we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on home to 0. the w.h.o. reports a record one day jump in global coronavirus cases led by rising numbers across europe thanks i'm johnny and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. president trump refuses to take part in the 2nd debate with democratic rival joe biden if it's held virtually. 13 people arrested over alleged plots to kidnap michigan's governor and attack the state capitol building and soldiers civilians and churches under fire as

the battle of nagorno-karabakh rages on despite the u.s. ground and russia stepping up ceasefire efforts. thanks. the world has seen a record one day jump in global coronavirus cases the world health organization has reported more than 338000 infections in 24 hours in 5 and a half 1000 deaths this is warnings a sounded about rising cases across europe france reported more than $18000.00 new cases it was announced that 4 major cities including paris and must say will be added to the maximum level in the u.k. where cases rose by more than 17 and a half 1000 the government says it's considering a range of measures for northern england for the 1st time since april portugal has recorded more than a 1000 new cases and italy more than 4000 and potent prime minister says he's says

wearing masks outside will be compulsory across the country even germany a country still seen as exemplary for controlling the spread of the virus has seen a sharp jump in cases dominic kane reports from berlin. this is the reality of covidien ukraine another life claimed by a virus whose 2nd wave is now sweeping across europe here in the town of stepanek a hospital designed for 100 people now has 106 corona patients alone. we are catastrophic li short of doctors the pressure is incredible and the infectious department we have one doctor per $47.00 patients. around the continent the number of new infections is surging austria has announced its highest daily figures so far in poland 2 unprecedented numbers of people are testing positive for the virus prompting the government to say it will introduce a general mask rule for all people outdoors and perhaps impose

a state of emergency elsewhere as here in belgium the spike in cases has forced ministers to say no more than 4 people will be allowed to meet together in public but in spain the rate of new infections has slowed in recent days and a partial lockdown for the capital has been thrown out by a madrid court which said it infringed people's fundamental freedoms whilst in germany a surge in cases is causing deep concern at the highest levels 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 possible that we will see more than 10000 cases a day it's possible that the virus spreads uncontrollably in the german capital officials say that testing capacity has reached 95 percent with little scope for greater testing if numbers continue to climb. one of the measures being suggested the full season already in place here in the so-called triple traffic light warning

system where 3 different poses criteria one assumes the number of intensive care beds occupied by corona patients the awful reproductive rate of the virus and the number of info. sections per 100000 residents for the moment the federal government believes its existing measures are enough. germany so far managed this crisis well when you look at the map of europe you'll see until now germany is a solid rock in this pandemic but we are seeing rising numbers across europe so far there's no suggestion of another national lockdown politicians are perhaps fearful of the damage such a step would wreak on an already suffering economy and they know there are many people here who believe the existing measures are too strong dominic kane al-jazeera berlin well for more on this rory chalons joins us live from westminster thank you for joining us for a jump in new cases in the u.k.

what is the government voting to do to get on top of this. well like in germany is dominic was just talking about the government in the u.k. is very keen to avoid another national law down here it would be crippling for an economy that is already being battered by previous coronavirus measures and breaks it as well so what they're doing is looking at various localised measures we have had a huge jump in the number of positive corona cases on thursday up 3000 to 17 and a half 1000 and we're not yet in the kind of same dark period that we were back in april where hundreds and hundreds of people were dying every day at the moments the death toll is about 7077 deaths recorded on on thursday but to

try and avoid getting back to the high death tolls that we saw earlier in the year the government is trying to bring in localised measures as i was saying so the north of england is expecting to have bars and restaurants shots across large parts of it as of next week and more measures are going to be coming in to other parts of the country as well we don't yet know quite what they are perhaps things like a ban on overnight stays away from home the government is looking into this and will be announcing things in the next few days but there are calls from not just the opposition parties but also within the governing conservative party for things to be spelled out a bit clearer than this we had say andy burnham who's the he's the mayor of greater manchester saying that it's fully found out that he's city manager would have to close bars and restaurants from reading in there the times newspaper

despite the fact that he'd had meetings with government ministers several times this week and then mentioned anything about it to him then so the criticism of the government of the moment about what these measures are and how the communication is being addled. and what about france then numbers are also going in the wrong direction what's their approach here with the daily numbers at the moment in france are higher than they are in the u.k. for the 2nd day running they being over 18000 new coronavirus cases so again like in the u.k. like in germany the measures that the government to taking are more localized ones so on thursday we have the legal grenoble leone's santos again they move to the maximum level of coded alerts in the maximum restriction level as well

at the moment they join paris marsay in that in the overseas territory of quite a leap what that basically means is that the bars are closed and there are increased restrictions for restaurants in those places to lose a moment pelly a close watch list and will perhaps find out on monday whether they will be joining the places i've already mentioned in the highest level but clearly what this all spells out is that this 2nd wave of covert 19 is really starting to pick up across that pretty much the whole continent of europe chalons life in westminster thank you for that update and billions in the in raining capital struggling to find available hospital beds for virus patients the country reported a record high of more than 4300 new infections on thursday and 230 more deaths descriptions are being tightened across the country including mandatory face mask orders in the capital tehran schools libraries mosque mosques and other public

institutions i think closed for a week. you'll be you. there questioned over how or even if donald trump and joe biden will debate each other again before next month's election the president refused to participate in next week's head to head off to the organizers said it would be held virtually unknown in person his challenger joe biden says the debate should be delayed by week and held in person something the trump campaign has agreed to but that was on the condition the 3rd debate be held in the week before the poll something biden's team has rejected initial moves down to concerns that the president could still be contagious after catching coronavirus fire that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style and that's not acceptable to be easily in the 1st debate courting to the polls that i've seen but i beat him easily that i

felt i'd beat them easily i think he felt that too you know i'm not going to waste my time in a virtual debate that's not what debating so all about you sit behind a computer and do a debate ridiculous and then they cut you off whenever they want and we can go live to the white house where our correspondent can be how kate is and is ready for us to be there's been lots of debate about the debate bring us up to speed. yeah this really set the president off when he learned that the commission on presidential debates and arbitrarily decided that it was going to have the next debate be virtual donald trump was angry about this is you heard with reaction was that he called joe biden his democratic presidential challenger pathetic accusing him essentially of being afraid to be in the same room with him given the fact that the president is still recovering from kobe 1000 as a result he said that's it i'm not participating and i hold a rally instead well this resulted in the biting campaign saying ok

let's go with that i'm going to have a town hall on the date of the. debate when it was supposed to be held which is october 15th in miami instead i'm going to have a town hall and you can go off and do your rally and let's push this debate off until the 22nd. this will give you a chance to recover and also the statement from the campaign was is that it didn't want trying to evade accountability as they called it that really push the buttons of the trim campaign they said yeah we're going to do that 22nd debate and we're also to have a 3rd one on the 29th because we want to talk about the failed record of 47 years of joe biden that made the binding campaign angry and said you don't get to control the calendar we're only doing one debate it's happening on the 22nd and that's where everything has settled down so now what we know is we're not looking ahead to 2 debates we'll have one more thank goodness i think and bottom line is going to be

a little bit more subdued we hope than the last one because it is going to be kind of a town hall style and hopefully the moderator will have a better control of the candidates this time because the 1st presidential debate not so much yes it wasn't very civil the vice presidential debate on the other hand was a lot more civil but today trump was insulting comment horace calling her a monster. yeah yeah not exactly civil right ok so donald trump kind of has a history of doing this sort of thing particularly when it comes to women we saw this in 2016 when he called hillary clinton nasty he certainly has names for all of his opponents but he seems to go pretty hard particularly on women many allege that this is sexist language why did he call or a monster well he was referring to what is a legitimate criticism of kummel harris in the vice presidential debate is her flip flopping on

a very key issue to many in the united states that the issue of fracking of sort of i don't want to go into the process but taking natural gas out of the ground and she has said that this is something that she was vehemently opposed to then last night of the day she was no i never said that but she did so donald trump was calling her on that that's fine except the name calling which many people don't like particularly female voters who donald trump is already having trouble with and we should point out this is not a good move considering female voters really like come on harris feel she has energized the democratic ticket so this one could blow back on the president white house correspondent kimberly haokip thank you for that. the house of representatives speak a democrat nancy pelosi has given her reaction to trump's interview on fox business and again called into question the president's response to the coronavirus and the plan isn't for the president to say that he's a perfect physical for. us amended it best him and maybe i can agree with that and

young it was young. disassociation from reality would be funny if it weren't so deadly. still to come this half hour. president trump and i trust the american people to know what. science doesn't know cross was over the coronavirus is the u.s. vice presidential nominees hold the debate. around foreign minister accuses the u.s. of aiming to blow up his country's remaining tunnels to pay for food and medicine but it is the latest. hello we have got more wet and windy weather blustery weather streaming in from the atlantic but hopefully the rain not quite as persistent as it has been recently and

one thing we will notice here is this is going to cool off behind they spawn of rain that will sink his way further south was when starting to come in from the northwest the direction further east west of whether it was the black sea it was rumania and bug everybody in between is fine and dry because welcome area of sunshine coming through here then and more the same as we go through saturday like that rain band will sing a little further south what's brought the skies back into much of italy and across the balkans where we have seen some torrential downpours a recently to the skies down towards the southeast meanwhile behind that there's that cold away in 1314 celsius for london and paris not exactly ideal times conditions i'm sure the players were complaining about the cold for that one for sure across northern parts of africa here it is fine and dry plenty of sunshine we got the usual showers through central africa over towards the gulf of guinea some more heavy downpours just coming back into southern areas of nigeria for a time pushing through gonna ivory coast over towards liberia got somewhat weather

just not going up towards sierra leone freetown but the top temperature 28 degrees . global community we are out of this conversation over the top but the whole crew says the worst boss lot of folks like to be part of the debate you can jump into the conversation by 2 way when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking power we just call it what. you see is 3 children preacher and the poor getting poorer it's not kill the story the system it's just to look at the system and i dabbed it to the modern world this street on out is there a. roof over the.

reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the world health organization has reported a record one day rising global coronavirus cases with more than 338000 cases in 24 hours 5 and a half 1000. bases warnings are sounded about rising cases across europe france reported 18000 cases while u.k. infections jumped around 3000 in a day to 17 and a whole 1000. and donald trump says he won't participate in the 2nd u.s. presidential debate if it's held virtually his team has proposed delaying it a week so that it can be held in person off to recover has grown a virus. us vice president mike pence and his democratic rival common to harris have squared off over the challenges facing the nation including the pandemic

economy and global warming but it's rebels reports from salt lake city was a more civil affairs than the 1st debate senator harrison vice president pence thank you for being here the sharp exchanges over 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 hasn't worked. that'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 you respect the american people when you tell them the truth but look senator harris you're you're trying to do your own opinion but 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 adama from set 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 trump 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 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 a deep. bates stage in front of 70000000 americans and refused to condemn white supremacists whether any of the exchanges in this debate will change many voters' minds remains to be seen meanwhile both parents and harris as well as biden will be campaigning on thursday in arizona

a swing state where polls show biden is leading robber and also al jazeera salt lake city. 6 people have been charged with trying to kidnap the governor of the u.s. state of michigan the f.b.i. says the men were planning to at her holiday home authorities say the suspects were going to buy explosives and tried to make improvised bombs was both praised and criticized for her response to the coronavirus pandemic protest as gathered at the capitol building and not sing for weeks in a in the may demonstrating against restrictions imposed across michigan but john hendren is live for us in chicago for that was a pretty elaborate plot that we heard from the f.b.i. what exactly were they planning. it was an elaborate plot and one that was well underway according to federal authorities here the main plot was to kidnap governor gretchen whitmer and to try her for treason

that being because of the restrictions on coronavirus the lockdown that she had initiated one of the toughest in the country so 6 people were arrested in that plot on federal charges there were an additional 7 people who were charged on weapons and terror related charges but as this unfolded it took months for the federal government to figure out what was going on it turns out early on in 2020 federal authorities discovered encrypted messages on social media between groups of a militia those militia members were plotting this elaborate attack it included an attack on the capitol in lansing. michigan an armed attack and it included the kidnapping of whitmer from her summer home according to the charges these conspirators gathered together in the basement of a building of a home in western michigan and they had to lift a rug and open

a trap door in order to get in there the host took all their cell phones so nobody recorded could record it but one of the conspirators felt that they had gone too far in talking about lethal force and so he agreed to wear a wire and that is part of how federal authorities discovered what was going on they had planned to buy bomb equipment and they had developed an improvised explosive they actually exploded the idea was they're going to explode a bomb under a bridge distract the police they had a taser they were going to take gretchen whitmer and they were going to take her away to some undisclosed location and try her for treason the federal authorities say they broke up that plot before it got too far now some of those people faced charges that include up to life in prison here's what the michigan attorney general had to say the individuals in custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them

made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the capitol building of michigan and he kidnapped government officials including the governor of michigan well john this comes in the context of a pandemic that has become so political in the u.s. how does this play into american politics. that's right the troubled ministration has been highly critical of they've been painting a rosy picture of the coronavirus trump partisans are not wearing masks in gatherings despite the fact that the president currently has covert 19 and so there is this feeling that these state crackdowns are 'd and encroachments on liberty and that's what this militia group felt was going on president trump tweeted on april 17th at liberate michigan that was a response to gretchen whitmer aggressive crackdown which included barring people

from going to their own vacation homes in michigan and then on the 30th of april a group of armed militia members actually burst into the capitol building itself and with their weapons in protest against what whitmer was doing so you have this feeling among conservative militia groups that this is gone too far they were trying to stop it and they plan to do so by kidnapping the governor of michigan. john hendren live for us from chicago thank you. the united states has slapped fresh sanctions on iran's financial sector targeting 18 a rainy and banks the move as an effort to fight the shut iran out of the type of banking system iran's foreign minister has accused the u.s. of quote blowing up the country's remaining channels to pay for food and medicine during a pandemic wasn't jordan has more from washington d.c. perhaps the biggest criticism of the trumpet ministrations sanctions regime against iran is that the culminating impact is that this is hurting the iranian people

certainly we have seen that criticism coming not just from e.u. nations but also from a wide range of humanitarian organizations around the world now the treasury department went in announced this latest round of sanctions against these 18 iranian banks said that these banks would still have exemptions so that they could bring in funds to facilitate the purchase of emergency food and medicine to serve the iranian people of course people have criticized the u.s. for making it much harder to get that sort of humanitarian aid to the iranian people but leave no doubt the trumpet ministration has made one of its key foreign policy objectives the international isolation of iran because of what it says is iran's attempts to develop a viable nuclear weapons program and it believes that by cutting off all avenues of

getting cash to into the hands or the under the control of the iranian government that the trumpet ministration ultimately will be successful but we have not seen that at least not as of right now. mediators from the u.s. russia and france are holding talks in geneva to try to end the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia the 2 sides are fighting over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh is officially part of azerbaijan but it's ethnically armenian at least 30 more soldiers are reported to have been killed on thursday the defense minister in nagorno-karabakh says 315 minute personnel have died since fighting with his airy forces when fighting broke out 12 days ago but it smith reports from the region's main city. so. there's not be much time for anything else but dealing with new casualties at stepan curt's main hospital it's 10 times busier than normal since the 1st shells started falling 11 days ago the head of the

emergency unit was telling us as this patient came in more than 350 armenian soldiers have been killed and hundreds more injured since the start of fighting with azerbaijan the azeris do not release figures for their killed or wounded soldiers and given that it's gone of all some of my friends were injured in our 1st and 2nd wars and i can say that then we had more gunshot or other likely inwards and how they using different types of missiles and the wing did have big injuries but we have not stood still in either medicine has improved so we try to save lives and human organs are not leave people with disabilities the stress is etched in the faces of the medical staff here the human cost is mounting on both sides after the collapse of an easy 26 year long ceasefire this modern hospital and stuff and i heard has been stretched to the limit by the bombardment of this town if they leave convoys of people injured to that during the fighting in the

bombardment. armenian missiles have hit towns and villages in azerbaijan well away from the conflict zone this is barda around 20 kilometers from the line of contact that separates nagorno-karabakh from azerbaijan. and this is gone boy more than 30 kilometers away. karabakh is airy territory but has a self-governing ethnic armenian majority. wants to restore its sovereignty that. the show fragment came and hurt my arm and also killed the animals as you can see we are staying at home women and children we have not left we are not going to run away why should we leave. russia france and moscow have been holding talks to try and bring about a ceasefire but with tensions rising between armenia and azerbaijan the hopes of

sima shattered as the missile debris littering the streets bernard smith al-jazeera step and nagorno-karabakh police have fired tear gas and water cannon at student protesters rallying in jakarta against a new labor law is the 3rd day of nationwide demonstrations in indonesia labor unions say the legislation will erode workers' rights and weaken environmental protections the president joko widodo says it will boost the economy. the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has reported a record one day rise in global coronavirus cases with more than 330000 cases in 24 hours and 5 and a half 1000 deaths this is warning the sounded about rising cases across europe france reported $18000.00 cases while u.k. infections.