only. because the like and it's my job to shed light on how and why. the. president mccraw announces nighttime curfew for paris and other cities as cove in 1000 cases keep surging in france and revelers in liverpool are branded reckless for partying on the eve of the city's lockdown as the u.k. reports nearly 20000 new infections. alone barbara starr you're watching out there live from london also coming up on the program thousands of afghan families displaced as government forces battle to

stop taliban fighters closing in on the capital of helmand province few signs of a cease fire as armenia and azerbaijan continue their battle over nagorno-karabakh and the dest toll keeps rising flooding and landslides killed at least 36 people in central vietnam with more heavy rain forecast. hello thank you for joining us the french president has announced a wave of new restrictions in the face of soaring coronavirus infections announcing that the country would enter a new state of health emergency from saturday emmanuel mccrone insisted the outbreak is not out of control in an interview on national television in the past hour he said that 8 cities including paris and let's say will be placed under nighttime curfews the country recorded nearly 23000 new kate. in the past 24 hours

well more than 32000 people have died in the course of the pandemic makana admitted it was a worrying situation but this missed the possibility of a new national lockdown let's go live now to natasha butler who is following developments for us in paris and attach what i found interesting that it's actually been a while since we've seen president a crown on t.v. and making national statements about the issue so how serious a measure is a curfew for france right now while a man or mike ross said look you know the current virus situation isn't out of control in france but it is certainly extremely urgent and that is why he said it was necessary to put in place this new restriction he is imposing a nighttime curfew or paris and 8 other major cities now what that means is between 9 o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the morning businesses restaurants cinema asked

theaters will have to close people will be expected not to be on the streets unless they've got a very good reason for being there so that could be work or it could be for medical reasons no matter what it calls it of course that many people are going to find that quite a drastic measure particularly businesses because they are going to be impacted economically once again very heavily this is when the economy is already reeling from the 1st wave but a man on max rolls said this this was absolutely necessary to try and protect people to protect the most vulnerable in society and to make sure that the virus does not get out of control because that's what he said that france is in fact in the grip of a 2nd wave and the question why do you think a man with a conscious to give this t.v. interview now. well this was the 1st time that a man gave this sort of into it's a rare television interview the 1st time he's spoken in this way on the coronavirus

since july even though he's been very active on the ground visiting factories and students and those sort of set pieces ways talked about coronavirus but he hasn't actually addressed the french public until now for several months and that is because until now he has left communication on the brink virus to his prime minister jacques as texas health minister there ha but it was seen that perhaps as a virus cases new infection cases are rising rapidly in france the situation does seem to be a lot more urgent and it is deteriorating that emanuel mark rohr had to step to the foreground he had to in fact take over if you like the handling the management of the coronavirus crisis in france at least in terms of the way the public is seeing the government's handling and that's why i know marco decided to make this address in order to underline emphasize to people in france that this is a grave situation imagine mike ross said over and again look the corona virus can

be deadly it can kill you so that is why people need to be far more responsible and collectively as a science society come together to try and overcome this attash butler with the latest there from paris the queue. well that's a situation in france but given 1000 cases are surging all over europe the czech republic currently has the highest infection rate in europe it's reported its 2nd highest daily number of infections at 8325 this on the day bars restaurants clubs and schools were ordered to close italy has 7332 new coronavirus infections its highest ever daily increase the country's infection rate has more than doubled in the past 2 weeks russia which has the world's 4th largest confirmed. caseload has reported a record 14 this 1231 new infections and germany is has 6 months

high in new infections which have passed 5000 for the 1st time nearly 9700 germans have died since the outbreak began well the u.k. is facing up to the possibility of a hard winter ahead with almost 20000 new cases recorded in the past day wednesday also saw the start of a new 3 tier restriction system social mixing is out while bars and gyms are closing in the one region to enter at the highest level as jonah hill reports now from liverpool public misbehavior by a few could have very real consequences for vulnerable residents. becoming 2nd wave political drinkers it's a rite pubs and bars are forced to shut as the city becomes england's 1st to face the highest level of new restrictions. away from the drunken revelry these are moments when heavily on the lives of many livable is the 1st with its hospitals filling up and critical care beds almost at capacity it won't be the last there's

talk of a possible full scale nationwide lockdown for a short period at the end of the month and all the while the hidden toll is being counted the mental health of millions held in the balance people support mechanisms and their coping mechanisms just don't there anymore and i think that is something that we are going to see going forward i think the mental health implications from the cove it all go to far outlast the actual virus itself i think we're going to be picking up the pieces for this for quite a long time. this we have to offer to give the offer of say facility so these kids from that get on acceptance of exercise and activity what we found in the 14 or even up down or so most of them are members of their cell farm because he does have meltdowns at home in the previous left and the previous left i know so obviously but the 2nd samples again no. gyms and leisure centers up shut their

doors but this facility continues for now waiting for clarity on the rules. well it helps me with my eyesight. and all our. gail my anger arms because everyone has a lot on oil. i don't like the fire that they guard the iraqi guards. they are i want to be there but to the normal. building. caroline couldn't walk on her own when she began weekly visits to the kirkland center's inclusive comfort a few of my never done things i can even dream of doing when i was busy at home with my mom i used to demo and do absolutely everything. you know now. available.

on the physical as well. the. liverpool iran's reported 279 coronavirus the earth's on wednesday its highest the daily toll since the outbreak began another 4800 sources people tested positive both record high numbers this is cause the government to announce a travel ban to and from the 5 big cities that are war state by the virus including the capital tehran on saturday the wearing of face masks was made compulsory in all large cities and nationwide. at least 36 states in the u.s. and now reporting a rising number of new coronavirus cases in the northeast of the country hospital

beds are also filling with new virus patients around 50000 new cases have been reported each day for the past few days since the beginning of the pandemic the virus has infected more than 7800000 people in the us killed more than 216000 put millions out of work. afghanistan now where tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after heavy fighting between government troops and taliban fighters both sides have reported casualties and aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed taliban fighters have been battling their way towards. the capital of helmand province in recent days. government forces have launched a counter offensive to stop them with u.s. airstrikes supporting afghan troops on the ground this coincides with talks being

held in qatar to end america's longest war and could complicate president plans to have american soldiers home from afghanistan by christmas. and then another blow for the government to defense force helicopters crashed into each other earlier while setting off for home and killing 9 people on board journalist ifill country foolery is in the capital kabul she says health services are overwhelmed in the area where the fighting is. they main trauma hospital in provincial capital. has been operating at full capacity cannot treat anymore people and the m.s.f. supported another m.s.f. supported hospital in the area has been serving as an overflow facility with over 20 people have been at it there in the past 24 hours and among them are even pregnant women and children in terms of the displaced according to the u.n. and local sources 35000 people have been forced to flee their homes

a lot of them with nothing but their clothes we've seen pictures of them trying to load as much as they can in some model bikes and try to escape the fighting now are you in assessment teams are on the air in the try to assess the situation and it's extremely difficult to get information and a lot of the infrastructure of the telephone lines have been damaged so it's hard to a says what exactly what the exact needs are. salacious from afghanistan but al-jazeera is a summer binge of eid has worn off from doha where the peace talks began last month . there has been some headway in the talks and to discuss that further we have or there's a senior advisor to president musharraf ghanem with another another he was also a member of the peace negotiation team thank you very much for taking the time i've heard you describe this as this ongoing violence as an impediment to peace in afghanistan is the afghan negotiation team willing to leave the table if the

violence doesn't stop well our brief from national defense and security forces or doing the job of protecting the people or constitute. this level of violence that we have seen in the past 3 weeks is a clear indicator of less care about peace by the side more about the violence is acceptable to our people to see civilians dying to see public properties and public infrastructure be destroyed and that's not injecting a good sense of confidence in a peace process that we are so willingly in genuinely and faithfully engaged and the other side doesn't inject that with the same level of genuine mr stop the violence we need to get this violence level down or stop it completely or people demand cease so that they can build a level of trust and confidence that a peace process will lead to

a shared future for all of our friends that's what we are. engaged and looking forward to to work with the taliban. together that you saw to come in this half hour protesters in cypress demand the speaker of parliament to resign and not just step back from his duties after al-jazeera say cash for passports exposé. this is history been made folks democrats running out of time to stop the republicans confirming president trump's supreme court nominee. however we've got some dry weather pushing into the northwest of here a pipe for the next couple of davis are very heavy right over its was that a society of quite an intense area of low pressure here totally packed ice abbas has some very strong winds coming in across the baltic states into germany through

poland and some rather wet weather to just around more than parts of it is not is it a general life in some very heavy right across the north of italy running across the balkans some snow coming back on the tail end of that in that what's the weather it's not doing its way a little further east was up towards the northwest but we do have that high sinking in still quite a chilly breeze it must be said 13 celsius in london with that northeasterly wind rolling in off the north sea stays dry and fine as we go on through friday this weather system getting held at bay by our high pressure some showers longer spells of christ into central and eastern parts with more snow over the alps and some showers there into central parts of italy for know the parts of africa where it stays fine and dry usual crop of showers through central africa sinking a little further south as they should do there will be some heavy downpours into southern nigeria could cause some localized flooding here cameron also seeing some big downpours the showers around iran across the west of africa pushing all the way

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back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera president mccraw has announced a wave of new coronavirus restrictions for france including a month of nightly curfews in major cities the country will enter a new public health state of emergency on saturday after reporting nearly 23000 new cases in the past 24 hours the u.k.'s almost 20000 new infections its 2nd highest daily increase wednesday also saw the start of a new 3 tier restriction system and tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after heavy fighting in afghanistan taliban fighters have been battling their way towards lashkar gah the capital of helmand province in recent days. and fighting is also escalating in the corner the spite a humanitarian ceasefire agreed on saturday as a by sharon is accused armenia of trying to attack its oil and gas pipelines while

armenia says as a johnnie's trying to occupy the disputed area more than $600.00 people have been killed since fighting over the enclave broke out last month turkey has vowed full support for it says arry ally while russia has once again appealed for a diplomatic resolution but at smith reports in armenia they'll be a memorial like this in perhaps every one of the homes of the more than $530.00 armenian men killed since fighting restarted on september the 27th. was a 19 year old conscript sent to the front lines just as fighting with azerbaijan started . exon receded when we last talked on the phone on the evening of september 26th and he said everything's all right after that we heard nothing on the 27th i wanted to go volunteer where my son was serving but i wasn't allowed then on the 30th i got a call and was told everything is finished there were 9 of them i don't know what happened to the others all the young men ingeborg school yearbook

a doing their compulsory military service now like almost every young man in armenia and nagorno-karabakh to my niece up to now i think he will call he will come back i don't know i can't imagine he's not with us anymore i mean as prime minister says there been some retreats from frontline positions and the situation is what he described as quite difficult for his country. i spy in misery right now the number of our casualties are very high no more. victims armenia's adversary azerbaijan now has the open and full support of turkey. president. says 26 years of diplomacy have failed to resolve the conflict and it's time for armenia to return land it took in the 1991 to 4. 3 members of minsk the united states russia and france are still putting this off with their stalling tactics just give them the occupied lands let them go to their

lands let them do what they want in their own lands but there is an invasion here russia has rejected requests from turkey's involvement in future negotiations on the go in a car about. the father of combat how jeff plays a popular mourns the dead soldiers their son was killed on the 1st day of fighting . most of the years about a journey people especially those from places close to the contect line suffer like this we've been through this since 1988. like hundreds of thousands of his area's this family was 1st displaced from armenian territories in earlier conflicts you. know the fighting shouldn't stop there are so many mothers inconsolable like me if you take a land back i'll see i didn't lose my son on both sides of this conflict the

pressure on leaders not to give way is intense. john on wednesday accusations the armenians are trying to attack oil and gas pipelines the armenians areas are trying to seize nagorno-karabakh and above this angry rhetoric russia is appealing to both sides to observe the humanitarian ceasefire but it seems no one's paying attention . bernard smith al-jazeera gora's. the european union has reportedly agreed to impose sanctions on 6 russian officials allegedly responsible for poisoning the kremlin critic alexina valley the new york times says 2 deputy defense minister is and the head of the domestic spy agency are among those that the e.u. will target with asset freezes and travel bans alexina valley is now recovering in britain after being poisoned in siberia an organist russia denies being behind the attack and says it's not prepared to tolerate the way it's been treated by the e.u.

. protesters inside demanding the resignation of their parliament speaker over a contentious cash for passport scheme during an undercover al-jazeera investigation they made 3. appear to offer a passport to a convicted criminal salute he says the night any wrongdoing and his acting president while in a course on the c.i. this is in brussels he said he'll step back from parliamentary duties from next week while an investigation takes place well just as investigative reporter david harrison was among the protesters outside parliament in nikko c.-a. chancing they want resignations this sick of corruption they want their country back on this is an amazing turnaround when we 1st arrived here and we did a trailer for all film that was sort of conspiracy theories being put around what zoologists is agenda all they're picking on cyprus and then the film came out and there's just been this incredible turnaround everybody seems to think the evidence

presented is for miserably strong and they've got on board and they're full of praise for al-jazeera val i think some of them are saying things like it's galvanized them it's galvanized into action they want to clean a cypress they want these people out they want demitra salukis the president of parliament who stepped down from his duties but hasn't actually resigned they want him to go they want to clean out and they say it's giving them new hope that cyprus can actually become a better place what i've been impressed by is just the pression and there's a sense of catharsis here people have been waiting for this opportunity for years and little did we know that our investigation would be the thing that would trigger it president trunk's the u.s. supreme court nominee amy coney barrett is into her 3rd day of confirmation hearings she's again facing tough questions from senate committee members on capitol hill so far she's been pressed by several democrats all key issues including health care abortion and election disputes it's cost allen fisher who

joins us now from capitol hill as so the surrey day how did she do today and what sorts of questions was she faced with. well what is interesting is she's just been involved in an exchange with tom tell us who's a republican senator from north carolina and she was asked why she was doing this why she was going through the process which meant that she would face difficult questions she said that one of her children was very upset with the questioning that she received on tuesday which nowhere near as bad is as others in that position have but clearly upset her child but she said this is for them and also because she believes that if you want to make sure that society continues to act with the norms then you have to participate and to acknowledge that it was difficult there have been a few interesting exchanges one with dick durbin who is a senator from illinois a democrat and he was talking about the affordable care act now why is that important well a week after the presidential election there is going to be an issue before the

supreme court which could take away a preexisting condition coverage for 23000000 americans that could lose all of that and so a number of democratic senators and we continually raising that and trying to get. judged. to see how she would possibly vote on how she views the affordable care act because she's written in the past some fairly critical things but she said this time around that she had no animist towards the act and would judge the case on its merits another interesting thing came about when the dentist the patrick leahy from vermont was questioning or this is all about what happens to donald trump if he loses the election other people are saying that he should face criminal actions for is what he's done in office and of course that when people talking about whether or not at the president would be able to walk away from that by giving himself a pardon have a listen to that exchange. where joe agree for

the nobody is above the law got the president are you. correct. right to part. senator leahy so far as i know that question has never been litigated the question has never risen that question may or may not arise but it's one that calls for a legal analysis of what the scope of the pardon power is so because it would be opining on an open question when i haven't gone through the judicial process to decided it's not want to which i can offer you. so the 3 year slightly different from day to day 2 you'll remember that the

senators all got 30 minutes each this time around to get 20 minutes to ask questions and there is an optional 3rd droned where they can get 10 minutes to ask questions but it seems that both sides i think you're acknowledging exactly how this is going to end up ted cruz who is a republican senator from texas said that from what the way his democratic colleagues were asking questions the accepted that she was qualified to sit in the bench and instead were taking the time to meet launch political attacks on don't trump whether or not you think that's true we know that sheldon whitehouse who is a fairly well regarded democratic senator from rhode island he's almost acknowledged that he knows that this nomination is going to go ahead and through to the full senate when he asked the judge but it that when you are on the court when you are on the court please make sure that any lawyer who brings a case to you does not feel that the odds are stacked against them if ever there was a moment of real politic in these hearings that it is with the democrats acknowledging

that they are simply not going to be able to over the republicans on this and it's almost certain that equally but it's nomination will go forward to the full senate for confirmation alan fish on capitol hill allan thank you. flooding and landslides have killed at least $36.00 people in vietnam a tropical storm made landfall earlier adding to the damage done by heavy downpours in recent days and the country is braced for more rain and a chapell reports. entire villages submerged but even before tropical storm don cost truck this region hundreds of thousands of families in central vietnam were struggling to cope 2 weeks of rain have left communities isolated many can only be reached by boat it is. close to a 1000000 people. and. and. none cars expected to drop up to 400 millimeters of rain in north and central

vietnam by friday 200000 homes have already been flooded along with rice fields that people depend on to earn a living that's on top of hardships brought by the coronavirus this. continues. because the. already. many. risky workers are delivering food and other supplies in the worst affected provinces into our thin hey province search and rescue teams are looking for survivors following a series of landslides a landslide at a hydro power dam left some workers dead and others missing a 2nd landslide trapped rescuers trying to reach them with more bad weather to come

many are concerned about what will happen in the days ahead and should help al jazeera. a new crew has traveled to the international space station in record time to russians and americans blasted off kazakstan onboard a soyuz rocket using a fast track win over for the 1st time they arrived at the space station in a little over 3 hours it usually takes twice as long. ok time now for a reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera france is heading back into a state of health emergency as coronavirus infections there soar president emanuel i'm a crawl announced a month of night time curfews in 8 major cities beginning on saturday but said there would be no national lockdown the country recorded nearly 23000 new cases in the past 24 hours the president said the outbreak is not out of control but is spreading throughout the country that hashem.