our block over white. america decides how to care for a nation. extensive coverage of the u.s. elections. on al-jazeera. violent scenes in chile as thousands turn out to mark the anniversary of mass protests that rocked the country. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our desire a live from doha also coming up. with a common links with chemicals that sprayed on crowds in thailand during another day of protests demanding political reform. a school teacher is knifed to death in paris and what the french president describes as an attack on freedom of expression

. and record turnout in early voting in the u.s. sets the mood for election day 3 weeks away we'll have a live update. now ronny's in chile turning violent as we come to way ahead of the anniversary of last year's massive demonstrations it was mainly peaceful in the day but riot police are now firing tear gas and water cannon sunday marks a year since the protests began thousands were injured and 30 people were killed the government was forced to call a referendum to overhaul the constitution well we can go live now to our latin america editor to see a new man who's in the capital we understand you were injured by something a little bit earlier amongst the. testers tell us what's been happening if you can

. see having some problems there trying to get to the c.e.o. we were speaking to previously and things she said were festive but now things seem to have turned violent on the streets we're seeing riot police on the streets as they as they turn out to try and quell those protests when other protesters had set up barricades earlier on of course this all marks the one year anniversary of the protests and the riots that rocked the country in 2019 leaving more than 30 people dead it brings mixed emotions to many of the demonstrators who were injured. many of the protesters say those protests were necessary but of course many of them regret the violence and the death that followed and these wide spread demonstrations began last october 18 chileans take to the streets to protest inequality inadequate pensions and the country's deeply criticized health care and

education systems and also this year of course that 19 has added to that mix and that anger quickly boiled over into violence that brought millions of dollars of damage to public infrastructure so what you're seeing now are pictures of those demonstrations to mark the one year anniversary of last year's demonstrations when you were speaking to. she said it was pretty festive but of course that has now turned violent as we're seeing riot police and troops on the streets firing water canon there as they try and quell the protests as we were supposed to speak to our correspondent and human who is there in the chilean capital but she has apparently been injured by some sort of flying. day or something and she's now down we're waiting to hear how she is so we will be talking to her live but these are just pictures we're bringing you now of the latest situation on the streets there in the

chilean capital santiago. now protesters in thailand have ended their friday demonstration off the defying a government ban on gatherings for the 3rd day in a row. protest organizers urged the crowds to attend home and avoid more confrontations with riot police security forces used water cannon to break a barricade set up by demonstrators in the center of the capital bangkok but demonstrators are calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy don't hide the reports from bangkok. face to face in bangkok anti-government protesters entire police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. the mostly peaceful demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd date thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before as promised in an announcement just after

the violence began taia 30 began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demanding a new constitution reform of the monarchy and the resignation of the cabinet including prime minister prayers general something he dismissed on friday as he explained the reasons for the emergency order i do look at that. as you are all aware of the situation the government must use the emergency decree we have to proceed because the situation has become violent with some things that had never happened before. the protests started like the other 2 peaceful protests earlier in the week its location was changed at the last minute to confuse the security forces they continued their call for the release of the top protest organizers who were arrested on thursday morning. but about an hour into it the police made their move after several barricades were taken down and police advanced on the protesters many tried to blend into the surrounding neighborhood. even though the leadership has officially called off the protest for the night riot police are clearing out the

area of the original site for that protest earlier in the evening the big question now for the leadership is how do they move forward with the protests scott had there al-jazeera bangkok. the french police say a teacher has been beheaded in a suburb of the northwest in paris an 18 year old man was shot dead by officers shortly after the incident earlier this month the teacher had shown pupils cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad from the satirical magazine. a new concede to you. a d.s.s. you know one of the citizens was murdered today because he was a teacher because he was teaching students freedom of expression freedom to believe and not to believe patrick was attacked in the fashion but he was a victim of a characteristic terrorist attack. from the top in the french capital. what we understand from a police spokesperson is that it was around 5 o'clock in the afternoon local time

here in france in coffee along santa ana reno a small town in the suburb northwest of paris when police approached a young man they say in in the street in a residential area not far from the school they say this young man had been acting suspiciously when they approached him he threatened them they say he had a knife in his hands he was armed and then they opened fire they shot him dead now when they then approached the attacker that have been shot dead they looked and about 200 meters away police say they saw the body of a man on the ground police say that body had been decapitated now what we understand is that the victim was in fact a professor of history a teacher of history i should say in a secondary school high school i think you'd say in france not far from the scene where he was killed police say that it was just last week that this teacher had

actually taken a bunch of students and he had been teaching them about freedom of expression freedom of speech should have been a class and what he had shown them during that class as part of it was the front of the charlie hebdo newspaper that had some cartoons of the prophet mohammed and what police are saying is that they believe the attack is linked to the fact that those teacher showed those cartoons now police have a little bit more information about the attack and he was born in 2002 seems only 18 years old he was actually born in moscow. well 2 weeks ago the french president said islam is in crisis he gave a speech about renewed efforts to push religion out of education and the public sector in france during the address he said islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today we're not just seeing this in our country our challenge is to fight against those who go off the rails in the

name of religion while protecting those who believe in islam under full citizens of the republic but john christophe gallia is a political writer and a communications lecturer at last obama university he said the speed of macaroons appearance is revealing. himself mark. travelled to the war crimes. to stress the client again after this so that when days ago rounded lation ship between this country of course and this is something very tense and something very low intensity this is something people have to watch right there is something bad today in their relations with the whole you know the whole community he talks about the parents of so this means people that won't want to live the way french people use the cultural you know the kind of relationship they have to get so he is stressing that one because it's something

that is has to be special a political basis so what happened to the is something that was different you know he came to this crime slogan very quickly let's time once things were happening in rancho you know not the 1st part even after the 2 weeks ago when these people was that he was you know people you know were we were talking in like he didn't even talk about evil tweets about so something is happening around us tension but it's today it's something you need to understand is something very tense around that issue it has to be again treat. but here is president is out campaigning in states he won in 2016 donald trump is now in mcallen georgia where he's addressing supporters he has a rally in florida earlier where he also reached out to senior citizens. and democratic nominee joe biden is campaigning in detroit before that during another

campaign stop in michigan he spoke about health care and again attacked president trump president trump's handling of the pandemic only 3 weeks to go before election day huge numbers of voters have already made their choice more than $22000000.00 americans have cost early ballots. the large turnout is attributed at least in part to people wanting to people way from large crowds in the risk of coronavirus on november 3rd several states including battlegrounds let wisconsin michigan florida have a ready past 20 percent of their total 2016 vote the political data firm target early says so far more democratic party supporters of voting early while among republicans voting is down compared to this time in 2016 oh mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. a mix of both trump and biden are back out on the campaign trail but the big story of course as you were saying there just the sheer numbers of people who are voting early tell us what's been happening like. oh daryn you

mentioned that figure there are more than 20000000 americans have already voted this is a record for this time in an election an all time record in fact certainly there may be may be related to the coronavirus a lot of people wanting to vote early to avoid voting in person but there may be another factor here as well and that simply is that more people are going to vote now the suit be a very significant thing indeed because experts contend that when you get a higher vote you tend to get more democrats coming out and voting then did before they point to the fact that those who support republicans particularly a republican like donald trump with an established base all of those in that base will go and vote in the past democrats so they've had the support have not necessarily had the support at the polls so to put it short of war votes would mean a greater likelihood of the democratic victory that's according to most political pundits so these indicators that we are seeing at this particular stage just 18

days before the election point very much towards the fact that joe biden is on a roll and continues rolling derren and mike last night we saw those rival town hall style events that replaced the presidential debate i mean how useful were they to voters and is it likely to give anyone a bump in the polls do you think. well that had surprisingly high viewership and here came another surprise daryn is that normally on events like this one would expect that president trump would receive more viewers because of his base and also because of what some may describe as his shock or entertainment value however in those in those discussions last night those town halls joe biden got some 1000000 more viewers than did donald trump in terms of those are courting to nielsen ratings which is the gold standard of television ratings within the united states that in itself is exceedingly significant and

terms of criticism of those town halls most critics contend that joe biden came across as a moderate sort full person he addressed policy issues throughout donald trump came off as what donald trump often comes off and probably he saw as angry he was bullying he was making outrageous comments like mass do not necessarily contradict coronavirus he refused to condemn extreme rightwing q a movement all these kind of issues come to the fore these are the points on which donald trump one in 2016 essentially a shock value which had not been seen before all indicators are that it's not working for him this particular time around all polls have joe biden a long way ahead and a very significant crack in the republican fortress in recent days the republicans are starting to turn against donald trump in greater number a significant republican ben sasse susi in a basket senator was reported as telling

a large number of constituents highly critical of president trump describing it as someone who kicks kisses dictators behind says he would put it he was said that trump was disgusting towards women this is a republican senator who kept quiet through the impeachment hearings against donald trump and shares these thoughts of some $17000.00 nebraskans we. told by his staff these are signs of republican party that is beginning to panic and clearly somebody like bin sense who's standing for election on november the 3rd is trying to cut any ties to donald trump that may be there in order to protect his own political future very significant development there are at our mike hanna live for us in washington d.c. mike thank you. lots more to come here and i'm just here including the u.k. prime minister warns the nation to prepare for a no deal brigs it. 10 scenes outside a south african court where 2 black men are accused of killing

a white farmer more in the us. like it's going to be a changeable weekend a week into 2 hobs for japan we've got some wet weather now in the process of pushing a fair amount of cloud rolling in here and that sas days picture a soggy saturday 15 sounds just cold wet fairly miserable hang on in there come sunday it will brighten up the sunshine coming through temperatures getting up to around 20 celsius 20 celsius in seoul and in beijing as well so some fine dry weather across the korean peninsula northern parts of china got some showers into central china and quite a keen northeasterly praise fading down towards the south china sea still facing some very heavy rain into vietnam i'm afraid on that brace we'll see some much weather coming back in here the 200 millimeters of rain in the space of just 24

hours and then friday there is more where that come from we're going to see more heavy downpours coming into central northern parts of vietnam something of a tropical disturbance making its way in here as you go on through the next couple of days that's pretty wet across a good part of indochina looks pretty wet across the western side of him there as well mumbai 108 millimeters of rain in one day nearly 200 millimeters of rain in just a couple of days and the average for october 18th one millimeters so very wet that's courtesy of this system now which is moving out into the arabian sea. but. you know that corruption has reached a level right. before in our country. rank outsider. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will honor

the people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour ronnie's are turning violent in chile out of the anniversary of last year's massive demonstrations demanding social change it's been many peaceful during the day but while police are now firing tear gas and water. protesters in thailand have ended their friday demonstration after defying a government ban on gatherings for the 3rd day in a row calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy. and

french police say a teacher has been beheaded in a suburb of northwestern paris he said a teacher had earlier shown cartoons of the prophet mohammed to students president emanuel markhor has condemned what he called an islamist terrorist attack. the u.k. prime minister says it's time his country prepared to break away from the e.u. with no trade deal with the brags that transition period ending on january 1st boris johnson told brussels there's no point continuing negotiations unless it changes course e.u. leaders say they're willing to keep trying to bring reports from london. this was supposed to be the summit which signed off on a trade deal instead it has provoked some of the bleakest assessments yet of the prospects for agreement. should be assured the state of our talks is not that we are stumbling over the issue of fishing which is the tactical argument made by the british but we are stumbling over everything everything we see e.u.

leaders had proposed 2 more weeks of last ditch talks but warned that the u.k. had to make the necessary moves to make an agreement possible that went down very badly in london and given that they have refused to negotiate seriously for much of the last few months and given that this summit appears explicitly to rule out a canada style deal i've concluded that we should get ready for january the 1st with a range wounds that are more like australia's an australian style deal really means no deal at all crucially johnson stopped short of calling off the talks and closing the door altogether but in an off camera briefing to journalists his official spokesman was more stark as far as we're concerned he said the trade talks are over the hardball rhetoric from downing street is setting alarm bells ringing here in london's financial district the square mile financial services represent 167000000000 dollars to the u.k. economy that's around 7 percent of g.d.p.

and the $33000000000.00 of financial services which are exported to the e.u. are now in jeopardy. the food and drink federation said the u.k. was heading into very dangerous territory with tariffs exacting a heavy price on shoppers and the head of the c.b.i. pleaded that this is no time to give up neither side can afford to fall at the final fence the german chancellor though held out a glimmer of hope in the months of the dog was put on you not to you know when my the britain nor the e.u. wants an agreement at any price they are ready to continue negotiations we have seen a light in the last days of negotiations but of course they are still shut i believe that it is much better for both sides to reach an agreement but not at any price. the e.u. chief negotiator michel barnier is ready to travel to london on monday to try to find a compromise but the british chief negotiator david frost told him not to bother

the 2 sides will speak instead by telephone paul brennan al-jazeera london fighting between armenia and azerbaijan has continued over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region as area officials say 6 people were killed by armenian shelling in gunja on friday a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by russia has been repeatedly violated by both sides and has been a smith reports from shushi in the corner karabakh the current fighting is driven by a history of conflicts. in centuries past as there is and armenians live together in shushi once the capital of nagorno-karabakh to the azeris this is that cultural heartland and this is one of 3 mosques in the town but until the 19 $120.00 s. this was once part of armenia then soviet leader joseph stalin redrew maps and made it an autonomous region within soffit azerbaijan when karabakh voted in 1909 for independence the years there is 10 kilometers away instead panic came and the

armenians left. more followed as the soviet union collapsed 30000 people were killed before a cease fire in 1904. after the war ended shoe she's main mosque was restored but as a museum as there was no one left to use it as a place of worship. it is unimaginable now no shoes she is armenian there are wars and massacres but 2 nations lived together persians lived here as are beige and he's lived here armenians too. occupied and forth over by persians and autumn and this fortress town was strategically placed at the center of the south caucasus shushi has an uninterrupted view of the panic of it and it's from here during the 91 to 94 war that he has areas bombed the town until the armenians managed to capture this town. the holy savior cathedral has been hit twice during this conflict it's the most important place of christian worship in a region as culturally significant to ethnic armenians as it is to his aires.

i don't think after so many victims in a land stained by the blood of our salaries i don't think any i mean by trial or 8 or any of their you would want to live here because there is so much enmity between the 2 nations at least i cannot imagine such a day as possible but we are neighboring nations and we have to find a common ground the streets of empty now as that search for common ground begins again it's something the go see it is have yet to find after more than 26 year long cease fire burn it's made our jazeera nagorno-karabakh 3 palestinian and farmers have been injured during protests in the occupied west bank. it's only harvest season other farmers are demanding access to their own of gardens israeli authorities issued orders on monday seizing the land israeli army fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds. there's been a public standoff outside

a courthouse in south africa over the killing of a white farm worker 2 black men are accused of killing the 21 year old the case has led to tensions between white farmers and supporters of the opposition party the economic freedom fighters from the miller has more now from senate. it's the culmination of days of tension as supporters of the economic freedom fighters confront a white farmers and cynical in the free state province the fighters as they call themselves say they're here to defend state institutions and democracy and some of their supporters threw rocks block the road last week white farmers stormed the cynical magistrate's court as 2 black men appeared for the murder of white farm manager brendan warner it damaged property and sit fire to a police vehicle they're going to stop them to do as they wish but not to quote go confront them relate you whatever the word is that. if they give defrayed rebuke

them the 5 farmers here say the government has failed them by not dealing with violence on farms brenden or no was killed 2 weeks ago his body was dumped here local pharmacy say their anger it's not only by the killing but also the way it happened the course of death was staring after. them it was brutal the phone ropey worse that i go to that bowl and pollie was fastened to the pole and he was lifted over the as the 2 men appeared again in court on friday for the murder farmers and their supporters demonstrated outside according to civil rights organization africa forum they've been more than $290.00 farm attacks and $37.00 murders this year enough is enough we call default of killing a lot of farmers in this country meanwhile they carry our economy they make our food to feed us it is important that we take a stand today as the leader of the economic freedom fighters julius malema has been

accused of inciting violence and stoking racial tensions farmers we spoke to who refused to appear on camera said they too are prepared to fight if necessary but. i want. well the bail application for the 2 men accused of killing warner has been perspire and until next week president obama racial tensions in south africa need to be a grave although continue. the protesters on both sides of the divide appear and willing to back down raising concerns things will only worsen in a country where people may not have reconciled for me the law ultras there are cynical in the. finale

a decade the japanese government has been trying to figure out what to do with more than a 1000000 tons of radioactive water from its fukushima nuclear plant local media are reporting that it will be gradually released into the sea well the plant was destroyed in an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 the utility company that runs for cosima has been storing contaminated water on site but it will run out of space next year the japanese fishing industry has urged the government not to release it south korea still has a ban on imported fish from the fukushima region. bernie is from greenpeace he says dumping at sea may be the cheapest option but it's also unnecessary. well the thing to understand is that the government in japan would have everyone believe that it's only one type of radioactivity so called city and it's in the water again that's also not true there are many different people who plights in the water including strontium 90 which is the bone sticking cancer causing isotope. that will be

released along with all the other redirects of the tea in the water over a 530 years starting possibly in 2023 if we can't stop them and that water then spreads through washing currents but the radioactivity depending on the type of activity concentrates in different marine life and sea weeds and ultimately in the human food chain unfortunately they have dismissed the alternatives did not use the best available technology and they have this crisis of over a 1000000 tonnes of contaminants of water. the alternative is very clear which is to continue to store in more robust tanks the japanese government's own committee in february issued a report or egg knowledged that storage on site after 2022 was possible it ruled out because it's they said to them it would take time to negotiate there's also the land outside the fukushima daiichi site which of course is highly

contaminated and will not create habited by most people from that era for the foreseeable future so the storage option is clearly the grassed option other than rather than releasing directly into the environment and that's what we've been telling the guy japanese government and that's what we'll be demanding that they do this is not over the government's making a decision but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera ronnie's are turning violent in chile ahead of the anniversary of last year's massive demonstrations demanding social change it's been mainly peaceful join. day but riot police are now firing tear gas and water cannon. protesters in thailand have ended their friday demonstration the defying a government ban on gatherings for the 3rd day in a row calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the moment the protest organizers urged the crowd.