what really drove past week. al-jazeera. azerbaijan and armenia accuse each other of targeting civilians as fighting moves away from the battle fronts and closer to cities. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up questions remain about the u.s. president's health as he's criticized for briefly leaving hospital while undergoing treatment for coronavirus. preliminary results are out and could stand parliamentary election the man allegations of widespread rigging will be live in

the capitol the very latest. we are just getting into some of the most critical for months and. warnings the worst is yet to come in california as wildfires burn of record amount of land across the u.s. state. as a bygone media accusing each other of targeting civilians in the conflict over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh both sides are reporting casualties as the fighting moves into a 2nd week by john says 2 fit cities were attacked this off to the capital stuff on the kids came on the sustained bombardment. well the conflict has sparked global concern and mediators a calling for an agency's fire in the region is internationally recognized as part

of the by john this is according to 4 u.n. security council resolutions the majority there are now ethnically armenian and it's been controlled by armenian forces since the war in 1904 hundreds of thousands of them were displaced during that conflict or the ongoing fighting threatens to drag in turkey which is backing azerbaijan russia which has a defense treaty with armenia here's a team on the grounds an embassy or who's in vienna in azerbaijan and we have been a smith who is in the town of gora so let's start with you bernard so i believe you have to actually move to go from stefan occurs because the fighting was getting too intense what is the latest on the ground. yes we left on sunday because the wall that intense bombardment that was going on instead of continued on sunday night we're told from people that still into panic that the

bombardment started again this morning we're told that 5 people were killed 5 civilians were killed in yesterday's bombardment instapundit and 10 others wounded and. nagorno-karabakh of also denied allegations from the aires that they attacked city of bigger cheer. they're saying that they weren't involved in that of course a lot of arguments going on from both sides over who is attacking who at that particular line both from our media i'm going to. where we can cross over to our correspondents in m. consoler who is in me get to via in azerbaijan. so what can you tell us that you've just arrived in may get to the air what are you hearing about the situation there. well actually we arrived yesterday evening again everyone around 930 or 10 local time we heard the missiles being fired and falling. right behind us and we

were able to see all those fires and everything from our balcony. well yesterday 4 missiles hit record into syria official sources and we were also actually able to be with this 3 of them one of the 2 of them hit close by the hydro at hydroelectric power plant in every one of them a hit the city center one of them a hit close by a maternity house where a building was damaged and 2 swilley ins were injured. injured at the end of it and number one there also was an eagle lated by the aircraft defense systems according to the hours their office was right because right after this attack the hours are officials stated that these long range missiles were fired from armenian territory and it would be it would have great consequence is well the

city i would like to mention why this city make it cheery which is more than 70 kilometers to the front line as the 4th largest city of us was targeted according to our series the city is the industrial center of the country and the city has a water reserve war and the who tried to electric power plant which supplies electricity for the whole country and the water reservoir is a huge one and there are millions side had all the of the threatened. by saying that they would be hitting this water or is there were so they believe is since 2 of the missiles hit 500 meters and one kilometers close by the hydroelectric power plant the probably. and was direct the target and they say if the water reservoir reservoir is hit or the power plant in 14 cities of azerbaijan it would be flooded

and all people would be under risk and the this would have in a wire mental consequences as well but yesterday in the late afternoon we heard that another missile hit this city. is 300 kilometers from the front line which is very close to back here and it used to be the heiress and l. of the soviet union is soviet union back then and still there is the arsenal including the. dollar as well along with the soviet one so now they are series the office shows and the experts are telling that the concept of the conflict is actually changing it's transforming to another one where the long range missiles are in walled and the the very crowded city is very strategic this the nations are being targeted targeted which would have more catastrophically outcomes if the missiles really hit their targets worrying situation. there in

miniature in azerbaijan keeping us across any developments throughout the day and we have from bernard smith as well from gora's in armenia in other news u.s. president donald trump has briefly left the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to do a drive by the hundreds of his supporters gathered outside one doctor working at the walter reed hospital said the responsibility of the move was astounding earlier medics revealed trump's oxygen levels dropped briefly on both friday and saturday john hendren reports. 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 an experimental 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 patriots that we have out on the street and they've been out there for a long time and. they love our country so i'm not telling you but i'm about to make a surprise visit it was yet another. moment unlike many troublemakers it divided america rilling the crowds here in the street but alarming medical authorities are remarkably the response to. 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 and didn't want to give. any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so you know came off that were trying to hide something that was initially 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 saturation 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 dexa met his own which is recommended only for critical care the texan meant to zone use again is extremely extremely worrying sign their veto it says it's only use for critical 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 discharge 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 teen. but many who are 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 judy fisheye is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center she says while trying appears to be getting besa the messages around his recovery of 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 who 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 said 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 room 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 u.s. attorney general william bob has gone into self quarantine as a precaution after coming into contact with several republican politicians who have become infected with corona virus was at that white house event for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett last week he was speaking closely with former trump aide kellyanne conway who has now tested positive bars had for kind of a test since friday which will come back negative. still ahead on al-jazeera for independence in the south pacific we'll have reaction to sunday's referendum from an indigenous community in the caledonia. police in valerie's caesar was a canon to disinvest tens of thousands of protesters demanding the release of political prisoners.

but. still most saw any letup in that cool room wet weather that we have across western parts of europe pushing away into the central areas to massive area of low pressure is swirling away winds of course traveling in an anticlockwise direction dragging up a fair bit of moisture from the mediterranean very heavy showers still in play all the way down towards more than italy pushing across into the bowl as we go through monday showers swirling away further north as well center the lowest still just around the midlands in central england if the showers there rattling their way across the low countries back into france will see some wet weather for a time as well into scandinavia more heavy rain coming into norway and sweden as we go on through choose a little warmer so we say less cold 16 celsius in london the blustery wind to take

the edge off even the temperature more showers heavy spells of right into southern parts of france and also somewhat weather coming into ukraine and up towards ballerinas some wet weather making its way into central africa as per usual but some unusually wet weather now pushing up but cross mauritania in western sahara could see some wet weather as you go on through monday unusual conditions this wet weather will be across the gulf of guinea southern areas of nigeria and tokyo might choose day. there are people in the world all forms of verification just go away so we need people fighting against reality check to see if it's a fake video may be in syria but in a different time they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global players we've been told to by cyber attacks from russia there are dangers through this conflict reading. truth and approach truth work on 00.

0. 0. 0. 0 watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour the capital of nicole mccullough back on the real new bombardment azerbaijan and armenia accusing each other of targeting civilians the fighting is now into a 2nd week. donald trump has briefly left the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to drive by the hundreds of his supporters gathered outside the u.s. president was seen waving to crowds outside the walter reed military medical center . take a stand opposition supporters

a protesting against results in sunday's parliamentary elections 3 parties close to the president all set to take $107.00 out of the $120.00 seats european observers will deliver their assessment on accusations of vote rigging. on monday we can go to our correspondent charles stratford who is in the capital bishkek so charles these opposition parties clearly unhappy with the results so far a protest now already under way. in the last couple of hours or so we've seen a steady stream of people gathering here the main square in. this we believe there are 5 opposition parties taking part in this protest there is another protest ongoing in another area of the city people here as you say very angry over these election results. the protesters here actually calling for unity amongst all the

opposition parties inviting the protesters at that other demonstration to come and join them here and we've spoken to a number of the demonstrators they say that they feel as if the votes are basically being stolen one man saying that. he said that the government was trying to divide the people here trying to make the people hate each other and they brown certainly this protest to continue demonstrating until the government or certainly the election results are completely. uninteresting lee the leader of one opposition party the only opposition party to. get over the 70 percent threshold that will give them seats. a party called good tune get a good start on the leader of that party described these elections as the dirtiest in the queue to get history said he didn't know whether to be. over very sad indeed

over these results so yes. not going well or a lot of this consent a lot of anger over these results from these parliamentary elections yesterday. and tell us a lot about the government because there are a number of these as well in the lead how is that going to play out can there be any rivalry between them. this is a very interesting point i think a focus of attention should turn to a pro-government policy cool. now that is done very well and is projected to get over 40 seats but it's hard to believe that that policy is funded by somebody who is considered to be very powerful here and is pretty much being described as a criminal. he's a former head of customs here he's brother. stood as

a candidate manichean now. very powerful in the south of this country but he has begun allies in the north as well a most particular an ally. who has been convicted in the. human trafficking and kidnapping he escaped a 25 year jail sentence. and had a. fool. to his appeal he only had 23 years now he's very much. in. which makes him a very powerful leader for many. it's partly. the president's presidential campaign in 2007 and there are still thinking here.

the party may now be looking for some sort of payback by the president and the somebody told me today very tellingly there can only be one. charles good to speak to you charles stafford there in the capital bishkek in front of one of the firsts opposition protests against those early results in kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections for the 9th week tens of thousands of people have marched through the center of capital demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko demonstrators in minsk calling for political prisoners to be freed police use water cannon to disperse them and cordon off the streets lower birds and manly reports. charlotte with water cannon. up against

bruises to police and understood oh it was very chilling. 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 known as electoral 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 all the truly rest of opposition politicians and protesters. many gathered outside the walls of pristina detention center shouting let them and. they refer to it as a new tourist torture chamber. by demanding the release of the president names the pinning to the tools of the detention center of the protests continue in iraq and bases their main message to their governments they are not stopping and they will carry on and the facts 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 is fuji and this week the european union put sanctions on russian nationals for their rules in the

election the u.s. has put sanctions on 8 russian officials and britain canada have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on prices because shankar and other officials. and with the government unwilling to do see 8 and the opposition is likely to continue the protests. see the political deadlock shows new sign of ending soon. after. 15 political detainees held in egyptian prisons have been executed this week according to a human rights group the activists from the we record egypt group says those executed had been imprisoned for their involvement in various cases since the 2013 curfew there has been an increase in executions since president. came to power muslims have returned to the holy sites of mecca to perform part of their own role

pilgrimage after saudi arabia study or partially lifted coronavirus restrictions a maximum of $6000.00 people per day all permitted to enter the ground mosque during the 1st phase of reopening saudi arabia allowed less than a 1000 people to 10 july's hard pilgrimage more than 2000000 people usually attend . all public and private gatherings in tunisia being banned as infections that increase more than 2 and a half 1000 new cases and 45 deaths were reported the stricter punishments for anybody breaking the walls. people in the south pacific territory of new caledonia have narrowly voted to stay past france in a 2nd referendum in 3 years has been a long running tension between indigenous can x. who want independence and descendants of colonial settlers who remain loyal to paris to several reports. sunday's independence referendum was closely

fought and marked by a high turnout just under half of voters said yes to ending almost 170 years the french rule but a narrow majority still voted no i don't like any we won tomorrow new caledonia will rise and it will still be french so that's a good thing. it was the 2nd vote on that issue in 2 years and while french loyalists prevailed again the results should prove independence forces are getting close to securing a majority. the numeric order guarantees 3 day we have to keep that in mind we've done 282-020-2022 awaits us that means the disappointment is just for tonight because those who are disappointed or who are crying tomorrow the sun rises tomorrow cannot he needs you to continue to do its work so that in 2022 full sovereignty will be affected. the decolonization plan was agreed to

a $998.00 put an end to violence between the mostly probably dependents in a scanner population and the descendants of european settlers and or the agreement another referendum can be held in 2022 if that's the will of at least a 3rd of lawmakers president the man will mark home valve that france will continue holding its end of the bargain while declaring himself humbled by sunday's time result is that it doesn't explain me the voters have expressed their opinion in the majority confirm their wish for new caledonia to remain in france as head of state i welcome the sign of confidence in a republic with the do. sense of gratitude i also welcome the results with humility the new caledonian archipelago is 1200 kilometers east of australia and 1350 kilometers west of fiji it's a part of the world where chinese influence is growing and where france would like to retain a foothold new caledonian voters have been sure that for the time being that will

continue to be the case when the silver al-jazeera. in california more than 1600000 hectares of land has been lost to deadly wildfires that is a new record and the 5 is the still burning rob reynolds reports from los angeles. 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 blazes 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 the 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 fire fighting 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. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the capital of nicole in a cutback is under renewed bombardment as fighting between azerbaijan and armenia and to a 2nd week the 2 countries accusing each other of targeting civilians as a by john says major cities being targeted but this myth has moved from goddess in on me.