1000000 people infected theyve had 30000 deaths and has already passed that 1000000 a 1000000 people infected with 28000 deaths both of those countries imposed fairly tight restrictions that have suffered despite that the worst cases the worst country to suffer has been brazil where president both the naro if you may remember called the corona virus nothing worse than the little flu he himself contracted the disease. Well there are growing concerns that people fleeing fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a taking the virus with them doctors in the contested nagornokarabakh region fear that as many as 9 in 10 people are now infected there are no official figures for this but it is thought that crime to bomb shelters are exaggerating the spread the region saw another night of intense shelling on friday. President donald trump has joined millions of other americans and costing an early ballots ahead of the election he went to a voting station in his private resort in West Palm Beach florida more than 50000000 americans have already voted with many opting for mail in ballots trying to had requested one even though hes regularly said that they are open to fraud of course that hes not offered any evidence to support that playing persecutor vote much more secure that when you send in a ballot i could tell you that everything was perfect very strict right by the rules when you send in your ballot could never be like that you could never be secure like that they did a fantastic job a great people and. So but its an honor to be running its an honor to be in this great area which i knew so well meanwhile trump opponent the democrat nominee joe biden has held a rally in another battleground state pennsylvania he told people there that the election could come down to their vote cards are hard unemployment is way out folks are worried about making their next rent or mortgage payment whether their health care will be ripped away in the middle of a pandemic worried about sending their kids to school worried about not sending their kids to school. They see folks at the top doing much better all the rest are wondering who are going to after me as Donald Trumps presidency in our other headlines this hour ethiopia has summoned the u. S. Ambassador off the president trying to jested that egypt might blow up its multibillion dollar dam on the nile made the remark off to announcing a u. S. Brokered deal for sudan and israel to start normalizing relations but countries Transitional Government has won that it still needs to be approved by the parliament that hasnt yet been full md so don has also seen protests against the deal with palestinians calling it a stab in the back for that cause. The public on the bit its a long process that requires a lot of work so this is an agreement to normalize that took place between sudan and israel and we are now waiting for the completion of the Democratic Institutions through the formation of the Legislative Council so that it can decide to ratify this agreement and if that happens there we will begin the steps towards normalization. And guineas president alpha conde has been declared the winner of the countrys election taking over 59 percent of the vote it gives the 82 year old his 3rd term in office off for a constitutional change earlier this year which he says we set the 2 term limit its supporters have celebrated the way in a countrys opposition has refused to accept the result so bring you more on the aftermath of that election in guinea a bit later on in the news hour in about an hours time 2100 g. M. T. Do stay with us so aljazeera wilder is coming up next with sue is yellow fleet. Oh i am a. Man. I was having an experience which ill never forget i was 19 years old at the time. And it was quite a surprise to find myself in russia in the middle of a war the front seat literally. Numbers were parents i worried and i. Know it was a worrying time really it was a worrying time for us. Not knowing. If when when were going to get out and it was very worrying for the parents as well you know. Their sons or husbands and all that was going to come out because of the way the war was going but once it was over theres just a waiting game. Join this conflict there was a bit of anxiety because if youre in the middle of the war trapped there you dont really know which side to accidentally. Could hit your ship so its quite scary times and it wasnt a glorious place to be obviously with when you see a conflict like that and you watch it on the televisions there are the television or film war looks glorious book to be honest it is not it is completely horrific. We dont know if the israelis are going to push further from where they stopped on the sinai side further into egypt or we dont know alls we know is where stuck in their light trapped animals. What would happen who knows. Nobody could tell us. Thats what we have to live with. It was in the present as you were no way but you you couldnt go anywhere couldnt do anything. Just to carry our. Hearts and. Opened 150 years ago to connect the mediterranean with the red sea the suez canal is a remarkable engineering achievement. However one a vent in the storied history of suez remains largely untold how in 196714 cargo ships unwittingly sailed into war not to emerge but another 8 long years. Those manning the ships were neither prisoners nor hostages most came and went every few months but they did succeed in building a baritone Community Like no other. With their ships left in splendid isolation and unable to leave the suez canal bay stablish their own unofficial micro nation complete with traditions sporting competitions and even postage stamps. They try to make the best of the situation in the Great Bitter Lake a particularly white section of the canal so called because of its high salt content. The merchant seamen were not remotely experts on the conflict into which they landed theirs was a world of engines and curves and ropes navigation was their strength and war was alien to them yet they found themselves surrounded by the bitterest of enemies in a confrontation that was none of their making. As months turn to years their cargo ships became covered in fine desert sand which from a distance gave the flotilla a distinct yellow color as a result of the vessels became known as the yellow fleet. And i missed new city immense. Violence fancy. Stood on fido for its year holstered shifts north and. Of the north end and you must start. North soon it. Is over. A bridge much as mccords jihads cries of off on a 9 indian on front and near in karachi he who owns or lets start from. Initial is a continent and from dollars and bid on a g. 40 s. Who has come out of our. 5 did side and dive all home from karachi. To the last ones old mina aden yemen on a voyage and petroleum name was a branched off name Diesel Fuel Oil on an involved and a target before we. Become bia for my getting fisheye industry for us alone. Could. Vida fonda. Descend in. As kind. Of. One of your most off. Before via bunch of pacom. Become bunch of. Fun do you know whats worse to in his words cannot find. In djibouti muslims are not merely conscious. Out to. My name is shawn dring i was an able seaman on the end the end. Which was a british cargo ship which predominantly sailed to Australia New Zealand from the u. K. Taken general congo live on bringing back vegetables fruit meat back to the u. K. Was basically wrong. On this particular journey. We had been out. To australia and. Back for the united kingdom. We left fremantle. To cross the. Indian ocean and comin through aden arent they seumas canal. When we arrived at the. Southern end. The vessels were more outside it on a convoy of 14 ships would commence the next day 1st light through a little bit a lake and then we would progress the journey through to port site which is roughly a 24 hour journey on not mourning we hope dying carry on the calm boy began to move into the busy late. This was the cold war a time of great tension between the superpowers of east and west rumors intelligence and espionage with occurrences of the day. And on the 13th of may 967 soviet intelligence warned of an imminent attack by israel the attack they said might begin on the syrian front where israel had assembled troops. Egypt which at the time had a Defense Agreement with its syrian allies prepared for battle. These were extremely tense times in the region a decade earlier and 1956 Research Crisis had seen israel invade the Sinai Peninsula part of egypt in a conflict that drew in the worlds major powers. A large number of egyptian Ground Forces across the suez canal and dug in of the Sinai Peninsula israels response was to put its own army on to a state of alert. 11 years later on the 22nd of may 967 egypt closed 2 israeli ships access to the straits of tiran a strategic waterway leading to the port of elat in the south of israel. The next day egypt also close the entrance to the gulf of aqaba to all ships carrying the israeli flag as well as to International Oil tankers bound for a lot the rhetoric between both sides ramped up and war appeared to be imminent. But to crewman on a brief supply stop in aden now part of yemen the geopolitics of the middle east were not uppermost in their minds. On the way home from the far east we bunkered we stopped in aden and bunkered there to pick up fresh water in oil and we picked up some supplies there as well. During this time the 6 engineer and i decided we were asked the chief if we go. Sure just for a last minute bit of shopping before we go into the suez canal and at the red sea. And as a result of that we were on shore and we met a couple of british soldiers marines and they were on patrol and they said to us i think you to a better get back to ship because its going to kick off around here we didnt really know what that meant so we went back to the ship. Anyway we finished boom green in aden with the oil and water and supplies and we headed up the red sea i think it was before we went up there and see or join this time we had a meeting with the ships officers and the captain and they knew something was going wrong but they said should we carry on they took a vote whether they should carry on to the series can now or turn around and go back round. The bottom end of africa however where my personal vote was carry on. For me fellas into the sun through for 4. Bass in a president you had me into hadnt and as i did become trapped machines id you know for golf could know my advice a lot of it doctrine on innovate. Does this war to tried kamu to get. Views invite a shift for lag and i go round faced as 0 to 21st century for. Via ziva vida do it. As of the of the violent risk would have to go to shift and in doing good its kind of lifted off the conduct of mom artists nish tzin to me announce a seat on to us and tell us could not fit in enough to not have. To shift his somalian or reports in knots an hour from. Off to my not immortal visit north summit support. Less than a month afterwards shipping was barred from the straits of tiran israel launched a series of attacks on egypt and positions triggering the 96076. 00 day arab israeli war which drew in not just egypt but also syria and jordan it was monday the 5th of june 1967. I was on watch when all of a sudden we had an amazing noise of a jet engine. And as we looked up we see in a formation of sri fighter planes coming across from the sinai side just above mushed height and flew between ourselves the last 4 ships the 3 planes crossed they immediately climb show High Altitude and as we looked out the. They began to do what we now know was a means of blowing up the wrong way at the airport or the air force base. When. We could see it was less than a mile and a quarter way out than oculus we watched the jets bombed a long ways 1st and then they israeli warplanes which were parked all by the angers was then attacked those 3 awful nation of sri israeli jets one state dropped their payload they came back a crossed towards sinai again again very very low on must high seas and then across battle the sinai and no sooner had they gone done another wave of survey came in and did exactly the same and we watched these formations over the next. A couple of dollars every 4 minutes 5 minutes they would be comin across do an option is whats damages sacred to the Egyptian Air Force base which they literally obliterated. Oh all. While the war was going on her. We just saw everything that was going on because it was only a mile from the airport so we saw the planes we saw were everything so let me know at times we stayed out on deck and we was just watching the the battle going on shore saw it round brand is mayor and the surrounding areas we watched it with a trace of bullets code red bullets we could hear would like the explosions gharyan and also but the catalyst there was said to us you know you play should be careful so we still watched it so we really didnt sleep much when i was 6 days. 6 days after the war began still as hes ceased israeli tanks and troops attacking egypts Sinai Peninsula reached this it was canal israeli troops stood in the eastern side of the waterway gyptian forces were massed on the western side in a standoff that gave both control of traffic on the canal. The egyptians reacted by closing the suez canal their goal was to physically prevent israel from having access to the canal so all ships were scuttled to make the canal impossible passenger ships would be allowed to complete their journeys but cargo vessels could go no further than the great better lake there they were instructed to drop anchor and wait for further developments this decision brought together 14 ships of different flags for british 2 west german 2 polish 2 from sweden. Friend one czechoslovakia and one bone gary and i did american vessel war and politics and wittingly assembled the yellow fleet. We became trapped because we notice very soon afterwards within a matter of days that a drug at been sunk it seemed to us training open or close on it at the northern entrance as we understood it the that probably done the same thing to the south of us so the idea of us making in the scape Something Like that suddenly to the south seemed too good to know that there was probably no possibility whatsoever. There was news suddenly navigations there was no undone and no telephone tone and like that and it was days the only thing it we had bits that i mean ships radio but you could communicate all over the world with. That this last stop by the egyptian authorities to stop us using that because lets face it we could possibly have sent in a lot Enter Mission as to what was going on so we bombed allowed to do that and to stop us from doing the we had a policeman on board each ship and his job was to look after the interests of the egyptian authorities and ensure that we did not use out radio. Shortly after we were there the captain of our ship thought we do need to get in touch with these other people and he made it his business to get in the lifeboat because the light boat was our taxi we lowered the ships like guy who got in our taxi and went right to all the other ships and suggested to those people where to make the best of this up we possibly can. And the all agreed that this would be a really good idea from following on from that then they came up with another a number of unique ideas as to why they could best improve life for everybody on the lake. When if the lifeboats manned by one of the officer aboard the ship went to the israeli side and i think that they were taken assured by the israelis and sent back to london so at all costs we stared out of the israeli side but there was an occasion and the early days when women died that a memo came from the egyptian side to say that any of fish any of the boats sailing side the perimeter of the ships in the canal will be shot upon. A couple of months past weve been told that the International Red cross were trying to talk to both parties egyptians and israelis. About what they could do for the crews who were trapped. The captain had decided that if we could keep a Skeleton Crew on board. Then the rest of the crew could be repatriated. On the egyptian authorities and the israelis authorities allowed and their color to or from athens through to cairo. I was one of the Skeleton Crew of the young man i was 20 was a seaman an old the captain strong to the dot. In the event that. The canal would open we just needed sufficient crew to mount the vessel and take it out to port side on the mediterranean side. I didnt really. On. Understand or appreciate what the danger is nice at bain a point i just saw well ok and the only thing i dont love are no money i havent got children or old age you know yet it should be me that stays here for half a lover or however long it takes for this conflict to end i had no idea it was going to end up the way it did. As the guns fell silent what to do with the 14 cargo ships stranded in the middle of the canal became a problem that neither egypt nor israel was willing or able to resolve. The sailors on board seemed destined to be patently marooned in this isolated desert waterway communication with the outside world was tightly controlled with radio calls restricted to medical emergencies. The ships owners made a decision to rotate the crews so after 4 months or more each merchant seamen would be replaced even though there was little work to do apart from basic maintenance all the sailors continue to receive their food wages. Coming up in part to be yellow fleet crews devised different ways some quite ingenious to improve conditions on board. The we had a lot of big games spin l the next sicko 968 i think and so the polish ships decided to of a many a lympics and of course they are gonna start that all off all sorts of things. When covert 19 1st struck china and began to spread the cost asia. Some in the west criticized come to measures as too harsh or too weak. But have the different experiences before asian nations in phuket not shown the world to root out of this group to ponder. Coronavirus lessons from asia or not just you know. A diverse range of stories from across the globe and from the perspective of on networks journalists on aljazeera. The arab. World the on. 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