Well the fighting continues according to what we hear from the front line despite a new ceasefire agreement despite International Calls on both sides to to stop what were seeing instead is that once again as i john and armenia are blaming each other for breaching that deal im in gunja as a by john 2nd largest city its home to more than 300000 people a missile leveled several homes here in this residential area on saturday actually before the 2nd the new truce came into effect and as you can see here right behind me these used to be buildings 2 story buildings but they have been reduced to rubble at least 13 people have been killed here according to officials including a teenage girl and a baby and while both amenia and azerbaijan deny targeting civilians we see that search residential areas like this one have increasingly come under shelling even here in gunja which really is far away from the front line but that shows you that civilians here are paying a really heavy price for this war and you will hear it when it comes to Fact Checking this conflict journalist seem to be struggling with the information coming out of the region do you feel that you have access to this that you want to have. We cons move around here in azerbaijan independently we have been given access and allowed to come here by the authorities in baquba they set up an infrastructure for media for International Journalists to cover this crisis to cover their side of the conflict weve been given or assigned a driver and a contact affiliated to the government they are always with us they join us wherever we go they say its for our own safety and security but of course it limits what we hear and what we see and what we can report on but you have to know that this is not just a conflict on the battlefield its also a war of words and a war of perception. Mania and as a vision has been locked in what is being a sense of be a frozen conflict but do people in gunja now feel that this latest flare up could lead to a long time between the 2 countries. Weve talked to people here in gunja some people would come here and pay respect to those who were killed or theyre looking for something in the rubble those people are visibly still shocked there is pain there is grief but there is also a lot of anger people here are openly blaming the Armenian Military fatality civilians they also say they expect their government to retaliate if you add to that the history decades of mistrust between the 2 countries and the firm belief here among the population in azerbaijan that. Is rightfully theirs that it has been rightfully theirs for the pos nearly 30 years then you get the impression that any truce the current truce for example will not turn things into a more peaceful direction any time soon there is also no sign on the political level of backing down and coming to the negotiating table and end this military conflict you leon thanks very much for that. For us from. On the number of confirmed corona virus cases worldwide has passed 14000000 with well over 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers but europe is also facing a surge in covert 19 infections with a record daily highs in many countries let me give you a quick overview of how the situation developed on march 1st this year Health Departments across europe registered 401 new cases now keeping in mind that testing was not as widespread then as now so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising daily infections in the peaking at the end of april and early may by then most of europe was already in lockdown and you can see the effect of that here with new infections dropping to a low point in mid july but since then numbers have been creeping up again with new cases rising steadily since august on friday more than 137000 daily cases were registered across europe france is currently the worst hit european nation recording tens of thousands of infections daily an official state of emergency is in place with night time curfews imposed on paris and 8 other major cities in germany chancellor merkel is urging people to stay home whenever possible after a spike in a spike of infection rates and italy hit a new record on sunday with authours hes reporting more than 11000 new cases Prime Minister just had become 10 ounce to package of new restrictions im good avoiding another complete lockdown can take gave me is the power to shut public spaces from 9 pm on woods contest says the situation has become critical but that his government is determined to avoid a repeat of the lockdown imposed at the start of the crisis in march. Im joined now from rome by freelance journalist philip well and philip thanks for joining me one of the latest figures on the spread of the pandemic in italy and which regions are the worst hit. Well the yen numbers have been rising steadily recently its been hovering around 10000 a day and theyre now going well beyond that and the alarming thing as well is that the presence of the virus is now registered jeff throughout the country nobody which was very badly hit to the stocks when this and any president right in europe. Is says suffering again but all served on time yet in the area around naples and even ness up in areas such as sicily and of course whats particularly worrying is if the south is badly hit yeah medical services and hospitals are much less well prepared had to have coped with this kind of crisis and of course now saying new power as they if amazed how are italians reacting to the return of restrictions on their lines. Well i think it remains to be seen really because my impression is that a lot of young italians are being met out partying just. As though nothing had happened until very recently and these restrictions are being imposed by the government because people arent. Doing the right thing of their own accord i think theres a certain amount of concern that if he was very well that disciplined in the press very tough love found the last trusted for 2 months and theres concern now that there may be a kind of have to mix 50 and dead people not convinced that its necessary people rebelling against mosques. People just finding it hard to. Know who lives in the way that the government is are asking. So it remains to be seen really how this will pan out how people perceive the situation and whether they go along with a tough line that the government is calling for 8 leaders of course ravaged by that 1st wave we were missing the images coming out of italy at the time at the height of the pandemic has the government not lessons in particular when it comes to the health system. Thats a big question and theres a lot of control a city about it the government has provided a lot of extra ventilators in some cases theyre not in position in the whole those in the regions because the regional authorities said fair fail to. Create new intensive care ward as the government said asked them to do so theres a quite a bit of a blame shifting between the people involved in want as happened and i think italy is certainly better prepared now for this 2nd round buckling against the virus but there are people who say that a lot more could have been done in the summer and things were so there wasnt a sense of urgency that there should have been because of the. Period of troops that the Better Weather provided and taint right fit when it in ron thanks very much for. All right lets turn now to some other stories making news around the world in thailand prodemocracy protesters have gathered for a 5th day in defiance of a Government Order and at preventing demonstrations. Meanwhile have imposed curbs on social media including the telegram messaging at which protest is used to coordinate the demonstrations. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of bella roots for another weekend despite a threat by authorities to use firearms against them demonstrators a calling for the ouster of all far tarion later Alexander Lukashenko following disputed president ial elections at least 180 people were arrested. Protesters and Police Clashed in chiles capital on sunday as thousands monthly adverse free of last years mass protest Police Deployed water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd in santiago the demonstration took place under Strict Police surveillance in an effort to prevent rioting. Police in france have searched dozens of homes belonging to suspected islamist militants the raids are in connection with last weeks beheading of a teacher in paris samual party had used cartoons of the muslim Prophet Muhammad to teach students about freedom of expression a suspect was shot dead shortly after by police on sunday people across the country took to the streets in pattis memory. Thousands of people came to the plaster lever probably in paris to show their solidarity with slain teacher Samuel Patton it was here where large groups also gathered following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks. But today people will sign saying just we are saying no or i am a teacher. Many came here to grief but also to protest they felt compelled to speak out in support of the teacher and freedom of speech. Were here to defend the republic liberty equality for eternity and secularism but it was not just in paris communities came together across the country to remember the 47 year old teacher. Yeah they said secularism must be the Unshakable Foundation of our society but that is what allows us to live together we will not allow it to be attacked. But that. We will continue our work with the school year and classes regimes who will return to teach without fear because it is not students who committed this crime but it was a young person who obviously was not a student and failed to understand anything as the. Party was on his way home from school when he was attacked. Shortly after police surrounded the suspect and ordered him to drop his weapon. Both parties say they opened fire on the suspect after he attacked police. France is set to hold further National Tributes for the victims in the coming days. For more on this lets bring in data religious Affairs Correspondent martin gak martin this all goes back to a classroom conversation about the freedom of expression just how difficult is freedom of expression in a Multicultural Society i think that episodes like this one show you that to some degree. Multiculturalism and integration are really the key words and as a matter of fact part of the problem that you have is that to some degree the form of multiculturalism that much of europe has been seeing evolve is essentially is essentially incompatible to the firms of republicanism and freedom of expression that we have become accustomed to particularly in the context suffrage secularism and french freedom of expression so you know this kind of hippie so hes the one that really shows you that there is a form of the mcready understanding that we have developed from the sense that we need to deal with things that offend us and we have community so we turn not just muslim but jewish Christian Communities really just communities in other words that really take offense to the very limit of political and Public Participation and this is a terry terry that its extremely difficult to negotiate i think france is officially a secular country and how does that factor into the public discussion surrounding this particular incident. You know with the idea of the day the form of security so many its not a perfect translation really but they usually differ the french has a lot to do with protecting the state from really just seem fluence i mean were in we think of secularism in the us what we think of you know this state essentially protecting religion from essentially the force of politics this is somewhat inverted so one of the things that were just here in the report and i think that are actually very important and were going to continue hearing us we go along he said there has to be a defense. Of the basis of secularism through the country precisely because this is the type of politics of violence that you know we have seen in religion through history state east in charge of trying to stop. So french president and i knew my calling is is preparing new legislation on integration does this incident this not it doesnt point to the limits of integration that. Look there is something very particular about the set be sowed and that despite what most are saying this does not necessarily come out of essentially a terrorist organization decidedly began with the parents at the school that were sending messages and build essentially networks of conversations through facebook and twitter and so on asking for something to be done now what these something was supposed to be was not clear but this is not something that came from an organization this something that came to some degree from the community so i think that although micros position had and media backlash in terms of expressing the necessity of integrating the Muslim Community into essentially i mean these parts of them were seen community into the body politics of the fringe of the french system i think that this is the kind of episode that will actually essentially bush a conversation forth one of the political dangers is that these will be actually taken advantage of by very reactionary forces that have had a very strong islam a fallback essentially thrust for the last 23 or 4 years right they have a religious Affairs Correspondent not and jack thank you. It watching day w. News still to come take glitches and long waiting lines as Record Numbers of people caused early ballots in the u. S. Election some are asking if officials are actively trying to make it harder for some people to vote. The 1st vote counting is still underway in bolivias president ial election but exit polling suggests leftist candidate the reese say has won a libya was deeply divided ahead of the election that pitted our say and his nearest rival carlos mesa ill say is a close ally of the form of bolivian president evo morales who stepped down last year and fled into exile after winning a disputed 4th term in office. Early celebrations of an as yet unofficial when it was we have recovered democracy. And recovered hard. d as it is. The socialist party of former bolivian president ever morales seems to be on the brink of returning to power more out himself was not allowed to purchase a page in the elections but supported his partys campaign from abroad he was quick to claim victory for his former finance minister louis r. Said. We recover the homeland we will recover stability and progress we will recover peace. Morality has been in exile in argentina ever since last years disputed election in which he sought a 4th term in office after 14 years in power. Allegations of fraud sparked weeks of violent protests that left 36 dead and hundreds wounded. The Election Results were know and morale is fled the country. This year observers from International Organizations kept a close eye on the election process with no signs of foul play if confirmed by the official tally a new leftist president in the poor and nation could be seen as a popular rebuke of the u. S. Backed conservatives that have taken over power since last year. To the us where the election is just 15 days away and a Record Number of people have already cast their ballots in early voting but in some areas the large early turnout and some technical glitches have led to long waiting lines which has sparked a controversy in states like georgia over whether officials are actively trying to make it harder for some people to vote sumi some a scandal has more. Voting its the foundation of any democracy everything is being done to make sure all eligible voters have their say or is that i came here to georgia to find out about something that Voting Rights groups say is a real problem Voter Suppression purposely making it harder for some people to cast their ballot now georgia has a history of keeping africanamericans from the polls activists say it is still happening. Things heated up in 2013 when the Supreme Court gave states the power to change election laws and they no longer have to prove the changes they made did not discriminate. States like these took action that republicans say make sure that no one can vote illegally democrats say they unfairly target minorities they introduced stricter voter identification last they purged inactive voters from registries and across the south hundreds of polling places close these people manage to get to the voting station but for others who dont have a car to get around in the millions who dont have official i. D. It is difficult the protections can be barriers and they more often affect black and immigrant communities we are in the land of Voter Suppression where the secretary of States Office backed by the legislature embraced by the governor are figuring out how do we stop the demographic change that is happening in georgia. Early voting in this years president ial election people stand in line for hours but is this really Voter Suppression. This idea that theres Voter Suppression going on today is just a myth there a long line because people are making the mistake of voting early rather than voting on election day when there are many bad people or polling places open money a mitchell will be voting early the stationery designer says it took her 4 hours to vote in the primary election in june she fears longer lines on november 3rd and shes not going to risk missing her chance to vote its my right the constitution says i have a right to vote people died for that and i dont take that lightly. You know i can only imagine sorry people seeing other folks being able to cast a vote and for them want to be told theyre not human into to be told that whatever you think whatever you want your community it doesnt matter. I reflect on that sorry. And thats why i stood there. She is not alone in her determination important that we show that we deserve equal rights stuff like everyone else thats why United States of america is a country it is a democracy everyone has a vote theres a lot of things going on in the country and if we dont speak out its going to continue to get worse. That sentiment has sparked a Record Number of americans to turn out early to vote. And voters in boston have a unique chance this year of cost of their ballots early in one of the countrys oldest ballparks the home of the Boston Red Sox fan why poc is being used by city officials as an alternative to intell venues jute to the coronavirus and to make hundreds have already voted here and can do so until the end of the month. It watching data over the news coming up next in daytona news asia how long can protesters in thailand keep up pressure on the government. And more evidence of human rights abuses in those toria activists document the horror of pretrial detention under the dictatorship and. Also how a huge underground tank in tokyo is protecting the city against floods. Melissa channel have those stories on date of the news and in just a few minutes more News Headlines coming for you at the top of the hour until then you can stay up to date on our web site at that stage of the dot com im rebecca ranges from maine and the entire tames thanks very much for watching. Define use against the coronavirus pandemic. Weirdo son and stand. What new findings have researchers name. Information and background to. The corona update covered 19 special. Monday to friday on d w a little. Bit and where the real power resides. I come from there lots of people in fact know the agreement if you could lead the largest democracy thats one reason why im passionate about people and aspirations and a concern. 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