meeting saddam is an interesting. shadow on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. it's just going to. come out santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has announced sudan and israel will normalize their relations the palestinian officials are calling it a new stab in the back. not only to do it but its pace so that's official that's. what they have accomplished here today took a great deal of courage in other news libya's warring sides sign

a cease fire deal in geneva the biggest step yet towards peace after nearly a decade of war. i appeal to all stakeholders and regional actors due respect to provisions of the ceasefire agreement and ensured its implementation we don't delay . and foreign ministers of mania and azerbaijan meet separately with the u.s. secretary of state to defuse tensions over in a going to cut about. the breaking news this friday is that sudan has become the latest country to normalize its ties with israel under a deal brokered by the united states president made the announcement from the white house few hours ago the 3rd such deal in just 2 months remember previous the united arab emirates and behind agreed to normalize their ties with israel earlier this week a deal was also struck to remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism

. and they wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly nice because they essentially bettered war with israel for. a long time i don't know if it was fighting i don't know that but probably there's been a little bit but certainly it's been for many years you've been officially at war with sudan and now it's not only to do it but it's peace so that's official and that's you know we have at least 5 that want to come in for correspondents to take us through this story here they all hit morgan in khartoum sudan harry force in west jerusalem in israel made abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank with starting in washington where the announcement was made not long ago alan fischer as our correspondent at the white house not a massive surprise because we had heard the idea of more arab nations joining this list of countries to normalize their ties with israel but it's another. win for

donald trump and effectively. and that had to be choreographed as well essentially donald trump ministrations said this is been in the process for a number of years the sudanese government has agreed to pay $335000000.00 in compensation to the victims of the east african embassy attacks back in 1908 the attack on the u.s.s. cole and the family of a murdered diplomat who was killed in sudan in the early part of the century that money put into an account once that was done that a low donald trump to send it to congress saying that he wanted to remove the designation as a state sponsor of terrorism from sudan that goes to congress they have $45.00 days to consider that and perhaps lord an objection once that designation is removed that then allows other countries other entities to do business with the sudanese and that he is the way for israel to go ahead and carry out normal relations with

them particularly when it comes to forging agricultural deals which seems to be top of the list so a slow process that got them here you're right at donald trump seems to be approaching the middle east not with one all encompassing deal like many of his predecessors but instead doing small bits trying to put together a jigsaw he did it with what was called the abraham accords a deal where the united arab emirates and bahrain recognized israel that was signed here at the white house just last month although it seems a lot longer than that and now he has sit down and says there will be some former deal potentially in the next couple of weeks is about to take off you can probably hear the helicopter in the background but he'll see this as a big when the fact that it moves sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list won't really resignation with with voters but if you can tell the people who are about to cast their vote that the security $135000000.00 for the victims of terrorism that will seem like

a big win also donald trump insisting. this is that we you change the reality on the ground in the middle east that means it's blood in the trees you several times used to get in that phone call just a couple of hours ago he thinks this is moving american interests by certainly normalized deals with israel thank you alan fischer at the white house we're moving on to. the sudanese capital morgan allen davis a good out of the deal which led to the not so much the normalizing relations but the lifting or the removal of sudan from the list of state sponsors of terror is the most probably the most important news out of this. yes indeed because my lifting sudan out of the u.s. list of state sponsors of terror means improvement incidentally economy maybe not immediately like the acting minister of finance said on tuesday following the announcement from u.s.

president donald trump that he will be lifting off that list but they say that within the coming months they will expect the banking systems to open internationally so that sudanese can transact between sudan and other countries they also expect that this would be a way for them to be able to basically get loans from the international monetary fund and the world bank and it will also help them be able to clear their debt of more than 60000000000 dollars that's what the government is hoping to achieve by being lifted out of the u.s. list of states hans's of terror of course sudan's our prime minister has welcomed the steps when president donald trump announced it on monday he again welcomed the step that the u.s. president took in notifying congress to deal with sudan in the next 45 days but we have not heard any reaction yet from the sudanese in terms of normalizing ties with israel that's something that no official has commented on yet today it seems to be very quiet but the prime minister has previously stated that he is very worried

about taking such a step because this is a transitional government not an elected government. and it's a government of a coalition of various political parties with various of various ideologies various leanings so there are concerns about how strong this. will remain after this announcement after this normalization step that has been taken by the prime minister of the 100 and by the head of the sovereignty council and then for the head for home thank you have a morgan in khartoum before we speak to our correspondent in west jerusalem let's hear from prime minister benjamin netanyahu he was on the phone with donald trump when the announcement was made.

there. are forces in west jerusalem now we can't really say that israel and sudan's relations were very bad or hostile so it's questionable maybe what israel gets out of this but i guess it does get a 3rd arab nation which has said yes will normalize our relations with you. yes i mean for nothing yahoo this is a hugely symbolic 3rd such agreement he's been working towards these sorts of normalization agreements throughout his 2nd period in office from 2009 onwards and as he said to get 3 in such a search short space of time is something that he wants to signal to the israeli public as another major victory he talked about the 3 knows the famous 3 nos of the arab league in 167 in khartoum no to peace with israel no to negotiations and

no to recognition of israel now turning into 3 yeses and he also wants to talk about the practical impacts of these sorts of deals saying that they will lead to better trade relationships with these countries and therefore bring down the very high cost of living in israel as a result he wants to try and get some credit for this which is generally supported in the israeli public but his poll numbers are down because of the current situation and his management of the kovac 90 impact and they make it is the detail of the statement it doesn't yet at least talk about diplomatic relations and embassies in reciprocal countries that's different from the initial agreement announced between for example united arab emirates and israel back in august very 4 sets in western roussillon with that updates and finally we moved to in the occupied west bank his need abrahams of the 3 nos are gone as harry was saying

there and they palestinians left wondering well who's next. this is what the palestinian leadership has been saying since then you wait he announced it's going to be normalizing relations with israel that more countries are going to be following it and this is what happened with him by joining the u.a.e. and signing the deal with israel and though so then who knows who's going to be the next it's worth mentioning that this is the 1st african state to be normalizing to nations with not only talking about the gulf and that could be threatening as far as felson years are concerned more normalization deals with israel the palestinian president mahmoud abbas issued a statement condemning the so then announcement of not ready they should relations with israel saying that the way and path to peace should only. international law which is when israel and its occupation of palestinian lands the

arab league where the 3 nos were born and know to normalization nor to take of mission or peace negotiations with israel before it ends its occupation has failed to adopt a resolution suggested by the palestinians to condemn normalization and for them they feel that they've been left alone especially amidst the trump administration that has been giving more and more as questions are concerned more gifts to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu we've heard also from a senior. at the how he said that normalization won't be helping sudan but it will give israel the chance to use up and take up its resources which speaking to we've spoken to a couple of political analysts in the know here and they believe that posting in the backs are against the wall they are living in a very poor economic situation poor political situation they feel that or they heat

they say that the region has been not supporting the palace. as they were before and they can only hope that trump would not get tekken term in office neda abraham running out of correspondence coverage of this story she's in ramallah in the occupied west bank don't trump we saw in the oval office earlier on his phone call with prime minister netanyahu this is what he's popped on twitter as well a couple of screen shots of the deal a huge win today for the united states and for peace in the world sudan's agreed to a peace a normalization agreement with israel with the united arab emirates and behind that's 3 arab countries to have done so in only a matter of weeks more will follow he says a senior political analyst is mown bashar joining us now. to cold it's a huge win for the united states would be a bit of a stretch would it not it's definitely a big win for israel facilitated by the united states absolutely

and it's having clear for everyone that the american secretary of state is working on behalf of the new governor she stopped calling him the israeli secretary 'd of state because you certainly been very busy shuttling in the various characters in the arab world in order to secure a deal to the left and you know governments knowing all too well that this will only weaken the better senior position. and yet in the end of the day the united states knows all too well that peace in the middle east is not going to be secure without peace with the palestinians and the palestinians as we've just heard from our 'd correspondent there marla have already condemned and such steps but they also understand that these steps are not really main goodwill on behalf of the sudanese people but the other part of blackmail by washington to a fragile government that fragile higher military council and my fear is.

in relation to sit down that i'm like what we've heard of our democracy is than that this will be used by the generals sabbaton to secure their position in the future of sudan aren't as good on tours or any such peace or minimization. so i see it as a setback force of that size because of anything this will strengthen but general's position reserve the then you will more democratic civil society that is trying to chart a new way forward but what about from the u.s. perspective no one and i guess more specifically from donald trump's perspective he will of course top these as huge success as he calls them peace deals but can he actually the just make the argument he's achieving more in the middle east than pasta ministrations have. well i mean look for example that carter

secured for his partner secured the biggest most important ordinance. in the business which is egypt so already some 40 some years ago 41 years ago the carter administration secured a peace. between egypt and israel it was a shameful and the $99.00 days president clinton secured the palestinians and the jordanians. so various administrations have done various things i'm just not sure that these steps that have come mostly to blackmail have global. future in the region because for the last 60 plus years since the so-called cut to nose took place. at the back all the terrible war

6 that war that's been going on for 60 years now. everyone understands that region is basically falling apart that the region is divided and if any big. company decision has used then the visions in that weakness and region were there to secure the position of certain dictators so than one 3rd $1000000000.00 in the region in order to normalize with so on in order for me this looks all of it for the shaky ground because none of it is not being in any way the full and deliberate. peaceful steps based on justice israel is in fact he was the so-called american success in the region to further its occupation of palestine and in fact we've heard today from the special envoy to izzard palestine that the common message and continues to support

an extension of president that the so really i see no justice and not even beasts who are going forward by the pump and the situation on the sciara our senior political analyst here at al-jazeera thank you mo and. 17 minutes past this news hour here is what's coming up spain's spreading coronavirus outbreak the prime minister reveals the number of cases there could be 3 times the official counts. speaking out with silence jailed opposition activists protest against alleged human rights violations in the prisons of nicaragua and gareth bale make his 1st start since returning to spurs the latest in the europa league is coming up in the sport . on to one of the other big stories of the day something praised as historic but still received by many with caution this is libya's warring sides agreeing 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 longtime leader moammar gadhafi the support for mohammed junction. after 5 days of un hosted talks a historic breakthrough libya's warring factions signing a national cease fire today is 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. under the terms all foreign fighters are required to leave libya within 3 months and a new joint police force will start patrolling disputed areas. for libya which has been wracked by conflict for nearly 10 years these past 14 months has only seen the

fighting worsen while the east of the country is in the hands of powerful word for half that and the 2 group based house of representatives the west is controlled by the un backed government of national accord led by prime minister. they remain in tripoli the country's capital have to who is supported by russia egypt and the united arab emirates launched an offensive on tripoli in april 2019 but was pushed back early this year as pro g.m.a. forces received support from turkey the you in which is accused foreign parties of breaching an arms embargo urged them to stop interfering in libya. and while repeated attempts for a un brokered cease fire failed in the past this round has seen both sides agree to reopen land and air routes across frontlines still many questions remain unanswered then to be. arrangements on the ground it's going to be monitored how it will be done independent a mood of optimism may now exist but the coming weeks and months are likely to

reveal whether this is a lasting peace. and. more on this now with our diplomatic at the james bays his at the united nations in new york. 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 then the instant and 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 envoy is blocked in so good the council so i don't see that we should the outline or we should. focus on the present difficulties because there were other difficulties but he seeding them and they hope that everything will be overcome 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 libyans the secretary general read out the list of the signatories and said they were the accredited representatives of the 2 sides and made it quite

clear that it wasn't up to members of the international community to comment on this he wanted a libyan solution to the problems in libya. the us them. a c.n.n. camera says it has 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 it's temporarily suspended all services that its diplomatic missions in turkey and told citizens to exercise caution in places frequented by foreigners. now with less than 2 weeks before the u.s. presidential election international observers are raising some concerns about the vote in a report to the organization for security and cooperation in europe the o.c.e. said there were concerns the legitimacy of the vote could be questioned largely because of president trump repeated allegations of fraud and although access to early and absentee voting has been expanded some are questioning the capacity of

some jurisdictions to actually handle what looks like an unprecedented number of absentee ballots the c.e. was supposed to have 200 observers but because of pandemic restrictions only 30 will be present very pleased to welcome ambassador gets sick to al-jazeera the head of mission for the seas office for democratic institutions and human rights joining us from washington thank you for your time ambassador i'm interested 1st of all in the fact that i believe you were invited by the u.s. government to observe these relations was that particularly unusual. no it's not unusual it'll come out it's standard procedure all the o.s.c. e participating states which despite having europe in its name the us is a member of this organization they are actually committed to inviting does and the state department does it regularly this is our 9th mission in the united states so in many ways you can say it's business as usual for a c.e.o.

dear here in the united states and we have 45 i have 45 of my long term observers and cult members here but not quite as small as you suggest oh ok right excellent thank you for great deals though tell me what well that should tell our viewers really what does an observer do or how do they go about their job leading up to election day and on the day itself. well you might be surprised that this is already completing the 4th week of our work here and we're still a good week and a half away from the election but actually we follow the whole process so it's following pre-election this year of course especially interesting with so much in person early voting and the postal ballots already coming in but it's a standard procedure we would always be here this early in the process we follow of course election day proceedings this year we're going to have to scale that part of the operation down a little bit but i still think we have a good geographical spread i have observers will be covering $3030.00 states

and we say after the elections which is also standard procedure so be following the count and what is always standard any complaints or appeals that if you're going through the courts and there's a lot going to the courts already here. so without us with without us origin director about it without us getting political at all because i know that's not your job tell me about some of the concerns we mentioned the issues over absentee ballots or mail in ballots and but this whole issue of mail and ballots or voting has been turned into a very big issue by the president himself. well as you rightly say we are completely apolitical nonpartisan objective so we don't comment on what particular candidate say but what is unique about this election is that it has become an election about an election because the very way you cast your ballot has become a hot political discussion and so voters might feel confused because i was

i just mentioned a lot of legislation being changed the last minute the rules of the game would be changed as people are already casting their votes either in person or via the post and then this suggestion that maybe things aren't going to be running as well as they should be that's why we're here. we are quite still quite early in the process but all the things that are flagged up for our attention we will follow very closely both by the expert team here which i had in d.c. and the city observers out in the individual states ambassador the words free and fair all that phrase we use it's so much and we hear so many concerns in elections all over the world concerns from observers concerns from opposition members or whoever might be about elections whether they will be free and fair from 4 weeks i think you said of work your team's already done are you confident at this stage that this election will be free and fair. well we are not at the stage

to prejudge anything yet so we will comment on the election when we have seen this process through right to the very end we will actually not deliver our final report until some time after inauguration of the new president as to sri unfair in general it's actually a phrase that has become. not used to by our organization the we are the premiere organization that actually does this internationally because it's far too nuanced to situations just sum up an election in 2 words so even when you are patiently waiting for for example our press conference the day after the election or our final report which will come early in the new year you will still not see the selection boiled down just to 2 it's always far more complicated whether it's the united states or any of the other 56 participated states where we also have

a mandate to observe so there i think i'll disappoint you but you have to just keep watching this space there's much more to come for now i think if we can add to voter confidence that we are here we're on their side we're following everyone not just red blue states every state with special emphasis also our postman's with disabilities disadvantaged persons persons that might be disenfranchised they should feel confident that somebody has their back and that's the oversea o.d.s. initially here in d.c. i was pretty sure that's how you were going to answer that question but i'm still going to ask an area and earth of a gut check from the organization for security and cooperation in europe a pleasure talking to you thank you it was such a pleasure thank you and i hope we have a chance to catch up later in the process meter like that fred still ahead view on this news on. we're now down to a quarter in the thought life. half the stuff have already been unfortunately. been

made redundant fearing the worst welsh businesses already hit by that and going back into lockdown. poland's top court issues a ruling on abortion that makes the procedure almost entirely illegal. coming up in support an update on the health of cricket legend tom peel day of the former captain of india suffered a heart attack. hello is cooling down nicely across the middle east now when i say killing that it means we're looking at some of the best weather of the year so long as the clear skies hazy sunshine 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 the 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 good bonds and big down pulls 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.

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i'm an algorithm on a jersey oh. oh . you're on the news are here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories sudan and israel have agreed to normalize diplomatic ties in the us for a good deal u.s. president donald trump made the announcement a few hours ago the 3rd such deal in just 2 months previously the u.a.e. and bahrain agreed to normalize ties. libya's warring factions of agreed to what the u.n. is calling a permanent ceasefire the un's libya envoy says she has confidence in the deal make sure the international community supports its. the heads of the delegations

representing libya's 2 rival militaries appraise the deal in a corner for unity for mercenaries and foreign fighters are also supposed to leave libya within 3 months. i want to go back to that top story sudan and israel agreeing to normalize their ties we've got jonas horner with us to talk about it deputy director for the horn of africa and senior analyst for sudan for the international crisis group isn't cutting for us thanks for your time. just look at this from sudan's point of view and i do kind of want to separate it into the deal with israel over normalizing ties and then the removal from the u.s. state sponsored terror list let's not with the deal with israel what does it wasn't really mean for a country like sudan well yes normalization is it's only a controversial issue here you know a lot of sudan has a story place in our world's antipathy to be israel you know the arab league's declaration around avoiding you know recognition peace with israel and

negotiations with israel what was struck are 2967 and some here are 2 still so where that actually quite proudly you know more and more currently you now see many of the islamist groups here who have a kneejerk you know a version to this happening and there's a strong overlap with the oprah shimabukuro bashir who are very keen to see this transitional government its place this hybrid government in civilian supposed to see them really founder and fails there's a will to among that set of the population just see it's become a bit of an albatross around the current government because i was focusing on the fact earlier with some of our other guests in correspondence that these 2 countries weren't exactly at war though one of our other guests did talk about was that a state of belligerence i think was a way call that they were some tensions to speak off. indeed and the israelis you know whether whether they have admitted or not i think you know as i've spoken with

intelligence officials they've been a bit more forthcoming but there have been strikes on the arms convoys coming up through sudan that were meant to go through sinai and into gaza back in the early 2020 thousands and and this is only as northeast. and and there have been various strikes on so easy in sudan but by and large israel did not accept take responsibility for that and so it has been a very wide war and that is a very accurate way to describe it it has been a state. still a struggle knowing what to call these decades isn't it let's talk about the state sponsors of terror list because this is the thing which makes the difference. to sudan isn't it what can now i guess open up with regards to its economy and society again now that it is no longer kit considered a state sponsor of terror by the u.s.

. yes look the primary theme that goes on here in and khartoum and in sudan more broadly really is the economy it is really in a in a in a very dangerous and powerless states and really does require external assistance to drag itself out of that hole and that really is the point of leverage that the u.s. has has brought to bear on sudan as it has pushed the country to confront lies with israel for removal of state sponsor of terrorism will you know from a purely public relations perspective if it gets sudan a new lease of life getting it out under the shadow of being a pariah state or the other states on on the list out of north korea iran and syria who all have varying degrees all of that names in the end the sections of the international community. you know somebody does not belong on that list but this quiets down with the operator access financing and loans much more readily in many

ways it is the arrears or or its debts that are the real technical. hoback getting loans and and financing but the s.s.t. has played a key role in keeping that an active that keeps on it that will allow it to at the right recover jenna's honda is with the international crisis group in sudan good to talk to join us thank you. eisma. al jazeera journalist mohammad hussein has now been illegally detained in egypt for $1400.00 days without charge hussein was arrested while on vacation with his family in cairo and 2016 his detention is in violation of both egyptian and international law last week more than 50 u.s. democratic party politicians signed a letter urging president out there it's easy to release not just mahmoud but other journalists lawyers and activists in egypt sharif months are with us now middle east north africa coordinator for the c.p.a. the committee to protect journalists is in washington d.c.

i think i can safely say that this is a silly ridiculous and wouldn't usually make such a broad statement but this is one of our staff members 1400 days. in prison and as a part of that it's actually in violation of egyptian law to do that to hold someone without charge how is this still going on. unlike all the politically motivated conciliation and charges that he is very very elaborate. sometimes mass trial. that includes people of never seen it rather of new or even want to go isn't just for the mere fact that the government wants to keep him any custody as a punishment it's such and the evidence here is that he was not insane was ordered to be released by criminal court because he passed even the tall year limit there this government haven't forced sometimes people are kept without evidence wouldn't

allow trial and the way they did it was full charge him the same kind of charges after 2 years for that they can keep him in custody for 2 more years this revolving door policy that they should go to and to use is responsible for keeping at least 26 john at least as of last year behind bars. maintaining egypt as one of the warders reloaders of seanna since 2013. so scared of journalists and their egyptian and actions i just don't know why point it out as well activists and and lawyers as well anyone who is out there to tell the truth what a dangerous job they have in egypt. well so mohamed has him now his only crime is that here's what for our network locals as you know that there should be government have tried to stop one silence inside and outside egypt. now more than

7 years and the fact that he was kept in custody inspired off all those legal protections it's not just the waters part of the last part of his that he's not that he's denying medical attention as are of them and certainly his are as he needs a lot of help now and this is while we think of this letter as a sign of hope is that someone is still paying attention and not just here in the u.s. . seem let out of the sea in the man's head had been living in european parliament in that you had a system calling the president of the s.c.c. to at least release the news or cases and the important of the timing here is twofold there's a well we are in a demick and sure noticed have died by getting infected while

in protracted detention and let our talks about the egyptian journalist mohamad needle die at this summit as an example but also because we are about to see possibly achieve a inch of. administration here and this is that i've got to try and that at least. a lot of policy makers out of and congress out of a get tension and the fact that a. possible future appeared to be written measures against egyptian government needs effect that this is just the beginning and they are going to assess how serious it is from government is there to take this slip out of it before they can think of far that actually siri thought mansour from the committee to protect journalists protect journalists we thank you for your time and for your ongoing support as well in helping to free mother to say thank you. thank you for.

the foreign minister of us the foreign ministers of azerbaijan and armenia have been meeting us secretary state my own pale in washington the ministers held separate meetings with who early this week said he hopes the path forward could be found this is of course part of an effort to reach a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the going to cut about there's been fighting in the disputed region for more than 3 weeks now has she had in washington with more trouble ministration is is taking more action with these meetings we've had statements from now where he's asked for a cease fire he's asked for international actors not to be involved meaning turkey not to be supplying weapons to to the competence and we've had these meetings now 1st the the as every foreign minister for. the armenian foreign minister for an

hour however we're not hearing much about any sort of plan it was very noticeable that the as very foreign minister going in and. sources going and said this isn't really about a ceasefire this is just about getting a long term solution so we're going to care about where is the armenian sources were saying no we're going to be pushing for sanctions on turkey trying to stop turkey from supplying azerbaijan with weapons might pump a river has been making a statement saying we need to cease fire we need far not just to stop supplying weapons to the competence he came out with this statement which would raise some eyebrows we were hopeful the armenians will be able to defend against what the azerbaijanis are doing which is particularly interesting because it sort of goes against the traditional geopolitical interests of the us. so let's look at some coronavirus news in the past hour more than 3000000 people in wales have gone into national lockdown the government is hoping the 2 week shutdown will slow a growing 2nd wave of cases among the restrictions the closure of non-essential

businesses that were already hit hard by the earlier missions paul brennan has our report now from carter. this probably should be felt. it's not going to make. this 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 when i have 6 or 7 to start on site. we're now down to a quarter. half the stuff have already been unfortunately. 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 over the modelers tell us is that this will get us through to christmas if we act now 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 locked 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 chepstow are my 2 daughters lives on the english side of chepstow so this is very much our farewell

breakfast the next 2 weeks we're 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 scape escape seems to be quite a kind of you know it's 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 . and when my colleagues in tears the other night when we. say unit back to her to a code that you need to know. 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 rate only emerging 2 weeks or more from now it's a real test of nerves paul brennan al-jazeera cardiff pollens top court has ruled that having an abortion because of fetal defects is unconstitutional it made that decision on thursday which means terminations are now banned in most cases. in response to the ruling hundreds of women's rights activists protested in the polish capital warsaw the opposition says the tribunals simply carried out the political will of the conservative government. something constitutes a very good when i was at the scene it 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 home and 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. through south american jailed opposition activists in nicaragua have sewn their lips shut in protest against alleged human rights violations. the oas the organization of american states says there are at least $100.00 political prisoners participating in the hunger strike the president daniel ortega has denied the abuse accusations and support from. family done that i am both families of nicaraguan political prisoners are calling for the release of their loved ones. many of whom have been participating in a hunger strike from behind bars for more than 3 weeks they're trying to call

attention to alleged human rights abuses by nicaraguan security forces and paramilitary groups schedule it now devise says her husband edisto is among the prisoners participating in the hunger strike she says her husband and several others have sewn their lips shut as part of their protest the manama says they made the decision to do a hunger strike partly as a way to demand their freedom because they suffer from constant physical and psychological mistreatment whether nicaragua's president daniel ortega has denied allegations of torture adding that human rights observers are welcome to visit the prison. if i may have. the doors are open for you to visit they say they're being tortured that they're dying that they've sewn their lips shut i'd like to see their lips own they fabricate such things to create a negative image of nicaragua and this is in response to a team of human rights observers travelled to el cheapo to prison in managua. but

were intercepted by security forces who denied them access why not adamant that. it's a lie that we've been able to prove this speech from president daniel ortega from head to toe he said the jades were open to human rights institutions like ours yet . on october 21st the only yes passed a resolution calling for electoral reforms in nicaragua and urging the state to respect human rights. a defense attorney represent. the families of several prisoners says many were hoping the oas resolution would include a timeline for the release of political prisoners. we were expecting the liberation of political prisoners as a demand but that's the way things go even the political prisoners say they feel they've become a sort of chip but. since the start of the political crisis in 2018 the nicaraguan government has been accused of

a long list of human rights violations. including locking up government critics and silencing journalists bundled up a little al-jazeera still ahead. not taken from the.

thank you very much tiger woods is looking far from his best with his macias title defense coming up next month is seeing off in the 2nd round at those 0 championship in california which out of 4 over 76 leaving him and near the bottom of the

leaderboard he's been having a bit of a rough patch of lately the 15 time major winner had missed a cut at the u.s. open he finished to end a tie for 37th at the p.g.a. championship. 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 woods has never played at the event in texas well we've been speaking to neil squires the chief sports writer at the daily express he believes woods the short term prospects are looking quite unique. the problem for tiger is he is trapped in a vicious circle he needs to play more but he can't play more rusty 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 amount of tournaments he needs

to so so he's stuck if there's 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 seem to far and fail to him when you write your 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 are accustomed but you know with no form whatsoever even for woods that is going to be a big ask even a gust where he you know where he knows it like the back of his hand he is 15 times he he is 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. why india cricket legend capital is in stable condition and recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack who captained india's walk up the winning side in 1983 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 he welshman 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 defendants shows a monino side going on to win 3 nil we respect. last we saw the way they destroyed sporting in lisbon and they are much better than what they lead because we were. taking it seriously. and there were some shocking results on says they not 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 arsenal had to come from behind to beat a rapid 21 in major league soccer the seattle sounders to have held on to the top spot in the western conference they drew with a 2nd place portland timbers on thursday timbers that had taken an early lead thanks to and that is a florist it was his 1st goal for over 2 years seattle fought back though

will ruin getting them their equaliser in the 2nd half injury time the result leaves both teams level on $32.00 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 seasons and b.p. can't seem to pull himself away from the game yanni said it is back home in greece where he's been enjoying a summer in your league action he watched on as bennett yeah cause johnson a thursday and had to go himself had a disappointing and the last season his team of the bucs crushed out of the playoffs in just a 2nd round. and that's all from we'll have more for you later on. world i'm here in doha maryam namazie on the team in london and with you in

a couple of minutes time. do you feel validated in south way is a type of performative activism. let's go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist the lights are on there's nowhere to hide join me richelle carey is up at the front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talk and political debate. front times on al-jazeera.

including 3 slay mine people have been killed. we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public the war this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done different the saudis other arabs when they came to britain to be fools to help to pass laws due to low fuel from so this meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. career. stakeholders would hundreds of followers to a tropical paradise. wonder when a statistic gates the secretive sect accused of abuse and violence in featured. on

al-jazeera. president trauma says sudan and israel have now agreed to normalize relations and the palestinians have called a new stop in the back. now i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program . this is a fundamental step towards peace and stability in libya.