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difficult to impossible and the science that often solution is very easy for us to have a 100 percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. and despair as fighting flares again between our media and azerbaijan threatening an already seki cease fire. hello i mean come on this is our desire to live from doha also coming up. getting into protesters demands nigeria's head of police dismantles a special unit accused of torture and killings. concerns of a crackdown in tanzania ahead of the election the president's accused of behaving
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like a dictator. and scientists in chile say they found a possible crime a virus mutation in a remote region of the country. a ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan is under threat following new attacks in the complex of an ago and. the latest fighting has killed at least 8 people 8 sides blaming the other fanaa respecting the truce as area officials say the city of gunja was struck by missiles in the early hours of sunday said of course reports. the scene again just barely 24 hours since a cease fire was equated between our mania and azerbaijan's armed forces devastation despair and bought it backs. for grief for their. 2 years and destruction appears to be all that is left for man as
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a reason again as more bodies are pulled from the tappan. the paino flows and their children and other relatives is. comparing it with anger they say they've all over the suffered enough in 30 years of the scum that. will destroy them we don't want to see far they killed our children born through again just been hit by several me saw strikes in the past week but this one was particularly destructive neighbor said there are other civilians under the rubble one all that has been found and taken out from here civil defense units are clearing the area of journalists for safety and to avoid any close up pictures of the possible bodies. that and splaying are made now for their suffering this family lives a few metres from where the missile hit i don't rally as i ses with her brothers help they've barely managed to rescue her children who were about to suffocate under to rubble her mother and me away i was the last one to get out severely
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injured all over. no gore no kind of eyes also suffering its main city stuff thank you it was again under heavy fire overnight but authorities say it's been calmer on sunday. and they report 429 ethnic armenian soldiers have been killed in the fighting so far yet another one was buried by his family in tears. as arbet john hasn't disclosed how many of his troops have been killed and the very. government the president you're absolutely correct supported the cease fire this is a very important question very meaningful. you know to do the humanitarian function there are many serious humanitarian missions to the result in need of the cease fire was a brokered by the kremlin just 2 days ago it was expected to provide an opportunity
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to exchange dead and injured soldiers as well as prisoners the international red cross says the prisoner swap scheduled for saturday never happened were actually in regular discussions the size of the nature of our involvement however for now the date on the operation to begin is in the hands of the size and the our international committee of the right crossed and ready to. support the sides. against humanity there are no obligation to release the detainees the latest fighting between azerbaijan and armenia forces began to weeks ago hundreds of people have been killed since then and a worse escalation since the separatist war in a corner caught up i ended in 1994 the region blocks are surveyed john but it's controlled by ethnic armenian forces backed by arminius government during fighting in the past many lost trust in cease fires the latest hasn't got off to
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a hopeful start to now because although al-jazeera. a notorious police unit has been this. and in nigeria after days of nationwide protests demanding an end to police brutality the special and he robbery squad is accused of torture and unlawful arrest now this is the 4th time the units being dismantled amid address reports from. after 5 days of demonstrations that in some cases turned violent protesters are still using that victory. protest began 6 days ago after a man was allegedly shot and killed by members of the police unit called the special and to robbery squad of sars. the police chief said dissolving the unit whose members are father turnage the image of the police was necessary for a force that is in serious need of changes disposition to rogueries court of the nigerian police and the words known as science. or form issues.
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will use commands and the territory where they are currently is used so no new squad will be set up to tackle violent crimes and that civil society will now work with the police to identify and punish officers found committing abuses but civil society wants to see officers already accused of murder and other crimes be punished by their victory activists now want to push for more accountability from judges and politicians did he show you know corruption is through very you know high legislative corruption is going on and is the act of corruption is going on so definitely all the institution or the public institution needs serious reform in order to respond to the aspiration of nigerians you cannot have an organization that is that was to be run by a law and order and it is completely drained you know cut it out it activities with impunity. on the streets many say they've heard it all before. is that it was time
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to end this government have been banned not banned it is sound i didn't come up again. and the fact that nigerians can actually got there and so will cause actually and to do things that people. people know that we have a voice they insist dissolving the entrepreneur it alone is not enough they want officers guilty of the crimes they have been accused of punished and that is what nigerians will be watching out for before the new police outfit is formed how many greece al-jazeera which. is the director of amnesty international nigeria she says the skepticism about the decision to dissolve the school. i think it's a step in the right direction in terms of stopping the excessive use of the sas to be treat crimes in nigeria well we want something that will be long lasting so
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disbanding this unit and creating another you need to have more than me that will continue to commit atrocities will still not be acceptable we want to complete all of our whole of the practices of the policing and to have the need to respect international and one standards and the need to ensure that out operating within the law right now what we have a rule office says that no one can do anything to them and has allowed to try to want them to actually bring those office says that the man accused they have this information orating they have been complaints we've also issued reports of several minutes oreo's sections in the states where atrocities that need committed so who actually have them say this is what we're going to do investigate and before every deployment any officers to make sure doesn't have the specific and the meat of the complaints that yes it asked the right and to actually prosecute it
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. saying in nigeria and at least 6 people have died after a building collapse in lagos construction workers were adding a 2nd floor to the unfinished building when the incident happened their offices a number of people may be trapped under the rubble. on a center national is accusing the tanzanian government of political oppression ahead of their spawns general election the human rights organization says the law is being weaponized to crackdown on opposition figures and journalists how does or a spoke with the main opposition candidates about phases of the vote counters or reports. to lisa says he's worried about heathy 50 while campaigning he's also concerned about the independence of the. oral commission that barred him from campaigning for 7 days last week electoral fishel said his conduct while on the campaign trail had been polarized. recently returned to tanzania from belgium
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to run for president he left 3 years ago when he was seriously injured after being repeatedly short by an identified gunman he's told al jazeera he does not believe that the election at the end of the month will be free fair or transparent we are not going to accept stolen elections we accept the elections we call millions of people onto the streets. democratic action peaceful action to defend the integrity of the election to defend their votes if it comes to. his main competitor president john paul 2 fully he's also outcome painting attracting thousands of people to these rallies that he's been accused by human rights organizations and the opposition of being a dictator and presiding over a government that is intolerant of dissent and has cattails rights of expression
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and the media the president has avoided that debate instead focusing on his record on elisei he's on the right truck has done very well in the economy front. the projects that we are talking about he's done very well in. the issues of governance especially fighting corruption in all fronts leanest wall but is one of 29000000 tonnes and hands registered to vote on the 28th of october he too has been watching political developments and is worried about the possibility of violence at the polls. i want a leader who is not just promising things he has to deliver i like to see a more transparent election previously the results have been taking too long to come out and that increases. the more the election draws closer the more aggressive the complaints have become voters like will say we just hope to be able to cast
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their ballots safely catherine softly al-jazeera. and we should say that we did contact the town's name government about these allegations but we received no response because i say as you say should dean of the college of humanities education and social science says you know state university now he says things have changed since the president 1st came to power he came in my go fully that is highly recommend in the maze of i'm tired corruption on newness he was known all around the country as a simple from the peasants and so he came in with a lot of promise in the last few years however it appears as you have cited that perhaps he wants to maintain his position and one way to do it is make sure that he would do what he wants and thereby maintain his position and that's where he's taken a whole lot of steps the human rights watch has been talking about banning of
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liberations. closing down newspapers arresting opposition leaders those are. democratic inspired movements and therefore all this attention that he's getting. but we're hoping that i have. the board made clear that the closer we get to them 'd that's hopefully they will be able to cast their ballots. still ahead on al-jazeera. declaring that he's free of coronavirus the u.s. president donald trump prepares to hit the campaign trail. hoping for a fairy run we speak to people in kyrgyzstan and made recent political unrest.
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hello there's not much evident action in the sky above the middle east but that's no big surprise however it is cooling down because the wind directions allows seeing the sunshine because the monsoon drafts gone away or if it stopped the tension the heart $34.00 dropping to about $32.00 is below average this time of the year and we're slightly above average in baghdad these are not extremes it's just the slowly changing season the rain is further science now stretching from still south sudan down towards d r c typically the went with this rain throughout the rift valley but concentrating just to the west out and so there is still rain tanzania the rains of the for washing quite substantially in the southern part of towns and here but anywhere really from juba south which you'd expect to find those showers often in bands and often the bands stretch south beyond the rift valley so you get a bit of rain this time of the year in zimbabwe and zambia and it's there it's been
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the forecast it's going to happen the next day or so they tend to fall off for a couple days and disappear and that's certain the case most of south africa's looking dry in the sun comes out in johannesburg it's there in cape town suddenly breeze yes suffered about 90 degrees not cold could be better. but. the remote kingdom of butan has become known for its decision happiness. 1. 1 east explores how this national guard spawning the younger generation. and feasts can tell a story without uttering a single word. conventionality of life is what inspires us. witness documentaries on how it is the era.
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you're watching out is there a reminder of our top stories this hour. a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan is under threat with both sides accusing the other of heavy shelling in civilian areas police say people have been killed in the latest fighting over the disputed region of no one a cut about. a notorious police unit in nigeria is being discredited for the 4th time after days of protests the special anti robbery squad is accused of torture and unlawful arrests. turns it in government is being accused of political oppression ahead of this month's general election unless international says the law is being weaponized to crackdown on opposition figures and journalists. the us
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president donald trump says he's free of crying a virus and is likely. but questions remain about his health a week after he tested positive trump's declaration comes as he gets ready to resume campaigning on monday the white house says he no longer poses a risk of transmitting the virus but he stopped short of saying if trump a tested negative. has more from washington d.c. . there's a whole host of problems here but it's left the whole thing is left a lot of uncertainty quite frankly primarily because it's now been nearly 24 hours since we last received an update from president donald trump's doctor and even the last update to the late saturday night was very vague and left a lot of questions rather than answers for example has donald trump tested negative or not and those are simply questions we do not have answers to so given the vague information or lack of information from the doctors and giving no more information
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on on sunday it's left donald trump to tweet he's basically saying that he is fine that he can no longer get the virus he's claiming he's in you and that he can no longer give the virus to anyone as well now that's a very problematic or suspect statement and even twitter had to mark that tweet by the president of united states is a tweet that in twitter's words is misleading and could lead to a negative consequences when it comes to corona virus so essentially they're still still quite a few questions that remain to be answered but so far it's been nearly 24 hours since we've gotten any other update from the president's doctors and so it's left a lot of people to just assume that if he has not come out in group and that he's tested negative that he must still be positive for a president that certainly wants to give the impression at least that he's doing ok and that he's fine he's essentially telling the american people just trust me
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everything is ok that is not is a professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york school of public health he says trump is lacking empathy and his statements on coronavirus. the president is far from an expert on code 19 and he's routinely chosen to deviate from the opinions of actual experts in its behavior and its public statements and that usually amount to misinformation so i think the general public and the media should really do well not too much credence into a statement about its future current risk of spreading coronavirus or whether he's immune to cope in 1000 in the future but i mean let's just start with the question of whether or not he's infectious or not at this time in the expert guidance it's pretty clear that someone with copd 19 can be infectious for 10 days after the date of symptom onset which of cleanout is different from the date of diagnosis and in addition to that they have to be fever free for more than 24 hours without fever you see medication and symptoms have to be unproven and the white house position
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hasn't provided information on all of these criteria yet and this is why it's unclear in my view as to the effect this status of president trump at the moment and with regard to immunity to corona virus e t likely doesn't have immunity now for at least 2 reasons 1st the antibodies he has now are those that were infused that's part of an experimental treatment not those generated by his immune system so any protective effect of these antibodies if there are affected is temporary and 2nd we don't really know with certainty yet that infection with grown a virus confers short or long term immunity in fact we know they're going to handle it well documented cases of reinfection within 30 and 90 days of having what was 19 so i think it would be a mistake for him or anyone to assume that they're going to coronavirus after infection with just 3 weeks to go to the presidential election the latest poll by washington post and a.b.c. news suggest the coronavirus pandemic is hurting donald trump asked her they trust
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mole to handle the pandemic 55 percent of voters backed democratic candidate joe biden and that 17 points ahead of donald trump. now nationally biden has a 12 point lead over trump in the race for the white house among both registered and likely voters and it's women who are giving him the advantage biden is 23 points ahead among female vote that's the widest margin among women for any presidential candidate in polling dating back to 1976 kyrgyzstan's opposition is blaming russia for what they describe as last week's rigged election and the violence that followed on saturday the parliament named a new prime minister ending a power vacuum that has more from bishkek. only general from the small. he says he's never really been interested in politics but the chaos of last week following the reaked parliamentary election has
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changed everything. but i didn't vote in the elections because i could see they were not going to be fair but i would definitely vote in the next election we cannot give up hope for our future we owe it to our children to. such japan are seen here being greeted by supporters after they freed from jail during post-election protests serving in the 11 year jail term kidnapping. now he's prime minister that many lawyers and some members of parliament say there were not enough m.p.'s present during the emergency's parliamentary session to make voting shapovalov into power legal a state of emergency came into effect on saturday night which so the president soren by jeenbekov says is necessary to prevent armed confrontation between rival opposition groups. but
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a new prime minister supporters who had the day before charged a peaceful demonstration and vowed to support him with their lives ignored the 9 pm curfew and celebrated with fireworks into the night. already opposition and some pro-government parties and political analysts say the events of the last few days represent a significant step backwards along the path towards democracy for this country. they say power for criminal networks some that may even stretch as far as moscow may have been involved in the election rigging the post-election violence and will be happy with the result. and his supporters vehemently reject the allegation that he is involved with criminals you said he wants to arrest this man powerful clan leader one time deputy head of customs running back my train more in what position parties accused him of
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a vote pouring for pro-government parties and supporting japan over the post-election calles that eventually saw him become the new prime minister and lists a curious stones journey towards democracy was a nightmare for russia that has so much political influence here their criminal elements had been spoken of quite widely even before the elections in the run up to the elections there i think russia is very much likely to have had some hand some participation. but at the bakery no matter the doubts about free fair elections in the promised rerun of the parliamentary poll crim hopes his vote will count chance trafford al-jazeera. president has won re-election we had 90.92 percent of the votes and is one of the world's longest serving leaders the country has no term limits and rahman has been in power since independence in 1992
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the 68 year old now has another 7 year term election monitors say there's a lack of genuine political competition. as late as postpone the annual policy address for the 1st time until off she travels to mainland china kerry had been jus to deliver the speech on wednesday it will now be held in november says the territory's economic recovery needs beijing's support. the reason to delay the delivery of the policy address is because of the pandemic people wish to revive economic activity as well as protecting employment but economy to revive we need the support of the mainland we have to better integrate into china's national development plan particularly in the greater bay area in search for economic growth . singapore and indonesia have agreed to partially open their borders to each other the countries had close them to stop the spread of the coronavirus now people on
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essential or official business will be allowed to cross over in the news here has one of the highest coded 19 case rates in the world for the 1st time israel's army is deployed 'd its medical corps to help treat civilians a parking garridge has been converted into a treatment facility which could accommodate up to 8000 patients the move is aimed at helping the country's health care system which is struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic israel has reported more than 290000 infections. scientists are investigating a possible mutation of the corona virus in the remote region of mianus the area has seen an unusually high rate of infection in recent weeks latin america editor the cname and reports. named after the explorer magellan chile's mother younis region and its capital that in us are known as the gateway to antarctica a place so cold you need heating nearly year round scientists at the university of
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miami is investigating why remote region with only one percent of the population is of it just string nearly 20 percent of the country's cases and probably 19 have discovered a new strand of corona virus has taken over. all that mutation phenomenon happened everywhere in the world at the beginning of the pandemic simultaneously but this time it's restricted to a new wave and to a particular geographic location this strand once existed in very small quantities elsewhere but for reasons still unclear it is expanded only in marianna so. the virus isn't here inch protein is different but what that implies is still unclear. what is clear is that unlike the 1st wave in april since august infections in magnanimous have been steadily increasing despite a strict lockdown earlier this week the number of people infected in ma yeah this was the same as here in the capital except that maggette is has been always
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population density in the country 170000 versus 8000000 here in santiago experts say there could be many reasons including the weather but they can't rule out that the new strand of the virus is mainly to blame. the pan american health organization is assisting chilean scientists synonym for to know more especially to confirm whether this new version of cold 19 is far more contagious than previous trends. if the hypothesis is validated it would obviously be worrisome because of the degree of the contagion we are seeing in my guy younus were to spread nationwide it would mean $25000.00 new cases per day and that is a dangerous scenario indeed. and while the scientific community attempts to determine the consequences of this mutation air force planes have started many of backing critical patients 3000 kilometers from our janish to the capital to ensure
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that hospitals will be able to cope with the unrelenting viral outbreak you see in human al-jazeera sente our. water levels and an important river in paragraph have dropped to the lowest in half a century months of extreme drought have caused parts of the power of y. river to dry up the waterway is a key lifeline for the country about 85 percent of power go as foreign trade is conducted on it but the low level is slowing down traffic meaning prices are going up activists say deforestation and wildfires have led to an extended drought. activists from a climate change protest group scaled the eiffel tower in paris a climbers and another dozen extinction rebellion activists unfold a giant banner from the monument they've been arrested and are set to appear in court spain's canary islands have seen its highest number of refugees in 14 years more than 1000 people arrived over the weekend politicians say the island signed
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have enough resources to cope refugees are increasingly taking a more dangerous atlantic ocean route to reach europe since morocco increased security along its coast now the l.a. lakers have won the n.b.a. finals taking home their 17th championship when led by le bron james the team took a decisive 13 point victory over the miami heat to win the series 4 games to 2 lakers fans took to the streets ignoring coronavirus recommendations to celebrate the championship. this is 0 and these are the top stories a ceasefire in armenia and azerbaijan is under threat with both sides accusing the other of heavy shelling in civilian areas at least 8 people have been killed in the latest fighting over the disputed region of the go on a kind of a and notorious police unit in nigeria.
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