a mile away on a media world we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. i want to get for you what i got and i'm going to make it free you're not going to pay for the trump attempts to assure the american people on his 1st day in office since returning from hospital to the u.s. president's health and the code 19 crisis will be in focus as the vice presidential candidates face off in their only debate. the lower i'm kemal santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera 5000000 coded infections in brazil and health experts are warning a 2nd wave is coming after days of death and devastation the foreign ministers of

armenia and azerbaijan agree to work to end their conflict. so in the last hour or so donald trump is assured americans of his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic us president released a video filmed outside the white house where he calls his coronavirus infection a blessing from god he also tells of the experimental antibody cocktail which he was treated with saying he'll make it free for everyone trump back in the oval office for the 1st time since he was released from hospital on monday. i went in i wasn't feeling so hot and within a very short period of time they gave me regeneration it's called regeneration and other things too but i think this was the key but they gave me regeneration and it was like unbelievable i felt good immediately i felt as good 3 days ago as i do now

so i think this was a blessing from god that i caught it this was a blessing in disguise i caught it i heard about this drug i said let me take it it was my suggestion i said let me take it and it was incredible the way it worked i want to get for you what i got and i'm going to make it free you're not going to pay for it it wasn't your fault that this happened it was china's fault and china is going to pay a big price what they've done to this country china is going to pay a big price what they've done to the world. let's talk to mike hanna in washington d.c. markets it's another one of those sort of where do we start moments this was actually a full 4 minute video there was so much in there but let's go with this idea of treatment 1st of all donald trump seems to think it was a blessing that he got the coronavirus because he learned about this treatment and he wants to make it free for everyone. well indeed here she's

talking principle. the antiviral cocktail read gen on which has not yet been approved it hasn't even been to final clinical trials see it as a drug still in development but president trumpet heard about it he says and told the doctors that he wants to have it now the idea of making it free to all americans well that may be a bridge too far at this particular point in time there's no idea of what the drug would cost because it is nowhere near coming on the market and the founders of the general in the company that produces this cocktail have made very clear in recent days that their focus is to get enough supplies of the drug to complete the clinical trials remembering that the final stage clinical trial involves some 30000 patients they do not have an average enter and at this particular stage to hit that particular target so the idea of making this drug available to all and to make it available 3 piers to be a stretch of the imagination of the president's imagination remembering 2 very

importantly is that it is nowhere near approval not president trump's taking this drug on what is called a compassionate use basis where the drug that has not been approved can be administered to a patient through a process known as compassionate use it's a very involved and very labored process now the other drug that the president trump was taking rendez of the this is a slightly different drug it is more something that speeds the rate of recovery sometimes by $2.00 to $3.00 days now that is on the market it is available. that would cost an average american over $3000.00 for a $5.00 course which is what is needed once again the idea of making this drug free to all americans would involve a massive expense for the federal government so all of these ideas sound very good but problematic and just to add that one point there that president trump made as well he said they say these are therapeutic drugs they are not they're reputed

drugs they are cures president trying to ramp up the idea that he's come up with a cure for covert 1000 and finally admission from the president that there isn't going to be any vaccine in place before the elections he's kind of now stepped back and accepted the f.d.a. days if he is increasingly stringent controls on whatever vaccine comes up which will take the timeline far beyond the election come our mike hanna in washington d.c. on that latest donald trump video thank you. now in addition to that in just under 2 miles the 2 candidates for vice presidency of the united states will face off in their one and only debate of the campaign ahead of the november 3rd election plastic barriers will separate mike pence and come the house who have both tested negative coronavirus the pandemic of course will feature heavily in this 90 minute debate happening in salt lake city utah live pictures

from outside the kingsbury hole at the university of utah where it will all happen and rob reynolds is there for us hi rob. vice presidential debates don't always get that much attention but after the absolute debacle we had last week a lot of focus on this one. yes come on you're right and not only because of the debacle in cleveland but because people are going to be looking at this debate and wondering and with that with the knowledge rather that there is a deadly disease sweeping the nation it has gotten all the way into the old law office that infected the president his health condition is still somewhat mysterious to many of us and on the other hand. joe biden is $77.00 and would be the oldest president ever inaugurated in history were he to win in november so given that the job the main job of the vice president is to be ready to step in if the president dies or becomes incapacitated that makes this debate

all that much more consequential here's a preview. amidst the head spinning events of the past week the vice presidential debate on wednesday takes on unprecedented significance this is going to be a critically important debate usually the debates are sideshows with the candidates earnestly discussing issues and tossing the occasional verbal zinger but as vice president mike pence and senator 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 as 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 it really puts into stark contrast what this debate is actually about in it used 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'm not. 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 rob a lot of talk about comma harris her experience as a prosecutor as a senator there are true skills but you know you made the point in your report there might pence formally a radio talk show host a lawyer himself these 2 could actually be quite evenly matched. that's right and you know there's a different skill set in a debate then there is in a courtroom cross-examining a defendant or a witness it's not the same thing and. vice president pants has shown

the ability in past debates for example to 2016 against senator tim kaine to really sort of slip in some very sort of sort of damaging. accusations or implications but with kind of a velvet glove so it doesn't seem like he's he's coming off as as a mean person and of course also you know to be honest from all there's still a lot of racism a lot of sexism in american society and in the electorate so for camelot harris she has to show walk that fine line between being you know too aggressive and too passive and of course there's always this you know it's sort of a terrible cliche of the angry black woman but being that she is the 1st woman of color to run on a major party ticket she has to be careful about that too it's unfortunate but it exists looking forward to this debate and talking to robert oulds again later in

salt lake city utah. you know the polls have consistently shown that one in 5 voters don't have much of an opinion either way about and so harris this is an opportunity for both of them to make an impression and it's a poll released on tuesday shows come to our schools a high of favorable if you rating 45 percent of voters view her positively my pence 37 percent but he scores more favorably among white voters he's got 47 percent that come the house 30 to 48 percent of black voters back to harris spence manages just 16. but in some c.n.n. polling conducted after president trump announced his coronavirus diagnosis 62 percent american said they thought pence was qualified to serve as president maybe something i needed to start thinking about always pleased to talk to bill schneider public policy professor at george mason university joining us from washington d.c. . do you care about the vice presidential debate should we care. yes we shouted for

the very reason the rock runnels gave you got the 2 oldest presidential candidates on record one of them has had an illness could be a life threatening illness and the other is 70 almost 70 years old. even if joe biden get is elected and gets to a 1st term and is just fine he'll be 82 years old in 4 years i don't know if you want for 2nd term if he doesn't likely democratic candidate will be a camel heris so democrats are going to think about their future as well as this election so to that image do you think these 2 candidates vice presidential candidates tonight will focus on the policy that was so much in the last debate where people said well there was nothing about policy there was no substance do you think these 2 will talk about it or will the focus be on the people they could potentially replace and everything that's happened in the last week. the focus will be on donald trump and that's what this election is all about and the american does the american electorate want to rehire donald trump or do they want to fire donald

trump that's the issue in this election how caml harris will make a strong argument that we have to get rid of donald trump proconsul reasons including a lot of policy reasons that i'm sure should go into mike pence will talk about the glorious trump record how much they've accomplished him why he should be given i know the 4 years that's the issue to most voters do you think we will hear some substance or is this not the platform that says it is just a sorry substance again going back to the policy the fact that everything that was missing in the last one do you think that will i'm just trying to get this balance between what the american voters should really care about and donald trump and everything he says and does i mean he just released a 4 minute video didn't they yes he did what mike pence was that is the chairman of the coronavirus task force in this administration so that is the number one issue to americans it has made all 'd year it's come back into the forefront since the president was afflicted he now claims that he's the world's greatest expert on the

coronavirus and on the coke $900.00 disease he knows more than anyone else he has a solution is that he has a way of curing it god knows what he thinks but the fact is that will be a central issue in this debate and in this campaign and given mike pence his responsibilities for dealing with this requires you can bet that it's going to be at the core of this debate and would you say they are well matched you know i made that point with rob reynolds that they both so much focus goes on on combat harris and her ability to speak and almost prosecute but mike pence is probably no it's not true either. no he isn't he's been in politics for a while he was a radio talk show host he has ringback a different style it's a bit more laid back she's a bit more aggressive because she's presbyterian she was a prosecutor and both of them are very skilled at this time i expect we're going to see 2 candidates or very well matched unlike the 1st debate where joe biden and donald trump talked over each other so much nobody could figure out what was going

on and nothing substantive was ever really achieved well we hope and we want to see what comes out of this debate bill schneider a pleasure as always thank you. the debates and the full analysis live on al-jazeera things will get underway in salt lake city in just about an hour and 45 minutes join us for that 0100 hours g.m.t. . the rest of the day's news is coming up but. anger confusion and a tale of 2 prime ministers what's the latest from kyrgyzstan. and planning to penalize individuals suspected of being behind the poisoning of the kremlin critic alexei navalny.

it's very much a case of the calm before the storm across north america then dry and fine for the u.s. but we do have our condell knotting up across the gulf of mexico and that's going to keep an eye on over the next couple of days and i've it's also west of them a welcome rainfall making its way towards the west coast we're seeing creasing cloud and rain just spilling in here and we could see some useful rainfall as far as the wildfires are concerned back down towards the deep south this is friday's picture delta making landfall late friday going on in sas day. to rancho amounts of rainfall up across louisiana into arkansas across the mississippi delta the southeastern coast seeing some very very heavy right flood to make landfall as a major storm still of course possibly still a category 4 system up to a northwest this is what we're talking about there whether they're around the pacific northwest even down is in northern parts of california so some much needed

rainfall coming through where we don't need the rain that was across the yucatan peninsula and here we go this is dealt with the moment making landfall across the peninsula fading out into the open waters of the gulf of mexico through the remainder with day and it takes a right turn makes its way up towards the deep south and heads towards louisiana. as. these begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days thank you and the name of god and many fear the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall of people come to get aid to focus and they are here because i can put it like the faith we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus condiment special coverage on a. with

al-jazeera the top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says his corona virus infection is quote a blessing from god. in a video released just a short time ago he said he feels great his return to the oval office in the video also spoke about an experimental antibody he's been receiving made by the company general he said he would make that drug freely available even though it has not yet been approved by the food and drug administration and both u.s. and vice presidential nominees have reportedly tested negative for corona virus just hours before they go face to face in a televised debate it will be just see in their clear plastic barriers separating my pens and. as i debate for 90 minutes. back to coronavirus

news in brazil has recorded more than 5000000 cases now confirming another 31000 and fictions just a few hours ago 148000 brazilians have died from covert 19 brazil is latin america's worst affected nation but president has played down the virus he described it as a little flu monica you not have joining us from rio de janeiro on top of all that monica fears of a 2nd wave. exactly brazil is an over the 1st wave assume there will be 150000 deaths which is the largest number after the united states president. president donald trump has have the coronavirus. his 1st lady also but he has constantly

downplayed it so health experts are worried because the country is opening up and we're still not over the 1st wave so schools are back carnival has been postponed but. people are still gathering they're not wearing masks i'm not wearing one now because it's at night and i'm in the open air but usually during the day the beaches are crowded and nobody is wearing masks social distancing has not been respected so that's what's worrying people let's go back to. himself who you mentioned did contract the disease but it didn't change his view how of brazilians responded to his attitude. well it's with mixed feelings because on the one hand since he dismissed it and said it was a little flu and he did get over it pretty fast those that were doubting whether it

was something serious or not. were doubting it even more so it was something that was contradictory because it made it sound as if he was right but the deaths are just something obvious in the last 2 months just 30000 people have died so that's a lot and it's many people by all accounts and but people are the fear factor is no longer there. monaco you know care what the latest from brazil thank you. there's been a huge explosion heard in tehran syria according to state television reports as well of injuries due to the blasts in a neighborhood of that southwestern city you get more on that side fully 2 former british nationals accused of being members of an iso cell have appeared in court in the united states. and alexander coty are accused of torturing and murdering

captives including beheading 4 americans as well as citizens from the u.k. and japan they have been held in u.s. military custody since october of last year. alleged group within us that was dubbed the beatles because of their british accents. i mean and azerbaijan's foreign ministers plan to meet separately with officials from russia france and the united states 11 days of fighting now between the 2 countries has killed over 100 people and displaced half the population of that disputed region of the going to cut about international mediators have been meeting in geneva trying to convince the warring sides to negotiate some sort of ceasefire this report is from simplicity and you. know was a teacher she was killed 2 days ago want to celebrate john's 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.

then they go oh i don't know. we big you show the atrocity against our civilians here she died in her arm house quote i know we're all ready to die for our lands. in the backyard of her house her neighbors gather to honor her memory the rock with laughter traces on the ground and on the walls. ours 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 the 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. the other bridge on national agency for mine action or out of us a stern 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 more 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 3 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 new un resolutions and international organizations have demanded the what's role of our main forces from. and at jason's as it was cities many world leaders have called for a sea. fire. 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 ready to step back. there is confusion about just who has taken over as the prime minister of kurdistan following could the back button of the resignation the replacement was named after a parliamentary session on tuesday but a group of opposition parties has rejected that has nominated their own man the uncertainty follows the an element of sunday's parliamentary election that many say was wreaked here is trial stratford in the schtick following one of the challenges

for the leadership of the country. were outside the prime minister's office here in working for the arrival of the man who describes himself as being the only legitimate prime minister of this country so other part of now he was voted to become the new prime minister last night in an emergency parliamentary session but according to opposition figures there were not enough m.p.'s in that session to make him a legitimate leader in any kind of vote. so we're expecting a meeting now between to power off and other opposition figures the situation can only be described as very tense there is a sense that nobody is in control of this country and to power for himself told a television station earlier today that he believed that there were forces in kyrgyzstan trying to mount what he described as a counter revolution. his supporters say he is the man to help lead this country

into the crisis in the community such as your party is supporting young people so we should support him or something else is a trying to divide and sneer at least so i think. there are many here less supportive of the new prime minister who recognize what's at stake. here are some ways to show them that if we are to precarious point between a pad and a good life it's up to us waving. the meeting between japan over members of opposition parties never happened by early evening there was an explanation why the coalition of 13 opposition parties has now nominated its own candidates to be the country's try and minister has described the parliamentary session the voted to make salter departure of the prime minister yesterday as invalid it is demanded that a new parliamentary session be held to vote on the issue in a secret location there are growing concerns in the clearest capital this evening

that we're beginning to witness what could potentially be a serious standoff between supporters of mr parr off and other opposition parties a growing sense of uncertainty here in kyrgyzstan with no real understanding of who's in charge of this country. in greece a court has declared the far right golden dawn party a criminal group police fired tear gas at their supporters who began attacking rival protesters and police after the verdict wednesday's verdict effectively bans golden dawn which was once greece's 3rd largest political force. and germany and france have announced plans to sanction those baber aim for the poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina valmy the country's foreign minister say moscow's failed to provide any answers about the attempted murder in the family of course a vocal critic of president vladimir person or from them it came in berlin. for

weeks the french and german governments have been pressing the russian government to investigate the circumstances that led to the poisoning of alex on board a flight over siberia poisoning with the navi chalky nerve agent a chemical weapon they called also for the people who carried out to be prosecuted but the fact that that has not happened means that for the french and german governments their patience is running out this is how the foreign minister here in berlin addressed the matter in the german parliament she had up what does for us it is a serious violation of civic rights committed with a chemical move agent move firmly believe that this cannot remain without consequence this is why we will be coordinating a joint response with our partners within the european union and also within the o.p.c. w of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons over the next few days the 2 governments have put out a joint statement which is unequivocal in its condemnation of russia and why russia

has failed to account for how a chemical weapon was used on a russian citizen on russian soil they equate what happened to mr funny to what happened to russian citizens on british soil some years back and they say that sanctions is definitely an avenue they want to pursue but also they will be calling on all. the countries to look at what they are doing as an example perhaps to follow. at half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the headlines u.s. president donald trump says his coronavirus infection is a blessing from god in a video just released a short time ago he says he feels great and has returned to the oval office trump was discharged from hospital on monday in a video trump also spoke about an experimental antibody cocktail he's been receiving made by the company called were general i caught it.