hi i'm steve clemons and the question is these days it's hard to filter out the newly seen keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only. france and spain recalled a 1000000 coronavirus infections war germany says the latest rise in cases is getting out of control. hello i'm adrian for get this is out a 0 a live from doha also coming up saad hariri is back as lebanon's prime minister as his country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. iran rejects accusations that

along with russia its interfering in the 2020 u.s. election. thailand's government lifts emergency measures that fail to curb major protests in bangkok. countries across europe are grappling with a rise in covert 19 infections in some places governments of had little choice but to shut down entire cities to contain the virus france is the 2nd european union country to have more than a 1000000 confirmed corona virus infections the pandemic has claimed the lives of 34000 people by time curfews were imposed in paris at 8 other large cities on saturday a hospital intensive care wards in the capital and early fall. spain exceeded $1000000.00 infections just hours earlier the government which is accused of mishandling the crisis faces a no confidence vote in parliament bus is expected to survive spain's health

minister says that more drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak which he admits is not under control but 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 and that's probably what is making people infect others. were less responsible we like to party go out and gather with family or 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 of march but testing has increased significantly let's bring it out to serious joe the whole of our european broadcast center in london just before we talk more about the wider consonant just now the u.k.

chancellor the finance minister has been speaking about a job support scheme for businesses affected by the pandemic what's he been saying . chancellor rashid tsunami has been on his feet in parliament as you say they're unveiling the 3rd financial intervention by the treasury in just a month to support businesses and jobs principally in this case in the hospitality sector as a result of the new 3 tier system of restrictions introduced by the government in the past fortnight a lot of businesses in tier 2 the middle section the so-called high risk category haven't been receiving the same sort of supporters businesses and employees in tears 3 that's now apparently being put right government support being made more available to businesses and payments being made great abatements being made to employees at risk in that middle tier as a said the 3rd intervention by the chancellor in just a month very welcome no doubt to those businesses and employees who need it but at

a staggering cost adding yet more hundreds of millions of pounds worth of government support to an already blooming debt which has reached its highest level as a ratio to g.d.p. in the last 50 years a deficit currently of $246000000000.00 pounds close to $300000000000.00 which dwarfs anything seen in this country during the financial crisis in 2008 or the major recession in the ninety's which really doesn't bode very well for the recovery in the years ahead beyond the immediate crisis of code which of course is only going to get worse over the next 5 or 6 months as the winter sets in and continental europe generally is in the midst of a 2nd wave right now as this. well similarly you know a couple of weeks probably ahead of the u.k. as has been the case throughout the year. countries in europe seeing as you mentioned there earlier you know uncontrolled infection rates and many of those

governments actually using the word uncontrolled which might have seemed alarmist at some point in the in the past no longer so countries like the czech republic like spain as you said there like france belgium warning of a tsunami of infections in fact belgium's deputy prime minister so if illness has gone into i.c.u. battling the disease so even public figures. coming the german health minister as well and more and more countries looking at the sort of restrictions that they need ramping up the restrictions that they've got terrified perhaps of having to go back into full lockdown the czech republic has just almost gone back into full lockdown because of the economic costs attached but really there must be looking at the situation now and wondering whether those sorts of measures aren't inevitable in the coming months how does the us john holl reporting live from london journal many thanks indeed the south african government is warning of a severe increase in covert 19 cases that's also one of its largest cities cape

town reported a 42 percent rise over the last 2 weeks on a serious fall in a military port stuff from johannesburg. well south africa until this point has adopted what it's called a risk adjusted strategy and at the height of the pandemic around june july and august so there fricker was between level 5 level 4 and 3 in the strategy and now has moved down to level one which is the the the easiest or the the most lenient level in the strategy now most social events are allowed they've increased the number of people that can visit restaurants bars that can attend the funerals and this is the concern from the government that because of the pandemic has now been around for so long people are increasingly complacent they're not wearing mosque properly they're not at hearing to social distancing and the major concern i think for the government at this point are these social events specifically in nightclubs

and bars you've mentioned that in cape town there was a 42 percent increase in the last couple of weeks and one of the concerns they is any of bar in cape town that is considered a so a super spread away at least 80 people were infected there we saw something similar in the eastern cape where students went to university and so the health ministers really and kizzie is saying that complacency the easing of restrictions is leading to what could in ever to be a 2nd surge and this is what the leading expert in south africa is saying around the pandemic and what south africa potentially could face going forward. saad hariri has been appointed lebanon's prime minister for a 4th time the announcement was made off of consultations between the president and various political groups already had resigned from the prime minister's person last year following mass anti-government protests in lebanon faces an acute economic

crisis things were made was for a huge explosion ripped through beirut's port and only one of us causing billions of dollars worth of damage. is a journalist and founder of the beirut report he joins us now live from the lebanese capital killing the army killing all of them we mean all charge of the protesters who are demanding the removal of the entire political colossus class now is back how are people going to feel about that well i think people have been through a lot and it's asked year they've been through the explosion they've been through devaluation of their money by 80 percent value of the currency so i think that many are are not feeling the same revolutionary spirit as they might have been a year ago when things were looking a lot better people are pretty desperate this country so i imagine there will be protests but i don't think we'll see the same kind of protests that we saw a year ago is. really going to have any more success leading the country this

time the last time when of course his tenure ended with those massive street protests. he i mean that the problem is it's a very geo political problem in lebanon still you know there's still a battle between the u.s. and iran taking place in lebanon so i don't know if that if that will change we'll see any change locally in lebanon a lot on faith is very much tied to the big power brokers that run this country whether it's iran or the u.s. or france or other countries so we'll have to see what if there is an agreement between iran and the u.s. we could threaten the u.s. maybe this will have some hope but you know lebanon is really a reality of these x. warlords running a country that is really not a country at all in many ways later on not really a functioning state so this is kind of more perpetuating the same problem i think we'll have to wait for elections in this country to really see some kind of

a change happening but inevitably lebanon's problem is also economic they country has one of the biggest debt in the world today so how can you get out of that hole with a just some smiles and and putting the same faces back in power or what we need is a desperate economic salvation for this country what sort of government will are a very form i don't have him at the head of it but will he be appointing politicians to his capital technocrats. it's going to be a very difficult formation process and a government formation of lebannon takes months and months usually we still have you know. the government was what was resigned several months ago and they were unable to form a new government so this could be a very long drawn out process many of the political allies of the remake may be welcomed back into the fold again you know the structure of lebanon is not the easy one to topple and so we shouldn't be surprised in some way that street protests can

really resolve deep seated structural political geopolitical issues and will lebanon's backus be happy with me as choice. as the man to lead the country from that that the u.s. the. world bank and i.m.f. . yeah well how did he is a favorite of the western leaders he is so regular and in washington and paris and so he is the most pro western leader in love and on so in a way this is a kind of a victory for the pro western front in lebanon which claims to be supporting that but also supports its longstanding our allies in the country like saudi and the others in his coalition so so yeah i mean it's you know the header is very close to the brothers of france and france is the one that is leading this reform call in lebanon it's called a new political pact but it seems like the old political act all over again and so the western leaders kind of talk out of one side of their mouth thing that's for

the protest on the other side they're actually supporting this political but the iranians as well we've seen iranian party among supporting giving him the votes he needed although possible abstain. there is some kind of agreement it seems between the 2 sides right now and that's really how lebanon runs unfortunately for the lebanese people who never see any kind of sovereignty could stop to so many thanks dates. in beirut. the f.b.i. is accusing both iran and russia of trying to interfere with the u.s. election it's less than 2 weeks away now it says the both countries have obtained data on voter registration iran is accused of sending fake e-mails to voters to try to intimidate them like our reports from washington. these are members of a far right wing group calling itself the proud boys 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 that end we have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters incite social unrest and damage president trump of repeatedly 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. campaigning for the 1st time a bomber displayed the charm that made him a 2 term president and you know my very good in europe where i have to say that because of my years this actually accentuates. the. physical things that. are there really look like i could just take up at any time 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 were treating the presidency

like a reality show that he could use to get attach it was no coincidence that obama's 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 my kind of al-jazeera washington. a weather update thanks to an outsider and then to the 1st chaotic encounter change for a final debate between donald trump and joe biden. on the pollution blamed for

poisoning iraq he was always leaving fish about broke the tongue ring. hollow we've got sloppy dry weather in the full cost for japan now but we have still got some outbreaks of rain coming through still a fair amount of wet weather there aid to hokkaido into on ship but it's slowly but surely as ing its way east was dry brush the weather struggling to come in behind take care of around 22 degrees celsius then on friday come saturday the heaviest rain will move out possibility of some localized flooding there russia showers coming in behind more in the west sunshine and showers by this day so a lot of sunshine to across the korean peninsula and indeed into a good parts of china we have of course call that typhoon now making its way

towards vietnam those are very close to southern china some really heavy rain say with the prospects of flooding into the northeast of india into bangladesh pushing up towards the pole the circulation here that's been spinning away just around more than parts of the babbin go still bringing some very heavy rain in across the region some wet weather to just the west and gas and to some heavy downpours coming through here but for much of india it looks good let's get into pakistan as well heavy rain though will continue into the northeast of india was a solemn state a little further north woods hole for a little trough of bangladesh by the end of saturday. but that guy this is our 1st a singer songwriter dreams of making a mock. one there. a world away a famous you tube artist works in secret. a virtual

connection spock's a magical collaboration. presenting princess shore. witness on al-jazeera. again this is on the surface for much of the main news this hour france and spain are become the 1st 2 european union countries to surpass $1000000.00 confirmed coronavirus cases spain's health minister says that drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak. has been appointed lebanon's prime minister for a 4th time he resigned from the same job last year following mass and take up

protests lebanon is facing an accused economic crisis. the u.s. intelligence official said that iran and russia have obtained voter information to interfere in the upcoming election the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos. the african union says that it strongly condemns any use of violence against protesters in nigeria demonstrators defied curfews in lagos and some states on wednesday to hold more protests against police brutality fires were set across lagos and witnesses reported gunfire amnesty international says that at least 12 people were killed on tuesday night but the government denies that. thailand's prime minister has cancelled an emergency decree banning gatherings and protests tens of thousands of demonstrators mostly ignored the ban for more than a week they say they'll press on with their demands for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy and the king's finances. reports from

bangkok. say 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. lost their faith in the royal institution condie night that if we don't talk about them want to keep openly people about eventually they want to understand of course have 2 choices either use firelands like they did in the past on change and preserve their status 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 thai reluctant to tell the guy we have been taught to obey and not question authority i thought it was blinded in the past i and 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. but she was wrong. 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 from those who want to protect the monarchy but it will be peaceful but i think the voice of the younger people in the students are a minority. regardless of the actual numbers and either side of the issue there's 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. europe's highest honor for freedom of thought the sakharov prize has been awarded to the opposition movement in better reuss thousands of staging nationwide protests that strikes calling for an end to president alexander lukashenko is 26 year rule he was declared the winner of an election in august but many believe the vote was raked. turkey says that it will send troops on the border color back if they are requested by azerbaijan russia says that any turkish military deployment will only make things worse sporadic fighting between armenia and azerbaijan has been going on for more than 3 weeks now despite to ceasefire deals are going to come back is

internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic armenians since 1994. donald trump democratic rival joe biden of preparing for the final u.s. presidential debate place on thursday organizers in nashville tennessee of made changes to the for last name to the voiding a repeat of trump's interruptions during the 1st debates a white house correspondent kimberly helka reports she was not the 1st presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden according to many political analysts was the low point in the 2020 us election because i want to do it if you are president screw things up be us present. we're heatedly interrupted his democratic rival and also the moderator critter there waiting there's not a day 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 trumps 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 are. all. 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 19 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 while. on. candidate. why didn't you do or say. the wrong question you know many. people. it's the undecided voter that habit is 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 that al-jazeera the white house observers in bolivia say the election of president luis say on sunday it was free and fair but the still plenty of division of the initial results the protests against the landslide victory by the left wing policy of former president obama as he was forced to resign after i can say sions of electoral fraud last year. some are dying . in southern iraq and fishermen are accusing the regional government of allowing sewage to be dumped into waterways some of the whole team reports now from kabul the province. almost every morning mohammed 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 the 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 use the 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 are ones imported from outside the country the irrigation canal feeds into the lake in karbala province and other communities downstream have also reported significant fatalities among their fish stock employees from kerrville us veterinarian hospital took samples to investigate the cause as the doctor you know has there been. 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 fire president has been used to dump into the water

for 2 weeks now and the smell here is indeed quite awful nevertheless provincial environmental fortis have told us they have 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 weight and sometimes they throw harmful material into the water it 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 life stock. it affects the date palms and my farm in the past when the water was clean we use 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 someone a faulty an al-jazeera in iraq's karbala province. it is good to have you with us. hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines analysis here are spain and france have become the 1st 2 european union countries to surpass 1000000 confirmed corona virus cases spain's health minister says the drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak germany's daily infection count has risen above 10000 for the 1st time. saad hariri is prime

minister of lebanon for the 4th time he resigned from the job last year following mass anti-government protests lebanon's accuse economic crisis.