global superpowers i don't covers why the arab israeli conflict continues to this day the war in october the battle and beyond on al-jazeera. the evolving it be demoted situation in europe raises great concern the w.h.o. warns covert 19 deaths in europe could be 5 times higher by january as the continent struggles the 2nd way. while argentina relax its restrictions despite also facing rising debts and infections. in jordan this is not a 0 a liar from doe also coming up donald trump and joe biden appear in rival question and answer sessions on the night they were supposed to face each other in

a presidential debate. and not backing down protesters in thailand scuffle with one police defying a ban on gathering. recoded corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers a surging particularly in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases meanwhile in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other major cities where infections are rampant and from saturday more than half of england's population will again be subjected to strict rules on where they can go and who they can meet the reports from london. 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 but 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 pounds and 7000 restaurants the city will we were viewed every 2 weeks but most of these businesses have already made their orders for the months ahead and this stopping and starting to cripple them and 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 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 because this reality would have an impact on hospitals. 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 to 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. demon logical models or not so optimistic. these models indicate that putting

launched relaxing policies could propel by generally 2021 daily mortality at levels 4 to 5 times higher than what we recorded in april close in 1000 is now killing a 1000 people a day in europe with winter fast approaching this exponential increase his everyone's concern al-jazeera london. u.s. president donald trump and his white house challenger joe biden have both been quizzed by the public during rival televised town hall style events they're asked about issues ranging from the corona virus to conspiracy theories the supreme court and death and donald trump's finances they were supposed to face each other in a 2nd presidential debate but trump withdrew from that and its format was changed to virtual rather than in person well we'll speak to how to show castro in

philadelphia shortly on joe biden 1st go to under gallica in miami where the u.s. president is holding his event and these are covered 19 was of course one of the hot topics in both these town hall debates neither trump nor biden though seemed to have a clear strategy going forward so what did you make of trump's performance overall and what's he been saying there. well the answers that the president gave were fairly a vase of vague there were some interesting moments he didn't really get many tough questions from the audience on the coronavirus see kept the line he's always kept that he's done a great job save thousands if not millions of lives that he acted quickly when he put travel bans in place for china and europe and once again he blamed china on his taxes which was a big issue in the last debate he didn't deny that he was 400000000 dollars in debt that was an interesting moment masks he didn't really say or commit to the fact

that masks help stop the spread of the coronavirus in fact he came up with some fake statistic that 85 percent of people wearing masks actually call 19 but one of the more interesting moments was about q. and a conspiracy theory from the right that says that democrats have paedophiles and devil worshippers and that trump is the savior here's what the president had to say. i know nothing about it i just find you know very little you told me but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact i hate to say that i know nothing about it i do know they are very much against pedophilia they find it very hard but they know nothing and they believe that if you like an agent actually i think i'll tell you what i do know about i know about him and i know about the radical left and i know how violent they are and how vicious they are and i know how they're girding down in cities run by democrats. now if you're an undecided voter i'm not sure how

much you would have taken away from the president's debate not slight i think it was a pretty solid performance even though he was quite vague about things but the big loss here is that these 2 men biden and trump didn't meet as was planned they were supposed to meet in miami on thursday night of course the president didn't do that so i'm not sure what voters would have got out of this 2 separate julan debates are over and they got to live there for us in miami all right let's cross over now to a harbinger castro she's in philadelphia heidi so what about joe biden's performance there in philadelphia he spent some time on screen questions trying to appeal to young black voters what did you make of his performance there. he did will the biggest headline i take is that it was in stark contrast to what we saw president trump do in miami as andy selleck whitley just characterized in contrast here in philadelphia we saw biden slog through

a very civil town hall he took questions from the moderator and also from the voters he was heavy on policy and very low on fireworks likely none of these sound bite worthy moments that very likely will be surfacing and dominating the news headlines from trump here in the u.s. instead biden did it take some tough questions from voters as you indicated including from a young african-american voter and also from a conservative one woman who asked biden about his very controversial 1994 crimes bill which was has really driven a wedge between him and minority communities he answered that acknowledging that his support for that legislation was a mistake he also appear to be trying at least to be more transparent with the voters particularly on this question of what he would do with the supreme court if

the trump administration succeeds in pushing through a replacement to fill the supreme court vacancy prior to election day asked whether or not biden would consider increasing the number of justices on the supreme court which hasn't happened in 150 years biden said he would not answer at this moment but he said that voters would have a clear answer for him prior to election day but the predominant topic that biden really seized upon here in philadelphia was coded particularly knowing that 3 staff members or people or core close to his campaign and that of his running mate camelot harris tested positive for kobe just within. the last few hours and in fact that caused harris to cancel the remaining of her in person campaign events for this week well jill biden really focused on president trump's handling of the pandemic with 217000 americans having died of the virus and joe biden

defending his own stance on encouraging everyone to wear masks. and i know and i think you do too is well the words of a president matter absolutely no matter whether they're good bad or indifferent they matter and when a president doesn't wear masks or makes fun of folks like me when i was wearing a mask for a long time then you know people say well it must be that important. so biden is leading significantly in national polls 10 to 11 percentage points over trump his campaign setting out tonight to not really stir that pot much and they may very well have accomplished that or to what is a castro in philadelphia thank you let's bring in peterson from los angeles he's a professor of public policy political science and law at u.c.l.a. good to have you with us so 2 competing town hall debates where we have to switch between the 2 channels to hear what was being said what did you make of the format

and didn't offer any real value to voters do you think. well that's really was that not only 2 different. separated conversations but they were 2 different planets in many ways each of them represented the candidates fairly effectively that the trump that we got was the trump that we've known for a long time it was the president that we see at his rallies the speeches and the joe biden we saw is the joe biden we've become used to which was obviously a very different kind of personality much more in-depth than the way on the issues not to a great spokesperson but still pretty well getting out his message but they really were pretty clear representations of each the problem is of course the whole point of having debates is for voters to be able to see these 2 fellows side by side as they tackle these issues on these questions and those are pushed and prodded by the moderators and not not surprisingly covered 19 was raised by the trump and biden

but neither chose to drill down on what exactly their plans a b. in the next 6 months assess how big a political issue he's conveyed in the run up to the election. well co it's a very big issue and one of the things that the president of encountering is his handling of co but it's. part responsible for the collapse of his support both directly and in in the context of the economic impacts and he has been recently feeding that by in some ways making friends some senior citizens feel you've been less comfortable with them than they would have been otherwise for by and it's interesting he had an opportunity to go into much greater detail if you if you go to the campaign sites for the 2 candidates one has really nothing to say about the what the president says of his rallies and joe biden actually has quite a bit of detail about what the approach of the federal government ought to be how the president on the use of authority and how our credit markets trade that with

the governments around the country yet not just a final thought i mean trump declined to disavow the cumin on conspiracy saying he knew nothing about it even though the moderate to describe it to him instead he attacked 25 follett activists he says a controlled by the democrats what do you make of that briefly it's frankly it's a presidential scholar it's it's it's stunning it's astonishing that the present the united states is unwilling to completely dismiss and counteract a terrible conspiracy theory and another question that the 3 asked that was about the re tweeting of a conspiracy theory about the obama administration orchestrating wanting to kills seals steel sale seemed steamed 6 i would took out obama it's been a lot and it's crazy i don't think anyone would have ever imagined the present united states being in a position of caring for those kinds of conspiracy theories and unwilling to denounce them isn't great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to us here at

al-jazeera thank you thank you. now early voting continues to be a popular choice in the upcoming u.s. presidential election long lines formed outside of voting centers in north carolina on thursday on the 1st day of early voting in the state across the country more than 14 and a half 1000000 people have already cast their ballots that's compared to less than one and a half 1000000 the same point 4 years ago. well lots more to come here an al-jazeera dividing opinion a new study says rendez severe has no impact on whether you survive coronavirus keeping a check on things china testament times city of an 11000000 people in just 5 days more on that status. we've got so much cooler weather pushing across eastern parts of the u.s. big area cloud here just tumbling out of canada too cold fronts on this one so much

colder air much fresher conditions pushing over towards the eastern seaboard as we go through the next couple of days over towards the west where we could do with some cooler and probably some wetter weather fight the heat wave continuing getting into the thirty's once again for san francisco and for los angeles no sign of any significant rainfall base of rain up toward the pacific northwest into western canada cross the rockies and to snow over the high ground of course the temperatures struggling to get to freezing there in calgary basin places a shabby rain just around the lakes as that wet or whether there's a cooler weather over towards the eastern seaboard on friday and it pushes a little further east was in office as we go on through saturday some pavey bursts of rain into new england into the eastern side of canada could see if you show is set to announce was a fast southeast temperatures recovering for central plains 22 celsius there in kansas city not a dry weather but wet weather across the mountain states and across the plains plenty of weather to play into the camera bit heavier showers that will likely be

across the western side of the caribbean into central america although we have got quite an active disturbance for the lesser antilles. as protests rage across america more black lives are lost despite promises of police reform for klein's hears from those demanding justice the truth countability transparency that's what i desire from the city and desperately need to change i have no faith in a situation that needs to be reminded not to help the moment of reckoning racism and police in america on a. welcome

back it could come out of our top stories here on the al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump and his white house challenger joe biden and quizzed by the public during rival televised town hall style events that were asked about issues ranging from the corona virus to conspiracy theories supreme court and trumps finances the world health organization says the number of coronavirus deaths in europe could be up to 5 times higher by january if containment measures on stepped up france germany on the u.k. are among countries tightening restrictions. now in the u.s. 9 states have seen record numbers of infections as the country surges towards $8000000.00 cases that's in line with a cross-country rise during october this month half of the 50 us states have reported the highest and increases in new cases. well a top u.s.

infectious disease expert is criticizing a declaration by a group of scientists that supports the concept of herd immunity dr anthony found it says backing the idea is ridiculous if you just let things rip and let the infection go no man asks crowd it doesn't make any difference that quite frankly george is ridiculous because what that will do is that there will be so many people in that community that you can't shelter that you can't protect who are going to get sick and get serious consequences so this idea that we have the power to protect the vulnerable is total nonsense because history has shown that that's not the case there's also divided opinions on effective treatment for covert 19 w.h.o. study has found that rem deaths of the drug widely used has no substantial effect on a patient's chances of survival the results of the trial also show that the treatment had little effect on how long patients stayed in hospital early this month the pharmaceutical company guilty of sciences said ram their severe cuts coated 9000

recovery time by 5 days treatment was one of a series of drugs used to treat us president donald trump after he tested positive for coke at 19 but julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology at georgetown university she says large clinical trials and needed. there were more than. 2500 patients that received ground as of their treatment and they were compared to controls that had not in 30 hospital sorry and in hospital and 30 countries so this kind of large study really helps us understand and make sense of whether these treatments given under extraordinary conditions are actually benefiting patients in a way that can be measured in a way that it could be extrapolated benefits populations of patients worldwide all of us would like to see is what frequently is called a magic bullet a drug that is already in existence that is safe and that works effectively in

patients who have reliable way we would like to see that unfortunately in this case this trial at least which is a fairly large trial suggests that the benefits of a dose of the may be. they were seen in the study though in terms of survival or in terms of shortening the duration of symptoms in people who are already severely ill which is something that had been suggested in previous trials so clearly we need to understand why these outcomes were different from previous studies but we would all like to see something that was effective in in the majority of patients and right now does the data are not are not strongly supportive of that authorities in the eastern chinese city of chin down say they've finished testing the city's 11000000 people for corona virus that was sparked by the discovery of a handful of cases only about a dozen people were found to be infected but you know you sent this report. china's

coastal city of qingdao is known for its beaches and beer but this week it made headlines for a corona virus cluster the 1st local transmissions discovered in months authorities responded by testing the city's entire population of 11000000 over a period of 5 days. there are enough people to protect themselves and social distance people are sticking to the rules the testing aims to reassure residents thousands of medical workers work 16 hours a day to complete the mass testing a few cases have been confirmed the patients for link to the qingdao chest hospital were overseas arrivals with carven 1000 were being treated the head of the hospital and the city's health commissioner have been fired several neighborhoods locked down and close contacts traced and quarantined officials have played down concerns of a large scale outbreak. qingdao have many appeared in hospital and we have concluded

that the scale of damage it's a likely to be as large as that happened in beijing according to official figures china's coronavirus cases have fallen drastically but the country remains on high alert after criticism of its mishandling of the outbreak and we have to see if the chinese government is under pressure to respond with a new low for cases authorities have put cities into what they've told us i might follow the discovery of previous posts as elsewhere in the country i think they did were less of them in their words clearly some missed opportunities at the local government level at this point it's a national government level they have a very clear chain of responsibility and command and they moved very very quickly in may officials tested 11000000 people in the city of one the original epicenter of the outbreak following the discovery of new cases. chinese state media has contrast to china's recent coverage 1000 response to that of the us and european

countries. democrats' directions across china have largely eased during china's golden mccullough day last week more than 600000000 trips were made nationwide those who visited qingdao have also been ordered to take coronavirus tests katrina al-jazeera beijing shopping malls and football 2 of the fundamental elements of life in argentina have returned with tight restrictions relaxation and rules comes even as code 19 inspections deaths continues to rise reports. it was a tentative reopening a limited number of shoppers mosques wallets all times cinemas a restaurant still closed it comes after weeks of pressure from business owners calling on the authority to relax the rules. it was very hard because depending on the shops would last around 20 to 30 percent of the tournament and thousands of thousands of jobs. after a 7 month lockdown

a bit mother's day one of the busiest shopping periods of the year just around the corner people were keen to leave their homes in some of. the work that we are very excited tickets to we wanted to see how the reopening is going what was going on with the people and also to get out of the house a little bit i think it's good that they're opening because many workers depend on the shopping center. origin china has one of the highest number of infections in the world more than 900025000 deaths they're reopening before it's totally safe to do so but before these huge multimillion dollar enterprises go under with massive job losses the big question though still remains what is the great a risk to kill a virus or further economic devastation. domestic football is also back the 1st division kicking off at the end of this month after a 7 month break stadiums will remain closed to fans but struggling clubs hope action on the pitch will generate some income off it. i doubt it i think it was

time to reopen the shopping malls as the stores are open everything has to begin to be more flexible. some students are returning to school national flights and long distance bus service is a resuming albeit like everything else with restrictions it's a slow return to normal activity but with the pandemic still raging and the fully functioning society still some way off. when there are jazeera one osiris. been scuffles between time police and anti-government protesters who defied a ban on public gatherings. the demonstrations in central bangkok come a day on to thailand's government announced the ban through an emergency decree it's failed to quell the growing protest movement which is calling for the prime minister's resignation conforms to the monarchy will peter pan the norm that is a political commentator and professor thomas at business school he says the growing anger goes beyond feelings of disappointment with the government. there has been

boiling sentiment on how the situation has been handled so i think that the protests have shown that the deep the depth of the anger and frustration of people in bangkok particularly the protests the youth sentiments have been going on since before the cause it struck back in earlier this year. and the reason that it's growing more i think it's partly reflects the frustration that the economic impact of called it has also affected their economic wellbeing of the student and also the it shows the frustration that the government has and trying to accommodate most of their demand so i think together and also remind you that october is quite a politically sensitive one for thailand but tickler latest year you know october

is 1 of strong political unrest in the past back from the 1970 s. when students were also leading progress against dictatorship. saudi arabia's foreign minister has told a washington think tank he's open to working with cattle to resolve the blockade saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt have imposed the economic and diplomatic embargo since 2017 cues in qatar of supporting terrorism was cut out denies has finally been full handle saad says he hopes a settlement can be reached i certainly hope that cooler heads will prevail. and find a solution i believe that we are committed to finding a solution we are weak from the beginning we have worked with the late emir of kuwait to find a path forward we continue to be willing to engage with our company brothers and we hope that they are as committed to that engagement and if we are able to find a path forward to address the legitimate security concerns of the quartet that

drove us to take the decisions we took that will be good news for the region would be good news i think for the for stability and security but we do need to address the legitimate security concerns of the quartet and i think there is a path towards that and we are hoping that we can find that in the relatively near future i say to emergency has been declared in the sudanese state of casal after days of fighting and people are reported have been killed and under a started up the local governor was dismissed protests were also held in port sudan where a curfew has been imposed. talks of resumed between serbia and kosovo to improve diplomatic relations the european union is mediating discussions and the opening up of rail and road links which is hoped will help create jobs serbia is a candidate to join the e.u. the bloc says belgrade must resolve its relationship with kosovo the former serbian province declared independence in 2008 which belgrade does not recognize. now a u.s. court has ruled that body camera video showing george floyd being arrested last

year can be made public freud died in may when a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes during an arrest a lawyer for one of the officers involved says the 29 team footage shows floyd had a history of not a bang the police and he wants it uses evidence in court. the reason we are pushing. is because it shows a false narrative by the state the state is portraying mr ford as somebody there. and if you see the 29000 video and compare them they're almost identical. when the conditions are hampering efforts by rescue crews to contain a wildfire in the u.s. state of colorado fires up and burning in the area for more than 2 months residents have been forced to flee their homes the cameron peak fire has now burned more than 64000 hectares. of paintings stolen by the nazis from a jewish family has been returned to its rightful owners after 87 years the artwork

depicting 2 young 1900 centuries skater's was recently discovered at a small museum in upstate new york it had been taken in 1933 the painting was among more than a 1000 items seized from the moss family apartment just a prominent jewish family in berlin who became only targets of the nazi party. part of the headlines here on al-jazeera the world health organization says the number of coronavirus deaths in europe could be up to 5 times higher by january if containment measures aren't stepped up france germany and the u.k. are among countries tightening restrictions do full winter search didn't used to unfold in europe with exponential increases in daily basis and matching percentage increases in daily deaths the.