he hasn't been contacted by anybody either so that suggests a kind of standoffish approach to a contract tracing that has been really the trademark of this white house on coronavirus in the same way they did did not establish a national plan a national mask plan a national lockdown when it left all of that to the states and it seems that the white house is doing the same with that contract tracing program 200 thank you very much indeed as to choose an emergency physician and professor at oregon health and

science university she joins us now via skype from portland thanks very much indeed for being with us so what do you make of the fact that we now know that the president need oxygen a couple of times and is now being treated with the text message. every single time we get a clinical update about the president over the past 3 days it is more serious so 1st he had mild disease and he was being transferred out of an abundance of caution and then he had received this upgraded medical therapy rem does appear which is for patients who you know are not have more than mild disease then he had transience oxygen supplementation needs than he had ones that were more serious it sounds like multiple times and now he's on dex about his own which is really reserved for patients who have at least moderate but usually severe coated disease involving the lungs and and in patients who have had hypoxia so it certainly seems like his course is dynamic and it is headed in the wrong direction to me what about what the

potential side effects are of this with cocktail of drugs that he's being given at the moment. well we don't know actually because. we don't know as far as this whole cocktail because no one that i've probably in the world has received the combination of the monoclonal antibody does appear plus steroids and and so he actually is unique person and unique case study in seeing the impact of that particular combination of medications so he he you know what we learned from him will be fairly unique you know we do have some increasing experience of rem does appear and steroids the big study that supported the use of steroids in patients with severe cove it did demonstrate that for patients with mild there's that disease there could be some negative outcomes and you know steroids in impact the inflammatory cascade that's one reason that if you have lung disease and there's

a lot of inflammation and might actually help you in your oxygen you know in your ability to do oxygen exchange but on the other hand your body your relies on a robust immune system to beat the disease so i think that's hypothetically why patients with mild or just these downsides are probably not worth the upsides of steroids so i think it's tricky from what the white house positions tell us with this fluctuating oxygen level he may not have been very clearly in one category of disease or another and i'm sure it was a pretty complicated conversation about whether to start him on steroids at all knowing the potential downsides but i'm sure that was made a decision that was made in consultation with the president and his own personal wishes about how aggressive to be with treatments knowing that there is a potential harm and given all that how likely is it that he will be discharged to a more a monday a which is one of the suggestions of the doctors made. it is very hard for me to understand a scenario in which he should go home i mean if he was being admitted for an

abundance of caution there is nothing over the past 24 hours that has led us to believe that he's so out of the words that we can now abandon caution. if we are simply looking at clinical trajectory it seems to be getting worse and you never doubt you never discharge a patient home who's so dynamic everything's changing you really want to see people stabilize out so you feel like i'm really confident that their course is just going to continue to improve and see that kind of trajectory so the only scenario i can imagine in which he goes home tomorrow while all of this stuff is still so dynamic is if the patient signs and self out against medical advice if you so determine to go home of course we give patients autonomy to decide and if they still feel like he is despite his oxygen levels and all and and the potential medical mental side effects of the steroids they still feel like he's competent to make that decision and he decides to go home you could do that but i can't imagine physicians who would take responsibility for actually discharging him out when he's been this sick doctor so she thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you my pleasure.

poll says 65 percent of americans are still deeply worried about the corona virus and many from donald trump's own party think the president could have avoided getting himself infected 5 in 10 registered republicans said trump wouldn't have tested positive if you'd taken the virus more seriously of those surveyed 55 percent of people think trump isn't telling the truth about the disease and 57 percent disapprove of the president's response to the coded 19 pandemic overall that's up about 3 points from a poll late last week. joining us now is allan showed it he's a professor at northeastern university and author of presidential debates risky business on the campaign trail he joins us live from albuquerque thank you very much for being with us so a critical juncture on the campaign trail how damaging is it politically to be in hospital coronavirus which was a subject he was hoping to avoid talking about well you know we're really in

uncharted waters here this is never happened in american history especially toward the end of a campaign like this and so trump was coming off of a bad debate at the beginning of the week and now has said weighed into this hospitalization whether that engender some sympathy for him or just underlines the fact that the pandemic was not handled very well i think that remains to be seen i mean the doctors being very upbeat to the members of the possibility might even come out on on monday but we had just enough from the physician we're talking to that that may be unlikely if he does though do you think the big debate the next debate will still go ahead and given that he'll be quarantining. well the next debate is actually the vice presidential debate on wednesday of this coming week and then the thursday after is when the next time biden and trouble are supposed to to meet to me that seems like a very quick turnaround in of course there are considerations about truck traveling trump being in a studio with other people given that he has his history you know with the disease so i think a lot of these questions are still being heard out again mention that the v.p.

debate how important does it become in this context. i think it becomes much more important than a normal vice presidential debate usually the vice presidential debates have a much smaller audience in the presidential debates but this time given this whole question about presidential succession thinking about what would happen if a president couldn't fulfill his duties this role of the number 2 has just really increased in importance so i think there's a real appetite for their bait and i think that we will see a much higher number of people watching than normally what i don't want to read so far into the short term effect in the polls from from president trump being ill with kevin 19 what do you think it will spell for this campaign. you know it it really could cut 2 ways i think the danger is that it just reinforces how badly the white house handled the response to coronavirus if the president himself can get it so it sort of undermines all the efforts that they've been making from the white house to try to minimize the problem on the other hand in particularly with the

people who are to your lineage were trying to support him i think that there could be a response of sympathy and maybe a you know some some people who decide that that they they would like to vote for him on that basis but it's still early days to really know why we are doing is now we are showing the pictures of the day the message that john put out when he was trying to take control of the of the message and well it was a confusion between what the white house was saying about how ill he was and what the doctors were saying how important is it for him to have control of the narrative and now that he may not be able to if he does get any more what will that mean do you think. yeah that's a great question and of course i think part of the confusion right now is we don't know who's in control of the narrative you know things are being tweeted out under his name but is that him or is that somebody else and who is this somebody else and so the completing messages that we're hearing from various representatives of the white house or the medical folks i think just adds to the confusion and so at some

point it needs to be made clear to the public who is speaking to the president and you know a clear sort of line about threats here which has been lacking up to this point professor thank you very much indeed for talking to thank you thank you meanwhile 9 states in the u.s. are reported record numbers of kevin 1000 cases over the past week the country reported an increase of nearly 49000 new infections on saturday alone health experts have warned increasingly colder temperatures are driving people indoors aiding the spread of the virus in wisconsin an average of almost one in 4 tests coming back positive. the u.k. has reported more than 22000 new covered 19 cases on sunday up from almost 13000 a day before that's its highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began but both numbers include infections that weren't reported in previous days due to a technical error brings the u.k.'s total to around half

a 1000000 confirmed cases of a massive rise was announced hours after british prime minister forest johnson warned living through the pandemic will be bumpy through christmas and possibly further the government says more than 42000 people have died of code 19 in the u.k. . france has put paris on maximum alert after a big surge in corona virus cases they're all bars in the french capital will have to shut down for 2 weeks from tuesday and restaurants will have to put in new protocols to stay open more than 12 and a half 1000 cases were recorded nationally in the past 24 hours harrison must say of the worst hit cities in the country more than 32000 people have died all together across france. one of them is the iconic franco japanese fashion designer kenzer takada who died of carbon 19 at the age of $81.00 kenzo was the 1st japanese designer to break into the paris fashion scene his death in a suburb outside the french capital comes 50 years after he launched his 1st

collection in the city cannes or sold his brand in 1903 and later went into semi retirement to remain one of the most respected people in part parisian high fashion the company's most recent collection was shown earlier this year. coming up on this news hour from london the u.n. turns schools into food distribution centers in gaza where the growth of our spending mic is pushing thousands to the brink of extreme poverty. and we report from one of central asia as poorest countries where allegations of vote buying have dominated parliamentary elections. as a rush on and on mean you're accusing each other of targeting civilians in their conflict over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh as about john says 2 of its cities have been attacked this after the region's capital step on a cat came under sustained bombardment which killed at least 10 people the remote

mountainous region is officially part of as a version but it's ethnically armenian and has been an officially run by armenian forces since the end of a 6 year war in 1904 the ongoing fighting threatens to drag in turkey which is backing azerbaijan and russia which has a defense treaty with armenia there is bennett smith was filming in the region's capital where rockets and mortars started falling. you know if you haven't 123-456-7891. this has been the most sustained bombing of the panacur since 1994 and the end of the war between ethnic armenians in the clay of nagorno-karabakh and azerbaijan from early sunday morning air raid sirens wailed across the city. as a bar job 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. karma. ok let's go guys come come come to. life as moved underground insta panic at the end for 8 days now those who haven't left here have been living like this just short of what we are in a very bad situation we sent all of our children out of the city and we have asked soldiers for our sons waiting for good news and to get out of the cellars we haven't heard from her fighting we don't know how they are bitterly 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 fort with this intensity because there is now of 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 step on occurred 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. bernard smith al jazeera nagorno-karabakh. as a version says it cities are under attack by the government is accusing armenian backed separatist forces of firing on civilian areas in its 2nd largest city ganja the armenians say they've only attacked military targets destroying and their base as a version also says armenia is armed forces have now launched a late night missile attack against the city a year see them question who was there earlier she says the warring sides are no closer to entering into negotiations. amid accusations of war 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 menu and as our page on that within this week top azerbaijan officials including the president have threatened that if our mania attacks us our rage on from our many in territory those firing positions would be destroyed and today our mania official said that they hit. again jay aboard again jet is the 2nd largest city of azerbaijan with 350000 population after that we heard off the show saying that there is eventually area in the city center was hit by rockets fired from our main yes so now everybody is worried it will as our big john 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

academic sources both sides are saying that are many as front to drag as arbet john into a bilateral conflict because if this happens 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 in a wild turkey might be in all so all these questions are waiting for answers but the coming days seems to be if far from coming around the negotiation table for us are both john and i made an awful. one of central asia as poorest countries kyrgyzstan has been voting for a new parliament of 3 establishment parties looks set to dominate preliminary results suggest the barium dig party which includes the president's younger brother

is leading the count with just over 24 percent of votes for the election was also dominated by allegations of vote buying as charles tried to reports in the capital bishkek. voters came early to cast their ballots at this polling station in the curious capital bishkek kyrgyzstan is often described as much more democratic than neighboring more thorough tarion post soviet states in central asia opposition parties are free to criticize the government has been lively open debate in the run up to this poll but widespread allegations of vote buying by pro-government and opposition parties alike means these parliamentary elections are seen as a test of how sustainable the country's democratic development is i thought i want these elections to be fair have despite all the violations we see on social media this election is good for our country others we spoke to at this polling station

said many people have been transported there by a pro-government political party in accordance with the so-called form to ruling through 2 is a legal loophole that allows a voter to change the precinct to which he or she casts a ballot it means parties who feel they may lack support in a given area of a transport and money to voters if they agree to be moved and vote for them. it's estimated around half a 1000000 people were relocated to cost about. what you are all these people they come from another area they have all sold their vote. of with video showing people who would photograph their ballot paper after voting was posted online. a violation of killick is law which added to speculation that people were having to prove to parties they had kept their promise to vote for them and so receive their payment al-jazeera has no independent way of verifying these videos we see that ways to

falsify to pressure voters to vote certain way have also. expand their ear and there are more and more tools used by pro-government parties to make sure that they 'd prevail at elections preliminary results suggest a much bigger majority for pro-government parties than in the parliamentary elections in 2 $1015.00 and already at least 3 opposition parties have rejected those results after such widespread allegations of vote buying and manipulation analysts are saying they predict other opposition parties they respond in the same way trial started out as arab bishkek kyrgyzstan. tonight's breaking news president trump has apparently made an appearance from hospital able to read military hospital in bethesda and john hendren a correspondent saw him so john what was he doing.

well as we were standing here when the police cleared the road and then we saw a black motorcade that looks suspiciously like the president's come on the other side turn around and come by on this side and looking into the window for a brief moment i saw the face of what was certainly donald trump driving by in the . motorcade checked twitter feed and about 8 or 9 minutes ago he said that he was going to pay a little surprise visit to the people outside. he's apparently a little drive by to reassure people that he's ok it's not clear whether he's going back inside but that seems to be what he was suggesting in that twitter video so it's really him coming by saying hello to the many fans that he has out here carrying flags and wishing the best to the president the to the best of our knowledge he is returning to walter reed military medical center but we really

don't know much more than that and this is just a bit like yesterday the president trying to take the initiative on the p.r. front when he's been lots of commentators been suggesting that perhaps his case is more serious given that he's been given a text message saying that steroids is normally used for people to be treated when they are in a severe stages of he says he's clearly out there wanting to show people that he's not as ill as people are perhaps suggesting. that's right and he's also taking an experimental cocktail. that are only allowed for compassionate use generally that would suggest that his case was pretty serious but the president throughout this entire covert 19 pandemic has been presenting a rosier image of the way the pandemic was going here in the united states then was perhaps true and so when we see gestures like this you have to look at it with that kind of backdrop the president is presenting

a rosy image of what's going on with me maybe in good health he looked in good health as he passed by and his doctors say he is feeling good but the bottom line is we don't know much more than the fact that he's capable of getting into a car and traveling by and waving at his fans. the drug the drugs that he's on and there are several of them suggest that it's a serious case we know that he's been on on. region it least 2 times in that his oxygen levels have dropped below the normal range down to about 93 percent dr sean connelly said earlier today $95.00 is the bottom of the normal range so this is definitely intriguing perhaps we'll find out more if we get briefed. john hendren thank you very much indeed for that update to know so you'll keep us posted for any more. now tens of thousands of people have marched through the center of the bell russian capital as protests against president lukashenko enter the ninth's

week demonstrators marched to detention centers in minsk demanding that political prisoners be freed police used water cannon to disperse them and cordoned off streets witnesses have reported many arrests anti-government protests have been ongoing since lucas shanker declared victory in a disputed election on august the 9th we're joined now by skype by constantine to terrify who's a russian and a professor of human rights law at the university of liverpool thanks very much for being with us what's your impression of the protests gaining momentum or losing momentum at this stage. well thank you very much for having me here i think. the protests continue in the event and this is the main message to the governments that they are not stop him and they will carry on the facts only the government doesn't really know what to do in this circumstance and they understand that the policy of terror of doesn't really work but they don't have any or as a strategy don't seem to want to engage in any sort of negotiations

how they're being organized given that so many of the protest leaders are i have either been arrested or bad or not able to kind of function their. well. this is a very good point because the protests. are truly coming from people themselves well there are a couple of telegram channels we should. inform about the ways of protest soon. in fact these protests had no leaders and no classical opposition leaders could carry a child basically always be people who are protesting on the streets tell me what do you make of the proposed meeting between sky and mackel in berlin on tuesday she and talking about the one thing that the german chancellor perhaps to be

a mediator in talks between purchase leaders and the government. symbolically this is a fairy. tale and most has already met mccrone the president for france and now she's meeting with. the chancellor of germany and symbolically it's. very important how we have i think that the key message from that's meeting should be an invitation for russia to put some pressure on beller was. invited. to sit down and negotiate so. there is that. there will be an important outcome of that in the meantime but do you have any information about the state of the condition of some of the political prisoners you've been taking the people been arrested during these protests. well i know that

at least one of the political prisoners was on hand or strikes i'm not sure about his condition. the last time i heard about the condition of my dear kolesnikov who is one of the leaders of the. opposition. she is the issue matthew is her defense lawyer she seems ok in the circumstances however we haven't heard about any information about those political prisoners who were arrested even before the presidential election in august so very little information comes about them and have the tactics of the government changed in the way that they handle the protests is this is this is this is this a question because there is no tactic there is no clear policy of what they try to do they want anything they can do is terrorists right so while it's human rights

etc if evidently this doesn't work. there are a lot they're living in a parallel reality to what is happening in the county and every sunday thousands of people joining and marching. effectively they don't know what to do and they don't want to negotiate so the situation valorise is. at the moment constant into tahrir thank you very much indeed for talking to us in argentina thank you thank you very much. rescuers in france and italy continue to search for victims of saturday's heavy rain and flooding which are now known to have killed 4 people france has deployed the military to search for at least 8 people still missing after almost a year's worth of rain fell in just 12 hours around the city of nice 2 of the missing a firefighters whose vehicle was carried away by water when the road collapsed

during a rescue operation. voters in the south pacific island territory of new caledonia have naturally rejected independence from france in a 2nd referendum in 3 years just over 53 percent voted in favor of maintaining ties with france down from 57 percent in 2018 the turnout was higher this time as a long running tension between indigenous are lenders who want independence and descendants of colonial settlers who remain loyal to paris the french president says he's grateful for the result. shifted it dark of state i welcome this expression of confidence of the republic with a deep rickey henderson i also welcome these results with humility i do hear the voice of those who want independence and want them to know it is with you it is only together there will be tomorrow's new caledonia so. indian police are

violently dispersed to protest against the alleged gang rape of a young woman in the northern state of pradesh the 19 year old victim died of her injuries last week sparking furious demonstrations across the country public outrage grew after the woman's family said officers cremated her body without their consent of orgies have turned over the investigation to the federal police agency the victim's family says they don't trust the police and want the case to be handled by the supreme court your idea that another day here well if the nation the incident with the victim is very shameful and cruel her body shouldn't have been cremated in the night it shouldn't have happened at any cost as a daughter of this country i feel so sad and we will continue to fight until she gets justice. i mean violent clashes in chile's capital during protests against police brutality over a video which appears to show officers pushing a 16 year old boy off a bridge demonstrators are calling on santiago's police chief to resign over the

incident which officers deny the government has ordered an investigation so hierarch reports was the voices calling for change in chile are growing louder thank you hundreds of anti-government protesters rallies in the capital some thiago 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 motionless he survived and is in a stable condition in hospital but the pictures are being shared widely with public calls and by a position politicians the sun segars chief of police to resign police deny an officer push 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 be untrue story but this person was held of the bridge by his feet or pushed over the years 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 a systematic government crackdown since last year you'll see the look at when i want to see the police a violent we can't bear it anymore they've raped tortured run people over blinded others and now they're throwing people in the approach oh river. look at it coming from and 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 to work the government issued a statement saying it's going. dems any form of violence adding that the officer in question has been removed from his post what an investigation is underway i thank you and release that it's 8 page and best of 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 people were killed and many injured and 130000 were detained hundreds of them reportedly being tortured and sexually abused that's prompted chilean prosecutors to investigate thousands of human rights violations equal to be committed by security forces during the protests. since last october a series of cabinet reshuffle as a result to do 3 men successfully being put in charge of the interior ministry thank box the leadership changes don't seem to have calmed protesters the constitutional referendum is do you want to take the 25th. all to cave in 1000 restriction since march has prevented demonstrations schools are increasing for further protests soon saw the height of al-jazeera. or to modern authorities say they've sent more than 3000 honduran migrants home since thursday when thousands

illegally crossed the border. had been planning to make their way to the us via mexico where there's still continue their journey a lot to face a far tougher challenge but as runner up are reports many of our not to give up. hundreds of 100 migrants on the guatemalan border awaiting their return home brought them all in security forces acting under orders from president john mccain have been sending back members of a migrant caravan that crossed into guatemala on thursday. by the weekend immigration authorities said some of the original group of about 2000 migrants had agreed to return to honduras voluntarily leave the management and we made the decision to return because the situation of crossing the border between quote amal and mexico is very complicated was this latest migrant caravan is the 1st of this size since the start of the coronavirus pandemic the rumors of a new caravan had been circulating on 100 and social media for weeks what

a mole is president has ordered what he calls a state of prevention in several states for a period of 15 days and called for the detention of migrants who pushed through border gates between honduras and guatemala on thursday still some migrants have vowed to push ahead saying their goal is to reach the united states. in spite of what the president said we are going to continue for. those who are continuing on or now heading toward guatemala's border with mexico which poses even greater challenges to. the migration institute to promote orderly safe irregular immigration in order to guarantee humanism and human rights with any entry into the country that's the reason we have met today for an orderly and coordinated activity with the armed forces the corona virus outbreak has meant borders remain under tight restrictions and the mexican government says immigration laws will be strictly enforced warning that those who knowingly put public health at risk could

face prosecution. mahmoud upolu al jazeera. thousands of people from ethiopia's largest ethnic group a celebrated their thanksgiving festival as tensions remain high months after the murder of a popular singer members of the aroma community gathered for the 2 day festival amid tight security the group has long complained of political exclusion in ethiopia the killing of a room a singer how children one day say in june and the rest of prominent politicians at spot concerns of violence at the festival authorities say they foiled terror attacks and arrested hundreds of people ahead of the gathering. still ahead this news hour the city once known as the pearl of the orient seeks to undo decades of decay and restore some of its former glory.

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down. the. that said take you straight now back to the will to be hospital in bethesda and hear from john hendren about to president trump's solti from the hospital that. it's right but for 2 days we've had people out here with their trump flags chanting in favor of the president there are some counter protesters as well but most of them are fans of the president you can hear. the cars behind me so we were surprised when that all stopped and a motorcade came by a black motorcade came by that direction and then circled around and came by this

direction we all walked up out of curiosity and i saw the distinctive face of president on a trump in the rear window of a car with a black mask on his face and i wanted to confirm that it was indeed the president and not some lookalike. in a motorcade which would've been unlikely check his twitter feed and this is what the president had to say about why we saw him do a little victory lap here. were really great reports from the doctors this is an incredible hospital well to read the work they do is just absolutely amazing and i want to thank all the nurses the doctors everybody here i've also got to meet some of the soldiers and the 1st responders and what a group i also think we're going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street and they've been out there for a long time and they got from flags and they love our country so i'm not telling anybody but you but i'm about to make a little surprise visit so perhaps i'll get there before you get to see me

a but i just. when i look at the enthusiasm and we have enthusiasm like probably nobody's ever had our people that love the job we're doing we have more enthusiasm than maybe anybody so 'd it's been a very interesting journey i learned a lot about cove it i learned it by really going to school this is the real school this is in the let's read the book school and i get it and i understand it and it's a very interesting thing going to be letting you know about it. sick hospitalized it least twice having been on supplemental oxygen valve was the president of the united states making what looked to me like the most brazen campaign stops in your history in a car with 2 men in the front seats also wearing masks but the president being very sick and presumably very contagious in the back seat and you heard him there in

that video saying he'd learned a lot about the coronavirus now it is 7 nearly 8 months into the pandemic here in the united states and the president wanted to show his fans that he was still ok so he made what looks like a little victory lap and then turned back into walter reed medical center where he will continue his treatment and john he said there i get it do you think that if he does recovery appears to be in reasonable shape in that video and certainly in the car when we don't know whether he's going back into the hospital by now if he does come out and reason the student or the doctors earlier were saying that he could come out as early as monday tomorrow just the fact that he says now that 6 change the way he campaigns or 2 after this. that's an excellent question i mean. he you can't go through that experience one imagines without having a different perspective on the disease and its effect on you especially when you've

been in the in this situation where you're taking experimental drug. on supplemental oxygen taken a cocktail of drugs that are specially approved for this one time use in his case so yeah normally people would quarantine for at least 2 weeks there's a requirement but this the centers for disease control recommends i believe 2 negative tests before you can go out in public again but this is a very unusual circumstance as donald trump likes to say nobody has ever seen anything like this so it's conceivable the president would do the kind of campaigning that joe biden did for so long from his basement often wearing a mask of zoom teleconferences but with donald trump if you could just see with his drive by that he wants to get out there and be with the people and of course that could be the reason he has coronaviruses that he did a rally he met with fundraisers on wednesday and thursday and he likes to get out

there masculist with these hundreds of people one hopes that there would be a responsible approach to getting him back on the campaign trail but to be honest lauren nobody really knows how this is going to go john hendren thank you very much indeed. now the corona virus pandemic is crippling gaza's economy which was already struggling after years of blockades and conflict with israel the u.n. agency is turning $21.00 schools into food distribution centers as restrictions cause a surgeon unemployment and poverty almost 75 percent of the 2000000 people who live in gaza already depended on aid before kevin 19 hit it or occasionally reports. in the shati refugee camp near gaza city people keep up the food parcels many live in extreme poverty and for then aid provided by is a matter of survival at the top there are 8 people in my family before the pandemic

the economic situation was already bad and now after the hour. break everything stopped no work no life there is nothing in gaza we depend on food parcels and the charity we get from volunteers. under is working gaza was made more difficult by the us decision 2 years ago to end its $360000000.00 annual contribution to the impact of the coronavirus and the disruption to food handouts because of health and safety restrictions has increased anxiety levels say many gazans in israel it will be a humanitarian catastrophe if stops the you know you to 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 to find

a job you have no hope to travel and now you are asked to stay at home you even go out to find work 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 frustration because this 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 gaijin be algis their. 8 days of lockdown restrictions have begun in more than 100 towns and villages across lebanon because of a record rise in corona virus infections state whom orders have been issued in 100 districts state institutions and places of worship are shot but health centers and delivery services remain open more than 40000 people have been infected so far and 400 have died many lebanese subject to the restrictions as they face their worst economic crisis in decades. the u.k.

capital is finally managed to stage one of its most popular sporting events and it ended with a surprise finish the london marathon was 6 months late and incivility cut down form usually around $40000.00 people on the streets of the city but this time elite groups of 39 men and 25 women ran 19 laps of a close circuit and there was a major surprise in men's race as andy richardson fought. a fresh springtime morning usually greets run as at the london marathon. due to coronavirus the race had been delayed until this much colder time slots the event normally has more than $40000.00 entrants but this year it was restricted to elite competitors running laps of a buyer secure circuits kenya's world record holder elliott keep shogi was expected to dominate the men's rice but securely in the absence of the in judy theo p n can a nice of the caylee but the 4 time winner was dropped by the leading pack in the

final stages and after more than 42 kilometers of running ethiopia's surekha tartar on a sprint finish to claim a surprise victory in a time of 2 i was 5 minutes and 41 seconds the biggest win of his career for keep choky crossed the line down in 8th place. at the point i thought ok we have better but. the problem with my. order have we got to look. i don't know what happened the current world record holder did win the women's race kenya's bridget costco i was running the distance for the 1st time since breaking the record in chicago last year the cold weather and regular turns on this route when she was almost 5 minutes down on that sort of pace but she was still well ahead of the rest of the field cosco i now aiming to win her 1st olympic title in tokyo next year and the richardson al-jazeera.

now is once known as the pole of the orient but decades of decay have left manila a shadow of its former self the philippine capital was devastated during the 2nd world war and rebuilding it has proved difficult but the government is planning to revitalize the city while preserving its history to milan in again reports from manila. this is manila one of the oldest and most densely populated cities in the world a melting pot of asian and latin cultures a place where the divide between rich and poor is conspicuous but decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the city's grandeur it was a staging ground for artists from all over the world who wanted to perform in the far east but decades later the theater has become a symbol of mandela's decade now the philippine government is changing that what

will make this a different piece people will come here not only because of the show but because of the building. the battle for manila between the joint filipino and american forces and the japanese imperial army in 1945 caused the loss of more than 100000 lives and destroyed much of the city government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2 and historians say the country lost an irreplaceable story treasure with the destruction of the city manila was the most devastated city during world war 2 after war so in poland but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never truly recovered over the decades with a growing urbanization pollution and do reputation for violence businesses moved to

other areas of the country. we lost that. and you cannot buy back down its counterpart that's what we are our cultural history to make money like this and that at the same time hopefully we leave with that expectation of being the capital of the company. people don't remember that we all came from. it centrality was a people went to school here our economic activity was based we have to get acquainted again with that and respect that history but article buildings museums and historical parks remain a reminder that not all is lost in manila at least for now similarly in dugit which is 0 manila. and the quake on monday can catch up with all the news we're covering on our website the address that is al jazeera dot com and president trump as

briefly left the hospital or to say hello to his fans outside and. that's it for me this news out to be back in a moment with more news by foot. i know enjoy those night. and enjoy as much as we all try to find a beauty is brownstein point of view he doesn't say we need to call this book new york they just we just see the clouds. i am sure i've only done.

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a different time they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play as we've been targeted by you cyber attacks from russia they're all dangerous and through this conflict kept. truths in the post truth weren't are now just 0. president trump takes a surprise drive outside hospital to greet his supporters as question as remain about how sick he is. nor intended this is down to 0 live from london also coming up. reports from nagorno-karabakh capital as rockets rain down knocking out power and

driving residents of a disputed region underground. the u.n. turned schools into food distribution centers in gaza where the coronavirus.