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Vaccine against. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Uns World Food Program for working to stop hunger being used as a weapon of war. And why the netherlands so called intelligent coronavirus lockdown no longer seems to be working. Welcome to the news hour we begin in carrick a stand where theres been gunfire and more chaos on the streets after a state of emergency was declared to end days of postelection on wrest the former president back at home by of says there was an attempt on his life when his car was shot in the capital bishkek these are some of the key players in the crisis right now you have kyrgyzstans president so room by you may be a call of insisting that hes in control of the country but says hell resign. Once a new cabinet is appointed solder jumper of is the new Prime Minister after protesters freed him from jail earlier this week hed been serving 11 and a half years for kidnapping also freed on tuesday was the former president and by of he was close to present him back off but they fell out after the 2017 president ial election opposition groups have failed to agree on a common candidate so far but 2 of them have said that they will Work Together in a power sharing deal there is child stratford reports now from bishkek. This video appears to show the moment a gunman tried to assassinate cue the storms former president almost back at a boy of. Only hours before hed appeared for the 1st time in public since being freed from jail by supporters during protests over last weeks parliamentary Election Results. And some boy who was jailed last year for corruption was on her in the attack the Central Election Committee an old sundays Election Results of the widespread vote buying the opposition says progovernment parties were most to blame since then kyrgyzstan has descended into chaos. Its a strange feeling nobody explains anything to us and totally confused by the situation there is a great sense of our certainty its been days now and people are afraid i dont want violence. In the early afternoon on friday bush gets a little square began filling up with supporters of various opposition parties the president s are in by june beck all said he will resign after a new cabinet these votes is by parliament but many protesters here want more than that theyre angry with politicians who they accuse of years of corruption economic mismanagement many want a whole scale change of what they describe as an old guard leadership that has failed this country and rick the elections by buying votes and theyre angry with this man saw those. Who they say was illegally made Prime Minister of the he too was freed from jail by supporters and protests. If is a full member of parliament that was serving 11 year jail sentence for kidnapping. As opposition supporters of various parties chaunceys in the square a group of his supporters ponce through the crowd of those in storms will hold many people fled. The situation in the square up until 7 years ago it was peaceful that all changed the one supporters of the new Prime Minister the claim in there were clashes the theyve now taken control of the statue the on the fold from the forces of other officers to groups that often for the majority of the rest of the city were. To power of supporters insist he is the legitimate Prime Minister yet the word that im on my only concern is that my compatriots my relatives and brothers dont realize that there were game is being played and weve seen it many times they try to impose old leaders on us we dont want that president jeenbekov has declared a state of emergency which will be voted on in an emergency parliamentary session on saturday to put them on he says its necessary to prevent omh to confrontation between rival groups many people here say their country is on the brink struck without a 0 bishkek. Well of course our other headline story this hour the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan currently holding talks in moscow in an attempt to resolve their 13 day old a conflict of the nagornokarabakh on me as leader says hes ready for peace talks but the as ery president appears to be backing a military solution to the conflict for now the disputed region is officially part of azerbaijan but its run by Ethnic Armenians seneca city reports now from the as area city of their. Its the 1st stark contact known to have taken place between our mania and azerbaijan since the new fighting broke out in the soviet republics 3 decade old conflict on september 27th. The talks are focusing on a cessation of hostilities and exchange of bodies and prisoners the moscow talks came after their survey john foreign minister attended talks in geneva with the french us and russian envoy song thursday may vary but its a miracle we are committed to a peaceful settlement of the karabakh conflict in a ready to resume the Peace Process in accordance with the recent statements of the president s and Foreign Ministers of the o s c e minsk group. But just as a talks in moscow began those original president and how mali have said there could be no peace if our media continue to insist that level in a paragraph was part of its territory that otherwise un. Will no harm will be demanded karabakh is azerbaijan everyone should know this including those in charge of armenia today i told them again that if they commit fraud after the moscow talks regret it we will take back our lanes peacefully or through war on the quickly we want to organize it peacefully we give our being only one last chance. For the last 2 days efforts to stop the fighting between our many and as our john has been held while the battles in and around the corner car about continue to rage it still remains to be seen whether this latest International Effort to achieve a cease fire while the successful. The fighting is the worst since 199194 war that killed an estimated 30000 people and ended with a cease fire that has been her critically violated. Azerbaijans says that 31 hours there is civilians have been killed and 168 wounded since september 27th it has not disclosed information about military casualties or thirtys im not going to say 370 the 6 of its military personnel and 22 civilians have been killed that day in pure. Aljazeera miniature resurveyed John Alexandra stay on of which god voight is following russias mediation efforts in moscow just remind us what it is that theyre trying to accomplish and also why theres been a bit of a delay because you are supposed to hear from the Foreign Ministers bye now. Well these talks that started in the great atmosphere and without Opening Statements from many of the ministers are now entering their 8th hour their tough and difficult talks obviously despite the goal that is announced to be achieved is not very high and that is to agree on some sort of a ceasefire so to exchange the prisoners and to collect and bring back for burial bodies or for the soldiers that got killed since 27th of september and as i said theyre talking for hours now there are some reports that there have been some pauses in the meantime probably for consultations but so far we do not know the results of these talks and this is the 1st time that any officials from other media as out of it john are sitting and talking directly to each other in this case theyre doing it with the mediation of the russian minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and these stocks are possible to happen now because of all the International Efforts to make the side sit at the negotiation table and also because there are on the invitation of russian president Vladimir Putin who is invitation is very hard to refuse for both as a demijohn and armenia which russia has a rather good relations so we are still waiting to hear what is the outcome of hours and hours of talking all right thank you very much and now alexandra stand image got freud joining me now from washington is pull strong get a bit more analysis on this story as a senior fellow of the russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace obviously the kremlin is leading the way in these negotiations between azerbaijan and armenia at the moment how sensitive is russias position in this because obviously theyre obliged to protect armenia whether any direct attack on armenia but they dont want to be seen as being pro on the near in this because theyve also managed it. Maintain a solid relationship with azerbaijan through the is. Yes thank you for having me and this is a very complex issue for russia russia has really had some difficulty over the past 2 weeks in trying to get the sides together when previous efforts previous wars have have taken place in previous fighting theyve been really able to get to knock Heads Together and get people in the room within a couple days but theres been a lot more difficult i think russia was taken by surprise and youre right russia is armenia is ally it has a lot at stake in that alliance and its credibility as a state but it also is as been keen not to let you know the as a result is get too close to the turks and have turkey increase its influence in the region but it doesnt want to alienate as a result and so its got a lot on the line and its been trying to deescalate this this. And this is the 1st indication that weve had today that some of these russian efforts might be working into at least a small extent what about what is president up to in all of this because weve seen russia and turkey pot heads in libya and syria so what is that a risk of a collision between russia and turkey in this conflict. I think there always is there is a risk of that collision is as you say i mean russia and turkey are loggerheads in syria theyre at loggerheads in libya and there is a real risk that this could become a proxy war there are reports of turkish facilitated syrian mercenaries fighting on the azerbaijani side reports of f. 16 which is on i understand that president aliyev even stated are sitting in as a result not used but turkish f. 16 s so this really does have a potential to become a sort of of a proxy fight i think thats not it either turkey or or russias interests right now. But the turks have really grown much more assertive and i think this is sort of this is a time when when russia is a little bit weaker in the former soviet space than many people expected i want to ask you about the un resting because there is a state in the agency in the country obviously and its code vacuum off to that election how how serious how serious is the risk of more violence than. Will the violence certainly escalated today the escalated very quickly and very surprisingly and i think thats deeply troubling. And this is a country that has a history of violent instability the history of sort of bottom up popular revolutions that very often are taken over by warring political elites and that seems to be what we are seeing right now but the violence that we saw today was was troubling theres a lot of looting going on and then the sort of political groups and even some organized crime groups seem to be trying to take advantage of that so its a very deeply troubling situation that is that is unfolding as we speak in kyrgyzstan and no really legitimate government to try to bring it back under control all right thanks very much. Influence on this pull strong joining us now from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace thank you. It with the news hour live from london coming up a country where the corona virus is spreading faster than anywhere else how me in my eyes trying to control it 19 and then also President Trump is set to hold an impersonal vent at the white house even though its not know whether hes still infectious. United nations World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and Food Insecurity around the globe its also been credited for its contribution to improving conditions for peace in conflict zones and preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war our diplomatic editor james bass has our report. And so we work with the people in rehabilitating allin with what we call him moves in now the head of the World Food Program David Beasley was on a trip to west africa hed been in bikini a fast so and then was in 2 countries blighted by conflict and hunger when he heard the news i mean this is the 1st time in my life a bit speechless look up to this local legal talk about the most exciting point in time in your life is the Nobel Peace Prize it is because of the w. T. Family theyre out there in the most difficult complex places on in the world with us war and League Climate extremes it doesnt matter theyre out there and they deserve this award and wow wow wow wow thank you will even before the nobel announcement some of predicted the peace prize might go to the World Health Organization but that would have been controversial the agency and its head dr ted ross are at the center of disputes between the u. S. And china with the trumpet administration pulling its funding instead another part of the u. N. Family deeply impacted by coded 19 was chosen for its efforts to call. For its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict affected areas and for acting as a driving force in to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The World Food Program has had a major logistical challenge the delivering food this year with large parts of the Global Shipping and Aviation Networks closed instead its had to find alternatives one expert told me w. S. P. Is currently probably the Largest Airline in africa the award goes to the agency for its work and to all its 17000. 00 stars. But executive director David Beasley has been a bold passionate leader repeatedly linking conflict and hunger in his speeches in the u. N. Security council it is worth the job has the 1980s always gone to an american was to be used as a former republican governor of South Carolina who knows President Trump well hes had a difficult year himself contract encoded 19 early in the pandemic but he ends it with the presentation of the award in december recognition of the agencys ever growing workload james zira of the United Nations. Well for months the World Food Programme has warned that the world is on the verge of a hunger pandemic as they say because of conflict disasters economic crisis and of course at 19 it says the number of people facing hunger could almost double by the end of the year from a 149000000 to 270000000 africa they say is the worst affected continent with 22000000 people suffering Food Shortages in the democratic republic of congo alone and then in the middle east 20000000 people there experiencing a food crisis in yemen while lebanon is experiencing its worst economic crisis ever in latin america more than 5000000 venezuelan migrant suffer from Food Insecurity but the program is facing its own funding shortfall it means that the half 1000000 beneficiaries only receive food aid every other month well earlier the head of the u. N. World food Program David beasley who you saw in the report there spoke to al jazeera about the award and said the Organization Needs money to of famine in yemen in order to be able to reach those in need. Yemen is the worlds worst disaster out of 29000000 people we see a system about 12 and a half 1000000 people on any given day it is driven nothing but by war man they conflict and people starving to death if we have the money in the access and we need both we can avert famine and we can avert death but in a place like everyone is just so much war conflict it is very complicated our people the men and women that work so valiantly at the World Food Program theyre putting their lives on the line at it every single day their lives at risk every single day whether its yemen or syria or iraq or the northeast nigeria south sudan theres a whole region where you get isis and al qaeda and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money in the access we can avert famine we can in fact reduce destabilization as well as migration but assess it but weve got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue well one of the countries about food program has been warning about is in bob ways has more than half the population that wont have enough food without help by december this off to the coronavirus pandemic compound in food supply problems blamed on droughts and a poor economy from the shona land west of reports hed be. One hit of cabbage some cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3 cups of rice is all in mukherjee has left in her kitchen she says you have to make it last as long as possible to feed a family of 8. Ninetys had we dont have much to eat there is nothing good about thomas situation we have been civilizing the Uns World Food Program says more than 8000000 zimbabweans will not have enough food by december if theres not the agent intervention thats roughly 60 percent of the population. Mel nutrition has of course something that affects mostly Young Children converting women in zimbabwe also it is a large number of people who are dealing with chronic illness of course their needs in Additional Needs are different from people who are otherwise healthy so its very important that we keep an eye close eye on those in the current circumstances basic goods and now beyond the reach of many people growing enough food is not an option for some years of drought the economic crisis rising unemployment soaring inflation and now coronavirus of hit families hard millions across the country are struggling in bud light cities and rural areas. Desperate families. Eating less she has to feed 10 grandchildren her own kids either died or left the country to look for work up an analyst in the un is involved i can only hope my neighbors take pity on us and give us food even if its their loved overs we really dont know what we are going to do. The job is cash strapped government gives food aid and a cold 1000. 00 allowance of about 20. 00 a month to some vulnerable families local officials are worried. Sick sometimes. 2 years ago i remember marriage was the situation thus if i think its a bit of a bitch back in this is kitchen the children wait for supper for straighted they grandmother says she hopes to never have to say to them one day she has nothing to give them. Aljazeera much other languages province zimbabwe. Meanwhile europe has recorded more than one 100000 coronavirus cases in one day as a number of countries struggle to suppress a 2nd wave of cova 19 france is seen a jump of more than 20000 infections for the 1st time 4 major cities are set to go into maximum within hours italy recorded more than 5300 new cases in pos day the 1st time the countrys top 5000 since march and confirmed infections in the netherlands increased by 5983. 00 on friday as the country sees a wiring spike giving it one of the highest per capita infection rates in the world well many people are criticizing the dutch government what they say is a slow response step boston has more on this now from amsterdam. A serious lack of urgency thats how critics describe the dutch governments response to covert 19 even now figures are going up at an alarming rate and are the highest per capita in the whole of europe by minnesota with us that he wants to wait another 72 hours before possibly imposing stricter measures the netherlands has this socalled intelligent lockdown that means that people can voluntarily followed the rules there are some sanctions in place though but wearing a mask for example is still voluntarily the government has only last week 5 people strongly advise people where one in public after many months of saying that it doesnt protect you against the virus so people are confused that many are still not wearing a mask so local leaders the mayor and the doctors and hospitals have been ringing alarm bells in the last couple of weeks urging the government to be more consistent be more clear and also be more strict like in neighboring countries the government is still watching it in the next 72 hours things could possibly change at the moment life is still going on as usual everythings open restaurants shops only closing at an earlier hour but again that could change after the situation in the next couple of days is going to deteriorate. Well if a the merchant has been decried in madrid as the spanish capital fight a resurgence of coronavirus cases then as the infection rate in the city is currently running twice its size the countrys National Average and 5 times as high as the european average in outland from Central Government comes after regional measures were struck down by a court on thursday beating local leaders to ask people to stay at home martorano has more now from madrid. Today the Spanish Government has declared these 15 days state of emergency duck down and will affect nearly 5000000 People Living in madrid city and 8 other neighboring cities all these people will see how in the next 2 weeks the lives will be limited this is scenario has got nothing to do what we saw back in them in march this is not going to be a Strict Lockdown but people will be see their lives limited people wont be able to leave their homes unless this is strictly necessary which means going to dump to go to work going to to buy groceries also social gatherings have been limited to private or Public Places to groups of up to 6 people and the most important is that madrid rested to explode be able to leave the city they will be able to exit or people would be able to come in so the main target of the Spanish Government was trying to contain to retain all the status madrid residents im not letting them out to go to other region sites spread the corner virus for these reasons and his government has to toroids nearly 7000 Police Officers that will be controlling and monitoring all these movements we already so right blokes in the exit main exits of madrid c. T. In the train station id also in madrid in madrid airport will have also been new cases in russia surging to an all time high that the government is saying that no new knock down is going to be needed in the country reported in rise of the 12000 new infections the Previous Daily record rise was in may when Straight National lockdown measures were in force authorities are considering closing bars and nightclubs and of advise people to stay at home over the weekend. Well man maher is reporting at least a 1000 new corona virus infections every day case numbers have been soaring for months off the country a bit too of avoided the worst of the pandemic just a month ago the country had fewer than 10 deaths are now 535 people have died scott hyder points. Officials declared an all out war on code 19 as the number of cases continue to steadily increase in yang gone myanmars largest city in the country 2nd wave that started in august new infections and deaths are increasing faster than anywhere else in the world yangons a stay at home order is in its 3rd week a member of the yangon coded 1000 control Committee Says their hospitals are struggling to keep up a city of 7000000 it only has hospital beds for 8000 will be management but in terms of covert 9000 management we have to imitate china they control group and very systematically to get things back off to the outbreak thats why we have to imitate them myanmar has one of the worlds most underfunded Health Care Systems most people initially seek care at fever clinics run by volunteers from american banks or. Depending on the situation we use or for the suspected clone a fiery speech and still hospitalized in the 1st week until the earlier days of the 2nd week but now we cant refer them to the hospitals anymore as there is no room critics say that the decision to push forward with the nov 8th election in the shadow of the pandemic favors the ruling party led by on song suchi human Rights Groups and the Main Opposition Party have urged Election Officials to delay the polling the requests were rejected the general election is just a month away we dont see any safety preparations as a citizen and a voter im afraid of going to the ballot as im afraid of the potential crowd the mbo 2020 app was launched to provide candidate information the head of the Election Commission saying it was a way to help voters amid the coded 1000 restrictions but some rights and democracy groups have criticized the app for its inclusion of categories listing the candidates race and religion and labeling rohingya candidates as bengali. But for now in addition to the growing concern about the safety and accuracy of the election the people of yangon are waiting to hear whether its safe to go back outside scotland aljazeera. Still had for you on the program democrats are spending big d. In the heart of texas a donald trump loose the life style state and deforestation has fallen in the amazon for 3 months in a row but its not all good news for the wells not just rainforest and more coming out and it. Hello there weve got proper autumn weather fading in across a good pos if europe now is a cloud tumbling in across the British Isles sliding across the country is no the policy of france Northern Areas of germany say they say weather system here this cold front thats going to continue sinking its way further south which way is coming in from the north westerly direction and it will feel a good deal colder than if we go through the next couple days as that rain band seeking further south was as it runs across the alps more snow coming in his shot was there you know just around the the cost is around about the eriks and shallow as well as balls afraid to cause northern parts of spain just around the pier in a some snow there once again into what pushing across into the austrian alps by the time we come to sunday and really heavy rain returning to croatia to see what heavy showers to across and on half of italy as we go on through sunday a cold 13 or 14 celsius there for london and paris still a little bit of warmth down towards the southeast but now when there was womans it has been recently athens at 27. 00 degrees celsius fun to draw across northern parts of africa the showers still looking quite lively across Central Africa could see some flooding over towards ivory coast towards sagada at which weather making its way across liberia and pushing into sierra leone. Stories of struggle stories of achievement. From opposite ends of europe contrasting past and stories of arab refugees seeking a new life abroad. Aljazeera well travels to australia and sweden meeting refugees and those who welcomed them. A place of refuge. And nichelle still on aljazeera. Global pandemic. Family comes 1st. For every American Health care has never been more important. Because the new disease does not favor republicans over democrats bridge over poor or black over white. America decides how to care for a nation. Extensive coverage of the us elections. On aljazeera. To combat out up stories a state of emergency has been declared in targets don as the power vacuum continues following sundays and now the election president has ordered the military on to the streets to try to end the unrest. Talks are underway to end the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan but the as area it is ruled out making any concessions in a 1st diplomatic contact between the neighbors since fighting broke out nearly 2 weeks ago and the head of the World Food Program says no one should go hungry in the well today the Organization Won the Nobel Peace Prize you will commit he said its in trying force to stop the use of hunger as a weapon. Its been announced that u. S. President donald trump will hold an in person event at the white house on saturday hes keen to get back out in whole more action rallies despite no confirmation that hes tested negative of that 1000. 00 yet youll have pushing to have an antibody drug approved quickly crediting the general with his own recovery the president says he might not have recovered without the unapproved drugs even though it was just one part of a cocktail of medications he received doctors trialing antibody treatment say they have seen a rise in the number of patients often to patisserie pain in the study despite it being too soon to confirm whether actually helps were rounding the turn on the pen democrat ill have something to say about that because im telling you we have a cure more than just a therapeutic we have a cure i was in not great shape and we have a medicine that healed me that fixed me and its a great medicine that i not got that rush it would have been in line for another year probably before they brought it out Great Company 2 Great Companies actually make it to you know make very similar things but that they both work equally well. And were going to send it were already sending it are starting the process is hundreds of thousands of viles are being sent to the hospitals all over the country people are going to get immediately better like i did i mean i feel better now than i did 2 weeks ago its crazy and i recovered immediately almost immediately i might not have recovered at all. And thats going to hes live for us now in washington and a that has been a loss of confusion about when we might next see President Donald Trump and his talk of the rally in florida on saturday what do we know now about his next appearance. Well hes going to be appearing in an interview in with fox news in a couple hours here in the United States but beyond that the white house is confirming that he will make an impersonal appearance at the white house on saturday around 2 pm local time hell be apparently speaking to a group of conservative activists that support him we dont know how many people will be there or how many will be invited theres reports that it could be as many as hundreds of his supporters invited to the white house to listen to him perhaps speak and make an appearance at this event on the south lawn of the white house and then just within the last half hour or so the Trump Campaign confirmed that he will be traveling or is expected to be traveling at least on monday to a Campaign Rally in a florida now this all comes just about 8 days after he was essentially airlifted to Walter Reed Hospital after contracting corona virus and he is not to reach that 14 day quarantine limit that the centers for Disease Control recommends that all people that are test positive for corona virus do this 14 days hes just going to be as of today 8 days into it and he has also and his doctors and himself have yet to confirm if hes even tested negative yet as of this hour so despite all of that the president will be making an appearance apparently tomorrow on saturday d as well as traveling to florida on monday for a Campaign Rally. And why is he. Pushing regenerating so much when it was just one part since the cocktail of drugs hed been receiving. Every generation is actually a Pharmaceutical Company its not actually a drug in of itself but president keeps saying that it was regeneration and general and it was it was an antibody cocktail thats made by regenerate and hes referring to he says in his words as you heard he said it cures him now why is he saying this well we know that hes been on a whole host of different antibody drugs as well as steroids and other things as well that his doctors say he was on so its unclear at least from his doctors what is helping him if he is indeed Getting Better however he claims that its this regeneration and clearly i think theres 2 things going on here number one is were getting very close to the election about 33 and a half weeks away and i think trump has been saying for a long time that he wanted a vaccine before the election its increasingly clear thats not going to happen so i think the fact that this anti body cocktail that hes been taking from regeneration is apparently in his words doing making him feel a lot better i think this is his way of signaling to his supporters that we might not have a vaccine but at least theres something that ive been taking thats making me feel very much better saying that he hopes to get this region or on out to millions of americans for free over here is the problem its still in the experimental phase and hasnt even been approved by the f. D. A. And its quite frankly unclear if its even if it is making him feel better it could be steroids or Something Else so. Wants to give the impression clearly that there is potentially something out there that could help people with coronavirus but of course the big problem is general isnt even available to anyone if we were to get sick we wont be able to get it its just because hes the president he was able to get it other than that though its not available pretty much to anybody else. Thank you from washington gabriel is on. I discuss all this some more now with dr joseph a sec ron hes the director of emergency channel surgery at Johns Hopkins hospital so from what we know of President Trumps diagnosis his symptoms his hospitalization what concerns do you have about how contagious he might be right now to keep his holding an inhouse event at the white house about whether he could potentially expose other people to the infection yeah well good evening merriment thanks so much for having me look this is absolutely worrying and in fact dangerous we have the president yet again communicating another piece of misinformation thats simply to fuses the public there is so much we still dont know about covert disease let alone the treatments about a week ago the president was given this Monoclonal Antibody cocktail that essentially as we heard from the correspondent is under a program that allows patients to take experimental drugs outside of Clinical Trials he then later received a variety of other medications including the antiviral drug does appear which was authorized in may by the f. D. A. As well as steroids so i think its really hard to see 1st of all that this is a miracle drug or a cure when its not the only thing that he received so maybe it was the record as of year maybe it was the steroids or perhaps when everybody was i mean when do you think we might of the obviously this is something the president is is very focused on perhaps obviously for political reasons we he and his chief adviser dr anthony found have been quite positive about the possibility of that being a vaccine before the end of the year thats very uncertain now when do you know how long will it take to establish whether this antibody cocktail by would general and whether or not it has helped in some way. You know what i think its silly to see the data this is still experimental and i think to simply be going out there and to be essentially saying that this is a cure i think is absolutely inappropriate we also you know have someone who you know it is having this expedited return that frankly is reckless i mean its one thing to put yourself in danger but its another when you begin public can gave that not only risk infecting other americans but its also putting their lives at risk i mean lets not forget that over 210000 americans have died from covert and would listen to what the president has said himself you know he said he was very sick and recently came off the steroids which is usually only administered to those who are severely sick with covert so i think theres a lot of unpredictability when it comes to cope with it and its hard to know if the well being is well being to be impacted over the next you dont ask its a very difficult for you homicide you know youre not the president s doctor and the white house hasnt disclosed the results of chest x. Rays all along long scans so we dont have that kind of information by not what do you all he has been giving phone interviews and his his voice is quite hoarse and then in footage that weve seen previously and seems to be quite pale what are your concerns all your general observations about his recovery from the virus. Why i think its still early to say because of the unpredictability of kobe that we sometimes see patients during their 2nd week they can become very ill and thats one of you know their concerns as hes just come off you know some of these medications and hes you know going back out on to the trailer so we hear hes going back on them trail so not only is he actually putting himself at risk but potentially other people because he still could be infectious and i think frankly theres a lot of lack of transparency thats coming from the white house medical unit as to you know has he been tested again and is that test negative and overall you know how is he feeling and what is the current status of this helps all right well thank you dr joseph the crown the director of emergency general surgery at Johns Hopkins hospital thanks so much. Well in other developments the democratic speaker of the u. S. House of representatives nancy pelosi says shes to hold talks with the treasury secretary to negotiate a long awaited kovan 1000 federal aid package donald trump says hed like to see a bigger deal than the one i the party is currently offering despite saying osprey that the treasury shouldnt go shake with pelosi until after the election takes place palosi is also looking to introduce legislation that would allow congress to intervene under the 25th amendment to remove the president from office she has question whether Donald Trumps judgment is impaired by the steroids hes been taking for the 19 and says the president is suffering from a disassociation from reality a move is unlikely to succeed though but pelosi says she hopes it will lay the framework for removing future incapacitate a president if required this is not about President Trump he will face the judgment of the voters. But he who shows the need for us to create a process for future president s this bill honors the duty by stress of creating a standing commission. Of top former executive officials and medical experts selected in a bipartisan via cameral way a president s fitness for office must be determined by science and effect on now the u. S. State of texas has been a republican stronghold for decades the last democratic contender to win it was jimmy carter in 1976 but anger against donald trump in the city and suburbs as well as a rising minority population have given democrats chance to pull off a big upset alan fischer reports from austin texas. The face of texas voters is changing their younger more diverse and that puts what was a solidly republican state in play 8 democrats are spending time and money hoping that the 2020 president ial election will bring a breakthrough the thing that were so excited here about at the Texas Democratic party from a National Perspective 3 is when you put texas you dont take control of the white house for a term you take control of the white house for a generation and we think thats worth fighting for a lot of people have been moving to texas a Strong Economy a growing tech sector cheaper property prices all driving a change in the way the state lukes and that means new voters from 14000004 years ago to more than 16000000 know an increase about the size of the entire state of connecticut its estimated there somewhere in the region of 2 and a half 1000000 registered voters in texas the Democratic Party is trying to track them down and give them a voice believing if they can do that it will fundamentally change the face of politics in texas and by extension the United States recent protests across the country have increased calls for change in america and the nonpartizan group move texas which registers people to vote says those on the streets see a path to change through the ballot box i think the black things matter protests that reenergize folks brought them back into the critical importance of voting and being involved civically i think by each match or of our organization we are seeing increases as a direct result of this protest texas went for donald trump in the last election its 2 senators a republican 22 of the 36 congressional seats are filled by republicans statistics which should be a warning to overconfident democrats the emphasis on demographics and even energy in the Democratic Party typically underestimates the ability of republicans in the state who are still very powerful very well funded and very well placed to mount. Counterresponse you dont get to just make your play and see how it works in pauls city texas will be a tight race but donald trump is still slightly ahead but that means he has to spend time money and effort surely not what used to be a safe bet for the republicans but even that may be enough to ensure texas was the election one way or another own for sure Al Jazeera Austin texas meanwhile hurricane delta is expected to make landfall in the usa of louisiana in the coming hours Authorities Say the category 3 system will bring strong winds rain and life threatening storm surge residents and businesses boarded up windows in some schools and government offices have closed the latest in a series of strong hurricanes to strike the northern gulf this year much of the region is still recovering from the last category 4 hurricane which was in august. Now deforestation in the Worlds Largest rainforest fell in the month of september for the 3rd straight month this is according to brazilian Government Data released on friday forest clearances in the amazon are 10 percent down in the 1st 9 months of 2020 compared to the same period last year despite the reduction brazils official deforestation measure for this year is expected to show an increase environmentalist bright blame president bowls and arrows for encouraging illegal loggers and ranches to destroy the rainforest. Was that the main obstacle in protecting the forests is profit making money is not an indigenous way of thinking its a european way of thinking because an indigenous person thinks about the day what they will hunt to eat on the day theres no thinking of gathering wealth for us nature will always be there but now thats threatened. Still ahead. A Family Reunion 4 years in the making a french aid worker back home after a kidnapping ordeal in mali. And commute to chaos in the u. K. Capital because londons bridges are falling down. Some news now at least 4 people have been killed and more than 20 others injured in another explosion in beirut a blast and fuel tank fire happened in one of the most densely populated districts of the capital the immediate cause of the blast is not known several fires have broken out at beiruts port since that devastating explosion in august which killed over 200. 00 people and injured more than 6000. 00 now hundreds of people across nigeria have been protesting against Police Violence police fired tear gas to break up dozens of protesters in the capital abuja demonstrations broke out after a video video circulated last week alleging to show members of the special anti robbery squad known as saws shooting a man dead but hes pledged to reform the unit including banning soft agents from carrying out routine patrols and requiring them to wear uniforms when on tutti but protest is of call for the unit to be abolished the swiss government says one of its citizens who is held hostage in mali has been killed by an Islamist Group its understood they died a month ago but the news is only just surfaced following the release of another group of hostages they included 75 year old sophia patrol in and is returned to her native france after 4 years in captivity she was welcomed by present Emmanuel Macron and her family when she landed at a military airport near paris she and her molly and molly an Opposition Leader somalia cease a were among several people released in a Prisoner Exchange deal between armed groups and mollys government but has more now from paris. So few petrone in this small in stature woman 75 years old walked down the steps of the plane as she was greeted by a man of the french president bush she soon turned towards a group of relatives who were waiting there for her among them her grandchildren and she just fell into their arms and they all hugged each other for a very very long time in fact the french president just kind of had to stand aside he had planned to make a speech but in the end there was such emotion and it was a real moment of reunion between this former hostage and her family that emanuel decided not to make a speech in the end he put out a tweet instead and just saying you know welcome back to sophie per turn and now she had spent nearly 4 years in captivity she was abducted in 2016 in december by armed groups in the Northern City of galle where she had run an orphanage you should know molly very very well she had lived there for years and obviously she has said since that she she loves the country very much in fact she considers it in many ways a home and whats interesting is she said that once shes caught up with her family and friends here one of the things that she really wants to do is actually go back to mali and visit the children in the orphanage and resume some of her work there meanwhile the African Union has lifted its suspension of mali which went into effect after president Abraham Boubacar Kate who was ousted in a coup in august it comes 3 days after the west African Regional bloc eco ass announced a lifting of sanctions following the military takeover the sanctions included border closures and a ban on commercial trade eclipse that has more from neighboring senegal. The money and authority welcomed this announcement made by the African Union reinstating mali as part of a member state on tuesday the west african body ecowas lifted its sanctions on the country which included closing off its borders and halting all Financial Transactions and on the resume of course the United Nations Security Council reinstated it supports with this government that has not been elected this government of transition in which many of the members of the military jintao that took over power on august 8th and 18th overthrowing brian burke are kate well they are part of the leadership of this Transition Team now while this president michel announced a sigh of relief after the french hostage was released remember this is the last hostage held in captivity for france well the americans continue to impose sanctions on them on the in state saying that they will stop and halt military cooperation with the transition of government and tell they hold free and Fair Elections and that will happen in 18 months time and they are unhappy that the money has released almost 200. 00 fighters affiliated to both al qaida and these law make my grip and job mountainsides of the islam while mostly mean whilst theyre unhappy in mali there are people gathering hundreds of people gathering outside some of us he says home the Opposition Leader that was freed thanks to the negotiations held by the Transition Team and for them this is a victory for the mahdi and people now theyre a vital part of londons infrastructure but the citys aging bridges and fallen into a state of disrepair several are now closed and much needed repairs cutting off ponce of the capital and so on you can go explains. This is a bridge that leads to nowhere in the leafy london suburbs its supposed to connect it has become a symbol of political squabbling between local authorities and the government the daily commute resembles an Obstacle Course with children and parents of bumping into each other over Railway Lines through only woods with no social distancing. And if its been raining this is what they face. Not just School Children who are affected elderly residents have Doctors Hospital appointments on the other side of the bridge and simply cant get there having to do 2 hour bus journeys pay 50 pounds for a taxi which had to get to essential services from this 19th century cost and construction. To the 1970 steel and concrete formation of London Bridge behind me it would appear that the citys famous river crossings are in a state of disrepair even londons iconic tower bridge had to close for 2 days recently because of a hoax with its drawbridge mechanism local and Central Government authorities cant figure out who exactly is responsible for a pairing that the british transport secretary has since all chatah schools that he shores will be decisive quick and take steps that will be good for commuters good for residents and good for business the complex and difficult part which is working out how you store a mid 19th century cost or a bridge or draw realty but to do that has be worked out great cost him with the of the best projects which in the world but you have to then have the money only Central Government has to match. It with they have until 2 weeks ago even engage to have met all but that happened all foolish but they could do in the year ago the usable sterrett are also being blamed the government reduced local thought. Budgets by up to a 3rd in urban areas that has left its mark on infrastructure all over the country and the pandemic has only wes and plateaus buried underneath this story is the fact that you know oh its used in britain and the moment mary london whose transport authority has lost its huge amounts of revenue because of 90 radically reducing passage of the trees is only the u. K. National government has the kind of resources at the moment to deliver and improve this kind of bridge the many crossings along the river thames are critical to connecting the bush capital the question is will the public purse be generous enough to stop londons bridges from falling down sunny diagonal aljazeera london. And hes our party in a couple of minutes for another full but i think i. Rewind return. 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Experts believe india is still at an early stage of infection but the lockdown has already created a humanitarian crisis and driven the Unemployment Rate for 6 to 23 percent and its also highlighted an equality religious tensions and Health Care System that isnt equipped to deal with a pandemic the following weeks one child of the peace and Mass Movement of people will accentuate the spread to the coronavirus from india cities to its rural hot. Shots fired at kurdistans former president as a state of emergency is imposed after days of unrest over sundays election. Hello im Maryam Namazie youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the Program Russia host talks to resolve the conflict over nucor no car back but as a by johns president rules out any concessions to armenia also. Is the best vaccine against