48 hours into the shaky cease fire reports of more shelling in the woods the deal between armenia and azerbaijan in jeopardy. i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up rights groups accused tanzania's president of behaving like a dictator and clamping down on the center ahead of this month's elections like. that anybody could do with. the topic of it 19 experts in the u.s.

accuses the trumpet ministration of twisting his words for a campaign video. violent protests in belo rose as police confront demonstrators demanding the resignation of the president. has been renewed fighting over occupied nagorno-karabakh this by the cease fire coming into effect 48 hours ago armenia is reporting shelling along the southern part of the line of contacts in the region however civilian areas have not been hit by jan says it's destroyed several military vehicles for breaching the humanitarian ceasefire syrian consolo is in danger azerbaijan her group of diplomats are assessing the damage. over the night it was quiet compared to the previous nights there were shellings especially in terms of them and go around boy even in the

morning we were able to hear the shellings and go around all about since yesterday is that lee ballistic attack that it can jet city the 2nd largest city of us our age and there hasn't been any firings against ganja and today i must say it is a diplomatic day for us are a bit john but we are expecting the foreign diplomat technicians are presented is ambassadors military attaché is right in the area where i am to take a look into the structure that area as a rage on officials have invited them to show ganja and miniature that was also hit by a ballistic missiles yesterday and also in 538 hours or endure signed an appeal and submitted to international bodies including the united nations nato organization of security council a few of you know they are trying to show their pain and they are trying to find a way out to condemn. our mania for what they say its attacks on the civilians

bernard smith says in gross media he says the fighting so far monday has been relatively quiet. 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 dropped is intense fighting and shelling going on that between armenian and azeri forces it's in nagorno-karabakh it's an attempt by its very forces to take control of the town of how the armenian ethnic armenian fight is defending it 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. the red cross says it's not been stable enough for them to be able to facilitate that exchange on in the leadership of now go on

a kind of box and 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 goanna karabakh this is after a meeting last wednesday in geneva where these airy foreign minister spoke to those 3 countries. amnesty international is accusing the tanzanian government of cracking down on this and ahead of this month's general election the rights group says the law is being weaponized to target opposition figures and journalists and the main opposition candidate says he doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair is katherine soy. to 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 campaigning 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 laughed 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. democratic action piece 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 his rallies. 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 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 but. 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

their ballots safely catherine al-jazeera. we've contacted the tanzanian government about the allegations but have received no response. hong kong's leader has delayed her annual policy address until after she attends key government meetings in mainland china carol lam had been due to deliver the speech on wednesday will now be held next month lamb says the territories economic recovery needs beijing support she insists that this will not affect the government's work. 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 stephen vines is

a political commentator and author based in hong kong he says the decision to delay the policy address is highly unusual and disrespectful to the local legislature. remember the address which is equivalent is hong kong's equivalent if you like the u.s. state of the nation address or britain's queen speech to parliament is the major political events of the calendar in hong kong and it was supposed to take place on wednesday it was persona and this morning in fact it was it was perspiring and $32.00 and a half hours after it was announced it had a president xi jinping would be visiting the neighboring town of sharon saying it's in the way that the chinese leadership works that they only announce their visit very close to the time of arrival and people here are scratching their heads saying you know this is a major event why on earth does kerry have to go to sharon sent for

a meeting that may or may not take place with president xi and people don't understand that argument which is that she has to go to beijing to discuss with the leadership on the mainland hong kong's economic recovery policies because under the one country 2 systems under which one kong is governed economic affairs are supposed to fall internally within the purview of the local administration so there's confusion and there is some feeling of disrespect to the legislature in this rather unusual. twitter has flagged a tweet by u.s. president donald trump as misleading after he claimed he was immune to coronavirus trumps also declared he's free of covert 19 a week after testing positive it comes as he gets ready to resume campaigning on monday the white house's doctor says trump no longer poses a risk of transmitting the virus but stopped short of saying if he tested negative

. the top u.s. infectious diseases expert is accused of trance reelection campaign of twisting his words on the coronavirus pandemic president trump tackled the violence channel as a leader sure. that anybody could do it. antony felt she says the campaign adverted has been edited to make him seem to be endorsing the president's handling of the crisis the complaint klippel felt she was comments reveals he was actually talking about his team he says in his 50 years of public service he's never publicly endorsed any political candidates with just 3 weeks to go to the presidential election the latest polls by a washington post and a.b.c. news suggest the pandemic is now hurting donald trump asked who they trust more to handle the outbreak 55 percent of voters back democratic candidate joe biden 17 points ahead of trump biden is also

a 12 point lead over trump in the race for the white house and it's women who are giving him the advantage biden is 23 points ahead among female voters that's the widest margin among women for any presidential candidate dating back to 1976 eric is a professor of political science and public administration at the university of north carolina charlotte he argues the latest polls lack context and what the swing voters are rating such as the pandemic in the economy will be the deciding factor in the weeks ahead. it was a big week and we've seen a shift slightly in the poll towards biden what we don't know yet is whether that's a short term shift in reaction merely to the events of the week were whether that's a shift saying that some of the undecided voters have now made up their mind and

they're shifting in the direction of joe biden hopefully the polls this week and next week will help us sort that out we had the access hollywood tape in 2016 where president trump was quoted as saying he'd like to grab women by the generals there was a big shift in the polls but of course it didn't last so we'll see whether the shift we've seen over the last week is more reaction a short term reaction to that news were whether it's something permanent i will say the american pollsters have have learned what went wrong in 2016 and have made adjustments to the polls how they report them in order to try to avoid the mistakes that were made last time around so i would trust the results of this time to a large extent americans always are likely to rate the economy is the most important issue but i think the key for understanding what's going on is that the economy is running to overwhelmingly is the most important issue by republicans democrats and independents are more likely to really the virus is more important so

it's more important what the swing voters are rating is the important issue rather than the people who are already going to vote for donald trump. the u.s. supreme court nominee amy county barrett's confirmation hearing set to begin on monday that's despite 2 republicans on the senate committee having coronavirus republicans up pushing ahead rapidly to confirm before november's election a seat opened up to the death of ruth bader ginsburg a dying wish was for her replacement to be chosen often of members election. still ahead on al-jazeera millions of children across africa head back to school following the crown a virus shut down. scientists in chile believe they found a possible corona virus mutation in a remote region of the country. however

in southeast asia it's been extensively flooded as this monsoon trough slowly has sas because it's developing tropical depressions tropical storms in its wake lynn 1st now form the parts but lanka is still to come so we're going to add to the existing trouble this will probably make landfall further south in vietnam but it will induce rain for the south on itself anyway so the flood there is get more flooded this plenty of rain still to come in the far south of cambodia bits of thailand big chassis of light to redevelop regrow in borneo they've been spotted around recently with a concentrated more and if you look of the philippines this is another one life developed into a tropical storm at some point probably over the weekend coming science to australia now because la niña has it in for snow which tends to push all the action but further west we will be watching this part of the ocean not immediately were probably by early december an early start to tropical storm season. but benefit

otherwise in new south wales we've seen rain recently only about 20 percent of new south wales is reporting drought it was 99 percent before this spring rain started so the farmers are loving it because it could go too far but the immediate future is fairly dry discussion is no more than that but pretty warm in the west in perth . from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against least amount we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generation the brush fire nearing future energy. route.

back you're watching our desert time to recap our headlines there's been renewed fighting over the occupied region of nagorno-karabakh overnight i mean years reporting new shelling along the southern part of the line of contact on civilian areas have not been hit by john says it struck several trivia as for breaching the humanitarian scenes. human rights activists are accusing tanzania's government of persecuting political opponents in the rop to this month's general election and seem to national says the law is being weaponized to crack down on opposition figures and journalists twitter has flagged the tweets by u.s. president donald trump as misleading of the. claimed he was immune to coronavirus

trumps also declared he's free of covert 19 weeks after testing positive. millions of students in 12 african countries are heading back to class schools reopen following more than 6 months of lock downs universities are also expected to reopen despite the corona virus outbreak some lecturers are warning they won't be going back to work unless they get a pay rise. joins us live now he's in nairobi so are the schools prepared for the return of students what sort of precautions are being put in place now. this school is in one of the largest the most densely populated slums in nairobi reopened but we have some precautions in place that children have to wash their hands frequently with so they're also wearing masks been some drums placed inside classrooms like this for

washing and we can take a look inside the classroom so it's only 3 groups that have resumed today they. wouldn't organizations say this is good not just for learning but also for children welfare field you know your interest. in the work. i was. free to do to sit exams the government going to see how this goes and if it goes well they're hoping the farther you go. back to. the dark indicate. the record of virus hasn't turned out as bad as some others fear that least so far right. at the beginning of the pandemic a lot of public health experts the. we're fearing

a disaster we. could areas high rates of the rather this. is the kind of major crisis. i just hasn't happened less than 800 people have died of cove in kenya according to the official figures people don't trust the government figures. a lot less here than there has been in other more developed countries but scientists based on the available data think that the pandemic here in late july and that about a 3rd or more than a 3rd of the population has already had it that would be incredible as well on its way to herd immunity i think that only about one in 5 people have. any symptoms at all so this data is yet to be reviewed but if that's right. may well be crossed the worst of what we're seeing 2nd wave coming in europe or america people here in kenya maybe to the worst little children. in school. all right thanks

so much malcolm they're in school scientists in a remote region of chile are investigating a possible new taishan of corona virus my alice the southern tip of south america has seen an unusually high rate of infection recently our latin america to lucy knew in reports. named after the explorer magellan chile's mother younis region and its capital in us are known as the gateway to antartica a place so cold you need heating nearly year round scientists at the university of miami is investigating why remote region with only one percent of the population is made just string nearly 20 percent of the country's cases of cold 19 have discovered a new strand of corona virus has taken over. 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. the viruses and 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 matt yanis have been steadily increasing despite a strict lockdown earlier this week the number of people infected have not yet it was the same as here in the capital except that now they got it has the lowest 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 in an effort 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 and. are you 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 that hospitals will be able to cope with the unrelenting viral outbreak you see in human al-jazeera sente al israel army has deployed its medical corps to help treat civilians a parking gauge a parking garage rather has been converted into a treatment facility that could accommodate up to 8000 patients the move is aimed

at helping the country's health care system which is struggling amid the current virus pandemic israel has reported more than 290000 infections the turkish navy says it's conducting a seismic survey in the eastern mediterranean sea over the next 10 days the move is 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 fields as the majority greek republic of cyprus. a state of emergency has been extended in kyrgyzstan's capital bishkek it was declared by the president last week following days of unrest over the election which the opposition says was raked child strafford has more from bishkek . the crime only john off runs a small bakery on the outskirts of the curate's capsule be skank. he says he's

never really been interested in politics but the chaos of last week following the wreaked parliamentary election has changed everything. but. i didn't vote in the elections because i could see they were not going to be fair but i definitely vote in the next election we cannot give up hope for our future we owe it to our children to. japan are seen here being greeted by supporters after they freed from jail during post-election protests serving 11 year jail term kidnapping . now he's prime minister so 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 showed the president soren by jim bekoff says is necessary to prevent armed confrontation between rival

opposition groups. but the new prime minister supporters who had the day before charged to 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 stretches far as moscow may have been involved in the election rigging the post-election violence and will be happy with the result. or often his supporters vehemently reject the allegation that he is involved with criminals. he said he wants to arrest this man powerful clan leader one time deputy head of customs running back my train more in the

opposition parties accused him of a vote pouring for pro-government parties and supporting japan over the post-election calles that eventually saw him become the new prime minister analysts say kyrgyzstan's journey towards democracy was a nightmare for russia that has so much political influence here their criminal elements had been spoken of by it's 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. back at the bakery no matter the down free and fair elections in the promised rerun of the parliamentary poll crim hopes his vote will count chance trafford al-jazeera. stands president has won more than 90 percent of the vote in sunday's election victory extends a. 28 year rule making him one of the world's longest serving leaders independent

election monitors highlighted a lack of genuine political competition. anti-government demonstrators in belarus are keeping the pressure on president alexander lukashenko to stand down they protested in the capital for a 10th consecutive sunday despite a crackdown by police alexander bio's reports. bleeding from tear gas and stun grenades similar scenes of chaos and panic across the capital scores of people detained in the most violent police crackdown seen in weeks several 1000 protesters dodge police who used water cannon and stun grenades tackled and beaten with batons by masked officers others seen injured and dazed on the ground. more than 13000 people have been detained in weeks of protests they say the presidential election in early august was rigged they're

risking it all to demand president alexander lukashenko resignation people want change and yes of course the weather might strange things you know further as we approach the winter but at the moment i see still a lot of mobilization and the fact that a lot of opposition figures have been either detained or pushed out of the country hasn't significantly impacted the their mobilization on the ground people are still coming out to protest despite the fact that these protests and actively leaderless . and unexpected meeting held by lucas and go with opposition activists in a prison led to many doubting the strength of his position state media says he discussed constitutional reform with his political rivals. you know half of you here are lawyers i'm perfectly understand that the constitution can't be written in the streets and i'm trying to convince both your supporters and society at large

that we must have a broader view towards these problems. but beyond those prison walls the deadlock. in use with military vehicles and armed police still dominating the streets and protesters fouling to continue until they see real democratic change alexandra buyers' al jazeera. police in paris did climate change protesters who climbed the eiffel tower climbers and a dozen extinction rebellion activists unfurled a giant ballot to condemn environmental degradation in a similar protest on wednesday access to the german parliament in berlin was blocked water levels in one of the longest rivers in south america dropped to their lowest in half a century activists say deforestation and wildfires have led to months of extreme drought on the part of why river it starts in brazil flows through bolivia and part

of why then into argentina 85 percent of part of wise foreign trade is transported along the river but the low water level has slowed traffic and cause prices to increase india's largest city was plunged into darkness on monday after a major failure of mumbai's electricity grid power cuts stranded train passengers and delayed college exams engineers blame technical problems and say electricity is since been restored to many areas of the city. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here and now there's been no letup in fighting over the occupied region of nevada however civilian areas have not been hit armenia says there's been new shelling along the southern part of the line of contact or those are by jan says several military vehicles.