a new election laws being put in place. can the government now deliver on a promise to pay it an open process? second coverage on idea. i care about helping you with engaging with the rest of the world. we're really, it didn't take you into a play. you might not visit, otherwise, it feels that you were there ah . remembering brazil's covet 19 victims as a country registers more than 600000 deaths. ah, i'm down, jordan, this is al jazeera ly from joe hall, also coming up the us and mexico announce a major new security agreement to talk about crime under legal migration. iceland,

afghanistan says it carried out a suicide bombing at a ship loss of tilde, at least 60 people on kenya's, elephants are a huge attraction every year will tell you how a new plan is trying to keep conservation and what's going ah, brazil's help ministry says the country has passed 600000 deaths from cobit 19. it's now the 2nd to do so. after the u. s. attribute has been paid to the victims as a parliamentary enquiries concluding its 6 month investigation into the government's handling of the pandemic. it unveiled corruption scandals linked to the acquisition of vaccines. monica, you're not yet report. it took hours to set the scene on this gray friday morning. despite the rain volunteers spread clotheslines on the sands of rio de janeiro, z iconic. copper cabinet beach and hung white handkerchiefs,

one by 1600. in all representing the 600000 brazilians killed by coven. 19 some of the she boulevard. brazil has the world's 2nd largest craving 19 death toll who is responsible for the tragedy. the answer is president balsam arrow . what he showed no empathy towards the victims scoffed at the mosque saying so, delayed for vaccines and disrespect his social distancing measures while holding rallies against brazil's democratic institutions. taxi driver master antonio was among the real g, buys volunteers. he joined the team last here after watching other n g o members plant crosses on copper cabinet, beach attribute to the 1st 40000 dead among them. madison son bruno, who had died at age 25, a few months before. oh, the visa, 600000 deaths, caused a lot of sadness when i lost my son. there was some 7500 dead from cove at 19,

and it was already an incredible landmark of one person. is an incredible landmark . since then, it seems that the awareness of those who should have been taking care of us has not changed at all. the ceremony was interrupted back then by a ball so narrow supporter who started tearing down the cross as saying the media was exaggerating the severity of a disease which the president had called to, the little flew marshal rushed after him and picked them all up. this time he'll also play a part he'll carry the box with the handkerchiefs to the capital, brazil. yeah. and handed over to members of the parliamentary inquiry who've been investigating the government's handling of the pandemic. it's due to conclude on october 19 and madison like much of brazil has been watching the prob, every day on t. v. luck miss on a bill and a lot of us. wow. i think this parliamentary inquiry is fundamental for the country . and for those who have lost dear ones and need to know why the president still in

denial, but for the 1st time i feel backed by an institution investigating what led to this tragedy with the probe of showed us that it wasn't just ideology or politics that kept government from buying vaccine sooner. it unveiled corruption scandals proving this was also about some people making a lot of money. poison madison died young at the beginning of the pandemic. he says everything possible was done to save him. but he also lost a cousin who worked as the nurse in a crowded hospital. and his 54 year old sister had the government started mass vaccination earlier. marcia says she would have had her 2 doses. she died having none, and mad sir blamed the government. monica and i give, i'll jazeera united states as an al sydel accept funny, vaccinated visitors, as long as they received jobs approved by the world health organization. the u. s. as authorized, fewer vaccines than other countries. the white house had earlier announced that

restrictions on fully vaccinated travelers from some countries have been lifted in november, but didn't specify which jobs would be accepted. a u. s. appeals court is allowing the state of texas to resume our ban on most abortions. the legislation passed last month is regarded as the most restrictive in the country has been challenged by the biden administration, and could end up in the supreme court. fulton, 650 undocumented migrants have been detained in mexico. they're traveling in refrigerated truck containers, heading towards the us border. more than a half with children. mexican police arrested 4 people were transporting the migrants. and the 2 countries are promised to increase corporation to reduce migration and violence. it's part of a major new security agreement. your secretary of state anthony, blinking that a high level delegation to mexico to work out the details. the plan replaces the marita initiative, which has been in place since 2008. since then, violence has only grown worse. drug related crime and the legal migration north of

the border of hit record levels money rapidly has more now from mexico city. senior government officials from the us and mexico finalized talks in mexico city on friday. the dialogue covered a wide range of topics ranging from immigration to kobe, 19 and climate change. the main theme, however, was the launch of a new bilateral security initiative between both countries to reduce violence and better address the problem of trans national crime. it's time for a comprehensive view approach to our security cooperation. one that will see us as people partners in defining our shared priorities. tackle the root drivers of these challenges, like in equity, like corruption, and focus not only on strengthening long foresman, but also public health of the rule of law inclusive economic opportunities. the new security strategy is being called the us mexico bicentennial framework for security,

public health and safe communities. this new security agreement between the u. s. and mexico is aimed at replacing the medi that initiative, an agreement for signed in 2008 as a strategy to curve violence and reduce international drug trafficking. many security experts in mexico see the medi, the plan has largely failed to achieve those objectives. a little bit short, i said by you a secretary of state lincoln, anesthesia begins good bye to the mary the initiative. welcome to the recent annual agreement. there was a moment though, a finalized agreement on how both countries planned to work together on addressing drug related violence remains to be signed us and mexican officials did express a willingness to work toward a drastically new approach to many people continue to suffer, especially those. ready ready in our society who are the most vulnerable, they are still suffering. and thus, in the days ahead and with this new vision for security guiding us,

we will focus more intensely than before on the root and the core of the forces that threaten us. tackling the underlying. ready reasons why they continue to exist and grow. having concluded this round of talks, u. s. and mexican officials have agreed to meet for a 2nd round of dialogue early next year. at least 60 people have been killed in northern afghanistan in the deadliest attack since foreign forces pulled out of the country at the end of august, a suicide bomber targeted friday prayer that a sheer mosque and condors that's close to the border with touchy cust on hundreds were injured in the attack. iceland, afghanistan, which poses a growing threat to the taliban. has claimed responsibility. i smiled. mar, reports from missouri. sharif. oh, these are the moments after it won't last too. who mos backed with worshippers. security officials say

a suicide bomber managed to get inside before blowing himself up, killing an enduring scores of people. i sell enough gun, his dad has claimed responsibility comedy. the boss is in the town of hanna bad in condis city. that's hell to many members of the she are, has out a minority. i will become to buy jumbled. come up muscle mana, but what it was around $140.00 p. m. all the muslims had gathered in the mosque was friday. prayers. and when i heard the explosion, i was near by and what i saw was just like the end of the world. that age wise is happening to the muslims, which religion should we adopt with is nothing like this and killing muslims is forbidden. and believe god, i can't even talk any more. i can't tell you henry, dead bodies i've shifted in my vehicle. there was no angels. may god have mercy on old woods. i'm glad he got on. it's one of the worst. i said, attacks says the taliban take over. as for enforcers were leaving a late august,

the armed group also claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at campbell airport. more than a 183 people were killed, including 13 your soldiers. i sail latest, said it was behind a series of attacks targeting the taliban in general. about in kabul, the taliban launched a crack down and arrested dozens of icy fighters in those cities. taliban officials say they are determined to eradicate their rivals. violence has increased over the last few days. the taliban next move is going to be closely monitored by the afghan people and the international community. the united states is expecting the taliban to deliver on a promise made in the 2020 doe had. we're meant to prevent i sail from building a base in afghanistan, the blossom condos under schools. the growing challenge is the taliban now faces.

since he took over the country in august, the taliban prides itself on providing a secure and stable environment. but the attacks in july had a bad cowboy, a dull this one in condos would increase anxieties among the afghan people. hash about barrels is either bizarre cities, least 6 people have been shot dead at an immigration detention center and libya. many others have escaped video posted on line, shows those who broke out running through the streets in a capital tripoli, thousands of refugees and migrants were arrested in a crank down by libyan authorities. over the past week, malik trina has more in tripoli on friday afternoon videos and images began circulating on living social media, showing thousands of migrants escape a detention center in the area of child, but a few plumbers west of triplet. now we are hearing numbers of around 323500 migrants escaping the detention center. now this comes just a week after

a security operation was carried out in the area of good gathers on a ton of good gathers where thousands of migrants and referee geez were detained and arrested. they were put in detention centers are scattered across western libya . now these detention centers are often overcrowded. other if there's a do, the migrants are forced to live in very poor conditions during this break out, this particular a break out according to the aisle women that we 6 migraines were killed. and really it caused a lot of chaos in the lives capital tripoli. we spoke to an official earlier today . we asked him about the breakout. he was very careful not to say that this was an escape, or it could have been a re lease or so we might see living authorities comments about this incident in the next day or 2. but there hasn't been any official statements from the

government as of yet some for so break your now to 0. when we come back in ellison comes in and i was actually line the panel when a gun journalist in the philippines and russia when this year is nobel peace prize . back on the nobel committee recognizes investigative journalist, russia adds more independent media, just growing foreign agentless more nasty list. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways voted world's best airline of 2021. psycho and shaheen maintained enough strength going through the empty quarter when he got to yemen to do this. this wasn't so much windows rained out huge amount of rain fell on the coast in this part of the oven. and that was why, how it looked on thursday,

so it's still not been cleared up. the still rain on the ground of the clean up will carry on. but the moisture from is still visible in the clouds and the showers likely further west in yemen. crossing djibouti as well. otherwise it's a fairly dry picture which you might expect this time either. sure. miles. ping. yep. again, blowing out of iraq and down towards the youi. sort of curling in through katara where to be joined by wind from the other direction. probably later in the weekend's, quite a strong shamal, but not particularly dusty one. the shower dying out by this time winter is showing itself very early. you might argue in the hindu cushion, places to the north. the temperatures into some base are canda about 10 degrees below normal. the tend to revive a little bit on monday is the snow disappears, but at a hint, the swap valley of get some snow as well. i suspect with temperatures were 10 degrees below. no, they are going to rise. there is quite a strong wind blowing trust. the black sea now and rain is coming through greece towards western turkey, but to the levant for the eastern med. the winds are light. the weather sponsored

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welcome back, a quick recap. the top stories here, this al brazil's health ministry says the country has passed 600000 deaths from cupboard 19 is now the 2nd to do so after the united states. or mexico have promised to increase cooperation to reduce migration and violence is all part of a major new security agreement. you are sector of state and to me, blink. and has been in mexico to hammer out the details of the 60 people have been killed in a talk in northern afghanistan, a suicide bomber talk with in friday, pres, at a ship lost in conduce china is mock in the $100.00 and 10th anniversary of the revolution that ended imperial rule. president shing delivered a keynote speech in beijing. it comes a week off a china cent, more than a $140.00 military jets and to tie ones at defense zone. taiwan considers itself a sovereign states, but china views it as a break away province. robert bride has more from hong kong that comes of a very interesting time in cross straight relations with the herd from sheet in

pain and also from other speakers. the kind of speeches that you would expect, it's an important event like this full of patriotic references full of the achievements of the a chinese people. this marks the, the revolution in 1911, which basically was the ending of feudalism in china. the end of dynastic rule by the emperor as it was the start, if you like, of modern china. it led in 1912 to the establishment of the republic of china, which of course lives on to day in the island of taiwan to morrow sunday. it is there, national day will be celebrated there, but this gives the chance to the communist party of china who defeated them and set up the peoples republic of china. and they ging, the chance to lay claim to the aspirations, to the spirit of those early revolutionaries. and we've heard from various speakers, she, jim ping among them, that it was because of the communist party of china that they become the natural descendants, the standard bearers of this revolutionary spirit. it's because of them that they have managed to establish this strong nation. that is free of any international

interference by colonial powers, et cetera, and also as achieved the kind of economic advances that the early revolutionaries wanted for the people of china through this socialism with chinese characteristics . we've also heard quite a lot of references about these constant themes in china about we jubilant rejuvenation and also re unification at which it is a constant theme. hear the basically that all chinese people's will one day come back into one nation. the nobel peace prize has been awarded to 2 journalists, maria theresa, and dmitri moore, at off for their fight to defend freedom of expression. the norwegian nobel committee announced the pair as joint winners of the 2021 price for a challenge or has more from also he was u. l. recognition for 2 journalists from countries where investigative reporting is always difficult, and sometimes deadly. miss vesa and mister murata,

are receiving the peace prize for their courageous high for freedom of expression in the philippines. in russia, maria ressa with her digital platform, rapper. she's investigated, president rodrigo detective violent anti drug campaign knocked off. i read it still sha fewer as editor in chief of the newspaper of i guess yet, there are many aspects of russia's politics, corruption, and crime. the dmitri murat of hasn't looked into it over the years. 6 colleagues have been murdered for their work, and he honored them if the premier occupant, of course this awarded for anna political sky, eureka kit more eager domco anastasio. but moreover, star markle off natasha. esther. moreover, our foreign colleagues who gave their lives for the profession, i am not the right beneficiary of this prize. the rules are made here. maria reza, who's also suffered harassment of intimidation,

told al jazeera of her worries for journalism. in the age of social media when news organizations last id keeping powers, the technology platforms on those platforms complicated responsibility for the public sphere and back has made facts debatable because the data facts and my eyes are actually treated equally. in fact, the algorithms of the world's largest distributor, a news a spot. actually, a feverish light laced with anger in act spread faster and they've been tracked for some who watched the nobel peace prize and it's regular controversies closely. this year's decision is a welcome one. i think this was bull's eye, it's a obviously, well, the served and it's 2 candidates that are, that both have done exceptional work in their home countries. but this is also christ that speaks to the larger issue, the larger issue of press freedom, the larger issue of countering fake news. and welcome news too,

for those hoping to see more women winning an award that seldom come their way. since the swedish industrialist alfred nobel founded the nobel prizes in the late 19th century, behalf only b, 17 individual female winners of the peace prize. maria theresa is the 18th, a small step towards correcting a pretty big gender imbalance. i asked barrett rice, anderson why there are so few. we have always paid attention to the way. then there's a in a time where there was a much worse and quality situation than it is to day nursery. it's difficult to tie live with continuous f t, a woman in selecting these 2 winners, the nobel committee has made a statement. it says freedoms of information, an expression matter. they matter to democracy, they matter to piece. and so the matter to billions of us, rory talents,

outer 0 horseless men or russia, has designated more than a $150.00 news outlets. and joe's and charities as foreign agents. the authorities say the law is no different to those and other countries. and that organizations that get support from abroad, but critics say it's being used to silence independent media. but a smith report from oscar to the russian state, the staff of this newsroom, a foreign agents, but doors to or t. v. rain has no connection to foreign governments. it is one of the few independent media outlets left in russia. before every break and every program, a message must by law appear on screen telling the viewer that what they're watching is created by russian legal entity performing the functions of a foreign agent. it's designation that the stations management says is created to scare off subscribers and advertisers, you know, that the history of russia,

of terrible period of time with communism, where the foreign agent mark label was air in a, at a terrible thank a terrible thing that meant that you can not have anything in common with the foreign agent. that's why, for some part of the society he in vash at that might be a problem. t v rein says it subscription model helps it stay on air for now. there are more than 70 news outlets. journalist, an activist on the foreign agents register. alexander kosky was part of a team of journalists who had worked for russia's most respected business newspaper company when it was taken over by state and his giant ross left the editorial team left and set up v times website to him. within 10 months, they've been branded foreign ages. my explanation because we were, we became a one year less than one year, quite powerful. and we proved that we are serious. and we were independent for the state for normal functioning. there are only 3. are ways of feedback

basis for free media then on real elections. so normal political system and independent the direct vertical system, all 3 are destroyed and rush archie, america, rushes, lawyer on. foreign media agents was adopted in 2017. not long after the u. s. justice department told russia today, america to register as a foreign agent. there. russia's federation council says activists and media, it claims a being sponsored from abroad aren't being discriminated against, but the public as a right to know who they are. now more than $200.00 organizations have signed an online petition asking for the foreign agents law to be repealed. bernard smith, al jazeera, moscow, iraq's prime minister must offer hud amy says he'll do everything to ensure fair elections as early voting got under way ahead of sundays, poll security forces,

prisoners, and internally displaced, people cast their ballots. on friday, the election was one of the key demands of an anti government protest movement began in 2019 mackwood. abdullah had sent this report, my polling stations in baghdad re election voting has it started for iraq's parliamentary election. and today's voting is dedicated for 7 categories. the ottoman forces, the interior ministry individuals and also the interior minister individuals. and could this tan and this maroka forces, the anti terrorism forces, the displaced people and prison inmates. that voting process involves 2 machines. the voters start with handing over their biometric cars to get checked here, then they had the have to hand over another. i did identification cards to be verified. now they have to get fingerprint and signature q.

after that, they are given their voting sheet so that they can go behind that both due to the and it is they want to vote for. after that, they get their finger dipped in the and they handle that the sheet here to be scanned by this machine off of that, thereby image because it's confiscated here as the election commission says to prevent vote rigging now over 1000000 and a half security individual deductible for today's voting, and that's besides over 120000 displaced people. it's interesting because some of these individuals were part of the crack down

on the 2019 revolution that demanded this election. now that they've taken part in the democratic process, google has welcomed the deal agreed by a $136.00 countries to impose a minimum tax rate of 15 percent on multinational companies. it's aimed at discouraging business jobs from declaring profits in low tax territories, even though their clients might be elsewhere. but the agreement is already been criticized in developing nations. the want the tax rate to be higher. yes, present, joe biden has reversed a trump era policy and restored the state as of to monuments and a marine conservation area. and monuments are in the state of utah. trump had reduced their size to allow for commercial activity. one of them known as bez is, is sacred to native americans. samples collected by china as luna prob, had been identified as coming from some of the moon's youngest volcanic rocks there about 2000000000 years old. that makes them a 1000000000 years younger,

and previous vice can is launched a new conservation fundraiser, offering people a chance to name an elephant for $5000.00. the country needs the money to keep its conservation plans going, which are making a real difference in its fight against poachers. catherine saw reports from ambrose selling national park in southern kenya. this is one of the most photographed landscapes in kenya, elephant and other wildlife room freely attracting thousands of tourists every year . and we're selling national park is also the heart of conservation works that have seen poaching in canyon merely eliminated. we have a very good relationship with canal lip service, or whenever there is an artist where they, it's by the community renters. they work very closely with the, with the kent police, the work root canal i've service to ensure that the porters are really received to whatever penalties they're supposed to. in the last 4 years, the elephant population in kenya has grown by 2000 to about 36000. so this

is the closest we've actually come to one of the larger hearts here in i'm with alien, it's really quite breathtaking. the ranges here tell us that the incidents of poaching have gone down significantly over the last few years, but there are other emerging threats. climate change resulting to frequent drought loss of habitat. and we have humans settlements around the parks. this is causing quite a consent and they say, these are the silent killers, a cross, ample sally, and into several east national park. they call this the elephant graveyard of a 4000 joules of elephants are kept here. but these elephants warren killed by poachers. there remains a here to serve as a reminder of what droughts can do. the climate to discuss this wildlife researcher says weavers are drying up. humans settlements are taking over migratory corey doors and elephant are becoming increasingly isolated to the main threat. now is

the issue of climate turns. i think that's the main thing that i can talk about. kazer is the one which is now shrinking the habit of who might have the elephant numbers increasing. but if you don't have the proper habitat for them, that is the main challenge of the moment. the poachers bullet and poisoned arrow may lightly be things of the past, but this iconic creatures still find themselves in danger of extinction. cat in soil, alta 0 and basil national park in southern kenya. ah, norfolk of the headlines here on al jazeera, brazil's health ministry says the country has passed 600000 deaths from colbert 19 . it's now the 2nd to do so after the u. s. the government's been sharply criticized for mismanaging the outbreak. monica yaki has more.