transparency consultation was not up to me to come to you because of some unknown fear of struggle over going on a whole jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news hour live from doha coming up in the next hour another call for a cease fire in nato as chief urges azerbaijan and armenia to stop the violence as fighting is increasingly targeting civilian areas. questions remain about the u.s. president's health as he's criticized for a drive by meet and greet. nearly 16000 coronavirus cases in the u.k.

go unreported for a week because of a technical failure in the data system. and the team behind the discovery of the hepatitis c. virus and the 2020 nobel prize for medicine. and in sports a miami heat hit back in game 3 of the n.b.a. finals the heat beating lebron james in the l.a. lakers to revive their hopes of winning the championship. we start this news with the escalating fight between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of will go on. now the conflict is now into its 2nd week and fighting is increasingly targeting civilian areas the regional capital stepanek yet has come under sustained bombardment azerbaijan has reported several missile attacks on 2 of its cities in the region it says some. of its infrastructure sites

in the city of men should be or were targeted nato secretary general has joined international calls for a ceasefire in stoltenberg also called on turkey which has been backing azerbaijan to use its influence to calm tensions we are deeply concerned about of the situation in on their own and. we are of course watching the situation very carefully because we are concerned when we see. gratian in the holes that it is more fighting more violence we have all seen the reports about the increases number over casualties also civilians civilian casualties and of course. any fighting night is also false as a risk to all kinds of critical infrastructure ok here's our team on the ground this bernard smith is in the town of gori in armenia and azerbaijan we have seen him sin i'm coming to you 1st what's your reading of those comments that we heard

from yen stoltenberg. world including moto many other international platforms have raised concerns over the ongoing fighting between azerbaijan and armenia and making calls for a cease fire as both sides have rejected so far because neither sides are willing to come around the negotiating table unless the opposite side withdraws its preconditions in the last couple of days mainly since yesterday cities towns that are far from the front line have been have been shelled by armenian forces in azerbaijan according to. defense ministry and other official statements for instance yesterday that the 2nd largest city again. received 2 rockets fired from our mania as again. defense ministry but there are

many inside and the corner of our side denied that they fired those rockets also yesterday at the last night there were 4 rockets fired again in in the area where i am right behind me again. those were fired from our mania army inside the night this and this morning after day. after local time 12. 12 pm i'm sorry gander city was was shelled again bear that the border towns were shelled against all the intense fighting continues in the front line but also the towns that are far from the frontline like the where the place where i am like again jeff or. the city which is 300 kilometers from the front line are being shelled by the armenian forces so this is actually

a major concern because here where i am there is a water reservoir and there is the country's hydro. hydroelectric power's power plant and the rochas that fell to area they fell close by this power plant which raised concerns because it provides energy to all country and if there is an electricity cut across all as our bridge out that would be chaos and the same goes for our many are because as our big journeys since the 1st attack and last july they threatened that if i many attacks are bridge and they would they would actually shoot the nuclear power plant in armenia so all these are actually concern for not only the locals but for all international community because if there is if there is if the. water them of all the reservoir explodes here 14 cities might be under water or if azerbaijan destroys nuclear power plants in armenia that would be

totally a disaster for everybody not only the 2 countries but all regional countries in the world all these are major concerns as escalation is rising and the weapons used in the in this war between armenian forces and us are bridge our forces are highly sophisticated compared to the war that was 30 years ago these are all concerns because it's all civilians in the residential areas the border. the contect line between the warlike or a bias are bijani is actually something symbolic because it's a breakaway country so by the conflict lies you have the villages on both sides civilians living there they are making calls for civilians evacuate those areas nearby the contect line but you say we thank you very much. for us here on the news our burn is missing goes in our media then it is that what you're hearing and seeing. what's going on at the front line is ongoing but it's also

beginning to kind of ripple out to other areas as well. yes there is intense fighting all along the contact line that runs from about 182200 kilometers along the eastern side of nagorno-karabakh along the border with azerbaijan and both sides been fighting there since last sunday so for 8 days now on top of that there has been this increased bombardment of civilian areas both in the karabakh and in azerbaijan nagorno karabakh the main town of step and has been under intense bombardment all day today we're told by people who were there on the ground we were there on sunday when it also was being intensively hit there seems to be targeting infrastructure locations in nagorno-karabakh particularly

electricity substations we saw one of those blown up by a rocket coming from the azerbaijan side and another electricity substation was targeted as we were on the outskirts of town the challenge for the army of nagorno-karabakh is really they are much smaller these are nagorno-karabakh ethnically armenian fighters fighting armenia the country its military says it's not involved in this there have been a couple of skirmishes with armenian and azerbaijani forces but this is essentially a small army from the gone or care about facing a much greater army if you think armenia and azerbaijan a bigger part population a bigger partners got a population of 10081000 troops are going to care about 146000 people living there so big difference in the power dynamics between the 2 and i sit down with the turkish support has that superiority seeds at the moment as well. bernard

thank you very much bernard smith reporting live from growers. plenty more ahead for you here on the news including kyrgyzstan's opposition and. as for protest and projects early results from the country's parliament election we live in the capital with the latest. we are just getting into some of the most critical fire months in california and warnings the worst is yet to come in california as wildfires burn a record amount of land across the spectrum. and the sports news bandidos 2 time wimbledon champion has stayed on course to win the french open title for the 1st time. since. the u.s. white house will decide a president trump will be able to leave hospital later on monday of course he's being treated for cope at 19 and he briefly did leave the hospital on sunday night

to do a drive by for hundreds of his supporters gathered outside the walter reed hospital one doc so they're working there said the irresponsibility of the move was astounding john hendren reports from bethesda. 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 in 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've got trump flags and they love our country so i'm not telling anybody but you but i'm about to make a little surprise visit it was yet another classic trump moment and like many

troublemakers it divided america really in the ground here in the street but a little medical authorities a call that moved remarkably here is. 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

we're trying to hide something. 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 that was about it after about a minute and only 2 liters 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 dexa met his own which is recommended only for critical care the tech cement the zone use again is extremely extremely worrying sign w.h.o. it says it's only use 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 teen. 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. live to white house correspondent kimberly home cook who is

monitoring developments from outside the walter reed building there in the states so this is i want to see if you can really explain it but it's inexplicable somebody who is highly contagious potentially gets into a wheeled petri dish put other people into about environment and then goes walkabout drive around. you know it's not really surprising if you've been covering donald trump as long as i have which is from day one i call this church 2.0 what i mean by that is donald trump takes a bad situation and he tries to make it better or at least ground it if you will and we are in a campaign season so it's not surprising that he did that even though we know that he's getting an awful lot of criticism for the risk that he took in the exposure to the u.s. secret service but what i think church 2.0 do you remember when he cleared lafayette

park using an employee of the military pushing back the protesters so he could walk across the stage a photo op holding a bible in front of st charles church really about what we saw just you know different elements different players but again this is trying to project strength even in the midst of knowing that there are in the case of his medical condition or some alarming episodes that have occurred now we have a better sense peter of the timeline and also of what really was facing the president in terms of his health we know that he had a rapid decline at one point he was supplied with oxygen and he had a spike in a fever so he's trying to in the fact that we have 29 days left until the u.s. election continue to campaign from his hospital bad as that really when you take those factors in that that inexplicable ride that reso many lives and clipping his own is not that surprising i see his 5th sense has returned to him because he's back on twitter with

a vengeance just even in the past. 90 minutes or 2 hours or so but this there's a potential danger here isn't there i mean danger for his well being because his people are signaling oh well he might go back to work tomorrow maybe the day after but the reality is taking average ages for average people in his kind of demographic with is underlying health issues that have been hinted at as well by people off the the presidential radar they can't let him go back to work can they can bully or might they because you know day 34 into day 9 or 10 that can be pretty crucial and critical for someone of his age his body weight and his body mass. there's no question about of that the president is taking enormous risk in that you get the sense the president isn't fully listening to his doctors and the reason why it might be because his rival chief rival joe biden the democratic presidential nominee not only is he testing negative but he's in the battleground state of

florida one that donald trump wants to win badly and needs to win in order to win the white house so there and this could explain why the president continues to tweet rather feverish lee essentially outlining his campaign platform as you mentioned there tweeting a spate of morning tweets talking about the 2nd amendment which is the right to bear arms law and order religious liberty pro-life the list goes on more than a dozen tweets but the reality is is that the president has not been cleared by his medical team in fact we don't know when he will return to the white house there is a medical suite where he could be cared for but there's no question behind me at walter reed is the better option particularly if things do take a turn as we know with kobe and there often is a brief period of improvement and then a very deadly decline so that is what is still potentially facing this president and yet he still continues to project that he is going to be back at work potentially is early as this afternoon though we are again awaiting

a briefing from his medical team and that determination is still yet to be made one of the big sources of all these on some questions i guess kimberly was the super spreader event in the rose garden. but that's all gone quiet you know views of the the track and trace who's being tested or where they are we talking about a scenario where the republican party maybe doesn't want that information to get out there but at the same time the white house must be essentially empty of everyone but the gall and the housekeeper just because they will go someplace else . you're absolutely right we know that most of the white house staff has been told if you can work from home you should do so having said that the contact tracing is continuing albeit very quietly because you're right this is not something that they want to get out further because it makes the president look bad obviously people should have been wearing masks in that rose garden event and many were not they were in close proximity putting people at risk and putting those that

support them at risk including the white house press corps we know that those that traveled with the president on air force one throughout that time period are now being tested and already there have been 3 members of the media that have tested positive and we expect in the coming days that that number will continue to grow it's not just the press corps it's also the white house staff so yes there is that ripple effect that continues that is being called a super spreader event in the supersport our vet means that there are ramifications for some time in many many things keep us posted we'll come back to you just as soon as you have any more reporting for us. we move on malaysia's prime minister is going to be 14 days of corns you know from minutes tested positive for. well you didn't work from home for 2 weeks off to be seen with his islamic affairs minister who later did test positive he's insisting you know sedation is a precaution and says he's tested negative for the virus european commission

president says she's going to so find solution after meeting with the person who later tested positive again in that case for good 19 she said she isn't feeling any symptoms but her entire team will stay in isolation pending that test results. almost $16000.00 coronavirus cases in england have gone unreported for a week after a technical error it means there's been a delay in efforts to trace the contacts of those infected now the news has led to more pressure on the prime minister boris johnson who was widely criticized and is criticized over his handling of the pandemic not him barbara joins us live from london so we won't use the words world beating because that has kind of come back to haunt the u.k. government what happened here i mean how could they lose 16000 cases how can it go unreported. we're starting to get a picture of why it happened we don't know where this was all affecting cases in

england and the government agency known as public health england has admitted responsibility for what they're calling a technical glitch now 15 of the well nearly 16000 cases went unpublished in the daily reports that the government puts out for over a week the problem was we believe that for some firewalls containing positive results the files were too large for the software which is used to transfer data to the central n.h.s. test and trace system which then goes on to tell people to self isolate and to try to trace their close contacts and let them know so this saw over the weekend figures like on saturday cases daily cases being reported of nearly 13000 and then

on sunday 23000 a huge search but this was a result of those missing cases starting to be added to the daily figures because they hadn't got in when they should have done last week so now they have gone into the count if you like the problem is we don't we don't know exactly how many people out there there are who still need to be contacted the prime minister boris johnson says all the people who tested positive were contacted on time within the normal timeframe more staff we're hearing now are being brought into the test and trace system to contacts to get in touch with all those close contacts but yet it is a very very embarrassing situation for the government to find themselves in now didn't just talk me through what the reaction to all this has been there. well

there's been a concern from the labor opposition saying that shambolic they've also been criticized critical in the recent past on the difficulties faced by the general public in getting tests in the 1st place and in fact in the next couple of hours we expect the health secretary matt hancock to appear in parliament to talk about this issue now the government says that they can now assure people that this won't happen again they're sorting out the i.t. problems boris johnson himself says that the higher figures are actually more in line with where they thought transmission of the virus around the country was going and that there shouldn't be any cause for alarm and he's also been asked whether the government plans to streamline or standardize local restrictions which affect around a quarter of the population of the u.k. this is what he said earlier. the slightly lower numbers that we've seen.

didn't really reflect where we thought that the disease was likely to go so i think it's in these numbers a realistic the crucial thing is that in the next few days week we will see more clearly whether some of the restrictions that we've put in the extra enforcement of the rule of 6 the the extra enforcement of self isolation the rules on our mass and so all the stuff that has come in i will see whether that starts to work in in driving down the the bar also the message from the government all of that the fact that they're contacting all of those. contacts of the missing in cases as a matter of urgency very certainly need to because. it's believed that most of the cases were actually tested in the community and those types of people on average have had 3 close contacts that they've reported so that would mean that there are tens of thousands of people out there potentially having coronavirus who need to be

contacted as soon as possible now dean thank you very much reporting live from london now at a time when public attention is particularly focused on medical advances this year's nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to the discovery of the hepatitis c. virus the work of americans harvey alter and charles rice and britain michael morton was on today in stockholm now the prize is especially significant this year as the world grapples of course with coronavirus covert 19 and the pandemic laureates achievements provided the foundation that was needed to now start combating the spread of the virus thanks to the effective blood screening programs that the thai deceivers is now almost eliminated in many parts of the world and the development of highly effective antiviral drugs means that more than 935 percent of treated patients can be cured from the infection. these developments saved millions of

lives well right well there is currently no effective vaccine against hepatitis c. but treatments are improving it is a blood borne virus that causes liver disease it's typically passed on through unsafe injection practices or even the transfusion of on screen blood products and according to the world health organization it kills around $400000.00 people every year hepatitis c. is found worldwide but the world health organization says the most affected regions are northern africa parts of asia and also parts of europe let's talk now. he's assistant professor of medicine at the johns hopkins school of medicine he joins us on skype from baltimore penn august scalia subtlest welcome to the news are we all we will ready known at a and b. why is it such a breakthrough that we can know about category disease see. that's

a fantastic question and i remember my years in medical school learning about these habit to ditties viruses that existed and hepatitis c. was an interesting one of all of them because it was a as you said it's a blood borne pathogens meaning you need to have blood to blood impact in order for it to infect the next individual and so that meant for decades there were people who would receive a lifesaving blood transfusion only to suffer liver consequences later and that eluded so many scientists couldn't figure out why that was happening ultimately hepatitis c. and that discovery shut light into recognizing you know this was the virus that was causing these liver injuries and the significance of that while that was done earlier in the seventy's the consequence is it changed guidelines into how transfusions happen it. began to save millions of lives because we were able to identify this virus and begin to work and cures and so forth and you're right but

there's no vaccine i think the biggest big breakthrough with hepatitis c. is the change of guidelines would help blood transfusions happen in addition to the fact that now we have to yours where we can see millions of the older population who have received transfusions back in the seventy's and sixty's as well as current young adults who are struggling with their addictions that also has another plate of hepatitis c. upon them so i think this this discovery is just one chapter and medicine that's just powerful and one that we can hopefully parallel today with our own viral pandemics ok in terms of the pushback or the fight back is it for the clinicians of the front line of this you know in areas and on continents that suffer so much from all the other kind of toxic illnesses that the go around and get a grip of local populations is it as simple as medically saying know your enemy because if you know what it looks like you know what it feels like you know what it

can do it's easier to fight back against it. 100 percent i think in medicine one of the most humbling things that we attempted do is not only know your enemy but 1st identify your enemy once we have identified it then we begin to study it we begin to know what's biology we begin to understand how it spreads and so forth and then by doing that suddenly the interest to how to stop it or how to cure it begin to unravel themselves and those stories are incredibly important to recognize because it's not just have to try to see either story to mean when you read it parallels how the 1st vaccines were created for other viral issues all the way to what we could be doing now with our own viral condemning so yes i think being able to identify the enemy right in this case it was hepatitis seen and then begin to understand its biology understand how it spreads you know this this nobel prize victory for these gentlemen is really

a victory for science and saying this is your guidebook of how to continue doing these very important that ought to go interventions for an infectious disease potential to discover that could save millions of lives i'm not wishing. to get you to voice an opinion on fellow clinicians you know because those guys you work for johns hopkins you're old clearly at the leading edge of what you do but i'm intrigued to know why they've given the nobel prize to people who've identified intact something that we've known about full more than a few decades why didn't it go to you know whoever it was that came up with the cocktail to fights hiv aids retroviral drugs that kind of thing or any other sphere say cancer treatment anything that involves in is involved with with keeping humanity where it should be. you know what i think when we think about science in medicine we definitely i mean you're naming a variety of achievements that we could easily sit back and award and recognize and

. really shine a spotlight on it and i think when i saw the headlines about these gentlemen winning for hepatitis c. part of me also said finally that because from my standpoint hepatitis c. at least in 2020 now has been played with a significant amount of stigma so the reason for emphasizing that is early you know in the eighty's and ninety's once it was discovered a lot of the individuals who really were suffering from these consequences happen to be individuals who received a transfusion right so they received this infection no actions of time themselves as he received a lifesaving intervention but now we're also seeing a very different population really succumbing to hepatitis c. and those are people suffering with addictions that often resort to intravenous needles and sharing of the needles and so from my standpoint i think shining a light on how to try to see begins to open up the whole world into who is

currently suffering from this infection and it's not just her older populations who receive transfusions but it's a younger generation who is struggling with addictions and these individuals who want to stop their addictions and turn a new chapter of their life or off an anchor to their past because of their ongoing battle for hepatitis c. so here in baltimore for instance we let a massive campaign in order to cure hepatitis c. with the new entire viral hepatitis c. treatments that will save many people's lives so they can have that new chapter of your book moving forward so from my standpoint i think there's so many achievements to think about for medicine and science but part of me feels about time and finally to hepatitis c. is getting the recognition it deserves because right now i think there's a lot of stigma associated with a disease that seems rather old right we've known about it since the seventy's but it's continuing to plague certain vulnerable populations and you can parallel that with even cook in 1000 today where it's the older and younger with preexisting

conditions that are plagued by it so i think you know yes there's many. achievements to pick from the ones like this should humble us in recognizing that doing good against viruses that are going to be associated with a lot of stigma that's what science is about science is about defending those who feel stigmatized and oftentimes don't pursue medical care because of that stigma and shame so i'm in love with this i thought it was a great decision on the academy's point ok which is a lovely point to draw a conversation to a close professor and i guess it's not just good to talk to you sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera. thank you so much take care. ok time for your world weather getting a bit choppy behind you and yeah that's right page we've got another tropical storms develop not one but 2 actually making a good dent into the greek alphabet now so from the storm delta has now arrived you can see on the satellite pictures you're saying there pater

a couple of little clutches of storms this one of them around the yucatan peninsula one just to the south of jamaica there that's the new one it developed around a couple of hours or so but in the case of gamma it's just staggering away just around the northern fringes of the u. companies for the my middle run down towards the i have camp h.-e. as we go on through the next couple of days or so lots of very heavy rain but it is weakening so this one is on its way out staggering along 94 kilometers per hour lots of very heavy rain there because of that slow movement and we do have of course the potential for months lies now in the case of delta that's pulling away from jamaica again we could see some very heavy rain here probably looking at maybe 200 millimeters of rain in one of his boss that will lead to some mudslides and then that will make its way up past the cayman islands running across that western side of cuba and punching its way into the gulf of mexico it's likely to become a hurricane certainly want to watch over the next couple of days ahead of that it's fine interop across much of the u.s. at least we got some showers long spells of rain into central parts of canada

pushing down towards the eastern seaboard as. we go on into thursday will see that weather weather making its way up towards the mississippi delta as we go on and see where friday starts see what the weather coming into the west coast i welcome right to california plate ok evident thanks very much still to come here on the news hour colombia's rebels claim responsibility for a series of notorious murders but there are dogs over the confessions. and in sport the italian league game that was missing one fights element andy will explain all when he's here in about 15 minutes. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against corruption corruption is not something people he. is a. long country his. let's destroy this war.

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welcome back let's recap your top stories for you here on the news now the capital of nagorno-karabakh is under renewed bombardments as aversions as armenian forces are intensifying attacks on major cities both sides accuse each other of targeting civilians. this year's nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to the discovery of the hepatitis c. virus the work of americans harvey alter and charles rice and britain michael fortune was honored in stockholm the prizes xena's especially significant this year as will grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. the white house will decide later on monday president trump is able to be discharged from hospital where he's being treated for cope with 19 he did leave briefly on sunday evening to rally supporters he has been criticized in many quarters for the move with one senior doctor labeling labeling it irresponsible. the world health organization says around

110th of the world's population may have been infected with corona virus meaning the majority of people do remain at risk the comments come as the number of confirmed cases worldwide past 35000000 the director general is calling for global unity to defeat cope with 19 i will never be tired of calling for solidarity finger pointing will not prevent a single infection. app or shinning blame will not save a single life while it saves lives is national unity and global solidarity everyone must play their part from the individual decisions we make to protect ourselves and others to the discussions we will have this week on behalf of the people we serve. bars in france are closing for 15 days as part of

new coronavirus restrictions to reduce the spread there the alert level in paris has been raised to the maximum france has at least 32000 virus related deaths and more than 600000 reported infections. russia has recorded the highest number of new infections in a day since may close 211000 are confirmed over a 3rd of them in moscow the pandemic is blamed 421000 russian deaths and more than a 1000000 infections kyrgyzstan opposition supporters are protesting against early results in sunday's parliamentary election 3 pro-government parties are set to take 107 out of 120 seats those will deliver their assessment on accusations of vote rigging later on monday charles stratford with this update now from bishkek. in the last hour or so that they have been cool's initially there were different groups different supporters carrying their various respective flags for the parties and

we've had cools in the last hour for those flags we pull down a very body to start using and waving the kyrgyzstan flag we've heard chants of unity amongst the calling for unity amongst the supporters and we've actually in just the last few minutes been hearing the challenge go go go. direct to olds the president of kyrgyzstan the sort of back off so yeah i begin to case to just how on the happy. opposition supporters are as these election results still continue to drip through bear in mind that the preliminaries that results is still only 98 percent. counted the election commission those studies manually counting we understand they're saying that they've counted around 40 percent of votes so far and there are rumors that we may well see a final result even by the end of the day. islanders in the south pacific territory

of new caledonia have narrowly voted to stay part of france and the results of a 2nd referendum in 3 weeks follows a long running tensions between communities indigenous connex want independence and descendants of colonial settlers campaign to remain loyal to france the silver has more. 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 showed prove independence forces are getting close to securing a majority. in 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 to 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 in $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 send these type results it's addict us all to me the voters have expressed their opinion and the majority confirm their wish for new caledonia to remain in france as head of state

i welcome the. and of confidence in a republic with a deep 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. 15 political detainees held in egyptian prisons have been executed this week calling to one human rights group the activist from the we record egypt organization say those executed had been imprisoned for their involvement in various cases since the 2013 coup that has been an increase in executions since president bill fattah el-sisi came to power former commanders of the fark rebel movement in colombia have accepted responsibility for 6 us nasa nations including a former presidential candidate the admission has shocked many colombians and

asunder m.p.'s the reporting now from the capital of a top. in a surprise announcement colombia's peace court said former 5 gravels 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 coote 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 former president or mr some pair who allegedly received millions in contributions from drug traffickers to finance his campaign in a press release the leaders of the fired who are now part of a legal political party said that killing goma sort of the other 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 have gone and president for 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 stop us out of it you know. 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 to trying to bring clarity to a still murky and violent past alison the. costa rica has abandoned talks with the i.m.f. over a loan package worth nearly $2000000000.00 following days of street protests many costa ricans work in the tourism industry which is hit hard by coronavirus president carlos alvarado warned of inflation higher unemployment and

a weaker currency with foreign help but he did face opposition in congress for his proposal to raise taxes and freeze public sector wages. thus their options and proposals and there's still time to do it but that time is not unlimited the worst thing would be to do nothing and just wait for a more serious crisis to hit us. germany says a new deal breaks it would be irresponsible burden for the u.k. because of the pandemic britain and the e.u. have agreed to extend talks to try and reach a deal on trade and security next month. the mention of this can't people on both sides of the channel are currently busy enough shouldering the health related and economic challenges and it would therefore be totally irresponsible to burden them with additional problems resulting from a no deal at least 50 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire in new zealand firefighters say it's a miracle no one was hurt in a remote village on the south island a place started in

a forest near lake tahoe on the south island strong winds found the flames towards the village. wildfires still burning in california and setting new records for the amount of land that's been scorched runnels explains 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 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 burn it 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 of 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 muslims have returned to the holy sites of mecca to perform part of the owner of pilgrimage after saudi arabia partially lifted coronavirus restrictions a maximum of $6000.00 people per day opportunity to enter the grand mosque touring the 1st phase of reopening saudi arabia allowed less than 1000 people to attend july's hard more than 2000000 people usually attend. still to come here on the news for you. you got to go to. the school with mandela bron james leads the action leading to the contest to win the n.b.a. championship heats up.

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business leaders just want to buy the brass pall. mall. for the all. time for school fees and. they miami heat star player jimmy butler how the game of his life to lead his saints a victory against le bron james and the like is the hate still trial in the n.b.a. finals but the hopes of winning the championship have been revived for a small reports. we don't think it's going to be a. game 3 of the n.b.a. finals could have finished with le bron james and the l.a. lakers within touching distance of a championship instead it ended in victory for the mine heat and james walking off

the court early this is not a good. thing i just that we could be better obviously. and we start a game defensively and so on and then office you think you're the ball you know like us and we have. careless turnovers i mean like i said i take full responsibility that we have a lot better on tuesday. the lakers looked at his sorts from the start was just so shocked while the heat's jimmy's butler was working his way towards a career best performance to what was it to me thank you the lakers did have their moments i want you to take it. but it was the butler who own the night finishing with 40 points and 11 rebounds really was shocking injuries to key players also gave rookie tyler hero a chance to step up to. the heat winning 815-2104 while they still trailed she won in the best of 7 series

butler had a message for his main lakers rival in the finals at the best of me way too many times. i was spectacle for. but is it different now different groups. or it a way it can be but when i don't know you know what my back and it's even up into. jimmy was phenomenal. you know he did everything they needed for him to do tonight and he came through big time in a big time game and we watched the film see ways we can be better going to game 4 but i thought it was great. to le bron james's passage to a possible for 3 year championship and a 1st with the lakers has taken on expected turn far a smile al-jazeera. a patchwork of editor is hoping to take advantage of a wide open joy now with the french open could it have one of just 3 senses left in

its own once the suits on the wooden champion is just based on china's janks move into last night's the czech pliable next face laura sigmund all of germany little manage it you're going cluck has criticized his same for creating the wrong sort of history the english title holders will beat an 7 soon by aston villa in the premier league that the 1st running champions so you concede 7 goals and again for almost 70 years. you could see it more which i don't think i had to say that a lot but tonight in different challenges as the billet definitely wanted it more than we than us and so. that's something i saw and i don't like obviously. you know it's early in the league officials are set to decide if napoli must forfeit their game against champions you ventus on sunday events in the field ensure an hour scheduled but opponents napoli didn't

travel to the fixture after local health bosses told the same to stay at home when sue squad members tested positive for corona virus the league says game should go ahead if it seem has at least 13 players available and you could be handed a 3 nil when the. well thankfully 2 teams did make it on to the pitch in munich where german and european champions bond with taking on her disability of 11 asking scored 55 goals last season just the 4 in this game and injury time penalty by the polish striker. i do think it's a 43. so joe garcia has claimed his 1st title in the united states is winning the masters back in $27.00 see the spaniard winning his 11th p.g.a. tour title just days after dropping out of the top 50 in the world rankings for the 1st time in a decade garcia later paid an emotional tribute to the victims of corona fires.

you know my my father has a lot of family in dread he's one of 9 brother and one of 9 civilians unfortunately we lost. 2 of his brothers. because i've covered a lot of families i've lost a lot more people but. you never want to lose anyone like that and. you know i wanted to go in this for for them. and not a good day for world champion cyclist you know in our family the french rider in white celebrated a little too early at the end of the starting race for the front runner up the most roguish the chance to steal victory it was to get even worse for our fleet he was late at relegated to 5th floor very into the path of a rival earlier on in the day. ok more sport for me in a couple of hours but that is how we're looking for now and they thank you so much when we come back on the other side of the break we will have more news for you

from the going to come about and also washington talking about your strengths also use. of all my friends at home want to try some more detail i am the one who survived they were waiting for my. use of the men for god was only one word on their lips almost one of those saw a boy killed in his father's. i saw a man killed next to his son i have only once in my life seen men who are scared to death one of the bosnian war is darkest secrets us news the count on al-jazeera. toba anandi zoom was only a month left until election day candidates are warming up for the big day with a series of debates with a diverse range of stories from across the al-jazeera correspondent takes a more close moaned look at the stories that have impacted and janet states with

britain seemingly heading for a no deal brock's a kind of last minute deal be struck between london and brussels al-jazeera is amy awarding new playground faultlines returns for the series on the u.s. communities most impacted by convict 19 as the incumbent president seeks a 3rd term and the opposition has formed an alliance against him what course will the country take struggles with off from violent protests october on al jazeera in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big deal closer than them forth with a smelly bill thanks to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the scientists that office solutions it's very easy for us to have a 100 percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera.

al jazeera. where every. another call for a cease fire needs as chief urges as opposed and armenia to stop the violence as the fighting increasingly target civilian areas. hello again pete over here in doha you're watching out his ear also coming up questions remain about the u.s. president's health us he's criticized for his drive by meet and greet. nearly 16000 coronavirus cases in the u.k. go unreported for one week.