Biden prepare for a separate town hall event on the night they were supposed to face off in a 2nd president ial debate. Not backing down protesters in thailand scuffle with riot police defining a ban on gatherings. The political toll deepens in cyprus after al jazeera is investigation into a cash for citizenship scheme. Recorded corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers a surging particularly high in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases from saturday more than half of englands population will again be subjected to strict rules on where they can go and who they can meet and in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other large cities where infections are rampant Charlie Angela has the support from london. This city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household is the governments latest attempt to rein in a runaway infection rate which is doubling every 10 days we must act now delayed action means more deaths from it means more. Deaths and it means more economic pain later because the virus comes down slower than it goes up but there are questions over whether this goes far enough with the opposition and many scientists instead advocating a short sharp nationwide lockdown not just regional restrictions here in london the new measures will in fact 3000 jobs and 7000 restaurants decision will be reviewed every 2 weeks but most of these businesses have already made their orders for the months ahead and this stopping and starting to cripple many in europe find theyre in a similar situation france has declared a Public Health state of emergency and impose an 8 pm curfew in paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest level since june. The curve has nearly taking a vertical shape and thats why we knew we needed to arc because this reality would have an impact on hospitals. Very strong impact on intensive care unit. Infection rates are also rising in spain the region of catalonia is closing all bars and restaurants for 15 days and limiting the number of people allowed in shops in its attempt to curb the surge germany Czech Republic italy and poland are all looking at a Record Number of daily cases since the pandemic began and from the World Health Organization a bleak warning that governments mustnt shy away from nationwide lockdowns projections from reliable. Models or not so optimistic. These models indicate that the launched relaxing policies could properly but generally 2021 daily mortality levels 4 to 5 times higher than what we recorded in april. 1000 is now killing a 1000 people a day in europe with winter fast approaching this exponential increase is everyones concern that al jazeera london. And the pandemic has disrupted an e. U. Summit in Brussels European Commission president van de lay and broccoli left the talks on breaks that after discovering shed been in contact with an infected person the meeting itself was centered around trade including tricky negotiations on fishing rights. Has more. A deal but not at any price the message to britain from e. U. Leaders in brussels on the brits that we are united and determined to reach an agreement but not at any cost any agreement on our future allusion ship would have to be based on our mandate in particular when it terms to the level Playing Field fisheries and developments fishing is one of the most divisive issues in the trade negotiations for decades fishermen in the u. K. And you have shared waters but the u. K. Says it now wants to control access to it sees the e. U. Says that would destroy its coastal communities on a gun in those circumstances what are fishermen be sacrificed to price it its a choice made by the british people so preserving access to british waters for fisherman funny a good compromise for a fisherman and im talking for all of the countries in europe who are concerned including france is an important point in these discussions for us. The e. U. Used by exit negotiators said compromise was possible on fishing and other issues but more time was needed the u. K. Said it will issue a formal response on friday make new time clear whether it will take up the ease offer of a new round of talks next week the biggest 2. The u. K. Is a totally sovereign country and we respect this just as the u. K. Must respect our own autonomy i think that between the parties the u. K. And the e. U. That have autonomy and sovereignty in a respectful fashion we can build a framework of transparency and trade but you can. This summit talks on braggs it would prefer than usual perhaps because the focus was elsewhere several either countries are battling a 2nd wave of coronavirus reflected unexpectedly by the abrupt departure from the meeting of the e. U. Commission chief i have just been informed that a member of my front office has tested positive to covert 19 this morning i myself have tested negative however as a precaution im immediately leaving the European Council to go into self isolation the pandemic has battered the blokes economy and the Health Crisis is clearly far from over e. U. Leaders will be all too aware there should they fail to agree on a deal with the u. K. Before the december 31st deadline the economic turmoil will only get worse Natasha Butler aljazeera paris. U. S. Democratic Vice President ial candidate coming suspended all in person events 2 members of her Campaign Team have tested positive for corona virus both harris and the white house hopeful joe biden tested negative or biden and donald trump about to hold competing town hall style events on the night there were supposed to be facing off in a 2nd debate they will appear on separate networks in just an hours time the us president held a Campaign Rally in the swing state of North Carolina ahead of his event in florida and biden will take questions from voters in philadelphia while well speak to you heidi joe kowsar in philadelphia shortly 1st lets go to our correspond and the gallagher in miami as we said not long till that time who style debate about start trouble must win florida its kate a lot at stake for the president. You know and remember this was the night that he was supposed to meet biden in person he didnt want to do that because he said a virtual debate was ridiculous but its widely seen that that 1st debate between biden and trump wasnt very good for the president he interrupted joe biden about 75 times the commission that organizes these was talking about potentially cutting off his mike and remember also the town the whole style debate for the President Trump is not his Natural Environment he doesnt always do the best in that kind of situation its not like a trump rally where hes just projecting out to thousands of supporters who would basically do anything for him he may well face some very difficult questions tonight in what is the biggest swing state in the entire country with 29 Electoral College votes now nationally trump looks like hes losing by about 10 points but here in florida joe bidens about 4 Percentage Points ahead of President Trump which is within the margin of error so there is a lot to play for in this state the state of course has played a huge role in previous president ial elections so i think people will be watching very closely the kinds of questions that donald trump gets particularly about covert 19 what his response is there a still plenty of people here who are independent and swing voters particularly in Central Florida and they could often and have in the past decided these elections so president needs to perform well tonight incidentally hes already tweeting out that this is a hash tag think news debate despite the fact that he agreed to it and he got together there for us in miami no doubt youll be following that. Events of tonight for us closely lets go to Heidi Jay Castro in philadelphia but in walking into that Town Hall Session with a widening lead in the polls if we are to believe the polls this is bidens race to. Thats right and his campaign certainly sees it that way i should say that with the widening circle of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in the biden and harris orbit that has been a dominating concern leading up to the event here tonight we know that 3 people 2 are who have worked with Vice President ial candidate pamela kemah harris and also an Aviation Company employee who was on the same plane as joe biden they are the individuals who have tested positive for the campaign say the candidates were well distanced from all of those people and the candidates themselves have tested negative but certainly we expect covert 19 to be among the top subjects that joe biden is faced with tonight here in philadelphia he is on his way to the National Constitution center right now and as andy said this appears this far to be joe bidens race to lose with National Polls showing him holding leads in the double digits against President Trump so bringing up the death toll of covert here in the United States thats approaching 220000 americans and the latest figures from the Labor Department today announcing that an additional 898000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits this past week while president very publicly walked away from negotiations with democrats on a much needed stimulus plan to get this economy continue its growth so certainly those are the president s weaknesses we know biden will also likely point out that his campaign has been much more cautious in social distancing with kemah harris canceling the remaining of her in Person Campaign events this week with joe biden at 1st. To a virtual faceoff with the president after of course the president had tested positive for coded and of course when trump backed out of that event that is why this town hall was planned and finally i should say that because of these dueling town halls if you will with the Vice President joe biden here in philadelphia trump down in florida theyre airing simultaneously on rival networks so that puts the American Voters certainly in a very difficult position where they will have to choose which candidate to listen to which may be very indicative of the Divisive Political climate that we find ourselves in now indeed Heidi Joe Castro there for us in philadelphia many thanks. Now twitter is investigating what appears to be a global outage on its platform uses have been unable to send any tweets with no clear sign of what has caused the problem is twice as long as outage in recent years theyve been scuffles between thai police and antigovernment protesters who have defied a ban on public gatherings. The demonstrations in central bangkok come a day off to thailands government announced the bounds through an emergency decree thats failed to quell the growing protest movement which is calling for the prime ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy scott hardly has the latest from Bangkok Police leave a long night out front of thailands seat of power Government House as street cleaners wash away what was left behind by the thousands of antigovernment protesters from the night before several 100 protesters camped out overnight just before 5 am they were pushed out with calls from protest leaders for calm they left peacefully but later in the day some of the most high profile protest leaders were arrested. The protester clearing operation was given the green light when an emergency decree was announced at 4 am saying that gatherings of more than 5 people it was now illegal. The decree cited that the protests were illegal public gatherings causing chaos and disorder and threatening state security part of the justification for that decree was this hundreds of protesters using a 3 finger salute as the motorcade of queen city da past by the salute has become a symbol of the protests the calls for government and monarchy reform at the daily life that even will be the prime minister. Would not result in order long long crises in thailand because. You know problems will not just lie and. Progress that has moved on now from start checking on the news there each one is this little tool becoming. A decisive when i want to reform or not as we are now in New Territory with the protesters directly in strongly calling for reform in the monarchy the government no doubt is feeling immense pressure from the pouts to find that new emergency order and risking arrest protesters took over a major intersection one of the high end shopping districts in central bangkok they set up a stage where they called for their protest leaders to be freed saying theyll continue their protests making sure that they are heard by those in power its got harder aljazeera bangkok. Sell ahead on aljazeera yemens largest prisoner swap finally takes place well look at what it means for the peace process. All say living in peaceful coexistence until now how fighting is affecting minority groups and i thought by john. Weve got some much cooler weather pushing across eastern parts of the u. S. Big area cloud here just tumbling out of canada 2 cold fronts on this one so much colder air much fresher conditions pushing over towards eastern seaboard as we go through the next couple of days over towards the west where we could do with some cooler and probably some wetter weather fight the heat wave continuing getting into the thirtys once again for San Francisco and for los angeles no sign of any significant rainfall base of rain up toward the Pacific Northwest into western canada cross the rockies and into snow over the high ground of course the temperatures struggling to get to freezing there in calgary basin places a shabby rain just around the lakes as that wet or whether theres a cooler weather over towards the eastern seaboard on friday and it pushes a little further east was in office as we go on through saturday some heavy bursts of rain into new england into the eastern side of canada could see if you show is set to announce was a fast southeast temperatures recovering for Central Plains 22 celsius there in kansas city not a dry weather but wet weather across the mountain states and across the plains plenty a wet weather to go into the caribbean heavier showers that will likely be across the western side of the caribbean into Central America although we have got quite elected disturbance for the lesser antilles. Never convicted and yet incarcerated fiends. Confined in his own be in prison. For as the journey of a man. Who after losing his proven in his memory. Is left amenti to consume. Every the few chance hes doing. The reminder. On an easier. The. You watching out is there are mind our top stories this hour the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths in europe could be up to 5 times higher by january if containment measures on stepped up france germany and the u. K. Among countries tightening restrictions after a surge in infections. U. S. President donald trump and his white house rival joe biden are about to hold separate televised town all style events they were supposed to meet face to face for a 2nd debate the trump withdrew after it was changed to a virtual. Huge crowd to define a ban on gatherings in thailand the government issued to create an end opposition demonstrations 6 protest leaders have been arrested. The state of emergency has been declared in the sudanese state of cause salah after days of fighting 8 people are reported to have been killed the unrest started after the local government was dismissed protests were also held in port sudan where a curfew has been imposed the un is describing a prisoner swap between yemens warring sides as a milestone and hopes to end the 5 year war or than a 1000 prisoners are being exchanged as part of a deal 1st agreed back in 2018. Has more. A long awaited moment in yemen prisoners held in captivity for years read in the largest Prisoner Exchange between the warring factions the deal was brokered by the u. N. In 2018 but never implemented but this time both iraq and the government representatives set aside their differences hoping the swap could lead to thousands of detainees being liberated in the future. It was a carefully arranged operation saudi so their knees and government detainees boarded a plane that took off from who the hell son our airport their destination airport in saudi arabia. Are the same time who thier rebels were transferred from say Union Airport in southern yemen just any delay could have job the whole agreement. A separate Prisoner Exchange took place on wednesday brokered by oman the deal allowed more than 200 have these stranded in amman to return home in exchange for the release of 2 u. S. Citizens detained by the who these the rebels also sent back the remains of a 3rd american who died in captivity. Citizen living working in yemen and. Was in prison for 899. 00 days 2 years and 6 months in solitary confinement. And it was hell really have bad bad experience and i think. His majesty some fun for his assistance in getting us. The u. N. Held the Prisoner Exchange as a milestone its hope is to convince feuding parties to restart political talks to end the war in yemen. U. N. Envoy Martin Griffiths faces a delicate task ahead encouraging the parties to do just that. But yemen is now more divided than ever the iran back to these control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u. A. E. In the south whitening to declare a state of their own. While our diplomatic edison james base has more on what the exchange could mean for the prospects of peace. Well this is arguably the most important positive development in yemen for almost 2 years the development came as the Un Security Council was having its monthly meeting on yemen and the Un Special Envoy Martin Griffiths said he hoped that this development would mean more prisoner releases and wider political progress we have some good mirrors in yemen today. And as you probably know since the smalling the skies of yemen have seen what i like to refer to as an left of her party is a started releasing prisoners and detainees of the agreement they reached on the 27th of september in switzerland and this process will lead to the release of over a 1000 individuals all returning to their families this will bring immense relief and comfort to all those families who waited so long to be reunited as well as other families close relations friends and members of their communities after speaking to the Security Council mr griffiths had a virtual briefing with reporters which i attended and he talked about his next steps he said that he wants in the coming weeks to have a meeting in person meeting to try and get more prisoners released. Saudi arabias foreign minister has told a washington think tank hes open to working with castle to result the blockade saudi arabia the u. A. E. Behind an egypt have imposed the economic and diplomatic embargo since 2017 accusing castle supporting terrorism catalyze denied the accusations of prince faisal. Wood says he hopes a settlement can be reached. I certainly hope that cooler heads will prevail. And find a solution i believe that we are committed to finding a solution we are we are we from the beginning we have worked with the late emir of kuwait to find a path forward we continue to be willing to engage with our coverage brothers and we hope that they are as committed to that engagement and if we are able to find a path forward to address the legitimate security concerns of the quartet drove us to take the decisions we took that will be good news for the region will be good news i think for the for stability and security but we do need to address the legitimate security concerns of the quartet and i think there is a path towards that and we are hoping that we can find that in the relatively near future as a by johns president says his army will take all of nick on account of acts Major Regions unless on nina agrees to withdraw within a specified time frame and comments have the dashed hopes that a moscow mediated ceasefire could bring an end to the conflict all and 600 people have been killed so far since fighting over the disputed region broke out last month. Well its been the scene of conflict since the early 1990 s. Armenia says theyre going to cut it back must be an independent states while azerbaijan says its very territory so them consoler looks at how the fighting is affecting azerbaijans minority groups. This is where the Jewish Community gathers in azerbaijan 2nd largest city ganja there are 150 jewish families who live here and call themselves mountain jews a reference to their origins and the carcasses this was the place where they prepared for the festival of show men outside us on october the 10th but a rocket hit a school board and across the street from them that morning they say theyre not scared to come here in crowds because they fear their city has become a target. Throwing the media since that day we havent been sleeping through the night were watching our every each other i have a bunker in my house i gather my neighbors so all of us are safe weve been sleeping with our clothes on with piled up some supplies including our childrens clothes if i had to say your essays are serious and armenians had lived in peace until the fight for not going to begin and deny 990 s. She says peoples ethnicities and religion was never an issue here. We used to be all together at festivals weddings funerals but some of the armenians change suddenly were not fighting the armenian people but the fascists. Jews account for less than one percent of us are big population after 10200000. 00. The Jewish Community here who like other azerbaijani citizens has been uncomfortable since the rockets hit here remaining as of the rocket also causes damage in the nearby buildings windows were broken we had to cancel our gathering our children are scared. Before armenia and azerbaijan attained their independence from the soviet union in 1991 there were 390000 are millions who lived in. Including 2145000 in nagano karbala. But the latest official data says there are 120000 i dont mean eons left in the country figures say 160000 as there is from armenia had to escape back to our survey job and a further 800000 were displaced after Iranian Forces well cuboid there are 7 cities around the horn a kurd a bar in dooly ninetys armenian churches have been preserved as Historical Structures in azerbaijan but they are not open for service locals say the remaining armenians here do not like to reveal themselves and some of them have even changed their names many armenians and as it was say they have lived in these lands in peace before but the last 3 in their case have been years of dispute and conflict some say quite existence is still possible if azerbaijan has control of the car of the others of course that argue that there has been too much killing and suffering because all of us who are arming get us average. Kurdistans new prime ministers solder job out of has assumed president ial powers after the resignation of the president and the parliamentary speaker theres been weeks of antigovernment protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month protestors accuse the government of rigging the vote the speaker of the separatists Cyprus Parliament to retreat sori has resigned in the wake of a cash for citizenship scandal and al jazeera investigation found senior politicians were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract Financial Investment in exchange for the e. U. Citizenship but the government has now abolish the program from nicosia heres david harrison. Theres been another Dramatic Development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the suitors have been hanging on for a couple of days but weve seen protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign is a serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al Jazeera Documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal obtain an e. U. Pos port the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule with mean showing him holding now notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera theres a serious insists that he will be proven innocent when the attorney generals investigation is complete but for now its another scalp for the people who say that this man is corrupt despite his objections and that he has to step down
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