ringback i am. the. tale of 2 town halls donald trump and joe biden make rival t.v. appearances on a night that they were supposed to debate each other. and i have a dream for again this is out as era live from joe also coming up. bracing for new lock downs 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. and i'm nicholas kong in the car senegal and it has been

a neighborhood find out they swiped the 3500000 canadians living in senegal will not be able to take part in the presidential election. american voters were asked to to the dunedin televised events on thursday with president donald trump and democratic candidate joe biden both vying for their attention the 2 at originally planned to face off in a shared debate stage but the trumps at 19 diagnosis and some skill and subsequent refusal to participate in a virtual event the would be debates plays into separate events featuring the candidate solo but airing at the same time 0 is how did your castro reports. the pandemic raging in a divided america president trump was on the defensive in florida conditions are never did they die for you listed i did a slate supremacy of what you next play she appearing to have recovered from his 3

day hospitalization for kobe 19 but trailing in national polls the president also refused to denounce q one on a baseless conspiracy movement which has grown exponentially during america's outbreak i know nothing about it i just try to do a very little you told me but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it checked i hate to say that i know nothing about it i do know they are very much against it pedophilia they find it very hard but i knew nothing of the day to leave the president's event aired at the same time as a town hall event with democratic challenger joe biden in philadelphia which mirrored his study. low key campaign presence in my view with all due respect to spend divide and conquer the way he does better if he splits us no there's divisions. and i think people need hope both candidates took questions and comments from voters some laudatory. story for money for. others for tougher

what's your view on the crime bill that you wrote in 1994 which showed prejudiced against minorities it was a mistake biden whose campaign's been hit by 3 recently disclosed corona virus infections lashed out against trump's handling of the pandemic more than 217000 americans have died in the words of a president matter absolutely no matter whether they're good bad or indifferent they matter and want to present it doesn't wear a mask 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 press by the moderator are masked trump defended himself by falsely characterizing the study but just the other day they came out with a statement that 85 percent of the people that wear masks. you know it is a very right to say as i just said that's what i heard and that's what i saw i think the disservice may have already been done for the past 3 to 4 years maybe one

where. you know misinformation and this information all these things so i think became our new reality and i think. it's not shocking anymore that's the maybe the sad thing about. the final presidential debate is scheduled for october 22nd and so far both sides have agreed to attend but with the feared 2nd wave of covert approaching and the virus penetrating both campaigns nothing can be counted on an election year like no other. castro al-jazeera philadelphia. at one point the hosts of miami criticized the president for boosting 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 live shot now to get it all over to even reach we that was a read which that was a opinion of somebody and that was a reach we all put it out there people can decide for themselves how to take a position like someone's crazy uncle movie wasn't really what i heard that was a read tweet and i do a lot of reach which 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 water wars and you know more americans are voting earlier than ever before election day could now become the 1st in u.s. history where most ballots have been cast beforehand long lines formed on side voting centers in north carolina on thursday on the 1st day of early voting that up across the country 15000000 people of so far. a caucus non-politician freed from prison by protesters just days ago has been appointed interim president saudia jumper off was made prime minister on wednesday but has

now assumed the presidency to the resignation of sort of jeenbekov parliament has ended a state of emergency in the capital bishkek which had been declared to end days of unrest triggered by disputed elections a new vote has to be held within 90 days out of here is charles trafford reports now from bishkek where people who are against jumping off of making their voices heard. they say that say his supporters were very intimidating we saw them during those protests rushing peaceful demonstrations using stones and sticks but the fact of the matter is mr powell has a lot of support in this country we were in the rural heartland of his support base yesterday in the north 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 the civil rights in the country. but there are even reservations among those supporters one man actually said that he had met your power of a few years ago he 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 corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers a surging in europe it's an essential one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also sort unprecedented rise with more than 7000 new cases there. france recorded more than 30000 new infections in its latest daily tally a curfew has been imposed in 9 major cities. and from saturday more than half of england's population will again be subjected to strict rules or where they can go and who they can meet with. charlie 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 impacts 3000 pounds 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 peer pressure 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 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 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. do models or not so optimistic these models indicate that the launched relaxing policies good proposal but 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 is everyone's concern al-jazeera london in the us 9 states have seen record numbers of covert pointed infections as the total number is 8000000 cases the rise is in keeping with a nationwide increase during this month half of the 50 states reported their highest daily numbers of new infections in the past 2 weeks well 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 found she says that backing the idea that the disease will stop spreading once everyone has caught 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 well as many countries tighten coronavirus restrictions some a relaxing as new zealanders arriving in australia for the 1st time in months without having to quarantine it's the 1st step in a so-called travel bubble scheme to reconnect the neighbors who zealand has no infections outside of managed isolation but australia still struggles to control its break historians of not allowed to travel the other way to new zealand. what a weather update next here on al-jazeera then we'll be live in sanaa where the fighters are about to land as part of

a prisoner swap that could revive peace talks i will look at how china tested a city of 11000000 people for covert 19 in just 5 days. but. the weather remains schoolbook quiet across western parts of europe a little more lively into central and eastern areas there lots of weather systems going on here i was of low pressure bring some heavy rain across northern italy pushing across into the balkans some wetter weather to sliding through austria hungary easing of tools that eastern side of europe cold for many here as well actually see temperatures struggling to get its double figures there for austria maybe to warsaw as well hate is down towards the southeast where little heat there is temps just getting up into the well a mid to high twenty's at least for

a time when the weather will continue to drive its way further race with some heavy rain coming into ukraine temperatures falling back to run 11 celsius on the 6 degrees there in moscow that raise sinks down across the black sea into the western side of still quite a rash of showers into central pasta still staying dry at least for the time being across the a west we will see what to weather next week started to push its way into those western areas of you built on mala but it will turn somewhat wetter lousy dry across the northern parts of africa we have got the showers course across central areas southern nigeria seeing some heavy showers pushing across the gonna what weather there for liberia sierra leone and pushing up towards guinea. that. global community we are our biggest opposition elbow. grease is the response that looks like be part of the debate you can jump into the conversation

right away when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking we just point. 3 trillion in reacher and the poor getting poorer it's not kill and destroy the system it's just to look at the system and. this dream on out is the era. of again this is a 0 let's remind you the main news this hour american voters have been asked to did a 2 televised events with president of trump and democratic candidate joe biden competing separately for the attention of the kurdistan politician freed from prison by protesters just days ago has been appointed interim president state of

emergency in the capital bishkek introduced to end days of unrest after disputed elections has been lifted of the world health organization says the number of coronavirus tests in europe could be 5 times higher by january if containment measures are stepped up france germany and the u.k. are among countries tightening restrictions. the governor of afghanistan's helmand province is accusing the taliban of working with al qaida and other foreign fighters obama zork says that the armed groups are supporting taliban attacks against government forces talk about the eyes that fighting escalated in recent days raising concerns that stalled peace talks may collapse let's go live now to kabul for me oh contre foolery is there for us from here what are we to make of the governor's comments well you know adrian heavy fighting between government forces and the taliban in the south in progress of how mond has entered its 7th day today

like you mentioned the spokesman for the helmand governor's office met his walkie confirm to us all the governor's claims that al qaeda and other foreign fighters have been supporting the taliban offensive in helmont is not when we asked a while where are they basing these claims he said that they have all the evidence however it's sensitive information that they cannot release at the moment at the same time the taliban spokesman here in afghanistan. that we were lawful jai heads he denied all those claims so he said it's government propaganda and he said all the taliban fighters that are in the area and are conducting the offensive they are local fighters and a very there is not even any fighters from the other provinces now the security situation remains extremely volatile there is a of strikes that are being conducted by the afghan security forces and there is a dire situation that is being described by the u.n.

in terms of the thousands the 10s of thousands that have been forced to flee their homes because of the violence they have to be on for your country for reporting live from kabul for the many thanks indeed. thailand's prime minister. says that he won't quit despite protests against him but. demonstrations continue to defy a ban on public gatherings the calling for the prime minister's resignation and so the monarchy to be reformed 0 scott hides reports from bangkok center 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 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 are 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 that protesters are calling for he's saying he's not quitting and he went on further he you know threatened those who do go out are subject to arrest but it appears as though they're ignoring that as well because we are anticipating another gathering here again in central bangkok where we saw on thursday night that's expected over the coming hours but what's interesting too is 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 no here's this 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 mercy decree will be arrested and also telling parents that they shouldn't allow their kids intimating that they should allow their their kids to go out in protest

. local leaders in the eastern chinese city of qingdao say that in less than a week they finished testing the city's 11000000 people for the corona virus it was sparked by the discovery of a handful of new cases but only about a dozen people were found to be infected or serious 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 enough 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 demick 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 i mean 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 in 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 19 response to that of the us and european countries. across china have largely eased during china's last week more than 600000000 trips were made nationwide visited qingdao have also been ordered to take corinna virus tests al-jazeera beijing. guinea has closed its borders on the final day of the presidential election campaign the government says that it has violence and interference from citizens living abroad. nicholas reports now from a neighboring some. first time border. 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 this upcoming presidential election but he's stuck in senegal unable to return home to give it time for sunday's if 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 border because he's going to sabotage election. and weapons but the only weapon we carry voice. getting government closed its borders with both senegal and get ahead of the elections citing security concerns has been brought to a halt and huge numbers of guinea and merchants are unable to go home sleeping on the streets unlike in previous elections living here. be able to cast their vote. they get in authorities say they can organize. more than point 5000000 people to take part in this election many of whom support opposition leader

. gello fears president who's running for a 3rd term is also attempting to prevent opposition supporters from communicating by curbing internet access. in space for freedom of speech or freedom of demonstrates and it's getting worse and worse and the more we go to. the more we can see what. is growing. in a campaign marred with violence and divisive politics from a distance won't be ignored hoping that at least one of the candidates will. kerry is voice because hawk al-jazeera the car. mexico's former defense minister has been arrested in the united states salvador sand for goss with the army for 6 years on the president and rekha pena nieto the foreign minister confirmed on twitter that it was being held in los angeles and that more details of the charges should be

released in the coming hours a wave of demonstrations has broken out across venezuela people are breaking a lockdown rules to demand an end to war stink shortages of everything from electricity water and household supplies stories about reports. they begin spontaneously in small cities across venezuela. plutus like this one are spreading throughout the country people demanding access to basic goods like food water electricity and gas for cooking. protester mary missler says over $1000.00 families here in just outside caracas have been without gas for 3 months. later for now i think of what a party salad but me see the police comes here to try to force us to lift the protests but nobody comes to solve our problem they come and tell us they will try to solve it but they don't do anything we will continue protesting is the only way

we have. and they are not alone they have been over 7000 protests in the country in the past month yes that was enough when i was like that you don't have gas and there are power cuts every day without that we cannot cook that's not right for a country like we have lost our dignity i years of corruption mismanagement and economic sanctions have decimated the oil industry this nation main source of income the government is finding it difficult to provide gas water and fuel to its people because infrastructure is crumbling across the country a months long coronavirus lockdown is complicating the economic situation even further for many it's too late for protests they're seeing a future across the border and even the worsening conditions in neighboring colombia have forced many venezuelan migrants back to their homeland others like joey these call menageries are determined to try their luck in minnesota i don't

believe in the union whoever's living in venezuela doesn't live off a salary they live off the people send them from abroad that's a reality for venezuelans my children know that when we have to use a bathroom we go to the bushes and we sleep on the floor if we're out on the highway we always try to be a checkpoint to be a little protected by the police and guards the united nations says that over 5000000 people have left the country in the past 4 years people responding to a dire economic reality and wanted someone to stay. and fight for a better future others decide to move on. shopping malls and football or 2 of the fundamental elements of life in argentina have returned but with tight restrictions this partial lifting of the quarantine comes as the number of deaths of infections from covert biotene continues to rise to reports for us. it was a tentative reopening

a limited number of shoppers mosques one at 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 2 months 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 the mall that. we are very excited tickets to we wanted to see how the reopening is calling 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. teena 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 on with massive job losses the big question still remains what is the great to risk the killer 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 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 a fully functioning society still some way off down the shore and there al-jazeera

when osiris hundreds of prisoners are put on the frontlines of yemen's civil war continuing to return to the capital sanaa planes carrying hooty fighters who've been held by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition have begun to arrive in the city the swap is being seen as a trust building measure aimed at reviving peace talks. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera american voters were asked to toona dueling televised events with president donald trump and democratic candidate joe biden both vying for their attention to it originally planned to face off in a debate but it was canceled because of trump's coronavirus.