al-jazeera. and. the. u.s. president donald trump makes a surprise appearance in a brief drive by outside the military hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus questions remain the about his health has he's given a powerful steroids usually administered to seriously ill patients. time sam is a band this is al jazeera live from the hall so coming out cities under fire armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of targeting civilians in the fight for not gonna cut about. plus feeding some of the most vulnerable during the pandemic

the challenges faced by the u.n. refugee agency in distributing aid supplies in gaza. briefly left the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to do a drive by the hundreds of supporters gathered outside the move has attracted strong criticism with one doctor working at the walter reed hospital saying the irresponsibility of the decision was astounding earlier doctors treating the u.s. president revealed his oxygen levels dropped briefly on both friday and saturday john hendren reports from. i it was perhaps the most brazen campaign stop in u.s. history a candidate so sick with a potentially lethal virus that he has taken. barren mental cocktail of drugs and

at least twice supplemental oxygen sneaking out of his hospital room and into a hermetically sealed as u.v. with 2 secret service agents waving at the fans lined up outside as his motorcade took a victory lap on both sides of the street he tweeted a video explaining why i also think we're going to pay a little surprise to some of the great paper that we have. and they've been out there. they love our country so i'm not telling. surprise visit it with yet another. moment like many trouble makes it divided america really on the ground here in the street but. remarkably irresponsible. the head of disaster medicine at george washington university medical center tweeted that presidential s.u.v.s not only bullet proof but hermetically sealed against chemical attack the risk of covert 1000 transmission inside is as high as

it gets outside of medical procedures the irresponsibility is astounding my thoughts are with the secret service forced to play. earlier his team of doctors emerged for another update in the president's personal physician 1st explained the reason for the particularly rosy prognosis that was given 24 hours earlier saying he was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of medical team and president. i didn't want to give any 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 innocent true i feel much better now in a video tweet president trump said he was feeling well as sentiment supported by his doctors who are now saying he might return to the white house is 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 short of 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 this steroids dexa met his own which is recommended only for critical care the tech cement his own use again is extremely extremely worrying sign w.h.o. it says it's only used for critical and severe patients it actually recommends against people who are not serious and i also said 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 smiles a little premature destroyers questions continue about contact tracing in the wake of president trump's movements earlier in the week the white house says it is

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 have launched their own contact tracing program in the absence of any white house direction a similar situation happening in new jersey from which the president returned after a campaign fundraiser at one of his golf clubs on thursday just hours before a test confirmed he was positive for the coronavirus john hendren al-jazeera bethesda maryland jellyfish a is an associates research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center she says while trump appears to be getting healthier the message is around his recovery have been confusing. leaving the hospital obviously that's not what is recommended when one is on quarantine. the president has access to resources most people don't have but normally one doesn't. doesn't recommend

that the person leave their quarantine site to to go to joyride. he didn't expose the crowd but he and the secret service were certainly in a small closed space together it's really difficult to interpret the messages that have been shared and clearly there is there are issues of patient confidentiality even for the president and the clinicians are bound by their duty to be somewhat cautious about what information they share that's that they've been very forthcoming in listing the cocktail of medications which are a combination of a antibody an engineered monoclonal antibody treatment that is. experimental dexamethasone which is generally reserved for patients who appear to be very severely ill and have a worsening condition with a need for supplemental oxygen. and the run does appear as is has

been approved for emergency use authorization it is a little bit it seems to be a little bit of a scatter shot method from the outside just trying a bit of everything which doesn't really match with the reports that his condition is is pretty mild in that he's good he's improving quickly. john and armenia are accusing each other of targeting civilians in their conflict over the garden of. the remote mountainous area is officially part of azerbaijan but it's ethnically armenian hand has been occupied by armenian forces since 994 the ongoing fighting threatens to drag in turkey which is backing as a debate jan and russia which has a defense treaty with armenia at least 10 people died during a sustained bombardment of the region's capitals the panic that our reporter bernard smith was filming there when rockets and mortars started falling you know 123456789. this is been the most sustained

bombing of japan 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 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.

life has moved underground insta panic at 8 days now those who haven't left here have been living like this. what we are in a very bad situation we sent all of our children out of the city and we have 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 but to be 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 gono karabakh and azerbaijan last fought with this intensity because there is now of help from the turkish military and it

seems precision guided missiles and drones. 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 back is going to. karabakh infrastructure is being targeted there was a direct hit on the electricity transformers a couple of hours after we'd filmed nearby to panic and 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. bernard smith

al-jazeera nagorno-karabakh. as a by john says these are also under attack the government is accusing armenian bank separatist forces of firing on civilian areas in the 2nd largest city ganja the armenians say they've only attacked military targets destroying an air base as a debate jan says armenia's armed forces launched a late night missile attack against the city of it. was there earlier she says the warring sides are no closer to entering negotiations. amid accusations of all 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 beyond from our many in territory those firing positions would be the straw and today our mania official said that they hit. again jay

aboard again jet is the 2nd part the city of us are big john with 350000 population after that we heard off the show saying that there is a vengeful area in the city center was hit by rockets fired from armenia 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 our main yes front to draco's are big 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 all

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 well still ahead on al-jazeera colombia as far as rebels claim responsibility for a series of notorious murders but those doubts over the confessions. and with a record amount of land already burned. team california fire chiefs mourn the worst is yet to come. but. we've got some showers some longer spells of rain just around the caucuses once again it's been a pretty wet week a wet weekend and going to start a new

a working week with more heavy showers or longer spells of rain just sliding through easing into northern parts of iran as we call one into monday fun and friday across the rebel nation a loss of hazy sunshine 38 celsius in doha for monday cooling off colder that's around 35 rather will come to 35 as because i want him to choose day by choose i just notice some wet weather just around the eastern side of his back to stand because he stands also seeing some western weather and a little further north towards still but back across the middle east as i said largely try a few showers just around the southern end of the red sea into the south that we could see one or 2 shattered along the shore brace kissing some wetter weather just coming into somalia as we go on through a monday showers there's the eastern side of kenya but the shows you can see a little more widespread up towards mogadishu and beyond some of the pictures you go on in to choose day nothing a little further north which at that stage plenty of showers across central parts

of africa right into the gulf of guinea some big ones once again coming in here and more showers there for northern parts of angola. through the noise. when you're going into court and listen journalists are going to find a way out of this story one of the problems that they're just really hard wired people of color who were making. threats from. political. good work to refer to find they. can or were they able to find the listening post monitors and interprets the media on al-jazeera.

they're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now donald trump has briefly left the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to do a drive by for hundreds of his supporters gathered outside the u.s. president was seen waving to the crowds outside the walter reed medical center earlier doctors treating trump said they'd given him. a steroid the world health organization only recommends for severe cases they've also revealed his oxygen levels dropped briefly on both friday and saturday. and armenia are accusing each other of targeting civilians in the conflict over nagorno-karabakh the region's capital came under sustained bombardment killing at least 10 people. former commanders of colombia's fark rebel group have claimed responsibility for 6

assassinations during the country's civil war one of the assassinations is that of a conservative eggs presidential candidate killed in 1905 but many are raising doubts about the circumstances surrounding the fox claims that i'm petty reports from bogota. in a surprise announcement colombia's peace court said former 5 took responsibility for 6 assassinations including that of. an ex-president chill candidate. the special jurisdiction for peace informs that the chamber for truth responsibility and facts determination has received a letter in representation of the former secretariat of the fock e.p. in which they offered to provide to clarify the events and as you responsibility in the following cases on the site of. the november 2nd 1995.

the claim has shocked colombians who have long believed that the killing of the tree times conservative party presidential candidate was the responsibility of political rivals with links to the military and drug cartels the accusations pointed at the former president. who allegedly received millions in contributions from drug traffickers to finance his campaign in a press release the leaders of the feyerick who are now part of a legal political party said that killing goma sort of the was a mistake and that they now recognize this commitment to peace in the country promising to reveal the whole truth but some including relatives of governments and president who are sowing doubts about the revelations accusing the fark of faking responsibility to protect others since they will not face prison time in the peace tribunal. who made the call for philip's task but it can't allow for an attempt to

obstruct the true responsibility behind the murder because pretending to take responsibility for these crimes when there are already guarantees that no one will go to jail generates doubts suspicions and concerns. i've only got to say. at some analysts say that however surprising these revelations are credible and a hopeful sign for the peace accord. that whatever is revealed will inevitably become a political debate it demonstrates how little we know the court will have to investigate and will have the last word yet i think that the murders are coherent with the way operated there are many more things that the fog has to reveal and he's now time for colombia's political establishment to do the same. despite the shock the revelations show that the country's fledgling peace tribunal is moving forward in trying to bring clarity to a still murky and violent past alison. now

tens of thousands of people have marched through the center of the battle russian capital as protests against president look into the 9th week antigovernment demonstrators called for political prisoners to be freed lorber demanding reports. show it with water cannons. up against bruce the armed police and understood. that you like. tens of thousands of people remained undeterred i have continued protests for more than 2 months that since the opposition says the election on the 9th of august when president alexander lukashenko claimed a landslide victory was really. i presently shank it is now is an actual food and was inaugurated last month by your standards those advances seriously and i think that having been in power for 26 years look at shankar has

completely departed from the reality you cannot understand that his time is over he's afraid of the new leaders who can take power and use it efficiently. i think that time is on our side this movement when people come to show their solidarity their will to win and freedom cannot be ignored it upsets the authorities would i these people say they are also angry about police brutality and arbitrary arrests of opposition politicians and brutal fools. many gathered outside the wards of pristina detention center shouting let them and . they refer to it as a new tourist chamber. demanding the release of the president names that pinning to the truth the detention center of the protests continue in iraq and base is the main message to the governments they are not stopping and they will carry on and effect only the government doesn't really know what to do in the circumstances they

understand that the policy of terror of doesn't really work but they don't have any other strategy they don't seem to want to engage in any sort of negotiations. many western governments agree that the election was fruity and this week the european union put sanctions on food nationals for their roles in the election the u.s. has put sanctions on 8 bell russian officials and britain and canada have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on pricing because shanker and other officials. and with the government unwilling to look a see 8 and the opposition likely to continue the protests if the political deadlock shows no sign of ending theme lured by demand and for. now people in the south pacific territory of new caledonia have now really voted to stay part of france in a 2nd referendum in 3 years around 53 percent of the votes cast were against

independence turn out for the referendum was high at about 85 percent french president emanuel mike ross says he's grateful for the result. new caledonia became a french colony and 853 tensions have long run deep between pro independence indigenous calyx and descendants of colonial settlers who remain loyal to paris sunday's referendum was the 2nd of up to 3 permitted under the terms of the 998 noumea accord the agreement followed violence between the candidates and settlers in the 1980 s. of the island chain depends heavily on france for matters such as defense and education and subsidies in recent years though china has been expanding its influence in the resource rich archipelago catherine reece is a professor of economics at the university of new caledonia she says despite the

vote to remain on the french influence the can like independence movement continues to gain momentum. i think it's a it's a huge victory among can i care to connect independent east and connect people. there i think that we're expecting such. as they were expecting air and increasingly yes and what that not to so high and i think that's a big victory for them and that makes them confident about what's going on here i think is influence of francis which he it's important for france to have an influence here as a self because they are not so many other french former colonies he o.-r. and so it's very important for france to stay here and of course if it's not france maybe it could be some also big powar into a region that scan far far for them u.k. their neck would be an interest to i mean china is easy is present is here in every

was a small or a small but a few countries saw that that's a real. thing that's china of course could be until easter but anyway i don't think that's. even. independence or clear that's fans will go we just knew going to do and yeah like that so i'm pretty sure that this is the presence of france we'll see a pretty pretty high and important. 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 i was forced to suspended say because of covert 900 safety restrictions victoria gate and the reports. in the shati refugee camp near gaza city people queue up the 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 cars and this and this is 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 to find a job you have to travel and now you're 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 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 gates and be algis their. the pandemic is hitting the entertainment sector the world's 2nd largest cinema operator is to shut all its theaters in the u.s. and u.k. an island cineworld employs nearly 38000 people worldwide it's reported a 1.6 $1000000000.00 pretax loss for the 1st 6 months of this year as major films perspire own their release states. in california deadly wildfires that hit

a new record of land burned more than 600000 head has of gone off in smoke and the fires still burning rob reynolds reports from the sounds of these. wildfires have beseeched california since august when thousands of lightning strikes ignited tinder dry forest and brush scorching hot weather low humidity and high winds turned small places into monsters burning hundreds of homes and consuming 4 percent of the entire land area in the state a total of 8155 fires have burned to date hundreds of homes have been destroyed and at least 31 people have died it's never happened before in recorded history a largest record we have before this for an annual earned was 1500000 if it can't be understated but we're getting an unprecedented number of acres burned

across this state and unfortunately we are just getting into some of the most critical fire months in california the somber record was reported in a tweet from cal fire the state's firefighting agency. nearly 17000 firefighters are trying to contain 2 dozen active fires are only. officials say the so-called glass fire burning in northern california is famous wine country is now their top priority it has incinerated vineyards and wineries and forced thousands to evacuate including the entire town of kalak stoga 110 kilometers north of san francisco the climate in california has turned much drier over the years making trees and brush more likely to burn our research also shows that as global warming continues in the coming decades we can expect to see further

intensification. these extreme wildfire weather conditions the primary reason is the very strong effect that the warming has on the dryness of the vegetation with 2 more months before the fire season ends it looks like california is headed for more destruction robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. and let's take a look at some of the headlines here now just c.n.n. now donald trump has briefly left the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to do a drive by hundreds of supporters gathered outside the u.s. president was seen waving to crowds from the vehicle outside the walter reed military medical center john hendren has more. well it was perhaps the most brazen campaign stop in political history a candidate.