what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. good what's the picture from the inside. as think russia's foreign policy is too soft going to be the most russian goals how we achieve. peace and more diffuse full russia on al-jazeera. local restrictions imposed across europe as france records the highest number of corona virus deaths in 4 months the u.k. also warns of new curbs. we are now seeing a 2nd wave coming in we soon see that in france you see spain across across europe . i'm not matheson this is a disease or

a live from doha also coming up the top health agency in the u.s. reverses controversial advice on coronavirus testing amid allegations of political interference. early voting begins in 4 u.s. states will be alive in minnesota for both presidential candidates are campaigning . and chinese on tech talk and we chat won't be downloadable in the u.s. from sunday the president says he's still open to a deal. a surge in coronavirus cases has forced several governments to reimpose some restrictions infections worldwide have now topped $30000000.00 spain is limiting movement in and around the capital in the dritte and the british prime minister is warning that a 2nd wave is inevitable meanwhile israel has been forced to impose another nationwide shutdown that in baba reports on the situation in europe. early on in

the pandemic spain was hit just about as hard as anywhere in europe now in the capital madrid the health systems under a new pressure with covered 19 cases rising one in 5 hospital beds in the region is now taken up by someone with corona virus. we affect your aged with people who need health care and patients that need care we're doing the best we can. but we need more health workers we need more resources. spain's one of many european nations now bringing in localized lockdowns worried about a 2nd wave of covered over winter months for this bus driver bringing his son in for a test it's the right approach you know i understand that we need to save the economy and move forward the health is the most important thing but our health we don't have money in the czech republic there were more than 3000 new cases on thursday adjusted for population only spain and france within the european union have seen a bigger jump in the last 2 weeks now bars are having their opening hours reduced

and in prague people will have to wear a face covering it outdoor events with more than 100 attending in the u.k. covered cases have doubled in a week and health officials are worried about rises in infections and hospital admissions among all ages next week people in more regions will be told not to mix with other households just like nearly 2000000 in the north east of england have i think it's a fast because and one hand she's got people going honey it is if the people who can go into james if a paper that we're going to restaurants import to 10 o'clock at night but you can't have your own family tree house i mean i don't understand it where's the sense in western logic if they hadn't if we hadn't come along to well you know people that have been checked more nor. we wouldn't be in this position now we've been there they don't know along the u.k. government's considering warnings from its scientific advisors that restrictions may have to be imposed across england next month to drive down transmission we are

now seeing a 2nd wave coming in we saw seen in france you see spain across across europe it's being absolutely i'm afraid inevitable you would see it in this country in scotland the 1st ministers calling this the most decisive moment since march we may know. at 10 airlie or stage or a similar path to that that has been taken. by france so our task is to meet if we can interrupt that and we don't end up we're. here in london the mayor city can is warning that the city's about 2 weeks behind those regions of england already under local lockdown he's also hit out at problems experienced by londoners needing a coverage test citing government incompetence across europe governments are having to act fast winter is approaching and with it predictable pressures on public health facilities but persuading the public to abide by new curbs on their freedom

could prove a tough challenge do you barbara al-jazeera london. the top health agency in the us has reversed a guideline uncovered 19 testing after widespread criticism since august the centers for disease control and prevention had said people didn't need to get tested if they'd come into close contact with an infected person but didn't feel sick themselves that prompted objections from scientists who alleged the revised rules came from trump appointees let's go live to alan fischer in the u.s. state of virginia just give us some of the background to this allan. well the c.d.c. has had a very busy week there has been suggestions that they have put pressure on the scientists to really help shore up donald trump's position when it comes to discussing what's happening with the virus there was an incident involving someone called paul alexander who's a part time public health specialist he was sending e-mails to michael moore who is

the head of communication a political appointee at the c.d.c. criticizing scientists have been there for 32 years in one case saying that when they were going on to do media interviews they were issuing advice solely term bias at the the president one of those issues he raised was when a scientist who had been in the job for 32 years had dealt with many crisis over that time at the c.d.c. had suggested that wearing masks was a good thing to do for the american public something we know that scientists have talked about quite extensively in the head of the c.d.c. talked about that on capitol hill just the last day or so michael as well he is a political appointee is a see he said an interesting week as well just in the last couple of days he posted what was regarded as a facebook rant what he said that the scientists at the c.d.c. the people he worked with were sitting around in sweat pants planning what they would do to try and bring don't donald trump next he added to that the people should buy ammunition because he felt that there was going to be the possibility of

an armed uprising after the election he also admitted that he'd health issues now interestingly enough the c.d.c. say that michael is off for health reasons and will be absent for some time and as for paul alexander what we are told by the c.d.c. in the last couple of hours that he is no longer in government so let's talk about this change of advice for the city and see what more do we know about what they're telling people to do in. well what was interesting is that the advice on the website was to some degree pretty clear but it also upset a number of scientists they said that if you had been in contact with someone who had covered but you when experiencing any symptoms then there was no real need for you to get a test no that was really upset scientists to say look if you is symptomatic we really need to know it's all part of track and trace these said it would be very helpful so it could work if anyone was actually provoking obrecht elsewhere and so

they were really angry about this and were speaking to the media no just in the last 24 hours the c.d.c. has changed that advice they say that if you are around someone who has covered in even if you don't experience the symptoms there is a very good idea for you to get tested so a complete $360.00 but this all builds into the narrative that there is pressure on the c.d.c. to try and fit in with donald trump's narrative about the virus but while there's no direct evidence that the white house itself was involved what is clear is that there are political appointees in places like the c.d.c. who don't want to be seen to be getting ahead of the president they don't want to be seen to be contradicting him they want to do the best they can to try and ensure that he has a political victory come november so they are putting pressure on the scientists and in many cases the scientists are pushing back but with changing this advice

it's a very real victory for the scientists at the c.d.c. in this case alan thanks very much indeed sal and fisher in the u.s. state of virginia guatemala's president has tested positive for covert 1964 year old out 100 is now urging his entire cabinet to get tested is the 4th latin american leader to contract the coronavirus well let's go live to mine and apollo who's following this from mexico city just give us some more about what we know about this. guatemala's president they did confirm over a radio announcement on friday that he is indeed he did indeed test positive for 19 the president added that he's instructed his entire cabinet and staff to be tested ordering his staff and cabinet to 2 to work from home now we should note that this announcement by the president of guatemala for testing positive for cocaine 1000 coincides with the government reopening its economy reopening borders with

restrictions reopening airports with restrictions so this news of the president testing positive for coping 1000 as you can imagine has invited criticisms of the guatemalan government's handling of the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus in the country all run through the latest numbers as of friday evening from guatemala as ministry of health 84344 confirmed cases 3076 confirmed deaths compared to other countries in the region with larger populations countries like mexico countries like brazil that lead the region in terms of contagion and lead the region in terms of deaths it doesn't seem. like such a massive outbreak but guatemala does have the highest death toll in central america from code 1000 it is considered one of the worst outbreaks in the region so it has invited criticism but regarding the news of the president testing positive for cocaine $1000.00 he isn't the 1st world leader from the region to test positive

he now joins the ranks of the of brazil and one would lead to event is a ponderous who have also tested positive for cope with 19 since the start of the outbreak in the region a memo the world health organization has been warning the latin america has been reopening to soon does give us a picture of broader picture if you like of what's happening across latin america at the moment. generally speaking when you look at the contagion rate in latin america specifically countries like i mentioned before countries like mexico or brazil that lead the region in terms of contagion lead the region in terms of confirmed deaths related to cope with $1000.00 there is indication that the outbreak itself is improving in latin america overall it's still one of the worst affected regions in the world but what's causing a large among international health observers at the time is are these small pockets of contagion hotspots in a number of countries that are either showing alarming rates of contagion or

showing evidence of a resurgence of this virus now the world health organization list countries like brazil mexico ecuador and bolivia among these countries that are showing rates of death rates that are starting to climb at once again and again pointing and warning that it's a potential that these countries in latin america are reopening their economies too soon i do want to note that we are keeping a close eye specifically on the region between on that border between colombia and venezuela international health observers with the world health organization say that they've observed and reported a tenfold increase in corona virus cases within a period of only 2 weeks so these are alarming rates of contagion in certain parts of certain countries in latin america and the warning here is that we could see a resurgence already in it in a part of the world in a region of the world that's been one of the worst affected by the ongoing pandemic and smoking a little pot bring us up to the situation across latin america from mexico city mo

thanks very much indeed peru's president has defended himself against allegations of corruption as members of congress decide whether to impeach him once and for scott told legislators his conscience is clear and that the country shouldn't be distracted from its real challenges he denies interfering in an investigation into government contracts awarded to a musician who is a friend of his. 2 police officers accused of killing a 46 year old man have been arrested in colombia they're facing charges of aggravated homicide and torture the death of the knesset sparked violent protests in bogota after a video showed police tending him to the ground and shocking him with a stun gun police say the law student had violated coronavirus restrictions 13 people were killed and hundreds were injured in several days of protests that it will all hell if i have to has announced he'll allow oil production to resume from friday after us forces in eastern libya have imposed

a blockade on oil facilities in january but libya's a u.n. recognize government in tripoli says it won't resume exports the indian army has concluded its soldiers wrongly killed 3 men during a gun battle in indian administered kashmir 2 months ago initially the army described the men as pakistani terrorists but their families said they were labeled hers and filed a complaint indian soldiers in the region have sweeping powers to search seize and even shoot suspects the report concluded the soldiers exceeded their legal powers. still ahead on al-jazeera taiwan scrambles fighter planes as chinese military jets approach the island but a senior u.s. official is visiting so i paid. for this was a place with no rules set the rules of course they could do whatever they want to speak to a man tortured by authorities in belarus as the u.n. condemns attacks on up to 70000 people.

hello there the remnants of sonnie still producing flooding rains across more eastern sections of the united states this massive county can see that is it is eventually carrying away from the east coast and study by saturday should be much drier day generally not in the goals this is the tenchi the next tropical storm will fade this will bring some fairly heavy rains this coastal areas but as i say cross the east it's a fairly good clear picture and some very good rains pushing into the pacific northwest you can see had how much is a well down in seattle and the rain really just by tools east the only downside is the winds will increase that have more of those red flag warnings in place and of course also with the winds coming in from the sure it will actually push that snake much further across eastern sections of the united states that generally on sunday it's a fairly clear picture apart from the gulf coast particularly texas that is where

we're going to see some very strong winds and also those heavy amounts of rain meanwhile down into the caribbean we're also watching this is major hurrican teddy on its way towards bermuda elsewhere we got a case of scattered showers and thunderstorms some heavy downpours at times in southern sections of mexico and a system just heading towards the coast of texas that's where the very heavy rain will be elsewhere as we go through sunday scattered showers and thunderstorms. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the oceans $21.00 geologists are secretly plotting new borders. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin on

a 0. or 2 on the order. form. we want to go to see a reminder of our top stories this hour spain's capital madrid is going back into lockdown after a rise in corona virus cases in the u.k. the prime minister says a 2nd wave is inevitable and that another locks on might be necessary. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention has reversed a guideline uncovered 19 testing up to criticism from scientists tests are now recommended for anyone who's been in contact with an infected person. peru's

president has defended himself against allegations of corruption members of congress are deciding whether to impeach him out of discarded told legislators his conscience is clear and the country shouldn't be distracted from its real challenges. the november presidential election in the us is still more than 6 weeks away but early voting has begun in 4 states people have begun casting their ballots in person in minnesota virginia south dakota and wyoming voting by mail is already underway in some of those states where john hendren is live for us in minneapolis that's in minnesota one of the states where early voting has begun john what people have been saying about why they're voting hourly. well as i speak president trump is arriving in bije in the northern part of this state but here in minneapolis the polling has closed at the government center behind me and we did talk to a number of people who came out after voting with coded 19 in with concern about

mail in ballots they were taking yellow chances they told us that they wanted to make sure their votes were in and in some cases they wanted to get out and campaign and ensure that their friends were voting as well and because we're in minneapolis the most liberal part of this state the voters we talked to a largely joe biden fans it's a democratic area and they said they wanted to make sure that all votes were counted early and one of the reasons for that it's not just the covert 1000 crisis it's that president trump has been really sowing fear that mail in ballots would be problematic polls show that democrats are overrepresented with mail in ballots and so the president has been discouraging them saying that the post office couldn't handle it they might not come in time that that there could be widespread fraud despite the fact that there is no historical evidence to suggest that that is the case in any case all of the uncertainty in the possibility of crowds during kovac 19 have left many of the voters we talked to saying they just want to get this vote

over john we're just watching some pictures from the agencies not. arrived off his plane as you were talking about he's been in front of a some of his crowds who are waving placards at the airports and so on last minnesota by a slim margin in 2016 how the trump and biden campaigns out of approaching this differently this time. that's right forgive that siren behind the camera at the moment but this is not a state that normally both campaigns would be paying heavy extension to minnesota hasn't voted for a republican for president since richard nixon in 1972 and when ronald reagan swept 49 of 50 states in 1950 a state of course was minnesota and that's been the history until last time around when donald trump lost by $1.00 percentage points that put a scare in democrats and that's why they're paying

a lot of attention and one of the places he picked up a lot of votes was in the northern area this is a mining area where both of them are campaigning right now well actually joe biden wrapped up a couple of hours ago trump picked up a lot of votes from what used to be a heavily pro-labor pro democratic area there was a bit of a pro trump rebellion there because a lot of those voters were sort of the older white voters that had gravitated toward trump so now both sides are treating this like it is a state that is up for grabs polls show biden a head right now but both sides are working hard at it in the biden campaign tells us that while trump has been suggesting that biden is wearing a mask in his basement and not traveling the biden campaign will actually be out hitting a couple of campaign stops each week foes focusing heavily on those early voting states as they did here in minnesota today john thanks very much indeed that's john hendren live for us in minneapolis. people in the u.s.

won't be able to download the social media apps to talk on which from sunday night president donald trump is banning them over national security concerns to talk to parent company by dunces trying to finalize a deal to sell its american operations white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports from washington for a stern rebuke from the u.s. president we're not going to do anything to jeopardize security. the white house alleges the popular chinese based apps tick-tock and we chat are stealing american users' private information and handing it to the government in beijing on friday the u.s. commerce department announced we chat will be banned in the u.s. starting sunday well new restrictions on tick tock will also go into place a full ban on tick-tock could come into effect in november after weeks of bidding tech giant oracle submitted a proposal to run the apps in the united states but before was approved the u.s.

government moved ahead with the ban we have some great options if we can keep a lot of people happy but have the security that we need we have to have the total security for. us social media apps like facebook and instagram are banned in china but tick-tock officials say this decision could affect the entire industry there vallon to fight the new restrictions in the courts vanessa pappas tick tocks general manager in the us is inviting facebook and instagram to publicly join our challenge and supporter litigation this is a moment to put aside our competition and focus on core principles like freedom of expression and due process of law we chat has more than $1200000000.00 active users but less than 2 percent are from the united states. the biggest impact could be on u.s. companies like wal-mart starbucks nike and amazon they all use we chat e-commerce

play. artform in china to conduct business this week's move is part of a bigger fight the trump administration continues to wage with beijing recent weeks the u.s. has taken multiple actions including rejecting chinese sovereignty over disputed parts of the south china sea blacklisting china's largest tech company while way and cancelling the visas of thousands of chinese grad students and researchers in the united states one analyst argues the move by the trump administration could have unintended consequences one of the principles there in the cold war is we tried to get as much information in to communist countries as we could we dropped leaflets radio and now we're cutting off one of the made mechanisms we have for telling people about democracy in the rest of the world this latest fight with china is a risky one for trump with just weeks until the u.s.

election 20 percent of tik tok users will vote for the 1st time in november and trump's move is likely to be unpopular kimberly how good al-jazeera washington timeline's air force has repeatedly scrambled interceptor jets to track approaching chinese warplanes are taking part in military exercises during the latest visit to taiwan by a high ranking u.s. envoy china's government accuses the u.s. and taiwan of what it calls collusion to stir up trouble robert bryant reports. taiwan scrambling gets jets after a team chinese military aircraft entered its defense identification zone before turning back. as it's done previously in the taiwan strait this military exercise by china was its way of showing displeasure it's increased diplomatic exchanges between the u.s. and taiwan. it comes as u.s.

undersecretary keith crock the most senior state department official in decades continues his visit to the island that follows another visit last month by u.s. health secretary alex aser as part of what beijing has condemned as a dangerous trend. of our whether it is to control china using taiwan as leverage or solicit foreign support it's all wishful thinking and destined to be a dead end those who play with fire will burn themselves. once again taiwan is caught in the middle of worsening china u.s. relations increasingly the u.s. is stepping up to back taiwan for a whole range of reasons but to counter china regionally mainly. on a democracy as well as its critical job graphic location has assumed an increasingly more important role in u.s. strategy ending up civic so we're likely to see an increasing retching up of tension in the tawana shades diplomacy with taiwan seems to be part of

a wider wreford by the us to rally an international coalition against what it sees as increasing chinese belligerence with mounting criticism of beijing's actions in shin jang and hong kong and its response to covert 19 as well as territorial disputes with its neighbors there's a growing list of countries sharing an anti china grievance china has shown it's ready to push back and with growing military power that it can call upon macbride al-jazeera. i universities are looking at possible human rights violations in belarus has warned of another iron curtain descending on europe an urgent debate has been held over allegations of torture and other abuses of in last month's disputed presidential election one of the victims of violence and minsk has spoken to step us and. praying to stop the violence in bella ruth said again 1000000 it's

felt firsthand what government forces are capable off the baptists community members as he was on his way to pray denied after last month's presidential election when he was dragged out of his car by mass policeman and crammed into a detention truck police forced him to crawl on top of other men and he's asked to watch a began. i told them again and again i just came here to pray i'm religious person but every time i gave this answer they gave me an electric shock i only wore t. shirts so it was very painful they used to turn my legs and on my arms but mainly on my back in the heart area the most scary moment was when i understood that i wasn't on without any laws this was a place with no rules except the rule of course they could do whatever they wanted . at the police station his condition deteriorated so much he says he felt like he was having a heart attack police called an ambulance and hospital doctors stabilized his condition after president alexander lukashenko declared an 80 percent election when

nearly 7000 people were detained and hundreds have testified that they were beaten and tortured many suffered brain injuries organ damage and fractures meeting in geneva the united nations human rights council condemned the bellows government for the alleged abuses and sas it's monitoring the situation closely at sergey 1000000 it doesn't believe anything will change. this resolution does not have any influence on our former president because he is a sick person and he cannot clearly judge the situation here but i am happy to know the. some countries talks to us not to recognize look at the longer and give opportunity to their position council an opposition leader to an oscar to represent our country before the human rights council can he then twitter lent a human rights defender who documented the abuses was detained her organisation now fears more arrests very dramatic and very hard time for all people here

but we will continue our activity in any way you know. no no no we will be here and will continue because we think we sure this is a legal activity where humor in the fenders and we walk for our side well international pressure is increasing on local schank us regime his government forces have stepped up repression many belorussians are fearing more arrests and prison sentences for those who have demanded justice look at shadows increasingly isolated by other countries his troops have accelerated their campaign of fear and terror at home despite the violence a game oh yeah and it's believed that the people of bella bruce will win even though he fears the road to victory will be a bitter and difficult one step lassen al-jazeera.

this is all just read these are the top stories spain's capital madrid is going back into lockdown after rising coronavirus cases in the u.k. the prime minister says a 2nd wave is inevitable and that another lockdown might be necessary the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention has reversed a guideline on covert 1000 testing after criticism from scientists tests are now recommended for anyone who's been in contact with an infected person ellen fisher has more. while there is no direct evidence that the white house itself was involved what is clear is that there are political appointees in places like the c.d.c. who don't want to be seen to be getting ahead of the president they don't want to be seen to be contradicting him they want to do the best they can to try and ensure that he has a political victory come november so they are putting pressure on the scientists and in many cases the scientists are pushing back but with changing this advice it's a very real victory for the scientists at the c.d.c.

in this case guatemala's president has tested positive for covert 1964 year old. he is now urging his entire cabinet to get tested the culture minister has also contracted the coronavirus jamaat is the 4th latin american leader to have tested positive for the virus whose president has defended himself against allegations of corruption members of congress are deciding whether to impeach him but in his current told legislators his conscience is clear and the country shouldn't be distracted from its real challenges the november presidential election in the u.s. is still more than 6 weeks away but early voting has begun in 4 states people have been casting their ballots in person in minnesota virginia so it's a closer and wyoming voting by mail is already underway in some other states those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness good buy.

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