built on immigration. follow the key issues of the us elections on al-jazeera. ready. 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. of a very unforgiving this is al jazeera live from though also coming up after announcing the sudan israel deal president trump weighed into another controversial regional issue ethiopia's ground renee some stam egypt is not going to be able to live that

way and. more coronavirus records tumble the u.s. reports nearly 804000 new infections in just 24 hours. and more fighting in armenia and azerbaijan is disputed 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 alan fischer reports from washington i want to just congratulate from the oval 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 but we did sit down they wanted to do a deal and that was particularly nice 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 bit the trumpet ministration says it's a deal years in the making its involved secretary of state might pump eal flying to sudan and israel's prime minister making an official visit. to dan he's agreed to p. 300. $35000000.00 in compensation to victims of the 1998 east africa u.s. embassy bombings the attack on the u.s. call 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 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 say the decision by the government in khartoum is another stab 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 us 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 deals in the middle east will change the reality on the ground rather than try and

fail 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 lived out to ramallah in the occupied west bank houses there is neither abraham is what's been the reaction to this meeting. the local newspaper has talked about this normalization deal they carry the condemnation this is the official policy they need for these newspaper and in it they carry that he marched off to call finian president and his condemnation of the normalization deal and they also carried his remarks that the only top 2 words peace is by abiding by international law which means that israel should end its occupation of the palestinian lands before it talks about nobody should feel that

a political analysts here feel that the palestinian authority doesn't have much to . for more than. they are due to go a lot of political support. but now we're not only talking about the this is an arab african state that is normalizing relations with israel and there is also the difficult economic situation that the palestinian authority is facing they feel that the palestinians backs are against the wall and that they don't really have much to do but to really hope. not to get the 2nd term in office let's remember that this administration has been ministration has been supporting israel at its prime minister benjamin netanyahu as far as palestinians are concerned has been given nothing i hope one gift after. the move of the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and now with these. deals it's worth noting

that for palestinians on social media they were saying that they know that the hearts and minds of the people are with them but they are being dragged into this by the military rulers they say that. was. 3 news were born out of the summit. that took or mission or negotiations with israel before it ends its occupation of the palestinian. reporting live from ramallah sudan's recent diplomatic moves to been dictated by one main concern the perilous state of its economy for nearly 3 decades u.s. sanctions have had devastating effects. from international banking the transitional government inherited nearly $60000000000.00 in foreign debts when it came to power last year access to loans from the i.m.f.

and world bank have been contingent on sudan's removal from washington's. a list of states that sponsor terrorism even so sudan still owes $1300000000.00 to the i.m.f. last month inflation hit a record of more than 200 percent let's go live now to cop to sirius have a morgan is there what difference will this deal make to ordinary people there in sudan. well adrian if we're looking at the at the u.s. removing sudan of the u.s. list of state sponsors of terror that will make a difference even though it's will take some time as for the acting minister of finance for a dissident knees and for sudan's economy to feel it for one thing they seem to be very positive that this will pave the way for sudan to be able to clear its areas and be able to receive debt from the international monetary fund and from foreign sides it also opens a way or rather paves the way for foreign investments that's something that's what i was not able to do while it was on the list of the u.s.

state sponsors of terrorism now the country has been facing a severe shortage of hard currency it was not able to import to eat or fuel that's why there were a lot of queues. at bakeries for bread and fuel stations for petrol so people were suffering the economy was suffering and that's not obviously including the inflation and the rising market prices which has increased their rate of poverty from 50 percent of the population to more than 60 percent of the population now in terms of normalizing ties with israel only one government official came out and spoke about it and he said that this is a lot of for normalization rather it's a step 2 words normalization that will be finalized once a parliament or rather a transitional legislative assembly is in place now it's not clear when that legislative assembly will be formed through the sides of the of the deal the military and the forces of freedom and change and the various groups are due to sit down and come up with a criteria to be able to select those members so it's still going to be

a very long process but in the meantime the sovereignty council and the executive council led by a prime minister of the can act as a transitional legislative assembly and till that assembly is formed so it looks like it is very much going through and it's largely because of sudan's economy that is in desperate need of aid. reporting live from khartoum who meditates dood. during the sudan israel announcement president trump went on to suggest that egypt might blow up ethiopia's grandeur of a song. the project's been a source of tension since construction began in 2011 ethiopia sudan and egypt have failed to reach an agreement after nearly a decade of negotiations will ethiopia built the ground when a song on the blue nile that's the source of most of the novel's water egypt and sudan of downstream and fear that water supplies could be a griscom 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. don't blow up that dam and i have to do something because they could have stopped it they 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 going to come about 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 brokered cease fires have failed foreign ministers from media and azerbaijan met separately with the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 on friday serious worry challenge reports now from goddess in southeastern armenia. this happened to panic at about 9 pm last night at 17 g.m.t. . sirens wales there's a pretty well established warning system means to panic because of months of sort

of weeks of bombardments there in their history is this contested area within the median in an x. clave of nagorno-karabakh the sirens went off and a short while later. volleys of either missiles rockets or shells came raining down now because of the sirens and because of the shelters there were no reports of casualties things have been getting i think easier in a panic over the last few days 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 this 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 the warre

i think obviously apart from any casualties of them are beings to panic a is that this is going to set off another cycle of revenge because the nagorno-karabakh or thora seeds of said that they will respond to this attack and there will be no forgiveness a weather update next here on al-jazeera then. we haue had enough or we want a democratic and united libya and an end to this bloodshed libyans reacts to the signing of a permanent ceasefire will report from misrata a city that suffered years of not shipping plus. we're now down to 40 in the whole life. hoffa stuff already been. unfortunately. been made redundant already struggling now in full lockdown welsh businesses suffer a new hit. we

got some rather nasty weather pushing into western parts of europe over the next couple of days ago this big hook of cloud rolling in from the atlantic tightly packed ice about yet you know that means it's going to be very windy to be pretty wet as well as this system continues to make its way further west was ahead of that there's some cloud of great into central park some showers there just pushing over towards the outs easing down across the balkans at least seeing some wetter weather further east we have got some warmth around we got temperatures into the the low to mid twenty's there for book arrest frank and also for athens some west the weather further north up towards that western side of russia but here comes that cloud rain the wet add the windy weather could be very heavy at times as well that pushes across england and wales this long a lot of cloud of rain that will continue to push its way further east which as we

go through sunday for the most countries pushing into the western side of germany across a good part of france all the way down into spain and portugal even madrid struggling to get around 14 celsius mission with a 40 that we have in london still a few showers over towards the east cross the eastern side of the mediterranean all the parts of africa generally try a few showers just around the mediterranean coast and plenty of showers all the way into central africa. but. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the all new ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real good morning it's not and you're challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to cut i was of course we don't want to rely on the authority and if the listening post on

out is the right. again this is a 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 that have hurt sudan's economy palestine says that it's another stab in the back. u.s. president donald trump a suggested that egypt might blow up ethiopia's ground from a source dam if construction continues ethiopia's prime minister says that his country won't be deterred by aggression. and has been more fighting in the goto kind of dark as profound media and as

a by john accuse each other of shelling residential areas the foreign ministers of met the u.s. secretary of state michael paoli in motion. the us has posted another record daily jump in coded 19 cases nearly 84000 infections were announced on friday this art installation in washington is highlighting the growing toll with a white flag for every american whose life has been lost to the virus the death toll in germany meanwhile has gone beyond 10000 and infection numbers of jumps to a new high of 15015000 new cases 2 in the czech republic which means it's spreading faster there than anywhere else in europe on a per capita basis of 0 as andrew symonds reports. 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 so you will fall if you needed it if we look at it trajectory of damage to 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 a 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 latest positive testing figures standard maybe 10000 people a day 75 percent up on last week health workers say the situation is getting critical by 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 bruce simmons. poland's president is the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus andre duda is said to be feeling well at his concert and in constant contact with doctors as with much of the rest of europe poland is seeing infections. guinea's has been

deployed to stop demonstrations after preliminary results showed president alpha condé one of controversial. them arrest has led to the deaths of at least 26 people said sunday's election phone lines and internet connections have been cut car like 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 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 that's what good he wants if you have d.g. is not elected guinea will not become. conscious 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

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 filing fee is over move violence. nigeria's president has acknowledged that many lives have been lost during 2 weeks of protests people continue to block major roads and set fires in lagos has been growing anger over police brutality in nigeria 20000000 residents of lagos state have been under 24 hour curfew since tuesday libyans have spoken of their hope and caution after the country's warring sides agreed to a permanent and immediate ceasefire the un brokered deal was signed in geneva on friday 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 of zeros mike traina has been speaking to people in misrata a city that's dealt with severe hardship since the war. forced his push for tripoli in april 29th. for libya which has been engulfed in violence for nearly 10 years these past 14 months have only seen the fighting words from. while the east of the country is under the control of warlord for the for hafter and the to replace the house of representatives the west is controlled by the un recognized government of national court led by prime minister is a sort of they are based in the capital tripoli huffed or 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 a nationwide cease fire played on the t.v. he's optimistic the agreement will lead to a stable libya. we have had enough we want a democratic and united libya and an end to this bloodshed we have dreams and aspirations and want to live peaceful and 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 we're after and his foreign backers 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 in the commitments of the agreement well the trainer al-jazeera misrata. bolivia's former finance minister. has won the presidential election with 55 percent of the votes he's an ally of the exiled former president evo morales and his victory could pave the way for what i was his return to reports. the electoral authorities announced the final tally after a methodical count of more than 6000000 ballots from a turnout of 88 percent. 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 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 but he must assert his own 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. want to see his promise to continue working to reduce poverty in one of the regions poorest countries he's faced with the challenge of uniting a divided country in the covered 1000 pandemic that this ship livia particularly hard. a mosque in france is held prayers in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded last week there was a heavy police presence after threats against worshippers their mom wore

a bulletproof vest some of the party's murder showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to students has caused outrage in france the attacker was shot dead by police. let's return to the pandemic the u.k. had another 20000 infections on friday and each of its countries is reacting with their own rules wales has put a so-called firebreak in place for 17 day lockdown al-jazeera as paul brennan reports from the capital city cardiff. this probably should be felt. it's not going to make 'd. this is going 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 date of 6 or 7 to start on site. we're now down to a quarter to. half the stuff already been unfortunately. been made redundant. wales has the lowest infection rate of any of the 4 nations of the u.k. but acting on the recommendations of the welsh scientific advisors the devolved government is ditching local lockdowns in favor of a short national fire break or the modelers tell us is that this will get us through to christmas if we act no we're not decisively we will be able to sustain economic like found the health service through to the christmas period. the format is familiar households will be prohibited from mixing indoors or even outdoors residents are being urged to stay at home as much as possible and restaurants pubs hair salons hotels and non-essential shops must close chepstow is one of the many

communities which straddle the wales england border the likely cost of this fire break 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 temp stow 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 escape 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

. when my colleagues in tears the other night when we when they say unit back to a covert unit in the known cohesive unit because we can envisage what it is going to be like even in the snow is moving on into the spectrum. in diverging from the local and regional knockdowns preferred elsewhere in the u.k. and europe the welsh are acting early and hoping to reap the benefits but with the full impact in terms of jobs and infection rates only emerging 2 weeks or more from now it's a real test of nerves paul brennan al-jazeera cardiff. it is good to have you with us hello adrian setting up here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera sudan's transitional government has agreed to normalize ties with israel it's part of a deal that allows the lifting of the us.