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he chose the hangman of terra. israel's new prime minister wants well, how's the election results? you know wrong should be a wake up call before we're heading to the nuclear deal. libby as prime minister reopens unimportant road, lincoln's east and west, that was honey for us to slam the movie calling it unilateral law. if you didn't understand before the pandemic, what a small and connected fun it were own showing you must understand that now the un humanitarian chief speaks down there about fundamental floors in the global a ah hello. we begin in armenia, where votes and now being counted in the parliamentary election. prime minister, nicole pushing yan call the votes in april. he faced months of protests for losing territory to us by john indigo,

macau back. so should man's main rival appears to be former president robert cook re challenge has the latest from the capital yet that the polling stations, though we visited iran in the day, seems to be pretty well populated with people, cues stretching out the door. and suddenly a consistent turn of people going into the polling booth through the day. so it looked good in there and up until quite recently, it seemed as though 10 out was higher than it had been at the last parliamentary elections in 2018. but in the last few hours, it seems that it's bit below and actually 2018 with a pretty low turn out that south. so we'll have to see what the final figures are. but the candidates, these main front runners in the election, who are battling to get into the building behind me, that's the prime minister's office. are nicole passion and rebecca cherry now passion. he is the acting prime minister. he's been in the job for about 3 years

time. now, he's trying to convince voters that although there was this catastrophic military defeat last year, the voters should not throw out his anti corruption reform agenda just because of that. that's the, his message to the people had main rival contrarian who was armenia seconds president is trying to tell voters that they should ignore the kind of fleas and the scandals and the corruption associated with his he is in office and trust him again as a strong man, who is going to rebuild army as military and it's strengthened standing in the regions. so those are the kind of messages that these 2 men have being put to have been putting to the voters will have to wait and see how can, how convincing they have been read to get a go with the on is be director of the regional study center in yet, yvonne, he says the election is likely to have regional implications. well, in many ways,

this is a campaign and an election dominated by security or more correctly in security. meaning that we are still in a state of war with neighboring algebra, john with prisoners of war still to be returned from algebra, john and our escalation of border tension with incursions, bio slumber johnny military forces. this only demonstrates that were written on chartered political territory. this is the 1st ever armenian election in such a degree, one certainty, and in security, in this way, this particular election is decisive, but it's also highly divisive. well, in many ways, the net outcome of the unexpected loss of the war for now going back horrible, was the realization that armenia is ever more firmly within the russian orbits. what i would argue that for president putin, of russia,

a reelection of incumbent armenian prime minister puss union is the preferred option. because in many ways it's the opposite of lucas shanker, when bellows pushing on is a legitimate, democratically elected leader. but now very much a prize or a trophy for president to didn't well under russian control. and in this context, russia has bets on every horse in the race, even its former interlocutor and partner, the ones president robert court shoddy and who now as emerged as the leading opposition rival candidate. israel's new prime minister natalie bennett, has described iranian president elect abraham and i. he sees when as a final wake up call for world powers before returning to the 2015 nuclear deal, he made the comments during a cabinet meeting. rate selection is i would say the last chance for the world

powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they're doing business with these guys are murder, mass murderers, a regime of brutal aim and never be allowed to weapons of mass destruction that will enable enough to kill 1000 millions. our 4th, it has more from west jerusalem. you would expect natalie bennett to say something like this. he certainly has been extremely vociferous in his opposition to the j. c . p. o, a, the iran nuclear deal. and he's making those comments in english, in a cabinet meeting to his colleagues with him. he used to be expected to speak in hebrew, says obviously a clear message to the outside world. he has been coming in for a great criticism from the full of prime minister benjamin netanyahu, certainly on his way out of the door, and who kept on criticising bennett over his in netanyahu's view inability to

stand up to iran. and so again, you would expect bennett to be fairly hard line in his comments about racy whom he also called the butcher of tehran and saying that of all the people that jose could have chosen, he chose this man. so again, that, that is a fairly natural kind of response to those criticisms from that, you know, who also said that, that, but it wouldn't be able to stand up to the rate to the administration of president biden on the j. c, p. o, a. and there are reports, at least in the reading media. the senior officials believe that this election could lead to a delay in negotiations to return to that deal. and therefore potentially a window of opportunity to try and press the u. s. a bit more in favor of israel's position on the deal. the united states says they're still sticking points on key issues and efforts to revive the 2015 iran nuclear dale. that's as talks in vienna

have an agenda. it's not negotiated. returning home for further consultations, the head of the iranian delegation said that close to the never to an agreement, but the remaining issues will not be easy to overcome. let's go to kristin's, let me who has law 1st in washington, d. c. chris and what are these sticking points? the u. s. is referring to the key issue seems to be the lifting of sanctions, which the u. s. imposed on iran after the united states withdrew from the nuclear deal. iran went into these talks demanding that all of the sanctions be lifted before it returned to the terms of the 2015 agreement. national security advisor jake sullivan said on sunday that the u. s. retains the right to impose sanctions unilaterally on iran for non nuclear issues. be the human rights abuses or a ron's ballistic missile program. we know that ballistic missiles were not covered

under the original nuclear deal, but are a concern for the united states. still sullivan said that the main issue is to be focus on is iran nuclear program and making sure that iran does not get a nuclear weapon. what i would say is that there is still a fair distance to travel on some of the key issues, including on sanctions and on the nuclear commitments that iran has to make. but the arrow has been pointed in the right direction in terms of the work that's getting done in vienna. so we will see if the iranian negotiators come to the next round of talks prepared to make the hard choices that they have to make. in order for the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran nuclear deal to be reinstated. and sullivan said that the united states does believe that diplomacy is the way forward, not military conflict. and he downplayed the impact of the election of ibrahim, right? you see to the presidency and iran saying that ultimately the decision will come

down to the supreme leader in all of this and the u. s. is ready to keep moving forward and negotiating to get this done. thank you, christine salumi that 1st in washington, dc. libby as national unity government has announced the reopening of a road that links east and west in areas. it was one of the conditions of sci fi agreement, signed between the war insides in october, forces loyal to the wall or party for half the say they were consulted and are yet to prove the decision of the prime minister insisted portions of the road open. new jersey lead. yeah. that you owe me more about it. it is my pleasure to be part of this historic day as the reopened the main art reconnecting. but you simply be edwards, wes, it will enable people to reunite as the doctors of division and separation have gone forever. i take this opportunity to call an all libyans to steal away from rift malice or hatred, and to join hands to rebuild our country to take libya forward in general,

had let me see what the prime minister did is a unilateral act from one side, the prime minister did not coordinate with the operations room. the only authorized party for that decision is the 5 plus 5 joint military commission. we have to wait until they meet and we will see what decisions will be taken by the trainer has more from that coastal road west of the city of 3rd. now we're here on the coastal road in between the cities of miss rhonda and approximately 130 kilometers east of miss. right now the prime minister has just arrived. he's opened the road and to commemorate the event. now this road has been closed. since warlord khalifa hussar lost his offensive on tripoli in 2019 in april 2019. this is a very important road to live in trade. obviously,

eastern and western libya. so this is very significant. according to the prime minister, he says this will help rebuild libya to bring about unity and to further prosperity in the country. now, there are critics, that they, that opening the road will give war fighters as approximately, according to the un, 20000 for fighters in libya, according to military forces. there's at least 2000 russian mercenary to the south here. wagner group, also some play that this will help for word for inquires to continue on, or to move up towards towards the north. so we're here now. this is the front line. there's another, there's another, a place that they're going to go to about 20 kilometers to the east of here,

and they're going to be opening up that road there. the hope is that the libyans will be able to travel from is turned to western livia from western to eastern libya, and that this will help unite the country. still ahead on al jazeera, we'll look at why latin america has become the global at the center of ours, pandemic and ethiopians of voting and national elections. on monday we find out why some regions won't have a side. ah hello, please to say the when the civic east for the radium peninsula we are looking at the shema winds still blasting away the just pushing in across the east side of saudi arabia. coming out of iraq,

but know when they're as strong as it has been recently so less in the way of lifted dust and sand, or spicy sunshine, farther north. that sunshine extends up towards the black sea. but for the western part of turkey. some he did the day i was just growing up over the next couple of days more the same really was he wanted to shout possibly, ever towards armenia, georgia as a buy job, but essentially looking dry and sunny and that dry weather that sunshine stretching all the way down into them and maybe a shower or 2 around the southern end of the red sea, turning up the shower around the opium highlands. instantly ways pumping the showers. the tropical shouts cost a tropical bell over towards the gulf of guinea. more intense storms coming in. to work upon into a good part of nigeria. gonna ivory coast library or liberia sinks in very heavy rain over the next couple of days. by the south is generally try me 5 because some showers just around the most and be close to showers to into towns in there for a time. some of them on the heavy side we will see where to where the grassy,

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hello, are you watching out? is there a reminder of our top stories that our polls have closed in armenia is parliamentary election prime minister, nicole pushing and cold protests over the loss of territory to us by john the us says they're still sticking points on key issues and efforts to revive the 2015 iran nuclear dale. the latest round the top in vienna have not been agenda. and levy as national unity government has announced the reopening of a road that links eastern and western parts of the country. the forces loyal to be lower for half, say, one consultant, and yet to approve an edition in latin america is now the f. p center of the corona virus pandemic. the continent is reporting the wells highest death rates. vaccine distribution is slow and infection

continue to search in several countries. the rise is believed to be partly due to the fall spreading gamma variance vars 1st identified in brazil. let's get more in this. we can speak to correspond daniel wireless and what is there is. so this situation, daniel is dia, across much of the latin american countries, i mean 1200000 dead more than 35000000 in fact said, why is this region being hit so hard? there are many reasons why latin america's been hit so hard. some of those are systemic, simply poor distribution of wealth, lack of investment and infrastructure. so when people were being brought to the hospitals, they were often finding they weren't enough. i see you beds. and even when people were being treated there why she wasn't doing oxygen or medicines to treat them. and often we've seen horrendous images that people being left outside the hospitals

often to die, the bereaved families in a terrible state. that's one of the major problems. i think also we've seen a regular corruption. we've seen several health ministers being forced to resign over scandals involving the ministers getting priority treatment for their friends and family when the vaccines arrive. and i think there's also a feeling which was in portrayed by the pothole, the pan american health organization that simply not enough vaccines are arriving in latin america with the 600000000 or so. inhabitants of the region, only about one in 10 have been vaccinated. that have been slow to arrive the roll out. programs have been sporadic to say the least. some countries have done better, not as chile, as it is a notable exception, a large proportion of the population there vaccinated 30 percent of odds and times of how nice one backseat of the $6000000.00 also due to arrive in the next week or so. many countries are probably been touch brazil, less than 10 percent of the population, paraguay,

which has been particularly hard hit, less than 5 percent of the population vaccinated. that there is a big call for the wealthier nations to send their surplus vaccines for producers to, to produce more and get them to latin america much, much quicker. because that is the, will be an immediate solution to the long term problems. but also, governments will need to look at some of the systemic problems across the region that no. is there any cause fault to miss them? very little in the short term. i think if the, the pandemic has done anything, it's highlighted some of these problems. so people at least know what needs to be looked at, what needs to be investigated. the fact that there are now so many homeless people, we are looking at a massive unemployment. and these are all problems that have been obvious in, in latin america for a long time. but what the pandemic has done is exacerbated many of these. so then

now basically a parents people know, know what needs to be looked out. the trouble is, at the moment, or the energy or the attention is focused on simply fighting the pandemic. but we have seen signs, for instance, ecuador, a great rise in the number of children working on the streets. we see homelessness here in argentina rising massively. so we know what these problems are. we know what needs to be looked and governments are focusing on those in the, in the long term. thanks for that day. daniels warm to that 1st one is aries, rear diginero is famous. copa cabana beach resembles a rose garden right now. it's in tribute to the brazilian lives lost. in the pandemic, recorded deaths have passed 500008 3rd wave of infections is accelerating silvo gyre. both nar continues to play down the seriousness of the 19 pressuring states to resist knocked down. monica yanna. kiev reports from ria diginero about early

a protest against brazil presidents now, who's rarely depressed dozens of cities in brazil to denounce president jadem ball . so not his handling of the pandemic. marching through the streets of rio de janeiro to the sound of drum beat. into the chant of indigenous tried in the capital brazilian. this is called for bull sonata impeachment, accusing him still downplaying the cove in 1910 demik. despite brazil's death toll being the 2nd largest in the world, when the protest began and real, the corona virus had already killed more than 490000 brazilians. as the day were on brazil reached the tragic milestone of half a 1000000 dead. this governments responsible for genocide, it delayed the vaccination roll out. we cannot continue to be governed by a president who doesn't care about brazilian lives just last week both. so now i

was fined for leading a motor bike rally and some bombing without wearing a mask. he's already on the campaign trail for next year's presidential election and continues to promote hydroxy cora wine as the cure for the corona virus. i'm 65 years old, was infected by cooper 19 and took drug corklin the next day i was cured. so not his opponents had been reluctant to take to the streets against him, arguing that people should stay home in the midst of a panoramic. now they said risk you to remain quiet as if you were here to fight for our lives. the virus is less deadly that our president, we want him out. now. this is happening while the senate committee is still investigating the government handling of the panoramic senators, doctors and scientists. this effect, the government has typed was he heard immunity by infection. does this suspicion

that every scientist in brazil now has and the president of brazil is doing everything he came to convince us the best strategy since the beginning. when he goes and say that and says dad immunization produces a protection that is smaller than if you have the disease which is not true. meanwhile, an average 2000 brazilians have been dying every day. and many fear that at this rate, for the me soon surpass united states as the country with the world's largest cove in 1900 death toll monetary. and i guess i'll just 0. we're diginero. well, they pandemic has exposed fundamental challenges and failures of the current humanitarian system. that is the view of outgoing united nations humanitarian chief mark laycock. he made the comments in an interview with out there is diplomatic. as a james space before years mark low call has been the u. n's,

talk humanitarian official. he's sometimes been outspoken. recently describing the g 7 pledge to provide 1000000000 doses of vaccine over the next year. as a small step in an interview without jazeera, he says cobit 19 should have been a time for global cooperation, but instead, each country was pending for themselves. his 1st, the failure of kindness and empathy, but it's secondly, a huge act of self home. because if you didn't understand before the pandemic or the small ins connected planet where own surely, you must understand that now everybody can see the new variance coming up all over the world. a border war does not protect you from the virus. so if you want to keep yourself safe, you have to worry about everybody else's safety to in terms of the humanitarian system of the world, has cobit 19 exposed flores. i do think that the pandemic has exposed

some fundamental challenges about the humanitarian system. we have a financing system which is far too slow and reactive. the best and cheapest responses are the fastest ones, the more proactive you are. this the day, the cheaper is to solve that problem, but also the better the solution and that alongside the fact that the burden is shared in a very you know, unfair way with for leading finances. the u. s. germany, the e u and certainly up to recently the u. k. paying 70 percent of the cost of the responses to $20000000000.00 a year responses i've been managing. i increasingly thing that is not really a sustainable situation. i think the world is going to have to find a different way of financing these kinds of responses in terms of the humanitarian situation around the world. is it moving in the right direction or not?

or it's now some, fortunately, you do confront a lot of human misery and suffering in this job. and the good thing is you, you can at least do something to take the edge of that off that bought the problem . is that because the causes of humanitarian suffering, conflict, climate change, disease like cove it have been accumulating because while it's been responded to is largely the symptoms. the problems keep getting worse. mr. low coke has in recent months warned of the possibility of 2 separate famines in ethiopia, the country where he began his humanitarian career, dealing with a famine of 984 and in yemen, a country his successor. in the job, martin griffin knows very well, having served in recent years as the un special m. boy. james bays al, jazeera london, millions of ethiopians. i expect to head to the polls on monday and crucial

parliamentary elections. some regions have been excluded with official sizing defects, and ballot papers. all the reasons out there is mohammed the reports from the eastern region of hot out with 368, i squeezed into just one square kilometer. this is the old wall city of hot of extent, if you appear, if thick, high walls erected in the 13th century by the indigenous people, a unique ethnic minority group. while holidays used to inhabit a much larger area, their population has declined and they now leave behind. the city walls. in 2016 units got recognized as a heritage site to protect its history. as one of the worlds and ship civilization, they threw up in government also men had its own federal state, the smallest in the country. yet the electoral commission recently refused to allow hardly sleeping in other parts of if you appear to vote for candidates in their

homeland in upcoming parliamentary elections. but of the heart of his challenge that decision in the supreme court, it ruled in their favor. i to give you all we want is to preserve our culture and heritage. the reason her always have a quasi state to day is in recognition of her, our culture language history, and perhaps most importantly to redress the injustices perpetrated against us. preserving how already governance will prevent a toronto of the majority, protect indigenous and minority rights, and quite simply, it is just fair. following the supreme court ruling delettre commissioners for more time to conduct a special registration of hardy voters, in other parts of it appear to enable them vote in their homeland. for holidays, the question of who gets to govern what is central to the existence. and they say that specially important as they're facing competition from surplus and coaching on their land. but we are really worried about the future about people as population

keeps declining the plot to take over herrera by other ethnic groups is getting sick of the challenges facing the people of the hot region is illustrated by the housing behind me. it was built with funds from the diaspora, people living in the united states and europe. but now lies abundance of people from the neighboring region came to claim the land of their own. this week's elections will also not take place in the neighboring somebody regional. if you will be the electoral commission, i was postponed the polls. they're citing defects with boarding material. the region has known more instability than piece in the past 3 decades. 2 years ago, the rebel group or gotten national liberation front, signed a peace agreement with the government, and did more blessed its troops, wadhams law. and we were all thinking that our region view for once of all, to be the rest of it, your pm. we are, it's be for vance,

and we are all being forced to wait till september to exercise our constitutional rights. voting has also been postponed in the more from conflict on to grady gym where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from farming. a new debt for a vote integrate has not been set together, the harder to gray. and so molly regions account for 6 to 3 out of 504 to 7, but i'm interested and to many of the people in those regions been unable to vote, they say undermines their existence. mamma, to do. i'll just zita harder in tennessee appear. ah, is al jazeera, the thought you told stories, holes in armenia predicting a close parliamentary election, prime minister, nicole pushing and cold the vote off the purchase for losing territory to the by john or challenge has more yet of them. it's supposed to be another

2 years and said elections happen in armenia, but because of that conflict because of the last because of nicole passion, yann's plummet.