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under the sage more than 36 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the way living water is going dispensable to economic activity but industrial uses worse than just the freshwater counting the cost on al-jazeera . kurdistan's electoral body and nulls the results of sunday's vote tonight of protests and on rest. and i am on inside and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up kremlin critic alexina only speaks out in his 1st video appearance since being discharged
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from a bell in hospital after being poisoned. the u.s. president downplays coronavirus as he leaves hospital return to the white house but his doctors say he's not out of the woods yet. and his tens of thousands of people fully armed groups in mozambique the government urges the international community to help. we begin with a dramatic turn of events in the political turmoil gripping kurdistan mounting pressure from protests as the election commission has a novel the early results of sunday's parliamentary vote off to a night of violence where the demonstrators stormed the state buildings there accusing the government of rigging the election in its favor. president jim because
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of insists he's still in control of the country but the movement against him may be getting stronger the protest is freed former president my best that. the senior officials from jail. stop it has more from the capital bishkek constitutionally the members of parliament parliament still stands because of that central election committee announcement that the results have been an old but it has been an incredibly fast moving day 24 hours if you like. certainly the small warning there were scenes of chaos around that parliamentary building with various different claims being made by opposition parties and members of those parties saying that they had commandeered control of certain government institutions they seems to have been the sons break up of the sense of unity that we felt the night before in the square i think it's fair to say that this
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announcement by the central election commission will be welcomed by those opposition groups of these these. these opposition parties that we've seen competing in this election but we're already beginning as i say to see that sense of competition and rivalry between these groups starting. to appear again which is no bad thing of course is testament to the kind of level of democracy that this country is proud of it's not forget that those opposition groups were holding healthy lively debates between themselves in the run up to election that is now being seen as being deeply flawed. turkey's foreign minister is in azerbaijan for talks pressure mounts among the international community to end the conflict in the gonna cut back i mean his defense ministry says fighting with azerbaijan calm down overnight following intense bombardment in the disputed region has been heavy
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shelling for the past 10 days nato wants to do more to deescalate the violence to me. is a lecturer and security in development at the department of war studies at king's college london she explains how turkey's alliance with azerbaijan could impact the prospects of a cease fire but turkey's position has so far been very much in support of us and by john's military operations so i'm i'm not sure that this is going to actually be the result but i keep hoping turkey is going to exert pressure on us and by john but who are president aliyev so that there is some kind of negotiation on ses fire i'm that the doors are open for some sort of meaningful meaning for talks on the future of the region because i think this equation is extremely dangerous extremely volatile and this could result in our in the long term war that goes on and on i
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hope it is not their last chance but it is the beginning of an effort by turkey to really rein in. azerbaijan but i mean we are not certain because so far turkey has been supporting muslim military to a certain extent as i john but maybe they came to the understanding that there is a need to calm the situation down so i'm not on turkey on on on how these encounter will resign from this encounter so it is very important that we follow these events and to understand exactly what the message is from turkey. kremlin critic says his health is improving week self to being poisoned with the russian nerve agent novacek of all make collapsed on a flight to moscow at the end of august and was transferred to a hospital in germany where he was placed in a medically induced coma the opposition leader says russia's president putin must provide answers for what happened to him. it's
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a super secret thing even possessing this substance this novacek it's only great poison and is banned it's forbidden to have it anywhere in any amounts and one of the problems putin has is not whether he ordered me to be poisoned or not but the fact that someone got ahold of know the chalk in russia and used it which in itself is already a violation of the chemical weapons convention. and xandra so don of it called freud how small from moscow. he actually said that and kept on repeating during this interview is that it was russian president vladimir putin who ordered gave an order for the before he is a poison and i was the interviewer trying to to ask him why would russian posed to do debts and why would he be so important said the russian president it would be involved in such a thing and rightly kept on claiming that this could have not been done without the order of fulton without his knowledge or at least with the knowledge of one of the
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heads of the intelligence agencies here in russia he bases these claims on the fact that it was not a chalk and then what he says is also that there was a new modification of this nerve agent that was used he says this is not something you can buy in a supermarket or in the black market or a bit something that you can compose yourself in some underground lair but this is something that can only be obtained with the knowledge of the intelligence services in russia with the knowledge of the russian president vladimir putin this is what he kept on claiming during this interview on the questions as who who is behind this poisoning after just 3 nights in hospital u.s. president donald trump has returned to the white house and despite being hospitalized for covert 19 he's called on americans not to fear the virus but his
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recovery is not over with trump stuck 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 and up the stairs to the balcony of the residence where 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 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
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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 his 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 p p for a very short period of time we worked with our infectious disease experts. to make 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
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is the latest white house to offer to test positive for covert 19 to a person. on a number of journalists joining the increasingly lengthy list of those working at the white house who've been infected while attention has been focused on the president much of the country is still in the grip of a pandemic in 34 states the 7 day average of infection is higher now than it was a month ago in the past 24 hours alone more than 40000 new cases have been recorded. if you 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 survivors a curve in 1000 have reacted to president trump's call not to be afraid of the virus turns woodbury has recently recovered he hoped trump would learn from the
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experience. he does have a responsibility to lead and leading in this moment requires leading by example we need people to take this this virus serious we need people to wear mats we need to take will caution to socially distant to be responsible not just for ourselves but responsible for the people around around us to see the president how awful that elevator and walk up the stairs and it in a show of defiance snatches mask off in front of the american people and then to have this battle around him it just showed a reckless disregard for life and a reckless disregard for the response of realty that he has to demonstrate and to lead by example it's unfortunate and i do think you know i was one of those people that was you know i'm afraid for his speedy recovery are very very he and the 1st lady to do better but i was actually pretty glad when it happened because i thought
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it was a moment for america it's a funny look and take this virus serious a moment for him to conduct himself differently and for the people that follow him to conduct themselves their family and unfortunately just politicize this moment in a way that that i'm afraid of going to cause more pain and suffering he will take a political hit for this and he has a base that is then and that is going to continue to follow him there and i and i hope that he wished he would show them we're going to leave. still ahead on al-jazeera coronavirus searches across the u.s. tens of thousands of being infected on a daily basis to find out what state is a daring to stop the spread. said ms across the u.s. and u.k. shut down as maybe studios council big name releases because of.
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how i welcomes another look at the international forecast we've got some very heavy rain pushing towards japan as we go through towards the weekend this area of low pressure here that is actually a tropical storm in its laws it to become a typhoon within the next 36 to 48 hours or so so it's making its way towards sea and so the nation's asar the southern islands of japan will see some wetter weather just splashing in from that across that eastern side of honshu as we go through wednesday then as it makes its way the general northwesterly direction up towards q.c. that eastern half full of honshu becoming increasingly wet with the possibility of some flooding probably letting the system making landfall as we go on through the weekend possibly as a typhoon at that stage ahead of that fine and dry there into the korean peninsula and pleasant sunshine temptresses so with 23 celsius a similar temperature there for shanghai much of eastern and southern china looking
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fine in try over the next couple of days is far to try to across the northern plains of india through pakistan the monsoon rains continuing to just go away just pulling too was at least the side of india plenty of wet weather still in the forecast here over the next couple of days through bangladesh for me and ma and into the funnel east of india. 2 planes came from and 15 checked no more tell mr no matter how. hard it is possible to fully clean the premises off and skeletons but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned from mystery wanted to give an exit and with it from start to speak about the old. before even the saudi government just a general manager in a saudi consulate on al-jazeera. they
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watching out is their top stories this hour election commission has a novel the result of sunday's election after overnight demonstrations opposition protesters stormed the parliament building and freed former officials including the former president. techie's foreign minister is an answer by john for talks as pressure mounts to end the conflict in the going to come back to species region has seen heavy shelling for the past 10 days nato wants turkey to do more to deescalate the violence. u.s. president don trump is back in the white house after 3 nights and also put off
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a coronavirus treatment of before entering his official residence he took off his mask even though he still carries the virus. if europe is northern to grey region has ceased to recognize the government in addis ababa leaders told ethiopia's prime minister. that his mandate to govern the region would expire on october the 5th tensions were increased after shed jeweled regional elections were postponed due to a pandemic we don't recognize a prime minister erdogan is the deputy prime minister we don't recall him as a car when it. comes with ministers we don't recognize the parliament you don't agree with any of those afraid of each other as other institutions have to continue to. provide services conduct to be activities that national defense forces need to have an affinity for the forces are expected to defend the country somebody. well the feud between the federal government in other
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anti grays regional leaders escalated last month when they went ahead with the elections for the tikrit parliament was an act of defiance against the government which blamed the coronavirus emergency for postponing all elections the region's governing party the to great people's liberation front accuse prime minister of halting the polls to stay in power well until recently the t p l f had been part of a coalition of ethnically based parties each in control of their own region the coalition has since merged into prime minister ahmed prosperity party bought the t.p. l.f. refused to join leaving it without influence in the federal government ahmed add though is following this from neighboring kenya he says the political crisis in ethiopia is a cause for concern for the whole region. tension has been building up for months
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between prime minister meets government and the officials who are running the north and to gray region who the former ruling elite the t.p.a. left dominated e.p.i. to be of course lucian which would be to call the when he was elected in august 2018 and what they're saying right now is the postponement of the election was illegal and that the prime minister's constitutional thomas ended and therefore they're not going to recognize him but that is not just the only issue they have between them they are also. differences over how he managed to pass the disbandment of the ruling coalition and creating a unity party which is heading in that is about something that the p.l.f. had already refused and said will not be taking part in and also that around and file of the leadership of the t.p.a. left have retired to mckeller their original cup to talk with some of them save to
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be avoided arrest in a purge ordered by the prime minister himself. villagers in northern mozambique have told al-jazeera how they fled for their lives as others were beheaded and their homes torched armed groups linked to i so want to create an islamic state in kabul a dumb guard a province which is rich in natural gas or than 30000 people have been killed and 300000 forced from their homes in the past 3 years welcome weapon ports. giulietta car lost says she's never seen anything like the recent attack on her village in mozambique by an armed group one of the 79 years she's been alive. 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 she's among hundreds hoping to find food and shelter here it is a center for displaced people near the town of pember everyone tells similar
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stories. sami says the fighters abducted many children he was lucky to escape with his order so they wouldn't let us leave then they took us to a school and read out our names then they behead them with a machete while everyone was watching. because of armed groups who say they want to create an islamic state there are 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 prior they've made regular attacks on other towns roads in the province and some islands too that's made the town of palmer only accessible by air . and they're steadily getting closer to the air from deep in insular around which there are tens of billions of dollars worth of natural gas deposit. the deposits
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lie offshore in the indian ocean international oil companies including total and any that invested billions of dollars in preparation to extract it from local populations been marginalized and 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 i think there. really is no this project will not. be. asked to be driven so high. yes and no nearby indians and here. are places 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
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facilities might be possible securing the 2000000 people who live across the province will be much more difficult. malcolm webb al-jazeera and an asian workers are protesting across the country a day after controversial job creation bill was passed. the government revised over 70 laws to loosen regulations on workers' rights and the environment demonstrators say could lead to exploitation and uncontrolled deforestation the government argues it's needed to best investment and help the economy which has been crippled by the pandemic. the discovery of hepatitis c. took the nobel prize for medicine on monday and now we've just found out the award for physics that's gone to 3 scientists for their work on black hole as such the breton roger penrose german reinhard denzil an american andrea guess well on it in
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stock him that research focused on the discovery of black hole formations and their connection to the theory of relativity. brink is theoretically physicist who said on the nobel committee physics 8 different times he says the laureates greatly expands on albert einstein's so early appearance studied general relativity with einstein's theory of gravity. back we're already in in the $960.00 s. and he found that. there are solutions 3 charts robust as we say and if there is a certain amount of of of matter which is imploding contracting then in it's inevitable that there will form what is a black hole so the strength of it is mathematical the strength of the
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proof namely that it doesn't really matter exactly how it looks like because this is where does go to political effect so if there is enough they will be trapped within the surface they will then form a black hole so this. is a wonderful. result from many studies the. u.s. health authorities have acknowledged that covert 19 can be spread through the air a base of guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention says respiratory droplets containing the virus can linger in the hour as the c.d.c. says cases of airborne transmission are uncommon but tend to happen in enclosed spaces that lack proper ventilation where people a shouting singing or exercising. or 28 american states have reported
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a rise of infections in the past 2 weeks they include new york where leaders are all going about whether or not to close schools in virus hot spots john hendren reports. 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 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 stain and put them out but cuomo is refusing to allow new york city mayor bill de blasio to close non-essential
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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 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 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 feedback thanks for being here as
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some regions shut back down others like nationals grand ole opry are opening up with an audience for the 1st time in 7 months just beautiful to hear hear that kind 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 a 1800 cases ought to be a wake up call if last week's 5000 almost 5000 cases. a nation that had hoped to 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 is 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 way infections are classified the country reported almost 3000 deaths and more than 20000 new infections there's
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concern the numbers could be higher because of limited testing. the world's 2nd largest cinema chain sign world is closing its screens across the u.s. and the u.k. until further notice that decision sent its shares crashing by more than 50 percent and will affect around $45000.00 jobs charlie mansion reports. it's the world's 2nd largest cinema operator with 663 multiplexes in the u.s. and the u.k. but coded 19 is forcing sydney world to close its doors not because people can't watch films safely but because hollywood is holding on to the films people really want to watch. the new james bond film no time to die is the latest blockbuster to delay its release in cinemas with the full at a record low film studios are anxious they won't recoup their money at the box office 536 regal theaters in the u.s. and 127 sunni world in picher house theaters in the u.k.
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will no suspend operations temporarily 45000 employees are left in limbo as the company tries to restructure $8000000000.00 of debt. when you for the longest. oh really it is management is to be they all. say ok guys. odeon cinemas have announced a quarter of their theaters will only open on weekends are the chains like they're also looking at their options although a warning that small independent picture houses which help keep world cinema alive might not survive the pandemic but the u.k.'s prime minister is still urging people to visit the silver screen small local cinema as we've already put 30000000 bore i would say to people is that you. do now have ways of letting their shows go on in
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a secure way and i'd encourage people. to go out to the cinema enjoy themselves and support those businesses many people thought the online streaming could slowly kill cinema but it seems that covert 19 couldn't directly deliver the fatal blow the c.e.o. of sydney wilde has described his company as a grocery store with no food but a film studio sit on the new releases for too long they could be no cinemas left for them to screen them in charlie and al-jazeera called a shot. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories. election commission has a novel the result of sunday's election after overnight demonstrations opposition protesters stormed the parliament building and freed former officials including the former president chance strafford has more from bishkek but one thing again we can
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