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Says its turning its National Stadium into a hospital and belgium is warning of a tsunami of new cases and socialist candidate luis sad sick claims victory in bolivias president ial rerun paving the way for evermore alice to return. We begin this news hour with what seems like an imminent breakthrough in a long running dispute between the u. S. And sudan President Donald Trump says he is ready to remove khartoum from the u. S. List of states sponsors of terrorism 1st though he says it must pay compensation to u. S. Terror victims and their families this is what he tweeted great news new government of sudan which is making great progress agreed to pay 335 1000000. 00 to us. Terror victims and families once the positive that will lift sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list a long lasting justice for the American People and the big step for so that. While sudans Prime Minister is expected to make an announcement shortly the money relates to al qaeda attacks on u. S. Embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1908 sudan was placed on the u. S. Terror list in 1903 over its alleged funding of armed groups get the latest now from here but more again in to politically speaking this is a breakthrough for both of them as the details that were getting now anyway when are we likely to see the Money Transfer do we know the details of that and also where the government is going to get it. Yes indeed now one thing that the government has been saying over the past few weeks is that they have secured the money without stating specifically where they got the money from now weve spoken to some currency traders and theyve been saying that the government has been buying money off the bearer of hard currency off the parallel markets that is something that the government has previously denied but because it has not disclosed exactly where it got the the u. S. Dollars to be able to pay for that compensation nobody knows exactly where the money came from but then the other thing comes that comes is the process of of transferring that funds to the United States specifically to the victims of the terror attacks of the u. S. Embassies in nairobi and Dar Es Salaam as well as the victims of the u. S. S. Cole that was bombed of the port of ad and now the Sudanese Government say that the money is in a secure location in a bank outside the country but what needs to happen now is that the u. S. Needs to to have to meet officials and Bank Officials need to meet to agree to receive the money before they move it on to those who are who have been affected from the attack so it is still a long process to go but its definitely much shorter in terms of steps to be taken from the steps that the government has been taking over the past year this is something that they have been negotiating since this Transitional Government came to power in august and this is something that the government says is very crucial because it paves the way for the government to be able to really to receive debt relief from the International Monetary fund as well as clear its areas to pave the way to be able to get money from the International Monetary fund and the world bank so obviously we can see why its in the sudans interest one of the things that the u. S. Absolutely wanted on the table and were negotiated on this point negotiating on as part of the deal was the normalization of relations between sudan and israel now tell us 1st of all how contentious with the speech inside that and but also do we know whether it is part of the deal because there wasnt a lot of detail in President Trumps tweet. Yes we are well we spoke to sudanese officials Senior Citizens office felt here and they have stated bad the 2 issues have been dealing to this is something that the sudanese Prime Minister of the lando. Has been repeatedly stating that the 2 issues the issues of delisting sudan of the list of states sponsoring terrorism and normalizing ties with israel should not be tied together because this government is not mandated to make such a decision lets not forget that this government susan is actually that lets not forget that this government is a Transitional Government and that its only in place to lead to down towards democracy and to elections are held in 3 years time so the Prime Minister stated including during a meeting with the u. S. Secretary of state my combo here in how to whom in august he stated that the government is not mandated and therefore they are not going to take such a step now whether this is going to actually happen whether normalization is going to happen for sudan to be able to come out of its economic crisis thats something that cities Officials Say here is still a possibility because even when its left of the s. S. T. There are still many needs many Economic Needs that this government needs the country right now is facing severe fuel shortages the inflation is at 212 percent so they are concerns about how long this country will be able to survive without an economic assistance package so some senior officials we spoke to say that the normalization is not off the table if they are economic packages to come whether theyre still talks ongoing base a and that depending on how much money is being offered a how much economic assistance package is being offered and how much how great is the need of the country then we may be seeing sudan normalizing ties with israel well here i know that youre following developments there and any potential reaction there from a storage fees so we will be checking in with you over the next hours for the moment to have a morgue and in fact one of the thank you lets go to Cameron Hudson now who previously served as chief of staff to the u. S. Special envoy to sudan hes now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Councils Africa Center he joins us from washington d. C. Via skype sir thank you so much for joining us i know that youve been following this deal in a lot of detail for a while just as the news is coming in from the president s tweet what is your Immediate Reaction. Well my Immediate Reaction is this is a long time in coming sudan has been cooperating with the u. S. On counterterrorism for the better part of the past 19 years since the september 11th attacks and they have been lobbying and advocating since that time to get off of this list so i think its a its a long recognition not just for the Transitional Government but for the people of sudan to be recognized as counterterrorism partners to the United States obviously this is a political coup for both countries but particularly perhaps for donald trump weeks away from an election he wants a victory and it would be very good for them as well 20 ounce the normalization of relations with israel from yet another arab country what do you make of the statements that the 2 have been removed that this deal isnt necessarily linked to so that normalizing relations with israel how believable do you think that is. Well firstly this was a key Sticking Point for the sudanese side they did not want to have this deal held hostage to a Normalization Program with israel they felt very confident that they had checked all of the required boxes that washington had put out there for the delisting to happen and they wanted it to happen on its merits that seems to be what that what is happening right now i suspect however that we will see in the coming days or weeks an effort towards normalization on the part of the sudanese because washington at the end of the day needs to get some kind of political way and i think its a sad commentary for washington and for the trumpet ministration that it isnt a sufficient enough win for them to point to a Success Story in the horn of africa where there wasnt one before this is a region you know beset with political problems and economic problems and for us to be able to point to a Success Story should be a sufficient Foreign Policy win for this administration that it should want to triumph and trumpet that when the forgive me if im trying to pin you down on this because i know that obviously youre not youre not privy to the actual details of the steel but do you think it is likely or even possible that the u. S. Signed this deal was set and if it didnt include that normalization of relations with israel if not now in a couple of days in a couple of weeks but at some point. Yes i believe that we are going to see that i think that thats what is coming now i think that the way that this is happened so it isnt linked as the sudanese had requested they wanted it dealing but it is going to be sequenced i think and so i think what you can count on in the next few days or few weeks is some statements coming out of tel aviv and out of khartoum about conversations going on there remember that the political value to the Drug Administration of this deal erodes and essentially disappears after the november 3rd president ial election so it sudan doesnt move very quickly to meet whatever the remaining terms of the deal are this will be of less value to to the trumpet ministration and so they have a very big incentive to try to move forward quickly or be following the story closely here on aljazeera and will be hoping to speak to you again when we actually have more concrete details on the steel for the moment Cameron Hutson senior fellow at the Atlantic Councils Africa Center sir thank you. Well coming up on this news hour from london it is a disaster who would have caused more deaths or the expert who stopped the total being even higher trump shares his thoughts on americas top disease expert. And venezuelan migrants on the move again as borders reopened but now their journey is harder with colombians banned from helping them. 14000000 people thats around one in 195 people are now known to have tested positive for corona virus around the world and the true number is likely to be much higher the u. S. Accounts for almost a 5th of those cases and this heading towards a quarter of a 1000000 deaths the president from continues to say they are rounding the corner and has branded his top Infectious Disease expert a disaster in europe meanwhile more countries are returning to the sort of restrictions seen at the height of the pandemic arland is heading into lockdown for 6 weeks and wales for 2 weeks in a bid to dampen down the infection rate but a flouting of restrictions is being blamed for a Record Number of virus thats in a single day in irans 337 people died in the past day with the president saying the country was in a fight for such a bari isnt tyrone for us. One of the main reasons and that is one of also that cause of concern for Health Officials is that people are not taking these restrictions seriously in the capital despite the fact that many people are asked to stay home in the schools are closed and you verses are all closed there is still a lot of people that are going about their daily routines the malls are open restaurants are still open and they are not hearing to the words of the Health Officials who are urging people to limit their movements in the city this is also one of the reasons that one of the main reasons for that is that many people dont have the luxury of staying home they have to earn a living there is no help Financial Aid from the government thats being offered the moment so many people that weve spoken to say staying home for them is just not an option they have to make a living so the traffic that we see on a regular basis in the capital one of the busiest provinces in the country continues despite this outbreak even though people are the majority of people that we see across the city where mask there are still many people who go about their daily business and they try to earn a living in many of the taxi drivers that we spoke to say they just cant afford to stay home they have to earn their days wage because there is absolutely no help Financial Aid from the government during this pandemic well in the u. S. New corona virus infections are growing rapidly in 48 of the 50 states with hospital admissions also on the rise statistically its the world war state country with more than 219000 deaths the spike that the president claims they feed listened to the countrys top Infectious Disease expert the situation would be much worse she reports. The numbers are going in the wrong direction over 70000 cases reported just on friday of last week the highest since the us is. New cases are up almost 30 percent from a couple of weeks ago at least 17 states reported record covert cases last week hospitalizations increasing in some 39 states. Equaling new peaks in 6 states. And their worrying signs in several North Eastern states which are already adding to existing concerns in the midwest and west and all of this before the almost set of Winter Weather and whats expected to be a 2nd wave that may now have to be renamed in utah one of the worst hit places in the u. S. Overflow facilities are being prepped just in case hospitals become overwhelmed in the past month the state has reported more than 500 new cases per day that number increased in the last 5 days with over 1000 cases for day on friday almost 4000 new coronavirus cases reported in wisconsin my biggest concern about wisconsin right now is that kisses are going up hospitalizations are going up deaths are going up and yet the policy changes are still not quite in place they have weeks of infections built in already if they dont act more aggressively now its not really even clear how theyre going to go to mitigate and manage all of these actions and. This is yet there was the u. S. President at a rally in wisconsin on friday with his assessment of a coronavirus was being beaten even as his own task force want officials in wisconsin to avoid large gatherings speaking on monday the u. S. Is leading Infectious Disease experts anthony foundry confirmed what appears obvious the u. S. Is facing a new resurgence of covert 19 we have a lot of challenges ahead of us and i cant help thinking that were really you know going through a time thats disturbingly anti science and certain segments of our society and ultra provided more evidence to back up that conclusion just before fouty spoke saying this in a Campaign Conference call a few hours earlier people have tired of curve and people are saying whatever just leave us alone people are tired of hearing from the tree and all these idiots we listen to him we have 700000 or 800000 deaths from adding in regards to foundry every time. He goes on television theres always a bomb but theres a bigger bomb if you fire him troubled also been scathing about democratic president ial candidate joe bidens response to the pandemic over the weekend well listen to the scientists found on monday biden responded with a one word tweet yes. Well countries across europe are taking Emergency Action in a desperate bid to halt the rapid spread of the virus there poland has transformed its National Stadium in warsaw into a covert Field Hospital belgium is shutting bars and restaurants and both are low and then wales are heading back into short periods of lockdown at the reports on the tough the stations being taken across the continent. In ireland is elsewhere covered 19 is causing real fears for the winter months the countrys just recorded more than a 1000 new cases in 24 hours now the governments approved the highest level of restrictions for a limited generation people will be asked not to leave their home except for exercise nonessential shops open shot with restaurants only operating takeaway and delivery services. Wales has taken a big step down its own path the devolved government is starting what it calls a 2 week fire break from friday the type of restrictions last seen back in the spring between friday the 23rd of october and the 9th of november everyone in wales will be required to stay at home this means working from home where ever that is possible and the only exceptions will be critical workers and jobs where working form home is simply not possible the worlds government says the measures need to be short and sharp to fight an exponential rise in covered 19 cases its offering almost 400000000. 00 in support for businesses affected. Well the u. K. Has europes highest covered death toll belgium has the worlds 2nd highest toll per population is there a warning of a tsunami of new cases always images of its all directed to sum up infections are doubling every 8 days and hospitalizations are doubling every 7 days on tuesday oct 13th we reached 12051 new infections this figure is the highest figure ever late so far bars and restaurants across belgium and ill shut for an entire month and a nighttime curfew starts on monday this Restaurant Owner says he understands the moves. The virus will keep spreading of people are not disciplined in some other countries people are behaving and they can see the end of the tunnel but here people are not disciplined. And in italy theyre also bringing in new measures including earlier closures for bars and restaurants and a push to increase working from home the aim is to avoid the need for a true lockdown across the continent rising numbers of coronavirus cases in hospital admissions reigniting the debate over how far to close down society and for how long. At least half of indias 1300000000 people are likely to have been infected with by february thats according to a new government report medical experts hope this will slow the spread of the disease and the worlds 2nd most populous country so far india has reported 7 and a half 1000000 cases 2nd only to the United States the actual figure is likely to be way higher owing to limited testing but the figure is slowing after a peak in mid september. Chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat is in Critical Condition in an israeli hospital where hes being treated for complications after catching cold at 19 erica is on a ventilator and has been placed into a medically induced coma after being taken to hospital on sunday the 65 year old has a history of respiratory problems and received a Lung Transplant in the u. S. 3 years ago. Lets go to bolivia now where unofficial early results suggest socialist candidates in the south say has one son this president ial election is from the party of former president they were more or less always forced into exile after last years disputed vote and now hopes to return to the country many hope are says victory will signal the end of a was here as that is suborn now reports. Hes an economist and for many the man behind the livias economic growth. Despite enormous Political Polarization here resurfacing bolivias elected president promised he will rule for all. Of us we have been saying we are going to govern for all bolivians we are going to build a government of National Unity theyre going to build unity in our country. And assist likely election victory bring stability following a year of political strife since former president evo morales was forced to resign and go into exile. Though the official counting is ongoing interim president jannie 9 years has already had knowledge of the unofficial result and said she hopes odyssey will rule for everyone. Former president evo morales said the election means a return to democracy. We have recovered the homeland we will recover stability and progress we will recover peace faithful to the inheritance of our ancestors we will return millions to freedom and the unity of the believe him people thank you the election doesnt end bolivias troubles the economy is expected to contract around 5 percent ask over 1000. 00 continues to hit this and the nation. More or less socialist party faces staunch opposition in cities such as sunday. But on the streets of the administrative capital past there is hope that the election will put an end to a tumultuous year out of. The one. Who has led the economy of the country for 14 years and he moved the country there hasnt been hunger there hasnt been poverty hes been good economic stability you trust that colleague who will lead will. Be elections in well maybe ive had a strong impact in latin america because it vindicates it will more or less his socialist party and many of the reforms he carried here in argentina precedent how well a promise said that the results in bolivia i mean a lot to those who defend democracy on the continent and that its an act of justice. Bolivias electoral tribunal has 7 days to announce the official results but for many it will confirm what everyone already knows and imperfect return to power for the Movement Towards Socialism Party with the legitimacy granted by millions of voters. Lets talk more about this with penalties for the professor of latin American History at rest to say its institute of technology whos been acting as an independent Election Monitor in bolivia and she joins us now from madam thank you so much for joining us here on out so from or you witness as an Election Monitor how much do you think the past year of unrest impacted the people who went to the polling stations. I think it had a key impact them and one of the things that you could sort of sense was possible with a climate that the elections were carried out under a climate that was tense uncertain and there was a degree of anxiety it felt like people were wondering if the boat would indeed be honored the outcome of the boat would be honored given that for 11 months the population have lived under a series of repression journalists have been. Jailed. Members of the mosque party have been persecuted and sometimes attacked so in that sense i think that had a major influence in there in how the boat turned out and do you think from what you phobos during this election but the events that weve seen in bolivia previously do you think that this vote will be honored. I hope so i think there are some good signs in that respect the fact that i knew this has already recognized that it that even though the official count theres a now that id say is the winner the fact that that message has also recognize this and just as importantly the organization of american states which played a major role in just define the coup 11 months ago by by by stating that there had been drastic irregularities in implying that there had been fraud by my girl the head of the always yes and also acknowledging the back door i think those are all good signs that that that that it will that muscle indeed be allowed to take office so i guess loose the stability was probably the aim of most people voting in one shape or another but the you think the results of those pave the way for the possible return of a moralist. I think i think stability was important but i think it also is an indication of the project that the must lead and what alice as president for 14 years a project of drastically reduced poverty a part to that of knowledge the rights of Indigenous People who in this country make up between 40 and 60 percent of the population a project that nationalized industry so to that extent i dont think its just a desire to return for stability i think its a desire to leave turn to the benefit seen by the majority of the population especially the poor for those 14 years and in that sense it i think it does pave the way for the return of them or to a lot more dollars especially since the charges against him so addition and terrorism are a spurious to say not least then at least for the professor of latin American History at mit and also acting as an independent Election Monitor in bolivia madames thank you thank you. Guineas Opposition Leader has claimed victory in the president ial election before any results have been announced so all of them a party the ploy thats own election observer store around 15000 polling stations but even give any figures to back up his victory claim is the main challenger to incumbent president out there who is bidding for a 3rd term after changing the constitution to allow it a move that caused that deadly protests they call a sock is following the developments from dhaka in neighboring senegal. There are celebrations in full on the neighborhoods in downtown cannot create after the announcement made by opposition candidate said new delhi and jello. Without offering a proper tally he says hes won the majority of the vote and is the new president of guinea. In spite of the anomalies that marred to tally on sunday and in beautifully so it came out of the ballot boxes im victorious in this election in the 1st round but president has yet to claim defeat in fact his Prime Minister made a statement after several local journalists were arrested because they had made public the tally at certain polling station hes warning the public not to do so to leave it to the Election Commission to make the facial announcement Public Comments in both camps should be controlled to avoid adding fuel to the fire well a few election observers were present during a vote that brought out a Record Number of unions many of them 1st time voters well the United Nations says its closely monitoring the situation in guinea fearing a post electoral crisis as giddy awaits the Election Results the secretary general urges all political leaders and their followers to maintain the peaceful atmosphere he encourages all to patiently await the announcement of the official preliminary results and to resolve any potential dispute through established legal channels Security Forces have been deployed in downtown cannot create a quell unrest the 82 year old president who amended the constitution despite widespread protests is unlikely to accept this announcement from his opponent they have been at it twice before and so theres a real sense that this political crisis could escalate into violence and of course caught in this are the people who want to see a peaceful transition of power. Well try to calm in this news hour including no country has weaponized its Cyber Capabilities as maliciously and irresponsibly as russia the u. S. Charges 6 Russian Military officers over alleged hacking attacks on crane the Winter Olympics and the French Election and imprisoned for doing their job u. S. Politicians urged egypts president to free jailed journalists. Hello flash flooding in western turkey this cloud here its moving slowly on but its a slow eastwood progress is sort of pushing up into western russia and then europe well theres a certain amount of cloud but the obvious active area is out here this circulation in the east in atlantic which would use a lot of very of portugal and then spain it will produce a secondary low over ireland so youve got blue here showing the rain orange the heavy rain which concentrates on portugal inducing something of a warm flow warm southerly wind which for october is probably quite welcome so if you havent got the right you might have some warm sunshine for example are picked munich as a place which gets up to 20 or 2101 so the average is 14 so we are well above where the last of course but its there for a few days and its true for much of western europe 30 dry for the south coast you still got the showers and catching the northern part of libya and we have seen is a fairly big showers recently in good even worse specially sierra leone and the gonna they will carry all they come in phases still they still got the potential to produce hurricanes when it gets the atlantic but for africa its just ready. Trust is fundamental to all our relationships we trust banks without money talk to us without really personal details what happens to trust in a world driven by algorithms as more want to stations and made for us by these complex piece of code the question that comes up is inevitable can we trust algorithms in the 1st of a 5 part series ali rate question as the neutrality of digital deductions trust me im an algorithm on a. Building a wall was the promise made in the bid for the white house 0 tolerance approach the southern border became government policy detaining children and separating families the stark reality of picture too much to bear for Many Americans in a country that was built on immigration. Follow the key issues of the us elections on aljazeera. Welcome back heres a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. Government is expected to remove sudan for me sponsors of terrorism President Donald Trump says the move will take place. Merican victims and their families cope with 19 infections of past 40000000. 00 globally that total is jumped by 10000000. 00 in just the past month more than a quarter of the infections are in latin america while iran is experienced a Record Number of deaths. And countries across europe are taking Emergency Action in a desperate bid to stop the rapid spread of the virus arland is the 1st country to reenter lockdown announcing a 6 week closure whales will shut down for 2 weeks. As boarders across latin america begin to reopen after months of coronavirus migrants from venezuela are back on the move millions of people have fled the economic and political crisis there to seek a better life abroad but the pandemic is making their journey harder and joins us now from his border with venezuela so explain to us how specifically the pandemic is making a very difficult situation even harder. Yes barbara well to begin with actually the border between colombia and venezuela remains closed it has been closed since march when the corona virus arrived in this region of the world and there was a major reduction in the number of migrants fleeing their country during the height of the pandemic but as the economies have been reopening both here in colombia and in other countries in the region like to they are on the move again as you were saying in your introduction many of them are crossing. It is estimated that anywhere between 5600. 00 venezuelan migrants have been entering the country in the last 10 days every day theyre doing so through the socalled structures which essentially are illegal border crossings that are very dangerous and most of them are controlled by drug traffickers or other groups that in most cases charge the migrants to cross into colombia a little they have been once theyre in colombia they then start walking for days or weeks to reach their destinations either in colombia or in other receiving countries and that trip that has always been extremely treacherous is even more difficult now essentially for 2 main reasons 1st of all there was a neck. And neck of humanitarian assistance to help them along the way that doesnt exist anymore and secondly in general the environment has become more hostile against them because people dont give them lift anymore because they fear they might be carrying the virus and also local authorities dont want them to stop in their towns and cities along the way. Each step harder than the last listers in fatigues alburys family still lives. Soldier on including their 4 year old son whos to young to walk theyve been walking for 8 Straight Days from their hometown in Central Business where theyve made it to colombia but are still 700 kilometers away from their destination but. Want to. Coffee we just want to do whatever construction mechanic anything to a place to be able to give food to my family i for the past 6 months could be 1000 pouring 100 slowed to fly to venezuelans to a trickle but as economies reopened paos and have hit the road again in a new phase of one of the Worlds Largest exodus the pandemic is making their journey even more treacherous if you think that the border closed. Or stopping migrants telling them to go back to the one. That weve been walking for days we have nothing to go back to this man says i and most shelters in soup kitchens along the way have been shut by officials trying to prevent gatherings i 2300 meters above sea level hundreds are sleeping on sidewalks braving cold temperatures there used to be 4 shelters here but none have been allowed to reopen. Colombias immigration story to believe for at least 200000. 00 and for me grants to the country but. I advocate say ill prepared to deal with their arrival. Center neighbor martha had converted their homes to offer hundreds food and shelter that is now they are forbidden even to lend their mats to sleep in the street but theyre still doing what they can to help again this is. They need food the babies need milk or diaper the women need a place to change decently but we cant offer this because they found it helping is a crime now but if the government wont do it well continue. Its nightfall though tory does make the rounds to ensure nobody is sheltering migrants. While some pay whatever day have left even food for a truck to illegally get them relief yes 1. 00 can not be allowed to go after 12 hours on the road then his family also made it to pump only to find the shelter closed. I dont know when we will do i guess just the here on the street because what other option do we have no tories are doing all they can to keep be nice waylands from coming but the forces encouraging the migrants to flee poverty and hunger are much stronger. A listener you mention their poverty and hunger of course is very often the Drivers Behind the push but im wondering if the fact that now a lot of migrants from venezuela cant even rely on the help of ordinary people on their path they would have helped them is that the parents in any way or is news of it even making it back to venezuela from what you know. Well definitely part of the terrorists but of course there is a large number. Who want to leave their country their conditions inside venezuela become even worse every month really it seems like the Economic Situation continues to worsen inside. Its very difficult for them now to restart this journey because of the difficulties along the way because the border is still closed and actually colombia was planning to reopen on november 1st but they said now that instead it will remain closed for the foreseeable future at least theyre saying jail the conditions are in place to receive a huge amount of migrants they believe 200000. 00 might try to come into the country even with the border closed between now. And the end of the year and the colombian government truly fear that if they do in the reopened then the numbers would be even higher during the height of the pandemic roughly 100000 venezuelans who were living in colombia gone back because they lost the casual job they had they were unable to continue to pay their rent but the great majority of those who left said that they would have try to come back when things had improved so definitely what colombia needs to do and now with the help of the International Community is to rebuild to the kind of you many theory infrastructure that was in place for dam at least when they entered the country to be registered to take in. Their Health Situation it sets it up but theres no doubt that the larger numbers will try to reach their destination across the continent in the coming weeks and months alyson the rampage he with the latest there on the colombia venezuela border alison thank you. For millions of people migrate around the world every year but the pandemic has caused that flow to start drying up the number of new residency permits granted by countries in the organisation for Economic Cooperation and development fell by nearly half in the 1st 6 months of the year the biggest drop ever recorded early estimates suggest that the number of people claiming asylum plummeted in europe that figure was down a 3rd compared to last year Seasonal Workers were among the few people to travel but numbers were down sweden for example so far fewer thai barry pickers arrive as they were warned against leaving their own country and the lack of migrant medical workers has been felt acutely around a quarter of doctors and one in 6 nurses in the o. E. C. D. Come from abroad. Chiles president Sebastian Pinera has joined the Church Leaders in condemning the burning of 2 churches during antigovernment demonstrations on sunday evening the clear of operation is underway in the capital santiago but the historic. And son borneo were both heavily damaged the president said 10 tens of thousands of people had demonstrated peacefully ahead of next weeks referendum on the constitution and he blamed what he called a minority of criminals. A record nearly 30000000. 00 americans have already voted in next months president ial election early voting is just kicked off in florida thats a key state which could decide the race hundreds of cute outside polling places this pipe or whether florida and its 29 electoral votes are seen as a must win for President Trump the latest Reuters Ipsos survey shows him trailing democratic rival joe biden by 2 Percentage Points in that state. And the democratic Vice President ial nominee is on the ground in Florida Holding a driving Campaign Event in orlando senator kemah harris urged her supporters to stand up and fight what she described as trumps attack on democracy it was her 1st appearance since she temporarily halted all Campaign Events after members of her team tested positive for corona virus you know when we see these examples of people trying to make it difficult for folks to vote and its happening all over the country people trying to suppress the vote donald trump trying to confuse people. About the integrity of our Voting System trying to suggest that you cant. Why are these powerful people trying to suggest we cant trust the system putting in place laws that are designed to suppress the vote trying to merge the voter rolls trying to make it difficult why are they doing now. And the answer of course we know is this. Because they know when we vote we win. U. S. Investigators say Russian Hackers targeted the Winter Olympics ukraines power grid and the french president ial elections and they cost american businesses nearly a 1000000000. 06 military officers and alleged hackers have been charged by the u. S. Justice department for what it called the struct of and disruptive actions prosecutors say the group from the g. R. U. Intelligence agency also targeted investigators looking into its poisoning of the former agents in the u. K. And the British Government says the geo you conducted cyber of a coma since to target the organizers of the upcoming tokyo olympics. As this case shows no country has weaponized its Cyber Capabilities as maliciously and it responsibly as russia wantonly causing unprecedented Collateral Damage to pursue small tactical advantages and fits of spite. The defendants in this case were all members of the military unit 74455 of the russian Main Intelligence Directorate known as the g. R. U. More than 50 u. S. Politicians are calling for egyptian president of the fattah elsisi to release imprisoned activists and journalists members of u. S. Congress have written a letter urging him to free prisoners whove been unjustly detained for exercising their fundamental human rights egypts government has cracked down on the cent since sisi led a military coup in 2013 overthrowing the democratically elected government well our journalist Mahmud Hussein is one of those detained in egypt he was arrested in 2016 while on a personal visit to see his family and is now being held for nearly 1400. 00 days without trial aljazeera is urging the egyptian authorities to immediately release him and other detained journalists 65 European Parliamentary members have signed a letter urging the e. U. To downgrade its attendance and next months virtual g. 20 summit in saudi arabia the letter says the bloc should not legitimize saudi arabias human rights abuses this month the European Parliament voted to downgrade its participation to a senior official level and urged for sanctions for those behind the killing of journalist. Mark carrabelle is a member of the European Parliament who signed the letter he says the saudi arabia needs to end a number of human rights violations. So you had to be. The obvious shoulder government say that. And said b. S. That said that they have to to improve and to want to improve their image but in the reality we see that d we have some problems and for example do d we mention in the this result lucian the best intuition of the Migrant Workers and by good citizen coming from eritrea in the camps but also or mrs doolan some activists or saw a member of the royal couple the prince of saudi man or prince of jail but also the right to. A human the activist human rights activist still in jail. Still ahead in this news hour the home front war effort armenian volunteers do their bit in the battle for the quarter kind of back and thats thailands Prime Minister urges protesters to rally peacefully the government looks to clamp down on social media. I am. I am. Fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed nagornokarabakh region has killed another 900. 00 soldiers despite the latest cease fire armenia says 729. 00 of its soldiers have now died since the end of september when fighting flared over the region a 2nd humanitarian truce came into force on saturday night but both sides accuse each other of breaking it within hours of his internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic armenians. Well civilians in armenia are volunteering to help frontline troops in any way they can as are a challenge reports from the capital. Strip by strip not by not theyre hoping to save lives the women and teenagers in this year around school are making camouflage netting to send to the front lines theyre volunteers part of armenias home front war efforts and there are scenes like this all across this small country restarted battle platforms were seeing a set they tell for a lot and a great source picoult across all of the cross because i want to stay here i dont want to do more. The further is there and its obvious why everyone is affected by this war in some way here is a translator and teacher and asked her students who they knew at the front there this this. Brothers fathers uncles cousins friends childhood friends colleagues and every day we come to class their eyes are red my friend i had my brother that we had one of our president s one of my students days that although they insist on media wants peace and will ultimately be victorious theres a sense here that things arent going well people in armenia are aware the conflict has changed since the war after 990 s. Many of see those videos of drawings picking off groups of young soldiers i dont even know whether these nets can protect their troops against such things but they are hoping. Armenia and azerbaijan are supposed to be respecting a humanitarian ceasefire but azerbaijans president said on monday that is very forces had regained 13 villages near the azerbaijan iran border from armenian control and azerbaijan said armenia shelled a factory in the town of terror well beyond the new going to carry back line of conflicts hopes for peace rose late on monday when a leader and armenias Prime Minister nicolas passion agreed in principle to meet in moscow. But the fight over nagornokarabakh has deep roots nora more of the young is one of many armenian artists raising money for the disputed region by selling their work for gibraltar doesnt run amok in the longer during the 1st war my sons were small 10 to 11 years old now they are mature men and our motherland is still in the same fatal situation im an optimist but when evil wants to enter your home even i sometimes lose my optimism azerbaijan says its fighting to expel armenia from azeri land or media says its fighting to protect ethnically armenian nagornokarabakh either way most say theres more fighting to be done to reach alans aljazeera youre a ban on media the u. S. Special envoy to afghanistan says renewed violence is threatening talks aimed at ending the countrys 18 year war so my halles are that the scribes the violence says distressingly high the taliban says it will end attacks in Helmand Province if the u. S. Stops air strikes in the area on sunday at least 13 people were killed in the west of the country by a suicide car bomb on talks between the Afghan Government and the armed group are underway in counter 6 of the key is a spokesman for afghanistans president he pins the blame on the taliban. They arent you know im looking at the organs of a deliberate opens up a. Look at these. Illegal immigrants that the both these bigos with explosives and the targets government offices so theres not. A big claimant or deny it we know about who are behind bars and thats the dollar of course these are bags is against the commitments they claimed they are doing something in the Peace Process so the violate the terms of that agreement that they made with the us in the february heavy rain in Southern India has caused major flooding in the city of hyderabad rivers overflowed submerging homes in the city the un seasonal rain has damaged vital crops including rice and cotton at least 60 people have been killed in southern and western india by collapsing buildings electrocution and drowning since wednesday in what the bodies of 800. 00 soldiers have been recovered after a landslide hit their barracks in Central Vietnam another 4 troops are still missing more than 90 people have been killed by floods and mudslides there in the region since the start of this month 30 people remain unaccounted for hundreds of rescuers have been dispatched by the military to search for the troops and more than 120000 houses have been submerged and schools have been closed. There are concerns that Thai Government is attempting to censor social media in an effort to end the ongoing student protests thousands of people were out for a 6 the day and bangkok demanding Prime Minister prize chair not just step down they also want a more democratic constitution and changes to the monarchy the Digital Ministry says its identified 300000 pieces of content mostly from facebook that have broken the law over the past week. What the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the juicy of all types people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to compromise as much as possible i want to ask the protesters for a few things dont destroy government and private property dont do anything wrong and most importantly dont let there be fighting scott had louise in bangkok and says the protests are developing a rhythm. This protest is in the custody district of bangkok now this is one of 3 that were announced very late in the afternoon on monday and within 90 minutes we were hear of that announcement there are people showing up already in their hundreds it is swollen to more than a couple of 1000 now again there are 2 other locations within bangkok again announce at the same time there are 6 across the northern part of thailand also being held on monday evening now its interesting how the organizers of the protest are doing this now theyre announcing the protest location time late in the afternoon and the people come out very quickly now whats interesting is that theyve said the protest leaders to protest organizers that everybody is a leader so everybody is participating and you can see that here also something thats interesting is that theres a very light if no Police Presence thats something thats kind of transitioned over what we saw obviously of last friday evening but one thing that the protesters are saying here theyre going to maintain this level of protesting to put pressure on the government. The only thing government can do is to keep coming out to show that we are not happy with the government that have the money came the form is another important change perhaps the most important one in the past the monarchy paid an Important Role behind many coups earlier in the day type police have said that theyve ordered a regulatory body to investigate for Media Outlets for possible infractions of spreading false information and also spreading information that could incite violence now this is tied to that emergency decree that came out early thursday morning also part of that decree is a ban on gatherings obviously thats something the protesters are ignoring and saying theyre going to continue to ignore. Prodemocracy activists in hong kong have held a solidarity rally outside the thai consulate activists chanted fight for freedom stand with thailand and stuck posters on the buildings windows reading release detainees demonstrators have been using similar tactics to their hong kong counterparts as bangkoks protests intensify using coded hand gestures and encrypted messaging to outmaneuver Police Hong Kong protest leader joshua wall urged the world not to kowtow to authoritarian regimes. Thailand is not the place only for us to have our trip. Just for our trouble purpose animal. People in hi its also a place to really inspire. Fight for freedom and we urge the world to stand with activists and protesters who are under greater pressure. Find out more on that story and Everything Else that weve been covering on our website the address on your screens right now aljazeera dot com you can see our top story there the u. S. To remove that from the state sponsors of terrorism list if saddam paid 335000000. 00 along with that in a few minutes joined by. d held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied the right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against aljazeera correspondent mark new saying this crime journalism. To demand more neutral links and voice solidarity it all detained journalists sign the petition. Thank d. You sam. Cut through the noise figure back up were injured in the interim through hours and listen journalists are going to far away tell this story one of the problems that there are just really are a lot of people of color who are making the 1st print run right political the fact that it works the rest of farmdale pretty nervous because the nerd work table large the listening post monitors and in tougher its the media on aljazeera. Decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theatre was once a testament to the citys grandeur but tickets later the theater has become a symbol of moneyless dickie now the Philippine Government is changing their government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. But rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts seem manila has never truly recovered. President trump says the u. S. Will remove so than from its list of state sponsors of terrorism once it compensates american victims and their families. Alone Barbara Starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up as confirmed coronavirus cases around the world pass 14000000 irans suffer as its most thats in a single day our london wales meanwhile announced new corner of our us lockdowns poland says its turning its National Stadium into one hospital