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this is trump's doctors where whether or not to beliefs the president from the hospital. security forces are going to the square. lots of lots of balls protesters try to storm kyrgyzstan's parliament after the opposition rejects sarah the results of the parliamentary votes. the battle between armenia and azerbaijan intensifies for a 2nd week despite scoring calls for a cease fire plus the scientists behind the discovery all the hepatitis c. fires get the 2020 nobel prize for medicine. but we begin this news hour with the breaking story out of the u.s. white house press secretary kelly. can any has tested positive for corona virus

she's the leases among president donald trump's inner circle to be infected over the weekend she gives several press briefings with once wearing a mask the white house says doctors will decide in the coming hours whether the president is fit to be released from all spill where he's currently recovering from 19 his chief of staff says they're optimistic about his prospects well let's cross live now to our white house correspondents kimberly hall kurtz who's outside's the walter reed so will president trump is being treated as kimberly let starts with this latest individuals who test positive the press secretary kerry mcinerney another high profile face of donald trump's administration and yet another person to contract this virus what kind of impact is that having where you are.

it's having an enormous impact because a lot of the people that interact with her and a daily basis including the press corps are increasingly nervous just how far this is going to extend you have to remember that not only is killer meccania interacting with people inside the white house but also outside the white house now she has released a statement if you want to follow along with me she says that she was testing negative consistently every day since thursday i tested positive on monday morning while experiencing no symptoms she says no reporters producers or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the white house medical unit other words she doesn't believe that she put anyone at risk but i can tell you she was battling as recently as just about 24 hours ago in the white house driveway this is where it's an informal of 3 things where hoarders ask questions of the press secretary she answers them usually there's only. a meter between people as they speak so

certainly there are members of the white house press corps that are feeling at risk now she says that she was doing this because she sees herself as the next sensual worker and that she needs to provide information to the american people particularly on the president's condition having said that she says she will now begin working remotely behalf of the american people now she's not the only one of the press office to test positive we understand that a relative of hers a cousin of her husband in fact who also works in the press office has also tested positive we are hearing that there may be another person as well however the white house press office denying this but certainly in terms of implications what this means is that we're going to continue to see positivity among the white house press corps where we know there are already at least 3 people that have tested positive as the days continue just given the fact that we know there was this super spreader 'd 2 event in the white house rose garden a little more than 10 days ago that nomination for any kone barrett to the supreme

court by the president where so many of his inner circle tested positive the latest now being his press secretary. meanwhile at the sensor over this mass. the seats of power in america you do have of course the president of the united states he's in that hospital behind you is there any indication at this stage kimberly how the president is doing. though that's the short answer we were supposed to have a brief or at least it appeared we were going to have a briefing as recently as several hours ago the white house press pool was moved up here to walter reed from just south of here at the white house that usually means the president's going to have a movement where there's going to be some sort of update they were brought to a left turn and then nothing since that we learned the press secretary had tested positive whether this is a crisis controlled by this way. we simply don't know what we do know is his chief

of staff mark meadows says in fact the president is improving but again it's hard to trust of this information is factual given the fact that we know that there have been misleading representations of the president's health striking an optimistic tone since friday then only to find out later at times he had been an oxygen it had a fever and he even had heart palpitations so there's a lot of questioning about the truth about the accuracy in the meantime the president is still in the hospital behind me you can see the number of the mourners behind me is growing with every hour many people here to support the president the same time one person who is not testing positive it is joe biden his democratic presidential rival for winning the white house for 29 days until election day in the united states joe biden is continuing to campaign on the campaign trail in a battleground state of florida and that seems to be getting under the president's skin if you will you've been tweeting and we understand he's eager to get back to the white house where it is outfitted with

a presidential medical where he would like to continue working for the american people but at the same time he remains in the hospital behind me it's not clear what he's going to leave that determination we expect will be made the softer new but again no updates ok will kimberly for now we'll leave it there but thank you very much indeed we'll come back of course to kimberly as soon as there are any developments with the white house just said that trumps position will give an update on the president's condition 19 hundreds g.m. says you stay with us here on guns but as complete was saying the still no clear timeline about when and how president trump got infected 19 this however is what we do know doctor say he's been given supplemental oxygen twice plus 2 experimental treatments one single infusion of a mixture of. trump was also. given

a 5 day course of desa fear as an antiviral drug intended to shorten the recovery time for cope with 1000 patients it's approved for use as an emergency treatments and on saturday the president was given deck's a method zone after his oxygen levels that's a steroid typically only given to patients who are severely ill and needs supplemental oxygen well let's get more now from dr eric feigele daying he's an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists and joins us now from washington d.c. good to have you with us again dr feigele doing we're waiting on this update from the president's physician that will come in around 50 minutes or so but just going by the medications that the president has been receiving i would you characterize his condition because

a lot of these treatments that experimental therapies are only really given to people who are in of a serious condition. right that's right rhonda severe has been emergency proof for short duration that's on regina rollins and her body cocktail has not even emergency approved the fact that he got it shows some degree of desperation but most worrisome was actually the semester's m w 2 actually says that's about the zone should not be given to anyone who does not have a serious or critical illness and the reason is if you give it too early it actually increases by replication by suppressing your own immune system so it is not an anti-viral drug it is an extreme drug whenever your body's. lungs are so explain that you can't get oxygen anymore and that shows a degree of just ration and the doctor's either trump is very very sick and got

sick very quickly or he was dying knows maybe much longer ago that we don't know well or doctors are just giving the kitchen sink based on what he wants and that makes no sense so we believe he's actually much sicker than they are disclosing and there's also at a 4th scenario if you will because the president has been known to take treatments that have not been sanctioned by medical authorities they noticed the notable one was the and the name escapes me but the. drugs the chloroquine not so donald trump was tight in that as a potential cure for aids and even disclose that he had at one point been taking it himself as a preventive measure going against advice from physicians world why it's given this eventuality and we know the president likes to take these things that haven't

been sanctioned by professionals who do you think is actually in charge of the president's treatment is it his physicians or do you think the president's dictating his own. his own care. yeah and that's a very interesting question because physicians are trying to obviously him as much as possible. in certain ways though the silly outside joy right yesterday was to play i hate him so that he doesn't go back to the white house immediately i think in certain ways there was awesome drop dead cement is indicated if your oxygen drop is occurring so the fact that they used it indicates he had a really bad one so i think it's not unjustified or say i personally believe that he didn't really had a really significant oxygen drop the day when say the exact value and again our

heart palpitations everything indicates they're really concerned and i think that's the underlying message here and he might feel better now that's an excellent it makes you feel better and makes you feel like you can climb mt everest for a little bit but actually doesn't make you actually any better and regenerate and a body theory kind of already therapy doesn't actually teach your body immune system like a back seem to us it's just a temporary measure so all of the other trump is not woods and people his age and and what not and there's about one in 4 chance that if you're on oxygen you do not make it in the end so there's still a wait and see happening at that there certainly as we will hopefully get more information at 900 g.m.t. when the doctors give us that briefing a bit for now dr eric feigele taking a joining us from washington d.c. thank you very much for your analysis. well as kimberly mentions trump has been

itching to get back on the campaign trail there are of course only 29 days left until the presidential election and the lisa spalls don't look very encouraging for trump atoll an n.b.c. wall street journal poll puts the president 14 points behind joe biden that's the biggest gap so far between him and his opponents spencer kimball is an assistant professor and doctor director author of emerson college poor and he joins us live via skype from boston massachusetts great to have you where there's here or knowledge of sarah i guess the 1st question is how would you say the president's coffin diagnosis is likely to shape this race. well it certainly isn't going to be a game changer and what's exciting is we don't know what direction the game is going to change as you mentioned the n.b.c.

poll that had him down 14 points that's a big number try to come back but it's important that your viewers know that he was also down 14 points in there in the same poll 4 years ago about this time so those numbers can ship they shifted 4 years ago but obviously at this point there's more on the agenda and this diagnosis i think what we're seeing in the polling is really starting to shift the race and we might start seeing us a little vacation around one of the candidates whenever likely to see any of these potential shifts in the race because you mentioned there hillary clinton was was up 16 points or so 2016 and of course she lost we've seen bomb shell after bomb shell being dropped not just in the 2016 race with the access hollywood tape but also in the last week alone with tax information that's been fired at tapes of the president's wife giving her opinions on children locked in

cages on the border i mean do the fortis care about any of this stuff at this stage . well they do to some extent but obviously right now it's all about corona virus and what we've been seeing are odors i think coronaviruses a major issue are voting for joe biden by a large number 90 percent if they think it's a moderate or a minor issue now they're breaking for the president but this about does is i think it raises to a lot of voters the importance of kobe in creating it more of a major issue which will end up helping joe biden one of the downfalls of this president trump as you mentioned is he's not on the campaign trail campaigning at rallying his supporters like he used to remember he out campaign clinton in 2016 as far as going to events right now joe biden even though he's holding smaller events he's still able to get out into the states like florida

a state that president trump carried in 2016 a home state for president trump now joe biden is going down there to try to take that state away and the president is good at campaigning he has his base you're very solidly behind we see is the president's base signs the reids medical facility how much campaigning can trump for the do to change things at this stage because i mean how much of a risk is that that trump supporters will say hold it seems that his base is absolutely solid what kind of campaigning could trump be doing that we win back people who are likely going to vote for him anyway. so what president trying for them to do in 2016 was expand the playing field by getting people to come out to vote in parts of pennsylvania and parts of wisconsin that having come out previously or haven't voted in 1416 years and they came out the question will be is

there what he would do as a silent majority that is sitting in waiting to come out and vote the problem that he has again is that his main site of campaigning or rallies and his inability now to hold these rallies is going to potentially impact the enthusiasm his voters have now what you've seen is out we're at a hospital his voters are not congregating together in these groups to try to create cohesion i'm not sure they're going to be large enough or effective enough to try to get that message out like he was able to do back in 2016 or he was doing in september ok as spencer came on the fed will have to leave it there great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us here and i'll just era thank you for having me. well it's more still ahead so on this news hour including the u.k. government manages to miss $16000.00 cases of over 19 a technical error we'll have the latest on the fall lights plus afghanistan's

president has arrived in qatar as peace talks with the taliban drag on but he wants to be meeting with the group still occasion. to visit susan in the field spirits le bron james leads the action early on to the contest to win the n.b.a. championship eat something. for you some developing news out of kyrgyzstan there were police are using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters in the capital bishkek at least 16 people have been injured protesters are angry at sarah the results of sunday's parliamentary election which predicts the pro-government parties are set to take 107 hours of $120.00 seats at charles stratford was in the middle of those confrontations between the protesters and police and he senses the something. the

security forces of all the into the square. got so little sense of almost the people of the other. a blowout this was decisions will. be the poor of the world of these elections or. the government seems a prostration. to see. creasing. big precinct. as a crackdown english but this. and charles shot to joins us now on the phone to bring us the very latest on the situation there in. charles. very dramatic images that you managed to file for as happy as the situation come dine the toll. absolutely no i mean it's sort of.

this crackdown on the protesters started arms. around about a kilometer away we have a group back to the square combs be able to speak to you. via hearing around explosions was like going to be used to clear the square initially also. going. it's being pretty constant certainly for the last call we understand that these clashes with the company clashes with protesters security forces in the streets around the square. going today started peacefully. with a call for unity amongst the protesters. and. allowed rejection of the election results. there which i spoke to state. and the crowds increase the numbers. that the last of

those all. leaving are supposed to credit cards or rental of. 5 to 7000 people. weeks in security full seas gather wooded area on the outskirts of the square. and then i suppose it would have been around. leaving also that live streaming pictures started airing of a protest this trying to get into the problem of building. the case and get through it is literally getting 23 minutes is that. security forces paying into the square for the. insane that chronic. when. some of the very young people. we've moved into.

literally. were trying to climb in the number of the date to escape the chaos. they say to be free that this has been going on at least for now we also heard reports that security forces may well have sealed off where it's coming into the capital. possibly a response one can imagine to sort of video footage that we saw all those convoys of people coming in from the rural areas to join these protests. in terms of the numbers i mean it's been described as the largest protest since 2010 the revolution that overthrew president then. and some of the slogans and some of the charts for the presence of that. show just how determined the for just this is. bangor about these elections that determine that there is

a rerun. we're hearing reports from so we want the hospital scars one of the mind to of all. of at least 7 people being treated. reportedly in. critical condition. a very worrying situation a very worrying situation report if you're going to the country. prices. are degree of democratic pritam degree of democratic presidents. going. to call them and people but a country that is receiving the result in any way for. voicing news discontent against the government the street you're going just. call. that the pressure is all.

the quicker it is a very troubling situation indeed a general strike for keeping across that unrest in bishkek thank you very much indeed 9 days into the conflicts between armenia and azerbaijan both sides are stepping up to the season for the disputed territory of nagorno kind of a. part of the sixty's are coming under attack depend on carrots the just easing region's largest city has come under sustained bombardment both sides are accusing each other of killing civilians well as a by john says forces have attacked a number of their cities with missiles to fall in a trip to turkey nato secretary general has called on ankara which is the backing us by john to use his influence to try to come the conflict. we are deeply

concerned about the situation in on their own god but 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 of casualties also civilians civilian casualties on of course. any fighting night is also poses a risk to all kinds of critical infrastructure i'm up all the status of a book but everyone particularly nato should call on a media to withdraw in order to have a solution to this problem within the framework of international law un security council resolutions and azerbaijan's territorial integrity there is no other solution to this problem. because the owner has more from me to caviar in as a by john. the cities adjacent to now go north korea have been under attack

today as well again as our bridge on officials condemned those attacks and the quds army and side we know that but in the attack in buried the city killed 2 civilians today and there are many wounded a hospital being hospitalized the cold 30 is going this way but the iranian side also accusing for azhar bridge on for continuous the shelling there is a dent in the civilian areas but how they have the things are going to evolve between the 2 neighbors is still unknown because because the tension this is still high and despite international calls both sides seem to be committed to do whatever they have planned over now go in a car about but many are many are concerned that this conflict is going to go beyond the gold record of our front line to war between armenian azhar bridge and i have to say that despite the intensive fight ongoing in the frontlines of logo in

a corner of our now the cities are being shelled or hit by missiles which will be probably rising more concerns as we will be hearing more civilians being killed as long as these attacks continue from both sides against each other and bernard smith is following the latest developments from gori is in our media. well it's an indication i think of the pressure the no go no kind of back is that armenian president nicol passion has this evening hold on those recently demobilized a young man from the army to come back to fight these are young men who've done the 2 years obligatory military service and they cannot be forced to come back to be armenian prime minister is asking them to come back his own son to finish military service earlier in the summer has come back to join the fight for what's happening is that ethnic armenians all going to join the fight and to go on

a car bomb this is not the armenian military or the country of amina fighting azerbaijan this is the enclave of nagorno-karabakh which is ethnically now meenie and medians coming to join the fight and they're clearly under pressure that the prime minister is having to ask young men to come back to the fighting already called up when the fighting started on the 27th all man to an $80.52 how to already done their military service for many years were for and were in the reserves he's asked them to come back to fight so clearly there is a lot of demand for men on the ground to fight and we know that in the main town of nagorno-karabakh stepan aka today that has been relentless bombardment coming from the eyes of by john inside the city the town was hit on sunday we were there during that bombardment and it was very intensive and i'm told today by people on the ground that it has been more intensive still i don't feel structure is being

targeted particularly electricity transmission stations we saw all those being targeted so yes and there are casualties people been wounded and 500 people killed as far as we know from sunday's bomb bomb. so it's come on al-jazeera so moderate springs the worst flooding in decades to parts of france and it's been a rescue workers. are still searching for those missing. and in sports this 2 time point moves and champion stayed on course to win the french open title for the 1st time ever since. however the weather reset fire across the arabian peninsula side lots of sunshine as per usual you see this long on a cloud coming out of the coaxes running down across say iranian mountains and we

are going to see some wet weather coming through here over the next day or so just to the south of the caspian will see some west of where they're coming into toronto 24 celsius the top temperature getting into the high twenty's once again maybe touching 30 celsius there across the eastern side of the mideast right in and was still hovering around the 40 degree mark in iraq and also in kuwait temps just pull back to around 34 celsius here in doha but plenty of sunshine as i said sunshine there a little bit of a fair weather cloud over towards america but the western parts of yemen again you might just catch a special to all of rain and just as some rain soo into somalia right over the next day or so but some places of cloud just offshore drifting in you might just see the odd shot creeping into that eastern side of kenya. shabbas as per usual across the heart of africa look further south we've got plenty of showers coming in now across that eastern side of south africa pushing a fair way inland going to be heavy as well could cause some flooding problems

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can tell a story without uttering a single led the un convention manatee of life is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour white house press secretary kerry mcinerney is the latest member of president donald trump's inner circle to test positive for corona virus over the weekend she gave several press briefings without swearing a mouse riot police in kyrgyzstan's capital have despairs protests there's anger is

that the early results of sunday's election protests or stop storming the parliament in fish track at least 16 people have been injured. in the biggest city in the corner care about is under renewed bombardments azerbaijan says a 1000000 forces are intensifying their attacks on major cities both sides accuse each other of targeting civilians. now the world health organization says around a 10th of the world's population may have been infected with corona virus that means the majority of people worldwide remain at risk infections have surpassed 35000000 globally and more than a 1000000 people have died the director general of the w.h.o. is urging global unity to deal with the outbreak i will never be tired of calling for solidarity finger pointing will not prevent a single infection apportioning blame will not save

a single life. what 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 in iran almost the entire country has been imposed on a coronavirus red alert after a rise in cases 235 people have died in the past day some restrictions have been reimpose in the capital to her arm including closing mosques in paris ponds cafes gyms and swimming pools will be closed for 2 weeks this as the french government's announced the number of patients in i.c.u. has gone beyond 1400 for the 1st time since may the coronavirus alerts in the

french capital has been raised to the highest level new york's governor has ordered schools daycare centers and restaurants to close in some neighborhoods as the city tries to get ahead of a concerning spreads of covert 19 this includes in the regions of brooklyn and queens and the european commission president 1st love on the lions says she's also going into self isolation after meeting with a person who later tested positive for cope with 19 she says she isn't feeling any simpsons but her entire team will stay koren st so they get their test results. malaysia's prime minister seen as going into a 14 day south korean scene after a minister tested positive for corona virus the country at its biggest daily jump in infections on monday with 400 new cases while the u.k. government is facing pressure over

a technical issue that meant it missed nearly 16000 cases of covert 19 that led to a jump of 23000 new infections on sunday because they were overlooked many people who came into contact with those who contract the virus happens in informants as in barbara has more. britons testing system was supposed to be world beating but the latest problems of forced the government into an urgent investigation public health england the government body says it identified what it calls a technical error involving a spreadsheet last friday it seems columns of data had been missed off as a result almost 16000 positive test results were left out of official figures for a week the missing cases were added over the weekend so while daily reported infections had been around 7000 saturdays number was nearly 13000 and sunday's was almost 23000 contacts of those positive cases are now being alerted and told to

self isolate 51 percent of the cases have now been contacted a 2nd time for contact tracing purposes i want to reassure the house that outbreak control in care homes schools and hospitals has not been directly affected because dealing with outbreaks in these settings does not primarily rely on this particular p.h.e. system but the episode raises the possibility that many thousands of people without symptoms may have spread covered 19 in the last week one of the most crucial points in this pandemic we learned almost 16000 positive cases went on report. for a week that means as many as 48000 contacts not traced or not isolating the latest delays will do little to improve the public's faith in the centralized system which involves private firms and public bodies it was launched months beyond shojo and the percentage of contacts traced has been falling.

meanwhile the weekly rate of new coronavirus cases has soared in dozens of areas mainly in northern england after the missing data was added in manchester now has the highest rate in england it's doubled to almost $500.00 cases per 100000 people the government's already under pressure in areas under specific restrictions affecting one in 4 people in england to explain the rationale behind some of them some regional politicians are now calling for more local control of test and trace the barber al-jazeera. well on top of the global pandemic it's also flu season in many countries many people around the world will be left wondering and guessing which one they have let's take a look at the simpsons the simpsons are covered for are very similar if you have the flu you may experience some of these fever chills cough shortness of breath sore throat runny nose is much the same of course at 19 in addition to one of the warning signs that's

a change in or loss of taste or smell that for most people symptoms for the flu develop after $1.00 to $4.00 days after contracts in that virus but cough at $0.19 and usually take around 5 days of this period of time could be as short as 2 days or even up to 14 that it is possible to have both at the same time that's why the u.s. centers for disease control says getting a flu vaccine this year will be more important than ever but some countries are scrambling to get enough doses let's bring in lawrence corson he's in washington d.c. for us and is the director of the o'neill center for national and global health law at georgetown university is also a member of the advisory committee for the pandemic influenza preparedness network so just the man we need to speak see i've just could you start by reassuring our

viewers how would you say they can sell it the the difference between corvids and flu because a lot of those symptoms look similar and you can also contract both at the same time. yeah i mean i think you know for the average person it's really impossible to tell to your problems cope with you're probably going to begin with a dry cough and you also have may have some symptoms that are not seen one like the last changed but the truth is is that even a doctor will be able to differentiate. with our test and so you know if you think you are. who are holding it it's best is the medical help in which we will follow in fact that you get help straightaway with you know within 24 hours to for the new house there and viral on

that occasion symptoms so that's probably the best way of doing it because. symptoms are very very similar they are a gene where rightly very worried about school fed but the flu could be just as deadly particularly for some more vulnerable people what would you say is the best way to protect yourself from the flu. well that's easy to answer i mean the best way of course is to get an engine when's a back in was but a lot of hype about a cold 19 back but we don't have one but what we like to do. but we do have is is an influenza vaccine it's not perfect. but many of the myths about it are warm it doesn't cause flu in an act of the virus. and in addition. but it can help a lot it can reduce your symptoms or could prevent flu altogether so definitely are

togas the sweet spot in the northern hemisphere from getting a flu vaccine so that's you know it's an absolute must but is there enough fully vaccine because this is another concern that that been being raised some countries are really feeling the pressure of distribution and service of getting hold of it. we've also been hearing that in the southern hemisphere that hasn't been an awful lot of flu so it's it's been difficult to generate this vaccine so is is this something that people should be concerned about its or do you think there will be ample stocks by the time you reach your hands of a pauper. well you know just depends on the on look on the country and place that you are. no more than a month ago and in general in american medical association jama by the united

states government to ensure or by incentivizing of flu vaccine companies. that we should have suggestions apply. but there are places pharmacies that are running out in particularly they're running out of high dose influenza vaccines which are needed for people who are holding range elderly and they're at greatest risk so yes supply is you know both the men and supplier of war everybody's got to make a special effort this year to get their engine winsor vaccine so we can save the hospital system from being over run at the same time governments need to incentivize vaccine companies to ramrod their productions even without the incentive some vaccine companies have and some supplies to their sin there are

inventories ok and we assume that the same advice applies washing hands cover you know as a my 30 sleeve is if you want to save yourself from the flu or covert we know the drill. socially distance and personal hygiene that is no say the effect here so much ellora's costs and that joining us from washington d.c. helping to keep us all safe and well thank you. thanks to karen. now the u.n. secretary general says the continuing violations of the security council arms embargo on libya are a scandal antonio good terrorist was speaking at a virtual meeting a follow up to a summit held in germany at the beginning of the year he said the commitments made at the berlin conference in january must be up pails and implements its tariff russia egypt france the u.a.e. and others had agreed to come the conflict and supports the embargo alife now it

seems our diplomatic james basie's at the u.n. headquarters in new york. bill being distracted by corvids the unrest in the in the caucuses but this is a conflict that's been rumbling on for quite some time now a very concerning at what would you say the main goal behind today's high level meeting was and was it achieves the main goal was to get the whole international community working together and in the same place exactly the same goal as the original meeting the berlin summit in january but despite what they signed up to a berth in various countries including countries that were there at the conference were actually sending arms to the 2 sides in the libyan conflict and it led to an intensification of the violence now the u.n. believes there's been a law will for a few months in the violence they believe as

a possible moment of hope the acting un special representative stephanie williams told me she's hopeful she can get peace talks going later this month. we are mindful of course. the other day that have been put on the calendar. or surprises desperation announcement that it is you know under power. and you agreed it consensually. you know exactly. by the end of october so we're mindful of the political character and we're working as fast as we can to be. the big question is whether all of the key powers here actually supporting the international effort or whether they have their own plans and it's interesting there's a new report came recently to the un security council for its panel of experts and

it showed that there was still coming into libya on both sides from a number of countries notable countries that were mentioned in that report where the u.s. russia and turkey it's a report that i've seen and read but i can tell you i've spoken to the russian ambassador who says it's inaccurate and he's not allowing that report to be published so it will never be for the public record ok james bay is there life for us at the u.n. in new york thank you. the afghan president is in qatar for a bilateral meeting with leaders but small knots meet taliban officials a shaft on these visit comes as peace talks aimed at reaching a cease fire in the country are underway in doha but the afghan government and the taliban have so far made little progress. now in a time when public attention is particularly focused on medical advances this

year's nobel prize for medicine has been awards for the discovery of the hepatitis same virus the work of americans harvey alter charles rice i'm michael hawks in zone a it's still cool prizes especially significant this year as the world's grapples with the coronavirus pandemic lee harvey reports. getting a blood transfusion used to be a gamble there was an unknown disease causing liver damage and it wasn't hepatitis a or b. in $1893.00 scientists were able to clone the name virus in called it hepatitis c. this year's nobel prize in physiology or medicine awards the discovery of the hepatitis c. virus americans harvey alter and charles rice along with british born scientist michael houghton are considered pioneers in their field well i think our work you know sort of maybe for the 1st while i'm actually sort of. you know sort of what.

a functional. human genome. or in. the nobel committee says thanks to their discovery highly sensitive blood tests for the virus are now available their discovery also allowed the rapid development of antiviral drugs directed at hepatitis c. for the 1st time in history the disease can now be cured. hepatitis c. is a chronic disease found in the blood that can cause liver cancer and psoriasis many sufferers need liver transplants the world health organization estimates more than 70000000 cases worldwide with 400000 people dying from the disease every year. the discovery happened so long ago that the scientist weren't picking up their phones from the nobel committee to get the news i called them a couple of times before without any outsider but once i reached them they were

extremely surprised them it has taken decades to fully measure the impact of their discovery it's critical to go to the to the beginning to really understand the basic regional discoveries that really enable there's so much. that has happened so many and advances in her appearance at her but that's made possible at this initial discovery of the action of. the disease primarily strikes stigmatized populations like illegal drug users in the poor and developing countries contaminated medical equipment or procedures in fact millions and in developed countries like the u.s. unscreened blood transfusions and needles can spread the virus and when it comes to the latest virus pandemic covert 19 this year's nobel winners offer hope for finding a cure one like this should humble us and recognizing that doing good against

viruses 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 because of the pandemic the nobel announcement ceremony was virtual and with no covert vaccine the celebration of other medical discoveries continues online to. al-jazeera at least 9 people have died in severe floods in france and italy 20 more are missing far feiss in the french merits region were still searching for at least 8 people who were carried off by floodwaters and to neighboring northwestern italy and rescuers are also looking for a number of missing people having rain continued in the regions of piedmont slumbered and in the good. meanwhile wildfires the sun burning and

california ancestry new records for the amount of land scorched reynolds reports from the sentence. 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 it 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 firefighting agency. nearly 17000 firefighters are trying to contain 2 dozen active fires. 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 callus 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 music stream 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. which is spring has some breaking news out of the united states president donald trump has 3 seats that he will leave the u.s. military hospital where he's being treated for covert 19 at 2230 g.m.t. that's the tweet there says he'll be leaving at walter reed medical center today at 6 30 pm local he says he's feeling really good and has are urged people not to be afraid of coverts not to let it dominate your life and climbing onto it so that he feels better than he did 20 years ago that's the tweets that was sent just moments ago let's cross live to camberley hawkers who's standing

outside walter reed where president trump is being treated kimberly we're expecting to hear from the doctors there and 6 minutes time that the president here has really pulled their knees out from under them with this with this latest salvo and these don't playing the coronavirus of. the president likes to be able to deliver the good news or the headline he likes the attention and so. piers that that's exactly what he's done is it's eclipsed his medical medical team who we suspect is going to miss the details about this. now but that has been made on twitter that the press. it says that he will be leaving the walter reed medical center to return to washington d.c. where in the u.s. state of maryland and the president has been eager to get back to the white house we're told by his chief of staff and since yesterday we understand according to his

medical team that he has been improving since he was admitted here friday evening and so as a result to it appears the president now wanted to give the news that we expected from his medical team and we've been anticipating this for hours when the white house press pool was sent up here rather broccoli was put in front of a lectern well that was almost 6 hours ago and since then we have been waiting for this news we did know from the chief of staff that there would be a determination made late in the afternoon on monday that's today now wait understand that determination made the president delivering the news now we just need the details about his medical condition given the fact that we know particularly for people of his age that call that 19 ebbs and flows well it can look dire as it did for the president early on wednesday or saturday morning in fact you can improve and then take another turn for the worse so it is going to be a lot of questioning by reporters about why they feel confident the president is safe to leave this hospital we should point out there is

a medical facility at the white house but it is not of the scale and scope that we have of the medical center behind me so the president will be returning to the white house we don't know by what means it will be by motorcade whether it will be by helicopter what we do know is that he likes to put on a show he likes to thank his supporters which have been accumulating here with each hour and when the president returns to the white house he will be greeted by a rising number of infections inside the white house not just his press secretary not just members of the white house press office but also we understand a number of people within the residence so as the president has deal dealt with his infection there are now additional people that will be dealing with their own and kimberly. he does like to put on a show as they say people will be focusing on the fact that he's asking people not to be afraid of cool ferd's loss it's a get out see then see you when months as starts that press conference starts back

to campbell in the team in the states shortly but that's it for me and this news our stay with us on al-jazeera will bring you the very latest on this breaking news story after this. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. because of sure corruption is not something to be called in that it. is going to african. country his.

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what's really important if the bottom line tackles the big issues that issue 100 stakes its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. president trump says you believe in hospital in the coming hours and are just people not to be afraid of cove aid this as the virus spreads through the white house with press secretary kelly mcenaney the latest to test positive. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching out as they are live from london also coming up as confirmed cases around the world pass 35000000 the w.h.o.

says around 10 percent of the world's population may have been infected.