it's hard to filter out the newly seen keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue stakes its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on. coronavirus strikes at the pentagon america's top defense officials are in quarantine a president trump continues to downplay the pandemic. everyone i'm come on santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera the political crisis in kurdistan deepens the prime minister has resigned and the disputed election is a no it's also thousands of displaced the city's turn is a ghost towns this is after more than a week of fighting between armenia and azerbaijan and facebook cracks down on q and

on the american spirit as you've heard the donald trump called patriotic. pull over on the corona virus outbreak has now reached the pentagon a senior u.s. military official is tested positive and several others are now in quarantine among them general mark milley he is the country's senior most military official the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff which is a body consisting of the top commanders from each of the armed services many of whom are also in quarantine they're all fearing possible infection from this man admiral charles wright the deputy head of the coast guard who tested positive himself on monday you're my memory members one months ago there was a covert 19 outbreak among u.s. military personnel roughly a 1000 sailors testing positive on board a navy ship the commander of the ship pleaded for her. he was instead fired for

disregarding the chain of command so let's check in with mike hanna in washington about 7 in the evening there on the u.s. east coast i might start with some developing news 1st of all not just at the pentagon but once again in the inner circle of donald trump at the white house. very much in the inner circle reports indicate that steven miller who is a very close adviser of the president has now tests to a positive for the coronavirus miller has been in close proximity of the president for a long period of time he was also in close proximity to some of the other assistance to the president to have tested positive in recent days and certainly that list is growing and growing indeed kemal a large number of members of the president's staff now have tested positive a number of journalists who work there and as well as a number of military aides it is said who are also working at the white house one military aide in particular is the person who shares the responsibility for

carrying those nuclear codes of what is called the football so once again you appear to be widening arts' the effect of the infection from within the white house president as we saw 24 hours ago takes over his mask when he walks in year so let's build on that then might so much sort of denial going on misinformation some people would call it what are the experts saying the actual medical experts who we've become so used to hearing from in the last 6 months. let me just pick up on that thing you said about dissin from ation twitter put up a health warning on one of president trump's tweets today in which he said that the flu is more fatal than co but now this is absolute nonsense and what is disturbing is that the president does know that because back in february the president told journalist bob woodward that he was aware that the virus is 10 times as fatal as

flu now the president is tweeting out to the public saying that flu is far more fatal than the corona virus incidentally also lying about figures off infections from flu or fatalities he says that on average more than 100000 people die from flu each year will actually last year that figure was some 20000 but you asked about what the experts say particularly about events at the white house with this absolute cascading number of infections happening which have been happening in recent days well somebody who has not been involved at all with either the president's treatment for corona virus or indeed advising the white house on terms of its safety measures and that person is dr anthony from the chief this is what he says about events at the white house. what went on in the white house you know i don't want to and every time i say something that's an issue i wind up spending a lot of time in suing phone calls and e-mails i should say it was not done

according to what i would have recommended. well that's about as direct as you could hear dr apology on the issue of the president who's always chosen his words very carefully about both the president and the white house but certainly it appears that dr fox he and nearing the end of his patience in that particular statement but once again it is very disturbing in a way to the american public as well that somebody like dr chee who has been at the forefront of combating this coronavirus has not been consulted by the president for a period of time and he was not consulted while the president contracted the virus and went into hospital for the past 3 days that is something that the public as a whole are likely to find exceedingly disturbing mike hanna in washington d.c. with that update thank you another layer on top of this is donald trump calling off negotiations with democrats over a new coronavirus stimulus package until after the election the announcement sent

u.s. stock markets tumbling democratic presidential nominee joe biden's accuse trump of turning his back on the american people house democrats did pass a 2.2 trillion dollar relief bill on thursday but republicans in the senate rejected it jason nichols with us now democratic strategist joining us from a look at city in maryland thank you for your time jason i'm trying to figure out what would be the theory behind this behind saying there's a crisis but i'm going to ignore it until after the election what does that say to the american people. well i think it reflects really poorly on this president he is somebody who prioritizes himself he's getting the best care government subsidized care but doesn't want to public option for the rest of us for the rest of us to get the kind of care he got and as a result 210000 people have died under his leadership you see him spreading this

kind of december mation somewhere between 12 and 60000 people die from the flu but yet as i said in less than a year we've already lost 210000 people very famous and powerful people have lost friends and family members and more importantly or should say more importantly but also lots of working class people their families are struggling they're losing family members they can't feed their families at night or during the day or at any other moment they're having a tough time keeping a roof over their heads paying their bills and the president has bail and said we're going to do this after the election you know after you know all the negotiating chips are and are in my favor because you've already won he that's not prioritizing the american people that's prioritizing his agenda is there is nothing is there anything the democrats can do in the meantime given that they only have their hands on one of the 3 levels of power is that what can i do anything themselves. no i really don't think that there's anything that they can do i think

there are certain things that could be done at the state level you know all the governors that need to help you know a lot of this again is partisan and donald trump is very famous for wanting to divide our nation into red and blue it's almost like he thinks of the you know of our country and in civil war terms. but i think that there are governors and county executives around the country who can start to make moves on the local level but from the federal government i really don't think that there's anything to do we don't control the senate mitch mcconnell blocks everything that comes to his desk out of the house they don't want to you know the executive branch doesn't want to negotiate and so i really don't think that there's a whole lot of options left from the federal government but at the state level. states can start to do things but a lot of states are also cash strapped you know because they've been trying to take care of their citizens up to this point tell me what you think about the impact of

i mean even if we just take the last week the last week everything that's happened the impact on the campaign which only has 4 weeks to run as an from an outsider looking in you would look at this and think well none of this plays into donald trump's favor. but it just doesn't work like that necessarily doesn't. no it doesn't but i think his base is being rallied and they're trying to spin this as he beat kobe but again i think that this gives democrats a strong argument because the reason donald trump beat coated is because of the fact that he got the very best care and he got it on the government's dime the rest of us paid for donald trump to recover from code but yet there are 20000000 americans who got health insurance under a ca aka obamacare but yet donald trump is trying to take away that health care he's trying to make it so that people who get sick don't go see physicians or don't

go to a doctor because it's cost prohibitive this is a real opportunity for democrats to distinguish themselves from downstream and if you look post-debate and post covert diagnosis democrats and particularly joe biden is starting to widen his gap in the polls and in and in addition probably i would argue even more importantly some of those senate races are narrowing or democrats are starting to pull away by small margins because of the president's recklessness and because i think one of the reasons he's not negotiating on august coronavirus bill relief bill is because of the fact the white house is a complete disarray they you know a lot of people are in different places they're quire and teeming you know people are coming in to work yeah you know even the staff is affected i think the white house isn't working right now so i think that's one of the reasons he's not

negotiating is because things literally aren't functioning in the white house yeah there's an election to come but there's still a governing of the country to happen isn't it jason nichols joining us from maryland thank you so much we appreciate it thank you and you very much. we're on to other news in kyrgyzstan as a nation on edge with the resignation of the prime minister and widespread protests that follows sunday's disputed election the early results of which have since been an old by the country's election commission demonstrators have stormed government buildings in the capital bishkek accusing the government of rigging the election in its favor charles stratford has our report now from bishkek. supporters of various opposition parties celebrate their storming of the parliament building in the cubist capital bishkek protesting parliamentary election results that are given pro-government parties a huge majority opposition supporters accused pro-government parties of widespread vote barring people return to the square where the night before security forces had

used sound bombs and tear gas to clear thousands of demonstrators demanding the results be cancelled and another poll be held but the country's president appeared on t.v. claiming he was in control of the country and appealing for calm. calmness in the state and stability of society i'm more valuable than any deputy mandate i suggested that the central election commission carefully investigate the violations and if necessary and now the election results i urge the leaders of the political parties to calm their supporters and move them away from their places of concentration a call on all my compatriots to keep the peace and not give in to the calls of the provocative forces. soon after the country's central election committee declared the results no void a rerun of the poll will be held but no date has been set unity among opposition parties seen in the square the night before began to fall apart as various parties

announced new allegiances. and i have mixed feelings i haven't slept all night i went to the palm and building today and in my opinion this is a real revolution not only the supporters of parties who lost the election but this time everyone came together but still i am worried about the future of the parliament which is lost all legitimacy among opposition supporters announced an emergency session to be held at a downtown hotel groups of protesters soon gathered the session was then delayed so we were told until wednesday just in the middle of the process and we have to be a very delicate and paste. and. in ways we want to handle it and therefore potentially a lot of things may go wrong but if we keep it legal if we keep it in the toilet the judicial plane i think you know we may be on the way to kind of make our democracy healthier later it was announced the prime minister had resigned and

a parliamentary session voted in a replacement and a new parliamentary speaker this man he saw there was chipotle if you meet certain conditions according to the constitution he could be the country's new prime minister 'd blair even seen here being welcomed by crowds of supporters also they had freed him from jail the veteran politician had been serving an 11 and a half year term for kidnapping another momentous day in kyrgyzstan one that ended with a parliament that many described as lacking any credibility voting even as the country's new prime minister a convicted criminal who only hours earlier had been broken out of jail by his supporters analysts are saying that unless serious legal and constitutional questions and aunts of fast this country risks falling into further chaos it's all started al-jazeera bishkek chemist and downs have a reputation for being more democratic than of the central asian countries but this

photo on sunday was marred by accusations of vote buying. then preliminary results showed the parties close to the progression president said on by jim because of winning almost every seat protesters say the present crisis this reminds them of what happened in 2005 and 10 civil unrest forced lead is the time to leave office and brought about a one term limit for presidents current process is being closely watched by russia which has a military base in kyrgyzstan neighboring china also invested partly through its built and road initiative with stephen nix's the regional director for eurasia at the international republican institute and tells us the unrest there just on it out of the blue no one should be surprised that there were demonstrations and violence post-election there was president for that in kyrgyzstan and we've always seen protests people who were against falsification and violations of the election law

and this is particularly true in 20052010 when both times poorly administered elections led to transitions of power so it's not surprising that this is taking place in kyrgyzstan no one seems to know the whereabouts of the president the prime minister has resigned the speaker of parliament has resigned so it's a real question as to who is in power but decisions are going to have to be made. certain factions in parliament are trying to meet now to try to form a transition government and there is a self appointed coronating council coordination council from some of the demonstrators that are here to speak for at least some of the people but it's really unclear who is charge and this uncertainty makes the way forward even more question. in the news ahead we will speak to a social media expert about facebook's crackdown on q.

and a on american conspiracy theory when you know from old patriotic. i'm natasha back live in paris where france is big on returning superman will iraq oh it won't stop africa but no fast enough for some people. place to say we may well see some rainfall in the forecast for california see go towards the end of the way can head of that it does stay dry so no help for the wildfires for another couple of days or so weather down towards the southeast in kona just around the florida panhandle some wetter weather too just spilling out sort of ontario quebec into the lakes just pushing across into new england and into that eastern side of canada come way to stay again another laci dried day being see

some lesser weather just starting to push up into the far south at that stage further west where you can see the weekend rain is going to make its way towards the west coast it's offshore but it will push in through friday going on into saturday further south let's take a look at what's going on around the gulf of mexico then we do have. hearken delta now making its way just to the west of jamaica is going to continue pushing further north west was flooding rains once again coming in across the yucatan peninsula remember gammas only just moved out of the way as such and that's feeding some very heavy rain into the back campaign some really big downpours coming through here going to see delta then make a bit of a right turn gradually push up towards louisiana and we could see some very wet and windy weather but into the week. 2 planes came from the un 15 men checked you know what tell us them there much be

missing for 5 days it is possible to fully clean the premises all forensic evidence but what you then gave is evidence that you have fully cleaned some mystery wanted to give an example of it from start to speaking about the role in the books before even the saudi government give up with just that jamal khashoggi murder in a saudi consulate on al-jazeera. the headlines on al-jazeera this hour and top pentagon officials are in quarantine after the u.s. coast guard's 2nd in command tested positive for covert 19 america senior most

military officer general mark milley is among those in. donald trump has halted talks with democrats over a new coronavirus relief bill until after the election in ultimate sent u.s. stock markets tumbling as democrats passed a $2.00 trillion dollar relief bill thursday but senate republicans rejected it. and kurdistan's a prime minister's resigned after widespread protests over sunday's disputed election the country's election commission is now in the early results from the. turkish foreign minister is criticizing international efforts to end the conflict between us by john and i mean. the diplomacy has failed to resolve the decades old conflict over the region of nagorno-karabakh but nato says ankara should pressure its ally azerbaijan to deescalate when it smith has a report from go to us in armenia. amidst the burning wreckage of a bombardment of stepan aka the largest city in the golan a carrot back evidence says on the city international cluster bombs explode in the

air scattering hundreds of smaller bombs indiscriminately more than 100 countries have banned them but not as a by john or armenia. civilians in the go in a car back in azerbaijan have been caught in the middle of 10 days of fighting between the 2 sides here in armenia displaced people from karabakh a picking up donated food. dog help it we just heard the air raid siren took the children in left now we're here with 2 families 10 people 8 children living in a relative's house we hope for peace everything will be good the one that is not a woman our sons are fighting back of their my husband stayed home to defend our village and we're staying here with my sister we wait for good news because our sons are fighting like eagles. this school in azerbaijan is one of the refuges for the 10s of thousands of displaced people living near the line of contact most of the 65 families here from tata out of turn to classrooms into bedrooms food is

provided by donors on the local government and madeleine's i guess they began shelling everywhere our houses were hit most places were damaged old mothers like me and children came here we had to leave only with the close that we were wearing have said i am even yet figure we were at home when they started shelling and we had to jump out just as we were we hardly saved on lives shame on the armenian forces that attack civilians despite the fact that they are living on online it's. a ceasefire still seems a distant prospect turkey's foreign minister was in the is there a capital back who on choose day. a solo question what the point of a ceasefire would be when there's been one for the last 30 years and armenia still hasn't withdrawn from a-z. . territory it occupies. these very military says they've seized a half abandoned village in a goal no karabakh very close to the contact line that divides the own play from

azerbaijan armenia's government didn't immediately comment the russian and french foreign ministers and the u.s. secretary of state have condemned what they call the unprecedented and dangerous escalation of violence in and outside of nagorno-karabakh and they say that recent attacks on civilian centers in the gorno karabakh armenia and azerbaijan are disproportionate and constitute an unacceptable threat to the stability of the region. burnitz an al-jazeera doris armenia facebook has begun removing accounts pages of groups promoting q and on the us focused conspiracy group if you know heard of it before it's a group of conspiracy theories that believe us president donald trump is a war against an alleged trial child trafficking ring run by celebrities and government officials post started back in 2017 on a chat group but they've surged this year on facebook instagram and twitter the q.

and on phenomenon has been linked to violence such as reports of kidnapping and claims that corona virus is a hoax you chub says it's removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of related channels in the last year but we must point out there are several republicans running for congress this year are also human on friendly always pleasure to have larry magid with us from palo alto california social media expert the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org larry is this something which will make a difference i always feel that when a social media company makes a move like this it's good but it's a bit of whack a mole going on as well. yeah welcome all of a good description but it is good because facebook is on record as acknowledging that this is a conspiracy theory group i mean frankly they are insane i just don't understand the argument and they can and have led to violence the other situation if they claim that hillary clinton was leading a ring of child molester that of

a pizza restaurant in washington d.c. and somebody actually showed up with a rifle and started shooting fortunately i don't think anybody with injured nobody was killed but the point is that some of the followers are going to take actions into their own hands q not have been very dangerous the other think you and i have done it co-opted or hijacked the fate of the children hash tag save the children of a very legitimate international n.g.o.s that really does save children but they are claiming the children are in danger where they're not in danger and that in fact is putting them in more danger because the organization is designed to protect children have been hampered as a result of q and on his work so everything you've just described is things that have been going on for some time now why does it seem to take the social media groups like facebook which owns instagram as well what takes them so long to react . you know it's funny years ago the motto at facebook with move fast and break things and now it seems like it's break things and move slowly because they should have responded a long time ago to this threat they are finally getting their act together it's

taken a while you know today they took down a donald trump post that was felt spreading false information that the code was no lot more dangerous than the flu or less dangerous than the flu so they're finally taking action but they've been reluctant because every time they do they get pushback from conservatives who you know aren't really focused on ideology they're focused on behavior i mean the conservatives are claiming that facebook is politically discriminating but it's really how you act on facebook that gets you in trouble not your ideology if cumin on doesn't get the coverage that it was getting on facebook i mean it still has its own footprint. that the chat boards on the website which it started on right sure there's always going to be places where they can propagate their message whether it's red or infrared it banned them they'll find other and i think reddit may have but they can find other venues in fact there are some dark extremist benny's that are out there right now that are they places q

and on and white supremacists and others extremists are thriving on but the facebook of the mainstream platform it's kind of like being on a broadcast network and you know it's mainstream media for the world and it's important symbolically for facebook you say enough is enough this is it we are not letting these dangerous people use our platform to propagate their craziness. thanks for taking the time to talk to us today we appreciate it thank you the french and pays will soon vote on a new law to return stolen works to west africa the legislation would pave the way to send back 27 items to been in and senegal supporters from the top. a daring demonstration live streamed on social media. in june activists was. and a group of campaigners entered the k. brawley museum in paris and grabbed a 19th century african art is that it was really was arrested at his trial last

month he said he had no intention of keeping the artifact but it wanted to protest against the plunder of africa's cultural treasures by french colonial era rulers this is our heritage from our ancestors everything that was taken by force should be given back it belongs to africa and not to french museums or the french state was alou now faces a $1000.00 fine. a cloak of silence stifles all the tragedies and horrible crimes perpetrated in africa in order to peerage these works most european people have no idea about the origin is or the conditions in which these works were stolen in 2017 the newly elected emanuel mycroft said france should face its colonial past and in a 1st for a french president he said pillaged all its works should be returned to africa. in the next 5 years i wanted to be possible for the temporary or permanent restitution

of african artworks to africa last year from sent back to senegal and 26 artworks including this intricate carved throne will be returned to benny in $27.00 items so far the 1000 year fraction of the $90000.00 kept in french museums and collections while some say the rate of restitution is far too slow the french m.p. who's in charge of the program says it's an historic 1st step and this is only the beginning right now 6 countries request of the return of artworks but i expect more will do so in the months and years to come and this 1st experience working with museum staff and interested countries means we have the system that will allow. to identify objects risk situation faster in the future in all societies cultural heritage provides a unique link to the past a sense of belonging and to source of pride returning artworks isn't only about giving back what was stolen it also forces former colonial powers to confront their

own history natasha butler al-jazeera paris. just a bit of a weather watch for you as well delta in the caribbean quickly intensifying to a category 4 hurricane mexico's state of yucatan on the path is bracing for the worst also the state of louisiana in the u.s. is expected to get hit later in the week it will be the 10th tropical school storm to hit the u.s. in a single since. past the hour and these are the headlines the top pentagon officials are in quarantine after the u.s. coast guard 2nd in command tested positive for covert 19 the u.s. is senior most military officer general mark milley is among those isolating.