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And were going to begin with a coronavirus pandemic with countries across europe grappling with a rise in cold with 19 infections in some places governments have had little choice but to shut down entire cities to contain the virus on thursday france became the 2nd country in the European Union to record more than a 1000000 infections paris and 8 other large cities have been subjected to nighttime curfews and saturday that follows spain which became the 1st in the to exceed a 1000000 cases the Health Minister says he expects life is going to be tough for the next 5 to 6 months meanwhile germanys reported a daily record hike in infections on thursday thats after the Health Minister qian spahn tested positive for corona virus new restrictions are in place in the Czech Republic after record of nearly 15000 cases in one day on thursday all shops except supermarkets and pharmacies were ordered to close the halls joining us live from the european Broadcast Center in london jonah were talking about a significant rise in many countries across europe. And not only big rises but lots of governments now beginning to say this thing is out of control the 2nd wave now racing across europe and a lot of countries having to grapple with the sense that whatever they did in the spring that might have worked then was then followed by a summer in which restrictions were widely lifted across the continent and perhaps people are being lulled into a so the sense of false security which is being absolutely shattered now and of course theres the economy of it all to think about countries have now got to think about what sort of restrictions are put in place now theres a deeper luptons to go back to the sort of measures that were in place earlier in the year because of the sheer cost of them to lots of countries in instituting ranges of measures that they hope will help but short of a full lockdown possibly wont the Czech Republic you mention theyre one of the worst affected countries in europe has in fact gone back to the massive restrictions that we place in the spring that something the government had told the country repeatedly would never happen but the Health Ministry there reporting that the health of the Health Service infrastructure is on the brink of collapse possibly within the next fortnight so they feel they have no choice more restrictions coming in in poland restrictions being discussed further restrictions in spain as you say that became the 1st e. U. Country to hit a 1000000 infections on wednesday almost immediately followed by france and Public Officials succumbing as well not just the Health Minister in germany a country that had done so well with all of this earlier in the year it also struggling now the Health Minister there himself has tested positive but in belgium and weve had dire warnings out of belgium this week about the pandemic raging out of control the deputy Prime Minister vilmas there at its just been reported has gone into i c u. Lets talk about the u. K. Because of course you were there for us and the u. K. Is feeling the pain as well not just the pressure on the Health Service but on the economy as well oh yeah well the u. K. Is a perfect example of the sort of thing that lots of countries are dealing with although statistically rather worse here than most the chancellor of the tsunami is within this hour in fact about to unveil yet another raft of Financial Support measures his 3rd intervention in just a month aimed this mainly at hospitality workers and businesses in accommodation and food with the latest figures coming out here suggesting that 17 percent of businesses in accommodation and food have reported that they are on the brink of imminent insolvency so the chancellors about to unveil these new measures very welcome no doubt but i wateringly expensive adding hundreds of millions this to debt public debt spiraling to its highest level is a ratio of g. D. P. In 50 years 246000000000 pounds to 300000000000. 00 the deficit at the moment far greater than anything we saw here during the financial crisis in 2008 all the big recession of the ninetys and that bodes extremely unwell for the years to come past the end of the crisis and into the sort of restructuring and rebuilding ahead jonah thanks very much thats done a whole life for us in london and South African government is warning of a severe increase in covert 1000. 00 cases thats after one of its largest cities cape town reported a 42 percent rise over the last 2 weeks of family members joining us live from johannesburg just talk us through whats behind these figures from the. Well south africa until this point has adopted what its called a risk adjusted strategy and at the height of the pandemic around june july and august so there fricker was between level 5 level 4 and 3 in the strategy and now has moved down to level one which is the the the easiest or the most lenient level in the strategy now most social events are allowed theyve increased the number of people that can visit restaurants bars that can attend the funerals and this is the concern from the government that because of the pandemic has now been around for so long people are increasingly complacent theyre not Wearing Masks properly theyre not at hearing to social distancing and the major concern i think for the government at this point are these social events specifically nightclubs and bars you mentioned that in cape town there was a 42 percent increase in the last couple of weeks and one of the concerns they is any of bar in cape town that is considered a so a super spread away at least 80 people were infected there we saw something similar in the eastern cape where students went affected university and so the Health Ministers really in kizzy is saying that complacency at the easing of restrictions is leading to what could in ever to be a 2nd surge and this is what the leading expert in south africa is saying around the pandemic and what south africa potentially could face Going Forward into provincial travel has been allowed for several weeks now there is increasing movement of people throughout the country and south africa is now going into its summer months and usually around this time there is increased travel people go on holiday theres almost a complete shut down around south africa as people go on holiday go back to their homes in different provinces and some talk does indicate that the government could. Possibly consider stopping this type of travel because theyre concerned about the 2nd search so essentially theyve east restrictions but at the same time this is leading to an increase in numbers and so the government is likely to have to grapple with decisions in the next in the coming weeks around what happens next to try and stop the 2nd wave of a miller bringing us up to date from johannesburg. The f. B. I. Is accusing both iran and russia of trying to interfere with the u. S. Election thats less than 2 weeks away it says both countries have obtained data on Voter Registration iran is accused of sending fake emails to voters to intimidate them my kind of reports from washington d. C. These are members of a far right wing Group Calling itself the proud boys according to the f. B. I. Iranian agents are planting the emails to Democratic Party voters purporting to come from the proud boys with the intention of creating social unrest through there and we have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters incite social unrest and damage President Trump of repeatedly recently when asked to condemn the proud boys President Trump instead asked them to stand back and stand by both the director of National Intelligence and the f. B. I. Head ive been accused of attempting to downplay russian interference allegedly in accordance with the president s wishes but russia was also named 1st we have confirmed that some Voter Registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia. This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy barack obama had been warned of russian interference in the months leading to the 2016 election won by President Trump but the only thing apparently on his mind on this day was to catapult his former Vice President to victory physically campaigning for the 1st time a bomber displayed the charm that made him a 2 term president and you know my very good. I have to say that because of my business actually accentuates. Theres a couple things that. Really look like i could just take up at any time but a full throated attack on President Trump he hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends were treating the presidency like a reality show that he could use to get attach it was no coincidence that the bombers 1st appearance in the Campaign Came in the capital of pennsylvania barack obama took pennsylvania in 200820128 was flipped by donald trump in 2016 the state has a high proportion of African American voters and joe biden and his Campaign Managers have identified pennsylvania as the single most important state to win if he is to make his way to the white house donald trump continued on his campaign trail apparently not pausing to prepare for the final debate with joe biden that will be taking place on thursday my kind of aljazeera washington. Live for us from how is reacting to this story. Well the iranians are of course very very adamant theyre rejecting all these accusations and the foreign minister has actually summoned the swiss ambassador in the capital to to the Foreign Ministry so they can express their disappointment and objection to these allegations made by the United States officials the Foreign Ministry spokesperson issued a statement just a short while ago in which she said that it is the United States that has a history of sowing discontent and interfering in other countries elections that is not something iran ever has done and they dont intend to start now he said these allegations are baseless and dangerous and they absolutely reject all these insinuations that iran has any interest in what happens in the United States elections now that is the official position within the government but as analysts that weve been speaking to over the past few weeks have pointed out it will make a difference with who wins the u. S. Elections in terms of what happens in iran in the coming months and years that is because the United States has withdrew from that nuclear deal in 2018 the President Trumpet said that it is not a good deal for them and they he read stated a number of sanctions on iran this is why the iranians have said that it doesnt matter who comes into power it is their policy towards iran that is more important having said that many analysts believe that if it is to be a Biden Administration things will be very very different between the 2 countries but if President Trump is reelected after the assassination of passive solar money in january we very unlikely that iranians would have any hope of a neat dialogue or trying to renegotiate a nuclear deal with the United States which means the countrys Economic Future would continue to spiral downwards as a result of the pressure that theyre under the door so thanks very much indeed those dorsett about a lot of fronts into iran well as we mentioned the f. B. I. Has accused iran and russia of having u. S. Voter information. But unlike a run how russia is accused of using that data wasnt clear that minnesotan cultures and International Affairs analyst is joining us now from moscow thank you very much indeed for being with us why do you think that the f. B. I. Placed such an emphasis on iran but so little emphasis on russia well i think that 1st of all we must say we. Have seen a lot through the notion that this is the preelection contain right now and just an on there are just. Coming elections less than 3 weeks and i think that the the f. B. I. Actually these rules say that the the the the me allegations and even representation that russia is meddling you remember that back and forth yes and then 2016 there was a way also a leg agent that russia was our meddling with their. Negotiations and elections and between the candidates begin Democratic Party candidates and the republican Party Candidates and also there were allegations from the u. S. Side that russia is an actual maddening i think that the best of all that is the Election Campaign which is now on the verge of the michigan and secondly that is that if. We know that there is a crisis in seoul a crisis right now in the United States demonstrations that strikes now so are the United States would like to try and then that any and external enemy to explain why the United States government couldnt help with this crisis. But it is significant isnt it as that russia was identified by the Security Forces in the United States as having played at least some significant role in the election in 2161. 00 would expect russia or indeed any other country that considered it viable to take some sort of action even if just to say that to see if it could this is publicly a public publicly available information that is available to anybody who wants to buy it it seems understandable but russia given its track record would probably want to do the same thing again. While actually you know i think that. Despite the sad that it is a public it public the rebel information that russia would like to try it again i mean i mean this is just the location of. Russian president Vladimir Putin has. Despite grow whatever he can that it will be that rather the next president the United States russia would deal would deal with the. United states but during the. Bilateral relations between russia and the United States i think that these Public Information is its course actually and i think that russia has no any interest like iran by the way nor any interest in that link or interfering into internal minister netted state is it not feasible though that even if it were not the case that russia was intentionally meddling in terms of trying to push one candidate over another that if it was able to at least intimate that it had the capability of interfering in the election process and therefore sold over the election process itself that that was something that russia along with any other government to fight might feel the need to do it would take action on. Well how could you imagine actually that russia is so. Despite the always so they gave russia could physically of lets say using the socalled hack us computer hackers would interfere would be meddling with their United States election process at the basis i think this is just impossible because. On the other side on the other side if the United States would like to incipience the russians on those then its all they could probably be succeeding that they got but you see that not all these exact prices in the going to cause of the. Emerging crisis in the doorway and there are accusations of that its like that and i think thats happened well its all called and there are some who do actually incipient this guy and i think that the main reason actually thats all the sun the geisha and. Against the russia is that russia is becoming very rapidly becoming a global extra in the in Global Affairs and the right of states doesnt want the russia to be a global actor again in the global scene not a political irene not so thats why thats why i always like a chance actually take place right now before the elections and i can say that in a sudden free appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed for joining us on aljazeera. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including a murdered teacher is awarded frances highest honor as the president hails him. To their 1st chaotic encounter what will change for the final debate between donald trump and joe biden. In Manchester United are feeling the financial pinch well explain why in sports. The Afghan Military has confirmed it was responsible for an airstrike this reported to have killed 12 children