destroy the system it's just to look at the system down. this street on out is the . cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy the f.b.i. accuses russia and iran of using voters' information turn to mutate and influence people ahead of the u.s. election. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up thailand's government lifts the emergency measures which largely failed to stifle mass protests in bangkok. a u.s. drug maker agrees to pay up for its role in the opioid crisis but it's not everyone

is convinced it's enough. on the pollution blamed for poisoning iraqi was the way it's leaving fishermen broke and hungry. the f.b.i. is accusing both iran and russia of trying to interfere with the u.s. election which is less than 2 weeks away now it says the both countries have obtained voter registration data the main allegation is that iran has been sending fake e-mails to voters to intimidate them mike hanna reports from washington. these are members of a far right wing group calling itself the proud boy according to the f.b.i. iranian agents are planting e-mails to democratic party voters purporting to come from the proud boys with the intention of creating social unrest to then we have all. seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters

incite social unrest and damage president trump. recently when asked to condemn the proud boys president trump instead asked them to stand back and stand by both the director of national intelligence and the f.b.i. head i've been accused of attempting to downplay russian interference allegedly in accordance with the president's wishes but russia was also named 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 barack obama had been warned of russian interference in the months leading to the 2016

election won by president trump but the only thing apparently on his mind on this day was to catapult his former vice president to victory physically campaigning for the 1st time displayed the charm that made him a 2 term president. very good. i have to say because of my. sexual. physical. but a full throated attack on president trump he hasn't shown any interest in doing the work. or helping anybody but himself and his friends for treating the presidency like a reality show that he could use to get attach it was no coincidence that the bar most 1st appearance in the campaign came in the capital of pennsylvania barack obama took pennsylvania in 200820128 was flipped by donald trump in

2016 the state has a high proportion of african american voters and joe biden and his campaign managers have identified pennsylvania as the single most important state to win if he is to make his way to the white house. donald trump continued on his campaign trail apparently not pausing to prepare for the final debate with joe biden that will be taking place on thursday. washington will iran's u.n. mission is tonight any attempts to tamper with the votes tweeting unlike the us iran doesn't interfere in other country's elections goes on to accuse the u.s. government of attempting to create doubts around its own elections at the highest level. karl is a former cia officer he says that it's clear their efforts to undermine the election but not to hurt president trump. 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 in the various media knowledge of regular citizens with threatening threatening emails from a stance of we the problems which is a white supremacist group that. donald trump actually had nice things to say about in the debate the 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 national television said and in the intelligence community of you know us and said for years the russians are substantially more active even doing disorder thing when you when you listen carefully to how radical

resented 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 jack to the arena and the russians and which is to undermine american democracy so that we are not functioning and no longer of an effective rival or a check on their their own operations the 2nd thing that they're going to do is to donald trump in radcliff muddy the waters on. thailand's prime minister has cancelled an emergency decree of banning protests tens of thousands of demonstrators have mostly ignored the ban for more than a week they say they'll continue to them on the prime minister's resignation and for reforms to the monarchy let's go live now to bangkok officer scott height scott so has this to creep in lifted because it's no longer a quiet over because it's completely failed. well agent you know if there are 2

ways of looking at it definitely i mean you would have to say. on the face of it yes it has failed because they have come out every day since last thursday when that emergency decree was announced that's because there were protesters right outside the government house the seat of power here in thailand and they use that decree to clear them out it was done peacefully then we saw a little bit of violence on friday but every single day since that decree was put into place there have been protests on wednesday evening last night the prime minister in a taped address televised address he said that he would consider withdrawing that emergency decree that is just for bangkok he said he consider withdrawing that if the protests were violent if it remained peaceful and it did last night there was another protest and outside the government house where they actually presented a resignation a draft resignation letter to. the prime minister because one of the demands for these protesters is that he resigns so they presented that to him and then the

morning we heard the word that it would be lifted and that happened just 2 hours ago now what it did is it banned gatherings for a more people could not gather together and it also gave the police authority to shut down the metropolitan public transportation system here as well as detain and arrest people and we saw the at least 80 arrests over that week but that has been lifted so i guess the way you can look at it is it's a deescalation but again what the original ban was supposed to be for it really wasn't doing it but what's interesting when you look at why these people are coming out on the streets they want change but there also is part of the population here they want to remain the same. oh i. see it all with say leap started speaking out against the government 6 years ago. that's when the current prime minister led a coup that ousted the democratically elected government he's now working with the protesters who have been coming out to thailand streets by the 10s of thousands the

demonstrations started in july and ramped up last week with a gathering every day what's different now from 6 years ago a call for reform of the monarchy. last essayed in the royal institution condy night that if we don't talk about and want to keep openly people would cost about it eventually they want to and the senate will have 2 choices if they use filings like they did in the past on change and purcell festivus unwavering in his mission to bring about reform and change he says he was attacked last year for being outspoken beaten so badly he spent 2 weeks in hospital but he's not stopping. and i'm proud to be reluctant to tell the world that i am a tie we have been taught to obey and not question authority i fear that we were blinded in the past when i am the thousands across the country are working to put that past behind the scenes like this are grabbing attention across thailand and

across the world expressing the desire for monarchy reform something unthinkable even just earlier this year but there is an opposing view and it's not just limited to government house or the palace. wearing yellow showing their allegiance to the monarchy those who support the king have also held rallies over the last few months they've been much smaller but some supporters say that could change water wrong educate was a member of parliament with the largest conservative party but lost his seat in last year's election to a program for party candidate. i think there are more people who disagree with the current protests on the streets but we must be patient i believe that we will see more movement. those who want to protect the monarchy but it will be peaceful but i think the voice of the young people in the students are a minority. regardless of the actual numbers and either side of the issue there is no dispute that the voices are getting louder of those who want change and to shake up thailand's long established power structure it's got harder al-jazeera. france

has become the 2nd european union country just supply 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases more than 34000 people have died there since the pandemic began parastatal the large cities have been subject to night time curfews since saturday. spain exceeded $1000000.00 infections just hours earlier the government which is accused of mishandling the crisis faces a new confidence votes in parliament but is expected to survive spain's health minister says that more drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak which he admits isn't under control and he's not alone. on the part of them with higher fines perhaps an exhaustive control of the positive cases or more strict follow up because what they are doing now is not very good enough to probably what is making people infect others. were less responsible we like to party go out and gather with family more close people and we haven't realised the only way to avoid this going

worse is social distancing simple things like not gathering with many people and wearing the mask even if you meet friends. and germany's daily infection count has risen above 10000 for the 1st time that's well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave in march but testing that has increased significantly. the african union says that it strongly condemns any violence against protesters in nigeria demonstrations defied curfews in lagos or the number of states on weapons save as the protest movement against police brutality continues fires burned across lagos and witnesses reported gunfire honestly international says that at least 12 people were killed on tuesday night but the government denies that. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then a murdered teacher is awarded france's highest honor as the president hails him a hero. and after the 1st chaotic match will look ahead to the final debate between donald trump and joe biden and.

well it seems so long ago that it was flooded in portugal now and what is it just a massive cloud here that went through england during wednesday now insisted the pictures to take it out through denmark into the sun scandinavia finland push the snow northwards and leave behind a fairly cloudy picture with outbreaks of rain all over the place the women have dropped in france but that wind being a certainly has influenced the temperatures to the east it's been really quite warm in germany some parts of last year well that's about to tail off now but maybe not immediately or quickly here just finally going back to normal in fact the place to watch from a breeze france germany switzerland where this is potential rain is is fairly heavy

i think during friday but let's look at munich as an example we saw 2021 in the forecast we're now going from 19 dripping down to 15 by saturday the average is about 40 as we just bleeding off the heat if you like now morocco is going to feel the influence of what happened in portugal and spain with rain extensive rain and it will be rain rather than snow up in the at this for both thursday and friday once it's gone through further south it's a fairly dry picture but from a few showers maybe in ghana and nigeria. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be good because if you believe that there horowitz if you are democracy one obvious solution is to read from an informed opinion look at checkers don't go anywhere the protesters are going anywhere either it's ability to get a revolution. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really

out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour u.s. intelligence official say that iran and russia are meddling in the upcoming election by sending threatening e-mails to democratic voters the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos. thailand's prime minister has canceled an emergency of preplanning protests tens of thousands defied the measures for more than a week they continue to mark the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the

monarchy. in france and spain to become the 1st 2 european countries to surpass 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases spain's health minister says the drastic measures measures are needed to contain the outbreak. france has awarded its highest honor to the teacher beheaded in paris last week president emanuel mccrone led tributes calling samuel party a hero and his killer a coward 7 suspects including 2 teenagers will face charges of assisting the attacker was a serious bernard smith reports now from paris. samuel patti's the face of the french republic according to emmanuel mccrum france's president was leading tributes at a national memorial to the teacher who was murdered by a teenage chechen refugee described by prosecutors as a radicalized muslim. samuel patty was killed because the islam ists want our future and because they know that with com heroes

such as him they will never have it mr patsy was walking home from school in a paris suburb last friday when he was attacked and beheaded prosecutors say his 18 year old killer wanted to avenge the teachers use of caricature walls of the prophet muhammad in a class on freedom of expression. after the murder french authorities launched a widespread crackdown on people and groups they say incited anger that led to the killings this paris mosque has now been closed for 6 months because it published a video on facebook of an angry father of a student at the school calling for action against the teacher worshippers at the pantai mosque so they're being collectively punished it's. this kind of injustice because just one person did something wrong and we're going to to to close the mosque and there's like 1000 people that are praying here mosques in the french cities of bordeaux and betsy and now under police protection because they've

received threats of violence to 14 and 15 year old students from samuel party school amongst those facing charges prosecutors call complicity in a terrorist assassination prosecutors say they were paid around 400 dollars by the killer to identify his victim and a father who published a facebook video angrily criticizing the teacher could face charges for inciting the attack on an. al-jazeera perils. of 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 of a condo and his my main rival saluda lane diallo recounting shows condé in the lead . israeli news organizations are reporting that a delegation has made a rare visit to sudan to discuss normalizing ties the trip follows the deal to

remove sudan from the u.s. list of speight's state sponsors of terror the u.s. has been instrumental in helping israel normalize relations with the u.a.e. and bahrain. we also are continuing to work to get every nation to recognize israel the rightful jewish homeland and to acknowledge their. basic fundamental right to exist as a country that certainly includes sudan and we are working diligently with them to make the case for why that's in the sudanese government best interest to make that sovereign decision we hope that they'll do that we hope that they'll do that quickly we hope every country will do that quickly at least 12 children are reported been killed by an ass trike in northeast of afghanistan it happened at a mosque in the city of telecon in northeastern tackle province at least 14 other people were injured. donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are preparing for the final u.s. presidential debate place on thursday organizers in nashville tennessee of made

changes to the format aimed at avoiding a repeat of trump's repeated interruptions during the 1st debate a white house correspondent kimberly how could report you she wasn't raised in the 1st presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden according to many political analysts was a low point in the 2020 u.s. election because she would otherwise be doing ok as you are my president screwing things up the u.s. president repeatedly interrupted his democratic rival and also the moderator chris are there waiting words now today and just 3 days later trump was in the hospital after testing positive for cope with 19 raising questions about whether or not he knew he was affected with the virus when he took to the debate stage trump's refusal to do a virtual debate led to the cancellation of the 2nd presidential match up instead both nominees participated in their own separate town halls at the same time and on

the same night but now with the final debate set to take place in nashville there are questions about trump's tactics and whether he'll take an aggressive stance as he did in the 1st debate. what. all all well. and well i don't think we. want one notable change this time the campaigns agreed to an uninterrupted rule which means the microphone of the candidate who doesn't have the floor will be muted trump is unhappy about the change and has repeatedly attacked the debate commission and the next moderator as biased against him. earlier this week the trump campaign sent out a letter to the debate commission complaining it changed the focus of the debate

from foreign policy adding more domestic issues like covert night team and racial injustice meanwhile biden has spent the week at home without any public events analysts believe he has the most to lose by a poor showing in the final presidential debate will be. what you do or say. a long. long long long. long it's the undecided voter habit it's often try to win over in a presidential debate but there are fewer undecided voters this year than in 2016 with early voting surging most have already made up their mind about who they want to win on election day can really help al jazeera the white house the manufacturer

of a powerful painkiller blamed for setting off an opioid epidemic in the u.s. is set to plead guilty to criminal charges it's part of an $8000000000.00 settlement a shahab pretends he reports now per view pharma is unlikely to pay anywhere near that amount. 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. 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 $8000000.00 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 $8000000000.00 doesn't even cover what one state would would tally would be the cost just in terms of you know cost hospitals and jails and. and coroner's office foster children. you know on a very very long less per do still faces hundreds of other lawsuits some state attorney generals say the government has let the company and the sackler family off too easily the fines are comparatively minimal a cost of doing business they argue and no $1.00 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 she every time see our. local media in georgia say that an armed man who

held up dozens of people at a bank has escaped with at least 3 hostages police freed $43.00 people for a tense standoff that started on wednesday the suspect is said to be armed with a hand grenade he demanded half a $1000000.00 in cash. a dying at an alarming rate in southern iraq threatening the livelihoods of fisherman they're accusing the regional government of allowing sewage to be dumped into waterways on a serious amount of 14 reports from province. almost every morning as it takes his boat out to fish but these days there is nothing to catch and the same surface up to war to belies the toxic danger that they're. 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 just 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 carolus veterinary hospital took samples to investigate the cause. 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 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 syringe 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 there are yet to receive orders from the central government or the governor 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. 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. 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 livestock. it affects the date palms in my form in the past when the water was clean we used it 40 to geisha but now it's very dirty residents say the root cause of the pollution is corruption with the government juggling and a ray of health economic and security issues they have little hope that their

problems will receive the attention they deserve simona felt. in iraq's karbala province and astronauts and 2 cosmonauts of landed safely back on earth after 6 months aboard the international space station the american and 2 russians touched down in kazakhstan on thursday morning. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines announces era u.s. intelligence officials say that iran and russia are meddling in the upcoming election by sending threatening e-mails to democratic voters the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos we've been working for years as a community to build resilience.