not just the republican party but america needs 4 more years of president donald trump in the white house then the outcome of this election will determine i believe the course of our country for generations to come live coverage of the vice presidential debate on a. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm charlie ends that this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up the stage is set in coronavirus measures are in place we take a closer look at how the pandemic could influence the tone of the upcoming u.s. vice presidential debate international intervention to avoid a wider escalation in foreign ministers from armenia and azerbaijan commit to talks

on a ceasefire in the going to karabakh. unrest in athens after leaders of the far right golden dawn party a found guilty of running a criminal gang. and for the 1st time in its history the nobel prize for chemistry is said by 2 women that were developing the ability to edit d.n.a. . the 2 candidates to be the next vice president of the united states are preparing for a showdown in salt lake city in the coming hour as clear plastic barriers will separate my pens and call me the house who both reportedly tested negative for corona virus but the virus is likely to dominate the 90 minute debate which will focus on president trump's health and has been astray sions handling of the pandemic.

amidst the head spinning events of the past week the vice presidential debate on wednesday takes on unprecedented significance this is going to be a critically important debate usually v.p. debates are side shows with the kids dates earnestly discussing issues and tossing the occasional verbal zinger but as vice president mike pence and senator camel harris take to the stage in salt lake city the main issue is literally a matter of life or death i think there's going to be an enormous. focus on the president's health mr biden's health as well frankly they are the 2 oldest presidential nominees in american history but right now with the president ill and some questions swirling about how truly ill he is it really puts into stark contrast what this debate is actually about in it it is making sure that a person is ready to become president at a moment's notice in terms of substance the debate will almost certainly focus on

how the trumpet ministration has handled the pandemic that puts pince who chairs the white house coronavirus task force in a difficult spot he ran the task force he was chosen by the president to do it he was responsible for those early you know statements about just flattening the curbs i mean i imagine those that are working with county laris in preparation for this debate are spending a lot of their time coming up with creative ways to lay this all at the feet of the vice president and the president the style of the 2 candidates is quite different pence's stoic unflappable and unlikely to get rattled on stage he's a seasoned debater and his experience as a radio talk show host in the 1990 s. prepared him to think on his feet harris a former courtroom prosecutor has shown her ability to disconcert administration officials in senate hearings i wouldn't i wouldn't. yes i'm not a trick if you repeat that question i will repeat it with great uncertainty over

whether the 2 remaining presidential debates will take place at all the showdown in salt lake city may be the last debate before election day in a campaign full of unpredictable twists. well rob reynolds joins us now from salt lake city utah where the vice president debate will take place but that 1st presidential debate between thompson biden was short on policy and big on shouting how could these 2 compadre think we'll see a more civil discussion on that candidate's vision for america i think we can all count on that sally and i think it is generally acknowledged even within the republican party that president trumps. unhinged performance in cleveland in the 1st debate was bad for him was bad for the party and numerous polls showed that the voters agreed with that. as joe biden gained ground on the

president nationally and in several states after that debate so what he can expect to see here i think is a much more civil what's more sort of normal political discourse between the 2 candidates that's not to say that they won't spar with one another verbal e but that does happen in debates but as far as screaming over one another i think that americans have had plenty of that lately and voters will reward candidates who appear to do a more normal job of politics i mean and as well the styles of the 2 candidates are much different no one of course has the same style as president donald trump but. mike pence the vice president is very kind of unflappable he is very quick on his feet he has had this training as a talk show host before he began his political career he knows how to slip in

a very subtle dig but do so in a court of sort of you know hand you know a velvet glove type of manner on the other hand kamel harris less experienced at debating but she had some standout moments in her de debates when she was running for the democratic nomination at the expense of joe biden in some cases so she's good with a prepared line but i think what her job is here is to put the focus squarely on covert 19 on the 210000 more dead in the united states and on the fact that vice president pence at least nominally in the early days headed up the white house task force that was supposed to deal with the covert 19 pandemic so hopefully most civil but the has already been some tension between the 2 camps as a new kind of admissions to be used during the debate what more can you tell us.

right so originally they were supposed to be about a metre apart seated now they going to be more or less 2 metres apart and the congressional committee on presidential debates the commission has decreed that no one in the hall except for the 2 candidates and the moderator susan page of the newspaper usa today will be allowed to go bask list as you recall in cleveland the trump family and some of their guests they do all took off their masks as soon as they walked in this time anybody who takes off their mass is going to be escorted out according to the commission now the question of plexiglass shields it comes up because of course president trump has been with president trump who has coded and he's been in the white house which is rife with covert 19 at the moment so it was. suggested by the biden harris camp that there be a plexiglass divider between the 2 the. trump parents camp tried to make that

into an issue they they mocked harris they said if she wants to build a plexiglas fortress around herself that's just fine with us so she will have a divider near her not so much for vice president pence so you know covert 19 is is reshaping the way these political debates are taking place and we still don't know of course whether in fact the presidential candidates themselves will have another debate president trump wants to vice former vice president biden says he'll follow the science. run on funding the debate and lake city thanks and. polls consistently show that one in 5 american voters do not have a strong opinion of either of the vice presidential candidates so there is an opportunity for the shift to for them to shift the voter perception and it source poll released on tuesday shows kamel or her school as

a higher fave ability rating with 45 percent of voters viewing her positively mike pence cooled 37 percent mike pence scores more favorably amongst white voters with a 47 percent rating 32 percent view karma harris positively but 48 percent of black voters back harriss pence manages just 16 percent favor betty and in polling conducted off of president trump announced his coronavirus diagnosis 62 percent of americans said they thought pence was qualified to serve as president men were 12 percent more likely than women to agree with that statement well for more on this let's speak to long a concern she's a professor of political science at the university of new mexico and she joins us via skype from albuquerque thank you for joining us professor tell us what is the role of the v.p. debates and how are they generally viewed by the public well you know we certainly watch them the vice presidential debates are not the biggest focus usually because

obviously that's on the president but they're obviously in this case more important because of the. possible decline in both of the candidates on both sides of the aisle so they're very important and bennett is currently head of the country's covert tussles but he also has to back his president who did tweet that covert is no no more lethal than the common flu how can he possibly reconcile those 2 roles and will horace use this as a way to attack him. absolutely the democratic campaign in harris will focus on combet that is the weakest evaluation of president trump and so you know trying to set the agenda and get the focus on that is what they want to do in order to maintain the negative feelings towards the current president and his staff and we

know that the republicans are planning to paint comma horris as radically left wing how do you think she will will counter that what you think will be well her strategy is going to align herself with biden who is seen as a moderate she's going to talk about how she's the vice president and she's going to be following his lead and that's going to be her focus and what kind of tone do you think they need to strike in this debate to persuade those undecided voters to vote for their candidate well i think they need to have a good dialogue they need to have a discussion that is you know not filled with yelling which i don't think it will be and i think they need to get their points across so the more that the harris can buy and harris campaign can talk about combet and the more is going to be good for them and the more that the. trump pence campaign can talk about the economy that's

going to be good for them and what i don't really have different in terms of their focus what about their backgrounds mike pence former radio host. california prosecutor how will that help play into this debate tonight. they are both going to be excellent sparring partners with each other in terms of a debate they both have a lot of experience as a prosecutor radio host and as u.s. senators where they spar on the floor of the u.s. senate so this is going to be a. more. typical debate than what we saw previously on actress and from the university of new mexico thank you for joining us thank you so much and you can watch live coverage of the vice presidential debate right here on al-jazeera that's from 01 g.m.t.

on thursday morning coming up on al-jazeera this news hour confusion over who is in charge of kurdistan as opposition parties pitch that a replacement after the prime minister's resignation. 7 years after the kenya want to tag guilty verdicts are handed down to 2 men for their involvement in the massacre of. the foreign ministers of armenia and azerbaijan will meet separately with the u.s. france and russia over the coming days the talks in geneva nasca aimed at convincing the warring sides to negotiate a cease fire and then to go in a car back region hundreds have been killed during 11 days of fighting and both sides have accused each other of targeting civilians sin and cos yoga reports. well was a teacher who was killed 2 days ago when

a software johns and to city was hit by rockets. she was struck by fragments in the back and other parts of her body on national teachers say. her sisters are mourning saying that they got. big you showed the atrocity against our civilians here she died and how our in-house quote on how we act we are all ready to die for our lands. in the backyard of her house her neighbors gather to honor her memory the rocket left its traces on the ground and on the walls. shares rather so ill guard was also caught in that attack he shows or his house was also hit by a rocket and then called fire. these paper boxes were scattered after day explosion his son collects and sells them to make a living. situation whatever we were at home 3 rockets hit this way then i went out

my son told me it would be dangerous there were 9 people at home 5 were our guests displaced from elsewhere now all family members are staying with our relatives around here just as. the azerbaijan national agency for mine action or out of us a stone rockets hit the city affairs office over 5 a day you want us or break john accuse our menu of indiscriminate the targeting several cities an accusation our menu has also leveled against us our base jump in their conflict over knock on the car of our. nagar knock out a box main city or step on a carriage suffered the most intensive not time more bargeman since the previous weekend according to the car about where it's been more than 70000 people or 50 percent off now going up car bucks population loss to women and children are estimated to have been displaced russian president vladimir putin has called for the end to what he described as

a tragedy and free but i do it all fathers and brothers and everyone will fight to the end that's it our people won't be broken this land is ours was ours and will continue to be else the fighting is the worst round of violence between the 2 countries since the early 1990 s. then 30000 people were killed and thousands displaced un resolutions and international organizations have demanded the what's role of the armenian forces from the ground and at jason does there is city's many world leaders have called for a sea. fire. and ethnic armenians both claim these lenses that there is their battle has spilled over into cities far from the front side and neither side seems to be ready to step back see them also see rami to charles our picture there's confusion over who has taken over as kyrgyzstan's prime minister following coup but back bar enoughs resignation a replacement was named after

a parliamentary session on cheese day but a group of opposition parties says that choice is invalid and has nominated that own man for the job he uncertainty follows the inno meant of sunday's parliamentary election that many say was rigged charles stratford is in bishkek following one of the challenges for leadership. were inside the prime minister's office here in risk working for the arrival of the man who describes himself as being the only legitimate prime minister of this country sorry to part of now he was voted to become the new prime minister last night in an emergency parliamentary session but according to opposition figures there were not enough m.p.'s in that session to make him a legitimate leader in any kind of vote so we're expecting a meeting now which we are of and other opposition figures. the situation can only be described as very tense there is a sense that nobody is in control of this country and your power of himself told

a television station earlier today that he believed that there were forces in kyrgyzstan trying to mount what he described as a counter revolution. his supporters say he is the man to help lead this country into the crisis is in the community such as your party is supporting young people so weak she support him or something else is a trying to divide and smear like i said. there are many here lists a full suit with the new prime minister. saying that their customers to show them that if we are to put carrie's point between a pattern and a good life it's up to us we haven't got. the meeting between over members of the opposition parties never happened by early evening there was an explanation why the coalition of 13 opposition parties has now nominated its own candidates to be the country's prime minister has described the parliamentary session devoted to make

salt or japan or of the prime minister yesterday as invalid it is demanded that a new parliamentary session be held to vote on the issue in a secret location there are growing concerns in the clearest capital this evening that we're beginning to witness what could potentially be a serious standoff between supporters of mr parr of and other opposition parties a growing sense of uncertainty here in kyrgyzstan with no real understanding of who's in charge of this country well let's speak now to any advice love he's the ambassador of the republic to the u.k. and he joins us via skype from london thank you for joining us tell us who is in charge in kurdistan. our country has a functioning parliament just for to report we have a fully functioning parliament the incumbent parliament there still in force and

we'll be legitimate by did it our best course inside and outside the country until our new parliament is installed and then we have the. incumbent president the head of state who is also as i would just a much constitutional figure and boss arthur iced of course. to what what is got currently going on and i know it looks quite. sometimes very noisy but this is how democracy looks like this is how we as a career because the people in the central asia really our country. is a democrat democracy and we have competitive politics what this very difficult as a moment is to find the figure of authority who will act reid to lead the caretaker government because we all as a whole political class reset as a caretaker government must be led by someone who is not going to run in elections

or south we say that this is what democracy looks like but usually with disputed elections the opposition has a a clear contender someone who they say they want to put forward your position parties can't agree on who to nominate how are they going to reach a resolution. actually this is busy. no one is going to claim power until we have elections certified elections we need to understand that what happened on sunday was an attempt to buy votes on a massive massive scale and with celebrates as a corridor why we use the freedom loving a character of our people who rose up in a disagreement they rose up again you know every few of these developments as the critics people will not allow anyone. to able to purchase the state what we

need now do we still have a clean elections where no one will be allowed to buy votes on that scale so according to the little that is new elections will have to happen within $45.00 days what is going to be done differently to ensure that the result is accepted. you know one thing of what was achieved. in the last few days is that they're not poor years criminal figure. but i am a friend he spent at least they were removed from the post of whatever it is they were the source of discontent and they attempted to run this basically. through the trial were just of parliament but otherwise i ask you as you use that we. our elections are certified as has been certified history and thereby to a community for the last several election cycles we do it we cannot have the

ballots being we do not kept. the only way is of course especially during this pandemic year to take advantage if you abuse the poverty of our people and we're just and wrote. was the price of it of course throws up our more $100.00 each but someone decided to spend a few $1000000.00 to purchase the parliament but we did not allow him to do that and best the ambassador basle of thank you very much for joining us and on his. team and has been jailed for their role in a mass shooting at a nairobi shopping center a kenyan co-founding guilty of helping al-shabaab fighters massacre 67 people at the westgate mall in 2013 a 3rd suspect was acquitted catherine so he has moved from nairobi. 7 years after the westgate mall attack trial happened chief magistrate francis and i read out his

verdict over 3 and a half hours the prosecution's case is as follows. it was given by 4 to 6 witnesses prosecution lawyers used call logs of telephone conversations between the 3 accused and the gunmen who were killed in the 4 day siege in 20132 men up to and hussein hussen were found guilty of conspiring to support their talk and having materials linked to terrorist activities in the present case i find that there is a strong link i mean what the fast and what there was in the communication people attacked us but they weren't involved in the us. one of the accused lieben of dollar mark was acquitted of all charges benmore who has been waiting for the judgment he and a friend were driving into the basement parking of the mall when the hard the 1st blast then gunshots what's a little more ties is being lost is where i was hiding there's

a security guard was right next to me was shot in the head. and i didn't realize i was injured until the hour i risk it to my right and as i was trying to get out that's when i realized i had a lot of blood that security guard was among the 67 people killed in that talk 4 gunmen stormed the up market morning and was surrounded and killed by security forces the armed group al-shabaab based in neighboring somalia sayed its men carried out their talk some security analysts say this trial has a stake in too long if we have difficult laws that do not allow us to exhibit died to justice especially for to resume we need lamentable small's and make them conform with our times because the times we are in a become tourism times the magistrate will deliver a sentencing on the 22nd of october we did so. to the prosecutors right after this ruling and this if they're happy with a conviction and will be pushing for the maximum penalty of 20 years we also expect

the survivors and those who lost their loved ones to give their testimonies ahead of that sentencing the westgate mall was reopened 5 years ago but some survivors and families of the dead remain too traumatized to visit those we talked to say they wanted justice and hope the decision by the court will help them find some way to come to terms with what happened catherine soy al-jazeera nairobi. a court in greece has ruled that a far right political party which up until last year had representation in parliament is a criminal organization 18 former golden dawn your makers were convicted with a supporter found guilty of murder the party was once greece's 3rd largest political force john psaropoulos reports from athens. the guilty verdict against golden dawn could not bring back her son but for the

mother of murdered rapper published she says it was vindication. you did it she said. it was a very positive decision we're very satisfied with the verdict we want to wait and see if the sentences will be satisfactory as well as justice has prevailed because what happened was very unjust on the streets outside the supreme court thousands gathered they are not innocent read this banner nazis in jail read another and when the verdict was announced they were tears of joy and applause and relief. led to the arrest and investigation of goldman dawn's leadership for dozens of violent crimes against immigrants and leftists these were not isolated incidents the court decided but a pattern of behavior by golden dawn members who took their orders from the top on wednesday the party's 18 members of parliament elected in 2012 were all convicted of membership in a criminal organization and the most senior including party leader nikos. convicted

of forming that organization in. today's decision and the impunity of criminal fascism in greece and stops the wrongs of nazi violence on the question of whether golden dawn is a criminal organization the cult says with a capital yes it's also seen as a day of relief by many of greece's minorities it was a very common phenomenon going down to the train in the morning on the flats. to get started to get robbed to get ripped off your papers that was so common do you know many of these people were under command so all those people they were so reluctant to go and report it to the police and apply a lawsuit golden dawn 17 percent of the vote in 2012 during the worst economic crisis in greece is history as austerity policies put almost a 3rd of the workforce out on the street the mainstream parties that enforced those policies lost votes to a populist fringe including golden dawn even so it's election came as

a shock greece was occupied by nazis for 3 and a half years during world war 2 they killed an estimated 1000000 people through mismanagement of the economy and starvation as well as conflict for many greeks the resurgence of fascism as a political force was a cause for national shame but last year golden dawn fails to enter parliament and it has now been condemned for many greeks wednesday's verdict has again put the country on the right side of history jumps out hopeless al-jazeera athens. 2 members of eisel known as the beatles are expected to pay in a u.s. court for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of 4 americans. shaken alexander coty where u.k. citizens but the british government withdrew their citizenship. the defendants are charged with terrorism offenses related to hostage taking and killing of 4 americans as well as citizens of great britain and japan for over

a year catania shaikh were held in iraq by the us military under the law of armed conflict i'm pleased to confirm that they are now in f.b.i. custody and will soon appear in federal court in the eastern district of virginia rosamond jordan is following this in washington and says the trumpet ministration has ruled out the death penalty if the 2 men are convicted. alexander côté and el shah phial shaikh are now sitting in a jail outside washington d.c. they have been brought to the u.s. from iraq for their roles in the capture torture and murders of 4 americans during the height of the isis caliphate in syria and iraq. and el sake deny that they had anything to do with the murders of the 4 americans including the journalist james foley and the humanitarian aid worker kayla mohler however the u.s. and the british government claim that they have evidence suggesting that both men

known as part of the beatles group because of their british accents had taken part in the torture and the killings of these 4 people this claim had been controversial because there was a fear that if they were brought to the u.s. the u.s. would try to impose the death penalty however the trumpet ministration has promised british officials that the most these 2 men could face if they were convicted would be life in prison without any opportunity at parole if they are convicted they would have to serve their life sentences at the supermax prison in florence colorado it's not clear yet when the trial of these 2 men will start but they have now been arraigned and this is certainly going to being a test of whether the u.s. can use of the federal courts to deal with cases of terrorism. still to come on algis there this news hour. as dutch museums start returning thousands of stolen

artifacts the culture minister calls on european countries to deal with colonial that. we got a good westerly flow across much of year now cloud and rain are rolling in from the atlantic sweeping across pretty much all policies because through the next couple days or somewhat the weather they're moving across the pretty south through the low countries through scandinavia what's the weather further east as well we got some heavy a burst of right pushing a crusty ukraine into power essentially pushing that with was moscow so much of whether that's just around bowl garia sliding into that western side of to even the impossible could see some wet weather as because through thursday come friday that cloud of rain that will make its way further east which still possibility of some localized flooding around the shul's of the black sea further west another pulse of

rain coming in across and in wells pos going to see some wet weather there up ahead pretty scotland season count and right somewhere that say i will make its way across the low countries now in policy front central areas of charity but to the south of that at last yes we have got some sunshine in the full cost and that sunshine stretches across northern parts of africa central areas still continue to see those showers i was there it's a southern nigeria into southern gonna ivory coast easing across into liberia and sierra leone and that's so making us well little further north even as far as mali . from. cyprus a european island opening offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august al-jazeera made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky pos bored by investment scheme promised before. the start of. now

al jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state's al-jazeera investigations the cyprus papers on the cover. temperatures are on the rise global warming is taking effect. as one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases the u.s. is set to withdraw from the paris climate accord the day after the presidential election we care and we will deal with climate change but a new president reversed a decision in time face up to the climate crisis all of the key issues of the us elections on al-jazeera.

reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera the 2 contenders for u.s. vice president will go head to head in the coming hours mike pence in common the house will be separated by their plastic barriers for the 90 minute televised debate talks have been announced in a bid to end the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan that's claimed more than 300 lives foreign ministers will meet separately with representatives from the u.s. france and russia. 2 men who've been found guilty for their role in a mass shooting at a nairobi shopping mall which killed $67.00 people the suspects have been charged with helping al shabaab fighters launched the attack in 2013. latin america's worst affected nation has now recorded more than 5000000 coronavirus cases brazil confirmed another 31000 infections over the past 24 hours taking it just over the

5000000 mark with 148000 deaths while day infections a down from the peak public health experts warn the country reopened too quickly and could soon experience a 2nd wave president diable sonora has consistently played down the threat of the virus describing it as a little flu. governments across europe a struggling to balance the health of the people with the well being of their economies a surging coronavirus cases means new restrictions have been imposed in belgium and scotland while it's no law to wear a mask outdoors in italy and france has reported its highest number of daily infections reports. not so long ago they were being applauded every evening for their lifesaving efforts now front line workers at the law path hospital like others in madrid a staging lunchtime strikes we've covered 19 cases and deaths on the rise again they're exhausting to be at the end of us and then there would have been you know

i'm here to represent my colleagues and our battle for better working conditions for our rights our salaries our hours to be able to have a work life balance to be able to spend time with our families. since last friday almost 5000000 people in and around madrid have in theory been under new restrictions but fines for traveling outside the area other than for an essential reason such as work study or visiting a doctor are on hold until a legal challenge is heard. in britain the opposition labor party is questioning local restrictions in parts of northern england pointing out that 19 out of 20 areas under restrictions for 2 months had reported rising infection rates the prime minister really needs to understand that local communities are angry and frustrated so will he level with the people of barry personally and bolton and tell them what does he actually think the problem is here from friday pubs and restaurants across central scotland have to close for 16 days with a new 6 pm curfew elsewhere together with the scotland wide ban on visiting other

households these add up to the toughest measures anywhere in the u.k. the reason we're not closing in door hospitality completely is that we know the benefits in terms of reducing loneliness and isolation of giving people particularly those who live alone some where they can meet a friend for a coffee and a chat but in belgium they are. shutting down all bars in cafes in the capital brussels from thursday after a spike in infections i understand why. but i think it's a bit long for months to months have flags old school service so it's a bit sad for students at least. it's really wearing a mask outdoors is being made compulsory the national infection rates actually among europe's lowest but the country's recorded its highest daily increase in new cases since the peak in april across europe governments face a challenge how to prevent the health sector from being overwhelmed again while trying not to shut down completely. al-jazeera. a new survey has revealed how

people around the world view the government's response to the coronavirus cut crisis the institute for global health polled people across 19 countries on a range of issues and tallied their scores to provide a mark out of 100 china the country where covert 901st appeared scored the highest with more than 80 south korea came in 2nd at 74 with south africa 3rd at 64 latin america and european countries tended to score lower than asian countries ecuador man is just over 35 preserve scored 36 and poland was 3rd lowest of 41 the us average to score 50 despite recording the highest number of cases and deaths the only european country not to lock down sweden was scored 4th lowest by its people at 42 well professor jeff lazarus there's a risk the barcelona institute for global health and he was the author of that report he joins us over skype from copenhagen where you thank you for joining

us who was asked of the to support in this survey and what do these scores tell us so we surveyed a random sampling of the general population in 1000 countries some of which you mentioned from around the world. it is interesting the asian countries scored so much higher than western countries considering china was the epicenter of the virus and had less time to plan their response why do you think this is. who the findings turned out to correlate with the populations trust in their governments so where there was higher trust in government on this score in their country higher in terms of the pen demick response where there was lower trust in europe and much lower trust in latin america we also got lower scores so really this survey tells us the importance of populations trust in their government in order for their government to effectively implemented control measures for the pandemic now you've worked for

the w.h.y. do you think governments are now fully prepared for a 2nd wave i think they should be prepared but i don't think they're prepared i think many did not use at least in western europe that lull over the summer to properly prepare their test and trace measures. we've seen that vulnerable populations remain vulnerable facemasks gel that costs money and we need to make sure that everyone has access to them some afraid that this great variation around the world but that governments are not fully prepared yet in spite of what we've learned over the last 4 or 5 months i mean considering that most governments had planned for a theoretical pandemic. should that response not have been viewed a little bit more critically by their populations it wasn't it is not an on it's not unprecedented event but they had planned for it washing governments be taking away from this school. government should really be understanding that that

about the central role of communication with the population and the need for that population to have trust in the authorities and their control measures so mean the qubits course is easy to implement it can really help public health officials and other decision makers identify and correct leases in key aspects of their country's response and if we repeated they can track trends over time so it's really important for them to engage with their popular lation and communicate much better one interesting thing that we we noted was that the provision of mental health services was the lowest rated item across all countries what could this mean further down the line if governments don't address the problem. but we've been so focused particularly in the spring but also in some countries through the summer and even now on the emergency response with with hospitals filling up the nickels filling out a mess you heard earlier in the news you know but with health care workers

overwhelmed that we haven't really had time to think about anything else or any of the secondary effects of the code the 1000 pandemic on on mental health so i think we're going to see many mental health challenges further down the line not just those who have been directly affected by the pandemic work by corporate 19 but also those who have been directly affected through loss of job isolation and by not being able to get the health care services they need professor lazarus thank you for joining us thank you germany and france have announced plans to sanction people they blame for the poisoning of russian opposition figures alexina valley the country's foreign ministers say moscow has failed to provide on says over the attempted murder of nirvana is a vocal critic of president vladimir putin is not yet clear who will be sanctioned but both countries say they will share the nest with other european union members john mccain is in but then he says the patience of european need us is starting to

run out. for weeks the french and german governments have been pressing the russian government to investigate the circumstances that led to the poisoning of alex in avonlea on board a flight over siberia poisoning with the navi chalky nerve agent a chemical weapon they called also for the people who carried out to be prosecuted but the fact that that has not happened means that for the french and german governments their patience is running out this is how the foreign minister here in berlin addressed the matter in the german parliament she help or does for us it is a serious violation of civic rights committed with the chemical move agent we firmly believe that this cannot remain without consequence this is why we will be coordinating a joint response with our partners within the european union and also within the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons over the next few days the 2 governments have put out a joint statement which is unequivocal in its condemnation of russia and why russia

has failed to account for how a chemical weapon was used on a russian citizen on russian soil they equate what happened to mr nava need to what happened to russian citizens on british soil some years back and they say that sanctions is definitely an avenue they want to pursue but also they will be calling on other countries to look at what they are doing as an example perhaps to follow. the leader of the better aeration opposition has been listed as wanted by russia's interior ministry that law taken off sky as name was found by russian media on wednesday well though it's not known when it was added to the list and also not clear what crimes he's alleged to have committed she fled to lithuania after the disputed presidential election in august and has since met with several european leaders tens of thousands of people have protested against what they say was a forgery and result. the netherlands has been told it should give back thousands of artifacts taken from its former colonies the government commission describes the

theft of the objects as unjust the dutch minister of culture is calling on european countries to come up with a common policy to deal with colonial effect theft step vessel reports from amsterdam. the 36 carat diamond has long been one of the centerpieces of the dutch colonial collection the precious stone belong to sultanpur member of by john mohsin on the indonesian island of borneo before it was stolen by dutch troops and $859.00 it's one of thousands of controversial objects that a commission now says should be returned you see the backlights matter movement you see all the movements against racism slavery so i would say it's and it's just about time after so many centuries that finally we not just talk about it but do something about it for for centuries the dutch colonized the populations of current indonesia serena and the caribbean during that time not only were people

oppressed but hundreds of thousands of historical and religious objects taken the private the countries of origin the chance to tell their own history. this diamond taken nearly 150 years ago has become an uncomfortable profession for the netherlands they would like to we turn to the big question is who to return it to and that's then discussion that needs to be done by both the governments of the netherlands and in an asia now the dutch are officially recognizing that taking this was wrong the rake's museum in amsterdam sas it's investigating the origin of $4500.00 controversial items but it hopes not all of them will be returned is there a possibility that these $4500.00 objects will disappear from the museum and it's going to be quite empty. well we have a 1000000 objects so i think we will do fine in that filling our years am but of

course the thing is you don't want to erase colonial history europe should be taking responsibility of what happened back then and these objects serve us to be able to address that history the government so far only. plants returned objects to former dutch colonies so african countries like been in will have to wait even longer to get their stolen objects back last month activists who have carried out similar actions in france took a statue from a dutch museum to protest against objects from africa the minister of culture sas european countries should formulate a common policy. i have held talks with european colleagues i think it's important that we work together because it's difficult to explain the countries deal with this differently although the dutch are the fide about how to deal with their colonial past she does not expect much resistance against returning such objects i

believe that i can explain to everyone in the netherlands that if something is stolen we normally agree that the should be returned to the rightful owner the rightful owners may have to wait a while though before they will be reunited with their stolen possessions because the dutch government says it will look at every item carefully before sending it back stop fastened al-jazeera. this year's nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded for a major development in genome editing to female scientists receive the award for finding a way to alter d.n.a. in paul's animals and people the 1st 2 women to win the prize is larry harding reports so-called genetic scissors can cut through plant animal and human d.n.a. removing disease and imperfections and altering the code of life it's a discovery that's earned a manual of france and american jennifer didna this year's nobel prize in chemistry mean need crowns did you did you check known as crisp or cast 9 the tool can be

used to cut single genes out of a d.n.a. strand contributing to new cancer therapies in offering the possibility of curing hereditary diseases. duda says these genetic scissors are like using a word processing program to fix a typo in a document but there are lots of genetic diseases that you could potentially use this kind of technique to start to try and treat or you can use it to create model organisms so that we can specifically test out medicines much more easily more effectively the path from discovery to prize has taken less than a decade a relatively short period by nobel standards committee 1st published her findings in 2011 after studying bacteria and how they fight viral infections that same year she joined forces with from the university of california berkeley in the us to

recreate the bacteria as genetic scissors in a test tube the crisper technology has already been used to change the d.n.a. in the cells of mice and monkeys other organisms as well chinese scientists showed recently that they could even use the crisper technology to change genes in human embryos and scientists in philadelphia show they could use crisper to remove the d.n.a. of and integrated hiv virus from infected human cells but this new technology is not without controversy some are concerned that altering human d.n.a. could lead to questionable practices including creating so-called designer babies together with my colleagues i have called for a global conversation about the technology that i co-invented so that we can consider all of the ethical and societal implications of a technology like this the pair are the 6th and 7th women to win a nobel prize for chemistry and today casper casts 9 is

a common tool in biochemistry and molecular biology labs only imagination sets the limits for what this chemical to us too small to be disappointed with our ice. can be used for in the future perhaps the dream of curing genetic diseases will come. here in pakistan more than 1000000 people are struggling to recover from 2 months of devastating floods the province of sindh has been worst hit people say they've lost everything and they're still waiting for aid charlotte ballasts reports. the rains began in august in the southern port city of karachi they were the heaviest in almost a seam tree they lashed the surrounding province of sindh for 2 months monsoon rains fell on already salt and ground resulting in devastating floods the wood food program and sindh government believe that more than 1200000 people have lost more

than 90 percent of their belongings and crops used to go to. 20 families live here and our village has been swept away we haven't received any tents or rations yet now we are under the open skies seeking mercy from god. residents in rule since say they feel abandoned by the government they have been worst hit most families have lost livestock nearly all their crops are ruined and 2 thirds of irrigation infrastructure is damaged and that the baby i got. we lost everything in these flood waters our house our cattle and our belongings we hardly say anything there isn't any help from the government and we're faced with starvation and we don't have any money to rebuild our house this isn't a government declared a state of emergency in late august they say they're assessing the damage to infrastructure like roads and communications that are overwhelmed and for comfort i strongly protested with the federal government about their epiphanes towards this

disaster i asked them several times to call international agencies and friendly countries to help at this crucial time to reach out to these poor people but there was no response. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced some have found safety on a bank mintz although there are widespread who had use of food and clean drinking water residents lack basic amenities including toilets the wood food program says it is particularly concerned with winter approaching and the 3 of water borne diseases we expect assistance. at least through to the end of november and perhaps into the middle of december a decent terms of release support for those people whose lost lost their homes this will be a critical. part of an ongoing effort right now in an area you know when is the bread basket of sins there is listening to be harvested these people rely on the rain for their livelihoods but this year it took much more than again shannen

palace. russian authorities have opened a criminal case to establish why water off the country's far eastern coast was contaminated hundreds of dead sea creatures have washed up on shores and they can check a region local officials admit the level of pollution in the water is high but the exact cause of the deaths isn't clear environmental activists say the disaster will have a lasting impact on the area a pedestrian tunnel deep underneath a major london underground station has been transformed into an art gallery gives commuters traveling 3 kings cross an alternative view of life and culture around the world just the baldwin reports. going deeper into what life is like around the world people are transported from here in london to africa south america asia the effects of oil mining on the people of the niger delta the photographs provided deeper perspective and understanding there

a long way from the visual clichés of starving children and rural poverty british pakistani photographer hussain returned to his ancestral home after years of hearing his mother's stories these countries are incredibly peaceful really rich really got us and they're not impoverished in the way that you know we have been conditioned to really think about it for me was essentially just kind of fall in love we've we've we've really in my home country carpoolers in mexico traveling to their jobs in the suburbs built in distant locations without public transportation m powering self portraits of over him the young men in namibia the traditional colonial portrait turned on its head the community in lagos all the photographers spent sustained periods of time with their subjects directly engaging with the communities it's art as activism this isn't about looking i'm pointing

this about saying actually look there's a point of similarity there's a part of empathy we can all come to when we encounter different experiences different peoples different communities and societies and different individuals the london commuter will find much that is familiar that seems of marginalized communities homelessness and saving the environment they are all universal the passage is an encounter with empathy and understanding of different people and communities brought into focus for a global conversation jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. well you can find much more on our web site the address for that is al-jazeera dot com details on all our top stories including the upcoming talks between media and organized by the u.s. france and russia that's it for me for this news but i'll be back in

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each country has tackled the crisis in its own way some like peru and argentina with strict early lockdowns others like brazil emphasizing the economy over health brazil has just registered 120000 deaths from the virus 2nd in the world only to the united states it's up and good ideas that we don't work in days that we don't and don't have enough to pay for utilities or anything until many countries in latin america believe their rates of infection will be peaking around now and they begin dreaming about the end of the crisis that's not happening the nightmare only continues. there are people in the world who want all forms of verification to just go away so we need people fighting against riad or trying to see if it's a fake video may be in syria but in

a different time they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play as we've been targeted by cyber attacks from russia they're all dangerous and through this conflict kept. truth in the post truth world and are now just 0. the stage is set and coronavirus measures are in place we take a closer look at how the pandemic could influence the tone of the upcoming u.s. vice presidential debate. my challenge of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up more than 5000000 brazilians have now been infected with corona virus and latin america's

worst hit country international intervention to avoid a wider escalation foreign ministers from armenia and azerbaijan commit to tolls on a.