whose policies are detainment is really unnecessary all this misery we cannot absorb this number that people have to suffer in this way it is an excerpt of refugees tales on how to 0. we are not going to tolerate foreign interference in our elections or any criminal activity that threatens the sanctity of your vote or undermines public confidence in the outcome of the election. the u.s. claims russia and iran are trying to influence the upcoming presidential election. hello there i'm helena he did and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up i had to drop my load for the who are running for their lives the day he was in the going to resist nigerian rights groups say the number of protesters killed in

a police crackdown on tuesday is higher than previously reported. thousands marched through the colombian capital bogota calling on the president to resign. and in some of the clearest language yet the catholic pope says same sex relationships should be protected by law. but we begin in the united states for top intelligence official say russia and iran have obtained some voter registration information the directors of national intelligence and the f.b.i. say there will be consequences for any foreign countries that interfere in the vote mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . well it was certainly a very dramatic news conference hosted by the director of national intelligence

along with the director of the f.b.i. intelligence sources for a long period of time have been warning that russia is involving itself in the us electoral process just as it did back in 2016 when president trump won the election however on this particular occasion though both the director of national intelligence and the director of the f.b.i. insisting that iran is playing a major role in this interference as well alleging that iranian agents had been sending e-mails to democratic party supporters with the aim of undercutting president trump and for mentoring social dischord this is what the director of national intelligence has to say we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been

obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy well the f.b.i. director was also at that news conference and made clear that the election has not been compromised we've been working for years as a community to build resilience in our election infrastructure and today that infrastructure remains resilient you should be confident that your vote counts early unverified claims to the contrary should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. we encourage everyone to seek election and voting information from reliable sources namely your state election officials and to be thoughtful careful and discerning consumers of information online and if you

suspect criminal activity we ask that you report that information to your local f.b.i. field office we're going call certain city years of the central intelligence agency he's also a former deputy national intelligence officer for trans national threats he says the f.b.i. is incorrect on several fronts. there is concrete evidence now there apparently have been several dozen at least if not more e-mails that were afforded to intelligence and law enforcement authorities and then various media now of regular citizens with threatening. threatening e-mails from a stance of we the problem is which is a white supremacist group that. donald trump actually had nice things to say about in the debate a couple of weeks ago so i think there is evidence what's going on however are

several levels from the level of foreign intelligence activities against the united states i think we have caught the iranians doing things and as the director of national intelligence said and the intelligence community of the us has said for years the russians are substantially more active even doing this sort of thing when you when you listen carefully to how reckless presented the information he said this information was this operation that we have stopped was intended to discredit donald trump that is completely wrong that's the exact opposite of what is going on the 1st met a ject of of the iranians and the russians and which is to undermine american democracy so that we are not functioning in the longer of an effective rival or check on their their own operations the 2nd thing that they're going to do is donald trump in radcliff muddied the waters on. iran's u.n.

mission is denied to any attempts to tamper with the full writing on twitter unlike the u.s. iran does not interfere in other countries elections the world has been witnessing us is old and desperate public attempts to question the outcome of its own elections at the highest level. the former u.s. president barack obama has made his 1st appearance on the campaign trail for democratic nominee joe biden urging supporters to vote early we cannot afford 4 more years of this build up the former president says trump is incapable of taking the job seriously about missteps and for his former deputy as boys in state who want to prepare for the final debate in nashville it's the candidates will face off for a final time before election day on the phone for 3rd we cannot afford 4 more

years of this build up but the good news there's right now you can choose change right now you can vote for my friend joe biden and his running mate kaamelott earth as the next president and vice president of the united states of america tweeting at the television doesn't fix things megan stuff but doesn't make people's lives better you got to have a plan you've got to put in the work a month into this pandemic cases are rising again across this country donald trump isn't suddenly going to protect all of us he can even take the basic steps to protect himself let's bring you some other news now nigerian protesters have to find a curfew journey face off with security forces and stem stray sions against police brutality threaten to paralyze the nation the right script on the scenes international says at least 12 people were killed on cheezy nights when the

violence on the military reports now from the capital of. and early morning fire set by arsonists burn spark to be cause at a government bus station in lagos officials say 30 buses were destroyed. in lekki while security forces opened fire on protesters in the previous night the standoff continues. the latest state governor who visited victims of tuesday's attack in hospital said more than 2 dozen have been hospitalized so you know since . we have nothing to do any fatality. media but protesters dispute that i can't really see who was shooting we know

who was the get i can't give you the actual no more because i'm not god i have to run my life we're running for their lives. got injured he was in so i. might want to. i missed international agrees saying there appears to be credible evidence of fatalities but the pictures have not been independently verified. the united nations secretary general was spoken with president carter in recent days has called for restraint it's time for all countries to understand and i hope nigeria will be able to do so that police brutality needs to stop and those that are responsible for acts. such. violence. made accountable and this is essentially essential everywhere. proctor started 2 weeks ago after police men 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 have also been caught up in the sudden turn of events here an independent television station in the city is certain fired 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 wednesday security forces dispersed a group of young men gathering on the outskirts of a. menace cools and businesses here remain shut for most of the day after the

violence and destruction in lagos was being there's a general feeling that the end to police brutality 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 as a legitimate decrease al-jazeera. violence between security forces and protesters in guinea's capital has left at least 9 people dead it follows a tense presidential election between president alpha condé and his main rival. and the counting shows condé in the leads but results has yet to be announced nicolas because more from neighboring senate go where can they insert been protesting. we're just outside the canadian embassy and police have just fired tear gas to disperse an angry crowd guineans living in senegal not angry against the senegalese security forces but against their government after alpha condé as government and the election commission announced the results or the partial results of the

presidential election 4 regions were announced out of $38.00 for according to election commission went to court today. mr he wants to hold on to power that's not ok for 10 years we've been living in difficult low lives we've been suffering this has sparked violence not just here in boston at least council where there is instead a girl more than 2500000 syrians living here who by the way were not able to vote during this election but also in the capital when i was free where people were shot and killed among them a police officer that was lynched something smell the tear gas coming our way such is the level of tension and violence that's happening and could occur because the opposition leader that angelo 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. still to come on al-jazeera reading tributes french president emmanuel micro-loan hills a merchant schoolteacher. killer cowards. pollution has been clean for killing thousands of fish the wrong leaving the fishermen fearing. hello has been reported is probably the biggest snow fall in october of minnesota as the bit of winter went through this is the dividing line such that on thursday you see the difference in temperatures but the opposite plus 4 in kansas city is $28.00 so between them is a cold front the snow stays in the plain states it does dip down into wyoming maybe

into fool maybe parts of colorado but basically we're talking about this stretch and run it through ontario misses toronto toronto stays warm even when the rain gets in for the south we see some heavy rain around the keys around florida bahamas and cuba that still arrives on the edge of your screen epsilon just going off the top that is a hurricane it will certainly throw some showers and swell of the media on thursday night but probably won't be a direct hit so still we look at these. bricks of heavy rain moving up towards the gulf coast and this line of weakness in the atmosphere means there be more in the cayman islands to cuba for jamaica and answer to central america as well south of that some useful showers of falling in western side of brazil on the scene significant rain still around the river plates as argentina and uruguay if it in what is or isn't won't if there the temperatures come dime but the rain is still falling.

when i think of my nature i think of potential when i think of what a shot i think what will be what is not i think of young people who need to do to get control to the island and do something that they come to. tell me is impossible i think as a challenge. the reason a child in the country out of. money is being a soldier and this is my larger. than my nigerian on al-jazeera. order her whole. good. this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you know the u.s.

federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained voter registration information the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential elections. former u.s. president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously urged supporters to vote early. and nigerian protesters have to fight a curfew to continue demonstrating against police brutality the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed choose day. and there have been mass protests in the colombian capital against the social and economic policies of president ivan dk the demonstrations are part of a broader national strike under being led by union members students and teachers one with a large contingent of colombia's contagion its population and the sundra the reports now from bogota. waving flags and chanting against the president thousands

of colombians marched in downtown bogota it's the largest demonstration in the column in capital since the easing of coronavirus restrictions in september was a coalition of union members teachers students and activists are demanding a variety of concessions among them a minimum survival income for those who lost their jobs during depended amec it was good. we want the government to talk to us this shouldn't be the attitude of a leader interested in unity only by talking to all sectors of society we find common solutions almost 10000 representatives of colombia's many indigenous and ethnic groups also traveled to the capital the mending to meet with president evo and they're calling for an end to the killings of 100. it of human rights activist and the rising violence in their territories. they accuse duke of throwing a blind eye to the killings and the peace accord signed 4 years ago with

a rebel group that promised to end the years of violence again. we will not stand idly by while many more we are back on the streets demanding guarantees for life and demand this government implements the peace accord this is a message for the international community as well they can't keep silent. anger against the government had already reached the boiling point a year ago with some of the biggest demonstrations in decades before being muted by the pandemic president missed the protesters their man politically motivated also refusing to meet with the leaders of the strike and the pages are getting its ations that travel to go but. he says the protests could cause another major virus outbreak just as the country's economy is trying to recover now if we got going is the moment nothing justifies putting our health and life at risk right now if we need to discuss let's do it within the framework of democracy without

issuing a summons or ultimatums or invoking judgments that have no basis in reality. but the protesters and their leaders say they will continue to confront the government calling for another strike a month from now on the anniversary of last year's mass demonstrations brought the country to a halt allison and. the latest conflict between armenia and azerbaijan over the nagorno-karabakh region is bringing trauma to a new generation the main city of subpoena carrots has been hit almost constantly by artillery no one charity is helping to clear unexploded shells or a chance reports. the sirens wales and seconds later the 1st of several cluster bomb strikes rips down the street. each

a collection of mini explosions saturating the air with killer shrapnel. the people of the going to care about the capitol steps on a kurtz 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 deborah 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 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 on stop panicking 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 halo trust's jobs here is going from street to street so homes in bomb shelters warning people of the dangers . they look very nice attractive when you see it it's like a toy you want to play with them is that it is dangerous is yesterday we you know 300 shelters or 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 down occurs weary inhabitants have a whole new wars worth to contend with rory chalons how does it stop panic it's not going to karabakh. french president emanuel micro has called the murdered school teachers pity a hero and his killer a carer's at a ceremony in paris on wednesday that he was decapitated on friday by an attacker who accused him of insulting islam and 7 suspects including 2 teenagers will face charges for assisting the attacker just well. tonight i won't talk about the procession of terrorists at their accomplices and all the cowards who have committed and made this as a nation possible i won't talk of those who gave his name to the barbarians they don't deserve it they don't even have a name anymore. leader of the roman catholic church has endorsed same sex civil

unions for the 1st time pope francis made the comments in a documentary that's just premiered set the rules on film festival and chappelle has more. about an hour into a new documentary film about the leader of the roman catholic church pope francis appears to go off the official script explicitly calling for same sex couples to be given legal protections because he says all children of god have a right to a family. the statement of support for civil unions is a major departure from official church teachings even from the views of his predecessor benedict the 16th who called homosexuality an intrinsic moral evil i think it will be received in very different ways in different countries accept. finally something. has happened finally most european countries it will be received in a very difficult way in the united states it's an open question how do you see churches

in africa asia because he told that then strong national interest nations on same sex marriages that vary widely. and in time where so many people are divided about the world's problems and who is causing them pope francis appears determined to take the church out of the culture wars and away from divisive social issues but for some in his native argentina the move doesn't go far enough. in this recognition from pope francis that all couples are also families that gays lesbians bisexuals and trans people have rights to form a family we're taking a step forward especially for people of faith but when he says that we have to recognize the rights of civil union that's where we say it's progress but not so much. this is a man who has opened his heart to the progress takes time in a church that so old for many this message of togetherness and inclusive 80 is just what the times require. enter chapelle al jazeera coronavirus

cases are still climbing in mexico more than 500 people died on wednesday and there's been nearly 7000 new infections every more than 860000 confirmed cases in mexico since the outbreak began but health officials say the real number is likely far higher than what official data shows and asylum seekers in mexico have been protesting because their immigration claims in the u.s. have been held up due to the pandemic many of them are stuck in limbo in the border city of tijuana the u.s. currently has a remain in mexico policy which is seen tens of thousands of asylum seekers forced to wait at the border. pollution in southern iraq is being blamed for killing thousands of fish locals say the government has allowed sewage to poison the livelihoods of fisherman smaller 14 has the story from karbala province.

almost every morning mohamad as it takes his boat out to fish but these days there is nothing to catch and the serene surface of the water belies the toxic danger that there has been need thousands of fish washed up in this canal at the beginning of this month 2 weeks on the remnants of what mohammed says was an unprecedented environmental disaster can still be found. i used to fish for personal consumption but many others sell it to earn a living this is impacted this very badly this fish is sold in the market but now people have to buy fish from the fish farms or ones imported from outside the country. the irrigation canal feeds into the lake and care about the province and other communities downstream have also reported significant fatalities among their fish stock employees from care about us veterinarian hospital took samples to investigate the cause has to be. according to the lab analysis and with the visual

examination by doctors there is no bacterial viral or fungal disease we had particularly suspected it might be due to herpes disease but all the lab results were negative the visual diagnosis by the veterinary doctors for the water and the fish samples suggests it's related to environmental factors only but it's not our mandate to investigate them for community elders the culprit is clear they accused the local government of dumping sewage into the river and the incident coincided with the annual religious pilgrimage to the nearby holy city of karbala which draws millions of visitors every year similar the less severe cases of contamination occurred during previous years also around the time of the pilgrimage so. the reason is the sewage the heavy water that is coming from kabul a city which they dump in the main can now i always say they're killing us indirectly they should take care of these areas. the village chief shows us

a video he filmed of the sewage flowing into the canal we visited the location to see for ourselves this is the 5 presidents have been used. to the water for 2 weeks now and the smell here is in the quite awful nevertheless provincial environment for 4 days have told us they have yet to receive orders from the central government or the governor or for the province to investigate the matter we put these accusations to the governor of. the fishermen themselves. this is not a fish farm these are normal fish which occur naturally in these canals but the fishermen fish in an improper way and some to. they threw harmful material into the water that kills or poisons the fish. the governor downplayed the significance of the pollution this is not a big issue it's just some fish in the canal and it's far away from the provincial capital but for iraqis who depend on these waters for their livelihoods the pollution could be life changing such as farm boarders the canal told us that

several of his family members had breathing difficulties following the contamination he also worries about his farm and life stock. it affects the date palms in my form in the past when the water was clean we use it for you to geisha but no it's very dirty residents say the root cause of the pollution is corruption with the government juggling and array of health economic and security issues they have little hope that their problems will receive the attention they deserve some wonderful teen arches era in iraq care about the province. and nasa scientists say they may have pulled off the near impossible extracting a sample from moving asteroids their own z. very happens more than 320000000 kilometers from earth the osiris rackspace for landed on the benue asteroid on wednesday kicking up a quote of debris scientists say that's

a good sign that it was able to collect samples and these may hold clues to better understanding from ation of the solar system. and finally the 1st space creates a launch during a pandemic has returned safely earth nasa astronaut chris cassidy and cosmonauts and it's all the even the shin and ivan wagner's spent 6 months on the international space station they have no touchstone in kazakstan not sure if they will have to see self isolates or not on their arrival will find out say where there's an al-jazeera. my. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the u.s. federal bureau of investigations as iran and russia have obtained vaults are registration information the f.b.i. says the aim is to go.