major global play as we've been told by from russia they're all dangerous into this conflict telling the truth in a post truth world and just 0. the stage is set and coronavirus measures are in place we take a closer look at how the pandemic could influence the tone of the upcoming u.s. vice presidential debate. challenger this is al jazeera live from london also coming up more than 5000000 brazilians have now been infected with corona virus in latin america's worst hit country international intervention to avoid a wider escalation foreign ministers from armenia and azerbaijan commit to the talks on a ceasefire and nagorno-karabakh. and for the 1st time in its history the nobel

prize for chemistry is shared by 2 women that were developing the ability to edit d.n.a. . the 2 candidates to be the next vice president of the united states are preparing for a showdown in salt lake city in the coming hour as clear plastic barriers will separate mike pence and come out the harris who both reportedly tested negative for the corona virus but the virus is likely to dominate the 90 minute debate which will focus on president trump's health and his administration is handling of the pandemic for bernal. amidst the head spinning events of the past week the vice presidential debate on wednesday takes on precedented significance this is going to be a critically important debate usually v.p.

debates are sideshows with the kid debates earnestly discussing issues and tossing the occasional verbal zinger but his vice president mike pence and sen camel harris take to the stage in salt lake city the main issue is literally a matter of life or death i think there's going to be an enormous focus on the president's health. mr biden's health is well frankly they are the 2 oldest presidential nominees in american history but right now with the president ill and some questions swirling about how truly ill he is on it it really puts into stark contrast what this debate is actually about in it it is making sure that a person is ready to become president at a moment's notice in terms of substance the debate will almost certainly focus on how the trumpet ministration has handled the pandemic that puts pince who chairs the white house coronavirus task force in a difficult spot he ran the task force he was chosen by the president to do it he

was responsible for those early you know statements about just flattening the curbs i mean i imagine those that are working with county laris in preparation for this debate are spending a lot of their time coming up with creative ways to lay this all at the feet of the vice president and the president the style of the 2 candidates is quite different pence's stoic unflappable and unlikely to get rattled on stage he's a seasoned debater and his experience as a radio talk show host in the 1990 s. prepared him to think on his feet harris a former courtroom prosecutor has shown her ability to disconcert administration officials in senate hearings i wouldn't i wouldn't. yes i know it's tricky to repeat that question i will repeat it with great uncertainty over whether the 2 remaining presidential debates will take place at all the showdown in salt lake city may be the last debate before election day in

a campaign full of unpredictable twists. well we are going now to alexandria virginia where we're going to him all from she's actually to have been to go a u.s. attorney prosecuting those to isolate members of beheading meet their initial appearances in the united states district court for the eastern district of virginia they were apprised of the charges against them which as we stated earlier in our press conference is an 8 count indictment. behind me are the dedicated prosecutors from the eastern discover ginia who have been working tirelessly to bring this case to the point we're at today which is the 1st step in achieving justice for the victims of this alleged offense i'm happy to answer some questions if i can to stay on topic i'm going to have to confine my remarks to the 4 corners of the indictment and what was said in open court but i'm happy to answer your questions. which is. yes the question is have we had help with the british

authorities preparing these indictments i'm not going to get into our internal drafting what i can say and repeat as the attorney general of the united states said and as assistant attorney general john de mersch said today we're grateful for the support from the u.k. in regards to our investigation and through their cooperation today could happen. sure the question was what's the timeline well that's a great question today was the initial appearance because these individuals were indicted which means a grand jury is argued to term and there's probable cause for their offenses there will be no preliminary hearing because probable cause a stablished as judge me can and just announced there will be a detention hearing on friday at 11 am that's where their attorneys can argue if they so choose that they should be released pending trial and i can tell you the government will be seeking detention in this matter and the gentlemen behind me mr

john gibbs dennis. it's patrick ross para canadian grano will be representing united states and they'll be seeking detention on friday and that will be it like hearing we hope it will be and in open court and after that there is what's called an arraignment that is where the defendants will be brought before the united states district judge they'll be apprised and questioned as to whether they understand the charges against them whether they've read the indictment and at that time they'll be asked how they wish to plea as many of you know most people when confronted with charges plead not guilty and and then the process goes goes forward because this case involves sensitive information and has the potential to involve classified information i would expect although i don't know but it's my expectation they'll be a series of hearings leading up to the trial which may certify this case as complex or mean that we won't actually be in trial under the normal 70 days speedy trial

clock but that's where we'll go from here matt someone will be here and. who has. been. so for those who were in court the judge did make remarks regarding testing of these 2 individuals pursuant to the court's order which is posted right behind me at the courthouse anyone coming in from overseas must corn seen for 14 days before coming to the courthouse or have a negative coded test so it's my understanding as was stated in open court those individuals will be tested have been tested and we're awaiting those results if they come back negative then we expect them in open court they come back positive future proceedings will be via video teleconference yes ma'am. i'm sorry. and so i'm not going to speak to anything other than what happened in open court for those of you who cannot be in court obviously it's federal court we don't have cameras there apprised of their charges and what i heard on the open record without

the benefit of a transcript was they both asked for counsel to. appointed counsel was appointed and at the judge just as direction they didn't make any statements or comments yes or no. on the right when we. come in on that like what is with them now that it will be you know the big where am i going. the question is you know these 2 individuals who mentioned their previous in military custody asked where their interest action the judge explained to them that they're now in the eastern district of virginia united states district court that they were no longer under the authority of the department of defense which was their question at this point as as those you're in court heard they'll be appointed counsel those counsel will have you know very candid conversations with them one of the defense counsel in court asked for a copy the indictment obviously will furnish that to them and and so you have to direct those questions to their counsel when they're appointed but my understanding is they will you know be meeting them rachel i think. i have no idea

i don't have i don't know what was in their heads when they got here. thank you for . having me. on. given that it's a medical issue i would direct all those questions to the marshal service since they're in their custody what i can tell you is they will be tested tonight or are being tested today so that we know going forward but i'm not going to come out be on them on their medical issues. any other questions well let me let me take this opportunity one to thank you all for being here i think this is one of the most impactful important cases we've had in the country certainly in the eastern district perhaps and zacharias moussaoui one of the things i said earlier today that i'd i'd like to repeat in the can forgive me for repeating it but i think it bears repeating in preparation for today i reviewed some prose that really captured

precisely what today is about and i'm going to quote from some op eds and some statements from the victim's family. and i quote they should be brought to america to face our justice system that is what our children would have wanted give them the fair trial that makes our nation great that would be the best way to honor our children. finally and i quote ensuring that truth and justice find their way out of this tragic story would mean that the islamic state will never have the last word so that i say to diane and john paul and. marsha and coral and surely and are it's now a certainty that isis will not have the last word when it comes to your children you will thank you all very much and thanks to the dedicated prosecutors investigative agents of the f.b.i. overseas partners the marshal service and d.o.d.

everyone be safe have a wonderful evening thank you well that was u.s. attorney. outlining the charges against to form a i so members feel shaken alexander coty who was charged with terrorism offenses over the killing of 4 american hostages including journalist james foley and at the request of the u.k. president trump has confirmed the men will not face the death penalty if found guilty that could face life in prison and al jazeera will be following that case kathleen well back to our top story in the upcoming u.s. vice presidential debate rob reynolds joins us now from salt lake city in utah where it will take place tell us what is at stake in this debate. well 1st i want to mention that there's a very interesting connection between what we just saw the press conference about the arraignment of these 2 eisel individuals who've been brought to the united states and this debate because according to reports we're receiving vice president

pence is having as among his guests in the debate hall the parents of kayla muller ms muller was captured while in syria held by ice will reportedly brutal brutalized repeatedly and killed so it seems likely that pres that vice president pence will try to draw the conclusion or the connection between these 2 and suggests that the obama administration of course of which joe biden was part was was derelict in not obtaining the release of hostages like kayla mohler now as far as the stakes here they're obviously the highest of any vice presidential debate ever sometimes vice presidential debates are interesting but usually the 2 participants are simply trying to shore up the person at the top of the ticket now

there's considerable doubt about the health and longevity of the people at the top of the ticket vice president biden is $77.00 president trump is 74 and ill with the coronavirus so when voters look at president pence and senator kamel harris on stage tonight they may be thinking somewhere in their minds one of these 2 people could become president in the next couple of years and so they will be looking at them through that lens of succession and thinking about you know sizing them up in that way as far as the substance of the debate i think it's going to be all covert all the time no matter what vice presidents might try to do with the eisel situation that i mentioned a moment ago. oh i think that this debate is going to focus on the fact that last president pence was the head of the task force the white house set up in early days to control the pandemic there's now been more than 210000 dead so that is certainly

something that senator harris will be hammering away at i think another thing we can expect for certain is that this is not going to be a repeat of what we saw in cleveland there i don't think there's going to be any shouting interrupting one another. and insults flying from both sides because that is that performance by president drop was generally considered that it has politically damaged him so far so a few hours from now we'll see these fights presidential candidates square off and it should be a very interesting debate back to you rob reynolds from something city thank you and you can watch live coverage of the vice presidential debate right here on al-jazeera that's from 01 g.m.t. on thursday morning.

that's in america's west affected nation has now recorded more than 5000000 coronavirus cases brazil confirmed another 31000 infections over the past 24 hours taking it just over the 5000000 mark but 148000 deaths daily infections are down from the peak public health experts warn the country reopened too quickly while monica yant a key have joined us from rio de janiero i thank you for joining us monica tell us what is the latest. well as you said we're now we're also nearing the 150000 deaths and that's the 2nd largest amount of deaths in the country that has the 2nd largest amount of deaths after the united states president. has always downplayed the virus although you can solve was tested positive and had to be quarantined and as of his the 1st lady and

one of his sons also had the virus what happens here the new things are that they open reopening schools gradually private schools. carnival has been suspended it should have been in february it will not happen but some rounds which is which are places for people for go together and they just dance on the streets those are allowed right now many people it's been a very very hot month temperatures. reaching 40 degrees centigrade which is extremely high for this time of the year year so the people beaches were packed right now we're on the beach but it's at night and that's why i'm not wearing the mask because there's there aren't many people here but usually during the day time on the beaches many people without masks which is mandatory and actually you're not supposed to be on the beach in the sand but people the beaches

have been packed during the daytime so that's why health. health experts are worried that there will be a 2nd wave before the 1st wave is over. when it can get a can of reporting from rio de janeiro thank you. there's confusion over who has taken over as koga stans prime minister falling back door knobs resignation a replacement was named after a parliamentary session on tuesday but a group of opposition hartley says that choice is invalid and has nominated their own man for the job the uncertainty follows the unknown into sunday's parliamentary election that many say was rigged the foreign ministers of armenia and azerbaijan will meet separately with the u.s. france and russia over the coming days the talks in geneva in moscow aimed at convincing the warring sides to negotiate a cease fire and to go in a karabakh region hundreds have been killed during 11 days of fighting and both sides have accuse each other of targeting civilians so damn close you know to

reports. back to you know was a teacher she was killed 2 days ago went to johns and fair to city was hit by a rocket. she was struck by fragments in the back and other parts of her body on national teachers say. her sisters are mourning she said they got him out of a. big you showed the atrocity against our civilians here she died in her own house caught unaware we are all ready to die for our lands. in the backyard of her house her neighbors gather to honor her memory the rocket left its traces on the ground and on the walls. shares rather so ill guard was also caught in that attack he shows or his house was also hit by a rocket and then called fire. these paper boxes were scattered after to

explosion his son collects and sells them to make a living. situation whatever we were at home 3 rockets hit this way then i went out my son told me it would be dangerous there were 9 people at home 5 were our guests displaced from elsewhere now all family members are staying with our relatives around here just as. the azerbaijan national agency for mine action or out of us a stone rockets hit the city affairs office over 5 a day you want us or break john accuse our menu of indiscriminately targeting several cities an accusation our menu has also leveled against us our base jump in their conflict over knock on the car of our. nagar knock out a box main city or step on a carrot suffered the most intensive not time or bargeman since the previous weekend according to the car of men more than 70000 people or 50 percent off now going up car bucks population lost the women and children are estimated to have

been displaced russian president vladimir putin has called for the end to what he described as a tragedy and free but i do it all fathers and brothers everyone will fight to the end that's it our people won't be broken this land is ours was ours and will continue to be else the fighting is the worst round of violence between the 2 countries since the early 1990 s. then 30000 people were killed and thousands displaced un resolutions and international organizations have demanded the what's role of their main forces from . that jason does there is city's many world leaders have called for a seat. fire however as our baby and ethnic armenians both claim these lenses that there is their battle has spilled over into cities far from the front line and neither side seems to be rather to step back see them because all al-jazeera mean to charles are paid. still to come on al-jazeera 7 years after the kenya mall

attack guilty verdicts are handed down to 2 men for their involvement in the last one. my. how high will parts of the outback in south australia have seen more rain in the past 3 weeks than miss same in the last 2 years combined which believe lost the cloud and rain their answer central possible stride in this circulation now making its way across the southeast so some heavier rains and blustery conditions are into southern parts of new south wales victoria having a rather lively thursday with samoa will weather just rattling through the slide down towards both ferry we'll see some wetter weather continuing through tasmania as we go through for the state going on into friday and i shall is gradually making their way a little further east was eventually pushing towards news in

a bit for the time being they say they're not fairing say badly temperatures getting up into the low teens over the next few days should stay low as he tries logic to at the moment for japan but we have got wet weather on the way of course this is typhoon channel home that is making its way up towards the fos out west of the country pushing towards q running up towards that eastern side of conscious of the outer bands already bringing some very heavy rain and go on into friday that rain really setting in some heavy downpours i suspect the system center the system just staying offshore but we are looking at the prospects of widespread flooding in many. when if the o.p.'s rose and for some pole to prosecution from power the new administration aimed for unity and through an ambitious program of political reform . but 2 years on. people in power are asked whether the country's

diverse ethnic interests will ever be reconciling. the battle for seal p.r. on a. the in. the the earth. a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the 2 contenders for the u.s. vice president will go head to head in the coming hours mike pence and karbala harris will be separated by clear plastic barriers for the 90 minute televised debate. talks have been announced in a bid to end the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan that's claimed more than 300 lives foreign ministers will meet separately with representatives from the us

france and russia. 2 men have been jailed for their role in a mass shooting at a nairobi shopping center a kenyan court found them guilty of helping al-shabaab fighters $67.00 people at the westgate mall and night in nairobi in 2013 a 3rd suspect was acquitted catherine so it has more 7 years after the westgate mall attack trial happened chief magistrate francis and i read out his verdict over 3 and a half hours to the prosecution's case he says for most. it was given by 4 to 6 witnesses prosecution lawyers used call logs of telephone conversations between the 3 accused and the gunmen who were killed in the 4 day siege in tweetie 132 men up to and hussein hussen were found guilty of conspiring to support their talk and having materials linked to terrorist activities in the present case i find that there is

a strong link only what defines don't think it was some syndicate inefficiently attack was that they were involved in the us. one of the accused lieben abdullah omar was acquitted of all charges benmore has been waiting for the judgment he and a friend were driving into the basement parking of the mall when the hard the 1st blast then gunshots what's a little more ties is being asked is where i was hiding there's a security guard who was right next to me was shot in the head. and i didn't realize i was injured until we were out a rescue team arrived and as i was trying to get up that's when i realized i had that little blood that security guard was among the 67 people killed in their talk 4 gunmen stormed the up market morning and were surrounded and killed by security forces the armed group al-shabaab based in neighboring somalia sayed it's men carried out their talk some security analysts say this trial has

a stake in too long if we have difficult laws the do more to allow us to it's been dyed to justice especially for to resume we need lamentable small arms and make them conform with our times because the times we are ina become terrorism times the magistrate will deliver a sentencing on the 22nd of october we did speak to the prosecutors right after this ruling and this is the happy with a conviction and will be pushing for the maximum penalty of 20 years we also expect the survivors and those who lost their loved ones to give the testimonies ahead of that sentencing the westgate mall was reopened 5 years ago but some survivors and families of the dead remain too traumatized to visit those we talked to say they wanted justice and hope the decision by the court will help them find some way to come to terms with what happened catherine soy al jazeera nairobi. germany and france have announced plans to sanction people they blame for the poisoning of

russian opposition figures alexina valmy the country's foreign minister say moscow has failed to provide evidence as over the attempt to. raise a vocal critic of president vladimir putin it's not yet clear who will be sanctioned but both countries say they'll settle this with other european union members this is nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded for a major development in genome editing 2 female scientists received the award for finding a way to alter d.n.a. impulse animals and people the 1st 2 women to win the prize was so called genetic scissors can cut through plant animal and human d.n.a. removing disease and imperfections and altering the code of life it's a discovery that's earned a menu of france and american jennifer do this year's nobel prize in chemistry. known as crisper cass 9 the tool can be used to cut scenes genes out of a d.n.a.

strand contributing to new cancer therapies and offering the possibility of curing hereditary diseases. duda says these genetic scissors are like using a word processing program to fix a typo in a document but there are lots of genetic diseases that you could potentially use this kind of technique to start to try and treat or you can use it to create a little so that we can specifically test out medicines much more easily more effectively the path from discovery to prize has taken less than a decade a relatively short period by nobel standards committee 1st published her findings in 2011 after studying bacteria and how they fight viral infections that same year she joined forces with from the university of california berkeley in the us to recreate the bacteria as genetic scissors in a test tube the crisper technology has already been used to change the d.n.a.

in the cells of mice and monkeys other organisms as well chinese scientists showed recently that they could even use the crisper technology to change genes in human embryos and scientists in philadelphia show they could use crisper to remove the d.n.a. of and integrated hiv virus from infected human cells but this new technology is not without controversy some are concerned that altering human d.n.a. could lead to questionable practices including creating so-called designer babies together with my colleagues i have called for a global conversation about the technology that i co-invented so that we can consider all of the ethical and societal implications of a technology like this the pair are the 6th and 7th women to win a nobel prize for chemistry and today casper casts 9 is a common tool in biochemistry and molecular biology labs only imagination sets the

limits for what this chemical to us too small to be disappointed with our ice. it can be used for in the future perhaps the dream of curing gen x. deceases will come. in al-jazeera. the top stories on al-jazeera both u.s. vice presidential nominees have reportedly tested negative for coronavirus hours before they go face to face in a televised debate clear plastic barriers will separate mike pence and camila harris as they spot the 90 minutes in salt lake city utah the handling of the pandemic is set to be a key topic for the president still recuperating at the white house for.