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investigating the use and abuse across the al-jazeera. my rallies in peru's capital after the new interim president resigns after just 5 days . meanwhile, congress struggles to decide who will take over in the country's worst political crisis in 20 years. my back, i'm how i'm headed and this is out to sierra my from doha. also coming up 10 years of conflict cannot be restocked. and while libya's rivals agree to
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a date for holding national elections, but failed to agree on a unity government to lead them there. syria's government announces the death of longtime foreign minister, walid muallem. take a look at his legacy plus u.s. president. donald trump appears to acknowledge for the 1st time that joe biden has won the point house, but insists he won't concede my but 1st spring has been plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in 2 decades. old stations haven't been able to find a replacement leader after the incident. president resigns, after just 5 days in the job, whether celebrations after manuel merino announced his departure earlier on sunday . he had replaced martin vizcarra who was removed from office over unproven corruption allegations,
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pressure and be munching on the reno from day one. and protests continue. arianna sanchez has more now on troops, political instability. the premises of congress is completely surrounded right now by several rings of riot police. there are hundreds, if not thousands of people in the area waiting for an answer. but apparently that will not happen as happened tonight. as the congressmen took all day long to make up the list and in the and took them 2 hours to decide and vote and then did not vote in, in favor of this only list. so it could well happen in the early hours of monday. and this, this is something that would leave the country in this power vacuum throughout the night. and of course, many people perhaps will stay throughout the night,
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waiting and expecting that legislators do not do not do this in the middle of the night and up and name a new interim president. that is not to the liking of the people, a person that will not have criminal records and that did not vote in favor of the impeachment of martin discover peruvians have in the last really 30 years. nearly every single president of peru has been investigated for corruption that we have one president in jail. that's a few more these. there's another one under house arrest. there's alan garcia who took his life before he was arrested. and mounting the skylab investigated for corruption. i mean, every single one of them, so the peruvians are fed up with the corruption among the political class. the un's acting envoy to libya says she's pleased with the outcome of talks aimed
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at ending nearly a decade of violence. now that's despite rival factions being unable to reach an agreement on who believes the until national elections are held. clear. harriet reports from tunis, the a summer of protest in libya. after 10 years of war with 2 rival governments battling for control. basic services aren't being met. corruption is way to spread, and the global pandemic has worsened the situation. the majority in the room do not want the status quo. the un's top diplomat in libya, stephanie williams has a message for the country's political class. and they were put on notice you have an opportunity now to be relevant. you can rise to the occasion. or, you know, you can go the way of the dinosaurs summit. ingenuity has ended with $75.00
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libyan delegates and going to hold elections in december next year. but failing to decide on who will lead to the country until then, the un is focusing on what's been achieved. save the talks, skepticism remains. what is happening now is basically recycling old talk more than giving real guarantees for libyans that the sessions will actually lead to a strong government or one that's able to achieve the real demands of the libyan people . the conflict has left people in this oil rich country divided tire in their negotiations will continue in the coming weeks aimed at bringing peace, security, and stability. but there are few illusions that it's going to be easy. clearheaded to miss syrian foreign minister. walid has done leads, he was 79 years old. woman was a close confidant sold former syrian leader half as
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a sense that his son, bashar al assad's, throughout the war. he served as ambassador to the u.s. between 199-2000 is the executive director of the arab censor of washington. he says, many syrians will have mixed feelings about small in stature. i think essentially syria is divided. those who support the regime or people in the regime value. his services and vice, his loyalty to the regime is loyalty to the party and its loyalty to the family. for such a long time he served very shimon peres. country very well throughout this period, but floor to the opposition. and i would say probably for more syrians than he was regime. so if you are in the opposition, you are all bows to the regime. certainly, he was a great hero of the regime and definitely part and parcel of the ongoing tarion
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rule, the family, an accessory, to the crime committed against his vision to what this u.k. prime minister boris johnson has gone into self isolation after coming into contact with someone who's infected with corona virus? his office says he's feeling fine and will continue working in downing street, johnson fell ill with the virus in april. when he spent several days in intensive care. the us has recorded 1000000 new coronavirus infections in the past 6 days. johns hopkins university, which is tracking the outbreak globally, is counted more than 11000000 u.s. cases in total. it says 264000 americans have died. advisers appointed by president elect joe biden, have described the infection rates as deeply alarming. foreign tourists have
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arrived in cuba for the 1st time in nearly 8 months. those coming into the country must take a coronavirus test on arrival, and a 2nd, one after a 5 day itself quarantine. cuba has confirmed more than 7 and a half 1000 cases, fewer than most of its neighbors. november is the start of peak season for tourism . u.s. president donald trump's campaign has dropped. a court claim suggests in the vote, count in pennsylvania was unconstitutional. the team had wanted 600000 votes to be rejected. it means biden's victory. there is likely to stand their trump appeared to accepts that he had lost the election, but says he won't concedes mourner rob reynolds. of sunday president trolled golf. but before hitting the links for the 2nd day in a row tropically did
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a short lived media frenzy when he seemed to finally admit defeat. tweeting about president elect joe biden, he won because the election was rigged. but soon that tweet came down and trump sent out a new one saying, i concede nothing. trump's false claims of voting fraud have been refuted by state and federal officials as biden attended church services near his home in delaware. trump's own the former national security advisor indicated trump is sabotaging the transfer of power pretty soon. we'll get the stab in the back theories. we'll get the dark conspiracy theories continued. and he will make life as difficult as he can for the incoming by administration. i think that harms the country with covered $1000.00 cases and deaths sharply on the rise across the u.s. . biden's designated chief of staff said the transition must be seamless there.
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people, if you're just making plans to implement that vaccine, are experts need to talk to those people as soon as possible. so nothing drops in this change of power. we're going to have a general 20. several states have imposed severe new restrictions to curb the virus in recent days. a coach chairperson of biden's covert task force said biden would not order a total lockdown when he takes office. the better way to think about the safety restrictions is more sit down that we turn up and down, depending on severity. congress will be back in session on monday, with millions of americans out of jobs and plunged into poverty by the pandemic. democrats called on republican senate leader mitch mcconnell to speed up work on a covert relief and recovery bill. the bottom line is very simple. we need a large strong code bill to deal with our problems. we have heard for months, every time we get close to a deal,
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senator mcconnell says no. he has become the dr. no of coded, a transition on hold. as the virus gains the upper hand, rob reynolds al-jazeera. well, sanity the conflicts in ethiopia, which is not only escalates in but exists, banding across borders, threatening to destabilize the horn of africa. the leader of the tea p.l.f. group in the northern states has confirmed that his forces fired rockets across the boers are hitting the eritrean capital where he's threatening to carry out more attacks. this is the home of those who attacked you. great will not just attack and return home, we will retaliate while they are here and strike the airports from which they launched attacks. there is no place that we can't reach and we will continue to attack selected targets that the invading forces are using against us. well, after 12 days, the sepia left as they fighting on 2 fronts against both eritrean and ethiopian
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government troops. prime minister met hasn't commented on whether he's getting any military help saying only that his country is capable of fighting by itself least 20000 people have fled the violence crossing into see done. massacres and ethnic, profiling have been reported with a t.v. l.f. and federal troops are accused of atrocities for mohammed or dollars in the city of gonaives are in northern ethiopia, with more on what eritrea's potential involvements could mean. this takes the conflict to a whole new level. it has spilled across the borders of ethiopia. and now another country and a traitor is to be allowed to be sucked in. if you would go with the version that you have been under a train, governments are given right now, but the d.b.l. have how most of the past week maintained that they have been fighting divisions of
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eritreans army on the ground in regional soil and saying eritrea was involved in the fighting from the onset. of course, this is something that's been refuted by the advice of our government and also as matter with prime minister saying that they have enough capability to fight the operation on their own. but what we know is that the missiles landed in a small, as well as the long grave, long held grievances against the 3 p.l.f. leadership and nothing to put a smile or a war. of course, there is that issue of the border between eritrea and ethiopia, which is also not dim the created and the un border commission had ruled the flashpoint town of but me to give in to eritrea. something prime minister is willing to do, but the area is currently administered by the current c.p.l. of administration. that governs and definitely has an axe to grind without
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administration to see that he gets what he wants in terms of the border. he wants for a train still to come here on al-jazeera. azerbaijan extends the deadline for a media to withdrawal from a disputed districts in the go to canada. and why some iraq isa are afraid to go back to their communities. and government causes some displacement camps. how the latest storm systems just blown out of the eastern mediterranean, and it's showing itself as showers and a cooler air stream in for example, jerusalem 60 degrees and that cold wind blows down through the red sea. and i think will induce some showers in eastern sudan. we've got the same potential in the high
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ground in southwest saudi and western europe. and then there's rain, probably the 4th. and so wandering around through kuwait and just heading into eastern side, i don't think it will affect bahrain or qatar, but i wouldn't rule it out in tali. but this is a change of season, hardly surprising this time the year. the seasonal rain proper has gone south now. it's really a line through tanzania they are congo, back to something about northern gola and it's there in the forecast. there are still a few showers in south sudan and a little bit of rain in the far south. a somali or basically the northeast monsoon setting in now, which is largely a dry picture for the horn of africa. and it tends to win hearts the rains for the south as well. we've seen significant rain recently, as you can see from a satellite in northern madagascar land. same is true in south africa in the next day or so. i think we're going to be in juice, rain all along the cape coast. and up to the suitors, you have this book looks recently, far the moment. port elizabeth, so not so windy and shari.
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this is al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories this hour have been celebrations in peru after interim presidents manual merino resigned after just 5 days on the job. all efficiency failed to agree on a successor. you know replaced martin vizcarra was removed from office. the un's acting and boy to libya, says a lot of work has yet to be done before. the national transitional governments can be named. rival factions couldn't agree on who will lead the country heads all the elections next year. the syrian foreign minister walid, on one of them has died at the age of 79 state television confirmed the news that there are no details yet about the cause of his death. well, armenians living in parts of the goal of kind of are, have been given 10 more days to leave before land is given to azerbaijan, the transfer as part of a deal to end fighting in the disputed region. the district of carl bashar is among the 1st areas to be handed over. some people torched their homes as they left,
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well anger is simmering in armenia, but a peace deal that many see as a betrayal for is a very is them. it's very difference to some of binge of aid reports from talking or near. this family is celebrating the return of the jar to other by john. this is the region is their life. in the poultry speak of the limitations of the mold and the plentiful but good jorum of anova also gets upset, looking at what is happening there. many armenians are burning homes and schools, as they hand over the region. in manila ali, there's mildred, among all the houses, a burnt in my village. my heart nearly exploded with grief when i see the treachery and betrayal why you come to our furnished houses, they did not belong to you. during the war with armenia over nagorno-karabakh, that ended in 1994, their child was
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a soldier in other by john's army. and its people were forced to leave culver jar. he remembers how hundreds died during the exit as tens of thousands of people pass through this road. it was so cold or so many people standing who were frozen stranded vehicles with frozen bodies. so many people suffered amputations because of the frost. the government has extended the deadline for combatants to leave college or by 10 days. is there any army is fortifying its positions, but says it will wait until russian peacekeepers ensure armenian fighters have gone right now. it is not our task to force a 1000000 to leave all this. you know, the 3 regions that's task of peacekeeping troops. that's why they moved in, and it is their task will ask that back up around, which are a short of sticky. she's kept for decades. a reminder, she says, for occupiers finally left. after waiting for nearly 3 decades,
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the people of college are eager to return. but with so much still pending, including the role of the peacekeepers, the clearance operation, and rebuilding of infrastructure. it could perhaps take months or even years before they can return home. down to 0, boston or near culbert, or more than 30 refugees and migrants have been rescued after their boat capsized in the mediterranean. emergency crews were seen throwing life jackets to people in the waltzer. the italian coast guard find the group off the island of lampedusa. thousands of people have died this year all attempting the dangerous sea. crossing turkey's president said he favors a permanent 2 state division of cyprus during a visit to the turkish backed breakaway northern parts of the island's paramount's . triples decried as a provocation by the greek speaking south. cyprus has been split since turkey's
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1984 invasion. erdogan visited on the 37th anniversary of the self-proclaimed turkish republic of northern cyprus, which is only recognized by ankara, as one also mentioned maritime tensions with greece in the eastern mediterranean. it's a lot of hurt. the greek side does not want to share the wealth with the current owners of the island, the cypriot turks, and the police say it that is wider, trying to avoid, to sit down with them about the hydrocarbon sources as their current or countrymen, if they are. we nor do turkish republic of northern cyprus can tolerate diplomacy, games anymore. votes are being counted after moldova's presidential runoff. election is being seen as a choice between closer relations with russia or the european union incumbent dawna's promote his opponents. the former prime minister, maya sandu ever closer ties with the e.u.
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reports, the standoff between people exercising their right to vote. and those fearing the system is being cheated. this is vitally, a border town linking mulled over to the south declared unrecognized republic of trans and istria fiercely. pro russian enclave that strongly supportive of the pro moscow incumbent president because it's not on here. it is a battle for hearts and minds between moldova and russia, in this state, which between romania and ukraine, an area known for contraband trade. but tensions have often been difficult to contain. and it's been exacerbated by years of political instability and corruption . this is the problem in the future in moldova, weak institutions doesn't fall of the supervision called is applied
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in the election where every vote counts. what international observers are most worried about is the stress of manipulated voting. and where on the border transnistria is where they are most concerned about issues. on top of all the issues facing mulled over a bitter divisive political landscape has marred any possibility for progress. regional power brusha has thrown its weight behind equal to on his abrasive manner and populist touch. have found favor with his base your boss, and also are selling misleading the rest 500 who preferred to justice for a developed economy. i voted for the use for what makes us stronger christian values. but not everyone is convinced remaining within moscow's sphere of influence is the country's benefit. the dog was caught out by his pro-west, an opponent of the 1st round miers son. she says she wants to tackle corruption in
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a country that has been rocked by political instability and a $1000000000.00 bank fraud scheme that saw the a privilege of 50 percent of moldova's g.d.p. disappear. currently, more than a 1000000 moldovans lives all work abroad. a lack of opportunities of one of europe's poorest nations means that remittances are currently propping up the economy. many moldovans living abroad, mostly in western countries, more affinity with sunday's vision. and this year, double the amount of voted since the previous election in 2016. and just because they know that this is their duty and no matter how far away from their homes, they feel that their participation makes the difference. this is an election where the country will decide whether it will stick with the status quo or not. the russia mass protests against its allies and bet i roost and kyrgyzstan. it is
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another post, save it country that is at a crossroads with many watching which direction it will take. so that i, i call al-jazeera kisha. now, american military forces say they've responded to an attack from a group which wants independence for the disputed western sahara. there be no reports of any casualties. people are sorry, affront says it's mobilizing fisons phones. here's miracle began a military operation on friday to reopen a key highway, which is said was booked spite of the polisario fronts. despite a longstanding ceasefire, tensions have increased recently. horman has updates from the mauritanian border. this is the modern a crossing point. it's 3 to 5 to 3 kilometers from go get out the door of god is there more khan crossing point between the 2 crossing points. there is a buffer zone. it was controlled into last friday by your property value activists
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of the american army. it's a very good loss of sort of the island so that it had secured the place. and now we can see cars and trucks moving from and to both sides as soon as loss of some of these surveys even several camps. so some people who fled eisel been cools down in iraq, aid groups and other non-governmental organizations say the closures are russia leaving many, with nowhere to go. similar fulton has this report from northern iraq. this is placed by the conflict against eisel. these families are headed towards an uncertain future. they are the last ones to leave camp. one of several such facilities ordered shot by iraq's government in recent weeks of already say they are leaving voluntarily. but many here see it differently. of course they forced us
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to swear by god. they forced me to leave this camp. we feel comfortable here. all the residents feel comfortable. families in the camps receive shelter, food, aid, and access to education and health services. 3 years after the government declared victory over eisel, it says it's time for those displaced to go home. but n.g.o.s warn camp closures have been rushed and could leave tens of thousands of people homeless at the onset of winter. and during a pandemic, like many who lived in the camps, the mother can't return to his area because a relative his son had joined. i saw i will go to jeddah camp because of the tribal problems. i will stay far away from my town until god helps to solve this issue, and his son is now serving a prison sentence. but for the tribesmen in the ramadans hometown of justice must be meted out in line with tribal law. elders say the return of families of iceland members would spark retaliatory attacks who are even if the i saw members in prison
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or if he was killed, he's still his son. he still has a family. it's not possible for me to see his son walk in front of my eyes while his father killed my brother. everyone in this room has lost at least one family member to eisele. how can we deal with them with macey when they didn't show us any? the government is attempting to negotiate solutions with tribes to allow most people to return. but despite limited progress in reconciling communities, the governor doesn't believe the camp closures up pre-mature. the cities cannot be reconstructed as long as the residents live in camps. when the residents return back, they will start to rebuild their homes in the areas with the support from the government and the international organizations. such support has yet to reach sada host family left camp a week ago. they are now squatting amid ruins on the outskirts of mosul. you
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know, you can see what it's like here. there is no water, no electricity, and there are snakes and stray dogs at night. there are no services at all. unfortunately, there's just a concrete skeleton we're living in saba to cannot return to her home district of cinder, because her husband now presumed dead, had joined. i saw the tribes have to put themselves in our shoes. yes, some people have made mistakes. i'm not saying they didn't, don't kill the child because of the parent's crime, shunned by their community and neglected by their government. the prospects for saddest children look grim. some fear the exclusion of these families could fuel resentment among future generations. perhaps once again link fertile ground for radicalisation. see want to fall to al jazeera in iraq's northern nineveh province space x.'s, launch the spacecraft, caring for astronauts to the international space station. it said it
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was the 1st fully fledged mission for nasa by a private company. the capsule named resilience and ice of this year's many challenges is just to reach the ira says late on monday. what nasa hopes will be a long series of crew rotations between the orbiting lab and planet earth. my this is al jazeera and these are the headlines there have been celebrations in peru following leave resignation of interim president manual merino, he quits after just 5 days in the job. politicians have failed to agree on a successor. rina replaced martini's kara. he was removed from office over unproven corruption allegations mariana sanchez has more on.
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