For safer areas after days of intense fighting this is Afghanistans Helmand province heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides we bring you the latest from both vietnam and cambodia. So lets begin with the coronavirus pandemic as the number of infections continues to surge again across europe many countries seeing their highest levels in months lets run through some of them germany where the daily number of cases is now at its highest level in 6 months chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for states to impose tougher local measures france is declaring a Public Health state of emergency starting from saturday hospital admissions there are at their highest level since june and the u. K. Well its hit nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in a day which is its 2nd highest number so far england has already introduced a new 3 t. Lockdown system to try to curb the worsening outbreak now at the moment the city of liverpool and its surrounding areas are under the toughest rules and weve got journo hold there for us at about 7 in the evening hi jonah how are they taking the news there in liverpool. Well the pubs and bars that dont serve food here in liverpool were forced to close for midnight last night so after last orders at 10 pm effectively and people poured out onto the streets perhaps predictably and had a Massive Party and probably wont do much to further the cause of bringing the 2nd wave under control as the government much hope the numbers going up as you say hospital admissions infection rates deaths as well 19724 new infections reported on wednesday 2 and a half 1000 more than the day before that number doubling roughly every week and a half or so 137 deaths reported thats nowhere near the peak of the pandemic here in england but its well higher than the sort of low double digits that were reported around a month ago in liverpool as you say under these brand new restrictions the only city in england now currently in the new very high risk category announced by Boris Johnson a couple of days ago that means no household mixing in any circumstances pubs and bars as i said the dead dont serve food have to close and the Health Infrastructure here under tremendous strain Critical Care beds at Something Like 90 percent capacity at the moment with predictions they will reach full capacity within a week so a pretty grim picture in terms of the headline figures there but remember that behind the headlines there are a lot of people who are deeply affected by whats going on as my report now shows. No more talk of the coming 2nd wave political drinkers its arrived pubs and bars forced to shut as the city becomes englands 1st to face the highest level of new restrictions. Away from the drunken revelry these are moments when heavily on the lives of many livable is the 1st with its hospitals filling up and Critical Care beds almost at capacity it wont be the last theres talk of a possible full scale nationwide lockdown for a short period at the end of the month and all the while the hidden toll is being counted the Mental Health of millions held in the balance people support mechanisms and their coping mechanism is just not there anymore and i think that is something that we are going to see Going Forward i think the Mental Health implications from cove it all go to for outlast the actual virus itself i think were going to be picking up the pieces for this for quite a long time its just the opposite offer to be able to offer a say facility so these kids from that get some acceptance of exercise and activity what we found in the 14 or even up down a similar some are members of their cell farm because these had meltdowns at home in your previous life and the previous was down 0 so obviously but the 2nd stampers again no. Gyms and Leisure Centers have shut their doors but this facility continues for now waiting for clarity on the rules. Well it helps me with my eyesight. And all the. Gal my anger of because everyone has a lot on oil. I dont like the 5 of us because i work to god. But god i want to be there but to the normal. Bills that. Caroline couldnt walk on her own when she began weekly visits to the kirkland centers inclusive coming to this cave my never done things i cant even dream of doing every night i was busy at home with them all i used to get mom do absolutely free everything fully you know now im healthy moment more at home if this facility is not a lot of a level for these these sort of these young adults it just gave me an influx of mental well being but what happens on the physical attributes as well. So yeah its about where to get off to. Its good tough hope. How conscience dont feel down and all off. So the voices there of some of the worst affected and fair to say the sorts of voices we dont often get to hear but their anxiety is not misplaced as we pointed out a couple of days ago Boris Johnson unveiled this new streets here structure for local restrictions intended to bring the 2nd wave under control almost immediately his own chief medical officer undermined the caused by saying it was probably not going to be enough and now the Opposition Labor Party has joined the governments own Scientific Advisory group in advocating a brief a 2 week full National Lockdown perhaps at the end of the month to coincide with School Holidays that would mean a total shutdown it would mean Enormous Economic pain but possibly with the potential for saving thousands of lives and deferring even worse economic pain later it may well turn out to be the course of the government of course of action the government has to take but it wont do much for the Mental Health of the country and nor of course for those young people in the gym you saw that jonah hill reporting from liverpool on this news out jonah thank you for that so thats the u. K. Well be looking at france a little bit later in the program speaking to our correspondent in paris president micron right now discussing the corona Virus Outbreak and possibly going to outline some new measures that we will bring you an update on that at about half past the hour. Also ahead on this news israel approves the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank. Well be in nigeria where protests against Police Brutality are continuing for a 7th straight day. And in sport another eye catching performance by tampa bay as they look to reach out for the world series. A media and azerbaijan now they continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violations and the ongoing conflict over the region of the going to cut about russia is now calling for an end to the fighting and a settlement through diplomatic means but i mean as Prime Minister says his forces will not back down despite having retreated from some frontline positions reporters from bernard smith. I mean. Theyll be a memorial like this in perhaps every one of the homes of the more than 530. 00 armenian men killed since fighting restarted on september the 27th. Was a 19 year old conscript sent to the front lines just as fighting with azerbaijan started. We last talked on the phone on the evening of september 26th and he said everythings all right after that we heard nothing on the 27th i wanted to go volunteer where my son was serving but i wasnt allowed then on the 30th i got a call and was told everything is finished there were 9 of them i dont know what happened to the others all the young men ingeborg School Yearbook are doing that Compulsory Military Service now like almost every young man in armenia and nagornokarabakh to my niece up to now i think he will call he will come back i dont know i cant imagine hes not with us anymore i mean as Prime Minister says there been some retreats from frontline positions and the situation is what he described as quite difficult for his country. Right now the number of our casualties are very high no more. Victims armenians adversary azerbaijan now has the open and full support of turkey. President. Says 26 years of diplomacy have failed to resolve the conflict and its time for armenia to return land it took in the 199124. 3 members of minsk the United States russia and france are still putting this off with their stalling tactics just give them the occupied lands let them go to their lands let them do what they want in their own lands but there is an invasion here russia has rejected requests from us about john for turkeys involvement in future negotiations on the golan a kind about. The father of how jeff plays a popular. Dead soldiers son was killed on the 1st day of fighting. Most of the years about johnny people especially those from places close to the context lines suffer like this weve been through this since 1988 like hundreds of thousands of his aires this family was 1st displaced from armenian territories in earlier conflicts you. Know the fighting shouldnt stop there are so many mothers inconsolable like me if you take a lot back see i didnt lose my son on both sides of this conflict the pressure on leaders not to give way is intense. John on wednesday accusations the armenians are trying to attack or oil and Gas Pipelines the armenians areas are trying to seize nagornokarabakh and above this angry rhetoric russia is appealing to both sides to observe the humanitarian ceasefire but it seems no ones paying attention. Bernard smith aljazeera chorus armine well russian president Vladimir Putin is expressing concern about the alleged presence of syrian fighters in the going to kind of earth this was in a phone call with the turkish president turkey denies those accusations that we discussed all these sorts of ally and external issues with tomatillos southern im also a little bit earlier who is a lecturer in security and development at Kings CollegeLondon Department of war studies she said russias trying to keep turkeys influence in mediation efforts to an absolute minimum russia have leverage very Strong Library on armenia and but at the same time it has a Strong Partnership which one has developed over the last 10 years with azerbaijan so i think that it has the possibility to to a certain extend course if it can both sides 2 are going to go shaping table. I mean the big question is you know is russia going to now really thought id. Provide additional military support and i wouldnt exclude that entirely you know in case prolonged turkey is trying to push it fell into the mediation mechanism on turkey if it is really agitating are not helping at all with a resolution of the conflict in a peaceful manner theyve been providing moral political and military support by john so. What we are trying is to become the main sort of peace broker and the russians are very keen to avoid any kind of turkish further involvement really the pressure should be exerted in not only on azerbaijan and armenia but also on turkey to change the language and make sure that you know its not supporting such a sort of military state which is really a novelty. Tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape days of heavy fighting between Government Troops and taliban fighters aid agencies say house was becoming overwhelmed by the wounded from the battles which began in southern afghanistan on saturday all the fighting in Helmand Province centers on the regional capital of lashkar gah u. S. Airstrikes have supported Afghan Security forces on the ground but this Major Taliban offensive coincides with peace talks being held here in qatar the fighting could complicate Donald Trumps plans to have american soldiers home by christmas or reporter filio is in the capital kabul and says Health Services are really stretched in the area where the fighting is happening their main trauma hospital in provincial capital. Has been operating at full capacity cannot treat more people and the m. S. F. Supported another m. S. F. Supported hospital in the area has been serving as an overflow facility with over 20 people have been outwitted there in the past 24 hours and among them are even pregnant women and children in terms of the displaced according to the u. N. And local sources 35000. 00 people have been forced to flee their homes a lot of them with nothing but their clothes weve seen pictures of them trying to load as much as they can and some model bikes and try to escape the fighting now are you in assessment teams are on the air in the try to assess the situation and its extremely difficult to get information and a lot of the infrastructure of the telephone lines have been damaged so its hard to assess what exactly what the exact needs are. Ramasamy is the acting humanitarian coordinator for the United Nations in afghanistan we spoke to and she says relief agencies have been quick to deploy as the number of displaced people rises. We are hearing from our field teams on the ground is that close to 5000. 00 families which is about 35000. 00 people out importantly being displaced and this displaced mentor lead to additional leads from their site for shelter for work and sanitation crude event and also knocking noise a little to be able to return back so this is one of the concern we have because it is going to be a humanitarian action that we all need to converge together and and support we have joint assessment teams already on the ground we have our units to our colleagues giving assistance in terms of dance and their nonfood items. Is providing wash their facilities as well on the ground we do have partners stationed in the province so we are galvanizing assessments to ensure that we are able to understand what the emerging needs such as being able to provision for those feats on the ground that we need to make sure that services to people continue to be made trained and when such displaced and happen agencies come together and provide assistance our main reason for being there is to ensure that people are not suffering and they are being assisted in an emergency mode and also looking at what else do they need and and help them go back to their place of origin while israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank the 1st time israel has approved the building of settler homes since a normalization deal with the u. A. E. And backroom the settlements are considered illegal under International Law all it ever him is reporting now from near ramallah in the occupied west bank is that reaction from the palestinian officials. The spokesperson of the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the israeli move saying that israel is using the silence of the International Community and what he called the renormalization deals with israel this is the 1st announcement of its kind after the u. A. E. Thawing the agreement with israel to normalize relations and the u. A. E. Has said that this agreement has put an extension plans on hold but for Palestinians Israel is moving forward with building more and more illegal israeli settlements including this one this is the settlement of sogo its one of the settlements thats going to be expanded as per the new plan and palestinians are saying that more and more certain moments are being built on palestinians person in ground rendering any future palestinian contiguous future palestinian state almost impossible palestinians are hoping that the democratic candidate will win the us elections and our. Palestinian Prime Minister how much they stay has said if trump wins a 2nd term god helps us all the European Unions imposing sanctions on 6 russian individuals over the poisoning of Opposition LeaderAlexei Navalny the asset freezes and travel bans reportedly target people in the Defense Ministry and the spy agency valmy is recovering in berlin after being poisoned in siberia in august moscow continues to deny responsibility with our son scott from brussels now to raise a foreign shes the director of the center for russia europe and asia studies nice to have you with us. So whats sanctions like this actually is this almost a bit of window dressing by the European Union to make it appear that theyre doing something. Couldnt it come up i think that there are proportional theyre reasonable and theyre actually focused on the people who were closely involved with this so they wont be able to travel to europe and their assets could be frozen in addition theyre also sanctioning the institute where this compound was created the novacek compound so i think its an important sign though because its very difficult for the 27 even Member States to all get together and become same page we saw recently with the attempts to have sanctions on belarus they couldnt get it passed because of one member state cyprus was blocking it so this is a good sign that they were able to come together and have these proportional focus targeted sanctions as a really good point actually agreement across europe is rare isnt it russias reaction though i mean i suspect well 1st of all that its still denying it have anything to do with it and 2nd of all i suspect it wont