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zero's investigative unit goes undercover to expose for the revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state al jazeera investigations the cyprus papers on the cover. 48 hours into the shaky cease fire reports of more shelling in nagano. the deal between armenia and azerbaijan in jeopardy. this is al jazeera live from coming out rights groups accused tanzania's president of behaving like a dictator clamping down on dissent ahead of this month's election. anybody. the top coronavirus expert in the u.s.
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accuses the trumpet ministration of twisting his words for one of its campaign videos jobless and hungry in brazil the pandemic leaves millions wondering where their next meal's coming from. has been no letup in fighting over the disputed region of the god look out about this by the cease fire deal coming into effect 48 hours ago armenia is reporting new shelling along the southern line of the line of contact forces from within the disputed region say shelling has continued there all as a by john says it's destroyed several military vehicles for breaching the humanitarian cease fire will surely will cross over to cynical salo in ganja as a 1st let's bring in burnet he's in god in armenia so bernard step out occurred had
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its share of devastation. yes but it seems that it's been quiet so far in those main areas in the towns and villages in nagorno-karabakh so the ceasefire such as it is is holding their butts we are having reports that there is intense fighting going on specifically in the south of nagorno-karabakh around this town called how drought is intense fighting and shelling going on that between armenian and as ery forces it's in nagorno-karabakh is an attempt by its very forces to take control of the town of how the armenian ethnic armenian fight is our defending of drugs now this russian brokered cease fire humanitarian cease fire was supposed to allow the exchange of the bodies of killed soldiers and the exchange of prisoners of war but the i.c.r.c.
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the red cross says it's not been stable enough for them to be able to facilitate that exchange in the leadership of now go on a kind of accept they thought this exchange was going to take place on sunday but now they don't know when it's going to take place and armenia's foreign minister he'll be in moscow later today meeting with russia france and the united states over the situation in the going to karabakh this is after a meeting last wednesday in geneva where these ery foreign minister spoke to those 3 countries all right thanks so much bernard let's continue this now and sin and cos all she's live for us in ganja as a band and judging by the scene behind you cinema looks like people still coming to terms with the destruction there. exactly still teams are working in the field saw me and i have to say that people are still in pain yesterday some of the families bury their beloved ones and today there are
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some other funerals here many dozens are in the hospital and actually i have to say that over the night it was quiet compared to the previous nights there were shellings especially in terms of the men go around boy even in the morning we were able to hear the shellings and go around boy about it since yesterday is that lead by the stick attack that the city the 2nd largest city of was our bridge and there hasn't been any firings against ganja and today i must say it is a diplomatic day for azhar bay john just in one hour we are expecting the foreign diplomat technicians are present it is embassadors military out there she is right in the area where i am to take a look into the structure that area. john officials have invited them to sure ganja and miniature was that was also hit by a ballistic missile exists that day and also $530.00 endure signed an appeal then submitted to the international bodies including the united nations nato
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organization of security council a few of where they are trying to show their pain and they are trying to find a way out to call on them. for what they say its attacks on the civilians this is a situation in danger right now and let's sort of take a look back what happened yesterday. the scene again just barely 24 hours since a cease fire was equated between our mania and azerbaijan's armed forces devastation despair and body backs i thank you for elative scree for their. 2 years and destruction appears to be all that is left for man as a reason again as more bodies are pulled from that after. the pain of losing their children and other relatives is a comparing it with anger they say they've all over the suffered enough in 30 years
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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 some of the fence units are clearing they are real 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 injured almost. no gore no kind of eyes also suffering its main city stuff thank you it was again under heavy fire overnight but authorities say
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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 period by his family in tears. as arbet john hasn't disclosed how many of its troops have been killed in the gary graham. government the president you're absolutely correct we really supported the ceasefire this is a very important question very meaningful to you never to do the humanitarian function there are many serious humanitarian issues that have to be a result in needing the cease fire was a brokered by the kremlin just 2 days ago it was expected to provide an opportunity 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
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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 the worst that's collation since the separatists were in a corner cut up by 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 a hopeful start because although al-jazeera. amnesty international is accusing the tanzanian government of cracking down on dissent ahead of this month's general election the rights group says the law is being
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weaponized to target opposition figures and journalists and the main opposition candidate says he doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair as catherine saw him now i too lisa says he's worried about his safety while campaigning he's also concerned about the independence of the electoral commission that barred him from can painting for 7 days last week electoral fishel said his conduct while on the campaign trail had been polarized lisa who recently returned to tanzania from belgium 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 election. we accept every election we call millions of people onto the streets.
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democratic action piece action to defend the integrity of the election their votes if it comes to. his main competitor president john 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 curtailed rights of expression 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 they cannot make front. the projects that we are talking about has done very well in. the issues of governance especially fighting corruption in all fronts leanest wall but is one of 29000000 tons and hence registered to vote on the 28th of october he too
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has been watching political developments and is worried about the possibility of violence at the polls but. i want a leader who's 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 grassy the complaints have become voters like will say we just hope to be able to cast their ballots safely katherine soy 0. well we've contacted the tanzanian government about these allegations but received no response on kong's leader has delayed her annual policy address until she attends key government meetings in mainland china kerry had been due to deliver a speech on wednesday will now be held next month lamb says the territories economic recovery needs beijing support she insists that won't affect the
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government's work. gating 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 for the 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. well still ahead on al jazeera . millions of children across africa heading back to school following the crowd of virus shutdown turkish cypriots gear up to cast their ballots for a 2nd time in the divided islands north we have more on what's at stake. out of the middle of europe stretching from scandinavia rotterdam sicily is full of
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cloud areas of low pressure coolish weather and rain just the east it's actually moderately worn and it doesn't keep 50 degrees in moscow is well above the average for this time of year and a northerly breeze which is quite cold feeding in the british isles was more rain just to add to that feeling on monday stretches down into france in the middle of it all is this line here that the quite active rain in northern it is pushing down through the adriatic so all monday the line extends to west albania and disappears almost touching tunisia the forecast for sarajevo in the middle of it is rain rain and then a funny stay a wednesday but look at the temperature drop because it proves a cold front and there's no sun help again should be 12 griese which is only 7 during tuesday and that's the picture for tuesday that matches slowly east with 3 remain here eventually and that's significant potential rain with the weather behind not particularly warm rather disappointing particularly for france so whilst
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we know what's happening in tunisia with this rain here most of north africa is fine the floods in nigeria can subside because around that many more showers to come same is true for south sudan where still some perky showers further west we can still produce our ricans. but. frank assessments if other can public opinion for. betrayed by social media platforms after november would be this because as if you believe that there horowitz into our democracy one obvious solution is to break up informed opinion just look at checkers don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability with a revolution to call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines because it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera.
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back you're watching our just 0 time to recap our headlines now there's been more fighting over the this feud region of no got to cut about overnight armenia is reporting new shelling along the southern part of the line of contact of a civilian areas have not been hit as a major and says it has struck several military vehicles for breaching them humanitarian ceasefire human rights activists are accusing tanzania's government of persecuting political opponents in the run up to this month's general election amnesty international says the law is being weaponized to crackdown on opposition figures and journalists hong kong's leader has postponed the annual policy address until she travels to beijing carry land says the city's economic recovery needs the
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mainland support and is calling for better integration with china's development plans. millions of students in 12 countries across africa heading back to class schools reopened following a lot that's lasted more than 6 months universities are also expected to open their doors despite the coronavirus outbreak some lecturers are warning they won't go back to work unless they get a pay rise. malcolm is live for us in nairobi so malcolm how different are classes looking what sort of precautions are they putting in place. weird primary and secondary school to school to joined in kabira is one of the largest slums in nairobi and they reopened just for 3 groups those groups that are due to be sitting exams but with an extra precautions in place children have to wash their hands frequently with soap and water also some drums of water like it's
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installed just outside the classroom we can take a look inside the class of these primary school age children were due to sit exams this year we can take a look around this is the 1st time that they've come to school for learning the 1st time they're able to see their friends in over 7 months now aside from resuming classes a lot of children's rights groups say this is very important for children's well being and safety in the least privileged areas children who aren't at school risk of being sent to work all kinds of abuse and so on and so resumption of school is considered to be very good for all their wellbeing as well as their education but the government is starting with just 3 groups and depending on how that goes they're hoping that within the coming months all of the other groups will be able to resume class as well amount maybe you can clarify some things the darter so far
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is showing that kenya hasn't been hit so badly by the crowd a virus pandemic right that's where we're at. we're the beginning then a lot of scientists and public health experts were very worried that it could be disastrous specially in a place like this could be area where people live in very dense densely populated areas people sleeping 5678 in a room people thought the virus could spread very quickly and also with high rates of tb even spirit to diseases people were concerned that it could be a really very major crisis but actually it just just hasn't happened now there isn't a great deal of data there's much less testing here and there has been more developed countries also a lot of people don't trust the government didn't trust its data and the whole response was marred by corruption scandals in a vast stage or on the ground of vast scale loss of funds and equipment going
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missing but nonetheless based on what data there is available scientists estimate that only one in 5 people in kenya who got the virus actually had any symptoms at all the numbers of cases and the numbers of deaths alone and they also estimate that now more than a 3rd of the urban population of already have it which means kenya is in that case well on its way towards herd immunity and they estimate that the wave the only way feet in late july now this data is subject to peer review but if it turns out to be true it would mean kenya is pretty much out of the woods but what isn't on the is why the current virus has affected people here so much less than even in south africa let alone asia europe or the u.s. all right mark my bet thanks so much. well brazil is the world's 3rd largest food producer but new daughter has revealed that more than 10000000 brazilians are going hungry and as the coronavirus pandemic plunges more people into policy that number
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is set to rise of reports. there's no shortage of healthy food in this bustling street market in rio de janeiro a covert 1000 pandemic may have crippled brazil's economy but it still produces enough to feed one 6th of the earth's population something president shade balsam nat'l made a point of reminding world leaders at this year's u.n. general assembly. up is that despite the international crisis brazil's agricultural production never stops and we produced enough to feed 1000000000 people. yet more than 10000000 brazilians experience of their food insecurity according to government data just released by the brazilian institute of geography and statistics and that was before the coronavirus pandemic now the situation is worse than if you live in poverty has always been
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a problem in brazil but the poor were invisible the pandemic is showing how truth ace and i cloud used to organize tourism events in austria she returned to brazil for short his it but ended up staying to work as a volunteer in a soup kitchen most of these people in this line lost their jobs to the recession and the pandemic like follow me down the who left his small town to look for work in rio de janeiro i don't live in. the coronavirus left me stranded here and homeless but at least i'm getting fed and can use the public bathroom to bathe 3 times a week. according to unicef survey during the 1st months of the pandemic the number of hungry in brazil rose dramatically. one in every 5 brazilians went hungry or admitted not having enough money to buy food the population as a whole lost about half of its income but families with children and adolescents
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suffered a bigger loss of 63 percent brazil is still the world's 3rd largest producer of food much of it is sold abroad last year brazilians exported $32000000000.00 worth of agricultural products to $180.00 countries but experts are warning the government that the country be back on the united nations hunger it's a place brazil had left 6 years ago. of just sirrah rio de janeiro. to flag the tweet by u.s. president donald trump is misleading after he claimed he was immune to corona virus trumps also declared he's free of care with 19 a week after testing positive it comes as he gets ready to resume campaigning on monday the white house's doctor says no longer poses a risk of transmitting the virus but he stopped short of saying if he tested negative the top u.s.
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infectious disease experts is accused of trump's reelection campaign of twisting his words on the coronavirus pandemic president trump tackled the virus there are leaders sure. that anybody could do it. and so he felt she says the campaign that verges been edited to make him seem to indorse the president's handling of the crisis the complete clip of his comments reveal he was actually talking about his team he says in his 50 years of public service says there were publicly endorsed any political candidates. u.s. supreme court nominee amy coney barrett's confirmation hearing is set to get underway later on monday that's despite 2 republicans on the senate committee having coronavirus publicans are pushing ahead rapidly to confirm barrett before november's election a seat opened up after the death of ruth bader ginsburg a dying wish was for her replacement to be chosen after november's election the
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turkish navy says it's conducting a seismic survey in the eastern mediterranean sea over the next 10 days the angering greece the discovery of a huge gas field off the coast of cyprus 2 years ago led to mounting tension between the neighbors turkey says it wants to ensure the self declared republic of northern cyprus has equal rights to the gas field as the majority greek republic of cyprus. voters in the south declared republic of northern cyprus meanwhile well they're heading to the polls again next week for a runoff presidential vote no candidate won a majority in sunday's election that make planes. he's the leader of a country that nobody but turkey recognizes and now turkey's leaders have turned against him to. is hoping to be reelected as president of the self declared republic of northern cyprus with a population of no more than half
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a 1000000 people i can choose supports a federal solution for the divided island and he's keen for stalled talks involving the government in the south of cyprus as well as greece turkey and britain to resume. but many people here in the north favor a 2 state solution including the prime minister s. in tatar who's backed by turkey. this week alongside turkish president are due on our announced the partial reopening of viral. it's a holiday resort abandoned by its greek cypriot inhabitants during the turkish invasion in 1984 the move to allow visitors back on to the beach was criticized by tatas rivals who saw it as turkish interference. in unfortunately the or thora g.'s of the republic of turkey took a side in this election very openly they did this despite all my warnings all of you have seen this all of the society has seen and experienced successive united nations resolutions have called for the area to be transferred to un control un
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peacekeepers monitored the buffer zone between the 2 parts of the island and the reopening of the beach prompted protests by greek cypriots living nearby. it also led to a member of the ruling coalition in the north to quit in effect bringing down the government the u.n. plans to call new multilateral talks on the future of cyprus after the election the upcoming. shows will be basically by. now. nations not just between the 2 sides but also including the 3 so whoever is elected needs to work with turkey in order to formulate the best policies in the negotiations the election comes during territorial tensions in the eastern mediterranean cyprus and its ally greece have been pushing for international sanctions against turkey for its exploration of undersea oil and natural gas meaning the vote in northern cyprus is being watched more closely than ever the team barber al-jazeera. stands
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president. has won more than 90 percent of the vote in sunday's election well that means he'll be extending his 28 year rule making one of the world's longest serving leaders a man was running against 4 other candidates but they're seen as token opponents independent election monitors say there's a lack of genuine political competition the country has no term limits and rahman has been in power since independence in 1902. a controversial police unit has been disbanded in nigeria after days of nationwide protests demanding an end to police brutality the special anti robbery squad is accused of torture murder and unlawful arrests this is the 4th time the unit is being dismantled amid research reports. after 5 days of demonstrations that in some cases turned violent protesters are still using that victory. protest began 6 days ago
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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 this mission to rogue rescored of the nigerian police and there was no nonsense. by design or formations they. will use commands and the territory where they are currently is used soon i mean this court 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 the victory activists now want to push for more accountability from judges and politicians did to show you know corruption is very
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you know high legislative corruption is going on. corruption is going on so definitely all the institutions or the public institution need serious reform in order to respond to the aspiration of nigerians you cannot have an organization that is supposed to be run by a law and order and it is completely drained you know cut it out it to be it is with impunity on the streets many say they have heard it all before. is that if. this government had been banned that banned it is something i didn't come up again so. 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 assist dissolving the entrepreneur it alone is not enough they want
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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. a pusher. those are your stories you can get more of them if you head over to our website at al-jazeera dot com back at the top of the hour. take you through some of those stories then there's been no letup in fighting over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh however civilian areas have not been hit armenia says there's been new shelling along the southern part of the line of contact as a bridge and says several military vehicles were destroyed for breaching the humanitarian cease fire human rights activists have accused tanzania's government of persecuting political opponents in the run up to this month's general election amnesty international says the law is being.
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