before the lives of these workers they care more about pieces of meat going in the tray then they care about their team members and virus on the poultry line on al-jazeera. smoke rises from a prison in central leg off more unrest rocks nigeria's biggest city. i robot this and this is on his ear live from doha also coming up saad how do you think his name is lebanon's prime minister for the 4th time and his promising to rescue the country that rejected him. want people to not to forget about our situation. our fight the opposition in belo those wins europe's top prize for human rights on early efforts against the presidential election widely regarded as

rigged. after their 1st chaotic encounter donald trump and his rival joe biden face off again in a final debate before the u.s. election. ok let's begin in nigeria where the president is holding an emergency security meeting as parts of lagos burn smoke screen billowing from a prison officer earlier reports of gunshots that have been almost 2 weeks of protests which initially began against police brutality mysti international says at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night let's go live to ahmed idris in bruges 1st of all just bring us up to date with what's happening with the prison and in the city itself. well a report suggests that the situation in the prison has been brought under control

initial reports were getting is that some people try to break into the prison and 3 inmates others are suggesting that there was some kind of scuffle within the prison gunshots were heard but b. even before then some good ones what they were thought to school would limbs was seen around the area with dangerous weapons and storms and then we heard the gunfire and then smoke coming out of the prison building and that situation according to reports it's now contained security has been beefed up i don't the prison what we don't know is whether prisoners have escaped and how many have escaped and this is coming just 3 days after a similar incident in a state in south of the nigerian where more than 1990 prisoners have escaped although less than 10 percent of them have so far been arrested and brought back apart from the prison situation they have been cases of violence in lagos overnight and there were gunshots and. looting that took place in an area called the baggage

area on the main line and then this morning there were violent incidents in motion area in remember nikki where security forces shot at demonstrators or shot demonstrators on tuesday evening they were reported cases of looting and arson in one of the biggest mall that also was attacked during the attacks that happened in nigeria following these afford to get tax in south africa retaliatory attacks that happened in nigeria targeting south african businesses so it's been a very chaotic day for residents of lagos and security people i should be struggling to contain this they put out one fire from this and another fire starts on the other end of the eagles and while all this is happening as we mentioned the president is holding a meeting with the national security officials talk to us more about what they're likely to be discussing there. well there we are

reviewing the situation across the country what worked and what failed remember the president has not come out to address the nation in particular us he used to or ok genes or us presidents in this country used to on occasions like this they have been called for him to address the nation and specify what measures he's taking just not only to protect nigerians but also to boost confidence in the ideas and investors who are coming this way to invest in this country but unfortunately over the past 2 weeks or so we haven't seen the president on television addressing the nation in particular on this issue that has been rigged for more than 2 weeks now so the security chiefs. briefing him on the situation the army the navy the police and the air force and all the other security agencies in the country are tending that meeting so we expect a yeah a statement from them whether or not the president will speak to the nation that's a different thing altogether but the big problem for the president to address this

nation to squali address this. this protest but it's now seemingly overtaken by events or rather hijacked by criminal elements. unleashing violence as well as a rooting and setting buildings and structures and fired across the country and some of digits in a butcher bringing us up to date with the situation in lagos in nigeria it's been revealed in an attack in northwest nigeria 2 days ago killed at least 22 villages including women and children and the news has just emerged from some fog a state of what happened on tuesday witnesses described what they called 100 armed bandits raided the village of tonga quanah. countries across europe are grappling with a rise in covert 19 infections in some places the governments have 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

a year of corona virus infections the pandemic has claimed the lives of 34000 people nighttime curfews were imposed in paris and 8 other large cities and saturday and hospital intensive care ward in the capital and nearly full spain's exceeded $1000000.00 infections just hours earlier the government which is accused of mishandling the crisis faces a no confidence vote in parliament but it is expected to survive spain's health minister says more drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak which he admits is not under control and germany's daily infection counts risen above 10000 for the 1st time that's well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave in march but testing has increased significantly or john hall is joining us live from the european broadcast center in london these are very large figures across europe and of course the u.k. has its own problems as well doesn't it. countries big and small across

europe facing the full brunt now of the 2nd wave no one is spared you mention the likes of spain and france there passing the 1000000 infection mark in the last 24 hours already under heavy restrictions more restrictions very likely are going to come a country like italy that was the worst affected in the early part of the year now recording a record number of infections for italy 15199 infections recorded in just the last 24 hours and the long body region taking the highest proportion of those new infections that was the worst affected region if you remember back in march was appalling pictures of exhausted medics treating people in open air makeshift hospitals that for warm for the rest of europe what was to come another big country germany also struggling to them over germany was a country that did much better than most in the early part of the year because of an effective test and trace system would it still testing

a 1000000 cases days of very effective there and indeed seeing rising infection rates $11300.00 positive cases in the past 24 hours that's a record for germany but the government there warning the country to anticipate the uncontrolled rise in those infection numbers smaller countries to struggling the czech republic you mentioned they're back in the same restrictions they were facing back in the spring the balkan countries seeing steep rises tiny belgium having an awful time talking about a tsunami of infections there its health system on the brink of collapse indeed its deputy prime minister struggling with kovan 1000 herself in intensive care as we speak so a dreadful sort of human toll across the continent but a dreadful economic toll too and you mentioned the u.k. there and yes indeed the u.k. one of the worst economically affected by covert 19 the chancellor she soon out in the last few hours here in london stood up in parliament and on. unveiled his 3rd

financial support package in just the last month for businesses and employees this one particularly at the hospitality sector hotels bars restaurant pubs 17 percent of whom say that they're on the brink of imminent insolvency very welcome these measures no doubt but adding hundreds of millions of pounds to an already blooming public debt already at its highest level in 50 years as a ratio of g.d.p. that'll take years to balance back again possibly far longer than it would take for the worst effects of cope with 90 itself to have come and gone john a thanks very much indeed that is jonah hull talking to us from london the south african government is warning of a severe increase in covered 900 cases that's after one of its largest cities cape town reported a 42 percent rise over the last 2 weeks some of the miller is in 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 easiest or the the most lenient level in the strategy now most social events are allowed that increase 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 masks 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 mentioned that in cape town there was a 42 percent increase in the last couple of weeks and one of the concerns the 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 in kizzy 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 is prime minister of lebanon for the 4th time is appointment was announced after consultations between lebanon's president and various political groups he resigned from the job last year following mass antigovernment protests against the acute economic crisis and corruption hobby but that as a journalist and founder of the beirut report he says honey these return is a sign of how little has changed in lebanon since anti-government protests started more than a year ago. i think people have been through

a lot in this past 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 a protest but i don't think we'll see the 'd same kind of protests that we saw a year ago the problem is this is 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 perhaps in 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 lebanon's 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 this country has one of the biggest debts 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 what we need is a desperate economic salvation for this country. still ahead an al-jazeera iran rejects actually zation is that along with russia its interfering in the 2020 us election. living out of a car and struggling to survive we look at the plight of people displaced by fighting in the wrong.

however we've got some heavy showers in the forecast longer spells of rain still in play there for japan but it's in the process of pushing outs of the way a long line of cloud here coming in across such pan then through friday that wetter weather slowly but surely making its way further east with so some bright skies coming back in behind still with a few showers and those showers they become fewer and further between as we go on into sas they say some dry weather coming through the heavy rain moving out into the open waters as for that line of cloud and rain yeah that joins up with what is now typhoon southdown making its way towards the gulf of tonkin for high net and on towards central parts of vietnam behind that another area very heavy rain no the parts of the by a bingo big massive cloud here that's been spinning away over the last few days pushing up into bangladesh causing some flooding in the process nudging the heavier rainfall further north up into new poles and big downpours just around to some

state northern parts of myanmar still further showers here as we go on through saturday hopefully a little drier into bangladesh but the shower was still there nevertheless central parts of india not looking too bad but i would say also west yet more very heavy rain all the way up to move by. jump into the stream and julian on global community bio diversity is biosecurity it is that essential for our species to survive be part of the debate i know you have my days and you too can be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table the police are not neutral and all of the case goal here is to terrorize and here's the other part of this there's no consequence this stream on out is there.

they want to go to see a reminder of our top stories this hour nigeria's president is holding an emergency security meeting as unrest continues in the largest city lagos a prison has been set on fire there's been nearly 2 weeks of protests against police brutality. france and spain have become the 1st 2 european union countries to surpass 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases spain's health minister says drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak. so how did he has been appointed prime minister of lebanon for the 4th time he resigned on the job last year probably amass antigovernment protests against the acute economic crisis and corruption.

the european parliament's highest honor for freedom of thought the subtle prize is going to the opposition movement in battle dozens have been staging nationwide protests and strikes calling for an end to president alexander lukashenko has 26 when he was declared the winner of an election in old west but many believe that vote was rigged exiled opposition leaders for a lot of the kind of says the movement against the president will continue. you can see. each person seeing only election and investigation the nation i don't think they'd be in response to the soul life because in these in case you've been promised us to be for human rights violation or even this mission.

the fighting in the going to cut a bike he's having a devastating impact on people on both sides of the conflict in azerbaijan thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes more than 3 weeks since the fighting started many of them are struggling to survive although of the honeyed met with some of those displaced people in baba and central azerbaijan by the side of this road they watched a war unfolding a few kilometers away. with each explosion they wonder what was hit. has been living in his car for the past month from here he can monitor his village now trapped in the conflict zone. and we stay here because we have to take care of our harvest and our land when it calms down we rush there to see what has been hit and feed the animals and then we come back we try to go there 3 times a day. drive away people are escaping the battlefield they've managed to bring their livestock to safety they tell us their village has also come under fire. this

should have been cotton picking season but there's barely anyone left here to harvest new or has expanded with random shelling reaching well beyond the line of contact so for this year the crops are going to waste about 100000 people have fled their homes living in schools that have shut because of the conflict many had already been displaced since their land in 1900. lived as a displaced person for most of her life her family fled the karabakh region and settled in turkey now the war has caught up with her. i remember when her mania was bombing and our house was hit my sister was 11 she was wounded and my brother was killed i remember all of this it's engraved in my memory when turtle got bombed i ran away with my 3 children i had lived through all of these are always scared for them i already knew this sounds but they didn't. but

these are different times for azerbaijan it now has a well equipped army so when solem i know by now the meanest son said he wanted to volunteer she gave him her blessing who demand that he send because he got injured i told it's for the sake of color have to get our land back no matter the cost if i could join the fight right now. it's been 26 years since as a brit john was defeated by armenia but now its army is making territorial gains and there's a growing hope among many here that they will soon return to their lost land but at the. butt of that. the us federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained information on registered u.s. voters it alleges that attempted to influence public opinion by causing confusion

and chaos and the upcoming us presidential election the russian government is describing the allegations as absurd and as dosage of bar reports from to iran iranian reaction is just a strong. the spokesperson for iran's mission of the united nations tweeted that this is dangerous and malicious accusations against iran and that iran has absolutely no interest in whoever wins the us elections and that iran doesn't interfere with other countries' elections in their proper electoral processes this is a sentiment that's also been shared by president hassan rouhani prior to these accusations during his weekly cabinet meeting on wednesday the president said that iran has absolutely no interest in who becomes the next president of the united states because regardless of whoever that is they will have to kneel to the rayney a nation that is the official position of the iranian government but when we speak to analysts than a lot of people in the capital they believe that

a biden presidency would of course be one that would be more favorable to iran and the this administration there on the administration would be more open to the idea of dialogue with biden presidency despite the fact that they believe any kind of a change in the white house doesn't really mean a change in policy towards iran but that the rhetoric that the president trump has been using and the sanctions that he's imposed on iran since he withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal in 2013 and imposed a series of sanctions on iran that kind of behavior could change possibly with a biden presidency and so that is why this country is watching what is happening in the united states very closely and the results will undoubtedly have ramifications in iran. democratic presidential nominee joe biden will face president donald trump in their 2nd and final t.v. debates later on thursday one of the issues likely to come up is the ideological

makeup of the supreme court which at the moment has a conservative majority biden was asked on the c.b.s. 60 minutes program whether he would pack the nation's top court with the liberal judges this was his response. if elected what i will do is put together a national commission a bipartisan commission of scholars constitutional scholars democrats republicans liberal conservative and i will ask them do over a $180.00 days come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it's getting out of whack. and fashion is joining us now from the white house allan of course this is all coming off the back of amy tony the donald trump's pick for the supreme court being nominated and approved by the senate committee we just heard that this often and how controversial is this plan of joe biden to try to lead dress the balance as they he would see it. well it's

a little political trick isn't it if you get a question that you find difficult to answer and joe biden has an answer of the question over the last 2 weeks about whether or not he would pick the supreme court if you win so what do you do you then say oh well we'll set up a commission it is an all political trick and it seems that joe biden thinks this will be enough to make sure the doesn't have to answer that question as we move forward towards the election in just under a week's time. it's interesting that he's decided to go this route there are certainly people who are concerned that what is happening in the supreme court and that has been reemphasized just in the last hour as you see in the connie babbitt her nomination being approved by the senate judiciary committee there were nor democrats in that committee hearing in fact at their seats and instead play someone who may well lose coverage if the affordable care act which is going to go before the supreme court the week after the election is through you know by the justices

and him equally but it could well be one of those people making that decision this is because they think she will vote to remove preexisting conditions as part of the coverage there now we're hearing from chuck schumer who's the leader of the democrats in the senate just in the last 1015 minutes saying that when this goes to a full senate vote likely to be on monday then he is not going to be there and neither will any any democrats will this stop the nomination go through so almost certainly going to be confirmed as the next justice in the supreme court but what it does do from chuck schumer is signal to his supporters look we fought to the very last minute to try and block this the numbers were just against this and there's nothing that they can do it's a signal to the progressive wing that they would at least fighting even though this was a fight that they were always going to lose from the moment on the south lawn of the white house donald trump and equally by it as his choice for the supreme court

let's look ahead to thursday's debate a lot of people are going to be watching this very closely to see father not what this if nothing else what the tone is compared to the previous one are we expecting the supreme court to be a topic in tonight's debate. and certainly something that donald trump would like to ask joe biden about because he will ask again the question are you going to the supreme court he thinks this is a winning strategy we're going to get questions on foreign policy we're going to get questions on race in america we're also going to get questions about the covert response and there's a new report just out in the last out or so from columbia university saying that there are at least $150000.00 deaths that could have been avoided if the administration had acted faster and that is obviously going to be the basis of some of the questions towards donald trump what people are going to watch as well as whether or not the mute button is actually going to what of course we had at the last debate were donald trump constantly interrupted joe biden joe biden did as

well but not quite as much and then it was decided by the debate commission look when the candidates get their 2 minutes we're going to mute the other guy's buttons so that they can speak without interruption for 2 minutes how all of that what because they're going to be pretty close and if someone started speaking just 6 feet away from me you would hear them in fact you can hear the digger that's operating behind me at the moment so i'm sure you'll be able to get donald trump speaking and then of course there's the question of whether or not people will change their views because of this debate debates don't tend to sway support massively donald trump needs a very big night because if you look at all the pulls he's still way behind not just nationally but also in key swing states but as i said before polls are not votes and we've still got a way to go before november the 3rd john thanks very much indeed that's alan fischer at the white house and of course we're going to have live coverage of that debate here on al-jazeera so let's now hear from our white house correspondent

kimberly hauck that on thursday his final debate between trump and biden. usually when i don't reason the 1st presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden according to many political analysts was a low point in the 2020 us elections because i wonder why does he do it over as you are president sure things up the u.s. president were heatedly 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 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. and. 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. the weekend home without any public events analysts believe he has the most to lose by a poor showing in the final presidential debate will be. well sizable. and given your candidate in that position why didn't you do or say. the wrong question you know many fundamentalists. it's the undecided voter that 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.