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these were done differently saudis other arabs from they came to britain for be all to help the past bombs deals you know you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow on al-jazeera. sudan they wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly nice because they essentially better war with israel donald trump announces a u.s. brokered deal for sudan and israel to normalize relations palestinians say it's another stab in the back. well i'm adrian figure this is al jazeera life and also coming up after announcing
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the sudan israel deal president trump weighs into another thorny regional issue ethiopia's grander in a song. egypt is not going to be able to live that way and they'll end up blowing up to their. more coronavirus records tumble the u.s. reports namely 84000 new infections in just 24 hours. or more fighting in armenia and azerbaijan has to speed region both sides accuse each other of shelling residential areas. sudan's transitional government has agreed to start the process of normalizing ties with israel it's part of a broader deal that allows the lifting of u.s. sanctions the palestinians are calling it another stab in the back after similar moves by the u.a.e. and bahrain in a moment we'll have reaction from khartoum and ramallah but 1st alan fischer reports from washington. i want to just gradually you know i mean from the oval
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office another part of u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan falls into place even if he isn't submerged in the detail we consumed and wanted to do it here and there was in particular names because they essentially better 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 has no relationship whatsoever to names peace agreement will
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enhance security and engineers long isolation congress now has $45.00 days to 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 hamas describes it as political sin because geishas 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
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policy in the region for sure it only serves trumps election campaign and netanyahu own political conflicts donald trump has clearly decided small individual deals in the middle east will change the reality on the ground rather than try and feel for an only compassing 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 sudan's recent diplomatic moves have been dictated by one main concern the perilous state of its economy for nearly 3 decades u.s. sanctions have had devastating effects on sudan from international banking transitional government inherited nearly $60000000000.00 in foreign debt when it came to power last year access to learns from the i.m.f. and world bank of being contingent on sudan's removal from washington's list of states that sponsor terrorism even so sudan still owes $1300000000.00 to the i.m.f.
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last month inflation hit a record of more than 200 percent to serious hit by mortgages in khartoum and reports that it will be a while before most people see any new economic benefits. out of the u.s. list of state sponsors of terror means an improvement in sudan's 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 of 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 $60000000000.00 that's what the government is hoping to achieve by being lifted out of the u.s. list of states forces of terror of course sudan's prime minister has welcomed the
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steps when president donald trump mounted on monday he again welcomed the step that the us president took in notifying congress to deal with sudan in the next 45 days 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 various political parties with various of various ideologies various leanings. in the occupied west bank. what's been the reaction. particularly in the morning newspapers. the 3 daily newspapers have condemned the. president. is by resorting to international law and legitimacy and abiding by. abiding israel to end its occupation of the palestinian lands many political
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analysts here believe that the p. 8 doesn't have much to offer more than. it has a very poor economy situation a lot of countries have cut their aid. but they also feel that the. support they're not to. some countries. such as the u.a.e. but now there is an african country that is normalizing relations with israel this means poor many political analysts that the palestinians have their backs against the wall but they really don't. for that. trump would not get a 2nd term. we've heard from see if. he says that would be benefiting from. their resources and many palestinians on social media say that the people's hearts are
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with the palestinian people but they were dragged into this by. abraham. well during that announcement on sudan president trump went on to suggest that egypt might blow up ethiopia's ground renee some sturm the projects for the source of tension since construction began in 2011 ethiopia sudan and egypt failed to reach an agreement after nearly a decade of negotiations ethiopia built the ground race on stand on the blue nile that's the source of most of the dollars water egypt and sudan to downstream in fear that their water supply is could be a risk ethiopia says the dam will produce power that's essential for its economic growth 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 they said loud and clear don't blow up that dam and i have to do something because they could have stopped it they
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should have stopped it long before it was started as it had he let it get built and then you say. there's been more heavy fighting in the go back because both armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling residential areas hundreds of people have been killed since fighting in the disputed region began last month 2 russian broken cease fires have failed foreign ministers from armenia and azerbaijan met with u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 on friday. live not a goddess in southeastern armenia al-jazeera is worried challenges there already what's the latest. well this happens to panic at about 9 pm last night that 17 g.m.t. . sirens wales there's a pretty well established warning system instead panic because of months sort of weeks of bombardments there and their history is this contested area within the
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median in exclave of nagorno karabakh the sirens went off and a short while later. volleys of the the missiles rockets or shells came raining down now because of the sirens and because of the shelters there were no reports of casualties things had been getting. i think easy in panic over the last few days that the last time that the city was shelled or or attacked before this was saturday so nearly a week has gone by without without anything so. i think you know why why are they doing this why is this being this city being attacked well the assumption has to be that it's as it's fairly indiscriminate that it's basically a way of keeping the civilian population there on edge and demoralize the worry i think obviously apart from any casualties or there might be insta panic is that
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this is going to set off another cycle of revenge because the nagorno-karabakh or thora seeds of so that they will respond to this attack and there will be no forgiveness so. as has been the case in this dispute over nagorno-karabakh for decades now it is a cycle of revenge and a cycle of tit for tat and it doesn't like ending. al-jazeera story chalons reporting live from goddess. we'll get a weather update next here and i was here then to return to a leftist leader in bolivia will have the final count of the presidential election after last year's tour. of the army is deployed in guinea as president of condé heads for a divisive 3rd term in office. we
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got some old some weather pushing in the cross the british isles this weekend just in time for the end of pretty summer time so we're going to turn increasingly wet and windy quite a nasty area of low pressure top in fact i suppose will be very very breezy gal force winds for time and some long spells of right ahead of that basin places and cloud and rain danceable central parts of europe sweeping across the balkans croatia serbia seeing some very heavy rain sliding a little further east with surface of the north we got some wet weather up towards the baltic states grassy pushing across to that western side of russia temperatures in moscow falling back to around 9 celsius rash of showers down towards the balkans pushing across into remain here and bulk area and then coming in behind here comes that wet weather they comes out really windy weather is going to film the opposite the cool enough to be fresher 14 celsius the high in london and also in paris 40
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celsius there for murder it is was a fair bit of wet weather there across a good part of a western year has moved away down into one northern parts of africa some places of that cloud of right also affect in the far north of algeria maybe in nature as well the majority of the shaft where they should be across the central belt sinking a little further south was affecting the good parts of the gulf of guinea. frank assessments if american public opinion feels betrayed by social media platforms after november would be this because if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to read from an informed opinion. anyway the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's a bullet with a revolution. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera.
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hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour sudan's transitional government has agreed to normalize ties with israel it's part of a deal that allows the lifting of u.s. sanctions but of sudan's economy palestine says that it's another stab in the back . u.s. president of trungpa suggests that egypt might blow up ethiopia's ground raisons damn the project has been a source of tension in the region since construction began in 2011 there's been more fighting in the border come about because both armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling residential areas that foreign ministers met with u.s.
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secretary of state mike comparable in washington. as election day in the u.s. nears both candidates try to rally last minute support the u.s. has posted another record daily jump in covert 19 cases nearly 84000 infections were announced on friday the death toll in germany has gone above 10000 on infections of jumps to a new high of 15000 the e.u. and the u.k. of jointly been recording an average of 100000 or more cases every day now for nearly 2 weeks of a serious and her sentence has more 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 becoming overwhelmed and there's the starkest warning yet about the resurgence of the virus will fall again and if we look at it
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trajectory of demick viruses spreading more quickly now than in the spring in spain the government says the pandemic is out of control and prime minister pedre sanchez has released research from 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're wearing this 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 latest positive testing figures standard maybe 10000 people
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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 time 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. 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 on friday it came after months of negotiations between the internationally recognized government in tripoli and its rival in the east military and armed groups must withdraw from the front lines and foreign fighters have to leave libya within 3 months well the deal's been praised as historic but has been received by many with
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caution. trainer has been speaking to people in misrata a city that's dealt with severe hardship since waldheim before have to launched his push for tripoli in april 29th tane. for libya which has been engulfed in violence for nearly 10 years these past 14 months have only seen the fight for. while the east of the country is under the control of warlords for the for hafter and the to replace house of representatives the west is controlled by the un recognized government of national accord led by prime minister. they are based in the capital tripoli hotter who is supported by russia egypt and the united arab emirates launched an offensive on tripoli in april 2019 but was pushed back earlier this year as pro g n a forces received support from turkey here in central misrata coffee shop worker are below watch the news of the nationwide cease fire played on the t.v.
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the he's optimistic the agreement will lead to a stable libya. we have had enough we want a democratic and united libya an end to this bloodshed we have dreams and aspirations and want to live in happy nice. but not everyone is as optimistic. who will guarantee ceasefire we've seen these agreements before and then the fighting continued libyans don't have the power to make these decisions it's the foreign parties who will decide if we will have a ceasefire if they decide to end the fighting maybe then we will have peace in misrata libya's 3rd largest city and a primary source of military power for the internationally recognized government in tripoli according to city officials over $700.00 men from the city have been killed in the fighting since world war 2 so they still have to launch his failed military campaign to capture the capital although many libyans are hopeful that this agreement will lead to a permanent ceasefire and a political solution some are skeptical that were after and his foreign backers
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will actually add here to it for abdullah and many libyans like him there's a sense of hope that things here will get better but the real test lies an implement in the commitments of the agreement now the traina al-jazeera misrata. guinea's army has been deployed to stop demonstrations after preliminary results showed president alpha condé at one controversial. rest has led to the deaths of at least 26 people since sunday's election phone lines and internet connections have been cut off a serious car leg reports. violent scenes on the streets of guinea's capital 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 khan does want to run
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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 supporters flooded the streets. as for condi has been in power since 2010 instead of salute giallo and we all have guinea reaches us d.g. that's what give the warrants 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
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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 deplore the deaths and valor to their memory all of them civilians and agents of the security forces. now the international criminal courts warning both sides could face prosecution if the violence continues but guinea's opposition has vowed to contest the results in the constitutional court fueling fears of more violence. nigeria's president says ignores that many lives have been lost during 2 weeks of protests people continue to block major roads and set fires in lagos there's been growing anger over police brutality in nigeria the 20000000 residents of lagos state of been under 24 hour curfew since tuesday. bolivia's former finance minister
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. has won the presidential election with 55 percent of the vote is an ally of the exiled former president ever what are less of his victory could pave the way for or as his return daniel schweiger reports. the electoral thora he's announced the final tally after a methodical count of more than 6000000 ballots from a turnout of 88 percent makes you want to leave soon as you see 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 giudice to the incoming government to believe in institutions and to the
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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 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 there is also 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 but he must assert his own
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authority and decide how 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 challenge of uniting a divided country battling the copied 1000 pandemic that this ship livea particularly hard. jim cannot be coronado is a political analyst he says the result was a clear message to the coalition of right leaning parties. what we have today can into account is that the last months the last year of government of right party. those with 29 years president. time off disagreement with right parties and leave here and from there i really think that what happened in the last year is
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that there was a big disagreement wait but the parties in. the 555 percent of what has mass party is not very like a boat for a candidate is like really more like a vote against these crazed party who have been participating in elections and in the last 3 months or so from the other one i have to say that there is like coming out really hard time for the left in the year and we'll have to see what is it will more on this role in this next government international observers have been deployed across the united states to help ensure a legitimate election on november 3rd a monitoring mission from the o.s.c. as expressed concern that the votes legitimacy is at risk due to president trump's repeated and unsubstantiated allegations of fraud the observer say concerned for
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a potential for political violence after the elections especially in such a polarized political environment. what is unique about this selection 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 though tis might feel confused because i was i just mentioned a lot of legislation being changed the last minute the rules of the game are being changed as people are already casting that those either in person or via the post and then this suggestion that maybe things are going to be running as well as they should be that's why we're here i think if we can add to voter confidence that we are here where on their side we're following everyone not just red blue states every state with special emphasis also on postman's with disabilities disadvantaged persons persons that might be disenfranchised they should feel confident that
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somebody has their back some jailed opposition activists in nicaragua of suma lips shot in protest against human rights violations president done a lot of good denies the accusations the organization of american states says that there are least 100 political prisoners taking part in a hunger strike or serious mental ruppel reports. that only i have done that i am oh 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 scuttle it not advise says her husband illness still 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 man who says they made the decision to do a hunger strike partly as
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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 this. i mean. 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 so they fabricate such things to create a negative image of nicaragua 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 when he said the jades were open to human rights institutions like ours yet. on october 21st the only yes passed
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a resolution calling for electoral reforms in nicaragua and urging the state to respect human rights. a defense attorney representing 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 bargaining 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. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to. the headlines analysis here .

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