rights groups claim several people were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators in lagos. tale of says al jazeera live from london also coming up accused of putting profits over people u.s. drug maker purge you pharma to plead guilty to criminal charges over its marketing of the painkiller oxycontin. drumming home an anti government message indigenous people join the thousands of protesters in the colombian capital

. and in a major shift the head of the catholic church forces whose support for same sex unions same day to have a right to a family. color nigerian protesters have defied a curfew and faced off against security forces in the country's biggest city as demonstrations against police brutality threaten to paralyze the nation a 24 hour curfew has been imposed in lagos the financial heart of africa's largest economy that's where security forces fired at protesters late on tuesday drawing international condemnation the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed that night blaming the violence on the military the government has not confirmed that but the nigerian parliament speaker says it's clear. there

were casualties it's been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against police brutality after a video of a man being beaten by officers allegedly from the special anti robbery squad known as sars went viral and address reports from the capital abuja. and early morning fire set by arsonists burns parked vehicles at a government bus station in lagos officials say 30 process were destroyed. in lucky why security forces opened fire on protesters the previous night the standoff continues. the latest state governor who visited victims of tuesday's attack in hospital said more than 2 dozens have been hospitalized so you know sense. that we have not any fatalities. he's the one

stinks sick he needs to do some media but protest his dispute that i can't really see who was shooting we know who was the g.m. i can't give you the after on the more can you want to because i won't go on i have to run my life who are running for their lives within the got injured was it so i don't. get to might want to. i'm listening to national agrees say there appears to be credible evidence of fatalities but the pictures have not been independent beautiful right to look at the united nations secretary general was spoken with president carter in recent days has called for restraint the secretary general said he is following closely the developments in nigeria and calls for an end to reported police brutality and abuses he condemns the violent escalation of the october 20th on october 20th in lagos which resulted in multiple deaths and caused

many injuries. protests started 2 weeks ago after a policeman shot and killed a man in the south of the country the protesters are demanding the scrapping of an old police unit accused of murder extortion and disappearances they also want an overhaul of nigeria's police system the trial of the officers accused of crimes and compensation for victims. some of these demands have been met but deep distrust remains between protesters and government. journalists also been caught up in the sort of turn of events here i the independent television station in the city is set on fire a few hours later another broadcaster was temporarily forced off because of what it calls an imminent threat to its staff and operations. here in the capital the streets are calmer than in lagos earlier on when strange security forces dispersed a group of young men gathering when the outskirts of

a. many schools and businesses here remain shut for most of the day after the violence and destruction in lagos causing there's a general feeling that the end to police brutality or protest may have been infiltrated it's not clear how much damage this has done or could do to that course which many nigerians still see that you turned up at the crease. purchase have taken place across sudan as anger rises over dire living conditions and this month's crackdown on demonstrators the protests came on the anniversary of the 964 uprising that ended 6 years of military rule sudan is currently ruled by a transitional government after mass protests toppled former dictator omar bashir last year he morgan has more from the scene of the protests in khartoum. protesters in the tomb and various parts of sudan are common raising the 21st of october which

marks the anniversary of the 1st sudanese revolution and $964.00 now the black smoke that you see behind me is the result of protesters burning tires to express their frustration at how this government has been operating over the past 2 years protesters say that the economic conditions have been getting worse since this government took power in august last year and they also say that the military is still in control of many institutions something that they say goes against their revolution which started in 2018 now protesters have been met with tear gas and stun grenades most of them have run away from where they are right now just a little bit to where i was standing right now and then back again and they say that's because they do not accept this use of force by security forces now many of them also say that they're not here to oust the president the government of prime minister of the but rather to vent out their frustration and to put pressure on this government to try to improve the economic situation as well as complete what they say is the demands of the revolution which is forming

a transition legislative assembly and holding to account those who are responsible for killing protesters since 2018. in guinea 3 days after a disputed presidential election results show president heading for another victory but the opposition has already claimed it won the vote because he has more from neighboring sinegal where guinea and also protesting. we're just outside the guinea and embassy and police have just fired tear gas to disperse an angry crowd. living in senegal not angry against the senegalese security forces but against their government after it's often called the day government and the election commission announced the results of or the partial results of the presidential election 4 regions were announced out of 38 all forth according to election commission when to say. that. he wants to hold on to power that's not ok

for 10 years we've been living in difficult lives we've been suffering. this has sparked the violence not just here in boston at least council where there is instead we got more than 3500000 indians living here who by the way were not able to vote during this election but also in the capital going to 3 where people were shot and killed among them a police officer that was lynched something smell 6 the tear gas coming our way such is the level of tension and violence that's happening and could occur because the opposition leader of. jello 6 says that he has won the vote and therefore we're going what seems to be towards a post electoral crisis the united nations says that all actors should stay calm until the full results are made public. the manufacture of a powerful painkiller that helps set off an opioid epidemic in the u.s.

will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an $8000000000.00 settlement fama makes the prescription drug oxy contin which is linked to an addiction crisis that killed more than 400000 people in the past 20 years she had the chance to port. purdie farmers decision in the ninety's to begin aggressively marketing its prescription opioids oxycontin to doctors and patients for a range of illnesses despite the risk of addiction has long been seen as a major factor in the us is opioid crisis and on wednesday the us government said purdue would now be held to account today's announcement involves one of the most important participants in the supply chain of prescription opioids at the manufacturer level between 192018 some 450000 people died in the us from an opioid overdose involving prescription drugs like oxycontin or illicit opioids research has shown the rise in prescription and illicit opioids is

connected as initial opioid prescriptions became gateways to fentanyl and heroin addiction in 2018 an estimated 10300000 people aged 12 or older misused opioids 9.9 misusing prescription pain relievers 808000 using heroin 2 out of 3 drug overdose deaths that year involved opioids purdue pharma has admitted it paid doctors and pharmacists to prescribe oxycontin without in the medical purpose a practice alleged to have subsequently become widespread among other pharmaceutical firms and that it misled regulators about how widely it was distributing the drug companies agreed to an $8000000000.00 settlement however it's likely only to pay a fraction of that amidst bankruptcy proceedings the sackler family which owns pro do and was able to sponsor cultural institutions around the world with the billions it made from oxy contin sales has agreed to pay $225000000.00 and give up ownership

of the company in some small states in the united states 8000000000 doesn't even cover what one state what would tally would be the cost just in terms of you know cost hospitals and jails and. and coroners office foster children agencies and you know on a very down a very long list who do still faces hundreds of other lawsuits some state attorney generals say the government has let the company on the sackler family off too easily the fines are comparatively minimal a cost of doing business they argue and no one is being criminally or civilly prosecuted for the enormous devastation caused by their actions nonetheless a few weeks before the election the trump campaign will now be able to claim it lived up to a trump campaign promise from 2016 to go off to big pharma and address the opioid crisis time see al-jazeera.

when most 40000000 people have already voted in the u.s. presidential election which is now less than 2 weeks away on wednesday evening president donald trump will hold a rally in north carolina the race there is expected to be tight meanwhile former president barack obama has made his 1st campaign appearance on behalf of democratic candidate joe biden in pennsylvania is live pictures of him now national opinion polls suggest biden has a tight leaned in some crucial states and obama is expected to do a series of appearances it within these last 2 weeks and this one is to drive a rally in a parking lot of a stadium with a philadelphia phillies play when i can explain the importance of obama joining the campaign trail. 13 days until the most important election of our lifetime and you don't have to you don't have to

wait for november 3rd to cast your ballot you've got 2 ways to vote right now and what we do these next 13 days will matter for decades to come. it's deeply significant to barack obama is probably joe biden's most potent weapon in terms of the scanned pain and now he's being unleashed starting in pennsylvania an absolutely key state for joe biden to win if he is going to go to the white house but once again obama bringing with him almost a sense of the starwood jerk a look back at a time when a president it was dignified when the president tried to seek a compromise and bipartisan agreement rather than the trench just characterizing the last 4 years so certainly among voters barack obama still has immense way and particularly and this is important among african american voters pennsylvania has

a very large proportion of african american voters and this bloc is once again absolutely critical for joe biden to get as much support as possible if he is going to go to the white house so unleashing barack obama at this particular time is absolutely essential to the biden campaign to get that momentum leading into the election as you mentioned millions of americans have voted already many have already made up their minds even if they have not voted there will be another debate within the next 24 hours which could have a bearing to a degree on the outcome of the election but the most important fact at this particular point is barack obama's presence back on the campaign trail he was disliked by some during his 2 terms as president but for many as i said he does represent something that they would hope joe biden does and that is a return to a presidency that is rooted in modern rissi and that is rooted in the ability or

the desire to forge some kind of bipartisan compromise. still to come when i was here. chalons instead panic not far from the battle front of nocona karabakh keep watching to find out what an international charity is doing to make sure that unexploded munitions like these don't kill civilians around here. just lights cameras but little action asia's biggest international film festival begins but without the usual glitz. of. hello the 1st waterfalls of spring of stop for in the shadows that that actually prompted the move east where influencing the weather further east i think in both new south wales and queensland you could see some pretty peppy showers of the next couple of days didn't look very much on thursday

except near the coast but affecting sydney and brisbane at the same time in western australia and along the coast of south australia you've got an on shore breeze with cloud and significant rain for some lame comes rather more widespread from tropical queensland all the way down to the south you could the likelihood of thunderstorms all over the place not particularly wanted to be honest and they were in the spring but we've had enough rate of the time being so i'm told by the farmers in new south wales and victoria equally we have rain coming back towards japan and this is this should be a drying time of the year and it is the most part for the korean peninsula and china is almost bone dry part of these few showers right down the east coast but for japan it's not true that rain is moving slowly and will be occasionally heavy of both thursday and friday and sas china say of a tropical cyclone in the bay of bengal gets a big circulation but equally heavy rain and potential flooding exists for

bangladesh. the 1st reaction was. hush hush across the u.s. meat packing some. hot spots these are people being treated as hogs in a machine rather than actually being cared for for clients investigates whether corporate america has put profit before the lives of its workers they care more about pieces of meat going in the tray then they care about their team members virus on the pope's relying on al-jazeera.

from under the top stories here on out there nigerian protesters who defied a curfew and faced off against security forces in that country's biggest city police opened fire on protesters on tuesday amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed. the manufacturer of a powerful painkiller that helped set off an opioid epidemic in the u.s. who plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an $8000000000.00 settlement you farmer makes the prescription drug oxycontin which is linked to an addiction crisis that's killed more than 400000 people in the past 20 years. almost 40000000 people have already voted in the u.s. presidential election on wednesday evening president donald trump will hold a rally in north carolina where former president barack obama is making his 1st campaign appearance on behalf of democratic candidate joe biden in pennsylvania. a volunteer in the clinical trial of

a coronavirus vaccine has. hide in brazil but authorities say testing will continue brazilian media reporting that the volunteer didn't receive the vaccine but to proceed the dose is being developed by astra zeneca and oxford university which says there are new concerns about the child safety it's one of 2 potential vaccines facing clinical trials in brazil one of the nation's worst hit by the virus well 154000 people that have died from coburg 19 and over 5200000 have been infected. a mass protest is taking place in the colombian capital bogota against the social and economic policies of president even do kid a protest so led by union members students teachers and a large contingent of colombia's indigenous population and a part of the national strike action and demanding a meeting with u.k. to discuss the recent deaths of indigenous activists about $10000.00 of the community who arrived in the capital from southwestern colombia understander

impurity was at the protest in bogota on the 1st major gatherings since code 19 restrictions were eased. some of us have 5 months of quarantine in the country that have greatly affected their economy and have made the livelihood of many people even that worse so they're out here demanding the government there to respond to this reality particularly the unions are asking for at least a temporary. benefits such as a minimal wage for people who have lost their workers during their but their meat but they're also here protesting the number of reforms that the government goes beyond the appropriate that the protesters believe that would greatly affect. both the workers. and their what people here call the for later in the country in the middle class and so they're out here demanding it. meeting with the president

to evolve and the other reason has to do with the worsening of the security in many parts of the country especially in very remote and rural areas where drug traffickers and criminal gangs are disputing these territory's and that have the possibility to further attack who they see as their enemies in the stere tori's a human rights defenders community do you believe there's hundreds of them have been killed in record numbers in particular this year and people here are tired saying the government is not doing enough and also saying that the government hasn't done enough even implementing get the peace accord that was signed back in 2006 with the largest rebel group in the country at the fark and that this is one of the reasons why so much violence and being seen and finally the last resort is

police abuse you remember in september there were protests against the killing of a citizen of the world at the hands of the police that turned very violent 13 people died in those protests people here are saying the government these to do something against police brutality in the country. i mean is prime minister says at this stage he sees no possible diplomatic solution to the conflict in the disputed not going to care about region sporadic fighting between azerbaijan and armenia has been going on for more than 3 weeks despite to cease fire deals the region's main city has to find i can't has borne the brunt of almost constant shelling as rory chan's reports. the sirens wales and seconds later the 1st of several cluster bomb strikes rips down the street. each a collection of many explosions saturating the air shrapnel.

the people of the going to care about the capital step on a curse have suffered multiple rocket and artillery attacks in recent weeks international charity the halo trust is here to keep track and prepare for its teams to come and remove explosive debra when the fighting dies down they'll come and do full clearance of this area a visual. clearance clearance of this area checking for any unexploded items and then destroying them almost in situ because these items cannot be moved they're kind of touched and they can land anywhere such as buried in the mud inside this chicken coop another one for the clearance teams the danger is that anyone could pick them up either because they don't recognize the latest weapons or because they want to move them out of the city which is exactly

what's happened here so here we have a collection of different munitions most of them the ones with red ribbons are cluster bomblets that fell. and they've been brought here by local residents who physically picked them up and put them in a box any one of them could have exploded. so one of the holy trusts other jobs here is going from street to street to homes in bomb shelters warning people of the dangers. they look very nice attractive roads green you see it it's like a toy you want to play with but it is dangerous all of this yesterday we've been you know 300 shelters speaking to both 600 people we want to talk to as many as possible to tell them this are dangerous. for the recent fighting started late last month halo was dealing with unexploded bombs and mines from the 1st nagorno-karabakh war of the early ninety's people here are

still losing life and limb to them now charity workers and step out of kurds weary inhabitants have a whole new wars worth to contend with rory talents how to 0 stop panic at the corner correct. french president emmanuel mccall has led a national tribute for the teacher who was beheaded in paris last week so i mean a party was killed after showing your students cartoons of the prophet mohammed a suspected attacker an 18 year old from chechnya in russia was shot dead shortly after by police 7 suspects have been taken to an antiterrorism court for questioning others have been charged with complicity a type protest leader has been arrested less than 2 hours after giving the prime minister a 3 day deadline to quit but sarah polley attorney to vidual says she wasn't worried as she was taken away in a police car earlier on wednesday prime minister prior to noxious said he was prepared to lift a state of emergency imposed last week in

a bid to appease demonstrators came as tens of thousands of people marched once again in the capital bangkok despite a ban on gatherings of more than 5 people they want the prime minister to quit and are demanding changes to the monarchy. pope francis has endorsed same sex civil unions for the 1st time the 1st such statement by a roman catholic pope he made the comments in a documentary that's just premiered at the rome film festival francis says i'm a sexual people have a right to be in a family they are children of god and have a right to a family nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it it goes on to say what we have to create is a civil union law that way they're legally covered i stood up for that referring to a similar comment he made when he was archbishop of buenos aires a documentary director says the comments from pope francis were less about catholic doctrine and more about equal rights it's also conversations him he looked for

discussing the doctrine he will try to change the doctrine he was talking about that people who basically will out to help the same freedoms like everybody else in discussing the doctrine of the church he will try to change the doctrine church he was talking to the people not should be discriminated and the gay community should help the equal rights like everybody else that's what he was trying to point asia's largest annual film festival has begun in the south korean city of blue sun on a much reduced scale because of the pandemic coverage 19 has been devastating for the movie industry forcing the cancellation of major events and the closure of many cinemas says robert broad reports even in its cut down form the busan international film festival is being eagerly anticipated. it's the biggest film festival in

asia and blue sands organizers were determined it would go ahead but instead of the usual glitz of previous years 2020 is a very different kind of show a limited number of screens with a reduced offering of films and a fraction of the usual participants now you know i think the film industry suffering there is a lack of audiences going to cinema and feeling really sorry being delayed so we want to give the industry a boost no official red carpet photo blitz the standard curtain raiser of any festival the carpets here but only for show blue sands main beach would normally host festival events trying to rival the glamour of the cannes film festival in france this year there's just the beach without the party but at least bruce san is going ahead with its festival where as can was canceled that ironically has been a windfall for this festival with a number of films that were selected for screening than being shown here instead

that includes the film that opens this festival septet and spice 7 hong kong directors getting its world premiere but it's another movie that still dominates the conversation here parasite the nightmarish thriller the talk top honors at the oscars at the start of this year just before the real life nightmare of team changed the world it was a landmark moment for south korean film that this festival was meant to build on you can really replace a festival in terms of the buzz the film film can bring and the excitement it can bring and so parasite yes you have the oscar moment so. happens it's going to be a far more muted affair and yes there we people talking about the parasite phenomenon. quite the same. parasite director bonnie join. ho has sent his best wishes to the festival online rather than in person the growth of

the busan 1st of all over its 25 year history has closely mirrored the development of the film industry here south korea's filmmakers will be hoping this year's low is just a brief intermission in that continuing story robert bright al-jazeera busan south korea. top stories are now jazeera nigerian protesters have defied a curfew and faced off against security forces and the country's biggest city police opened fire on protesters on tuesday amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed the government has not confirmed that but the nigerian parliament speaker says it's clear that there were casualties it's been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against police brutality.