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Their fight over nagornokarabakh. The military sent in to help clean up flood hit regions of Southern France putting years worth of rain fell in just 12 hours. A parliamentary election in kurdistan and is overshadowed by allegations of vote by. Donald trump has treated as his thanks to supporters who remain stationed outside the hospital where hes being treated for the coronavirus let me show you the pictures from the Walter Reed National military Medical Center in maryland thats outside there where the u. S. President was taken on friday eliot he released a video message saying he was feeling much better that the next few days would be the real test. I came here wasnt feeling so well i feel much better now working hard to get me all the way back i have to be back you dont know over the next period of a few days i guess thats the real test so well be seeing what happens over the next couple of days well it was the latest in a series of contradictory updates about his health on saturday the president s chief of staff said his symptoms had been quote very concerning but his doctors offered an upbeat assessment dodging questions and refusing to share key details in his health with the president and hospital and a growing number of people in his inner circle tested positive the u. S. Secretary of state has cut short his trip to asia my pump a 0 has tested negative after trumps positive diagnosis on friday lets go to mike hanna whos outside the hospital where President Trump is being treated 1st things 1st mike is there any change in the president s condition. But we havent had any Early Morning bulletins about the president the last we heard was when the president himself tweeted out that video in the middle of the evening saying that hes feeling well but saying too that the next 2 days are critical now thats an opinion shared by his chief of staff mark meadows who has told reporters that the symptoms or the Vital Statistics off the president were deeply disturbing in the past 24 hours and saying too that the next 2 days are critical but as you mentioned thats a very different view from what we heard from the president s personal doctors in the past 24 hours saying that hes doing well it was a rather rosy prognosis saying that his vital signs were good that hes got oxygen levels were high that he was moving around in the course of the evening to the white house released some photographs of the president supposedly working while in that executive suite in the Walter Reed Hospital here behind me but still there is that question in terms of exactly how serious is. The president s condition and this mix messages that were getting from the white house just serving to accentuate the confusion of that were hoping to get another bulletin in the course of the morning but once again given the details that were provided yesterday that is said degree of doubt about the veracity of the president s personal doctors findings or information that they are feeding out in the meantime mike of course people are trying to track down who was the donald trump and his family at the 1st the 1st lady but also his staffers as well were in contact with over the last few weeks because he went to several different events one of them was supposed to be the Supreme Court nomination ceremony in the white house rose garden tell us about who is actually doing this Contact Tracing. Well its a very good question and there is an answer to that we heard from the doctors yesterday that its the white house that is directing the context rasing process in terms of who the president might have come into contact with however that being said we are recently seeding reports from new jersey for example that the president visited on thursday from minnesota that the president visited on wednesday went to at least 2 separate venues there that the authorities in those states have not yet been contacted by the white house they are attempting to pursue their own Contact Tracing procedures but theres no central direction involved once again weve also heard from a number of people who were in that rose garden ceremony a week ago at which at least 8 people so far have now tested positive for the corona virus that may have not been contacted by the white house in terms of following up on that Contact Tracing so this is a particularly problematic and potentially contentious issue in terms of the fact that the white house has claimed responsibility for the tracing process to map out the president s moves over the past week to 10 days and yet to fry all of. Aaron says it is not doing so certainly not according to representative in the states that the president has visited or to those who attended that meeting in the rose garden a week ago my thanks very much indeed thats mike hanna outside the hospital where President Trump is being treated. Well the majority of americans think the president could have avoided getting sick if hed taken the virus more seriously a Reuters Ipsos poll suggests that 65 percent of those us to hold that opinion and that includes many in his own party half of republicans have agreed but only about a 3rd of those surveyed thought that trump has been telling the truth about covert 19 the president has repeatedly dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic and just last week he made fun of his democratic president ial challenger joe biden for wearing a mask. Well eric ham is a political analyst and author of the g. O. P. Civil war he says it will be difficult for john to make his hospitalisation the narrative theyve been pushing. We have seen the president continue to act in a blatant disregard towards the virus and now that it has actually come to the president s doorstep many believe that this could be a way to shake the white house to shake this administration to finally act to try to aggressively combat the virus this is been a signature problem that has dogged the president since the virus exploded President Donald Trump has always been a master at shaping the narrative to fit his agenda and now that that we see so many millions of americans have been tracking the virus so many thousands have died from the virus and now the president who has said that this is a virus it was a hoax it is going away the United States is turning the corner now that he himself has contracted the virus as long as as well as with any of his key supporters governor Chris Christie Kellyanne Conway and others that changes or that actually they make it difficult for the president continue to push this narrative even if the president gets better hes still going to be off the trail for at least 14 days and doctors have already said its 7. 10 days are perhaps the most crucial so clearly the president is not out of the woods yet and the last. Memories that Many Americans will happen to the president is that the debate performance which many believe was perhaps the most of the business or debate the country has ever seen and that will be the final take away the final selling point of President Donald Trump which is not a good look given that the president is down by as many as 10 points nationally and by all accounts is losing an overwhelming majority of the key battleground states that he needs in order to secure reelection as i john and on many im not accusing each other of targeting civilians in the conflict over the disputed region of knock on okada bucked these pictures were released a few hours ago said to be the city of stuff halakha i reporters says there have been regular explosions azerbaijan mean pilot says its 2nd biggest city has been to. Now shortly well hear more from simcoe c. E. O. In azerbaijan but 1st heres Bernard Smith from goalless in neighboring armenia. This has been a very difficult day for the people of the panic at the main city and they go on a town about an air raid sirens wailing throughout sunday morning and the afternoon whilst we were there on the walls of of incoming missiles the targets seems to be mainly infrastructure in stepanek on nagornokarabakh and electricity substation that we were near to was one of the targets was hit or temps were made to hit it early in the morning they misstated a nearby building that caught fire and then it seems later in the day they finally hit the target sending large clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky and leavings to panic at in darkness very difficult conditions now for people who have been spending most of that time in bunkers for the last 8 days of course the weaponry being used now is much more sophisticated when these 2 sides are jana not going out or about last for at such an intense level more than 20 years ago now is areas have Turkish Military backing and it seems persuasion guided weapons and. Drones which the armenians having trouble countering. And they are accusing our mania for expansionist policies mainly actually most of the oprah shows accuse the Prime Minister and called palestinian and say as they say that nicole pushing the un has an expansionist policies and it was actually declared in new york a couple of months ago by their one of their ministers so according to the Un Resolution as our vision says that in international a binding Un Resolution says thats not going to cut a bob longs is another bridge and territory occupied by Armenian Forces and Armenian Forces must unconditionally withdraw from nagornokarabakh and other occupied territories this is according to the u. N. And based on this the oficial tell us that we wont come through and come to any negotiation with the armenian side until they withdraw from all those occupied territories to their legal. In their legal legal respects is a reality then we can talk and this is what officials have been saying they emphasize that they have no problem with the armenian public they say they are not hitting civilian targets but apparently when there is a war especially Something Like that are going to cut about conflict that has been ongoing for 3 decades and the civilians are intentionally or unintentionally are the ones that are hurt most. France has deployed the military to search for at least 8 people missing after devastating floods almost a years worth of rain fell in 12 hours around the city of nice cutting off villages and washing away roads and houses 2 of those missing are firefighters his vehicle was carried away by water when the road collapsed a Jungle Rescue operation rescuers are also looking for a number of people in neighboring northwestern italy jonah hall reports. Record rainfall in the mountainous region the joints france and italy has threatened lives homes and if the structure of the. Storm alex as its known swept across southeastern france and into northern italy causing rivers to burst their banks and violent flooding on both sides of the border. This was rockville year on the outskirts of nice. Its said to be the worst flooding in the area in more than a century. To close the bodies in the coming days and weeks there will be a massive mobilization in this Mountain Region which is just experienced devastation without compare and without precedent in the past 100 years. Roads and bridges were destroyed High Altitude communities isolated with rising numbers of missing and injured. All of alis collapse in one go so we dont have a boat left to take us back home the best of luck yeah bob its blocked on both sides of the road no electricity nothing further up there out of tap water there were many elderly people who needed help to be given shelter lives have been lost in italys alpine valdosta region a firefighter who was killed during a rescue operation in virtually province another body was found. And the toll could well ply with the equivalent of 4 months of rainfall ing in just 24 hours john holt aljazeera. Still had an Aljazeera College triumphant announcement for the republicans turned into a coronavirus super spreader event. Giving up their American Dream hundreds of migrants stopped in guatemala decide to turn back. Hello we may well see another tropical system developing in the northwest pacific over the next few days little clutch of storms to the south of japan is a long way out but it may well run up towards to pat back even push over towards at least inside of china in about a weeks time as a say a long way out you can see the position of the heaviest rains at present ahead of that is fine and dry for a good part of japan northern part seeing a few showers Northern Areas of honshu into hot qaida and these will drift away as we go on into chews day lousy dry across the Korean Peninsula 19 celsius the full so some of the temperature was northern parts of china and then central areas Little Pockets of cherry rain just pushing over towards shanghai once again for choose those showers there too down towards taiwan meanwhile weve got some very heavy rain continuing across eastern parts of in the n. R. C. Little circulation still swirling away in the by i have been go bring some heavy downpours in whats been go by hard pushing right up across the somme pushing across into a good part of bangladesh and up towards the pole as well me and ma saying some heavy showers over the next couple of days and notice further west across the Western Ghats we are still seeing a crop of showers here notching all the way up into maharashtra. Global community we are out because obviously thats. Crazy so what response that looks like be part of the debate you can jump into the conversation right away when no topic is off the table youre not afraid of anyone taking power we just call it what. You see is 3 targeting richer and the poor getting poorer its not kill destroy the system its just to look at the system and. This street on out is the era. Youre watching on his ear a reminder of our top stories this hour the true picture of President Donald Trumps condition remains unclear after conflicting reports in the white house and the hospital where hes being treated for covered 19 in a video on twitter trump said he was feeling good but said the real test was in the next few days. As a by john and our many of our accusing each other of targeting civilians in the conflict over the disputed region of no home or car back these pictures are said to be the scene in the city of state halakhah a reporter says there have been regular explosions. France has deployed the military to search for at least 8 people missing after a devastating floods almost a years worth of rain fell in 12 hours around the city of nice cutting off villages and washing away roads and houses. More now on our top story and how the white house has become a covert 19 hot spot the nomination of amy kone beret was meant to be a day of political triumph it now appears it has been a Coronavirus Support spreader event rob reynolds reports. A few people who attended the rose garden event on september 26th wore man 6 and the chairs were space close together President Trump was announcing the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court but as the guests mingled and chatted amongst themselves the corona virus was silently creeping through the air it is for all intents and purposes a super spreader event we have multiple people that are affected there now were seeing blossoming chains of transmission that probably emanate from there so this will be something that will be recognized as a super spreader that when the story of 1000 years at least 8 people who were there have now tested positive for covert 19 besides trump and 1st lady maloney a trump they include utah republican senator mike lee who was seen hugging and interacting with other people North Carolina republican senator tom tillis trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and an unidentified reporter covering the event the latest to announce testing positive is Republican Former new jersey governor Chris Christie who also helped trump prepare for tuesdays debate Notre Dame University president reverend john jenkins who also tested positive said guests were told they didnt need to wear masks because everyone in attendance had been tested sometimes that testing is not going to be ironclad the virus can find holes and thats got to be clearly people were instructed to take off their face coverings once their test came back not realizing that tests have operating characteristics and there is some rate of false negatives they can occur when you when you are testing Like Public Health experts are hopeful that the outbreak in trumps inner circle could change the minds of people who still dont take the virus seriously i do think that this is a turning point for many people to see the most protected man in the world be infected by this virus despite the persians at the white house had put in place the testing so this. Just something that. Really should make people who doubt the virulence of this pandemic in the us iris take a step back with covert 900 spreading at the highest levels of Washington Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is delaying most Senate Business for 2 weeks but even though 2 republicans on the Judiciary Committee were apparently sickened in the rose garden mcconnell says hell push ahead with confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee barrett on october 12th robert oulds aljazeera polls have closed in coexistence parliamentary election which has been soured by widespread allegations of vote buying competitive democratic elections are rare in the region which is mostly made up of authoritarian states and reports from biscay. The capital of kyrgyzstan a country often described as being more democratic than its neighbors which will so parts of the soviet union before it collapsed. 16 parties with more than 1500 candidates competing in these parliamentary elections but there is little trust in many of the faces that adorn campaign posters. Of works on a farm on the outskirts of the city hes angry about mounting allegations of parties trying to buy votes in the run up to the poll. It was something i found. People who sell their vote a selling their hope selling their country selling their memories of their ancestors and selling their future. This man who didnt want to be identified said in recent days people working for a progovernment Political Party have twice offered him money if he promises to vote for them all citizens who work for a given party are involved in vote buying he tells me that a party gives a person 50. 00 to buy a vote they will buy it for 25. 00 and pocket the rest the system happens every election and its happening again he says. Kyrgyzstans post soviet political experience has been lively to say the least 2 president s overthrown in revolutions the former president currently serving in 11 year jail term for corruption but politicians and analysts say that kyrgyzstan may be more democratic than its Central Asian neighbors but in terms of free and Fair Elections the still a long way to go there are dozens of candidates with various parties who have criminal records that on the kilties law can be wiped clean if they pay a fine. They will take the trial a good rose was it a long time ago nothing lawless is happening now but i agree there are issues with the legal document form 2 i thought we were a new democracy and we are learning a foreign. Election monitors say people in poor rule communities are particularly vulnerable to accepting bribes for votes form 2 is illegal lupo the low levels of voter to change the precincts in which he or she casts a ballot it means parties who feel they may lack support in a given area offer transport and money to voters if they agree to be moved and vote for them. Its estimated around hof a 1000000 people have been moved from their precincts to vote. In a likely outcome of the vote is tilting in favor of progovernment parties but then. Theres always that possibility that even those. Half a 1000000 people or many many many among them are still able to vote independently when they enter the voting booth. The reform party this huge rock and she government songs to rally support reform aims to attract young voters tired of what analysts say has been decades of economic mismanagement poor Job Opportunities were not happy with what what is happening and we need this is choice and for change because in this bill or your 30 years where independent country but we still are suffering people are poor i mean the corruption. And basically the thieves are stealing our future so were going to stand for that for a generation hoping that no matter the struggles against corruption and criminality the great political system the Journey Towards true democracy and Development Must go on. Kyrgyzstan. Antigovernment protests have broken out once again in the balance and Capitol Police used water cannon to disperse demonstrators in minsk there calling for the release of political protests president Alexander Lukashenko his resignation and a new elections was declared winner of the vote in august but activists say the outcome was ringed but thats toll in brazil is fast approaching 150000. 00 its the 2nd highest in the world after the us despite rising infection rates the matter of where this scenario is easing restrictions by opening Schools Cinemas and theaters but many have been ignoring the regulations anyway want to knock him reports. That would have meant bell and her son are going to the movies for the 1st time in almost 7 months with an added bonus the new safety rules allow them to take off their masks to eat popcorn and carling for the moment but we came because its extremely hot outside and this is the 1st day cinemas and the it is very thin and so theyre still empty im not sure its a good idea to be in a closed space but for now it seems safer than the beach in fact they are the only ones here a sharp contrast to the world outside taking a dip in the water and exercising outdoors are allowed crowds of people without masks are not sunbathing is still for britain but this is one more rule that people have decided to ignore as spring temperatures have risen to a record 40 degrees celsius and brazils Unemployment Rate has reached 14 percent beach vendors have decided to defy rios mayor theyre renting chairs and parasols risking a 200. 00 fine. While working illegally all of us here but if we dont do this we cant pay the rent or buy food we stayed away from the beach for 6 months and cant continue to survive on government handouts which have just been reduced to half. The relaxed atmosphere on ipanema speech does not reflect the stark reality brazil is the worlds 2nd largest covert 1000 hot spot in terms of fatalities more than 145000 people died and almost 5000000 have been infected that bell silva says he is aware that brazil may witness a 2nd wave before the 1st one is over but hes willing to take the risk. To the liberal apply the rules say we can only be in the water not on the sand but we are paying we arent fish besides why should we trust the government rios governor is being impeached on corruption charges the mayor is being investigated and the president never took the pandemic seriously besides Rio De Janeiro 6 other state capitals have seen a slow but steady rise in cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome largely related to covert 19 according to a study just released by the field produce institute something that we must be extremely careful and extremely vigilant in the next 3 weeks because if were going out even before those kind of a we know. Facility Girls Mission in the next 2 weeks because my salary the increase in the number of my now is the largest city in brazils amazon has closed bars and river b. Just to contain the fresh surge of coronavirus cases but in Rio De Janeiro for the moment social distancing and masks seem to have become a thing of the past monica and i give aljazeera Rio De Janeiro. Voters in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia have now only voted to stay part of france theres been a long running tension between the indigenous conex who want independence and descendants of colonial settlers who remain loyal to paris french presidency emanuel mccrone says hes grateful for the result. The night has caravan of migrants from honduras who were aiming to walk all the way to the United States have had their hopes dashed Security Forces in guatemala have turned many back but others say theyre determined to press on towards the border with mexico despite the deployment of troops there to stop them on all the reports was hundreds of 100 migrants on the guatemalan border awaiting their return home brought them all in Security Forces acting under orders from president and a 100 john mccain have been sending back members of a Migrant Caravan that crossed into guatemala on thursday. By the weekend immigration authorities said some of the original group of about 2000 migrants had agreed to return to honduras voluntarily leave the management and we made the decision to return because the situation of crossing the border between quote amal and mexico is very complicated. This latest Migrant Caravan is the 1st of this size since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Rumors of a new caravan had been circulating on 100 and social media for weeks what im always president has ordered what he calls a state of prevention in several states for a period of 15 days and called for the detention of migrants who pushed through border gates between honduras and guatemala on thursday still some migrants have vowed to push ahead saying their goal is to reach the United States. In spite of what the president said we are going to continue for. Those who are continuing on or now heading toward guatemalas border with mexico which poses even greater challenges to. The migration east to promote orderly safe irregular immigration in order to guarantee humanism and human rights with any entry into the country thats the reason we have met today for an orderly and coordinated activity with the armed forces the corona Virus Outbreak has meant borders remain under tight restrictions and the Mexican Government says immigration laws will be strictly enforced warning that those who knowingly put Public Health at risk could face prosecution. Aljazeera. This is a disease where these are the top stories the true picture of President Donald Trumps condition remains unclear after conflicting reports from the white house and the hospital where hes being treated for covert 19 in a video on twitter trump said he was feeling good but said the view