on a. trip and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a than this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes e.u. leaders sort of on the line goes into quarantine during the summit in brussels after a staffer test positive for covert 19 and in the u.s. democratic vice presidential candidate sarah suspends her travel plans after a staff member contracts the virus. stands president sort of jeenbekov resigns after weeks of protest prime minister is now in charge.

a long awaited exchange a massive operation over a 1000 prisoners released on both sides of yemen's conflict. from europe to the u.s. the coronavirus pandemic has forced to keep player to leave the summits in brussels than has jolted the democratic presidential campaign less than 3 weeks before elections the president of the european commission sort of on the line abruptly left brags that trade talks after she came in contact with someone infected with covert 19. u.s. democratic vice presidential candidate camel house are suspended all in person events after 2 of her campaign members tested positive harris was scheduled to

travel to the battleground state of north carolina on thursday both her wrists and biden have tested negative or speak to our white house correspondent kimberly health in just a moment of 1st let's go over to natasha barlow she joins us live from paris so how did the departure of a sort of on the last impact the summit. sony an unexpected event the e.u. commission head of on delay in leaving an easy use are made to just shortly after it began it was rather abrupt she later though tweeted that she had been forced to leave she said because somebody in our aunt or are tested positive for covert 19 are borderline says that she in fact has tested negative never that nevertheless she decided that it would be cautious for her to self isolate and that is what she

did we later heard in fact from the e.u.'s breaks it negotiator michel barnier who gave us an update on vonzell and he said that she would still be following proceedings during this 2 day summit very closely she would still be on the phone with her various e.u. leaders and that she was doing well so the disruption to the summit itself was minimal but certainly it once again highlighted the fact that cove it 19 is really circulating so freely you might say in the european union and we know that cases of new infections have been soaring in many e.u. countries and we've also heard from the e.u. leaders have been speaking about bras and i think all of those been saying. what this summer was seen as something of a crunch summit for boris johnson the u.k. prime minister he set it as a deadline if you like for leaders to come to

a post gregg's it trade deal agreements however leaders had a very clear message after their talks they said that yes they would like to see a deal a post breaks it trade deal done but not at any cost are several leaders repeated that line a deal yes but not at any cost and really that is because differences remain between at the e.u. and u.k. on a number of issues on things like a fair competition on governance and on fishing a really contentious issue particularly for france emanuel mike ross said that he refused to sacrifice french fisherman for the sake of a deal so very clear message for e.u. leaders what they are suggesting to the u.k. is the talks continue negotiations continue to try and reach a deal before the end of the year that is when the deadline comes up for the end of all the negotiations and talks and a risk of

a no deal about time whether or not the u.k. will take up the invitation of the negotiated michel barnier for more to talks in the future will have to see. natasha. sort of on the line is not the only female international politician that's been impacted by the coronaviruses go over to kimberly health joins us now from washington d.c. and they're having issues with the virus in the harris campaign campers world. yes senator harris herself she has not tested positive for covert 19 but 2 members of her staff have at least one campaign director and the other communications director and also a member of the flight crew a non staff member of the plane that kamel harris travels on quite frequently now the campaign that is assuring other members of the campaign that there is nothing to worry about in terms of the candidate that she has not been in close proximity

to these 2 infected people that she when she was in close proximity she was still one meter away she was wearing and 95 mask which is what they would wear in the hospital that personal protective equipment so they're pretty confident that the candidate will be ok at the same time the impact this is had on this campaign is substantial given the fact that senator harrison had to cancel her event to north carolina she's also holding off on travel and till sunday along with her husband who usually companies her so this is put a real impact on the campaign given the fact that we're less than 3 weeks from voting day all right stay with us can believe because we've also got to talk about the u.s. president on trump he's been holding a rally in the swing state of north carolina there is now even live pictures coming in from then not wearing a mask he won here by a slim margin in 2016 is trailing joe biden his democratic challenger at the moment

he later a whole town hall meeting in florida which is another key swing state has continued to downplay the coronavirus citing his son's recovery as proof it's not a danger to most children trump's wife melania earlier said 14 year old barron trying through the virus but has since tested negative let's go back to kimberly how did so how is this all playing i mean we were quite close to elections now how is this all playing out with the campaign strategies that we're seeing from both don't trump and joe biden. well what we've seen you know in the last 2 weeks is both campaigns hit with the covert 19 just a couple of weeks ago we're talking about donald trump's positive diagnosis spending time in the hospital not being able to campaign for about 10 days a good solid chunk when you're really close to voting day that's a big problem now he's back on the campaign trail testing negative we understand

and he is in this battleground state of north carolina the same state we're coming to harris had to cancel her appearance this morning so this is the problem is that the candidates don't have a lot of time on the ground left this is a key state as you mentioned donald trump is trailing nationally but when it comes to this particular battleground state it's really almost from the latest polls a statistical dead heat although we see the biting campaign edging up a little bit and this is a critical state to order to win the white house both candidates know they need it so this is not good news now looking ahead in terms of this evening here in the united states we're going to have dueling town halls and there's bit of a controversy about that too and again it's covert related very quickly you'll remember this was to be the 2nd presidential debate or town hall format it was canceled because donald trump got covert 19 then one was put on the biden campaign going up to philadelphia where that is still on and then when donald trump

recovered he decided that he would also participate in. cape town hall as well and that is going to be going on in miami but there are a lot of people criticizing this move by the additional american network to kind of enable donald trump to have a dueling town hall with joe biden they feel that this sort of bad behavior on the part of the president who withdrew from the debate because he didn't want to be virtual is being rewarded others arguing on the other side this is just upholding the american tradition the constitutionally protected tradition of free speech all right thanks so much kimberly how. kyrgyzstan's new prime minister is just part of has assumed presidential powers after the resignation of the current president and speaker of parliament there have been weeks of anti-government protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month protestors accuse the government of rigging the vote in its favor chance triumph it is in east

enough as a kid to stand rather he explains what the resignations mean for the country it's fair to say mr jeenbekov has been changing his story since these rigged elections on october the 4th initially off to those elections we heard nothing from him which . there was a bench really a statement given by him saying that resignation was not on the cards. and then we had another statement from him saying that he was going to resign he would resign but only after a new cabinet was formed now yesterday a new cabinet was formed by the new prime minister and it was late last night or last night we heard that he wasn't going to resign until there were new elections we understand that there were some very heated discussions held by him and the new prime minister and speaker of parliament last night trying to negotiate mr jeenbekov departure journalists that we were with in bishkek where outside respect

bishkek about 3 aus at the moment but those journalists were telling us that your power of supporters was threatening to storm the president's building if he hadn't resigned by 830 last night mr powell if the new prime minister then calm those supporters down and today we understand there were more discussions between the prime minister the speaker and the now resigned president and he has indeed yes said that he is going to sit down. the european union and the u.k. of impose sanctions on 6 russian officials close to president vladimir putin in response to the poisoning of russian opposition leader alex in a valley the kremlin has promised retaliatory measures around these recovering in berlin after being poisoned in siberia in august moscow has denied any responsibility let's take a look at who those targeted individuals are it includes alexander bartunek of the

chief of russia's domestic spy agency 2 of russia's deputy defense ministers president putin's envoy to siberia which is where or is it took place the 1st deputy chief of staff of the president's office and the head of the president's domestic policy directorate. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including more political fallout 5 from al jazeera investigation into the cyprus cash for passport scandal in corona virus cases surging across europe france alone they've gone up by a bird in just a day we'll have a report on the pandemic. and spores we hear from the england camp after a rough night to wembley. an operation is underway to return more than 1000 prisoners home across the front

lines of yemen civil war planes carrying who had been held by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition of been arriving in the capsule sun are the swap is being seen as a trust building measure aimed at reviving peace talks. as more. a long awaited moment in yemen prisoners held in captivity for years freed in the largest prisoner exchange between the warring factions. the deal was brokered by the un in 2018 but never implemented but this time who theory rebels and the government representatives set aside their differences hoping the swap could lead to thousands of detainees being liberated in the future. it was a carefully arranged operation saudi sudanese and government detainees boarded

a plane that took off from who the hell son our airport their destination airport in saudi arabia. are the same time who feel rebels were transferred from say human airport in southern yemen to sana'a any delay could have jeopardized the whole agreement a separate prisoner exchange took place on wednesday brokered by oman the deal allowed more than 200 heard these stranded in amman to return home in exchange for the release of 2 u.s. citizens detained by the whole thiis the rebels also sent back the remains of a 3rd american who died in captivity. citizen was living working in yemen and. was in prison for a 199 days 2 years and 6 months in solitary confinement

and it was hell really have a bad bad experience and i think. his majesty some fun heightened for his assistance in getting us out of. the u.n. held the prisoner exchange as a milestone it's hope is to convince feuding parties to restart political talks to end the war in yemen. u.n. envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the sound of that government is losing ground that's a session a south backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare

a state of their own. body is the international committee of the red cross is near and middle east regional director he says more releases should take place because of the die humanitarian situation anything at the end of the day. you need a political will to make such a result detainees possible because because there is one very important element in these regions to place it's taking place why the conflict is ongoing most of the time release of detainees happen at the end of a calm not during. and i think we should stress this and be take it as a positive step i think they've done something really hard i want to believe that all parties to this conflict realize that the reached the end of the road or at least the people of yemen beach the end of the rope you know 80 percent of the

people here at the end on you may turn system. more than 20000000 of people have no access to. who to health to water and sanitation i can give you a just an example to illustrate a bit how dramatic is the situation in the us you see as often only one center for treatment of coron of various patients in the world. and it's yemen it's in aden because the situation is so traumatic the mortality rate is so high that we had to make an exception to our policy and open and also treat various cases in yemen this demonstrates that yemeni people they reach the end of the old school. political will needs to be present and we want to believe that it's present the u.n. special envoy to yemen says progress is being made to reach a deal to end the conflict on the plane i think james bays joins us now live from

new york so james tell us the details what's giving them optimism there. well this is arguably the most important positive development in yemen for almost 2 years the development came as the un security council was having its monthly meeting on yemen and the un special envoy martin griffiths said he hoped that this development would mean more prisoner releases and wider political progress we have some good mirrors in yemen today. and as you probably know since this morning the skies of yemen have seen what i like to refer to as an lived of her. the parties are started releasing prisoners and detainees of the agreement they reached on the 27th of september in switzerland and this process will lead to the

release of over a 1000 individuals all returning to release this will bring immense relief and comfort to all those families who waited so long to be reunited as well as other families close relations friends and members of their communities. so mr griffiths after briefing the u.n. security council spoke to reporters i attended that virtual briefing and he told us of the next steps and they include trying to get the rest of the president's there are thousands more in yemen getting them released he's planning it in person meeting in the coming weeks he's also been working for 7 months now with shuttle diplomacy in virtual diplomacy on trying to get a wider political settlement he's working on something called joint declaration and part of that the key part of that will be

a nationwide cease fire in yemen and once you've got that he wants to get a full political dialogue going in the country the important news there from mr griffiths is he's confident he can get that joint declaration in weeks and he says certainly by the end of the year all right thanks so much james pace. coronavirus cases in france have gone r. by nearly a 3rd in just one day governments across europe are imposing strict new measures to try and reverse the alarming surge in infections over the past week the u.k.'s together have recorded an average of 100000 new cases a day a 5th of them are in britain. or. this city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household is the government's latest attempt to rein in a runaway infection rate which is doubling every 10 days we must act now delayed

action means more deaths from it means more. deaths and it means more economic pain later because the virus comes down slower than it goes up so there are questions over whether this goes far enough with the opposition and many scientists instead advocating a short sharp nationwide lockdown not just regional restrictions here in london the new measures will impact 3000 jobs and 7000 restaurants decision will be reviewed every 2 weeks but most of these businesses have already made their orders for the month and this stopping and starting to cripple them for many in europe find they're in a similar situation france has declared a public health state of emergency and impose an 8 pm curfew in paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest level since june. the curve has nearly taking a vertical shape and that's why we knew we needed to arc because this reality would

have an impact on hospitals 10 days later without very strong impact on intensive care unit. infection rates are also rising in spain the region of catalonia is closing all bars and restaurants for 15 days and limiting the number of people allowed in shops in its attempt. curb the surge germany czech republic italy and poland are all looking at a record number of daily cases since the pandemic began and from the world health organization a bleak warning that governments mustn't shy away from nationwide lockdowns projections from reliable e.p.a. do models or not so optimistic these models indicate that launched a relaxing policies could propel by generally 2021 daily mortality levels 4 to 5 times higher than what we recorded in april. 1000 is

now killing a 1000 people a day in europe with winter fast approaching this exponential increase is everyone's concern al-jazeera london the speaker of the cyprus parliament to meet through a serious has resigned in the wake of a cash for passports candle and al jazeera investigation found senior politicians who were willing to sell soap passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for you citizenship the government has now abolished the program from the david harrison. there's been another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demetrius serious has announced his resignation now as the suitors have been hanging on for a couple of days but we seem protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign this is serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was

a key figure in al jazeera documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal in an e.u. pos port the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule with mean showing him holding the now notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera because the solution is insists that he will be proven innocent when the attorney general's investigation is complete but for now it's another scalp for the people who say that this man is corrupt despite his objections and that he has to step down for more on the investigation you can watch the science paper undercover 12 g.m.t. on friday. still ahead of al jazeera. tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of bangkok defying a ban on large gatherings. and the rights group claims the military campaign in

syria is in the provinces specifically targeted civilians. and its wars into me and they are feeling the heat major league soccer action coming up later in the show. how the weather's looking lost the fight across arabian peninsula no surprises there but be a little cool side over the next dial so i said here in the gulf temperatures struggling to get into the low thirty's 33 celsius here in doha chills have wanted to splits the spots of right nothing much to speak of most of it if you do see anything evaporating before it does reach the ground i just see 2 celsius on saturday patel that's looking absolutely lovely over the next day or 2 then lossie fine and dry as i said across the region charles so the odd shower into that western side of yemen and i think you may well see want to see showers feeding over

towards the whole of africa as we go through the next day or 2 but joshi of the showers across central africa some more big downpours into the democratic republic of the congo some rather heavy rain also feeding across into central and southern parts of angola over the next day or 2 they'll be some shot showers around the rift valley rwanda burundi saying some showers you might even catch a welcome shower there into malawi as we go through the next day i also want to show is to into central parts of madagascar come to the south of that and it's fine and dry looking good in botswana now we're seeing temperatures getting up into the mid thirty's here fine and dry across south africa warming up in jo'burg to around 31 degrees. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against corruption corruption is

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the president of the european commission earth sort of on the lion abruptly left in the e.u. summit in brussels after she came in contact with someone in fact who would cope with 19 the meeting is going ahead as planned u.s. democratic vice presidential candidate campbell harris has suspended all in person events after the 2 of her campaign members tested positive both paris and joe biden have tested negative kyrgyzstan's prime minister has assumed presidential powers after both the president and speaker of parliament resigned even weeks of anti-government protests since the disputed alimentary elections earlier this month . security services have been deployed in the nigerian capital

abuja and in lagos amidst growing tension over police brutality that follows more than a week of protests officers have used live rounds water cannon and tear gas against demonstrators the protesters complain complaints rather include accusations of murder torture and extortion from a voter. demonstrations are continuing in several cities in nigeria but there's been some incidents in nigeria's financial capital lagos where overnight demonstrators spent the night in front of the seat of power at the state power i mean while the government has its buildings key buildings and installations they spent the night then demonstrations today. in the early hours of today a group of thugs with knives and clubs descended on protest this dispersant the protest is formed by just like they did yesterday and then things are getting

common out there grouping made goes and in a number of state we understand that more protesters moving towards the government housing tent to blockade the government house there in a blue jet the authorities here have announced a ban on street protests following yesterday's incident but not before a few 100 supporters or protest as much to the national parliament the national assembly just to present their case to legislators and but the police denied them in tree into the national parliament they still there are a few of them are still there remaining insisting that they must see members of parliament to present their cases although members of parliament had intervene in that in various capacities some of them on personal capacities asking the government to take immediate steps to end the the cases of police brutality

some went even further by expressing their support to protesters now holding rallies across the country. life has become difficult for millions in zimbabwe especially the elderly when they had saved to see them through retirement for the 700 percent inflation rate and economic crisis wiped out much of the savings of a pandemic life even harder are with us as more from belford mashal and this province. 68 year old juliet macur has a waits for her daily food ration her sick husband can't walk to the soup kitchen that means bring home something for him to behind her is 75 year old jimmy banda his wife died some years ago his children are in south africa looking for work this ration of zimbabwe staple food a parish made from maize and vegetables must feed him and his 4 grandchildren. have been coming here for 2 weeks at least i know my grandchildren and i have

something to eat daily this placed my somewhat close there are a lot of our struggling in the soup kitchen feeds on average 3000 people a day samantha mohr ozaki started it when she saw families in the community going to bed hungry she says a lot of older people who live alone are regulars some will tell you that their children. have died because of hiv and aids and some will tell you that they went to south africa and they never came back or remember them some will tell you that. here she's there but doesn't do anything for me so i have to make a plan for myself. some of these pensioners had decent jobs and diligently save for retirement but decades of inflation in zimbabwe wiped out a savings zimbabweans are facing their worst economic crisis in a decade soaring inflation shortages of food foreign currency and now the coronavirus has made things worse we used to get assistance from come by means

individuals but because these individuals come and use the. also there are also fisting for a needle challenges and therefore they also find it different they are now finding it difficult to extend their hand to assist. the early. old age homes receive a monthly grant from the state and the government does give cash to fondle families in urban and rural areas but it's not enough according to the last government census data nearly 10 years ago. make up about 6 percent of the population. and some of the most eclectic. the government said it's going to introduce a universal pension scheme for older people with a struggling economy it could be months or even years before that benefit is implemented. what about when. or facebook is stepping up its fight against misinformation and election interference ahead of upcoming polls in parts

of africa a new election day reminder or be introduced to the top of facebook and instagram feeds in tanzania it will provide official voting information and make any posts that are found to be false less visible election interference is also a problem in guinea where some users are totally paid to promote the governing party only 18 percent of people there use the internet 15 percent of the entire population uses facebook a recent survey found 54 percent of young africans get their news from social media 2nd only to television and 67 percent said so-called fake news is affecting their ability to stay informed eric morgan the is the africa program manager at me than a nonprofit social technology company he says there needs to be more preemptive fact checking. i think facebook is trying in terms of putting in initiatives to

buy this but a false information on that but a lot of the strategies tend to be driven by a reactionary practices rather than being proactive in terms of educating the audience and one of the things that we've seen is trying to partner with and we're going to actions and different bases and countries to establish local initiatives to act to confirm mission but a lot of times these organizations tend to be quite small and then the type of work they do tends to also be reacting to the spread of what's the mission of that. pre-emptively telling audiences this is how you can detect any false information that you're likely to see on the platform so it tends to respond rather than to preempt the spread of this false information we've seen some extremely targeted false information what people actually produce ads to promote this information they can look for you based on your age based on your location based on all these other things but this is often like an invisible consequence of using the ones up on them but not really you know where oh so at some level but forms are built to take your

content and sell it to advertise the drive and if you a place where you country your friends and family and get all the content that you want so by presenting themselves as a benign go between in terms of accessing information rather than an actual conduit for people to reach you and actually act to be dissing on you then i think that should sort of inform the sort of strategy that facebook takes and this means much more work in terms of understanding audiences in these bases and understanding the bad actors as well because it doesn't seem that they actually understand the intentions and actions of these bad actors. a forest fire on mount kilimanjaro in tanzania is burning for a 3rd day firefighters and hundreds of volunteers are contending with the high altitude dry weather conditions and strong winds the fire is threatening what's known as the alpine ecological zone mostly inhabited by birds and reptiles over the past year more than

a 1000000 people have fled from it live in northwestern syria that says russian and syrian forces intensify their ass strikes now a human rights group says dozens of those attacks appear to have targeted civilians . forts. a year of strikes on nuclear power cause widespread destruction and suffering. in a new report human rights watch says syrian and russian forces launched an unlawful attacks on civilians an apparent strategy believes to deliberately drive out entire neighborhoods it really is hard to imagine that all of these attacks were iran yes the syrian army is then able to walk into a completely empty area and retake it without any fight whatsoever the between april last year in march of this year the group documented $46.00 ground in air strikes often hitting markets schools and hospitals it names 10 syrian and russian

officers who may be implicated in war crimes for failing to stop or punish those responsible then i was well i was worried when the strike hit my clearance neighborhood when we arrived at the hospital was so my mother the missile had decapitated her my sister only recognized her because of her clothes removed went to the site risk us limb from my son did under the rubble. the latest ceasefire in syria signed by russia and turkey in march has went to relative calm in italy the last breath will control the area of a 9 year war but with more than a 1000000 syrians forced to leave their homes many fear the displaced face irreversible damage. to the syrian and russian forces have repeatedly said they only target rebels including myself fighters but its hacks on civilians continue despite warnings by the united nations we are calling for the un general assembly to take its own action to urge its member states to pass sanctions on

those commanders most responsible and for the u.n. general assembly to take action to help open the 2 very necessary humanitarian border crossings. now with much of it live in ruins and hundreds of thousands of lives ruined activists say their call for accountability for those responsible will continue to look into the young. there's been more violence between taliban fighters and government troops in afghanistan pods for a military base were destroyed after a car bomb exploded in what of that province not far from the capital kabul security officials say 4 taliban fighters were killed while 4 members of the afghan forces were injured. and there's been fighting in the southern province of helmand too no injuries were reported on wednesday night for the violence is happening against the backdrop of things that go under way in qatar more than 30000 people

have since fled to the provincial capital of lost got a guard shallop says more. in helmand afghanistan it is hard to imagine that peace is on the horizon as negotiations between afghan politicians and the taliban stumble forward in qatar the fighting rages back home you know about this that i have my mother with night it was evening when a mortar hit our home and all my family were hurt were asking the government to stop the war and bring peace despite the u.s. and taliban signing a withdrawal agreement in february violence continues between the armed group and afghan government forces there isn't a been flow of territory seized in last potential live for each for the 2. on sunday it is collated and helmand that take our number for things when we left our homes our fighting started a mortar hit near my brother we want peace here as you can see my hands are red

with my brother's blood. each side claims to have inflicted more losses on the other because in the middle a civilians while i live in a ball in the village the situation of i was very bad we couldn't stay all these people are coming here because of fighting close to 5 families which is about $35.00 people out importantly being displaced and this displacement lead to additional leads from their site for shelter for work and sanitation. and also not knowing when they will be able to return back. helmand is a taliban stronghold they control about 80 percent of the province they say they are just retaking their own areas and have no plans to claim fresh government territory they promise safety for captured soldiers can hold out of that part that you can see the taliban are foreign from those houses but tain't so far away from here one boy was killed and still he is lying on the road the afghan government and

u.s. forces have coded an unprovoked taliban offensive they claim to have killed the taliban's operational chief at home and along with dozens of fighters using u.s. airstrikes and a ground assault 2 afghan military helicopters collided on tuesday killing. remove . or visit on the visits by other high ranking government officials is an assurance that by all means we will defend. it's been more than a month since peace talks began and don't have between the taliban and afghan political leaders each day brings a promise of peace and the certainty of sacrifice china ballasts al jazeera. is depth the medical corps the later for doctors without borders in helmand province he told us the fighting may be venting the most affected people from reaching hospitals. fighting started on

a limb until october and since then they hear fighting. ongoing still fighting and an influx of war wounded patients started arriving in the province a horse which are supported by m.s.f. and actually denied. hospital which is run by another actor is holding a bulk of the wounded patient and the overflow will come to the most prominent hospital the situation is not under control it's quite taken a number of people are being displaced is coming to the city center and still receive water wounded patient and. now the number of these 252 patient 52 wounded patients received before and was provincial hospital we expect that most of the casualties be stocked in the on the way in the front line

and they are not able to reach as we have a big concern on this area and we and other we have also done on different paper we we were used today for some patients for further management to kandahar i didn't hospital but. the fighting started the road is brought. very highly in security on the road and people are not able to go and police to be right hospitals will be have a deep concern on this area for now would be are committed to continue hospital activity 247 and beauty to receive what wounded and treat them but the concern is the lack of access for most of the casualties who are stuck in the fighting in the front line and we did see. they say it 52 patients

52 wounded until now in the majority of the i'm including women killed in and there were. hardly. a nice when they were badly injured by a bullet in gunshot israel has approved the construction of thousands more illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank well that brings the total number of homes approved well most 5000 of the past 2 years 2 days rather the palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time jewish settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to annex palestinian land as part of a deal with the u.a.e. . american cities are in a downward spiral financially as the economy feels the impacts of the pandemic and even the some jobs return each week new jobless claims top 800000 historically

high number of stimulus bill that could help it's being held up in congress may not arrive until after the election john 100 reports from chicago. the pandemic his scarred chicago's historic landscape plywood replaces neighborhood haunts sports bar the rain forest cafe all gone the city's famed willis tower is mostly empty at shuttered navy pier the ferris wheel is indefinitely stalled. 40 percent of restaurants nationwide expect to close in the next 6 months according to the national restaurant association it's going to be 60 maybe even 80 percent because right now a lot in the warmer days we can sort of hit a break even. if people if the business goes down people are going to run out of money pretty soon you have to be creaming your house. after 3 decades in chicago

celebrity chef rick bayless whose trim staff it is numerous chicago be stroh's it is bracing for worse to come and his pockets are deeper than most restaurants especially independent own restaurants are sort of the fabric of the neighborhood come next spring if we don't get some sort of financial assistance from the government those neighborhoods are downtown area they're going to look very different and it's going to take a few years to rebuild restaurants are getting creative with street closures an outdoor seating and heat lamps they're trying to keep people coming as long as they can but in cold weather climates like chicago nobody really knows how long they can go on chicago's once bustling magnificent mile shopping district is a shadow of its former self. even open shops boarded against recurring social unrest. their protest chants echoing in one american city after another violence is

up and it is causing some minor flight out of the major cities we're seeing more and more people moving to suburbs outside urban landscapes and i think that is a real concern on the other side of this virus this spiraling economy spans across the u.s. as once for a low jobs are gone for good each day the pandemics losses mount in lives and livelihoods the latest here is central camera chicago institution opened it 899 closed in 2020 and hoping to reopen again john hendren al-jazeera chicago hundreds of anti-government protesters are on the streets of bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings and calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy has more from bangkok. police leave a long night out front of thailand's seat of power government house as street cleaners wash away what was left behind by the thousands of anti-government

protesters from the night before several 100 protesters camped out overnight and just before 5 am they were pushed out with calls from protest leaders for calm they left peacefully but later in the day some of the most high profile protest leaders were arrested. the protester clearing operation was given the green light when an emergency decree was announced at 4 am saying that gatherings of more than 5 people it was now illegal. the decree cited that the protests were illegal public gatherings causing chaos and disorder and threatening state security part of the justification for that decree was this hundreds of protesters using a 3 finger salute as the motorcade of queens to teach past by the salute has become a symbol of the protests the calls for government and monarchy reform at the daily life that even will be the prime minister. would not result. in higher that because. you know problems. just lie

and the. progress that has moved on now from. there you want to stay still to be coming he just want to reform now as we are now in new territory with the protests is directly in strongly calling for reform in the monarchy the government no doubt is feeling immense pressure from the pouts to find that new emergency order and risking arrest protesters took over a major intersection one of the high end shopping districts in central bangkok they set up a stage where they called for their protest leaders to be freed saying they'll continue their protests making sure that they are heard by those in power it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok at least 46 people have died during heavy rain and floods affecting large areas of vietnam and cambodia tropical storms and seasonal rains have in on days the 10s of thousands of homes rescue agencies have been

working to help move thousands of people. so i had an al-jazeera and spall there was frightening home runs in the national league championship series baseball action coming your way in just a moment. it's

time for sports. thank you very much we start with major league baseball and the los angeles dodgers putting

a record breaking fullness to pick up the 1st win of the national league championship series on a night that saw houston keep alive their hopes of reaching the season finale so. the los angeles dodgers are back in business. first. down to nothing and having just come up short in game 2 they responded with a display of historic proportions to beat out land on wednesday jersey 5 time. turner trickling through the door just put on a batting clinic to become the 1st team in postseason history to hit 5 home runs in the 1st 3 innings of a game he was. still as he was the braves quite frankly had no idea what had hit them. in l.a. running away with it 153 to secure the largest post-season victory in franchise history you know just really good at bats i mean really

a lot of just good at bats and then we had some homers and took some woks. just a really obviously a well played inning you know it's one of them days i mean you have a match that's more amplified i guess when it's in this situation but we could see a houston have finally sprung to life in their american league championship series against tampa bay. changed down 3 nothing they won game 4 to keep their fading world series hopes alive to. still. be a game 5 the astros' managing to hold off the rays for a full 3 when they're still the same but they'll have to do it all over again in game 5 as they fight for survival so he'll malick al-jazeera. england suffered a shock defeat at wembley in the us nations league it was a miserable night for the world cup semifinalists defend harry maguire was sent off in the 1st half as they were beaten one nil by demo this is football you know

moment change the flow of the going. ways the night you can't afford to go down to 10 at any any level of the game it's extremely difficult to improve your result when you're down to 10 france down croatia the team may be in 2018 a well cup final and just like that night and 2 on chrisman and killian bapi were on the scoresheet final score 2 on to from us it in the netherlands fadeout drawn they both trail a group one leaders poland who won on wednesday belgium lead group 2 after their win england down in 3rd in that group after their loss and portugal are 1st in group 3 ahead of france on goal difference after beating sweden. arsenal manager has opened the door for legendary former governors coach us and then go to return to the club in some capacity of unga signed. his 22 year reign during

which the frenchmen won 3 league titles and a record 7 cups. i would like to see him back around us you was a much bigger for me. i can use to learn i will receive than i would have and i would like to have closure to us over the actual environment it doesn't allow us to do but i think it's a fear that has to be very 1st since we were before because you see my wonderful division of the school will be the most. into miami missed out on a 3rd straight win as they look to boost their chances of making the playoffs and what's their inaugural season in major league soccer and tell apart owned by david beckham looks set to beat atlanta united after brett shear broke the deadlock on 80

minutes. but their joy was short lived 3 minutes later. squared things off jake molly rainey with a crucial goal to help secure a point 11 the final score. and in california classico the san jose earthquakes thrashed the l.a. galaxy for nail and it was the start of the night he scored the open urn come and came back to add more insult to injury with a goal in stoppage time 3 time grand slam champion status last of wrinkled face denis up a shop i love in the quarterfinals of the st petersburg open on friday the swiss overcame home favorite igneous don't score in 3 sets to reach the last 8 looking for his 1st a.t.p. title in 3 yes and that's as well for me i'll have more later on. thank so much all that said i'm a sahm is a ban for this news out of the back in

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