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on out is iraq. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. soon down they wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly because they essentially better war with israel . and iran says the u.s. brokered a deal for sudan and israel to normalize relations palestinians call it a new stab in the back. hello there i'm helena his in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. today is a good day for the libyan people. and historic day libya's warring sides sign a un the go seated cease fire after 5 days of talks in geneva. guinea's army goes
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on alert softer election results show the president winning a controversial 3rd term. record daily numbers of corona virus infections are reported in the u.s. and europe as government struggle to curb the spread. but 1st sudan is set to become the latest arab country to normalize ties with israel this year the u.s. brokered deal was announced by president donald trump who says at least 5 more arab states want the same agreements following similar deals with the u.a.e. and a hurricane the palestinians are calling the move a new stab in the back alan fisher has more from washington d.c. i want to just congratulate from the oval office another part of u.s. president donald trump's middle. least peace plan falls into place even if he isn't
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submerged in the detail we consumed and wanted to do it here and there was in particular because they essentially bear 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 the trumpet ministration says it's a deal years in the making it's involved secretary of state might pompey or flying to sudan and israel's prime minister making an official visit. to dan has agreed to pay $335000000.00 in compensation to victims of the 1908 east africa u.s. embassy bombings the attack on the u.s. school in yemen in 2000 and the family of a murdered u.s. diplomat that's cleared the way for sudan to be removed from the list of nations the u.s. considers state sponsors of terrorism and that puts israel in place to establish formal relations and there was no relationship whatsoever to names peace agreement will enhance security and engineers along isolation congress now has $45.00 days to
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consider donald trump's decision it could block it but that seems unlikely if it goes through sanctions on sudan will be removed and that clears the way for increased trade. sudan is the 3rd out of country to normalize relations with israel in recent months bahrain and the united arab emirates signed the abraham accords at a white house ceremony last month palestinians see the decision by the government in khartoum is another step in the back how mass describes it as political sin because still a geisha is from sudan and israel will meet soon to discuss cooperation in many fields agriculture trade and other issues of importance to our citizens sudan skies are today open to israel it allows direct and shorter flights between israel africa and southern america. this announcement serves the zionist occupation and its expanding policy in the region for sure it only serves trumps election campaign and netanyahu own political conflicts donald trump has clearly decided small individual
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deals in the middle east will change the reality on the ground rather than try and fail for an all encompassing peace package like previous presidents he says 5 more countries are ready to join in he believes these deals protect america reduce the chance of expensive bloody foreign wars and helps his reelection efforts alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house will need to abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank with reaction from the palestinians. when the u.a.e. announced it's going to be normalizing relations with israel the palestinian leadership has warned that they fear the more our states are going to be following suit this has happened with beheading and later on now with sudan the palestinian president has condemned the move and said that the only way towards peace is by relying on international law and egypt to missy which means that israel should be
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ending its occupation of palestinian lands before it normalizes the relations were not only talking about the gulf now we're talking about africans the that could open the door for more countries to fill the food it is the country where this really knows some it was born know to normalization or recovery mission or fees with israel without it ending its occupation as we've heard that the nose have now turned into 3 yeses for palestinians the arab league has failed to adopt a draft resolution to condemn normalization which they believe has opened the door for more than normalization pacifically under the trump administration this is an administration that they believe has been giving israel and its prime minister netanyahu one gift after the other and for political analysts we've spoken to they believe that palestinians backs are against the wall and they can only now hope with after losing regional support and having
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a poor economic situation that they could only hope the trump wouldn't be getting a 2nd term in office well richard just see as from the department of political science at george washington university he says the deal is a much needed foreign policy win for traum. pretty dotted states of course it helps to constrain iran with the bulwark of american israeli alliances and in terms of short term election prospects this is really the only feather in the cap and trump can point to a highlight in terms of some substantial sums for the achievements over the course of his presidency in the international relations round i think that people care in terms of their for strategic thinkers in terms of thinking about a bulwark of. connections that center around. about rayna united everett's sudan united states and israel in terms of containment
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of iran this certainly is not going to go unnoticed by. hominy endo rowhani in terms of what was portends in terms of some constraint on the part of the iranian actions to in pursuit of his gemini in the part of the middle east. after nearly a decade of bloodshed libya's warring sides have agreed to a permanent and immediate ceasefire the un brokered deal was signed in geneva after months of negotiations between the internationally recognized government in tripoli and its rivals in the east mohammad jump soon as more. 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.
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headquarters in geneva the 2 libyan delegations to the 5 plus 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 world order to leave a half that and the tobruk 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 after who is supported by russia egypt and the united arab emirates launched an offensive on tripoli in april 2019 but was pushed back
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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 u.n. brokered ceasefire 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 the us to be. more regions on the ground as to how it's going to be monitored 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. guinea's army has been deployed to curb demonstrations after preliminary results showed president of a condi winning a controversial 3rd term at least 26 people have been killed in unrest since sunday's election no phone lines and internet connections have been can't correlate reports. violent scenes on the streets of guinea's capital
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conakry. opposition supporters angry at the news the president is on course for yet another election win. guinea's election commission says preliminary results show alpha condé has secured a 3rd term in office with 37 of 38 districts counted it says condors won a round twice as many votes as his nearest rival but opposition candidate to salute jello has a ready called the result unconstitutional and declared himself the winner. now it is for all of us to fight to preserve to defend our victory and you know that it is threatened by alpha condé who had no borders but had an army of fraudsters they have transformed the boat you expressed into another in favor of alpha condé we must not accept it. the government mobilized the army as opposition
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supporters flooded the streets. as for condi has been in power since 2010 instead of salute dahlan giallo and we all have guinea reaches us d.g. that's what good he wants if you have d.g. is not elected guinea will not become. condors decision to run for a 3rd term sparked repeated protests over the past year and resulted in dozens of deaths but the government's denied using heavy handed tactics and accused the opposition of causing chaos. guinea's government faithful to his principle of preserving peace and social tranquility cannot allow this situation to take root we do. plourde the deaths and valid to their memory all of them civilians and agents of the security forces now the international criminal court's warning both sides could face prosecution if the violence continues but guineas opposition has vowed to contest the results in the constitutional court fueling fia's of more violence.
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0. gangs are blocking major roads in nigeria's largest city of lagos this fall is a speech by president's muhammadu buhari in which he avoided condemning the killing of at least 12 protesters on choose say group set fires on friday as anger grew as the latest on best 2 weeks of protests that many say the campaign against police brutality has been hijacked the 20000000 residents of lagos states have been under 24 hour curfew since tuesday this is was good. and i was aware of that just slips that clearly by the way i'm struck by what is going to emerge the writers are not going to have all of them wanted to know what it will do things other than this is not what i look at what good is supposed to do is to embed it that they make up than a story as big 5 really about what is covered in disclosure and diminished he wants
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to. copy what is happening to india in the country i do believe that is what he said you talk endlessly for the last week you did it i'm certain i was up to one important issue one in the british mind our got the right to delete the data to get to the new p.b.s. on a push pull everybody back to the. still to come on al-jazeera back on the roads with just days until the u.s. election both campaigns return the candidates rather return to the campaign trail. and bolivia has a new president but could luis are safe victory mean a returned for the exiled former leader. the weather is set fire across the middle east some lovely spells of sunshine for
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all as we go on for the next couple days and feeling pleasantly warm as opposed to offensively hot slushy clear skies there was you can say the sunshine pretty much all the way getting up around the 30 degree mark around the eastern side of the med it's right is still a mid thirty's yes for baghdad and for kuwait here in doha 30 degrees or so i should say quite nicely over the next complet there is a little change as we push on into sunday the fire weather the dry weather stretches down across the gulf of aden into the horn of africa but we could see want to show us just drifting in here you can see this law and of storms just rolling towards somalia we could see some what's a weather on saturday pushing into west somalia joining up with the seasonal rise that we have across central parts of africa all the way of it's was the gulf of guinea current bond atauro getting all seeing some heavy showers and then the heavy showers of course extending to across the democratic republic of the congo some heavy showers just around like pretoria western parts of kenya seeing some showers
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shall is still there into somalia but further south it is largely fine and dry we have got a few showers around the eastern cape still very hot in job i'd also pushing up to southern possible. but. when i think of my life i think of potential when i think of potential i think what will be what is not i think of you know people need to be taken. from being something that becomes a part of tommy's impossible i think of the challenge. here is my challenge to negotiate out. and this is my. my nigerian on al-jazeera. move.
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this is al jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour sudan is set to become the 3rd arab country this year to normalize times with israel the u.s. brokered deal was announced by president donald trump who sends at least 5 more arab states the same agreement libya's rival factions have signed a permanent ceasefire agreement the un brokered deal orders all foreign fighters to leave the country comes ahead of political talks next month and guinea's army is on the streets to curb protests after president alpha cons a one controversial 3rd town at least $26.00 people have been killed in on the west since sunday's election.
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but with the final u.s. presidential debate over and just days to go before the election both candidates are back on the boards president donald trump is in florida a state he needs to win while joe biden is in delaware and they're offering starkly different visions for the future as andy gallacher reports. with the 2nd term in the balance president trump is once again in florida it's great to be with you and backyard the villages i like. the villages in the middle of the state is a stronghold of conservative voters the backbone of trump's narrow victory here in 2016 just days to go before the presidential election trump spent most of his time bashing rival joe biden and despite a long spikes in coronavirus cases claiming things a getting better this is not a man that can handle the job you know he leaves his house this morning gets up and
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i'm going to talk about all the charges that is called because the girl is the. i want to scare people and we've done so well with it now it's 99.8 percent and when you look at what's going on and we're rounding the turn we're rounding the corner we're rounding the corner here to. president trump will stay overnight at his mar-a lago estate in palm beach before voting in person on saturday. vice president mike pence cast his ballot on friday the number of voters who have done the same now suppressing 15000000 that afternoon in delaware the former vice president joe biden continued his attacks on the president telling the crowd that trump has quit on america he went on to outline his plan for tackling a pandemic that's claimed more than $220000.00 lives in the u.s. 1st go to every governor genda mandate mass were in their states and if they refuse
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i'll go to the mayors and county executives and get local masking requirements in place nationwide as president mandate mask worried all federal buildings and all interstate transportation because mask saves lives period. with polls showing joe biden ahead both candidates of focused on battleground states like florida with its $29.00 electoral college votes this is a must win state for the president whose campaign has less money than biden's come up with a better health care with the final presidential debate now behind them both men to focused on convincing those yet to vote that they have a vision for this nation's future it's not clear if these down to the wire rallies will change voters' minds especially when so many have already cast their ballots what is clear is that both candidates office stokley different approaches to tackling the coronavirus the issue that will define the selection and how this nation will stop it and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. president donald trump
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has suggested egypt might blow up ethiopia's grand renee sounds dumb the project has been a source of tension since construction began in 2011 sudan and egypt are both downstream of the dam and saying it will reduce their water levels after almost a decade of negotiations the 3 countries have failed to reach an agreement and it's a very dangerous situation because egypt is not going to be able to live that way and they'll end up blowing up to them and i said it loud and clear the block that they're there to do so there is a good result of vision which started long before all this started as it had to really get built and then you say. polls have just opened in the 1st round of parliamentary elections in egypt voting is being staggered across the country over several weeks it's also a $568.00 seats are being contested the nation's future party that backs president of the fattah el-sisi is expected to win the critics say this election will see
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proof sisi parties gain an even larger majority the outgoing parliament only face a small position well let's bring in a staffer in london he's the founder and chairman of the british arab network and the author of egypt's the elusive arab spring good to have you with us on al-jazeera what sort of choice do you think the voters will face at the ballot box in egypt's i think. this election are breaking. for parliament. gyptian people have lost confidence and generally seizures elections and i am sure a lot of people who are cuts this elections. parliament itself does not have any legitimate the power to not question the government there is 60 sounds and people in prison right now of course thousands of them are processors doctors lawyers.
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political activist bloggers i think. it's just another fake parliament when i say it's a fake wrong and this is why why is this a fake parliament yes because have never question the government worked at the last parliament last 4 years. is there nothing for that your chin people you know it's really the most the people are handpicked by security to stand for elections. even the president appoints 13 members of this parliament i think and there's no we don't know who aren't the candidates seem. you not local to their people there's no campaigning i think it's really shambles ok well given this situation what sort of turn out say you expecting to see because if the parliament is and the
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vote is a sham as you've been suggesting do you think people in egypt will risk the pandemic to come out and vote for it. i don't think there would be more than one or 2 percent turnout for voting because egypt has got about 6060000000 voters i doubt if you get one or one and half a 1000000 people to vote it's really because there was no point if they heard me any saying bring down human rights in egypt is appalling you you know there is already this more than 50 members of congress more than 200 members of your opinion . and maybes have written to assisi. to express their worry about human rights abuses in egypt how can we have $300.00 free elections and transparent elections and such an environment if there is only one to
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2 percent turnout surely this is a massive embarrassment that president sisi at as he said anything on the subject i'm sure he did not say and i'm sure it will be great i mean he won his elections by 97 percent so i could imagine being same thing happen in the parliamentary elections. i just really i don't know why is it isn't projects of size during krone virus pandemic. and why he works think time what he should do should be released prisoners as members of european parliament ask him as members of congress ask him as many people in the world ask him to relieve prisoners to stop abducting people from streets or stop people being ports or disappearance. is sound and so there's been people can divorce agree disappeared in seach in egypt i think the economy is collapsing is as we know it demolished
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thousands of homes for no good reason at all. and the people are extremely poor and even the provision for correcting for management of koran of violence pandemic is appalling there's no particular policy is so so doctors and nurses been not so loud it's ok well this is surely all on the ballot so we have so wait to see how that turns out but we'll think mustapha thank you very much for talking to us here at al-jazeera thank you but the view is former finance minister these are say he has won the presidential election with 55 percent of the votes are say is an ally of exile former president ever morales and his victory could pave the way for morale this is returned to the country that are reports. the electoral author of his announced the final tally after
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a methodical count of more than 6000000 ballots from a turnout of 88 percent makes you want to leave soon as you see that on the election has fulfilled its mission to legally elect representatives in a process that is free and open and will strengthen democracy 2020 election is a success which will overcome last year's political crisis. international observers including the organization of american states said the vote was generally free and fair. people voted freely and the result was clear and overwhelming granting strongly genesee to the incoming government to believe in institutions and to the electoral process as a whole the defeated opposition were quick to accept the results. it's a result we accept and it's a result we consider that given the distance between the 1st and 2nd place candidates will not change. that some protesters refused to accept the outcome
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however they were few and it was a stark contrast to last october's elections when the oas alleged fraud a right wing interim government took over forcing president evo morales into exile he's now in neighboring argentina little's. the facts the results in the recent elections confirm once again that there was no fraud and that there was a coupe. the convincing victory for luis a 57 year old economist who served as moralities finance minister will help fill some of those wounds he takes office next month when he must assert his own authority and decide health closely he wants to work with his former boss and no bolivian can be banned from entering the country but in the government it's me who has to decide who forms a part of the administration and who does not. see his promise to continue working to reduce poverty in one of the region's poorest countries he's faced with the
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challenge of uniting a divided country in the covered 1000 pandemic this ship livia particularly hard. well leaders are facing a new wave of corona virus infections in the united states presidential candidates are continuing to hold rallies despite infection rates. reaching record numbers well an 80000 new cases were recorded on friday alone though jordan has seen deaths triple in the last 2 weeks a curfew and a lot have been imposed every friday and there was violence in the italian city of naples during new protests against restrictions andrew symonds has more now on the situation in europe. record numbers of covert infection rates are now being recorded right across europe in france there are now 1000000 cases 2 thirds of its population are under curfew the country's highly regarded health service is
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becoming overwhelmed and there's the starkest warning yet about the resurgence of the virus so your apology needed if we look at it trajectory of demick viruses spreading more quickly now than in disappearing in spain the government says the pandemic is out of control and prime minister pederast sanchez has released research for the public health institute tripling the number of covert cases from guam to see 3000000 he says some regions fail to detect the actual number of cases he's being criticized by some regions for not imposing a national lockdown but he refuses to do so. even if we want to avoid at all costs for people to be logged on the tom like they were in the spring we know the sacrifices it takes and the comic on social consequences it brings in belgium the government has also stopped short of a national lockdown while announcing more restrictions hospital admissions in the past fortnight have increased by 254 percent compared with the past 2 weeks and
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latest positive testing figures standard maybe 10000 people a day 75 percent up on last week health workers say the situation is getting critical when i look at a lot of people are off work they're exhausted tion and therefore the challenge is to continue and provide the best quality care possible despite these challenges and the challenges all over europe west and east are getting greater by the day along with the pressure on politicians to weigh up more restrictive measures and their impact on economies and jobs and to simmons'. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines sudan is set to become the 3rd arab country this year it's a normalized ties with israel the u.s. brokered.

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