what's most important is talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing 6 . deadly clashes continue. while russia and turkey argue over how to end the conflict. but from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera thousands of families flee just safer areas after days of intense fighting in afghanistan's helmand province israel approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settler in the occupied west bank heavy rain triggers flash floods and

landslides bringing the latest from both vietnam and cambodia. first of all the fighting on the ground and in words as well between the 2 sides and their allies both armenia and azerbaijan continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violations but it's russia calling for an immediate end to the fighting moscow wants the dispute settled through diplomatic means its defense minister spoken to both sides and urged them to abide by the cease fire which came into force on saturday. so let's hear from both sides armenia 1st of all a russian ally has a defense pact with moscow but president putin says that actually doesn't apply to nagorno-karabakh i mean his prime minister is accusing azerbaijan of not wanting to stop the aggression until it takes over the normal kind of a region that began

a separate us though tom what you mean by zhang didn't keep the ceasefire agreement for even a 2nd and up to now continues attacks in during the creation of the verifying mechanism of ceasefire monitoring it means that as a budget and continues its policy of occupying the whole nagorno-karabakh and azerbaijan which is backed by turkey its president says there will be consequences if i were to target pipelines in the disputed region. is armenia put their ugly plans to make gas pipelines as of water into practice the response will be very severe for them if we want to resolve this difference of opinion and we want this we must have countries that would suit to the purpose of maintaining peace and of course we see the brother country turkey taking part in this process. so of course he has this report now from each of you are in azerbaijan. by the cease fire the fighting continues for us are very johnnie's than

what we hear from the as our ridge on officials is that they are continuing to fight but as not an offensive way as a defense a way because they say we are being our mania violated the cease fire they have been firing at us so we are responding to those elements or to those attacks this is what they say and this morning we woke up with a tweet by geo assistant to the president he said that azerbaijan armed forces destroyed ready to launch ballistic missiles of our mania it wasn't a civilian area it was an empty area and his army is successful to destroy those milicic missiles so. there is a war ongoing in the battlefield there is a war ongoing in terms of media in terms of news and propaganda in a way apparently both sides believe that both financially and in terms of paris and our military personnel wise this war is kind of stuck this cease fire could have

been a way to benefit for both sides but while asians are still under way but compared to the forces fight it's less and with a view from the other side of the conflict zone and smith now you know i mean here with more on what the prime minister had to say. an admittance from the prime minister of armenia nicol pasha now that there are having difficult times he said that in address to the nation today and he said that we have had many many losses and i mourn them and i take all the victims personally i bow in front of them 532 at least i think armenians soldiers killed in the fighting and when the government releases their names it releases that dates of birth most of them born between 20012002 just 18 or 19 years old doesn't release the list of killed soldiers but there will be casualties on their side as well as aires the armenians i should say believe that turkey's involvement in this fight has made

things is helped give the advantage to azerbaijan azerbaijan to spend billions on israeli and turkish weaponry armenia does not have the resources. and that is why it's finding this such a challenge tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape days of heavy fighting between government troops and taliban fighters aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by the wounded from the battles. me which began in southern afghanistan on saturday the fighting in helmand province centers on the regional capital lashkar gah u.s. airstrikes hand support of the afghan security forces on the ground but this major taliban offensive coincides with peace talks being held here in counter the fighting could also complicate donald trump's plans to have american soldiers home by christmas his report a failure in kabul who says help services are really being stretched in the area

where the fighting is happening. their main trauma hospital in provincial capital moscow has been operating at full capacity cannot treat anymore people and the m.s.f. supported another m.s.f. supported hospital in the area has been serving as an overflow facility with over 20 people have been admitted there in the past 24 hours and among them are even pregnant women and children in terms of the displaced according to the u.n. and local sources 35000 people have been forced to flee their homes a lot of them with nothing but their clothes we've seen pictures of them trying to load as much as they can and some model bikes and try to escape the fighting now are you in assessment teams are on the air in the try to assess the situation and it's extremely difficult to get information and a lot of the infrastructure the telephone lines have been damaged so it's hard to assess what exactly what the exact needs are. coronavirus news in the u.k.

has recorded nearly 20000 new cases in a day britain 2nd ticed number of daily infections so far it comes as england introduces a new 3 year lockdown system to curb its worsening outbreak liverpool is the only area at the highest level of the restrictions but other regions could follow. germany's reporting a 6 month high in new infections the latest daily tally confirms will been $5000.00 new cases and so chancellor angela merkel is meeting state leaders to decide whether new restrictions are necessary in 1700 germans have died since the operator began. and france is to unveil some new measures on wednesday as it struggles to control 2nd wave including reports that a curfew could be imposed in paris from their reports. soon after moving to paris in september these british students fell sick with coronavirus they began

having symptoms after attending university events and welcome parties it was stationed distance while wearing masks but it sometimes that doesn't stop if you're in a crowded place and you haven't stopped going to electricity very tired in between needy half the students in a year were infected for some recovery has been slow i mean i was covered before but even i just want to get it again or other for me and now i'm a lot more like conscious of it. you coded infections are rising rapidly in paris particularly among the young in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board trees like this one in the city have been getting longer and more paris health officials say it's a one in 5 tests is coming back positive france's government has placed the city on maximum alert bars gyms and pools a shot people are urged to work from home and avoid public transport. there is

a reality of a 2nd wave and showing implore people clearly that we must mobilize each and every one to face this 2nd wave we cannot afford to let a set. despite the restrictions paris's intensive care beds continue to fill with covert patients hospital officials warn they are near capacity the problem says this epidemiology just is that the government is taking the wrong approach relying on restrictive measures rather than whites protesting solution would be to assign to test. the population and that can be done both using p.c.r. test with group. just thing when you put in one tube those samples from 20 or 30 people. also in the test so that's what's being done in the countries where the virus has been contained the french president is expected to discuss testing and an ounce more strict sions in a rare t.v.

interview on wednesday for months emmanuel michael has urged people to live with the virus but as the country battles a 2nd wave some hope he'll use his address to inject a sense of gravity into an increasingly urgent situation tasha butler al jazeera paris. now there are more protests against government corruption taking place in cyprus this is after the al-jazeera exposé of senior politicians willing to sell supreme courts to convicted criminals the government has now abolished its program the investment for citizenship scheme we're off to nicosia now outside the parliament with david harrison. of course put together that report with the investigative unit we were talking to a couple of hours ago david how things building now. well it's been quite extraordinary i mean it's actually thinning out a little bit now where you can still hear the noise behind me there's chanting they

want resignations they're sick of corruption they want their country back and we've seen some amazing things out here all when i was talking to a local t.v. company to get interview and when i looked up there about 40 people around filming and praising al-jazeera and this is an amazing turn around when we 1st arrived here and we did a trailer for all film that was sort of conspiracy theories being put around what zoologists here is agenda all they're picking on cyprus and then the film came out and there's just been this incredible turnaround everybody seems to think the evidence presented is for miserably strong and they've got on board and they're full of praise for al-jazeera value i think some of them are saying things like it's galvanized them it's galvanized into action they want to clean a cypress they want these people out they want demetrius allure is the president of the parliament who stepped down from his duties but hasn't actually resigned they want him to go they want to clean out and they say it's given them new hope that cyprus can actually become a better place what i've been impressed by is just the passion and there's

a sense of catharsis hip people have been waiting for this opportunity for years and little did we know that our investigation would be the thing that would trigger it is the well i just said the opposition there must be seizing upon this seeing a real opportunity as well as the people. yes they are the opposition have joined in calling for lots of resignations they're also expressing some skepticism about the decision announced 2 days ago to abolish the passport for investment scheme they say they've had this kind of thing before it's been diluted they weaken it there's strength there and they've always gone back to what they describe as their old tricks but you know there's also the fact that this passport investment scheme isn't actually to be abolished until the end of the month and they say that gives them a chance to push through a backlog of up occasions with all that implies in terms of potential money laundering that that could happen to they're also worried that the scheme although

it's been abolished could return a bit in a different guise and could lead to the same kind of corruption but other people are saying this feels different this time and it was interesting that today there was a meeting of a parliamentary committee to be chaired by dimitris so we're is the speaker of parliament who stepped down from his duties from next monday interesting enough all the m.p.'s and this is across party committee all m.p.'s including m.p.'s from his own ruling party refused to join the meeting that saloon was chairing i think that tells you something about the shift that's happening in cyprus david welcome to you in the team and thank you for that live report david harrison is from the al-jazeera investigative units. in the news ahead we'll look at greece where a court is handed down long sentences for leaders of the far right golden dawn party which is convicted of running a criminal gang. member in nigeria as well where protests against police brutality are going on for a 7th day in

a row. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast just look in little italy cool side the chilly side full wrap parts of the middle east over the next couple days i k it's all relative but we'll see temperatures here in doha for example at around 34 celsius a pleasant 34 well into the mid thirty's there full kuwait time for baghdad warm enough pleasantly warm there just around the levant 2627 there for jerusalem i'd also for beirut and similar values as we go on into friday when they just say we don't how we're going to struggle we can call it that to get above 30 degrees celsius fight in try for the most part has a sunshine to a jewel truth be told we'll see some showers there as per usual across the central parts of africa it sink in the way further south was rowand pushing across into

where burundi seeing some heavier rain some heavy rain there up towards lake victoria heavy downpours there just around the without even millau we could see some much needed rainfall over the next couple of days central parts of tanzania with an on show brace could catch some very heavy showers possibility of some localized flooding coming in here and heavy showers too into a good part of angola now to the south of that it is generated dry will see temperatures getting up to around 22 celsius in capetown a 20 there for paul to this with showers moving their way into the madagascar. frank assessments if american public opinion fears betrayed by social media platforms after november this would be with a cautious if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion lucas said his don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get revolution. in-depth

analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. brought the top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera russia is urging armenia and azerbaijan to settle the not going to cut about conflict through diplomatic means a media and azerbaijan of accused each other of attacks on civilians ever since russia brokered a cease fire on saturday. tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape 4 days of fighting between taliban and government forces aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by the wounded in helmand province and corona virus

infections are surging through europe to their highest levels and yet england's introduce new restrictions france and germany are expected to follow france's also announced a public health emergency starting saturday. israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank this is the 1st time israel has approved the building of settlements since it normalized its relations with the united arab emirates and. the settlements are considered illegal under international law. or near ramallah or in the occupied west bank with reaction from the palestinians the spokesperson of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has condemned the israeli move saying that israel is using the silence of the international community and what he called the free normalization deals with israel this is the 1st announcement of its kind after the u.a.e. thawing the agreement with israel to normalize relations and the u.a.e.

has said that this agreement has put an extension plans on hold but for palestinians israel is moving forward with building more and more illegal israeli settlements including this one this is the settlement of sogo it's one of the settlements that's going to be expanded as per the new plan and palestinians are saying that more and more certain moments are being built on palestinians person in ground rendering any future palestinian contiguous future palestinian state almost impossible palestinians are hoping that the democratic candidate will win the u.s. elections and. the palestinian prime minister how much say stay has said if trump wins a 2nd term god helps us all delegates from israel and lebanon which are 2 countries technically at war have met for the 1st time in decades in direct talks about their

maritime border dispute it's happening in the south of lebanon both sides claim parts of the mediterranean sea where oil and gas has been discovered so how to reports from the quarter. away from the media israeli and lebanese negotiators talk about a decades old maritime border dispute for the 1st time the hostile neighbors are sitting in the same room but are speaking through their un hosts and u.s. mediators they insist this is not about making peace but it's about extending the exploration of potentially gaz a rich waters in the mediterranean the timing appears to be political it's quite peculiar that is happening. when us. toward some of them used. to simply mean that. the deal was announced after u.s. sanctions were imposed on politicians including

a close ally to speaker of parliament nabih berri for corruption and financially enabling hezbollah berry is an ally of the iranian backed group which has fought wars with israel in the past and previously opposed the us mediating role in the dispute hezbollah says its attitude toward israel hasn't changed and given that it's the strongest force in lebanon its approval is needed for talks to go ahead both israel and lebanon and says the negotiations are not about normalization or reconciliation but this is the 1st time the 2 sides discussed a civilian issue since middle east peace talks in 1990 israel and lebanon claim about 860 square kilometers in the mediterranean sea where significant gas fields have been discovered the problem was. i don't. want to walk and them. best. but amid

a reaction campaign the trumpet ministration has politically invested in these talks coming after the u.s. brokered deals between israel and the u.a.e. and. they were ordering a pressure further pressure and the u.s. having some sort of agreement moving forward but obviously the israeli by having more direct engagement with the mother or. even it's limited at this point that's not a full organization but but i think at this point it's a win win what's not to get in the that we have in the especially a quick one there is no deadline but in the words of a u.s. diplomat the talks can bring about stability and security along the volatile border deal or not for now these negotiations are serving the interests of all the parties involved. southern lebanon a member of the far right golden dawn party in greece has been sentenced to life in

prison for the murder of a rap artist the head of the party which is not in the criminal organization was also jailed for 13 years golden dawn members entered the parliament at the peak of the great financial crisis tapping into the anger against austerity measures it also had a fiercely anti immigrant agenda in. reporting from athens i think this is thought to be the 1st time in europe there's a lot see a party or a fascist party has been convicted in its entirety the 18th golden dawn members of parliament who entered the legislature in 2012 with 7 percent of the popular vote and all now been given severe prison sentences of the 6 most senior including the party leader 13 years plus 6 months to a year for weapons possession a 7th leading m.p. gets 10 years and the remaining 11 which includes the wife of the party leader get

between. 5 and 7 years for membership in golden dawn that's because golden dawn was deemed by the court to be a criminal organization masquerading as a political party because all of the acts of violence committed by golden dawn members were deemed to be part of a systemic agenda for violence by the party directed by the leadership that's why the leadership has twice the sentences of the other m.p.'s who weren't part of the political committee of the percy so full directing all being a member of a criminal organization all of those employees now face those jail times the european union is imposing sanctions on 6 people over the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei navalny the asset freezes and travel bans reported they target people in the defense ministry and the spy agency valley's recovering in

berlin after being poisoned in siberia in august moscow continues to deny responsibility. least 36 people have died in flooding in vietnam as a tropical storm makes landfall the coast has been hit by a series of weather fronts in recent days and more rain is expected support for mentorship hell entire villages submerged but even before tropical storm non-catastrophic this region hundreds of thousands of families in central vietnam are struggling to cope 2 weeks of rain have left communities isolated many can only be reached by boat it is. close to a 1000000 people in. this life and their homes. and livelihood. none cause expected to drop up to 400 millimeters of rain on north and central vietnam by friday. 200000 homes have already been flooded along with

rice fields that people depend on to earn a living that's on top of hardships brought by the coronavirus these. continue to work. because that. already. so so. many. in the. rescue workers are delivering food and other supplies in the worst affected provinces into walked in hey province search and rescue teams are looking for survivors following a series of landslides a landslide at a hydropower dam left some workers dead and others missing a 2nd landslide trapped rescuers trying to reach them with more bad weather to come many are concerned about what will happen in the days ahead and should help al jazeera. it is the 3rd day of the u.s. confirmation hearings for donald trump's supreme court judge pick any barrett still

in the state facing questions from senate committee members she's been pressed by democrats on key issues things like health care abortion and election disputes still a few hours of that to go today in pakistan thousands of government employees are protesting against the reduction of the retirement age from 60 to 55 demonstrators say the government's just trying to scrap a number of employment benefits come on how it was that the protests in islamabad. it has been just a little over to run khan's government. and in islamabad he promised the people a better way of life better. and livelihoods instead what we find here is that day by day the protests are growing the opposition is threatening to launch a wave of protest across the country and i you can keep behind me the white collar

worker the cleric who has been working for the government across the country and head in islamabad a shouting distance from pakistan parliament with a clear message that enough is enough the economy is spinning out of control essential commodities like florida where your table oil is already out of the control of many pocket and these people are angry because they say that the government has nor delivered on their promise they. even run its shame for all of us who voted for him in kind we did hope that he would change the destiny of this country and make life better for the poor unfortunately he has failed to deliver their primitive art. i strongly condemn him wrong construct tony in policies towards his own government employees no pinchin or no superstructure and even no other benefits is policy requires he used to believe in

democracy and freedom of speech but today his government's own police is trying to prevent our protest. the government on the other hand of cortlandt pay their data under conditions from the world bank. i.m.f. and because of covert 19 and natural the doctor of the economy is not in good shape but doubted the kind of dog there did people want to hear they will not leave this rain you. where which will become pakistan equivalent of hyde park corner. nigerians are protesting against police brutality for the 7th day in a row the latest rallies followed police agreeing to stop using force against demonstrators at least 2 protesters and an officer died in the nationwide rallies after an interest police squad implicated in extradition killings and torture now the government has since abolished that group a special anti robbery squad and is replacing it with

a new swat team manager says more from the capital of georgia. the practice here in a job is distracting traffic and forcing gridlock on major streets in the city and this protest is coming just hours after these particular the police and i was the formation of a new tactic or you need to do with one crimes in nigeria remember in the early days in the past 2 days we've seen how the government has announced that it has scrapped that unit the protesters are calling for which is the special interests court now the youths are not happy with what has been a painful what has been done so far they want on the part of the police i believe government to investigate how the question is. on the street. talking to one of the protesters is going to tell us tell us why you are still protesting and protest in today because they have been chanting and from sas the

fed just us from federal response and now. that you. know organizers want to make this more national thing they want to expand not only itself protests against police brutality but they also want to see more reforms in the public sector they want all officials leaders politicians and everybody more accountable to the public in nigeria so this is one of the things that is keeping these protests rolling. half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the headlines russia is urging armenia and azerbaijan to settle the new going to cut about conflicts through diplomatic means a media and azerbaijan of the queues each other of attacks on civilians ever since russia broke the cease fire on saturday smith has more on that fighting for.

there is still a lot of fighting along the line of contact and the angry rhetoric between.