A new government. Never told you before. The end of a 4 year kidnap or deal a french aid worker was released as part of a Prisoner Exchange with an Al Qaeda Linked group and mali. And iran accuses the Trump Administration of conspiring to starve its people as the u. S. Imposes new sanctions on iranian banks. Russia has invited the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan to moscow for peace talks is the latest effort to end the increasingly violent conflict over the region of the go in a car back mediate says from the u. S. Russia and france have also been holding talks in geneva to find a resolution. Armenia accuses forces of shelling the historic holy savior cathedral in nagornokarabakh on thursday armenia says several journalists were injured in the strikes on the cathedral wish knocked over pews and left rubble strewn across the floor hundreds of people have died in the fighting over the past 2 weeks the disputed territory is officially part of azerbaijan but is controlled by Ethnic Armenians we have reporters in both azerbaijan and armenia byrne and smith is in doris and standing by in banda azerbaijan bernard lets talk to you 1st weve got this invitation from the russians is there been any response from the armenian side. Laura armenias foreign minister tells us it will make a decision in the next hour or so whether zora minutes or canyon the foreign minister here will travel to moscow although invitations by the russian president to leaders and Leadership Teams in former soviet republics are not invitations that they would generally turn down anyway we expect a formal decision as i say within an hour here on the ground its been quieter there was some bombardment of stepping back this morning i am told but overnight less intensive and thats the pattern weve seen really this last week it started getting intense last sunday with increasing intensity as they hits more and more targets with more enduring frequency within Nagorno Karabakh from sort of about wednesday on it started to calm down it got karma still bombardments going on on the line of contact between armenia and azerbaijan remains very tense but again karma throughout all of this as the diplomatic efforts ramp up to try and bring the whole to this fighting the human cost of this on both sides of the divide is also mounting. Is interesting on the whole. Theres not been much time for anything else but dealing with new casualties and stepping curts main hospital its 10 times busier than normal since the 1st shells started falling 11 days ago the head of the emergency unit was telling us as this patient came in. More than 350. 00 armenian soldiers have been killed and hundreds more injured since the start of fighting with azerbaijan theres aries do not release figures for their killed or wounded soldiers. Some of my friends were injured in our 1st and 2nd wars and i can say that then we had more gunshot or other like williams now they using different types of missiles and the wounded have injuries but we have not stood still in medicine has improved so we try to save lives and human organs and not leave people with disabilities the stress is etched in the faces of the medical staff here the human cost is mounting on both sides after the collapse of an easy 26 year long ceasefire this modern hospital and stuff and i heard has been or stretched to the limit by the bombardment of this town daily convoy of people injured. During the fighting and the bombardment. Armenian missiles have hit towns and villages in azerbaijan well away from the conflict zone this is barda around 20 kilometers from the line of contact that separates nagornokarabakh from azerbaijan. And this is gone boy more than 30 kilometers away. Karabakh is azeri territory but has a selfgoverning Ethnic Armenian majority. Wants to restore its sovereignty there. Good for more than day and it will look good on the show fragment came and hurt my arm and also killed the animals as you can see we are staying at home women and children we have not left we are not going to run away why should we leave our lands. Russia france and moscow have been holding talks to try and bring about a ceasefire but with tensions rising between armenia and azerbaijan the hopes of sima shattered as the missile debra littering the streets. Burdett smith aljazeera stepan could go in a car about lets go over to azerbaijan we can speak to sit in kosovo shes in cinemas any indications that the area is ready or willing to speak to the armenians in moscow so far we havent heard any official statements by the foreign you or other or special sources laura d but what we know is that currently the foreign minister of azhar bait john jake and barbara mo is still in geneva and he hasnt returned baku yet and there are no news as i said on the Defense Ministry or on the. Newspapers which suggests that he will be going to moscow today apparently when the for when the talks are 1st and know once the decision from all sides was that was it even a suit goes to geneva Iranian Foreign minister goes to moscow but a few days in mitigation by kremlin things might change. Ok jim many thanks for that update from by john that brings them other news now and kyrgyzstans president says he will resign once a new cabinet is appointed upon what has so far failed to get enough members together to agree on who should be Prime Minister just as for the resignation of the government on tuesday theyre angry over a disputed Election Results have since been an old russia says it is a blind by a security treaty to prevent a total breakdown in kyrgyzstan stratford is in the capital bishkek he says moscow is playing a key role in kyrgyzstan. It seems like russia is very concerned about the situation here it seems that it is indorsed a man as head of security here a man that. Basically took over the position himself only a couple of days ago in all this chaos but its an indication traditionally just how serious russia is taking the situation and lets not forget that russia has big interests in kyrgyzstan geo politically and in terms of investments as well russia has a big military base here as well which we understand security was losing cristiano in recent days around there also has interests in the gold industry a gold mine that is trying to be set up by the russians seem to say flooded by putin is a very concerned about how this situation could deteriorate and it seems as if hes ranged jeenbekov in the president here in and said look youve got to play by the law him to play by the constitution in order to have a further chaos and it seems like being back over is this thing. I could not politician and french have landed in malis capital bamako after being released as part of a major Prisoner Exchange the hostages had been held by an alliance of groups linked to al qaeda has the story. The end of their ordeal. Wrapped in a white scarf is french aid workers so people are not free at last after spending almost 4 year hostage in the hands of al qaeda affiliate fighters in northern mali as desert. Shelter 51 year old son sebastian. He had lost hope of ever seeing her alliance. Between and says to her son they held me for almost 4 years you were there with me i could hear you say hold on dont give up here among those released are also italian missionaries Somalian Army soldiers and opposition leaders who say all were held by armed groups affiliated to al qaeda. I want to think the new authority in mali which changed during my captivity Vice President ame president was sworn in on the 25th of september and the next day my abductors asked me to see the proof of life video the president was a fish and and quake. Outside hundreds chant sumi champion. The beagle carrying she say is mauled by his supporters young position leader was abducted near his hometown during aprils parliamentary elections despite months of negotiations kate his government failed to bring his release critics of the former president says this was intentional the new government of transition set up by the military that overthrew kaita orchestrated the hostage release with the help of french Intelligence Officers in exchange almost 200 alqaeda affiliate fighters held in mali and prisons early east earlier in the week despite the exchange fighting between armed groups and the money an army as well as 14000 french and u. N. Troops continue in the center of the country. Under pressure from the United Nations the government of transition also released dozens of political officials held after all. This is cute including former Prime Minister billy c. C. Weeks after taking power balis new leadership is proving that it can succeed and deliver where the former regime failed bringing to an end for some the anguish and suffering that so many are experiencing in. Nicholas hawk aljazeera. Has has announced theyre on an all out war on kind of 19 is the virus infects at least 1000 people that day. And the program is warning more than 8000000 people are risk of starvation in zimbabwe. How low we have got more wet and windy weather blustery weather streaming in from the atlantic but hopefully the rain not quite as persistent as it has been recently and one thing we will notice here is this is going to cool off behind they spawn of rain that will sink his way further south was when starting to come in from the north west the direction further east west of whether it was the black sea it was or mania and bow gary but in between is fine and dry because welcome area of sunshine coming through here then and more the same as we go through saturday like that rain band will sink a little further southwards and a source projects goes back into much of italy and across the balkans where we have seen some torrential downpours and recently to the skies down towards the southeast meanwhile behind that theres that cold away in 1314 celsius for london and paris not exactly ideal times conditions im sure the players were complaining about the cold for that one for sure cross nor the parts of africa here it is fine and dry plenty of sunshine weve got the usual showers through Central Africa over towards the gulf it gets more heavy downpours just coming back into southern areas of nigeria for a time pushing through gonna ivory coast over towards liberia go somewhat weather just not going up towards sierra leone freetown but the top temperature of 28. 00 degrees. In the deprived villages of northern argentina theres one man with a solution to every problem. For engineer a selfproclaimed inventor ferdinando and hes crossed a 94 to 7 ford truck no job and just too small for village to far in his latest mission he constructs a much needed refrigerator the drums and file board if you find a latin america driving change on aljazeera. Hello again you know what youre going to 0 his reminder of our top stories this hour russia says Foreign Ministers from armenia and azerbaijan will attend talks in moscow on friday its the latest effort to end fighting over the disputed region of the go to kyra back. To you sounds president says hell resign once a new cabinet is appointed protesters forced the resignation of the government on tuesday holmans has failed to get enough members together to agree on who should be Prime Minister. And a kid not molly and politician and french aid workers have landed in malis capital bamako after being released as part of a major Prisoner Exchange deal was announced by the countrys new Transitional Government on tuesday. The u. S. Is impose more sanctions on irans Banking Sector and is the latest move to curb what washington describes as to hans Nuclear Ambitions and terror activities the measures blacklist almost all of irans Financial Sector irans foreign minister jeffords arief tweeted in a response saying the United States wants to somebodys remaining channels for buying food and medicine he maintained iranians will survive the sanctions and said the u. S. Action amounted to a crime against humanity it warm those who block iranian money or face justice jordan has more now from washington d. C. Perhaps the biggest criticism of the trumpet ministrations sanctions regime against iran is that the culminating impact is that this is hurting the iranian people certainly we have seen that criticism coming not just from e. U. Nations but also from a wide range of humanitarian organizations around the world now the Treasury Department went in announced this latest round of sanctions against these 18 iranian banks said that these banks would still have exemptions so that they could bring in funds to facilitate the purchase of emergency food and medicine to serve the iranian people of course people have criticized the u. S. For making it much harder to get that sort of humanitarian aid to the iranian people but leave no doubt the trumpet ministration has made one of its key Foreign Policy objectives the International Isolation of iran because of what it says is irans attempts to develop a viable Nuclear Weapons program and it believes that by cutting off all avenues of getting cash into the hands or the under the control of the iranian government that the trumpet ministration ultimately will be successful but we have not seen that at least not as of right now well Hillary Mann Leverett is a former white house and u. S. State Department Official she says the chump administration is to never a targeting the iranian population to weaken the government. I think there is there is not really no doubt that the Drug Administration is going after the iranian people hard what i would call the hardliners in the tribe in ministration in that me seem a little bit hard to believe many would think caster why russia over the entire Top Administration is hardliners but there has been a split there are real hardliners in the Administration Like the recently appointed or elevated envoy for iran affairs Elliott Abrams who ive worked with in the white house in the 1st Bush Administration and its important to understand that these hard liners someone like Elliott Abrams they were around in the 1990 s. It was their thinking it was their policy advice that led the clinton and Bush Administrations to impose these kinds of sanctions on iraq in the 1990 s. From 1902003 these type of sanctions were imposed on iraq where over a 1000000 people died 500000 of them children and nobody cared nobody in washington cared at the time the secretary of state Madeleine Albright said it was worth it worth it for what the point here is not to change behavior it wasnt to change saddam husseins behavior in iraq its not to change irans behavior its to fundamentally weaken these countries by weakening the population that was what was done in iraq and that is what is the intent here with iran. The World Health Organization has announced a record one day a global jump in quite a virus infections 136000000 people have been infected 339000 people have been diagnosed over the past day led by a surge of infections in europe or in a 1000000 people a name to have died around 25000000 of a cover. Reporting at least 1000 Coronavirus Infections a day case numbers have been soaring since mid august the country appeared to have avoided the worst of the pandemic it now has more than 22000 infections and 500 35. 00 fatalities just a month ago had fewer than 10 deaths scott hardly reports. 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 yang 1900 control Committee Says their hospitals are struggling to keep up a city of 7000000 it only has hospital beds for 8000 will be managed them but in terms of covert 9000 management we have to imitate china they controlled one 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 and. Depending on the situation we use or for the suspected clone a fiery speech against a hospital. 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 november election in the shadow of the pandemic favors the ruling party led by on song suchi human Rights Groups in 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 voter