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in his latest mission he construct a much needed surgery to the drugs in 5. viewfinder latin america driving change on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. a pause in the deadly fight from a corner karabakh a cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia comes into effect. hello there amre kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the. protests in the state of emergency capital following disputed elections parliament
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is due to meet to find a way forward. the 2nd u.s. presidential debate is canceled after donald trump refuses a virtual showdown. taiwan's president calls for dialogue with china in a national day speech but warns it should be on equal terms. as cease fire in the disputed region of the go to karabakh has come into force bottle navia and azerbaijan accusing each other of carrying out attacks in the past hour the deal was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks ellen volved the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of those killed in the conflict hundreds of people have died since fighting flared up at the end of last month. let's go straight to our correspondents in conserving she's live for us in birds in the azerbaijan so still in the cease fire has just gone into effect has the
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shelling stopped. well it is just a couple of minutes or about both are many and as arbet john sides have reported firing from each other and we are in bear that close the territory which is one of the main destinations for 4 artillery's and rockets from the iranian side and we have been hearing yards and there is hitting the say rionda they are there is defense ministry reported these a couple of hours ago also the armenian side reported that until the cease fire was in force john was continue to attack them of course this is a cease fire is the short term cease fire in everybody's eyes because mainly targets to exchange the. soldiers wounded soldiers prisoners and for someone to tarry and aid everybody expects it to be short some are sign
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saying that it is 72 hours but we don't have any confirmation at least on those are big john sides yet and neither from diarmaid inside but many expect that this is not going to last as mr bush and young as our main our prime minister said in the morning that's kind of must be recognized so we will wait and see how long this truce this temporary ceasefire is going to last. temporary it may be but none the less i think it's extremely welcomed by civilians. well so far we have no official statements about the exec's shape of this joint statement that was the 3rd by lover of but i must say that since the morning i have been speaking to civilians around me and i have been speaking to some people in baku this is also a kind of this appointment because they believe that if there is an immediate truce between the 2 because they say 30 years ago when iranian forces o'keeffe by the our
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lands we were weak we didn't have a proper army we didn't have weapons and we didn't have any international support and for the 1st time in the history time is on our side our army is strong and we have the upper hand in the battle so we have to go further this is what many of the civilians say as they have been lots of military casualties from both sides are many or has been reporting their. military casualties we haven't ever heard from was our big john say. john side with their home many soldiers were killed or wounded but we know that there are many this is what we have been hearing from other civilians that's why they are all so anxious to see the result of this of this temporary truce because they believe that this is going to give time for our mania to back up more weaponry and to to gether its more to asia and get stronger and that's why they want to go further but of course this is up to
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diplomacy talks we don't know what they were exactly talked in most for this is this is one of the most important things what we see as a joint statement is something vague you know way around ok many thanks for giving us the view that from azerbaijan let's now hear from bernard smith he's in the armenian town of gori this has more on how the talks on folders. we know that. foreign ministers or a 2nd yawn he said this morning after the talks that it was a difficult process he says the priority for us was to put an end to what he called this aggression and he said it was unique because johnny actions had support from turkey and our competitors he says in north nagorno-karabakh we're fighting in rather unique conditions armenian militant media locally is calling this a humanitarian ceasefire which is what it is it allows for the transfer of bodies of dead soldiers and the exchange of prisoners of war the challenge is to build on
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the ceasefire and there will be political calculations being made in yerevan the armenian capital because this has been this war has been at enormous cost here 360 military personnel killed at least that we know of a 19 civilians killed and the have perhaps been some territorial gains by the military in azerbaijan no discussion yet on what's going to happen there so there are costs the opposition in armenia might take advantage of what's happened they might there might be some criticism of nicole pasha on the prime minister of armenia he has been very popular but this has been a very costly fight for the armenians and they have seen the sort of weaponry that azerbaijan and turkey support and so they've had a lot of drones and power that's been much stronger than anything armenia house.
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troops and they know what is in the camps after days of chaos following last week's parliamentary elections the results are being declares and valid and the president is promising to resign there's also declared a state of emergency that parliament will vote on later trap and reports from best kak. in the early afternoon on friday i looked through square began filling up with supporters of various opposition parties the presidents are in by june beck all said he will resign after a new cabinet his votes his by parliament but many protesters here want more than that they are angry with politicians who they accuse of years of corruption and economic mismanagement many want a whole scale change of what they describe as an old guard leadership that has failed this country and rigged elections by buying votes and they are angry with this man southern japan who they say was illegally made prime minister after he too
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was freed from jail by supporters in the protests. as a full member of parliament but was serving 11 year jail term for kidnapping as opposition supporters of various parties chances in the square a group of his supporters bonce through the crowd of fools and stones will hold many people fled. the situation in the square himself said minutes ago it was peaceful that all changed when supporters of the new prime minister. claim in there were clashes. and they've now taken control of the statue on a facility that holds as a mother has a secret that all people are in the majority of the rest is just one. of supporters insists he is the legitimate prime minister. this video appears to show the moment a gunman tried to assassinate cuba's starnes former president is back at them by of
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that was just that was only hours before he had appeared for the 1st time in public since being freed from jail by supporters during protests over last week's parliamentary election results. who was jailed last year for corruption it was on hurting the attack the central election committee an old sunday's election results of the widespread vote buying the opposition says pro-government parties were most to blame since then kyrgyzstan has descended into chaos. trying to feeling nobody explains anything to us and totally confused by the situation there is a great sense of our certainty it's been days now and people are afraid i don't want violence. president jeenbekov has declared a state of emergency which will be voted on in an emergency parliamentary session on saturday he says it's necessary to prevent confrontation between rival groups
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many people here say their country is on the brink stratford al-jazeera bishkek. president trump has given his 1st on camera interview since testing positive for the coronavirus he says he's feeling well and planning a public event at the white house on saturday the virtual debate with his democratic rival joe biden has been canceled after refused to take part reports. i don't lot of people that appearing on his favorite news channel president donald trump was feeling positive i feel really really strong and a lot of people don't feel that way sometimes for a while he credited a still experimental antibody treatment for his speedy recovery from corona virus are you tested i heard you i heard you said you were going to test again today have you been retested. i have been retested and i haven't even found numbers or anything yet but i've been retested and i know i'm at either the bottom of the
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scale or free. that's not likely to appease his critics. who question his plans to host crowds for an event on the white house lawn on saturday less than 2 weeks after his diagnosis. it was shortly after this event in the rose garden that he and several people who attended tested positive. president eager to get back on the campaign trail is also planning to hold a rally in florida on monday that's despite that 9 people who attended this rally in minnesota on september 18th have tested positive for the chronic virus 2 of them firing hospitalisation out mr president but as for the debate scheduled for october 15th that's been canceled by the commission sponsoring it after the president refused to do it online instead of a new person re president trump clearly attempting to project strength and health
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while his democratic rival joe biden portrayed the president's decision not to debate as weak saying he was dodging voters who would be asking the questions and must decide between the 2 in less than 3 weeks kristen salumi al-jazeera twitter is imposing new rules to stop candidates in november's u.s. election from prematurely declaring victory on as platform social media says it's cracking down on misinformations and on cold political violence in the days surrounding the vote tweets full state claim one will be labelled and will direct users to the official us election results page. delta has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves further inland to southern parts of the u.s. it's weakened to making landfall in the state of louisiana residents and business owners have been boarding up windows in some schools and government offices have been closed much of the region is still recovering from
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a category 4 storm. still has hair on al-jazeera thousands of protesters in chennai angry and fed up with the government. losing ground fires and deforestation a rapidly shrinking brazil's amazon rain forest. hello the days are getting shorter now it's that time of the years it's nice to see more sunshine in the daylight hours unfortunately with this amount of cloud that's actually quite rare degree in scandinavia but is drawing down all the wind behind it so even the temperatures down in the low teens so a lot of sunshine to be had quite a few showers too particularly around netherlands coming to scotland head into denmark but there's a nice gap here which should open out all of this rain is i think sometimes quite
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intense and certainly so we get to sunday for northern italy where it shows snow in the east and now there's plenty of sunshine behind until the showers develop usually during the afternoon in the southeast of europe it's always was it was still pretty far into your answer rumania and on to turkey and that's true throughout the mediterranean really and all of north africa where we've seen flooding this season quite severe flooding in nigeria and there's still a few more showers to come but nothing like the intense 2 they were out before in fact obviously this time the everything's going sensor you still have showers from the gulf guinea back towards the atlantic still potentially generating future hurricanes most of the rain is now going sayas through cameroon and towards the hussy. through the noise. when you're going into the hour and listen kernel of the fact
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that there are 5 ways for one of the problems that they're just really hard a lot of people with power who are making their hands off. political the fact that it works or if they don't find a preferred can or work table march through the listening post monitors and in tougher it's the media on al-jazeera. the real news. room. and again you want to go around as there has reminder of all top stories this hour a cease fire in the disputed region of the go in a car back has come into force it was agreed by
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a mania and azerbaijan following talks in russia hundreds of people have been killed since fighting flat out last month. the president of kyrgyzstan has declared a state of emergency in the capital bishkek to end on the rest following speeches elections parliament will vote on the measure in the coming hour as the minute she has been ordered to deploy troops. on the 2nd u.s. presidential debate between donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden has been canceled or says will take place next week open eyes as wanted to hold eventually but the president refused. at least 4 people have died and dozens were injured including children when a fuel tank exploded in lebanon's capital on friday night happened in one of the most densely populated districts in beirut cause. taiwan's president says she's willing to hold talks with china if they are held on an equal basis speaking at national day celebrations citing when said she's open to
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meaningful dialogue with beijing and hopes regional tensions can be resolved peacefully as speech comes a time of increased tension with china has boosted air force activity near the island in the past few weeks has been angered by growing u.s. support for the self governed country. but as long as the beijing authorities are willing to resolve an attack on isms and improve relations parity and dignity are maintained we are willing to work together to facilitate meaningful dialogue we are committed to upholding regional stability but this is not something taiwan can show to alone it is the joint responsibility of both sides. rested 9 people suspected of helping pro-democracy activists who attempted to flee to taiwan a dozen activists have been held in the southern city of shenzhen since august when they were intercepted by chinese or thirty's their families held a protest on thursday accusing the police of lying about the circumstances
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surrounding their capture. and in neighboring macau a world press photo exhibition featuring images from hong kong's anti-government protests has been shut down without explanation the show's organizers expressed regret over the closure media reports suggest it could be due to political pressure from beijing press association says because facing a worrying episode of erosion freedom and expression next edition showing images of the tiananmen square massacre was banned earlier in the year. pakistan has banned chinese social media optic talk for not doing enough to block illegal content the government says the company failed to comply with orders to develop an effective mechanism to stop what it calls immoral and indecent videos from being shared but telecom authorities say they're willing to reverse the ban if take talk improves the moderation of its content to talk has been downloaded and 39000000 times in pakistan making it the 3rd most popular after whatsapp and facebook.
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protesters and demanding a new constitution and then to police brutality has been mounting off drove video emerged last week that appears to show a teenage boy being thrown off a bridge by a police officer in america as a noose in yemen is at a demonstration in central. heat that is the president's to discourage values that began here in the last year on a full $48.00 teeth last week that demonstrated was world rage by police found at least. you have to show that they're not actually. told that. i came because things like that cannot continue i'm also here to fight for the changes that she needs. the president said must m.p.'s says maintain the public order is now his number one priority so it would be. 'd the security of our
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citizens is essential for freedom and quality of life. with. dignity for my protest to much. easier. right now at least to keep them back. here not by the hundreds despite the state of emergency declared at the start of the condemning which makes it illegal to. protest this may happen mouse with police or army but ordered tear gas. earlier the attorney general told the president the stronger signals needed to be sent following the death threats against the prosecutor who ordered the arrest of the policeman who is accused of attempted murder for throwing a demonstrator over the bridge just the basics of the credibility of the. first street on the way. that it won't be
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as. argentina is imposing new coronavirus restrictions as its outbreak spreads beyond the capital well measures will now apply in the 18 most affected provinces are people being told to stay home says that initially been centered around what us areas but now 65 percent of new cases are occurring outside the city argentina has confirmed at least $870000.00 cases since its outbreak began. but it seems that the problem is no longer in the metropolitan area of boyne aside is the problem isn't solved there but it does seem to be starting to get under control what is evident is that the problem today surpassed the metropolitan area of borno ciders and has now spread throughout argentina wrote health organizations warning europe must take decisive action to curb soaring corona virus infection rates there or expect more painful knock downs that says the number of new new daily cases
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worldwide past 350000 for the 1st time there are no new answers on that rife we know what we need to do and we know that it is a combination of all of those things and not one of those things by itself addresses all of the issues that we face in this plan. and in that sense i know it's not necessarily what people want to hear but that is it it is to see many countries in europe experiencing rapid rise in cases and governments to have to take decisive action in order to try and shut down the transmission of spain's capital madrid is at the center of europe's corona virus outbreak with the highest infection rate on the continent the government has declared a state of emergency to try and contain store in case numbers any 5000000 people are barred from leaving the city except for work school or medical reasons for the next 2 weeks. italy is saying them were of its do daily infections to levels not
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seen since march 5000 new cases were recorded on friday it was the 1st country in europe to enter lockdown in the pandemic began. in france the number of infections has risen by more than 28000 that's the highest rate since the pandemic began hospitals in paris of emergency mode after a spike in the number of patients in intensive care jeffrey is the director deputy director for the national center for disaster preparedness at columbia university he says the increase of infections is not surprising. with other coronaviruses a lot of other respiratory illnesses we do see a seasonality we see more transmissibility as temperatures go down as humidity goes down it's not clear exactly what's going on here but evidence is pointing in the direction that we may not get quite as much mileage out of the social distancing that we have been in the summertime where temperatures are warmer you can do more outside activities so so we have to keep an eye on what's working and what's not
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working and also not make the assumption that just because it worked the 1st time around it's going to be sufficient the next time it's going to have to be driven by the data and it's going to have to adjust as the conditions within communities within nations and across the world evolve in this ongoing pandemic there's a number of different sort of thoughts on this there's some evidence that some buyers is actually transmit easier when you have these lower temperatures and lower humidity there's also people are indoors a lot more they're not outside able to do as many outside activities there's even things with just the immune system with the lower angle of the sun less vitamin d. production things like that so there's there's a variety of different factors that could come together precisely which weighs on how much particularly with the novel virus remains to be seen but we do know that we do see the seasonality with respiratory illnesses and i have been concerned about this since the beginning of the pandemic that although we were seeing this wave in early spring very late winter that the fall and the winter of 2020 was very likely to be another wave in
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a tough season and unfortunately signs are pointing back way with this latest data . well the pandemic has false hospitals in the u.k. to drastically reduce services for accounts the u.k. government is being warned that tens of thousands more lives will be lost unless it does more to reduce the backlog of screening and treatment and to simmons has more from manchester. kelly smith's magnetic personality brought people together on social media sharing assessed for life they all have one thing in. common cancer with covert cases prioritised her treatment was cut short along with her life even though we knew that the cancer she had could not be cured. the chemotherapy was life extending and rage you know especially need she's got a 6 year old son every day is precious the death of his daughter with his grandson left behind led craig to organize a campaign pressurizing the u.k.
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government to do more about cancer care it's fronted by a leading cancer specialist it's desperate and it's still desperate and my heart goes out to these people the government need to put pressure on the senior n.h.s. manages to get and give them the resources to do it but we need some action the need for treatment is daunting government targets to reduce a backlog of 3000000 people waiting for screening aren't going to be met the campaign includes demands for a $450000000.00 program to increase radiotherapy it will be made available in covert free outpatient departments but even that's a drop in the ocean the n.h.s. is a free for all service but it can't cope with demand and the covert situation has made things even worse the number of cancer sufferers trying to get private treatment isn't an old time high but so many people can't afford it online appeals and crowd funding show the desperation wendy peak had been on
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a free clinical trial with the n.h.s. in the hope of curing a rare cancer killer melanoma it was cancelled because of coded her daughter's started fund raising it's been a row almost. but it was the best. to raise the money lead when the right if you don't raise the right wendy is now on $1.00 round of treatment costing $50000.00 if she can raise more money she's been told there's a good chance of staying alive so many people like her won't even get this far and drew simmons al-jazeera manchester. brazil's amazon rain forest is experiencing is worst in a decade environmental activists say present jabil snorers environmental policies are to blame on a yanik give reports from rio de janeiro. brazil's
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amazon rain forest is shrinking by the day. last year it lost 10000 square kilometers to fires land grabbers and loggers this year it may lose even more according to new data just released by brazilian space agency. during the 1st 9 months of 202076000 fires tore through the rain forest the most for that period in a decade are all over brazil's worst deforestation record was in 1905 when 29000 square kilometers of the amazon was destroyed we had managed to reduce that number to 4000 square kilometers in 2012 but since then destruction has been on the rise. illegal logging and mining are problem but the main culprits are cattle ranchers who set fires to clear the land for pasture. indigenous activists amandla from the set out in
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a way tribe leans president also matters right wing government for easing environmental restrictions. i came either the fires made me very sad because we're losing so much territory if the forest goes we will die. president bush so natural says he's doing everything he can by sending the military to put out fires and help indigenous people fight the coded 1000 pandemic he says n.g.o.s are exaggerating the destruction and he's criticizing u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden for saying during his recent debate with president donald trump that brazil should face repercussions if it fails to protect the amazons. biden seems to want to break up their listen to between the met states and brazil because of the amazon we know that some countries have interest in the amazon and we have to dissuade them from doing this by having our armed forces ready. but fires are still out of control in the rain forest and in
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brazil spend time at. the world's largest wetland pointing at risk endangered species. brazil signed the paris agreement to fight global warming and promised to reduce deforestation by 80 percent this year but we are very far from that goal in order to fulfill its promise brazil should have a limit to deforestation in the amazon to less than 4000 square kilometers but according to him this latest data by the end of december it will probably have destroyed 3 times that amount monica and i care for al-jazeera rio de janeiro. there with al-jazeera these are all top stories a cease fire the disputed region of the go to come back has come into force it was agreed by i mean you're in azerbaijan following talks in russia hundreds of people
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have been killed since fighting flared up last month the president of qaeda song has declared a state of emergency in the capital bishkek to and unrest.

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