in the world we live in is indispensable to economic activity but industrial uses the worst thing is to freshwater counting the cost on al-jazeera. it's. a tale of 2 town halls donald trump and joe biden big rival t.v. appearances on a night when they were supposed to debate each other. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up bracing for a new lockdown as the e.u. struggles to keep a wave of coronavirus under control. defiance from protesters in thailand thousands rally against the government despite a state of emergency. in dakar senegal. neighborhood

find out they fight the 3500000 kenyans living in senegal will not be able to take part in the presidential election. american voters were asked to tune in to dueling televised events on thursday with president donald trump a democratic candidate joe biden both vying for their attention they were grilled on subjects ranging from the coronavirus to conspiracy theories the town halls were broadcast as an alternative to a virtual town hall that both candidates which trump a turndown added gallagher reports. the answers that the president gave were fairly a very. very good there were some interesting moments he didn't really get many tough questions from the audience on the coronavirus he 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 on 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 caught 19 but one of the more interesting moments was about q. and a conspiracy theory from the right that says the democrats have paedophiles and devil worshippers and trump is their savior here's what the president had to say i know nothing about it i just tried you know very little each of me but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it shocked i hate to say that they know nothing about it but you do know they are very much against pedophilia and they should fight 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 in a vicious they are and i know how they're doing them cities run by democrats if you're an undecided voter i'm not sure how much you would have taken away from the president's debate last night 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. meanwhile the philadelphia vice president biden was more measured but still managed to land some punches hi joe castro reports the predominant topic that biden really seized upon here in philadelphia was cold particularly knowing that 3

staff members or people work or close to his campaign and that of his running mate caroline harris tested positive for covert 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 you and i know and i think you do too as 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 you and i know and i think you do too as 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 make 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. at one point the host in miami criticized the president for boosting various conspiracy theories about his rival. just this week you reached we did to your 87000000 followers a conspiracy theory that a job i didn't work history did to help seal team 6 the navy seal team 6 killed to cover up the for the face the death of bin ladin now why would you send a lie about not taking it all over even each week that is a read tweet that was a opinion of somebody and that was a retreat i'll put it out there people can decide for themselves i didn't take the position like someone's crazy uncle he was really whatever that was

a read tweet and i do a lot of retreats and frankly because the media is still shape and still corrupt if i didn't have social media to call it twitter a close associate media i wouldn't be able to get the word out and the one of the worst phone or more americans voting earlier than ever before election day could now become the 1st in u.s. history where most ballots have been cost before hand long lines for go outside voting centers in north carolina on thursday on the 1st day of early voting across the country 15000000 people voted so far the kurdistan politician freed from prison by protesters just days ago has been appointed interim president cited jumpoff was made prime minister on wednesday but has now assumed the presidency after the resignation of 7 by jeenbekov parliament has ended a state of emergency in the capital bishkek it had been announced and days of unrest triggered by disputed elections

a new vote is to be held within 90 days let's go live now to eastern kurdistan officers charles stratford is the charles there's a lot of opposition to the new prime minister and acting president what level of support does he have among the general population. now that's right there is a lot of opposition to the new prime minister and acting president sons or japan certainly certainly in the cities the capital bishkek people hey saying that he voted his way into into power they say that his supporters were very intimidating we saw them during those protests rushing peaceful demonstrations using stones and sticks with a factor of the matter is as you say mr powell has a lot of support in this country we were in the rural heartland all of his support base yesterday in the north all of the country speaking to some of his supporters

actually in the very village where he was born people telling us they describe him as being a bit of a hero they say that he was unjustly jailed that 11 year jail term that he was in for kidnapping before he was freed by protesters during the protests they describe him as being in their words one of us they said that they were very happy with the kind of comments that he's made for example about nationalizing the largest gold mine in this country a gold mine that at the moment is fully owned by canada or a canadian company they said that he was very supportive of their land rights and in protecting their civil rights in the country. but. of course you know there are even reservations among those supporters one man actually said that he met your power of a few years ago you described him as being a good man but said that he personally warned him to do well for them but not to

shame them so you know there are a lot of questions about about this new prime minister and acting. acting president and of course huge questions just how clean and fair these promised parliamentary elections and presidential elections will be when they are eventually held so for the moment for the chaos may have been averted in the country parliament been saying about all of this. well there was another parliamentary session the smalling that was primarily to vote voted yes towards vote yes in agreement with president jeenbekov statement yesterday that he was going to resign that vote went through and mr jeenbekov gave a statement saying that he had tried to return the country to a rule of law to the rule of law he thanked so what he described is easy you

partners turkey and russia very interesting the kind of role that russia has had in recent weeks we know that they have been russian officials here russia but i'm a putin that is very nervous about any further chaos in this country russia has big interests here for example it owns and maintains all the gas infrastructure it has a big military base here as well also in this session we heard from the prime minister and acting president mr rove. and he said that presidential elections would have to be held no longer the 90 days from today the official date of the president's. resignation but still no word on a date for parliamentary elections we understand the rumor is that both parliamentary and president actions could be held on the same day and that's for the basic fact that there isn't enough money to hold them on separate dates but as

you say certainly this morning it seems that a very serious crisis or a worsening of the situation has been averted under serious chance stratford reporting live from eastern koga stanchions many thanks recorded corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide in europe numbers continue to watch italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also sort unprecedented spike with more than $7000.00 new cases reported there. in france 12000 police are enforcing curfews in paris and other large cities. more than half of england's population will again be subject to strict rules or where they can go but who they could beat. angela 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 covert 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 jobs and 7000 restaurants cereal we were viewed every 2 weeks but most of these businesses have already made their orders for the month 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 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 act because this reality would have an impact on hospitals 10 days later very strong impact on intensive care unit . infection rates also rising in spain the region of catalonia is closing or 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. 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. do models or not so optimistic these models indicate that launched a relaxing policies good proposal but generally 2021 daily mortality

at levels 4 to 5 times higher than what we recorded in april cloven 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 in the u.s. 9 states have seen record numbers of covert biotene infections as the country surges towards 8000000 cases rise in numbers is in keeping with a nationwide increase during this month half of the 50 states reported their highest daily increases in you cases in the past 2 weeks the top u.s. infectious diseases expert is criticizing a declaration by a group of scientists that supports the concept of herd immunity dr anthony fauci says backing the idea that the disease will stop spreading once the early everyone's contracted it is ridiculous. if you just let things rip and let the

infection go no masks 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 because many countries tighten their coronavirus restrictions some are relaxing this from friday people from new zealand will be able to travel to parts of australia without the need to quarantine it's the 1st step in a so-called travel bubble scheme to reconnect the neighbors new zealand has no infections apart from people in managed isolation but australia is fighting to control its outbreak historians are not allowed to travel the other way to do zealand. weather update next here on al-jazeera then released who think fighters

landed yemen's capital sanaa as part of a prisoner swap that could revise revive peace peace talks. or tell you how china tested a city of 11000000 people for covert 19 in just 5 days. we got more very heavy showers thundery downpours across central parts of europe at the moment rolling across italy for the adriatic and heading back towards the balkans couple of areas of low pressure are much in charge a bit further north as a massive high this keeping things quiet across northern parts of europe dragging in winds from the north or northeast direction always on the cool side then so temperatures will struggle to a very 13 celsius there in london and in paris souring around 9 or 10 degrees there across scandinavia some showers there just feeding their way into eastern parts of

germany 3 poland some wetter weather into that western side of russia where the temperature down in moscow to just around 8 degrees celsius quite a rash of showers there into central parts and as you can see where to where the trying to make its way in from the atlantic we're bumping into our area of high pressure and i think it'll make too much progress over the next couple of days at least next week does look like a different story staying dry if a little on the cool side bill gray as well across northern parts of fine in try present sunshine across a good part of southern europe into northern africa you might still catch your share also northern passage uneasier but that's the message speak of the wetter weather there that's running across central africa southern parts of nigeria right across the gulf of guinea 2 west. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be this because as if you believe that there horowitz

into our democracy one obvious solution is to read from an informed opinion as lucas and his don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get a resolution to call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. hello again this is al-jazeera the survivor of the main news this hour american voters were asked to tune into dueling televised events with president donald trump and democratic candidate joe biden both vying for that tension. kurdistan

politician freed from prison by protesters just days ago has been appointed interim president state of emergency in the capital bishkek introduced and days of unrest after the disputed elections has been lifted. and the world health organization says the number of coronavirus tests in europe could be up to 5 times higher by january if containment measures are stepped up france germany and the u.k. are among the country's tightening restrictions. thailand's prime minister. says that he won't quit despite protests against him. demonstrators continue to defy a ban on public gatherings they are calling for the prime minister's resignation of the monarchy to be reformed let's go live to the bangkok on sirius scott heide lescott what's the situation that today. well right now yes you know the prime minister has made those comments a joint after an emergency cabinet session today friday we knew that was going to

happen but a sense of what they were doing is discussing further what came through on early thursday morning there was this emergency decree in bangkok that states that no one can there can't be gatherings political gatherings more than 5 people obviously directed at those protests we've seen over the last couple of days and just hours after that emergency decree was announced right here in central bangkok there tens of thousands gathered right in the central part of the city defying that order just hours after was given and then just a couple of hours ago we heard from the prime minister saying that he is not quitting that's what the protesters one of the things the protesters are calling for and saying he's not quitting and even went on further he you know threatened those who do go out are subject to arrest but it appears as though they are ignoring that as well because we are anticipating another gathering in about 3 hours from now here again in central bangkok where we saw on thursday night that's expected over the coming hours but what's interesting too the prime minister went

beyond that to he even appealed to parents to talk to their children about going out to these protests and it's going to be very instant to see how that is received you know here's a prime minister kind of telling people how to parent their kids if you will so you know kind of a threatening tone in one sense saying that those who break the law with this new emergency decree will be arrested and also telling parents that they shouldn't allow their kids intimating that they should allow their kids to go out in protest but again they've ignored it before let's see what they do in the coming hours adrian 00 school heidi reporting live from bangkok they thanks scott. the governor of afghanistan's helmand province is accusing the taliban of working with al qaida and other foreign fighters. says that the armed groups are supporting the taliban and attacks against government forces fighting has been escalating in recent days raising concerns that stalled peace talks may collapse completely lived out of

kabul filio contraflow is for us what are we to make of the the governor's comments . well you know i demanded to important to say at the moment that the fighting heavy fighting between government forces and the taliban in the south and province of helmand and its 7th day we contacted the governor's office and he's in helmand and he spokesman confirmed to us what the government has been saying that. and other foreign fighters have been supporting the taliban offensive in home on it when we asked where are they basing this he said that they have all the evidence however it sensitive information that cannot release at the time now should this turn out to be true it could be a game changer here in afghanistan as the taliban have agreed to cut all ties with al qaeda here their peace agreements with the united states that they signed back in february we also contacted the taliban spokesman here in afghanistan several

lots of body who said that they deny all claims that. any other foreign fighters have been fighting in the province of helmand all the the taliban fighters there at the moment are local fighters from her mind and there is not even fighters from other provinces in terms of the security situation down there according to the local government the afghan security forces have been conducting air strikes to words. areas they have been able to retake some areas and even clear our highway but they're still not allowing citizens to go through because they say the taliban have planted mines all along the highway and that makes it even harder for thousands of people adrian who have fled their homes in recent days to go back to their homes back to you truro preferred reporting live from kabul for many thanks indra. hundreds of prisoners who've been on the frontlines of yemen the civil war

are continuing to return to the capital sanaa planes carrying who to fight says they've been held by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition of been arriving in the city on friday this will proceed as a trust building measure aimed at reviving peace talks local leaders in the eastern chinese city of change say that in less than a week they finished testing the city's 11000000 people for the coronavirus it was sparked by the discovery of a handful of u. cases but only about a dozen people were found to be infected katrina you reports. china's coastal city of qingdao is known for its beaches and beer but this week it made headlines for a coronavirus 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 after her there are in the us mint still in people to protect themselves and social distance people are sticking to the rules the testing aims to

reassure residents thousands of medical workers worked 16 hours a day to complete the mass testing a few cases have been confirmed the patients relate to the qingdao chest hospital where overseas arrivals with carvin 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 cases have many appeared in hospital and we have concluded that the scale of the damage it's a likely to be as large as that happened in beijing and according to official figures china's coronavirus cases have fallen drastically but the country remains on high alert up to criticism of its mishandling of the outbreak and we have to see if the chinese government is under pressure to respond with the new lower case it's authorities have put cities into what they've told us i might follow the discovery

of previous post as elsewhere in the country i think we did learn a lesson the when there was 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. across china have largely eased during china last week more than 600000000 trips nationwide. have also been ordered to take tests. beijing a state of emergency has been declared in the sudanese states after days of fighting there are reports that 8 people have been killed began after the governor

was dismissed authorities describe the violence as tribal protests were also held in. a few has been imposed guinea has closed its borders on the final day of the presidential election campaign the government says that it fears violence did the ference from citizens living abroad. and neighboring senegal. first time. barry says he's tired of being silent fed up with beatings from security forces and noise from politicians making empty promises he wants change and the upcoming presidential election but he. hopes to give it time for. the president is to be a passer by wants him to be careful about what he says let me speak to the president says he closed the. election. and weapons.

government closed its borders with both senegal and getting ahead of the elections citing security concerns has been brought to a halt and huge numbers of guinea and merchants are unable to go. sleeping on the streets. and they get in authority say they can organize. to take part in this election many of whom support opposition leader. gello fears president cold day who's running for a 3rd term is also attempting to prevent opposition supporters from communicating by curbing internet access very a freaking in space for freedom of speech or freedom of demonstrate and it's getting worse and worse and the more we go to the day of the election the more we can see what the tension is growing. in

a campaign marred with violence and divisive politics barry from a distance won't be ignored hoping that at least one of the candidates will carry his voice because hawke al-jazeera. as a by chance president says that his army will take all of nagorno-karabakh major regions unless armenia agrees to withdraw president ilham aliyev comments appear to have dashed hopes that a moscow mediated ceasefire could bring an end to the conflict more than 600 people have been killed since fighting over the disputed region broke out last month the humanitarian agreement signed on saturday has had little impact with both sides accusing the other of violations. mexico's former defense minister has been arrested in the united states salvador stand where he goes to lead the army for 6 years and the president enrique pena nieto the foreign minister confirmed on twitter that he was being held in los angeles and that more details of the charges

should be released in the coming hours windy conditions are hampering efforts to contain a wildfire in the u.s. state of colorado the cameron peak fire is the largest in the state's history it's been burning for more than 2 months down has destroyed more than $64000.00 hectares . it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera american voters were asked to tune into doing televised events with president donald trump and democratic candidate joe biden both vying for their attention to the originally planned to face off in a debate but that was canceled because of trump's coronavirus infection the kurdistan politician freed from prison by protesters just days ago has been appointed interim president assad is jumping off.