wintery filmmaker once granted unconditional asylum contrasts his experience to speak those seeking refuge today and intimate with the consequences of the policies of detainment is really almost the sort of all this misery we cannot absorb this number of people have to suffer in this way it is an excerpt of a refugee status on al-jazeera. of the attempt to uphold a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan the u.s. urges both sides to respect this latest troops. there i missed on the attack in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming. celebrating the chance of a new start in chilling millions voted to rewrite

a constitution drawn up under the military leadership of augusta national. calls for a national strike and better routes as pressure grows on the president to resign. shops closed curfews imposed under state of emergency in place new measures to stop the spread of private 19 across europe. a 3rd attempt to uphold a humanitarian ceasefire between azerbaijan and armenia has now come into effect the 2 sides have been fighting over the disputed territory of no gonna carry back as during previous attempts to stop the conflict both have already accuse the other side of violating the agreement this latest truce was mediated by the united states despite heavy fighting on sunday but our correspondent joins us live from getcha in azerbaijan a 3rd attempt now in as almost as many weeks it's what 3 hours old now both sides

already accusing each other of violations where is this going to go. i think it's a bit early to say where it's going to go if you base it on the 1st 2 announcements of cease fire the 1st one being oktober 10th and then a week after the 17th then this is all the reason to be a bit skeptical about. fear mation. as you said there have been accusations. that had already been violated but by and large if i go there early hours. early hours of a 17th was when that 2nd ceasefire was supposed to come in place it is much calmer certainly not an indication that. things could unravel or hold is a bit too early to say that but by and large it is calm at this moment that's good to hair i also understand as ari forces had been taking villages in the lead up to

this attempted a ceasefire how are civilians they coping and in the face of that the ongoing advance. well the civilians actually. actually supporting this war whoever you speak to tells you the army this time has the upper hand is not anymore the army of the ninety's when as a by john was given really a humiliating defeat a bitter defeat that no one has forgotten here as a army is making advances and those at that and those gains are basically announced on a daily basis yesterday another key town the town of go badly which is north west of . itself towards the border in armenia and also closing in from the north from a part they took under control a town called so certainly people are very happy about that also because terry tauriel gains means yes. those areas that belong to

a nearby jail but also getting hold of natural resources. it's been nearly 30 years since water was lost flowing into farmlands along the line of control between azerbaijan and armenia to see if his crops of wheat clover and cotton. has to take up with enough to reach the underground. i remember when the water was plentiful here i remember when these canals were built it was 974 rivers waters were rich in minerals and the crops were very good underground water is not as rich in minerals anymore my annual yield is much lower and the quality of the crops is not as good. is one of the issues at the heart of the conflict between the 2 countries people here say their livelihood has been taken hostage by armenia which had controlled the main reserve wire that supplies the water system in these from time areas until just

a few weeks ago the tartar rivers fed by the dam which was built by the soviets but then fell under control after 8 seasons as a very land in the early 1990 s. now azerbaijan says that. stopped the flow of water so the river bed would dry up. as a belgian announced it had retaken control of the reserve were in the 2nd week of the conflict. the road leading there is a ready under construction despite its proximity to the front line and continues shelling. and water has started trickling again to the title river which runs about 200 kilometers along the cutter but region and surrounding areas. water started to arrive in some regions but it hasn't reached everywhere yet we need the water to start flowing the river again we are depleting the underground water and we need the water from the reservoir to increase the underground reserves is going to take time before the farmers here enjoy water flowing in their canals again many

need to be weeded out and repaired it will also take time before the tartar river is full again but for many here at the little water that is a ready reaching it is a sign that as if by jens army at the moment is making some territorial gains cut up that hamid karzai. now thousands have celebrated through the licensure as the country voted in favor of rewriting its constitution an overwhelming majority chose to scrap the current charter that was imposed under the military dictatorship of augusta pinochet but there is still a long journey before a new constitution is put into place as a latin america editor lucien human reports from the capital santiago. a massive celebration to mark the end of the last vestige of chile's former military dictatorship. one chorus this family in the same part of santiago that became the epicenter of protests for more than

a year. millions of chileans who'd been calling for profound social reforms had demanded a new constitution to replace the one written 40 years ago under the military dictatorship the country dressed in his sunday best 90 year old who looked at our school when to vote in his. working class neighborhood not even concerns about the coronavirus pandemic could keep him at home but. i've never had a historic opportunity like this before and never will again it's the 1st time that we get to participate in the creation of a constitution that we can happen in puts in the traditional structure of our country instead of having it imposed i only hope i live to see the new chili. on the other side of town members of the youngest generation of voters or excited about having cast a ballot for the very 1st time this is the 1st institutionalized saints or election that i have ever been convinced it's going to work because. well this is

a very important particularly. when the vote counting began it was clear the chileans by an overwhelming majority had approved the formation of a constituent assembly whose delegates will be chosen by popular vote and with gender parity they will ultimately be the ones to draft a new constitution a process that could take 2 years there was never much doubt about which choice chileans would make but now that it's official the chileans will be writing a new constitution the big question is will they have the patience to wait for that change that they've just voted for to take place. upon this is a decision fear it will create false expectations and lead to economic instability which will only fan more social unrest. i'm concerned about the way this is being generated we need change but not so drastically calmly. conservative presidents of

us who had hoped for a very different outcome conceded defeat in a conciliatory message to the country. until now the constitution has divided us from today we must all work together so that the new constitute. is the great framework of unity stability in future. it's unlikely that this referendum will put social demands for a more inclusive country on hold but at least for now many of those who lost hope of change in the future feel they have achieved an important victory to see in human al jazeera santiago. one of the main leaders of colombia's left wing national liberation army has been killed in a military operation the government says the rebel leader known as reality was responsible for murder and kidnappings the group had been in peace talks with the government but they were suspended after an attack on military police and an

academy last year soldiers and police officers in mexico have seized what they're describing as an industrial sized drug lab the facility was used to produce methamphetamine and fentanyl it had chemical preparation vats about 2 stories tall which could process nearly 5000 kilograms of raw material at one time venezuelan opposition nearly leopoldo lopez has now fled to spain he took refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas and might 2019 after a failed to overthrow president nicolas maduro the form of that whole president has been a mentor to opposition leader. lopez reportedly escaped by sea. now thailand's parliament is holding a special session to discuss months of protests they're calling for the reform of the government and the monarchy the biggest opposition party says prime minister prize chano chair has become a burden and needs to quit the student led protest movement says private hold on power is illegitimate after last year's disputed elections you know what about we

have to admit that in thailand millions tens of millions of people do not want to see change through kamal's everyone has their own beliefs they see and believe all their lives therefore we must creatively find a balance between the needs of the individual and others in society well correspondents got hired in bangkok says the special session of parliament today is not likely to resolve these issues. associates the 1st government forum for both sides of the issue to discuss things since we really saw the spike in the numbers of people coming out to the streets right across thailand specifically and in big numbers here in bangkok and we do know that the leader of the largest opposition part of the party they've come out and reiterated their call that the prime minister step down this is something the prime minister has rejected time and time again what's going to happen over the next 2 days because of the construct because

of the way parliament is formed those who support the prime minister both in the house as well as senate he pretty much controls the senate they are going to have more time twice as much time to discuss things on the floor of the parliament but what they're looking to discuss obviously they'll go through. those who support the prime minister will go through why they acted the emergency decree then withdrew it how things need to go forward how things need to be safe even they're going to discuss the impact on the on the coded restrictions in the cove in cases here in thailand which are very very low based on the people tens of thousands of people coming out in the street so we'll see a discussion over the next couple of days there is going to be nothing legally binding coming out of these $22.00 days of special session you know the parliament was supposed to reconvene just next week so this is just kind of been stepped up a week early in largely seen by the prime minister as a move to try to deescalate the situation this is something we've seen over the last couple of days let's now take you to some live pictures that we're getting

from just outside the jenin embassy and bangkok where protesters have now gathered again demanding reforms and they have chosen the german embassy partly because the thai king does spend a lot of time in bavaria and there have been ongoing protests of his as we've been saying in thailand calling for reform the bush the political system and the monarchy. still ahead here on al-jazeera. in 2016 donald trump won the presidential election in part by winning the key swing states in the great lakes area and ohio michigan and wisconsin we take it to are the great lakes states to see how they'll play in the 2020 alexion. and tens of thousands of police and security forces in ivory coast another point ahead of the controversial president strong's.

got some rather lively weather pushing in from the atlantic at the moment lots of rain add some blustery showers rattling in quite an intense area of low pressure here bringing some very strong winds into were northern parts of the british isles as we go through the next couple of days and then we got this cold front sinking further south who is very active on this one some some very downpours moving across france pushing up its woolsey out's will see some snow significant snowfall possible over the high aground and heavy right to lower levels of weather too pushing across northern areas of italy just around saudia and corsica that's all making its way further east was very heavy rain coming back in behind them we got some really blustery shall as for the british isles as we go on through choose day and this little swell up here that says they are remnants of what was our rick and epsilon and that's going to bring some very blustery conditions in across that

western side if you have as we go through the middle part of next week then some outbreaks affright a possibility too into northern areas of morocco but for much of northern africa it will be dry you might just catch. the possibly be a for a time and then down into the central areas that's where we're going to see the heaviest rain we said particular big down pulls around the gulf of guinea. frank assessments look at checkers don't anyway the protesters are going anyway either the boat or television and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines as it gets really out there on the street inside story on how just 0 a face can tell a story without uttering a single word the unconventionality of life is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm just on the attack and let's remind you of our top stories here the sound of a humanitarian ceasefire has come into effect between azerbaijan and armenia and the 3rd such deal made in recent weeks to stop the conflict over the disputed region of nick on a car of. thousands are celebrating in chile where a referendum to change the dictatorship era constitution is on course to pass with an overwhelming majority the government agreed to the referendum following demonstrations that. thailand's parliament is holding a special session to discuss months of protests calling for the reform of the

government and the monarchy the biggest opposition party says the prime minister has become a burden and needs to quit. now the republican controlled u.s. senate is in the middle of an all night session after voting to limit the debate for trump's nominee for the supreme court justice that's despite opposition from democrats well it's now just after 3 o'clock in the morning on capitol hill and as you can see republicans are continuing that session overnight to try to speed up proceedings the democrats refuse to agree to a recess that means the final confirmation vote for judge any kind of could happen as soon as monday republicans want to finish before the election which the democrats oppose no nominee to the supreme court has ever been confirmed this close to a presidential election. well staying in the u.s. vice president mike pence has continued to campaign despite several close aides testing positive for the current virus and with just

a week to go now until the election the attention of both sides is focused on battleground states the state of wisconsin lies on a political knife edge the traditionally democratic state recently were placed a republican governor with a democratic one and now the democrats hope to recapture a state that seems to be swinging their way john hendren reports from door county as in wisconsin. donald trump swept into wisconsin like a cool wind off lake michigan and he left in 2016 with an upset victory in a state that hadn't voted for a republican for president since 19 eighty-four any did it in part here in door county a swing county that voted twice for george w. bush twice for barack obama and in 2016 for donald trump door county is a tree lined peninsula jutting into lake michigan home to dairy farms apple orchards multimillion dollar lakefront homes in 2 or is. it the former's markets

and quaint stalls on this scenic lynn skate voters seem is divided as they were 4 years ago i went into the biggest. depression the. american people could actually vote for somebody who. treated other people that way . totally totally blew me away our president has done a good job. but are you going to get in or not i don't know and i hope he does. i don't think any guy is. strong enough to handle the job. with just days before the sun rises on the november 3rd election party activists say both sides know if not for wisconsin hillary clinton would be running for reelection and they are more motivated this time very early on they realize that joe biden was py going to be the candidate they could best beat donald trump but there's a lot more enthusiasm and energy on both sides people didn't realize probably that

. you know they maybe didn't think it was going to go to trump so i think they know ok we want to last time we got a shot this time too and i think people realize how pivotal wisconsin is in wisconsin and elsewhere political lines makers say battleground state polls are more reliable than they were when trump won upset victories across the great lakes states but 2016 has left many wary i think biden will win wisconsin but i think it will be fairly narrow even though the polls are saying $5.00 to $7.00 points it wouldn't surprise me if it came down to a point like last time or maybe 2 points whatever the polls say if there's one thing we learned from wisconsin in 2016 is that you can't take this great lakes state for granted john hendren al-jazeera door county wisconsin. and in part 2 of our series touring some of those battleground states in america's midwest john hendren reports from detroit michigan to find out what matters to vs that in

a trump majority county that's tuesday right here on al-jazeera. now belorussian opposition need us to kind of sky is calling for a nationwide strike on monday after the president again refused to step down more than 100000 people rallied for the 11th week in a row on sunday demanding the resignation of alexander lukashenko alexia brian ports. this was the police response on the streets of the belorussian capital minsk. in what the opposition is calling state sponsored violence. security forces deployed stun grenades and tear gas on protesters who'd been marching against the president alexander lukashenko. the rally had started peacefully with wide columns of dam and stretches fanning out across ments they were heading for the president's home determined to send a message that it's time to god was the march was

called by opposition leader script line a ticking off skier who'd given look into lee end of sunday to resign or face a nationwide general strike. organizers say more than a 100000 people were out banging drums chanting strike and long live bellow roofs. of them are still only unfortunately i think that lukashenko will not accept the ultimatum he lives in his own world he thinks that many people support him and that we're all wrong that would drug addicts prostitutes and vandals but which is peaceful he cannot understand it yet we are afraid of what will happen next week we will go on strike. but this is the 11th straight weekend of process since the disputed election in august 1. that the opposition says was rigged taking a skier as his main rival she ran against him after her husband was jailed but was

forced into exile in lithuania following the vote. look if shank has been in power for more than 25 years and doesn't want to quit his main ally russia has offered both political and military support and assistance remains extremely strong we also see that all you know all united states and all the western countries have given very clear margins. i have think sooner or later he will have to step down and has to be that i have an advisor to take in of sky says little schenker only knows the language of power and fear and that it will lead him nowhere brian al jazeera. on turning to the coronavirus pandemic and the head of the world health organization has urged leaders not to falter as many countries battle rising cases of infection he made the comments at a global health summit to discuss the long term fight against private 19 it's not

enough to be reactive we must plan and take him for this bond i mean over the long haul we have to move from idaho to missions to long term planning to protect lives and livelihoods we still have a long haul ahead of us we can not slow down and we cannot waiver it's more important than ever that we focus on the elderly and other vulnerable populations who already struggle to access a service is be including migrants and other marginalized groups we have a huge challenge ahead of us but this is not the 1st challenge we have faced and this will not be the last. well right now fronts is reporting its highest number of single day coronavirus infections there have been 52000 just in the past 24 hours cases there have been on the rise in recent weeks they've now passed 1000000 the surge is also affecting many countries in europe italy and spain are among the

worst hit both have new restrictions in place in the hope of avoiding another full down while china is also conducting more mass testing after a new outbreak in the region nearly 5000000 people there are being screened after the discovery of 137 infections around 3000000 samples have been taken so far and health workers expect to finish that job in the coming days schools have been closed and anyone leaving the city needs to show a negative test result well some good news for the 1st time in nearly 4 months a strain is coronavirus hotspot the state of victoria has reported no new cases in the last 24 hours 5000000 people in the city of melbourne have been under a so-called hard lockdown since july stage with already has had hoped to ease restrictions on sunday delayed those plans after a new outbreak in the northern suburbs. now moving on and 7 suspects have been detained after a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker in the english channel u.k.

special forces boarded the liberian registered vessel after its crew reported stowaways it was on its way from lagos in nigeria to an oil refinery in southampton . and 13 migrants have died after their boat sank in the mediterranean sea off the coast of libya 5 others were rescued by the libyan coast guard they've been taken to tripoli for medical treatment civil war in libya has led many to risk that crossing to europe. police have fought with protesters in poland who rallied in and around catholic churches against a near total ban on abortion demonstrators have accused the church of intervening in the political process after a law allowing the abortion of damaged fetuses was ruled unconstitutional or votes are being counted in egypt after the 1st phase of parliamentary elections there further stages are set to take place in november and december a total of $568.00 seats are up for grabs but under

a new electoral law hauffe of those seats will be allocated to pre-selected lists critics say that will benefit president. and i rico has deployed about $35000.00 police ahead of this week's presidential election that there have been violent protests leading up to this poll the opposition is angry at present us on ouattara is now running for. on an interest story. tension and uncertainty on the streets of ivory coast. with only a few days to the october 31 presidential election protesters are ramping up pressure on president alison ouattara to quit the race. he did not know we say no to the violation of the law and the ivorian constitution that's why we are here today protesting. but the president is pressing ahead with this campaign raising fears the election violence dozens of been killed since our

a friend was held in print to 16 to amend the constitution which supporters of the president say clears the way for his that his critics play music for the current political crisis adding to the tension 40 candidates have been banned from standing in the election. tools have called for a boycott of the vote there's every time we call on all our supporters to reveal what i call the elite fuku president ellison ouattara explaining they should also disrupt all electoral processes. that call us created a climate of fear many voters have failed to pick up their voters cards necessary for the electoral process. ivory coast easier to fully recover from the civil war in which at least 3000 people what killed a government appointed truth and reconciliation commission to heal the wounds of that conflict submitted its report 6 years ago many are yet to find closure to the

dock of the country's history. is still angry at the mob that killed his grandfather. and the government to fail to provide justice. really. yeah you know my grandfather had a small problem people came to accuse us of stockpiling weapons in our house this it revealed nothing but found the united nations contacts and others on his fine that was his crime. it's angry i mean prodi young men like him while on the streets protesting experts warn the current tension could escalate to a full blown crisis similar to trying to turn some don't use just political we are in a very tense political situation born of the empress indented pre-election crisis in ivory coast on one side you have an opposition that has launched civil disobedience on the other a power clearly determined to hold elections on october 31st. experts warn the

current tension could escalate to a full blown crisis similar to 20 to. turnout among the 7500000 registered voters in a country of 25000000 will be key some observers here abstention rate during saturday's election and questions of the votes legitimacy could follow but the biggest fear is it will trigger post-election violence similar to that of $2.00 to $10.00 mature trees al-jazeera. claire this is al jazeera and these are the headlines a humanitarian ceasefire has come into effect between azerbaijan and armenia and the 3rd such stalemate in recent weeks to try to stop the conflict of the disputed region of. our correspondent whatever hamid has more now from me in azerbaijan i think it's

a bit early to say where it's going to go if we base it on the 1st 2 announcements of cease fire the 1st one being october 10th and then a week after i looked over 70.