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kurdistan's electoral body an els the results of sunday's vote after a night of protests unrest. my money and saeed this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. in indonesia as the government passes a bill that would cut back on workers' rights and environmental regulations. the
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u.s. president downplays coronavirus as he leaves the hospital return to the white house but his doctors say he is not out of the woods yet. as tens of thousands of people flee armed groups in mozambique the government urges the international community to help. we begin with breaking news coming out of kurdistan the results from the parliamentary elections have been an old the decision by the electoral commission comes off to overnight protest demonstrators broke into government and security headquarters and freed former president back. and other former officials has been growing over some days result which handed and landslide victory to pro-government parties let's go straight to our correspondent who is in the capital
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bishkek charles we've been talking all morning about how fast moving the situation is but even this seems extraordinary after one night of protests what has been the response from the opposition protesters. yes certainly right that things have been moving incredibly fast in the last 6 to 12 hours also. no official response from any of the opposition groups we're interesting enough standing outside the headquarters of the former president's got some boy who was released last night as you say freeze one of the better would apply protesters by government protesters we're expecting him to appear any minute and make a call and let's not forget that this man was serving 11 years. for corruption. he stepped down in 2017 as per the constitution. but he
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still notes you distil doesn't get as much support as as many of the other opposition groups as he's testified really by the smallness of this crowd by the size of this crowd. so as i say no official statement certainly from. any of the other opposition groups but what we do know though is that this seems to be. opposition parties seem to be sort of aligning themselves into 3 separate groups we have a a youth movement this is all happening literally this smalling these are announcements that have happened in the last couple of hours we have a youth movement describing itself as the are nacelles the renascence policy so we were nacelles group and their agenda is basically trying to get young. people into political power very much for announcing the old very anti corruption as you can imagine. economic mismanagement and so on there's another group that is seemingly
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put together the parody comprises of 2 right wing policies were described as right wing on nationalist parties. being headed up we believe by one of the politicians who was freed from last night. all the politicians who was freed from jail last night by protesters and another group called themselves the coalition of coordination council the coalition coordination council apparently being made up by all of 8 politicians or 8. political leaders from 6 from 6 different parties so again that sense of as we've been describing a sense of the unity that we saw yesterday has already unity amongst opposition groups has already begun to pull apart but one thing is for sure that. all those opposition groups will be encouraged by this announcement by the central election commission done the results at least all that parliamentary vote have now been
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a gnarled. and what if we had from the pro-government parties presumably then not going to be happy because they were very months in the lead in those election results. well that's exactly right yes we've heard nothing from them we have heard we've heard reports that certainly somebody a member. of one of the leading pro-government parties a party called the mechanism party. somebody who is considered to be very much behind the funding of the party a party that in those results was doing very well we're hearing reports that he's actually left the country. and we heard also reports that big protests pro-government protests held by that party in the south of the country today no official announcement made by any of those policies but one thing again we can
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pretty much guarantee here 'd is that there are going to be big pushes for accountability. these opposition groups opposition parties party leaders wanting to call people to account for the mess that these elections were. as all these allegations these violations seemingly now. proving true according to the central election commission so as we go forward although we're a long way off overseas seeing a new election date i think before that election the process of trying to call people to account for those violations in the campaign and on election day is going to get started immediately. for us in maine. and an asian workers are protesting across the country a day off to a controversial job creation bill was passed.
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the government revised over 70 laws to loosen regulations on workers' rights and the environment demonstrators say it could lead to exploitation and uncontrolled deforestation but the government argues it's needed to boost investment and help the economy which has been crippled by the coronavirus pandemic just go washington is following developments from jakarta. the government says the reason that it needed to follow this bill into legislation was because the economy is struggling as a result of. it but at this factory workers say that they will bear the brunt of the effect of this legislation as the government tries to roll out the red carpet to make indonesia a more attractive destination for investment in particular foreign investment that they will be the ones who suffer as. many of the rides that they've enjoyed for
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years including. severance pay leave and things along those lines will be boarded down so factory workers many of them already low income say that they will suffer as a result of this and that they will continue to protest and the unions will take their fight to the constitutional court as. i've been trying to do what they're saying reduce red tape and part of that means reducing some of the requirements of environmental standards so some of the areas of industries which would have otherwise required environmental permits will no longer need that sort of permission to go ahead with their work anymore so environmental activists say that this is really opening up the floodgates for deforestation and other environmental destruction to go ahead. to just 3 nights in hospital u.s. president donald trump house returned to the white house and despite being
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hospitalized the 19 he's called on americans not to fear the virus but his recovery is not. stopped to saying the president is not out of the woods yet mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the president arrives back at the white house he walks from marine one. 'd to the folk any of the races. then he stops and removes his mosque a salute and a head and i'm specified number of days in quarantine doctors say he'll be working from this residence and will not at the state return to the west wing where the stuff works bases are located shortly after arriving at his residence he posted this video and now i'm better and maybe i'm immune i don't know but don't let it dominate your lives get out there be careful the president's day began with a torrent of tweets on a variety of subjects with most urging his supporters to vote and election day now
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a matter of weeks away and doctors would not speculate about when or whether the president will return to an in person as opposed to virtual campaign warning that he's still in recovery though he may not entirely be out of the woods yet the team and i agree that all are evaluations and most importantly he's clinical status support the president safe return home where he'll be surrounded by world class medical care 247 there were inevitable questions about whether the president's sudden decision to drive by supporters outside the hospital sunday evening put his secret service agents at risk that the president has been surrounded by medical and security staff for days wearing full p.p. . and yesterday the u.s. secret service agents were in that same level of people for a very short period of time we worked with our infectious disease experts. to make
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some recommendations for how to keep everything safe down at the white house for the president and those around him the president's press secretary kate mccann any is the latest white house to offer to test positive for covert 192 of her systems and a number of journalists joining the increasingly lengthy list of those working at the white house who have been infected while attention has been focused on the present. and much of the country is still in the grip of a 10 demick in 34 states the 7 day every age of infection is high and all than it was a month ago in the past 24 hours alone more than 40000 new cases have been recorded. a few miles away from the white house these chairs represent those who have died a poignant reminder that for more than 210000 americans the outcome was different mike hanna al-jazeera washington tells moran is
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a republican party strategists he rejects the notion that trump is downplaying the virus i heard the president's restating tonight that this is a virus that is dangerous but it is not deadly it is it is lethal but it is only up to a point where we let it have you know wreak havoc on our society i've heard the message i want to figure out which was this nation needs to. walk back who troll. that it really was it is the racial message of the damage that the damage that coronavirus beyond just the physical impact of the person may have it yes the quality of treatment has is higher the oversight is clearly higher i believe that he you know received the best care that you could have in the united states but in terms of some of the drugs and the cocktails that
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are out there he's getting the same stuff that's available for some of these other patients what he was speaking to tonight was the resolve of the people to not continue to let this disease have the destruction on so many people's lives who are not being touched by. still ahead on al-jazeera. pipes for a diplomatic breakthrough between on me and azerbaijan to some of the worst since the conflict began. small in india is hurting the fight against the coronavirus and the government says it's been forced to take drastic action. we're starting to see the seasonal showers just edging a little further south which across southeast asia so some heavier downpours now
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coming into indonesia 134 millimeters of rain is a big downpours to it which was used in sod over in the ship pushing across into popular new guinea i suspect the west the weather though is further north just around indochina and in vietnam we've seen 189 millimeters of fright in just one day that west the weather still lurking there across southern vietnam cambodia pushing over towards thailand some big alive the show is stretching here now wes the weather faithing becoming a little more expansive so i would expect to see some localized flooding as this system makes its way a little the west with by a shower as elsewhere showers along the spells of rain to stretching down into australia where we're seeing the the contrast between warm moist air coming in from the tropics and much cooler sliding in from the southern oceans and that's producing very heavy rain into central parts of australia south australia process south australia had their wettest october rainfall heaviest of type of rainfall for
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you're watching al-jazeera mind top stories this hour starts election commission has a novel the result of sunday's election overnight demonstrations opposition protesters stormed the parliament building and freed almost officials including the former president. workers' unions and in tunisia protesting against a controversial new jobs they say it will weaken their rights and reduce protections for the environment the government augie's is needed to boost the economy which has been hit by the under mick. donald trump is back in the white house after 3 nights in hospital for coronavirus treatment us president took off his mask and supporters not to be afraid of the virus.
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the 1st confirmation hearing for president trumps nominee for the u.s. supreme court is to go ahead despite the corona virus outbreak at the white house monday is the date set by the senate to destry committee even though 2 republican committee members have been infected they were at trump's so-called super spread the ceremony when he announced he wants amy kone barrett to replace justice ruth bader ginsburg who died last month. in all 28 american states have reported a rise in infections in the past 2 weeks they include new york where leaders are arguing about whether or not to close schools in virus hot spots john hendren has a latest. as pandemic cases bike across the u.s. new york's governor is it on with new york city's mayor over a plan coronavirus crackdown. governor andrew cuomo sped up a plan to close schools and $900.00 spots in new york city's brooklyn and queens
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areas beginning tuesday these clusters. have to be attacked and picture those hot spots as a as embers. within the field of dry grass ok that's how i think of it. the only. course is to run to those embers and stay at them out but cuomo is refusing to allow new york city mayor bill de blasio to close non-essential businesses in 9 hot spots still de blasio says he will work to drive down the surge in those neighborhoods if we act aggressively right now we can do it i have absolute faith in what new yorkers can do once they have a clear direction here it is it's time to take resolute action in these 9 zip codes and protect the whole rest of the city and turn this around new york has seen a 62 percent increase of new daily coronavirus cases than it had on average just 2
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weeks ago this surge in pandemic cases has swept across the u.s. in all 28 states have seen a rise in cases over the past 2 weeks that includes wisconsin home to some of the nation's worst hotspots are patients are stressed our nurses are stressed and our doctors are stressed health authorities are now worried about the prospect of a possible twin pandemic this fall if people who are socially distancing and wary of contact fail to take their flu shots great to be back again thanks for being here as some regions shut back down others like nashville's grand ole opry are opening up with an audience for the 1st time in 7 months just beautiful to hear here that kind of conversation coming back at us tonight thank you that's not happening in neighboring kentucky which is seeing the state's 2nd highest daily covert count since march we need to wear a facial covering 1800 cases ought to be a wake up call if last week's 5000 almost 5000 cases. a nation that had hoped to
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be over the virus by now is struggling to bring down surging cases of a deadly pandemic in what would normally be just another flu season john hendren al jazeera washington. mexico seeing a sharp increase in the daily number of corona virus cases and deaths but the government says that's because it's changed the method infections the way they're classified more than 28000 mexicans tested positive with close to 4000 deaths there is concern the numbers could be higher because of limited testing. in iran almost the entire country has been put on a coronavirus whether to rise in cases where 235 deaths were halted on monday some restrictions have been reimposed in the capital tehran including closing mosques. i mean is defense ministry says fighting with
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azerbaijan calm down overnight following intense bombardment of not going to cutback during the day nato wants turkey to do more to stop the fighting the reports from it get to bear in azerbaijan. style spired into main governor ridge the 4th largest city in azerbaijan 2 of them hit a nearby hydro power complex which is the largest in the caucasus region as a real fish will say critical civilian infrastructure is under imminent threat our main yet denies that we are deeply concerned about the situation in on their own and. we are of course watching the situation very carefully we have all seen the reports about the increased number of casualties also civilians civilian casualties and of course. any fighting notice also poses a risk to all kinds of critical infrastructure good despite being part from the
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front line of our bridge on 2nd largest city was also attacked our men yet denies involvement in the killing of 6 civilians other azari cities such as star tarrant character which are close and are going to car bomb were also targeted yes that's about if we live in the city the armenian fascists have been bombing this town for days and spreading chaos in this place our homes were bombed and destroyed and we stayed in the middle like this everyone went. as a rage as military salsa in action and when a car a box main cities stop uncared has been have since sunday as the most intense a bomb bangle the city since the war in 1904 the town of sushi 10 kilometers from stepanek and it's also bombed all to a monday azerbaijan armed forces starting at target international the syrian objects and operation as a result of which we have all the right person casualties. and much more wanted i
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mean yes prime minister is asking all the young men who have recently been demobilized to come back to join the battle. is urging them to fight to ensure victory in this war the 2 former soviet republics have long been in conflict or as are pretty john's breakaway i mean they are the core minion region of. the latest fighting now into its 2nd week follows cross border attacks in july when an older differential says fire was broken. then as our bridges defense ministry threatened our menu with attacks on the met some more nuclear power plant this region serves as a corridor for pipelines carrying oil from the caspian sea to international markets and a threat to stability heightens customers concerns about supply given the intense fighting going to nagano kauravas front line and we saw a striking densely populated areas many question just how far the 2 neighbors will carry the conflict this fight their domestic problems seen archosaur long
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al-jazeera may get a reservation on. the afghan president is in qatar on an official visit but isn't meeting taliban officials ashraf ghani his visit comes a ceasefire talks are underway in doha the afghan government and the taliban have so far made little progress. the u.n. secretary general says it's scandalous that countries continue to defy libya's arms embargo and tony good terrorists as the violations call into question the basic commitment to peace is condemnation came during a high level virtual meeting aimed at getting both sides to commit to a lasting cease fire is a diplomatic editor james bays at the united nations. foreign ministers connected virtually this a follow up to the burden conference in january which was supposed to put libya on a path to peace instead violence intensified fueled by arms shipments to both sides
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in the conflict this latest meeting was organized by the u.n. and germany its foreign minister said there are now some reasons to have fresh hope couldn't we have a grounds to be cautiously optimistic we are seeing increasing signs of a shift from a military to a political russian art and more and more stakeholders are adopting this way of thinking the u.n. secretary general told the meeting it was a scandal that the arms embargo on libya was still being violated a recent report to the un security council by its independent panel of experts seen by al jazeera emphasized the role of turkey the united arab emirates and russia but the russian ambassador told me the report was in accurate and shouldn't be published that we challenge the conclusions of this expert group. which the derive from the from the open press which to a large extent elocution is that can be easily challenged which was saying many of
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the security council's of meet me in meetings on libya the u.n. says the next stage is military talks to take place in geneva in a couple of weeks to try and formalize a cease fire and then the bigger task of organizing political talks originally they were going to be in geneva at the middle of the month but it's been difficult to walk and eyes because of covert 19 restrictions and quarantine rules the u.n. however says they're still hopeful they can take place before the end of october james al-jazeera at the united nations. a new mobile out to complain against pollution is one of the ways new delhi is hoping to clear the air and his capital is one of the world's most polluted cities which experts say weakens everyone's immune system quality improved dramatically at the height of the curve at 19 knockdown india is one of the worst affected countries with more than 6 and a half 1000000 infections. bad 5000000 never come back that was have
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i want you to let pollution right now or. you know that the festive season is coming to day by day. again there will be same politicians same problem i'm at risk because of the pollution when there was no coronavirus i used to wear a mask and i'm even using it now so that hasn't changed but when we were under lockdown the air was very clear. villages in northern most on big have told al-jazeera how they fled for their lives as all those were beheaded in their homes torched groups linked to i so want to create an islamic state in kabul delgado province which is rich in natural gas more than 2000 people have been killed and 300000 forced from their homes in the past 3 years malcolm webb reports. giulietta carlos says she's never seen anything like the recent attack on have
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village in mozambique by an armed group one of the 79 years she's been alive you know but your heart we saw our houses burned and they started beheading people we ran away our home is far from here and it took us about 2 weeks to get here. now he's among hundreds hoping to find food and shelter here at the center for displaced people near the town of pemba everyone tell similar stories. sonnie says the fight is abducted many children he was lucky to escape with his order so they wouldn't let his leg. then they took us to a school and read out our names when they beheaded them with a machete while everyone was watching. armed groups who say they want to create an islamic state their attacks on the mainly muslim population began sporadically 3 years ago this year they've grown stronger occupying some towns in cabo delgado province for nearly 2 months they've controlled the port town of muslim border
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prior they've made regular attacks on other towns roads in the province and some islands too that's made the town of parma only accessible by air and they're steadily getting closer to the air from the peninsula around which there are tens of billions of dollars worth of natural gas deposits. the deposits lie offshore in the indian ocean international oil companies including total and any that invested billions of dollars in preparation to extract it the local populations being marginalized most have lived in poverty for generations watching the investment foreigners getting jobs has ceded discontent and fueled the rebellion which some analysts say could stop the gas projects entirely.
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mozambique's armed forces have steadily lost ground to the armed groups military support from the european union and funding from the us both being discussed but nothing's been finalized yet securing the coastal kathy extraction facilities might be possible securing the 2000000 people who live across the province will be much more difficult. malcolm webb al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories gaga songs election commission has an all the result of some days election off to overnight demonstrations opposition protests to stay.

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