over white. america decides how to care for. extensive coverage of the u.s. elections. on al-jazeera. russia. and armenian foreign ministers will hold talks in moscow as fighting continues in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. before. the end of a 4 year kidnap ordeal a french aid worker was released as part of a prisoner exchange with an al qaeda linked group and. facing protests after a disputed general election president says he will step down once the parliament

agrees on a new government. and iran accuses the trunk administration of conspiring to starve its people and the u.s. imposes new sanctions on iranian banks. russia says armenia and azerbaijan have agreed to send their foreign ministers to moscow for peace talks as the latest effort to end increasingly violent conflict over the region of the. mediators from the u.s. russia and france also mean holding talks in geneva to find a resolution all media accuses ery forces of shelling the historic cathedral in the corner of our back on thursday i mean yes says several journalists were injured in the strikes which knocked over pews and left rubble strewn across the floor. well hundreds of people have died in fighting over the last 2 weeks the disputed

territories officially part of azerbaijan is controlled by ethnic kamini and you have reporters in azerbaijan and armenia but his method is n.p.r.'s allison garcia . in azerbaijan 1st of all let's go over to. the russians are saying that the armenian foreign minister is going to moscow when we know about these talks well these are off the back of the talks between russia france and the u.s. in geneva on thursday and there are talks jewels on monday in moscow again between russia. russia the u.s. and france where the armenian foreign minister is expect to be in attendance as a by john's foreign attend foreign ministers in geneva on thursday but clearly of that amir putin who's been calling for a cease fire for several days now as time has decided to sort of ramp things up hands this invite to both foreign ministers is there in armenia to go to moscow

today it's not an invitation when inviting me putin invites former leaders or leaders members of the leadership team of former soviet republics to moscow it's not an invitation you turned now on the ground fighting has lol a bit certainly on the armenian side step and we had sustained bombing really from sunday in gathering in intensity through monday and tuesday much of the day much of the night and then started reducing slightly there is still bombardment going on and we know we've been told it's been going on this morning but to a much lesser extent but in the midst of all of that again on both sides on azerbaijani side on the armenian side the line of contact remains very tense and the human cost as they make these diplomatic efforts to a cease fire the human cost is increasing. so there's not much time for anything else but dealing with new casualties at stepan

curt's main hospital it's 10 times busier than normal since the 1st shells started falling 11 days ago the head of the emergency unit was telling us as this patient came in more than $350.00 armenian soldiers have been killed and hundreds more injured since the start of fighting with azerbaijan there's aries do not release figures for their killed or wounded soldiers. some of my friends were injured in our 1st and 2nd wars and i can say that then we had more gunshots or rather like williams now they using different types of missiles and the wing did have big injuries but we have not stood still in either medicine has improved so we try to save lives and human organs and not leave people with disabilities the stress is etched in the faces of the medical staff here the human cost is mounting on both sides after the collapse of an easy 26 year long ceasefire this modern hospital instep and i heard has been for stretched to the limit by the bombardment of

this town the day early convoys of people injured. during the fighting in the bombardment. armenian missiles have hit towns and villages in azerbaijan well away from the conflict zone this is barbara around 20 kilometers from the line of contact that separates nagorno-karabakh from azerbaijan. and this is gone boy more than 30 kilometers away. karabakh is azeri territory but has a self-governing ethnic armenian majority as wants to restore its sovereignty there . it will show fragment came and hurt my arm and also killed the animals as you can see we are staying at home women and children we have not left we are not going to run away why should we leave our lands russia france and the us have been holding talks to try and bring about a ceasefire but with tensions rising between armenia and azerbaijan the hopes of

that seem a shattered as the missile debra littering the streets bernard smith al-jazeera to panic at nagorno-karabakh. let's go now to azerbaijan and join sentiment and so on the russians say that there's aires and also are also going to go to moscow what did they expect to get out of these talks. we haven't heard from the us or bridge on governments neither of confirmation nor it's over this visit as we know that as the original foreign minister jay environment was still in geneva he's holding talks with minsk group maybe you would be going to moscow but based on the tight schedule and that meeting is held today we have no confirmation but some sources say that you might be going just from from assumption but still as i said no official confirmation about the visit as it would remember

for those talks both sides were invited to geneva for yesterday and it's mosco that was supposed that was it 1st planned for monday and the armenian side to refuse to go to geneva well it does their bridge on side and that's why the plan was our main foreign minister would be going to moscow but as i said we will we will be waiting to hear from them or course these diplomatic talks are held on there's shades of the conflict of the fires from both sides targeting each other this tonight was relatively quiet compared to the last couple of days as several cities of john have been hit by our to larry's and rockets from coming from the going to our 1000000 forces for instance yesterday. 2 civilians were killed dozens were injured in today we are in bear that close to attack their city which has been intense which has been under intense artillery strikes from the armenian side

since the conflict began and from time to time we are able to hear the artillery sounds again here the fight still continues from time to time it is the density the tension goes down but it's a still there and many people are displaced and there are volunteers in area who are. trying to gather some. fool's clothes for. the displaced people who came from our city and this is the situation. ok sentiment many thanks for the update. now a politician. kidnapped in mali have landed in the capital bamako after being released as part of a present exchange hostages had been held by the alliance of groups linked to al-qaeda has the story. the end of their ordeal

wrapped in a white scarf is french aid workers. free at last after spending almost 4 year hostage in the hands of al qaeda affiliated fighters in northern mali is desert. shelter 51 year old son sebastian. before. he had lost hope of ever seeing her life. says to her son they held me for almost 4 years you were there with me i could hear you say hold on don't give up here among those released are also italian missionaries somalian army soldiers and opposition leaders who say all were held by armed groups affiliated to al qaeda. i want to think the new authority in mali which changed during my captivity the vice president came president was sworn in on the 25th of september and the next day my abductors asked me to see the proof of life video the president

was efficient and quick. outside 100 chant sumi champion. kerry is mauled by his supporters. young position leader was abducted near his hometown during april's parliamentary elections despite months of negotiations keep his government failed to bring his release critics of the former president says this was intentional the new government of transition set up by the military that overthrew orchestrated the hostage release with the help of french intelligence officers in exchange almost 200 al-qaeda affiliate fighters held prisoners were released earlier in the week despite the exchange fighting between armed groups and the money an army as well as 14000 french and u.n. troops continue in the center of the country. under pressure from the united nations the government of transition also released dozens of political officials

held after august this coup including former prime minister goosey. weeks after taking power new leadership is proving that it can succeed and deliver where the former regime failed bringing to an end for some the anguish and suffering that so many are experiencing in mali nicholas hawk al jazeera. more sanctions on iran's banking sector is the latest move to what washington describes as to han's nuclear ambitions and terror activities the measure black blacklists almost all of iran's financial sector iran's foreign minister john ensign tweeted in a response saying the united states wants to sabotage iran's remaining channels for buying food and medicine to maintain iranians will survive the sanctions and the u.s. action amounted to a crime against humanity while those who block iranian money will face justice in jordan has more from washington d.c. . perhaps the biggest criticism of the trumpet ministrations sanctions regime

against iran is that the culminating impact is that this is hurting the iranian people certainly we have seen that criticism coming not just from e.u. nations but also from a wide range of humanitarian organizations around the world now the treasury department went in announced this latest round of sanctions against these 18 iranian banks said that these banks would still have exemptions so that they could bring in funds to facilitate the purchase of emergency food and medicine to serve the iranian people of course people have criticized the u.s. for making it much harder to get that sort of humanitarian aid to the iranian people but leave no doubt the trumpet ministration has made one of its key foreign policy objectives the international isolation of iran because of what it says is

iran's attempts to develop a viable nuclear weapons program and it believes that by cutting off all avenues of getting cash into the hands or the under the control of the iranian government that the trumpet ministration ultimately will be successful but we have not seen that at least not as of right now. still ahead on al-jazeera the world food program is warning more than 8000000 people are at risk of starvation in zimbabwe. and a golden week for china people celebrating the annual holiday generate billions in revenue for the struggling toys and industry. however the weather is cooling down across much of europe now fitting a little more time lol. for many of us as we go through the next couple of days

cloud and rain down towards the southeastern corner we have seen some very high temperatures across the nation sodom at athens no higher than around 26 s. the heat just starting to ebb away somewhat date has strained away from the northwest 14 celsius there in london maybe only 13 as we go on into saturday wetter weather sinking further south was cooler tucking in behind with that cold blast coming in with 6 some of the cloud and rain coming in across the low countries heading towards scandinavian even into that western side of the med could see somewhat of weather coming in here as well best of the sunshine will be across the eastern side of the med plenty of sunshine meanwhile across northern parts of africa the shallows from a very active may walk across central africa anywhere from the ethiopian highlands arad across into the gulf of guinea southern parts of nigeria gonna say some pockets of very heavy rain some heavy rain too easing across ivory coast pushing on towards liberian if anything those shallow is just nothing

a little further north woods as we go on through worse at stake could even see some wet weather pushing into southern parts of mali and maybe also affecting guinea. cyprus a european island open offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august al-jazeera made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky passport by investment scheme promised for. now al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state al-jazeera investigations the cyberspace on the cover.

hello again you're watching andres there has remind you of our top stories this hour russia says foreign ministers from armenia and azerbaijan will attend talks in moscow on friday is the latest effort and fighting over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh. a politician and french aid worker kidnapped in mali have landed in the capital bamako after being released as part of a major project a prisoner exchange deal was announced by the new transitional government on chews day. and the u.s. is impose more sanctions on iran's banking sector the latest move to curb what washington describes as to iran's nuclear ambitions and terror activities measures by all of iran's financial sector. president says he will resign once a new cabinet is appointed parliament has so far failed to get enough members

together to agree on who should be prime minister protesters for some resignation of the government on tuesday the angry over disputed election results have since been an old russia says it is obliged by a security treaty to prevent a total breakdown in a stand which is live for us in bishkek child why are we saying this sudden turnaround by because of. or think all the evidence would suggest the 2 main reasons why this summer maltzman by the president the 1st being purchased. we understand according to brother mir putin's prospects course and dmitri per school conversation have been heard. between the head of the russian security the f.s.b. and the self-appointed head of security in kyrgyzstan a man called almost donnelly who appointed himself to that position in the chaos of the last couple of days it's an indication that president putin is very concerned

about the ongoing crisis in this country and it seems as if he's endorsing certainly by speaking to this self-appointed head of security he seems to be indorsing somebody who he can trust. has has very little choice in the matter because we have had such chaos and no real leadership in this country since those elections were gnarled you say the russian statement was this is tapping in order to prevent the situation in the country falling through into chaos so i think the president is listening to moscow and i also think he's listening to the opposition here the opposition have for the last few days demanded that an emergency full parliamentary session is held that the new cabinet and the prime minister is voted in and that the president resigns before he resigns to call new

elections if he resigns before then then. the house speaker would call for new elections so all indications are is that the pressure has come from russia and from opposition groups in the country and it looks like the president is now playing ball according to the law and according to the constitution so is this then a good sign a new this crisis is on the path to being resolved. it's far from being over yet the main concern is the supporters of the new prime minister saw that you're part of now he became a new prime minister in what the opposition says was an illegitimate parliamentary session held last week he says he is the only legitimate pm for this country and it was a couple of days ago in fact yesterday where he described what he said was a revolution against him and his supporters so there are concerns that we could

start to see a faceoff there we understand that his supporters are gathering in and around the prime minister's building the other concern is respect to the people standing behind we were expecting a press conference from the former president of this country almost broke out somebody who was released or freed from jail by his supporters last week now he was jailed on the president calls watch for corruption last year was serving a living you jail sentence speaking to his supporters here they're expecting him to rally support back off and against a part of so potentially a very tense situation here with rival supporters of each group gathering around the city because a statement is encouraging but we are far far away from being out of this crisis yet a lot of groups vying for power ok charles many thanks for the latest from bishkek

now russia says it is not a criminal investigation into the battle russian opposition leader skier has been added to its wanted list officials say she was placed on the list because of a regional agreement but gave no further details. fled to neighboring with the way near the disputed august election in bellary. mass protests across the country calling for a long time france and alexander lukashenko to step down. here's president donald trump is trying to arrange a campaign rally for saturday night in florida times doctors says he has now completed his course of treatment for corona virus and that by saturday it will be safe for him to resume public engagements the president is expected to take another coated 1000 tests on friday his pre-election appearances were postponed after he was hospitalized last week speaker of the us house of representatives is looking to introduce legislation that questions whether donald trump is fit to serve in office

nancy pelosi says that maybe in an altered state and his judgment impaired because of the steroids he's been taking for kovan 19 move is being taken under the 25th amendment it's unlikely to succeed as it needs a majority vote to pass plus the support of the vice president in greece leaders of the far right golden dawn party are due to be sentenced 2 days after a landmark verdict criminalize the party $68.00 senior figures including former m.p.'s were convicted of various offenses and wednesday tens of thousands welcomed the decision of the court in the investigation into the gold began after the murder of a musician in 2013 party was once greece's 3rd largest political force. millions of people in zimbabwe could be left without any food if there isn't urgent help by december that's according to the united nations says the problem is being caused by recurring droughts and an economic crisis and the growing virus pandemic has made

things worse reports from the shallow land west province where communities are mostly affected here be. one hit of cabbage some cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3 cups of rice is all it mukherjee has left in her kitchen she says she'll have to make it last as long as possible to feed her family of 8. life is hard we don't have managed to eat there is nothing good about our situation we are barely surviving the un's world food program says more than 8000000 zimbabweans will not have enough food by december if there's not agent intervention that's roughly 60 percent of the population militarization of course something go to sex mostly young children voting women in zimbabwe also it is a large number of people who are dealing with chronic illness of course their needs

in a traditional needs are different from people who are otherwise healthy so it's very important. even a close eye on those in the current circumstances basic goods are now beyond the reach of many people growing enough food is not an option for some years of drought the economic crisis rising unemployment soaring inflation and now coronavirus of hit families hard millions across the country are struggling in bad light cities and rural areas. desperate families like eating less she has to feed 10 grandchildren her own kids either died or left the country to look for work. i plan . to do what is involved i can only hope my neighbors take pity on us and give us food even if it's their left overs we really don't know what we are going to do. zimbabwe's cash strapped government gives food aid and a cope at 19 allowance of about $20.00 a month to some vulnerable families local officials are worried. sick sometimes.

i remember marriage was. a bitch. back in the kitchen the children wait for supper for straighted they grandmother says she hopes to never have to say to them one day she has nothing to give them how to al-jazeera. province zimbabwe. now to south korea where fire has engulfed a 1st 3 story apartment building hundreds of presence in the city of. vacuum. has now been put out with only minor injuries and like smoke inhalation reported an investigation is underway. i'm elaine a major police operation is underway in the south korean capital to stop protesters from gathering for an anti-government rally officials are being clamping down on street protests in seoul after a similar event cause an increase in coronavirus cases bryant has more this is

a massive police operation by a force that is determined there will not be any protests here today this is the center of seoul where protests demonstrations normally take place often staged by hardcore political groups opposed to the government but in the age of covert 19 the or thirty's have been trying to clamp down on the number and size of such demonstrations and with a mass rally being called for this friday this is the response thousands of police officers out and also hundreds of these police buses all parked so closely together that they actually form a physical colden around this part of seoul they used a similar tactic last weekend to thwart plans for more demonstrations then and all of this follows a big demonstration in the middle of all this but attracted tens of thousands of people and that became yes a super spreader event with hundreds of people getting sick from that one event

among them a number of police officers who had been policing that event while the authorities are determined that's not going to happen again. you know the government will prosecute all illegal activity else the government will claim damages against the participants if anyone gets sick from the virus due to the protest. with the threat of prosecution it seems most protesters are staying away critics argue that this is draconian that infringes upon south korean's constitutional rights to free speech but then from the or for a ts point of view the country has simply come too far in the battle against coded 19 to allow things to go into reverse these are not ordinary times. china's annual golden week holiday has seen hundreds of millions of people taking advantage of relaxed coronavirus restrictions there for a quick getaway in the nesting tourist traps are at 80 percent of prey pandemic figures to make up pollen reports. coming home this crowd is part of an estimated

half a 1000000000 people who celebrated the golden week holiday as tourists the railway station is packed scenes that would have been unimaginable just a few months ago because of the pandemic nearly 10 months after the croon a virus 1st surfaced in china the country is on the move again a sigh of relief for the millions who faced some of the world's toughest lock downs as the government fought to contain the outbreak with the declaration that the outbreak is under control and no new domestic infection since august the government relaxed travel restrictions allowing millions of families to take trips around the country and take advantage of being out in the open but i saw some fish in coral and the waters 3 different colors you feel is great according to the ministry of culture and tourism 425000000 people have traveled domestically in the 1st 4 days of the holiday generating around $45000000000.00 in tourism revenue that shows that

the consumer is coming back because that's been the missing leg at the economic recovery troy manufacturing has been doing well so this is a speedy recovery but the consumer hasn't been going out to spend so it bodes well for the economy and i remember that probably out of the major countries in the world choice that was the only one is going to show growth this year but in hong kong a walk through one of the city's main shopping districts tells a very different story the rows of shuttered shops are evidence of a struggling economy one that relied heavily on tourism hong kong is under strict social distancing and border restrictions visitors to the city need to quarantine for 2 weeks that's put off most of the mainland terrorists who would usually spend their golden week vacation shopping or sightseeing here in previous years the city would have at least a 1000000 arrivals during the holiday period from mainland china this year that figures dropped to less than i thought. 1000 china has the world's biggest

population and has managed to give its economy a boost by getting its people moving again but that's not an option for many other parts of the world which are in various stages of lockdowns the united nations conference on trade and development is estimating the global tourism industry will lose that least $1.00 trillion dollars this year if you go paul and hong kong. with al-jazeera these are all top stories russia says foreign ministers from long mania and azerbaijan will attend peace talks and law school is the latest effort to end violent fighting over the region of the going to come back to mediate says i've also been holding talks in geneva. president says he will resign once a new cabinet is appointed protesters forced a resignation of the government on tuesday.