Of thef its black one most influential voices of the region. Widely respected for his efforts to mediate disputes. He rolled the gulf arab state since 2006. Before that, he steered kuwaits Foreign Policy for decades as foreign minister. He will be succeeded by his halfbrother, the crown prince, who will be sworn in on wednesday. The crown prince has always been known for his prudence, honesty, dedication, and devotion to serve for the benefit of kuwait. To be the excess essar to the best ancestor. Inhis body will arrive kuwait on wednesday from the united states. He had been in hospital following surgery in july. We look back at his life. Heorter in recent years, had become recognized and relied on as a regional mediator. States when gcc member accused qatar of supporting what they described as terrorism and imposed a blockade, it was him who intervened. The kuwaiti a mere attended to broker a settlement, urged for more dialogue, and pushed for reforms to prevent future disputes. We have discussed the situation in the country. Its an unfortunate dispute between her brothers in the gulf reason region. Reporter he was born in kuwait city in 1929. For four decades, he held the post of foreign minister. In that time, the country experienced huge Economic Growth but was also vulnerable to regional struggles. Although kuwait had supported the Iraqi Government during the decadelong more with iran in the 1980s, the then president ordered his forces to invade kuwait in 1990. More than 1000 civilians were killed and hundreds went missing. It triggered the first gulf war that same year. After u. S. Led air campaigns forced iraqi troops out of kuwait, he was closely involved in rebuilding his country. Liin 2003, he was appointed prie minister. At the time, it was widely expected that his next role would be that of crown prince. Mere died. E then a one was sworn in. Almost immediately, concerns were raised over the state of his health and sparked what appeared to be a power struggle within the royal family. After a tense nineday reign, he abdicated. The kuwaiti cabinet swiftly nominated him as the next leader, ending a major crisis. In 2015, a suicide bomb exploded in a packed mosque in the east of kuwait city, killing 28 people. He immediately rushed to the mosque despi security warnings, sharing his something with the people. In the long life coming he would miss kuwaits golden years of Economic Growth. , regionalflicts turmoil, and political crises. Skills ine end, his diplomacy and mediation will where relied on. The role he appeared to welcome and one that will be missed. The United Nations secretary general play tribute to him and said he will remember his humanitarian contributions fondly. I am deeply moved by the information i just received of the passing of this man. He was an extraordinary symbol of wisdom and generosity. Peace, a bridge forget, i will never that i witnessed his initiative and leadership in some of the most important humanitarian actions in the world. Anchor he described him as a great leader. The palestinian president said he was the big brother of the palestinian people. He said palestine is lost with his strip archer. Departure. He spent his life in the service of his people, his nation, and all humanity and he always stood by the palestinian people. Iran was one of the countries that benefited from his does diplomacy. Was theoreign minister first arabian official to react to the death. He gave his condolences. He said that he was an individual of moderation and equilibrium for kuwait. He wished the people of kuwait prosperity, stability, and advancement. He had a personal relationship with the late a mere. After the 2015 stampede in saudi arabia during the annual hodge, many iranians were killed. Hey want to send approached him at the United Nations. After which she mediated between the two countries. , the healths minister and Deputy Foreign minister, were allowed to travel to saudi arabia. Anchor donald trump says hes deeply saddened by the passing, calling him unwavering friend and partner. More on his ties to the u. S. Reporter a complicated relationship, not least because he built up a relationship with iran which did not leave many people at the white house. He built up a relationship with china. He wasnt fully on board with donald trump when he pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. He spoke very strongly about the rights of palestinian people. So there was concern that perhaps the kuwaitis were not being entirely loyal given what the u. S. Had done in the past. There was respect for the man because 10 days ago, donald trump awarded him with the legion of merit, and honors that is only given by the president and normally only given to foreign leaders. That was presented for the first time in 1991. There will be a lot of eyes in the white house to see how their relationship with kuwait develops, not just after the president ial election. Also how the relationship with the new leader develops and how it benefits kuwait and the united states. Anchor al jazeeras senior political analyst looks at some of the late leaders achievements while in power. We can say three important things. One, balance. Foreign policy that is balance. Two, stability within the country and region. Three, reform. Since he surged as foreign minister for some 40 years, he became quite the seasoned politician. Quite the seasoned diplomat. He was very careful after kuwait suffered the invasion of iraq. Making sure that kuwait always. Teers between global powers he would find a balance between iran, the united states, china. There arent many junior [inaudible] that. Ceeded in doing ,o balance Foreign Policy coupled with mediation among the various warring parties, within the region or outside of it. It gave kuwait a special role. In terms of balance and continuity, he certainly ensured that within the country, the ruling family and its relationship with the elected nationa, that it would be a Mutual Respect with the divisional flavor. The National Assembly plays its role. Plays the rolely of the executive. That worked out for a while. Worse some pressure there was some pressure for reform. Reform within the country allowing women to join the National Assembly as elected parliamentarians, even allowed for the first time the National Assembly to be questioning officials. He kept on with reform as well as with balanced Foreign Policy. Anchor armenia and azerbaijan have accused one another of firing into each others territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks. Three days of fighting threatens to turn out into allout war. In ones incident, armenia says turkey shot down one of its fighter jets in its own airspace. Thats a claim turkey denies. A contested area is at the heart of the standoff between the neighbors. It is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan. The majority of the population living in these red areas are ethnic armenian, controlled by armenian forces. These shaded areas are byognized controlled armenia. Blue are controlled by azerbaijan. The fighting is taking place on either side of a line of contact which separates armed forces from both countries. We have more. Reporter soldiers and civilians are being flown to hospitals in armenias capital from the conflict zone. The helicopters returned to bring more wounded from. Not everyone can be airlifted. This mans son is fighting for his life in the regional capital. Out soook the children they can hide or run away. We failed. One of my family members, my nineyearold daughter was killed by artillery or a bomb dropped. My little boy is seriously injured. I wife is in hospital. Shes also injured. Reporter dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured. Fighting began on sunday. Azerbaijan says its taking back towns and territory held by armenians since 1994. Armenian forces say they are holding their ground. Thing is weortant are brave, fearless, and we will go forward. We captured a lot of military equipment. We continue to fight against them using their own equipment. We do well with this. Reporter civilian men are signing up for duty and azerbaijans capital just as they are in your of a. By order of the president , people have gathered for a partial mobilization. That means it concerns men under the age of 32 and those who are considered should double for us by their profession. Reporter on tuesday, armenia claims a turkish f16 fighter jet shot down an armenian plane. 60 kilometers inside of armenian airspace. The capitals denied that allegation. Worryingit would be a new development. Turkey has already said it has prepared to help azerbaijan on the battlefield. The risk is that russia could be brought into the fighting because armenia is part of the moscow led see sto, the collective security treaty organization. Any attack on a Single Member state can be considered and an attack against all. France is calling an urgent meeting with russia and the u. S. To find a path to deescalation. The three have mediated the dispute in the past. Most intense fighting between the two countries since the 1990s. So far, the International Community seems powerless to stop it. Al jazeera. Number still to come, a of People Killed by covid19 around the world passes one million. Infections still surging in many regions. Anger and frustration at the brutal death of a young woman in india. Meteorologist conditions across the southeast of ostrow you. Some rain behind that. Plenty of clouds. The rain will sweep across New South Wales as we go through wednesday. Very widespread, pushing showers towards the city. Not quite reaching the coast. Stronger wind further to the south. Mostly fine and dry out across the west. For the next couple days, good sunshine at perth. 22 is a high. Territory,northern we could see one or two scattered showers. Showers across the southeast of queensland. Wind coming from the south. Fairly cool. Temperatures have recovered. A bit of cloud around. It should be feeling a whole lot better. 16 in auckland. 14. Up towards asia, clearing skies across japan. Showers across the peninsula with heavy rain on the south coast of china. Anchor 40 days of mourning have been declared across kuwait for the death of its amir who died in the u. S. At the age of 91. He had ruled the state since 2006 and feared its Foreign Policy for five decades. Halfbrother is due to be sworn in as his successor on wednesday. Azerbaijan and armenia accused one another of firing directly into each others territory during a third day of fighting. Unc kitty counsel has expressed concerns about the conflict and ordered a halt to all fighting. Donald trump and his challenger for the presidency joe biden will go dead headtohead for the first time in a matter of hours in the first televised debate. Biden is putting pressure on trump after recent revelations about his taxes. Releasing his own tax returns, he showed he paid more than 346,000 in taxes last year and received nearly 47,000 in refunds. His party is urging the president to do the same after the New York Times reported trump a just 750 dollars in federal taxes in 2016 and none at all intent of the previous 15 years. In cleveland,s ohio. He joins us live. What can we expect tonight in cleveland . From president trump, you can expect fireworks. Hes the one behind in National Polls and in battleground states all across the u. S. That means hes going to try to make a difference here. Joe biden is going to want to look like thadult in the room. That release of his taxes was a shot across the bow against donald trump. That was bidens way of being able to bring out cac a taxes. What weve seen, you are not paying much of them. Point onkely to be one which the two conflict. Joe bidens son hunter biden. Donald trump has made it clear hes going to go after bidens son, suggesting he got a job in ukraine, a Lucrative Energy job for which he was not qualified while biden was vice president. This was despite the fact that a republican led congressional inquiry determined that biden had done nothing wrong. We have six topics that the host picked. Among them are the economy, race, the coronavirus. Really, theres a seventh topic introduced this week when the New York Times had that blockbuster on taxes. That will be the president s taxes. Joe biden will want to keep to the topic of coronavirus when it comes to the economy. He will point out that the economy is doing poorly because 30 Million People are out of work because of a shutdown due to coronavirus. It has lasted longer because that thelikely to say president has mismanaged this whole process. If you are wondering how contentious it will be ahead of the campaign, each end of the debate, each site has been bickering. The Trump Campaign complained that biden would not agree to an inspection for devices that one might stick in ones ear. He claimed that biden wanted multiple breaks. The Biden Campaign has denied both of these things. Trump even suggested that biden should take a drug test. All of this to throw him off his game. You can expect more of that when the debate starts. Anchor how will the debate be different under the pandemic . Reporter due to the coronavirus restrictions, this massive pavilion behind me it was once a 1000 bed clinic for coronavirus. It was ultimately never used. There will only be 80 people inside because of the spacing restrictions for coronavirus. There will be no handshakes. Toryone who comes inside had take a coronavirus test. Thats how you get one of these. Reason the number one will be different than other debates is that the topic of the debate will be largely about the coronavirus. Joe biden thinks thats his most winning message that he would better manage the coronavirus. He has lots of ammunition. We will hear a lot about it during the debate, whatever the topic is. Anchor thank you very much indeed. You can watch the debate right here on al jazeera later on. On december 31 last year, china alerted the World Health Organization to a Mysterious Illness spreading in the city of wuhan. 11 days later, a 61yearold man was the first to die. Now, the coronavirus has claimed one million lives. Has callednations this mindnumbing. One in five of those deaths has been recorded in the u. S. , the work his country. It has seen more than seven william cases. 7 million cases. Almosthas reported 143,000 deaths. Nearly 5 million infections. 96,000 people in india have succumbed. 6 million confirmed cases. Latin america is the worst affected region in the world with 9. 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases. Thats being attributive to several factors including a lack of health care resources. Leaders in some nations, brazil and mexico, have flouted Public Health guidelines and virus restrictions have been ineffective in many areas due to overcrowded living conditions. Governments across europe are considering new measures to curb a resurgence in virus cases. In the u. K. , 7000 infections were reported on tuesday. The highest daily rise. Out it has been partly put down to more testing. More localized lockdowns are being ordered across the continent with germany considering restrictions on parties. Angela merkel warns that without action, there could be 19,000 new cases a day. If things continue over the next three months, we could rise to over 19,000 cases per day. What i want to convey is that this is the nature of annexed financial rise. If the doubling time remains the same, it leads to very high numbers. This underlines the urgency for us to act. Anchor hundreds of people have israels out of capital. Police say three people were arrested. Politicians have been debating a measure that could outlaw weekly rallies against benjamin netanyahu. The government imposed a second nationwide lockdown earlier this month to try to halt the spread of the virus. The country has recorded more than 234,000 infections and around 1500 deaths. Begun tos become move thousands of refugees in an effort to ease tensions. Many have been stranded there for several years, unable to travel to the mainland or further into europe. A fire on the island of less posts reinvigorated efforts to help them move on. A report from near athens. Reporter the people on board this very have been waiting for this moment for a long time. They are among thousands of refugees on greases east islands who received asylum months ago. They have not been allowed onto the mainland because there wasnt enough accommodation for them. After a fire destroyed europes biggest refugee camp earlier this month, the government decided to move them. It started with the most honorable, vulnerable. This kuwaiti bedouin has been in greece for nearly two years. Eight months ago, he and his sons received asylum. He doesnt claim to stay in greece. [inaudible] germany. Reporter these two families have traveled across asia. They intend to leave for germany where a mentally handicapped child can receive care. [inaudible] job . S your [inaudible] no job. Reporter in theory, refugees who are granted asylum are free to fend for themselves. In greece, with unemployment at 15 , its all most impossible to do. The International Organization for migration is putting these people up in hotels for six months. After that, apartment rentals will be subsidized. Proceduredynamic which started a few months ago. There are more collective efforts from the competent authorities in order for them to be transferred from the greek islands to the mainland. Reporter these are the lucky refugees who have survived dangerous crossings overland ansi. That has taken them years to reach the european mainland and receive asylum. They have years to go before they learn european languages and skills and finally integrate themselves into the workforce. The government has drawn down island refugee populations by 40 since the beginning of the year. 23,000 remain there. The government says it plans to move all of them to the mainland by christmas. It has not said where they will go or how it will help them begin their lives. Al jazeera. A new lawittens giving ministers the power to break divorce deals with the european union. The bill passed the house of commons with a majority of 84 votes. It will now be debated in the upper house which traditionally rubberstamps decisions. The u. K. Government has acknowledged the bill allows International Law to be broken. The eu is threatening legal action if britain doesnt withdraw specific measures from the proposed legislation. Written and canada have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on the belarusian president , his son, and other officials. They accuse the government of ridge rigging the election and committing violence against protesters. The Opposition Leader says Emmanuel Macron promised to help negotiate the release of Political Prisoners detained during weeks of demonstrations. He was sworn in for a sixth term last week despite Widespread International common condemnation. A woman in india has died two weeks after she was raped by a group of men in the latest case to draw widespread anger. Hundreds of people gathered outside of the new delhi hospital where the victim was being treated. Thousands of women are raped every year in india. A number of deaths have sparked similar protests. The 19yearold was from the lowest rank of indias caste system. Police say all four men accused of the attack have been arrested. I request the government to punish the accused and give justice to my daughter. They should be hanged. Theres outrage in the entire country. The minister is negligent in making decisions. The more dangerous the [mikael colvilleandersen] is everything ive heard about this place really true . Is it a little architectural wonderland . Is it a throbbing, pulsing miami of the mediterranean . Can it really be one of the worlds great lgbt capitals, here in a region plagued by violence and living under a constant threat of war . Im in tel aviv. But im also in a city that ive heard will surprise me. For more than 70 years at least, the news coming out of this region has been overwhelmingly negative. Im going to look past the propaganda and the fancy city branding, and im going to meet passionate locals who will explain to me, in no uncertain terms, their urban reality
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