al jazeera. every. rule. this is al-jazeera. this is a news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes several european countries imposing new coronavirus restrictions as global cases exceed 40000000. unofficial results in bolivia suggest a win for us a socialist candidate from exiled former leader even more honest his party. no

country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously and it responsibly as russia. the us justice department charges 6 members of russian military intelligence over alleged white scale cyber times thousands in bangkok to fire a ban on protests for a 6 day forcing a change of tone from the prime minister. and more than 50 u.s. lawmakers demand the release of political activists and journalists facing dangerous conditions in egypt's prisons. so the number of people around the world who have contracted coronavirus is now exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people have died of covert 900. past 24 hours and that

brings the total number of fatalities up to more than $30000.00 and more than $10000000.00 cases have been reported across latin america brazil argentina colombia they're among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are imposing more restrictions to tackle the new wave of infections and wales is going into a nationwide lockdown for 2 weeks that starts on friday it's one of the worst hit areas in the united kingdom well let's hear from john hall now in london who says the world down did not come as a surprise. whales of course already under restrictions much of the country and on friday to the rather unprecedented step of banning people from travelling to wales from high infection locations in england and scotland other parts of the united kingdom of course and then mark directed earlier in the day today that's the 1st minister in the devolved ministration in wales announcing this 2 week lock down to

begin on friday that's the beginning of the state schools hard to break it'll last for 2 weeks it is pretty deep this locked down almost as much as the one the national locked down across the u.k. earlier in the year that's the picture of wales of course wales is not the only place enduring these sorts of restrictions at the moment the north of england the midlands of england in particular having an uphill battle lots of cities up there university cities have seen infection rates going up exponentially in recent weeks after the return of students to campuses in september liverpool under tears 3 lock down restrictions us the highest here in england the mayors of other cities like manchester newcastle and so on resisting government efforts to put them into tears re saying of the science doesn't stack up and the money isn't there to compensate for the loss of jobs and the businesses that will go under as a result of a big battle underway with downing street it's ended in deadlock in meetings today the minute the mayor's saying they won't do it downing street responding saying

look your infection rates are out of control your hospitals are going to be full by the middle of november if you don't text sept the money and the new deal that we've got on the table now will force you under these restrictions or we'll do it without the extra cash incentive. on a global public health expert and a senior fellow at university college london school of pharmacy and she says there's hope that multiple vaccines could be ready by the 1st quarter of next year . we do have some 200 candidates currently 42 are human trials so the robot pipeline is robust which is great means we have different types of platforms being used as well it's likely that it won't just be one vaccine but multiple that are going to be distributed all around the world and there is positive developments with after zeneca so we do hope that by the 1st quarter 2021 there should be ability to get those 1st doses out but still if

we look at who that's going to go to it just simply won't be possible to do it all at once so it is going to have to be a staged approach in the don't we chose working with gavi and set b. and countries to help prioritize create a framework so the vulnerable and healthcare workers have access purse but it won't be readily available to people straight away which creates an opportunity for falsifying medical products to men entering the markets and that's one concern going forward we've already seen a shift of criminal activity to warrant st p. p. e. fake tests and all these other complications are unintended consequence. well there's news about an experimental vaccine in brazil so let's cross over to rio de janeiro where you know if you have his life for us and want to tell us about the news about that experimental vaccine and what the picture is across the country right now. well this is just one of many

vaccines that are being tested in brazil it's produced with the chinese institute so nowak it's called corona vaccine it was already administered 2 doses were already administered to $9000.00 volunteers and there weren't too many side effects but now the question is how effective will the vaccine be. i we just spoke recently to were a researcher who said that hopes are that they were it will be like 50 to 60 percent effective besides this this vaccine which is being tested in some bottle which is the richest state also by the end of the year they were hoping to have the russian vaccine into other brazilian states that's the sputnik 5 vaccine and finally they're also testing here the astra zeneca vaccine with dogs for so there's at least there are many vaccines that are now

being tested but the one that's ahead of all of them right now is the corona vaccine from china right and that you can't come soon enough to move in 10000000 cases being reported across lots of america and as you say the brazil argentina colombia among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world given the broader picture if you would across the tumor. well yes brazil is like a still the 2nd largest world hotspot after the united states it's reaching 154000 dead more than $3000200.00 infections the president the 1st lady and one of the. have been among the infected they were they they were cured but still. argentina which had a much serious much more serious lockdown then brazil where the covert 19 and that macwas minimized in argentina no they took

a very strong stance but still the infections are rising which is very worrying and then you also have of course peru and colombia which are among the largest the ones that are having more contamination now so it's a pretty gruesome scenario. going to be there for many thanks very much that's a picture from rio de janeiro you know. i was talking about united states where the number of you infections has reached the highest levels since july since late july in fact over 70000 cases reported just on friday that's the highest since the country's peak this summer hospitalizations are increasing in more than 40 states the current surge is different from previous ones because it's spread across several states many states at this point the ship returns used live for us in washington d.c. deeply troubling these figures. right especially since they seem to be occurring slightly before what was expected to be

a surge in numbers as winter truly hits the united states 'd people going indoors and so on this is all happening slightly before the winter weather has really hit and that's why it's particularly concerning when the winter was supposed to be the 2nd search but what are we saying now in that case as you said that that the 70000 cases reported in just one day on friday is particularly concerning i want to. use you with with numbers but at least 17 states reported record covert code cases last week and there is that number that you just pointed to hospitalizations going up hospitalizations increasing in some 39 states 40 states perhaps at least reaching a weakling new peaks in 6 states that's particularly concerning because the mayor bit of sun so we get more numbers of testing improved but there was a hope that most people would be asymptomatic wouldn't be feeling feeling the effects of covert $170.00 the death rates are far lower at their peak earlier in the year but if hospitalizations are going up about that that is very very about

wiring as well. this goes without saying we have to mention how this all keys into the u.s. election. right but what a fascinating a fascinating dichotomy in that survey from donald trump's public pronouncements he seems to think that his approach to covert is no a winning one over the weekend he was very scathing about joe biden for quote listening to the scientists and closing down the economy joe biden responded in a tweet to a one word tweet today saying well yes. trump it appears thinks that his argument that we don't want to lock down the united states is a winning one that that is a clear choice that he can win in fact just today he was railing against. the us is leading infectious disease specialists this is the quote from donald trump a campaign goal a few hours ago people are tired of curve it people are saying whatever just leave us alone and people are tired of hearing found tree and all these idiots he's been here for like 500 years he's like this wonderful sage telling us well if we listen

to him we'd have 700800 deaths and he also said you know every time he goes on television there's always a bomb but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him but trump seeming to suggest that there's a fear that there is this pandemic fatigue that he could actually key in to make a winning a winning argument a winning closing argument if you will this close to the election. thanks a lot so she ever times there in washington d.c. let's head over now to iran a dorsett you parys in tehran and she says that many iranians just can't afford to take restrictions that seriously. one of the main reasons and that is one of our also the cause of concern for health officials is that people are not taking these restrictions seriously in the capital despite the fact that many people are asked to stay home in the schools or close in your verses are all closed there is still a lot of people that are going about their daily routines the malls are open restaurants are still open and they are not hearing to the words of the health

officials who are urging people to limit their movements in the city this is also one of the reasons that one of the main reasons for that is that many people don't have the luxury of staying home they have to earn a living there is no help financial aid from the government that's being offered at the moment so many people that we've spoken to say staying home for them is just not an option they have to make a living so the traffic that we see on a regular basis in the capital one of the busiest provinces in the country continues despite this outbreak even though people are the majority of people that we see across the city where masked there are still many people who go about their daily business and they try to earn a living in many of the taxi drivers that we spoke to say they just can't afford to stay home they have to earn their day's wage because there is absolutely no help financial aid from the government during this pandemic. chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat who's a 1000000 medically induced coma will be treated for coronavirus complications he was taken to hospital in west jerusalem from his home in the occupied west bank on

sunday don't to say he is in critical condition after can try to cope with. nearly 2 weeks ago. but the most ahead on the news hour including another cease fire on the edge of collapse the u.n. chief says. media are ignoring international calls to stop fighting we'll have the latest. calling for change in chile tens of thousands rally across the country some protests descend into violence. and in sport the los angeles dodgers are on their way to the world series people have. now the u.s. justice department says they have challenged 6 russian intelligence officers for the lead roles in multiple cyber attacks that spanned over 4 years washington says

the individual known some of the world's most destructive malware the group is. accused of attacking ukraine's prime a grid in 2015 and disrupting the 2100 winter olympics and. time no country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously and it responsibly as russia wantonly causing unprecedented collateral damage to pursue small tactical advantages and fits of spite the defendants in this case were all members of the military unit 74455 of the russian main intelligence directorate known as the g.r.u. the department previously charged members of the same unit also known to cyber security researchers as the sand worm team for their role in russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 u.s. elections. when it can be how could joins us from washington d.c.

and can you tell us more about what is alleged to be this litany of malicious cyber times. yeah well in terms of the charges that these alleged hackers face that includes computer fraud conspiracy and this group known as sound were also is known in the intelligence and security circles by a few other names including tele bots voodoo bear and even hades now apparently these 6 individuals in their twenty's and thirty's have a very long rap sheet if you will in allegations of a ledge tax that they have participated and you mentioned a few of the big ones but according to the u.s. justice department really they've had a number of major political as well as financial and even athletic targets some of them not getting as much press as the ukrainian power grid or the interference in the winter olympics that took place back in 2018 now in terms of the current

election 2020 u.s. election the set to take place in just a day more than 2 weeks from now no mention about any potential interference in that and you also heard the justice official talking about separate charges that were laid against 12 individuals for interference in the 2016 u.s. election this really tends to be more to do with some of the infrastructure as well as again political and financial targets still the concern about this group is the kind of the damage that has been done in the billions of $1.01 justice official saying that this is one of the most dangerous and aggressive groups out there and while there have been in the past some sanctions u.s. sanctions as well as the e.u. sanctions against russia for some of the routes of where they are responsible for allegedly this is the 1st time that we've seen individuals being charged right in the lympics the paralympic games are prone to the tokyo 2020 limits which would cause

a split and rules are targeted you wonder what was russia who can to achieve by talking to the school to put slogans. well what the u.s. justice department says is that there is a reason that there is such a broad range of targets is that essentially given the fact that this group works for the g.r.u. or the military intelligence in russia that this was any group or person or individual that may have in some way slighted russia so in other words if there was sort of a militia tweet or a perceived malicious tweet or even something much larger in scale those individuals or groups potentially would become targets or it can be thanks to that can be how can reporting from washington d.c. . good electoral body has dismissed selu delhi india low self declared victory in the presidential election police fired tear gas and opposition supporters who took to the streets to celebrate his announcement 82 year old

incumbent has been vying for a 3rd term in office the final results are not expected for the days. folk counting is underway in bolivia's presidential election unofficial early results suggest that. it has won he's the candidate from the socialist party of former president even more as he was forced out of office software a disputed vote last year now even though county is still ongoing former president even moran is already declaring victory for do is now 30 his party's candidate from his refuge in argentina ralitsa hailed the libyan people for ensuring a difficult yeah it was undoubtedly to do it is a historic day once again the bolivian people have delivered to listen in democracy and perseverance the people have resisted a coup a defacto government to massacres a pandemic management marked by inefficiency and corruption several delays on the elections and the worst economic crisis in our history. is about i was following

developments from the neighboring argentinian capital of one of their. sunday's elections sunday's vote was a historic day for bolivia it happened peacefully with no major incidents which comes as a surprise after what we've been seeing in the country in this past year since there was a failed election that was canceled last year that left people taking to the streets to demand it one with a list resignation he's leaving the country and being exiled here in argentina and the protests we have seen in the country since then the cold counting process is still ongoing but unofficial results are already confirming a 20 point lead by side a say over. so what we know right now is that the unofficial results are still out there but they need to be confirmed by counting process that many are saying it's going extremely low we satisfy is a former economy minister he was able what alice minister of economy for 12 years

and many of you to him what is no one has ever known me which is a period in bolivia that saw a period of extreme growth of nationalization of the gas industry where bolivia saw growth around a 5 percent growth rate a year lifting millions of people out of poverty out of this is all happening in a country that's been polarized well many sectors of the country in cities like. others there's don't opponents of movement toward socialism sparty but in spite of this most of the analysts we have spoken to say that we sort of says victory brings stability to a polarized country or let's explore this further we can speak to. the observer works with the group could be a mix for democracy in latin america and the current women joins us now from. berkeley welcome to the program if this is confirmed how do you. richard.

you know i think is victory weeks talking a lot of people on the ground and it's not even necessarily that people voted for our say or the mosque party i think a lot of people expressed they are voting against racism against authoritarianism against violence this is been quite quite literally one of the most repressive periods in bolivia since it's become a democracy and i think people are tired and i think they went to the polls and they are trying to get out. not only a president involved in these massacres but people allied with them and so a lot of these votes i think were against violence and racism so in a sense people just wanted to draw a line under tumultuous 12 months well yes certainly to draw a line but also you know i think there was a lot of criticism of carlos mesa who came in 2nd or who likely is coming in 2nd for being silent during a lot of abuses you know there's been a lot of there's been several massacres under this government they've targeted people who spoke out against them and so people are tired and they're scared and so

they voted for the last party at least in part because they they've expressed that they want to do something different than what the current government's been doing 1st presidential election since 2002 i think even more honest has not been on the ballot but he was guiding this campaign from exile in argentina do you think this could pave the way could open the way for his return and possibly into government. people don't know i think people have mixed feelings i certainly able to express that he wants to come back and participate in politics from what i hear there's divisions in the party of whether they want that he's certainly a polarizing figure i think a lot of the opposition groups in bolivia have legitimate. critiques of abel morale this when he was in power but there's also a lot of racism that still exists in bolivia and in particular in the far right wing groups that don't want to see an indigenous person in his position back in power so i think he is polarizing it's not clear if he's going to come back or not right if this result is confirmed do you think stability will ensue do you think

the opposition will accept it. it's tough to say i think with such overwhelming support for our say i think it will be harder for there to be for instance a coup or a lot of violence but i think there is that possibility particularly in the more right wing groups i mean over the last year where state groups have grown hate crimes have grown and animosity has grown and the country split even more and so i think morale is coming back certainly will cause more frustrations but we'll see how r.c. governs you know he in his 1st speech he said we are government of reconciliation he said that we want to draw create bridges with the other side and so if he does that hopefully it will pacify the country well vote counting still underway in the presidential election as we've been discussing unofficial results just as one told us back appreciate that thanks a lot thank you. now thailand's prime minister has issued

a conciliatory message to protesters saying that rallies which were banned are now permitted as long as they're peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6 day 2 to man pray youth child which is resignation they wanted more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it would be about what the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the juicy of all time people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. there's no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the government's trying to compromise as much as possible i want to ask the protesters for a few things don't destroy government and private property don't do anything wrong and most importantly don't let there be fighting that's enough from scott hired a lawyer who has more from bangkok. this protest is in the custody district of bangkok now this is one of 3 that were announced very late in the afternoon on monday and within 90 minutes we were hear of that announcement there are people showing up in their hundreds it is swollen to more than

a couple of 1000 now again there are 2 other locations within bangkok again announce at the same time there are 6 across the northern part of thailand also being held on monday evening now it's interesting how the organizers of the protest are doing this now they're announcing the protest location time late in the afternoon and the people come out very quickly now what's interesting is that they've said the protest leaders to protest organizers that everybody is a leader so everybody is participating and you can see that here also something that's interesting is that there's a very light if no police presence that's something that's kind of transitioned over what we saw obviously last friday evening but one thing that the protesters are saying here they're going to maintain this level of protesting to put pressure on the government. the only thing that we can do is to keep coming out to show that we are not happy with the government have the monarchy reform is another important change perhaps the most important one in the past the monarchy played an important role behind many coups earlier in the day type police have said that they've

ordered a regulatory body to investigate for media outlets for possible infractions of spreading false information and also spreading information that could incite violence now this is tied to that emergency decree that came out early thursday morning also part of that decree is a ban on gatherings obviously that's something the protesters are ignoring and saying they're going to continue to ignore. the paranoids are taking a chance for a better life we need to venezuelan migrants looking for hope and opportunities abroad. and fears the repeated attacks in afghanistan could be the real tool to win the war. and hoping that messy can return to form when they begin their champions league campaign that's coming up.

hello there should be a few thunderstorms on the mountains of man in a bit of rain on the coast as this tropical depression that's what one of these falls apart is certainly picked the seas up as warning for a small craft to stay clear of that was the wind is up but beyond that the weather is quite quiet and middle east on through levant has been rather more active in turkey recently has been active front with flash floods in some parts of western turkey this is the focus to choose to the heaviest rain looks to be in the northeast it will induce a bit of a breeze afterwards so they fairly high temperatures of this part of the world will drop down by 3 or 4 degrees above average now warm still in iraq and then you cure what otherwise where it should be the heaviest rain africa is drifting sas with this seems to be slow movement but it's doing to all the same so northern towns there uganda rwanda and burundi certainly going to be wet places in the afternoon and rather more regularly i think in gaborone on the northern part of angola there

are still a few showers in south sudan as well but not as many as there were focus the galley sort of repeats robin saying sunder storms on wednesday but by thursday and friday fewer the rain then is heading slowly south where the sun. the. people of argentina have been marginalized and abroad devoted culture for generations. using 21st century tools one modifieds to reconnect to their heritage and share their culture with the next generation. viewfinder latin america discovers new filmmaking talent from around the globe. message for my daughter. 'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied the right to

a fair trial no charges have been brought against al-jazeera correspondent you're saying his crime journalists. to demand truth inks and voice solidarity with all detained journalists sign the petition. 'd you say. you're for. her again you're watching her mind about top stories and more than 40000000 people around the world who can try to parent of ours a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll bringing the total number of fatalities up to more than $30000.00.

county is under way in bolivia's presidential election an official early results from a bolivian t.v. channel suggests that say has won he's the candidate from the socialist party of the former president evo morales was forced out of office after disputed votes last year. of fighting between armenia and azerbaijan revenue going to karabakh has killed another $900.00 soldiers in the disputed region i mean you says $729.00 of its soldiers have now died since the end of september the un secretary general. to respect the cease fire. now venezuelan migrants so on the move again is latin america's borders and economies open up after months of coronavirus the economic crisis has caused at least 5000000 migrants to flee since 2015 but that number has shrunk significantly back in march as borders closed due to the pandemic the u.n.

says close to 80 percent of venezuela's population lives in extreme poverty it's great to listen to rap yes he joins us from the colombian city of kirkuk at the border with venezuela and that is under so venezuelan migrants on the move once again it was the numbers and are they managing to get across the border. yes nic the colombian government estimates that around 500 to 600 migrants are crossing into colombian a daily bases in i've been doing so for at least the last that at 10 days this despite the fact that the border is closed and they're doing so using illegal border crossings on dirt trails along the river that divides the 2 countries in these crossings are often controlled by drug traffickers and criminal gangs said that often the charge that migrants to cross a little they have left that this means that once they are into colombia they then

most of them walk for days or weeks throughout the country to reach their destination either here in colombia or in ecuador or rule and they do so essentially counting on the generosity of strangers because most of the assistance network that existed before they put in their meat case practically disappeared in the last few months as the number of people arriving from. various well have been reduced greatly by the pandemic but what has been happening and the last few weeks show that that trend changed in that the number of migrants fleeing i pray inflation the food shortages in various where law again increasing. each step harder than the last listers in fatigues his family. the soldier

on losing their 4 year old son who studio. they've been walking for 8 straight days from their hometown in sinful beings they've made it to columbia but are still 700 kilometers away from their destination. we want to. be king coffee we just want to do construction mechanic anything to a. at least be able to give food to my family i for the past 6 months in 1900 slowed to fly to venice wayland's to a trickle but as economies reopened paos and have hit the road again in a new phase of one of the world's largest exodus the pandemic is making their journey even more treacherous if you think. that the border closed. or stopping migrants telling them to go back. but we've been walking for days we have nothing to go back to this man says i and most shelters and soup kitchens along the way

have been shut by officials trying to prevent gatherings i 2300 meters above sea level hundreds are sleeping on sidewalks braving cold temperatures there used to be 4 shelters here but none have been allowed to reopen. colombia's immigration story. 200000 in grants to the country but. i took a say ill prepared to deal with their arrival. neighbor mark had converted their homes to offer hundreds food and shelter. now they are forbidden even to lend their mats to sleep in the street but they're still doing what they can to help again this is. they need food the babies need milk or diaper the women need a place to change decently but we can't offer this because they spend it helping is a crime now but if the government won't do it will continue i as night falls

make the rounds to ensure nobody is sheltering migrants. while some pay whatever day have left even food for a truck to illegally give them a lift to be allowed to go after 12 hours on the road then his family also made it to pump only to find the shelter closed. i don't know what. i guess just they hear on the street because one of the option do we have. these are doing all they can to keep us from coming but the forces encouraging the migrants to flee poverty and hunger are much stronger. now in response to this situation the colombian government announced that it will not reopen the border on november 1st as it was planned and it's also deployed $3000.00 policemen and soldiers to control the illegal crossings and try to reduce

or minimize the number of people that manage to get into colombia on a daily basis and they said that they will continue to do so on till that conditions are in place to reopen the border that essentially meaning while these once these structures the 2 assists that migrants are back in place both part of the colombian government and international organizations the problem of course is though the pressure that has and the need these people have to again start leaving venice where lots of the question is if indeed they will be able to control the border they are also sure that once they open that they will see a massive exodus. venezuelan migrants what's also clear is that they are facing increasing phobia and people are very worried of their presence in the country also because of the. it's

a very very complicated situation for these poor people in colombia doesn't seem to be ready at least for now to respond to a major exodus arriving from venezuela very complicated very challenging to rule. on its own thanks very much. now demonstrations over inequality in chile have descended into violence with nooses set again like 2 churches in the capital santiago the protesters were marking a year since the movement began initially of the rising cost of transport would say why didn't the calls and social reforms that a new constitution a lot of america and italy see in human reports now from santiago was hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled streets in plazas throughout chile to mark the day one year ago when the country's social pressure cooker burst. there were dramatic performances alluding to human rights violations committed by police.

cars cysts but there was also music and celebrations its entire families had come to show that their resolve to fight for social equality remains strong to that but today marks the day that chile awoke with feet up of the abuse of always being marginalised we had to commemorate and say that we want a new chile was but the peaceful demonstration that so many had called for was not to be. just 300 meters from the main gathering in santiago who did then till set fire to 2 churches the 1st known as the paris of chile's police force then they torched another but guarded as the national heritage morning it was by the time firefighters arrived it was too late. the.

shops were also needed to group had clearly come prepared to confront riot police and do as much damage as possible nearby thousands of demonstrators continued calling for more equality and respect for human rights these are in memory of some of the people who were killed. last october 18th and the following days and months of protests that followed opposition leaders are now warning both sides that just the filing string demonstrations continues it could scare people away from going to the polls next sunday during the referendum the that referendum will decide whether or not chileans agree to write a new constitution a key demand on the streets. they don't your i hope that next sunday we'll have a mass for turnout in favor of the new constitution that we need. a message that was marred by acts of shocking violence carried out by a few against the will of

a vast majority who want to express their hopes the social change at the ballot box seeing human al-jazeera santiago. iran's defense minister says the ending of a u.n. arms embargo who is an important economic opportunity for the country it was lifted off to 13 years on sunday as part of the 2015 nuclear deal with well powers in an exclusive interview with al jazeera i mean i had tommy said taro and wants to develop its military agreements with countries like russia and china but also wants to focus on ensuring stability as well yet to the law we have important military relations with russia china and other countries and we also have agreements with moscow in order to develop our air system and air forces were very careful not to launch an arms race that could turn the region into a barrel of gunpowder we are ready to sign military and security treaties with gulf states for stability in the region. and now the u.s. government is expected to remove sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism

president donald trump says the move will take place once called to compensate american victims and their families president trump has just tweeted this out great news he said new government of sudan which is making great progress agreed to pay $335000000.00 to us tara victims and families once deposited i will lift sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list at long last president trump said justice for the american people and a big step for sudan dozens of u.s. politicians are calling on egyptian president uphill fight l.c.c. to release imprisoned activists and journalists 56 members of congress wrote a letter urging sisi to free prisoners who were quote unjustly detained for exercising their fundamental human rights they express alarm over the conditions in egypt the tourist crowd of prisons and said the danger is now amplified because of the risk of covert 19 breaks the letter specifically calls for the release of

a number of politicians and activists but among them al jazeera journalists must mean to say he's been detained for nearly $1400.00 days without trial after being arrested on a personal visit to see his family egypt's government has crackdown on dissent since 2013 that's when sisi led a military coup overthrowing democratically elected president mohamed morsi or 3 months or as the middle east north africa coordinator for the committee to protect journalists and he explains why this letter is significant. well the fact that this is coming from dozens of house and senate members and colluding. republicans and the fact that those people included in the letter examples of how they thought up to neighboring saudi arabia's crown prince and b.s. . and even gave examples of have they used in punitive measures to delay

collaboration televisions another way is to even ban. u.s. army quotes to saudi at some point all of these imputed measures could be utilized and he just which every year receives a lot of u.s. aid there might be a chance that congress can play a role conditioning those eads starting next year to get back to that news how the u.s. government is expected to remove from its list of state sponsors of terrorism we can speak to of course when he morgan joins us live now from. tell us more about what you know. well mike this is news that the sudanese transitional government has been waiting for for months now since this government came to power in august last year they went on track to meet with the u.s. administration to get it down off the list of states sponsoring terrorism now that the list that's 2 down was put there on by the clinton administration accusing it

of supporting terrorism by providing haven't been met in the progress of fido which obviously the u.s. these are the terror groups so for more than 2 decades a dam has been on that list almost 3 decades and that has significantly harmed sudan's economy because of lack of foreign investment needed to shortage apartments which has crippled the country's economy that is something that has also fallen government of all of this year from power and that is something that this transitional government has been trying to work on a little more than a year now so this is quite significant news to the sudanese administration and to the people of sudan because they believe that with sudan being lifted off the list of states sponsoring terrorism then foreign investment and the economy would improve but it is worth noting that he did not specify is this if you say that it has been lifted he tweeted out the president from tweeted out is that it and will be lifted once the amount for the terror attack but

a compensation for the for the compensation of terror attack victims u.s. terror attack victims act when the policy takes to u.s. banks that's once again been lifted let's come to that now sudan has agreed to pay the sum of $335000000.00 to the u.s. government or to read that to victims of terror attacks in 100-900-2000 at u.s. embassies in kenya and their respect around and the attack on the u.s. destroyer the u.s.s. cole in the port of ad and now the agreement by the between the sunnis one such an administration and the terror victims is to pay 335 $1000000.00 the sudanese government entities official say that they have secured that money and that they will. and for basically is a signal from the u.s. administration that once they pay that amount it's name of all the departments of state sponsored terrorism so what do we read into do you think the timing of this and do you think that this is the only obligation the sudan will have to pay back

this $335000000.00 or will there be other criteria to will there are concerns on sudanese officials say that the locals have been moved along by the u.s. administration by previous years administration let's not forget that the process the let's about half of its list did not fuck with that and government if ultimately the previous government of president on a chair and difference in huge. even though on a much faster pace with this foreign government now the concern comes from the victims of 911 who were speaking to their senate says and to their congressman saying that sudan should not be in the thick of the list of states sponsoring terrorism because then in then their cases would not go to court and that's something they're concerned about that is why sudan has been asking the u.s. to grant that legal fees along the left saying it's laying off a missile from things that sponsoring terrorism legally is something that the president of the u.s. cannot achieve on his own he needs approval from the congress to be able to grant

a complete need to be so that is something the government here says that has to be given for them to guarantee that any victims of terror attacks will not pursue them so well this is quite a significant step the country really needs legal fees because they're concerned that they won't get some sort pump more demands it be made on the country's economy is simply not strong enough to continue to compensation to terrible films or have a thanks that updates or have been moving their reporting from coast to. the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh has killed another $900.00 soldiers in the disputed region i mean it says $729.00 of its soldiers have now died since the end of september the u.n. secretary general is urging both sides to respect a new cease fire the 2nd attempt of a truce began on saturday the region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but it's controlled by ethnic armenians chalons is in armenia the capital of europe and he says that by john armenians do not have much faith in the

ceasefire. but of course people here are blaming his areas for that now we were filming earlier today at a school for a report that will have on al-jazeera and in a few hours' time now the school was closed but it was full anyway full of women and teenagers who were volunteering to stitch together cut up bits of camouflage material and knots them on 2 great big nets now these camouflage next would then going to be sent to the front lines to help the armenian . fighters there you have the armenian soldiers we were speaking to these these women unseen ages trying to get an idea of how they are feeling about the way things were going in this conflict and the sense there amongst these people was that it's not going very well for armenia they've seen the videos of harry drones picking off groups of young soldiers they know that they're being

territorial losses and they're aware that in some ways the military tables have turned in the last quarter of a century from you know the time when the conflict flared up at its most serious and in the 1990 s. that was when armenia was a military style militarily stronger now we know the the years aries with its sophisticated technology and its help from turkey is in a much stronger position than it used to be so they're aware things aren't going very well but they're still insisting that victory will be armenia's. the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan says attacks are threatening to derail peace talks and what bizarre make of his 100 calls inflammatory rhetoric doesn't help either a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people in the western province of go on sunday and tens of thousands in helmand province of increased fighting between the taliban and government forces the taliban says excessive u.s. air strikes violate peace negotiations you know afghan president spokesman citic

siddiqi says the taliban should reevaluate its violent approach if it wants peace i think it's an unfortunate masters that they are trying to send and i would just violence despite the fact that the international community the act and people are now ready to talk to this group the continent ration of these kind of violence and brutal attacks on the up in people and really pose a serious threat to the peace process that millions of americans are hopeful of war so i think it's time for the taliban to look at the their. behavior in this look at they have to reassess what they are doing and there they should not just revise the conduct of what's in it which is there for ending this war well 1st of all they are behind you that look at the options of a deliberate often support or perhaps on helmand will look at these. regular packs that the photo of these meters with explosives and the target government of theirs

and so there's not that. big claim it or deny it we know about who are behind this and that's the taliban of course these attacks is against. the commitments they claimed that they are doing something in the peace process so the the violates all the terms of that agreement that they made with the us in the summit so the top one has to realize that the. peace the floor it is in this one we do everything not only the up and government but the international community what we all do is to pursue the taliban to end this nonsense war and violence. still ahead herron al-jazeera 3 european countries said al to a joint bid for the women's world cup it will have that in school. rules

. ok let's get on to sport has peter. thank you very much the los angeles dodgers will play in the world series for the 3rd time in 4 years of the completing a stunning comeback against the atlanta braves atlanta led this national league championship series 31 up los angeles fought back to win the last 3 games in a row a 43 win on sunday secured the tribes helped by this cody bell and joe homework in the 7th inning the dodgers last won the world series in 1988 and their opponents

would attend the bay rays game one is on tuesday. a more season we've been controlling games controlling series and what not but it seems like we were going to handle a little bit you know early on and we were able to get a hold of everything in our hold of ourselves and start to fight back and it just shows you the kind of group type of guys we have the group we haven't you know we're never going to give up you know nothing's going to be easy and i don't think we exceeded expectations this is kind of what we expected out of ourselves to get to this point. we came up short but i'm everybody on this team i think can lay their head on their poll tonight and know they gave it everything they absolutely had left in the tank belgium the netherlands and germany have launched a joint bid to host the women's world cup in 2027 under the slogan 3 nations or one goal the 3 countries say they'll detail their plans by the end of the year the

world cup is the largest women's sports event in the world and the headline for the birds has not yet been set by feet. spanish giants barcelona will look to bounce back after a shocker legal loss on saturday against qatar fair when they return to champions league action on tuesday but also face hung garion side offensive in the opening group game and they could do with a return to form for their star manly and now messi incredibly the argentine strikers only schooled one goal in 4 league appearances so far last season in netted 36 times in la liga. well i believe at this stage of the season his performance could be better but i see the player every day and he's happy in training well he's fully focused and he wants to play he wants to be the team's captain so i don't have any complaint meanwhile beaten finalists p.s.g. kick of their champions league campaign with

a tough homes are against manchester united on tuesday edinson cavani could make his united debut against his former club the euro go and train with the new teammates on monday as they prepared for the 1st round of group games the last time the 2 sides met in march last year united's free one when put them into the quarter finals. english champions liverpool will have to make do without their star saints about virgil van dyke for the foreseeable future the dutch defender damaged his knee ligaments in saturday's $22.00 draw against everton from dyke is set to undergo surgery and there is no time frame yet on when he will return to action. this week football agent pele will celebrate his 80th birthday and he's been given an early gift brazilian graffiti artist cobra has painted a mural of the store in the coastal city of santa us to mark the occasion it took $45.00 days to finish the $800.00 metre square piece of art. now in golf there is

one player who has ended a 10 year wait for his maiden to a title in $232.00 starts american jason cock crack at come close to winning but on sunday he's persistence finally paid off the 35 year old clinching a 2 stroke victory at the c.j. cup in las vegas ahead of zander shell fully. 12 of the world's best longboard surface have been competing in the california desert for one of charity events can be safe as all the fish will wave pool was the venue for the quite a surf ranch classic 29000 world surf league long boat champion justin quinto won the men's competition under the lights while 2018 women's champion solo erico rode away with the crown in her event. that's where we'll leave it for now we'll see you again later formal sports news. thanks peter i just to recap before i go some developing news in sudan's prime minister abdullah doc is reported as saying on monday he's looking forward to the u.s. president donald trump officially notifying congress to rescind sudan as

a state sponsor of terrorism the us president said on monday the u.s. would remove them from the list of the paying $335000000.00 to u.s. target teams and families more on that with barbara starr coming up in london but now. the world's biggest economy was put on hold. deregulating industries of old delivered new growth for a president who promised greatness again. but the coronavirus pandemic has seen resurgence replaced with a recession as the world eagerly watches on to see how either presidential

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contrasts his experiences with those seeking refuge today and intimate you know the consequences of the policies of detainment is really unnecessary all this misery we cannot absorb this number that people have to suffer in this way it is a lot of refugees tail on out to 0. confirmed corona virus cases around the world past 40000000 more than a quarter of them are in latin america iraq and the reports 337 coronavirus that's in a single day a record high for the worst country in the middle east. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up exit polls

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