0. if you want to help save the world the. present him across announces nighttime curfew for paris and 8 major cities as cove in 1000 cases keep surging in france. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up fears of another covert super spreader event as donald trump travels to his upcoming campaign rally in iowa thousands of afghan families the splay sisters government forces a battle at taliban fighters in helmand province and few signs of a ceasefire as are many of the as and azerbaijan continue their battle over

nagorno-karabakh and the desk top keeps rising. hello welcome to the program of france will reenter a state of health emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 of the city's ily 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control at tesh about the reports from paris. french president emanuel macross that france was in the grip of a 2nd wave of coronavirus he urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris and 8 tell the cities the could last until december 5th. if we stick to this curfew for 6 weeks if we take collective responsibility

for reducing our contacts we think it will be able to progressive the reopen at that stage. if you move the curfew adds to a raft of restrictions already in place in the countries big cities where cases of new infections are rising rapidly in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board freeze like this one in the city have been getting longer and more paris health officials say it's a one in 5 tests is coming back positive soon after moving to paris in september these british students fell sick with coronavirus they began having symptoms after attending university events and welcome parties every station to standing by wearing masks but it sometimes that doesn't stop if you're in a crowded place and you haven't stopped going to electricity faking very tired in between needy half the students in a year were infected for some recovery has been slow i mean i was covered before

but even i just want to get it again or other for me and now i'm a lot more like conscious of it micro hopes the curfew will help ease pressure on hospitals in paris intensive care beds capacity the problem says this epidemiology just is that the government is taking the wrong approach relying on restrictive measures rather than whites protesting the solution would be to assign to test. the population and that can be done. using p.c.r. test with group dusting when you put in one to the sample. from 20 or 30 people. also the test so that's what's being done in the countries where the virus has been contained for some new restrictions will deal yet another blow to an already ailing economy for others they'll be welcomed as a sign that after months of urging people to live with the virus the president is

hardening his tone natasha bottler al jazeera paris. schools have closed along with bars and restaurants in the czech republic which currently has the highest per capita infection rate in europe the country reported more than $8300.00 new cases on wednesday its 2nd highest daily total of the pandemic so far shutting classrooms was seen as an unpopular but necessary measure students represent 16 percent of all infections and the health ministry says the number of cases among teachers and other staff has been rocketing since september. over the life of the decision was difficult but i think we have a clear vision of how to return to normal i'm convinced that we will succeed together with your help and that we will defeat the virus as we did in the spring we have experience we have clear plans but now the priority is for our hospitals to cope with the growth of hospitalized people. the u.k.

is facing up to the possibility of a hard winter ahead it reported nearly $20000.00 new cases on wednesday which 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 the highest level as john howell reports from liverpool public misbehavior by a few could have very real consequences for vulnerable residents. normal top of the coming 2nd wave political drinkers it's arrived pubs and bars 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 mechanism is just not 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 are going 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. as we have to offer to give life a say facility so these kids can get get some accept some exercise and activity what we found in the 43 to last hour now some are some are members of their cell farm because he does had meltdowns at home in your previous life and the previous one down oh so obviously but the 2nd stampers again no. gyms and leisure centers of shut their doors but this facility continues for now waiting for clarity on the rules. well it helps me with my eyesight. and.

gal my anger out. because everyone has a laugh and all and. i don't like the 5 of us because i want it gone. but i want to be like fuck you to the normal. caroline couldn't walk on her own when she began weekly visits to the kirkland center's inclusive computer spears my never done things i just can't even dream of doing when i was at home i used to don't do absolutely free everything. you know now i'm healthy normal not more at home if this facility is not available for the sort of these young adults it just means in the fact of. well being but what happens on the physical activity as well. so yeah it's not we're thinking. it's good topcoat. how come. we

don't feel down in all our joint whole al-jazeera liverpool. it ran reported 279 coronavirus stats on wednesday it's highly highest daily toll since the outbreak began another 4840 people tested positive 1st days were record high numbers it's caused the government to announce a travel ban to and from the 5 big cities that are worst hit by the virus including the capital tehran on saturday the wearing of face mask was made compulsory in all large cities nationwide. at least 36 states in the u.s. so 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 says. the beginning of the pandemic virus has infected more than 7800000 people in the u.s. killed more than 216000 put millions out of work. where u.s.

1st lady melania trump has revealed that her 14 year old son barron also contracted kovac 1000 this month but exhibited no symptoms president prompting the 1st lady tested positive on october 1st all 3 have since tested negative and in the next hour thousands of people are expected to defy virus restrictions out of trump campaign rally in iowa cases and deaths remain at high levels across the state which is one of the highest infection rates in the u.s. the governor issued an emergency proclamation for people to keep their distance in public places the term campaign says there will be temperature checks and masks will be distributed it's going to mike hanna live for us in washington d.c. so this by the all the warnings and the fact that cases are skyrocketing trumpet call another campaign rally and you know i guess we'll wait to see how many what masks are actually warned there. well speaking from

experience in the president trump has had since recovering from the virus very few people are wearing mask is organizers say yes they are providing masks at every rally that they are taking everybody's temperature but footage that we've seen and what has happened up to now and show the vast majority of the crowd without a mass including of course the president trump himself we will see within the next hour as you say at that rally in this morning's and i were president trump holding court once again but this is to kill or lead tense at this particular time across the united states there has been a massive increase in cases of corona virus over the past 2 weeks a 12 percent increase across the united states there is an average of close to 50000 new cases the day once again across the united states iowa where the president is visiting the c evening there's been

a massive spike in infections there and it's one of the states where hospitalisations have risen dramatically in the past week so certainly it's a hot spot you heard there the orders from the governor it's unlikely though that the crowds who are massing to the rally are likely to follow that and the governor would appear to have no power to enforce that particular mosque ban but president trump going ahead one good reason i were is a state that he took very easily from hillary clinton back in 2016 he's trailing joe biden in the polls in that particular state at the moment for him i was all important in terms of that election and he's prepared to risk tens of thousands of people or thousands of people without mass in order to achieve that in my county with the latest from washington d.c. mike thank you. well staying in the u.s. justice department probe ordered by the trumpet ministration into alleged misconduct by obama officials has ended with no evidence of wrongdoing the

washington post says the investigation into the unmasking of american citizens mentioned in intelligence reports in 2016 has now concluded for months republicans of hyped the unmasking requests as a huge scandal. and president tromso u.s. supreme court nominee amy kone barrett is into her survey of confirmation hearings she's again facing tough questions from senate committee members on capitol hill so far she's being pressed by several democrats on key issues including health care abortion and election disputes barrett was also asked whether a president should be able to pardon themselves of a crime. for nobody. got to play. right now and. right

to pardon. me after. 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 still to come in this half hour. thousands more settler homes given the go ahead by israel but could it damage the country's new relationships in the middle east and swimming it with robots the plan to replace marine park creatures with hollywood style animatronics .

l.a. we've got more blustery weather affecting the southeast of australia chiefly across tasmania big area cloud here sweeping through the by rolling down towards tasmania will see some showers having said that also making their way it's a victoria sliding freeport ferry leading cross wimble all the way across into melbourne march just catch the odd shot him into the fosse out of new south wales the for much of those it does look fine in try want to want to show shows up towards the northeast corner of queensland maybe the old shotty just around the top and fun to try of which was the west perth around $24.00 celsius next area of wet weather that will sweep its way through the bytes are running across the nullarbor easing up it was adelaide as we go on through friday so what's the weather there she can see down towards the southeast now type colder in melbourne around 901 with the weather will gradually make its way towards the south of new zealand may well get wet and windy weather moving away from japan to the cheering up here we have

got some fine weather and some sunshine in the forecast a few showers there you notice so this is side of honshu drier if a little colder by the coming back in tokyo around 17 celsius a few showers there across the korean peninsula little bit of wet weather into central china. as protests rage across america more black lives are lost despite the promises of police reform faultlines hears from those demanding justice the truth countability transparency that's what i desire from the city i'm desperately need to change i have no faith in situation that needs to be reminded not to help the moment of reckoning racism and police in america on a. welcome

back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera president mccrone 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 in the u.k. is almost 20000 new infections its 2nd highest daily increase wednesday also saw the start of a new 3 tier system of restrictions. and thousands of people are expected to the 5 virus restrictions at a truck campaign rally in the next hour in iowa it's the state with the 4th highest

infection rate in the u.s. the governor issued an emergency proclamation for people to keep their distance in public places. let's go to afghanistan where tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after heavy fighting between government troops and the taliban both sides have reported casualties and the aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed taliban fighters have been battling their way towards lashkar gah the capital of helmand province in the past few days well government forces have launched a counter offensive to try 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 trumps plans to have american soldiers home from afghanistan by christmas. in another blow for the government to defense force helicopters crashed into each other earlier while setting off the helm and killing 9 people on board journalists feel for

e 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 any more 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 admitted 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 and 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 fighting is escalating in the corner kyra back to speiser russia brokered humanitarian cease fire that was agreed saturday as a bridge on is accused armenia of trying to attack its oil and gas pipelines while armenia says azerbaijan is 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 its as a reality while russia is appealing for a diplomatic resolution furnace smith reports from goal race in armenia will 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

. it's always heated 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 all the young men ingeborg school yearbook are 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's 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 currency that is a 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. you know a lot of you 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. russia has rejected requests from us about john for turkey's involvement in future negotiations on the go in a car about. the father of code about how jeff plays a popular mourns their dead soldiers their son was killed on the 1st day of fighting. most of the people especially those from places close to the contact line suffer like this they've all suffered from the armenian separatists it's not only us like hundreds of thousands of his areas this family was 1st displaced from armenian territories in earlier

conflicts you have no no the fighting shouldn't stop there are so many members inconsolable like me so much blood of our soldiers if we take our lands back i'll say 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 saviors 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 corus armenia. 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 ministers and the head of the domestic spy agency are among those the will target with asset freezes

and travel bans alexander valley is there recovering in berlin after being poisoned inside bierria in 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. . israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank it's the 1st time that israel has approved the building of settler homes since a normalization deal with the united arab emirates and behaving as part of that agreement israel promises to suspend plans to add next part of the occupied west bank the settlements are considered illegal under international law when either abraham is near ramallah in the occupied west bank with a reaction from palestinian officials. the spokesperson of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has condemned the israeli move saying that israel is using the silence of the international community and what he called the renormalization deals with israel this is the 1st announcement of its kind after the u.a.e.

find its agreement with israel to normalize relations and the u.a.e. has said that this agreement has put an exclusion plans on hold but for palestinians israel is moving forward with building more and more illegal israeli settlements including this one this is the settlement of it's one of the settlements that's going to be expanded our sprue the new plan and palestinians are saying that more and more certain moments are being built on palestinians person in grounds rendering any future palestinian contiguous future palestinian state almost impossible palestinians are hoping that the democratic candidate will win the u.s. elections and. the palestinian prime minister. has said if trump wins a 2nd term god helps us all. thailand's government has announced an emergency

decree banning gatherings of 5 or more people with immediate effect it also bans online messages that quote could create fear effect national security or damage public morale it comes after thousands marched through bangkok demanding political reform some then set up camp outside the prime minister promised this the protesters want him to resign and a complete overhaul of the electoral system also calling for reforms to the monarchy and laws that protect the king from public scrutiny. scholar joins us now on the phone from thailand's capital bangkok and there have been developments in the past half hour or so scott what are they. they have been yes that we are hearing now also that some of the leadership more of the leadership question the protest movements for merrily led by students they have been arrested we're hearing overnight now very early in bangkok right now it's just after 5 going on 6 am and

what we are hearing is that there have been more arrests in this decree that you had mentioned and that is really going to target those protesters who marched yesterday and have been camped out outside government house overnight they broke through multiple police barricades yesterday and now they've been camping out overnight and obviously with this need to create about limiting the amount of people they can gather that will most likely to remove start removing protesters from the area where they spent the night from again what we saw yesterday when there was quite amazing you know you saw this large gathering start democracy monument. and then police barricades kind of corralling the men but they said that they're going to march to government house from democracy monument and that's the kind of what up to multiple police barricades went through them in some cases negotiated in some cases forced their way through want to get closer to government house and then they kind of stayed there overnight and that's what has been the

most recent development so arrest and then also this decree. giving the police the authority and the other security forces the authority to break this up of what i know you'll be following developments for us we'll check in with you as the story for vestas from a moment's thought hi there joining us from bangkok thank you. flooding and landslides have killed at least 36 people in vietnam tropical storm and one can made landfall earlier that's adding to the damage done by heavy downpours in recent days and the country is braced for yet more rain and the chapelle points. 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. 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. 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 al-jazeera. robot dolphins could be the future attraction at somewhere in parks around the world a u.s. technology firm created this hyper realistic dolphin which will find a home in theme parks currently being built in china the team worked with irene biologists so that they could best replicate the animal's movements it's hoped a move to an electronics may bring back audiences started off by parks keeping dolphins in captivity. normal day consists of swimming 100 miles in the ocean and now you're swimming 75 feet and that's your entire existence is just so unnatural environment you can dress it up you can make it look. notion like but it's a fact of being a social role mean animal. and then constrained with based basically

a bath tub and so i think it's psychological physiological. you know impact. hello i'm barbara starr in london with a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera france is heading back into a state of health emergency as coronavirus infections freights sore president manuel mccraw announced a month of not 10 curfews and 8 older cities beginning on saturday but said there would be no national lock that on the country recorded nearly 23000 new cases in the past 24 hours you know. we have not lost control we are in a situation which is worrying.