w.h.y. make you feel when. everyone. the. new warnings the corona virus could spiral out of control in germany off to shop jump in infection it's. my money inside this is al jazeera life and also coming up. 30 more soldiers are killed in the disputed region of nicole mccullough back amid attacks from azerbaijan as international mediators prepared to meet in geneva. facing off in the vice presidential debate coming the hardest in my pants class

over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. and what the american people. from the very 1st being president donald trump is because. the american people have witnessed what is the greatest fear of any presidential administration in history and. move against tens of thousands who are rallying in indonesia angry about a no war they say will work is the environment. to many is health minister says there's been a worrying jump in new coronavirus cases the number of infections over the past day has soared past 4000 for the 1st time since april restrictions are being tightened around the country for more let's go straight to dominic kay is live for us. then

dominic what is the current rate of infection across germany. for weeks the numbers of new infections have been rising right across germany but there's been a surge of new infections over the past several days with the average number more than 2 and a half 1000 today going back many days indeed but it's the latest rise 4083 new infections announced this morning by the robert cock institute which is the institution which analyzes the numbers collates the information advisors ministers and the head of that institute now says that he is very concerned. the current situation worries me a lot we don't know how things will develop over the next few weeks it's possible that we will see more than 10000 new cases a day it's possible that the virus spreads uncontrollably.

while it is not the case that the rise in infections here in germany is similar to the much greater rise of infections in other countries neighboring countries such as france and indeed poland today there's no doubt that what is happening in this country right now is of grave concern not just of those officials but also to the elected officials. dominic obviously we're heading into winter which will of course weighing heavily on officials what is the government trying to do about it. well obviously their main aim is to try to calm the situation to to persuade people around the country that they are on it that they are trying to deal with things but there is a difference of opinion among different states in germany about what the way ahead should be for example in bavaria which has been particularly badly affected by

corona you see the prime minister of the state marcus service say that there should be a sort of traffic light system warning system for people that sort of system is in place in berlin right now and in the capital city which has seen a surge of infections well 2 of those traffic lights are now red which is why there are many new measures being imposed in this city but there is not a uniform approach for a traffic light system right across the country right now and in a news conference given in the last hour or so the federal health minister has said he does not see then that being the need for a national lockdown as there were was at the start of the bend pandemic he doesn't see the need for that right now but of course they are monitoring the situation very closely. cain there for us in berlin many thanks. brazil has now recorded more than 5000000 cases of the virus the number of daily

infections that is down from its peak in july they all concerns many people ignoring social distancing all the 148000 deaths have been reported so far which is the 2nd highest toll in the world president joey of course not all his long played down the stretch of the virus describing it as a little flu. and interlink a key government of offices have been closed to battle surging case numbers departments immigration and motor vehicles have stopped to stop people from congregating and a curfew has also been extended. all the 5000 people in ukraine have been diagnosed with the corona virus in the last 24 hours it's a record for the country which now has almost 250000 infections measures have been extended to the end of the month.

u.s. vice president mike pence and his democratic rival have squared off over the challenges facing the nation sitting about 3 metres apart and behind a see through screen they sparred over the pandemic the economy and global warming but it was much less raucous than last week's presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden brunell's reports senator harrison vice president pence thank you for being here to show a picture of the trumpet ministrations handling of the coronavirus pandemic started the debate whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done clearly it hasn't worked when you're looking at over 210000 dead bodies in our country american lives that have been lost families that are grieving that loss and you know the vice president is the head of the task force but when you see what the american people have done over these last 8 months has worked. it's a great disservice to the sacrifices the american people of maine so let's talk

about caring about the american people the american people have to sacrifice far too much because of the incompetence of this administration pince dodged a question about the rose garden ceremony that became a super spreader event it was an outdoor event which all of our scientists regularly and routinely advise the difference here is president trump and i trust the american people to make choices in the best interest of their health care is fired back let's talk about respecting the american people to respect the american people when you tell them the truth but look senator harris you're trying to do your own opinion but you know the candidates clashed over the economy taxes and sharply over global warming which harris called an existential threat we have seen a pattern with this administration which is they don't believe in finance and joe's plan is about saying we're going to deal with it but we're also going to create jobs donald trump when asked about the wildfires in california and the question was

you know the science is telling us this you know what donald trump said that science doesn't know we don't need a massive 2 trillion dollar green new deal that would impose all new mandates on american businesses and american families there were flashes reminiscent of the chaotic troubled biden debate as parents repeatedly interrupted and talked over harris but she remained calm mr vice president speaking if you don't mind letting me finish we can have a conversation ok please ok senator harris other issues discussed included racial justice policing reform and the rise of white supremacists i want everyone to know who puts on the uniform of law enforcement every day and president trump and i stand with you and the reality of this is that we are talking about an election in 27 days where last week the president of the united states took at the. bait stage in front of 70000000 americans and refused to condemn white supremacist whether any

of the exchanges in this debate will change many voters' minds remains to be seen meanwhile both parents and heroes as well as biden will be campaigning on thursday in arizona a swing state where polls show biden is leading robert also al-jazeera salt lake city. international mediators a stepping up efforts to help the worst fighting in decades between armenia and azerbaijan french russian and u.s. representatives on geneva azerbaijan's foreign minister will be there but armenians minister isn't attending instead he will travel to moscow on monday well there was more shelling of an ice in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region many people that have taken refuge in underground shelters a local rights group says half the population there and displaced because of constant attacks from azerbaijan well they've been similar accusations from the as

their east side they accuse of targeting population centers civilian deaths have been reported in several regions where hundreds of homes have been destroyed by artillery. that's going to send him cause or lose life for us in azerbaijan bring us up to date with a situation where you are. well the situation is the same many cities are being targeted as are based on floyd as well as they are many and size i mean go around boy right now one of the cities with a population of 8000 but an important city for john it was hit early in the morning around 5 am local and there is one woman a 63 year old woman who was living alone and she got killed when a rocket a smirch rocket hit her hose this is the information that we just received from the

local administration here mainly the governor's office today they say that since the morning. go ambar has been hit 70 times 14 of those hits were smirch rockets and $56.00 of them were are still there is that targeted around boy this is again the what the local authority it gave us as the official information and the area is important especially for cotton it's the city used to be the cotton center cotton harvest center during the soviet era but the local authorities are telling that life is in a way only going despite all those shouting and none of the resistance of the koran by this place because they refused to go to other places and since september 20th when the school taked recently. started. 2022 tones have been shelled according to the local authorities but still there are

some of the men who support the work is underway life is ongoing in a way but people are of course more cautious right now is because many and you know their place can be targeted according to them but here especially the residents of coram boy doesn't want to leave the city. and so then what about the situation across the border in the armenian territories what the you hearing about what is going on. the fighting on the other side is also continuing because it's the friend i care it is still targeted by dollars syrian military forces from time to time it's under heavy bombardment for instance yesterday we heard that it was it was slow over but then we heard it's got intensified again and according to the iranian defenses sources as they have stated the number of their mother 3 casualty it has royson up to 350 so they have 50 more

soldiers killed in this battle according to iranian defense ministry especially since that panic character which is the most populated area in the gorno karbala the main city of about a self proclaimed enclave which is actually under united nations and john territory but under control of the armenian military forces it people people are some of the people are living in shelters some of them old with who left the city. the local authorities in step and i cared some bits and say that help for the city older that this place but of course the civilians are in panic like in many of the conflict areas here here in azerbaijan like territory city and the city so everybody's curious on both sides both are made yet as john civilians expect when this conflict is going to end because thousands tens of thousands are displaced in

both sides and they all want to go back home soon and do that for us. by john many thanks. still ahead on al jazeera. chaos and rival opposition factions claim control after the prime minister was forced to resign. as dutch museum start returning thousands of stolen artifacts the culture minister calls on other european countries to deal with colonial theft. we've got the usual showers across southeast asia the heaviest of which look to be across northern parts of the region just around the philippines pushing all the way across into in the china in the philippines 136 millimeters affright 24 hours

denying in vietnam even heavier rainfall 87 millimeters in 24 hours over the last couple of days we have say one of the 200 millimeters of rain here about a 3rd of the october average coming down in just 2 days and it is the wettest month but that is about a 3rd of the monthly average rainfall we got this little chain of storms actually coming from the philippines moving through the south china sea easing across on those on the show winds coming in sioux were vietnam era to cross into china thailand seas and heavy pulses of right we'll also see some wet weather pushing across into the bay of bengal so that's something to watch out for that little chain of disturbed weather shows then across the good parts of southeast asia some showers there into southern parts of the region indonesia seeing some heavy rain and we've also got some heavy rain into australia nasty little system here swirling away just around tasmania we have got warnings in force for tasmania winds could gust to around 100 kilometers per hour very heavy rain those blustery conditions

slowly making their way towards new zealand. when a few peons rose and forced them all to cross from power the new administration. through an ambitious program of political reform. but 2 years on. people in power are asked whether the country's diverse ethnic interests will ever reconcile. the battle for the field.

you're watching out as there are minds of our top stories this hour germany's health minister says there's been a warring jump in new coronavirus cases the number of infections over the past day has soared above all 1000 for the 1st time since april. president trump handling of the corona virus has dominated the u.s. vice presidential debate and salt lake city mike pence defended the u.s. response and blamed china democratic candidate come alive harris described the trump administration's record as the greatest failure in u.s. history. international mediators aside to begin talks in geneva to hold the worst in decades between armenia and azerbaijan azerbaijan's foreign minister will be that on me as minister isn't attending instead he will travel to moscow on monday. war now one of the top stories in the lead up to the u.s.

election double trump has released a video message assuring americans of his administration's response to the coronavirus trump was back in the oval office for the 1st time since he was released from hospital on monday i went in i wasn't feeling so hot and within a very short period of time they gave me regeneration it's called regeneration and other things too but i think this was the key but they gave me regeneration and it was like unbelievable i felt good immediately i felt as good 3 days ago as i do now so i think this was a blessing from god that i caught it this was a blessing in disguise i caught it i heard about this drug i said let me take it it was my suggestion i said let me take it and it was incredible the word work i want to get for you what i got and i'm going to make it free you're not going to pay for it it wasn't your fault that this happened it was china's fault and china is going

to pay a big price what they've done to this country china is going to pay a big price what they've done to the world. and jakarta police have fired tear gas and water cannon at student protest as rallying against a new labor law is the 1st day of nationwide demonstrations in indonesia maybe unions say it will erode workers' rights and weaken environmental protections president djoko we don't know says it will boost the economy by custom red tape and streamlining regulations. just to washington such as the saw from jakarta. tens of thousands of student protesters had gathered in jakarta in the city center to voice their discontent against this new controversial legislation but security forces are trying to clear this area they're firing multiple rounds of tear gas at this crowd of mostly teenage demonstrators the demonstrators say that they will keep protesting until the president listens and until this legislation is revote the

protests had mostly been concentrated in industrial areas outside of the capital city earlier in the week but now it has spread to jakarta factory workers in particular feel strongly against this legislation which they say rolls out the red carpet for investors at their expense. myanmar's government is being asked to release 130000 rohingya muslims from detention a report by human rights watch has described life in their refugee camps and rocking states as squalid an abusive some 750000 fled me on mall for bangladesh following a ministry crackdown back in 2017 the report says those who remain face inhumane conditions with severe limitations on movement health and livelihoods. opposition groups in kurdistan look deeply divided over who should take over as prime minister and with them pushing and shoving between rival groups on wednesday

the various factions have been trying to install their own nominations the prime minister with at least 3 different alliances emerging all attempting to take power still unclear who is running the country after sunday's parliamentary election results what now. it has more from bishkek. if anything it's become even more complicated i'm standing outside the prime minister's office here and with the crowd you can behind me loyal supporters of the new prime minister saad are just part of now just to remind viewers this man was freed from jail by his supporters on monday night and was hastily voted by up in a parliamentary session to become the new prime minister but that vote is now hugely disputed by other opposition groups because they say that there weren't enough m.p.'s but issa pacing in that session to be valid so last night a coalition of opposition parties 13 opposition parties came out and demanded

another parliamentary session be held to vote on whether she's egypt harald as the prime minister or their candidate they put a man for the man called elect for so good zia. and as i say they called for that emergency session and they called for it to be held in a secret location now transpires 'd yet again not enough m.p.'s turned up all that to go forward and we understand that there are arguments in that session amongst them priests some who refused point blank to vote on the issue of a new prime minister now that now that your power is the new pm and there's also the issue of an impeachment of the president that was also one of the opposition's demands at this session and many m.p.'s refusing to impeach the president or boat on an impeachment of the president. 2 former british nationals accused of being members of an isolated cell have appeared in a u.s.

court. and examined queues of torturing and murdering captives in syria including beheading 4 americans and citizens of the u.k. in japan they have been held in american military custody since last year cosi and shakes alleged group within eye so was dubbed the beatles because of their british accents. a course in greece has outlawed the far right political posse golden dawn 18 of its former m.p.'s were convicted of being members of a criminal organization supported was found guilty of murder the party was once the largest political force holding seats in parliament john strapless reports from. the guilty verdict against golden dawn could not bring back her son but for the mother of murdered wrapup of list 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 street outside the supreme court thousands gathered they are not innocent read this banner nazis in jail read another and when the verdict was announced there were tears of joy and applause and relief. led to the arrest and investigation of golden 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 grace 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 platform to get. start to get a robot to get ripped off your papers that was so common do you know many of these people were undocumented so all those people they were so reluctant to go and report it to the police in. 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 jumped up last al-jazeera after. amnesty international is accusing the colombian government of failing to protect human rights defenders they say policies introduced by president evented k haven't done enough to prevent the killing of activists colombia is one of the world's most dangerous countries for human rights activists although 80 been killed in the 1st 6 months of this year. the netherlands has been told it should give back thousands of osce affects taken from its former colonies the government commission describes

the theft of the objects as unjust stuff fasten reports from amsterdam. the 36 carat diamond has long been one of the centerpieces of the dutch colonial collection the precious don't belong to sultanpur member of biogen 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 black lights 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 in 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 return but the big question is who to return it to and that's the discussion that needs to be done by both the governments of the netherlands and in the news now the dutch are officially recognizing that taking this was wrong the rake's museum in amsterdam sas it's investigating the original 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 filling our museum but of course. the thing is you don't want to raise colonial history europe should be taking responsibility of what happened back then and these objects sure of us to be able

to address that history the government so far only plan to return 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 all and objects from africa the minister of culture sas european countries should formulate a common policy now except over did. 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 and in doing that 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 step fastened al-jazeera i'm sorry. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories germany's health minister says there's been a worrying jump in new coronavirus cases the number of infections of the past day has soared above 4000 for the fast time since april restrictions are being tightened around the country already up to the current situation worries me a lot we don't know how things will develop over the next few weeks it's.