cost on al-jazeera we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we can use in conduct that matter to you. this is al-jazeera. it's 1500 hours g.m.t. hello i'm come out santa maria with continuing coverage here on the news hour the ceasefire between libya's warring sides what they have accomplished here today took a great deal of courage the agreement signed in geneva calls for an immediate and permanent cease fire the biggest step yet towards peace after nearly a decade of war. i appeal to all stakeholders and regional actors to respect to put a visions of the ceasefire agreement and ensure its implementation without delay.

also the news foreign ministers from armenia and azerbaijan meet separately with the u.s. secretary of state but there is still more fighting in the going to cut about. and poland's top court issues a ruling on abortion that makes the procedure illegal in nearly all cases. and i'm sad how must not have all this all it. was has a disastrous start to the zozo championship the 15 time major winner and so round one near the bottom of the leaderboard. well it's been pretty praised as historic but has been received by many with caution libya's warring sides of agreed to what the united nations is calling a permanent ceasefire it was signed in geneva after nearly

a decade of conflict triggered by the downfall of libya's longtime leader moammar gadhafi today it's a good day for the libyan people. at 11 15 am this morning here in the u.n. headquarters in geneva the 2 libyan delegations to the 5 plus 5 joint military commission talks signed a complete countrywide and permanent cease fire agreement with immediate effect so let's take you through some of the terms of the agreement military and armed groups must leave the front lines all mercenaries and foreign fighters are going to be out of libya in 3 months as well the 2 sides will work with the u.n. to start identifying every armed group operating within libya's territory and they will form a combined limited military force of regular personnel which will report to a joint commission also there is the important question of libya's oil that is so important to the economy full production and exports are to resume as soon as

possible well the heads of the 2 delegations praised the deal and said they will abide by it as yet and what i have addressed politicians in libya and have asked them to be one hand not to be polarized by factions and movements in order to achieve stability political and military stability in libya that's the only way to build the nation and to make sure security prevails we have had enough suffering enough division and enough bloodshed. we've succeeded in achieving what all libyans were looking forward to the feeling of belonging to a nation of peace and security we're very pleased with what we've achieved. so here is our team covering the story at this hour alexandra steele universe god point is in moscow we'll have reaction from russia shortly also will be off to the new york to the u.n. in new york with our diplomatic editor james something though at the heart of the story in tripoli with mahmoud when we have spoken about libya i think almost any time we've spoken about libya mahmoud you and i it has been to do with advances on

the front line the warlord khalifa haftar all of these sorts of things for once some really strong positive moves. as the u.n. security general stated a little while ago there is still march hard work ahead this sounds very real on the ground especially with the fact that the terms of this agreement despite the fact that it's very important it's crucial in terms of the libyan conflict but still the terms of this agreement how can be the implemented in the ground given the fact that this commission to be former did order to observe the groups pulling out back to their camps leaving their front lines and also there was the will of the foreign fighters from all territories in libya we have been witnessing

over the past year and a half that both backers of both rival factions have been established. emphasizing their military presence on the ground russia russian mercenaries have built dozens of military sites in eastern libya especially in the military bases south of sirte it again this agreement is only one 3rd of it appear to my eyes is only one 3rd of the whole conflict that is still the political path which has not been ended. yet and the economic path both both sections have gone through several meetings between rival factions in several countries over the past 2 years but they have not come to a conclusion yet as their military section has ended up with this agreement today

also on the ground the question now whether or not both rival leaders will they be able to rain on their local eyes on the ground we know that several armed groups on the ground they don't have to agree they do not accept this agreement they protest that they raise their protest that accountability and just say should be servant 1st they say that it has to its forces have committed war crimes including get the mass graves including get the killing of innocent civilians during the military campaign on tripoli that lasted 14 months ever they planted land mines in civilian areas then they say that they cannot easily make peace with those they call. criminals unless justice is served 1st nominee of the 100 with an update from tripoli thank

you mahmoud mention the u.n. secretary general who has welcomed the green lantern urged everyone involved to abide by an arms embargo to allow the cease fire to actually be implemented i appeal to all stakeholders and regional actors to respect the provisions of the ceasefire agreement and insurance implementation without delay and i call on the international community to support libyans in implementing the ceasefire and in bringing an end to the conflicts these includes ensuring the full and then conditional respect for the security council arms embargo. more with james bays our diplomatic editor at u.n. headquarters in new york so cautious optimism from the secretary general there and we heard from mahmoud very much explaining why but still after a decade i mean this is a good step and the u.n. is there is really pushing the positive side of it they're pushing the positive

side they know that cease fires in the middle east are always very fragile very shaky things and they're particularly concerned about the international dimension about international countries meddling in the affairs of libya that's been the long concern of the u.n. just go back to the beginning of the year they had that conference to bring all the players together put them all on the same page and many you attended were not on the same page they were supporting one side or the other that then led to the resignation of the un's top person on libya gas son salaam and you saw that this agreement was done by his then deputy has been acting ever since the beginning of the year stephanie williams and to show you how divided the international community still is after many months of wrangling they still haven't found a new envoy ahead of what are supposed to be the key talks coming up in tunis the secretary general current candidate he wants to appoint is a guy called nicholai in london off he's the un's man in jerusalem previously was

in iraq but right now 2 african countries are in south africa plus and when the incident great indians are blocking that appointment i asked the secretary general if he was frustrated let's be clear this is not the 1st diet that an invoice blocked in so good the council so i don't see that we showed the outline or we should. focus on the present difficulties because there were other difficulties but he's sitting them and they hope that everything will be over in the near future . the secretary general seemed somewhat irritated when he was also asked about comments of from president. which in which he questioned who'd exactly signed on behalf of the libyan security and read out the list of the signatures and said they were the accredited representatives of the 2 sides and made it quite clear that it was not to members of the international community to comment on this he wanted

a libyan solution to the problems in libya thank you james bays at the united nations russia one of the countries supporting the war khalifa haftar who's of course been fighting the government based in tripoli we have alexandra steele and it's got flown moscow what has been the reaction from the russians. well so far the only reaction has been voiced divide the teams out here there is a russia in libya it was said that moscow is of course welcoming the agreement on cease fire and that it hopes that it will lead to durable peace and that we do know that the russian stance is that all political factors in libya that have any influence on the ground should be included in any kind of durable peace in any negotiation or possible the government of national unity and according to most call that should also include supporters of late that gadhafi now also has been in contact with many sides in conflict in the libya so hopped out about also is that i

can izing that the government in tripoli and the other thing that russia has been repeatedly saying is that the oil revenues should be fairly and transparently distributed to all the regions of the soul to the benefit of all the libyans and oil is one of the interests of russia in this area as well as is the wish of russia of moscow to keep its influence in libya in north africa as for the mercenaries which are very clearly mentioned in this and remains today russia says that there is there is no russian mercenaries in libya. this pipe and the reports on that despite even the figures mentioned that there is up to 2000 of them off usually russia says that no there is no russian mercenaries the further as they came in recognizing some sort of russian presence there in this respect is when we're going to put in so if there is russian citizens there that are acting as mercenaries they are not send they are officially they're not financed officially by could i mean

the thing is is that said that mercenaries are said to be off the so-called wagner at all which according to reports say by a very close ally of the russian president so taking all of this into account and also the things that might hold said whether this is going to lead to the durable peace is depending on many factors and also the external factors some of the interests that amongst other countries turkey and russia have in the area and its own that are still in of its go with that view from moscow thank you james mentioned turkey a little bit earlier let's have a listen to more of what the president of turkey had to say the country's been given military support to the un recognized government in tripoli. is the cease fire agreement is actually not a cease fire at the highest level it is at a lower level time will show how lasting it will be similarly we also don't know

how true it is that mercenaries like waiting or will withdraw within 3 months there is a representative there from the top talk there is also commander sent by mr surat there for the ceasefire as reliability does not seem to achievable to me. let's talk about the who is a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council his research focuses on libya he's on skype from toronto today thanks for your time i imagine all our correspondents have very much pointed out to us the challenges and the caution which everyone seems to have towards this i still feel that after this long to actually got something it has to be seen as some sort of positive step yeah i mean the way i personally perceive this ceasefire agreement is that it will either be a stepping stone towards deescalation in a genuine political dialogue so this is. a full kind of you or 'd escalation with a non-negligible chance we could actually be sleepwalking into

a flashpoint particularly since the issues that were relegated mahmoud pointed out such as for example the cattlemen of weaponry that this armaments and gave him and entering the gratian of fighters the joint policing framework he did there militarized zone all of those are quite literally mine fields where this agreement going to actually lead to flashpoints and conflict and then reappear at a more intense and probably more violent scale considering the amount of weaponry that has been transferred in one state to libya so is it that those bigger issues underlying issues haven't been addressed or that the u.n. and the sides of said at this point look let's just stop the fighting and try to hold on to that and then we'll sort out the big stuff. well i do think the moment they are happy having at least an agreement so for sure overall my perspective from my perspective sort of this sets the framework for the political track that will carry next week while the security track is kind of being kickstarted let's say we

already know there was a tenuous deal on on oil in particular that was struck to resume the oil exports the blockade that so now that kind of scene is set for the cogs to turn but in which direction they go that's where you see what about the outside players what sort of hope do you have for the likes of turkey and russia abiding by this is well because the idea is that they need to as per the agreement not interfere in libya's internal conflicts. there with the with regards to their ironically from my perspective at least in a similar position though maybe not entirely the 2 players of primarily the right their influence in libya capitalizing let's say european incoherence and us in action but their main leverage of influence let's say in the libyan landscape is actually their military attempted interventionism not a soft power tool box like brussels or washington so they also share somewhat of a relationship of distrust with their local backers asari the factions which they

normally nominally but so for instance but it doesn't have that close of a relationship with the prime minister. and moscow doesn't particularly trust huffed or i get lost on it and asking them to write patry their mercenaries whether they be syrian or a russian and asking for military agreements to be frozen that's it can't be telling them to abandon let's say their political and not just their military but actually their political leverage and also trust them at domestic actors which they don't really count on anyway and the only see the only way i see that working is potentially if there are economic concessions on the one and that are done and on the off chance that they all of that those are enough. the alternative would be them saying figures that they are close with accommodated in a new political body pointed up by your colleague for the russians that deficits.

close allies of moammar gadhafi before on turkey sides those are probably be a revolution there is an islamist and these. don't really agree on almost anything in their view that things in very 0 sum terms so the body that you would create would actually almost be dysfunctional by design i say that's a very problematic dynamic and about a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time and your expertise on this i appreciate it thank you. 17 minutes past the news hour here's what's coming up spain's spreading outbreak the prime minister reveals the number of corona virus cases there could be 3 times the official count. for the 1st time since records began an important part of the arctic has not begun to freeze. makes its 1st start since returning to spurs we'll have the latest from the europa league in sport.

well the u.s. embassy in ankara says it's received credible information about potential attacks and kidnappings targeting americans in turkey it says those at risk include its consulate general in istanbul the embassy also says other foreign nationals in the city might be at risk temporarily suspended all services at its diplomatic missions in turkey and told citizens to exercise caution in places frequented by foreigners . the foreign minister of azerbaijan is meeting the u.s. secretary of state might bump a 0 in washington part of an effort to reach a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the going to cut about pay it will also hold separate talks with the armenian foreign minister later on friday it's been fighting in the disputed region for more than 3 weeks now. keeping an eye on this one from washington she had what's expected out of this one as we say $33.00 is actually heading on for a month now into this conflict and now the u.s. inserts itself into the diplomatic process. right but with these rather cursory

meetings the azerbaijani foreign minister did meet with like pompei for about an hour we understand the armenian foreign minister is now at the state department and will be there for it will serve about an hour. going into these talks it was it was quite noticeable that both the azerbaijani on his every side on the on the armenian side have very different expectations for these meetings very side saying this is about. goals and trying to have a settlement from the goal to karabakh once and for all whereas the armenians said no this is about this is going to be about stopping especially turkish military aid to the azerbaijani so his part might compare his very but been much will not. at all media narrative side in the sense of the in the last few days after all saying very much fractures for several weeks and the last few days has been more of a cool calling for. calling for foreign actors to stay out of the conflict as always we should remember that the u.s.

has been trained both sides in this conflict but also for. his rhetoric against turkey in particular it would seem saying stay out of this powder keg situation stop all knowing the. johnnie he has every side and in fact raising some eyebrows with this statement which was that we're hopeful that the armenians will be able to defend against what the azerbaijanis are doing so clearly apparently coming expressing sympathy with one side and there is a very interesting geopolitical situation where there is a large. media diaspora in the us who is rather well politically connective going to go unnoticed for a fundamentalist christian like that armenia is a majority christian country fighting a majority muslim. job having said that geopolitically azerbaijan has been part of the strategic competition against russia at least nominally russia is an ally. armenia there as i'm sure about to hear russia taking

a rather nuanced line on this particular conflict azerbaijan key to trying to freeze russia out of energy markets with a big energy pipeline that goes through azerbaijan with lots of american backers to that american energy companies part of that pipeline azerbaijan very close to israel and its intelligence work against iran politically certainly the us on the side of azerbaijan but pompei are coming out apparently showing support for for the for the armenian says it all it's all rather interesting thank you yes she had her tansey with the diplomatic side of things that's going on in washington d.c. meanwhile on the ground us about john is claiming to have made some strategic gains in its fight with i mean over the going to cut about got the map here just to show you watch again the as about johnnie's are saying they're talking about this area should point out that this is iran to the south a border area here to the south of nagorno-karabakh which it had lost to the armenians previously back in 1900 now taking control back of that and then after

doing that trying to sweep north to a corridor here and we'll talk to our correspondents about it in the moment which actually links through to going to kind of act that would be a strategic strategic area if it can take control of that so as i say we've got our correspondents to talk about this how the viet in azerbaijan how to get an update from you shortly start there with rory chalons in in armenia rory. you know what you're talking about this corridor just then is called the latch in colorado and it is basically the main lifeline between glorious where i am in armenia it's goes through a gorge up. shushi a vital town in the going to karabakh and then on tuesday a panic at the main city if the as aries are able to. take of the lachine corridor or then they were basically sever that artery and make life for people

in the going to care about considerably harder be much more difficult for supplies to get into new gonna care about and crucially be much more difficult for people to get out if they need to do so the situation for them to tear it significantly now the armenians are saying that on the battle fronts the death toll officially at least is nearly a 1000 now or yesterday vladimir putin was saying that is information is that actually it's probably about 2 and a half times that amount and that the there's areas of probably lost about 2 and a half 1000 people as well inside nagorno-karabakh people are actually asking why there isn't more involvement from russia at the moment and the nagorno-karabakh president actually made a plea to putin saying we are ski's make every effort to end the war in azerbaijani care about conflict conflict zone and resume the political process is now russia as

she had was saying just there is being quite new orleans to about its involvement here it does have this. defense deal security arrangements with armenia but as it is never officially recognized they're going to karabakh as armenia and it is reluctant at the moment to step in on either side here wants to maintain good relations with both countries that has said that it's prepared perhaps to send peacekeepers here but that won't go down well with turkey. today actually said that turkey has as much right to be in the solution of nagorno-karabakh conflict as russia does thank you that is worry chalons. now we go to. the end here is what our bill honeyed with an update from there. well certainly at the moment the atmosphere here in azerbaijan is that they are winning due to war for the moment every day president ilham aliyev himself announces the territorial gains

made by the military and as brewery just said. is the moment quite excitement that the military is reaching that encouraged or not that latching corridor is important is for not go back but it's also very important for dia's areas because it is the only route that would link. to another unclear that is in armenia that is towards the border with turkey now azerbaijan says well that you know that corridor is an occupied there a land that i think when the secretary of state to pay a met with the foreign minister is there by john the message would have been exactly the same that what the president has been saying all along which is he is ready to stop military operations and start negotiations but they are preconditions for that it would do 1st precondition is that what he called the patient.

is actually armenia pulling out not only from the 7 districts around nagorno-karabakh that had been occupied since 1904 but also from the border karabakh itself and then the 2nd precondition will be the right of return of about 800000 internally this base as areas who fled that area back in 1994 he puts the blame on the mean yet he said that this statement of the prime minister of armenia just a few days ago saying that there will be no diplomatic solution to this conflict at this stage was approved that armenia wasn't looking for any kind of political settlement at the moment in this country really is sort of a game pride the long. yes the bitter defeat that they had back in 1994 is something that has touched many people here is something that they haven't swallowed they have these internally displaced people living all over the country

and that the moment there is that sort of reborn national pride so the president does have the support of his people that people are also supporting the military you see it wherever you go you see it on the television each time you speak to someone they would tell you that this conflict has to continue until armenia is completely out of their territories i think that is probably the message there but john is giving to secretary of state. moment feeling strong all these military gains on the ground all right good stuff made in miniature azerbaijan thank you. coronavirus news for you now spain's prime minister says his nation may actually have $3000000.00 coronavirus cases 3 times higher than the official total european governments are reimposing lockdowns and restrictions to contain rapidly rising infections russia poll intervals in a record single day a rise in the number of infections on friday as well french scientists say covert

19 is spreading faster now than at the peak of the 1st wave back in march years under simmons with more from london. pederast sanchez the spanish prime minister gave this shock announcement a few hours back now that $3000000.00 figure he refers to was a real time figure after new research which hasn't been fully detailed yet into the infection rate and this is 3 times the figure that the official figures they've been using so far now in spain they're stopping short of a national lockdown it's quite controversial they have made a number of measures like the rest of europe but this is a country structured by its regions and there are complaints from the leaders of those regions that the national policy doesn't add up to a really a coordinated one at this stage now in france you have the starkest warning yet of the infection rise being potentially not potentially in fact that's the wrong

word is going to be as bad if not worse than late march early april when the pandemic was at its peak france has made new measures to try and contain the virus it's curfew policy has been extended to affect 2 thirds 2 thirds of a 1000000 of the popular 2 thirds of the population i should say terms of what they're doing right now which is suffering really big restrictions so pretty critical there when we talk about the infection rate you can expect at going on from that the number of hospital admissions to rise and then the death rates to rise so there is more to come and so this is a pretty bad picture in the news ahead. we're now down to a quarter. of the stuff have already been unfortunately. been

made redundant they're fairly new the worst business has already hit the pond pandemic parent to go into lockdown. we're opening up our country we've learned and studied and understand the disease learning to live with c'mon we're dying with a trumpet joe biden clash on some familiar issues but the 2nd and final debate is a little more civil than the 1st and in sports on an update on the health of indian cricket legend the former captain suffered a heart attack. hello this cooling down nicely across the middle east now when i say killing dad it means we're looking at some of the best weather of the year so long as the clear skies show but pretty decent with light winds it really will feel quite pleasant

temperatures here in doha around 30 degrees celsius over the next couple of days the similar picture across much of the region still getting into the mid thirty's for a kuwait's and also for a bag that. says that just around beirut some pleasant sunshine coming in here but as you can see fine dry and sunny for the most parts as is the case too across the other side of the red sea but we got the usual showers into the heart of africa sinking a little further south which you might just see a clump of showers just pushing into that eastern side of kenya you might even catch a shero to pushing up into somalia that could lead to some localized flooding they will be heavy and thundery and could cause some problems as a result of that hopefully easing as we go through the 2nd half of the weekend but they are still there nevertheless plenty of showers there across the democratic republic of the congo heavy showers all the way into gabon some big downpours up towards cameroon still some showers there communic was a good part of angola but south of that is largely fought and dry with

a few showers in the eastern cape. in countries like mine people have been killed to be like when united states have privatized the ultimate public function was this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for being all to help the past bombs do all you will rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow while on al-jazeera. amidst a climate of fear violence and paranoia. there are those still willing to dream. in honduras dennis seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using art to reclaim the city. and transform the very symbol of past oppression. if you find in latin america

liberating a prison on al-jazeera. on the news here at al-jazeera these are the top stories libya's warring factions have agreed to what the u.n. calls a permanent ceasefire the un's libya envoy says she has confidence in the deal and will make sure the international community supports it. the heads of the delegations representing libya's 2 rival militaries of praise the deal is calling for unity almost a reason foreign fighters are also supposed to leave libya within 3 months and

spain's prime minister says his nation may have $3000000.00 coronavirus cases which is 3 times higher than the official total france the netherlands and germany also reporting a record rise in daily infection so. we're going to look at poland now where the top court has ruled that having an abortion because of fetal defects is unconstitutional it made the decision on thursday meaning terminations are now banned in most cases abortions will only be allowed in the case of rape incest or if the pregnancy causes a threat to the health of the mother. well in response to the ruling hundreds of women's rights activists protested in the polish capital so the opposition says the tribunals carried out the political will of the governing conservative party. something constitutes a very good one i want to see that was not the constitutional tribunals says the law is unconstitutional so a public debate should develop so that the protesters who are gathered here understand that this is not about threatening

a woman's life or safety it's about protecting the lives of children who are born sick or with down's syndrome or born with physical defects so that we can save these children my hope that you're going to see the market for years i cannot get my head around a situation in which i'm forced to give birth to a child who is going to die this is traumatic for everyone for 9 months you'll be carrying a child with serious genetic defects which you know is not going to live very long this is traumatic for a woman for her whole family and everyone else around her i hope that maybe in 20 or 30 years that the next generations will have easy access to abortion with us now from london who was a lecturer in sociology at the school of slavonic and east european studies at university college london thank you for your time today i've actually been reading an article which you wrote for al-jazeera dot com about this and you talk about 2 myths in this entire story can you briefly explain those. thank you very much for

having me yes i think the 1st myth which i talk about is that polish women are really feel king towards to eugenic abortion or disown abortion which is the. one case for abortion that has been deemed unconstitutional by the decision of the constitutional tribunals yesterday because as the media showing 98 percent of all abortions in poland are being done because there is a severe risk of fetal impairment and the fact that that the. that that that might ultimately lead to the death of a child to within a couple of hours from birth however if we look at the numbers those those numbers are very low poland has a 1000000 people. the abortion rate is less of a ministry of health statistics $1000.00. abortions last year into

a dozen $1000.00 and if you compare it to another catholic country in europe ireland for instance where if $6000.00 you get abortions or our neighbor czech republic which is again a small country with 18000 legal abortions in poland polish women access to legal abortion is very very limited and the women do not take this decision lightly and the fact that all ordered 3 cases that concerning women's reproductive rights that reach the european court of human rights from poland where about the actual impossibility to enforce even the existing very strict legal provisions i think speaks volumes about the actual right of women to access that procedure and so the argument from the opposition and from all these people we see protesting as well of actually the tribunal the court is just acting in the interests of the governing party think that's the case. i think that is to case and i think that is the real danger of politicization of justice and human rights under the law and just as

government in the last couple of years we've been seeing that disappear ation of powers between legislative judicial and executive has been become very very blurred so the judges have now given the decision deeming that one reason for abortion in poland unconstitutional are politically chosen judges right . there are only 2 judges that dissented and one of them is still the old judge so 3 times when the law and justice send it into summer so then how just while we're talking to you we've been looking at a lot of pictures of the protests going on i'm trying to get an idea of how deep that opposition runs obviously we see people out on the street is that the type of thing which they you think they would they would keep up the protest against. i definitely think i mean women took to the streets already in 2016 it was

a very large protest a so-called black bloc protest of their women strike where between and 98200000 women took to streets now we are of course talking so the mobilization there is great i can see on my facebook groups lots of women in different parts of poland are coming to taking to the streets but of course we are talking in times of pandemic where their cases i mean i was just listening to the news before i came on air the cases in poland are on the rise from saturday on words to hold poland will be in that last year direct here where no more than 5 people can meet at the same time so we are talking about trying to protest and express your right to rep rights your right to citizenship in a completely different conditions from university college london really appreciate your time thank you thank you very much.

it's 2 weeks now until americans elect a new president stunnel trump and democratic nominee joe biden of had a final chance on thursday to sell their vision to the american public definitely less chaotic debate than the 1st one but the 2 men still had plenty to spar over including the pandemic racism and corruption the white house correspondent kimberly how could travel to nashville tennessee for the debate. it was a stark contrast from the 1st debate fewer interruptions and more substantial discussion with the 2 presidential hopefuls donald trump and joe biden who mostly respected the rules the moderator even earned a rare compliment from the us president so far i respect very much the way you handle it this is the debate opened with a disagreement over the handling of the covert pandemic that's left more than

223000 people dead in the united states we're learning to live with it we have no choice we can't lock ourselves up in a basement like. you know we're learning to live with people learning to die with proper insists a vaccine is just weeks away even as most scientists suggest it could be moderates and infections in the united states are surging trump lash back suggesting biden's policies to lock down the country are draconian and would hurt families and small businesses cropping biden also took aim at their respective alleged foreign entanglements truck hitting biden on his son's business dealings with ukraine and china and whether biden put policies in place as vice president that helped his son profit i have not taken a penny from any foreign shores ever in my life we learned this president paid 50 times to tax in china as a secret bank account with china biden. lashed back accusing trump of cozy

relationships with russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim jong il good it's a relationship trump defended claiming it's prevented conflict and tensions he inherited from the obama white house there was a very dangerous period in my 1st 3 months before we sort of work things out a little bit ok there was a very good they left us a mess what has he done he's legitimize north korea he's talked about his good buddy who's a folk song and we had a good relationship with hitler before he in fact invaded and domestic policy trump tried repeatedly to portray biden's policies as extreme and too little too late considering his years of government he alleged a biden presidency would bring the united states closer to socialism when it comes to health care as a tragedy he was there on tour 47 years he didn't do as america continues to grapple with the issue of racial injustice trumpeted bided for his role in passing

a 994 crime bill that locked up a disproportionate number of african-americans for possessing a small amount of drugs he never did a thing except the 1994 when he did such harm to the black community and they were called and he called them super predators all 100 senators voted for a bill on drugs and how to deal with drugs it was a mistake on climate change trumped defended his decision to withdraw the united states from the paris climate accord stating he believed it was too costly for small business but when biden suggested the u.s. should move away from an economy based on oil trump had this response oh i wish rendition because you know exactly what i'm saying is you is going to destroy you only industry the final presidential debate was supposed to be about policy and that is exactly what american voters got with 47000000 ballots already cast there's little time for i. their candidate to win new voters can really help get al jazeera

nashville tennessee. back to corona virus in the next few hours more than 3000000 people in wales will enter a 17 day total lockdown as the country battles to contain rising infection numbers the restrictions ban people from meeting anyone from outside their households and only essential businesses can stay open brennan has our report. this probably should be felt. it's not going to make its. skin scary times just a stone's throw from the national rugby stadium cardiff's angel hotel should have turned over more than $3000000.00 since march instead just like almost every other hospitality business in this pandemic the manager feels like he's in a long dark tunnel with no light at the end of it this is such a buzz of 6 or 7 to start on site. we're now down to

a quarter of. half the stuff already been unfortunately. been made redundant. wales has the lowest infection rate of any of the 4 nations of the u.k. but acting on the recommendations of the welsh scientific advisors the devolved government is ditching local lockdowns in favor of a short national fire break or the modelers tell us is that this will get us through to christmas if we act no we're not decisively we will be able to sustain economic like found the health service through to the christmas period. the format is familiar households will be prohibited from mixing indoors or even outdoors residents are being urged to stay at home as much as possible and restaurants pubs hair salons hotels and non-essential shops must close chepstow is one of the many communities which straddle the wales england border. the likely cost of this fire break lock down in wales is estimated at more than $650000000.00 and that's

a big ask in a town such as this so close to the relative freedom on the other side of the border with england but the welsh government estimates that not locking down could cost more than 6000 lives so i live on the welsh side of chips stay with my 2 daughters lives on the english side of chepstow so this is very much our farewell breakfast the next 2 weeks are not really seeing each other because of the well shut down. will financial penalties which start around $75.00 be enough though to deter people from escaping to the other side of the river i'm not sure about escape escape seems to be quite a kind of noise escaping from anywhere i think that might go for a stroll. but the root of all this is the need to protect the finite resources of whales as hospitals and their staff still reeling from the 1st wave of the pandemic . when my colleagues in the night when we were unit back to

a covert unit in the known covies unit because we can envisage what it is going to be like even in the snow is moving on into the spectrum. in diverging from the local and regional knockdowns preferred elsewhere in the u.k. and europe the welsh are acting early and hoping to reap the benefits but with the full impact in terms of jobs and infection rates only emerging 2 weeks or more from now it's a real test of nerves paul brennan al-jazeera cardiff a few stories in brief our strayer is allowing slightly more of its citizens and permanent residents stranded abroad to return home been strict monthly limits in place since july so november's cap will rise by nearly 300 to 5865 assertive strict response is being praised for containing covert 19 just well new cases down just 14 actually. dozens of people have been killed in democratic republic of congo during fighting between government soldiers and armed groups in

the town of. the army says 40 soldiers died while freeing people being held hostage by fighters a separate attack happened in the area of benny where reports say 10 fighters were killed the military has been fighting armed groups in the provinces of north and south kivu for years conservationists in the maybe are now raising concerns after the death of thousands of seals nearly $7000.00 cape seal pups and fetuses have washed up along the coastline this month it's unclear what's causing it there are fears the deaths could affect the breeding cycles of the animals for years to come . yet another warning now about the health of the arctic for the 1st time since records began 40 years ago a key source of siberian sea ice has not started freezing it to have c. it is known as the birthplace of ice this is the latest it's ever gone without

actually starting to freeze over this point in the year scientists believe it's because of a record breaking heat wave in the region and changing waters in the atlantic ocean they're worried the lack of ice will cause chain reactions across the arctic just to get your bearings we've got a shot of the imagine you're looking directly down so that's the way out to the north pole you're looking at norway over there and around to rusher on that side the laptev sea is this little inlet if you like is the bay here this picture taken on september the 15th when the ice had retreated to its 2nd lowest level on record usually by this stage the end of a sort of the end of october the ice has actually come this far and hit the coast again but not this year but we heard from jason boxer who is an ice climatologist a professor at the geologic survey of denmark and green and he says the drop in temperature could lead to other problems in the region you see guys has in the last

40 years lost half its mass. and half of its area in this year after green leaves persistent heat wave that affected siberia since since time the fires across northern siberia this part of the arctic is actually warm and so we see the sea ice effectively reacting to this extremely warm situation in the north coast of syria and it's a great concern has a very shallow sea. and. underneath that 10 to 40 meter deep water layer is a sea bed that itself contains an enormous store of carpet and i'm concerned that any or mate the sea waters can destabilize the carbon at the seabed so this area of open water it's releasing

a lot of extra heat into the atmosphere and what that'll do is perpetuate this condition of open water that's probably part of the delay of the return of the frozen sea surface. in the news ahead actually the sports news is ahead and the n.b.a. star just can't take a break from the game. the details with santa a little bit later. but we're going to take a break there but i've actually got some breaking news to bring you coming out of the united states the u.s. president donald trump who says israel and sudan i have agreed to make peace and normalize their relations so this follows of course the normalizing of relations between israel and the u.a.e. and now we can add sudan to that list i'm just checking some of the news wires coming in from the reuters news agency donald trump says will be signing many

nations over the coming weeks and months and even says the palestinians are quote wanting to do something. traditionally vague language that we hear from the president talking about lots of things happening in an unspecified frame of time but what he does say and from confirming is that sudan will normalize its relations with israel following on from of course. the u.a.e. and the train as well that's all we've got on that at the moment but of course keeping a very close eye on that one sunnah is here with your sports now. coming out of the tiger woods this perforations phase mostest defense and next month suffered a major setback if the world number one had a disastrous opening round at the zozo championship in california which for all the 76 leaving him and near the bottom of the lead the bullet he's been having a bit of a rough cut of the 15 time major when i had missed the cut at the u.s.

open he finished to end the tie for 37th at the p.g.a. championship. and bad as bad as his game at the moment that he hasn't ruled out playing at the houston open a week prior to the masters which has now that played at the event in texas well i've been speaking to neil squires the chief sports writer at the daily express he believes woods assault and the prospects are looking quite bleak the problem for tiger is east trapped in a vicious circle he needs to play more but he can't play more russkie every tournaments it turns out his form show last night certainly proved. but because of his his his back he just can't play the amounts of tournaments he needs to so so he's stuck if was what if there was one tournament venue where you'd have

expectation him to. come through would have been the show in country club but he's won 5 times. you know seen before and failed to him you're right the right side would suffer at your peril as was proved 18 months ago when when he won a major for the 1st time in 11 years extort restrains their own custom but you know with no form whatsoever even for woods that is going to be a big ask or even a orchestra where he you know where he knows it like the back of his hand he's he's won 5 times he he is he he he can play that course like no one else can but i just don't think he's got the shots in the locker at the moment to pull it out much as we'd love to see him contending there on a sunday in november strange to think about. i don't think that's going to help him either because you know that the woods back probably needs it warm it's not going

to be warm and november in georgia i think it could be a tough tough trudge round for him. well into cricket legend capital is in stable condition and recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack who captained india's woke up a winning side in 183 on the went an emergency angioplasty in the early hours of friday according to a hospital statement the 61 year old is expected to be discharged in a couple of days is considered one of cricket's greatest all rounders of all time alongside him go to him and imran khan gareth bale made his 2nd full debut for tottenham on thursday as they kicked off the european league group stage by beating austrian side lusk the welsh minoa who rejoined the club on loan from real madrid off to 7 years played a role in spurs 2nd goal is cross that was turned into losses own net by one of the

defend this shows a monino side going on to win 3 nil we respect. lost we saw the way they destroyed sporting in his one and they are much better than what they lead because we were. taking it seriously. and there were some shocking results on thursday napoli lost at home against p.s.v. were beaten by got another massive win for liver cause in that they scored 6 against nice and also had to come from behind to beat a rapid 21 in major league soccer the seattle sounders that have held on to the top spot in the western conference they drew with a 2nd place portland timbers on thursday timbers i had taken an early lead thanks to and it is a florist it was his 1st goal for over 2 years seattle fought back though will ruin getting them there equaliser in the 2nd half injury time the result

leaves both teams level on 32 points with seattle in 1st on goal difference. the new n.b.a. season isn't expected to start till december january because of the late finish to the recently concluded campaign which of course was disrupted by the global pandemic where last season's m.v.p. can't seem to pull himself away from the game yanni said to tickle bull is back home in greece where he's been enjoying a summer in your league action he watched on has been a fiasco sit down on thursday and had to call himself had the disappointing and to last season his team of the bucs crushed out of the playoffs in just a 2nd round and that's a full make a mom son of thank you for that breaking news on al-jazeera that sudan is normalizing its relations with israel let's come in from the white house from donald trump we will have our correspondents in washington country and western

reach them right after the break. well about half way when the president of the united states speaks out the rest of the world takes notice. aggressive negotiation on trade deals. unparalleled military might international agreements hanging by a thread will the next u.s. foreign policy put america 1st. or be a leading light for the world at last. some of the key issues of the us elections

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al-jazeera. just to get to the use and abuse of power across the globe on al jazeera. breaking news the us president donald trump says sudan and israel have now agreed to normalize relations. hello again i'm come all santamaria with the world news from al-jazeera. what they have accomplished here today took a great deal of courage. libya's the warring sides signed a cease fire deal in geneva the biggest step yet towards peace solve the nearly a decade of war. i feel all those things.