no teacher fane. 'd the. facing a resurgent infections across europe and governments are tightening restrictions. all over and i'm come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the conservative u.s. supreme court nominee amy barrett is a step closer to confirmation donald trump and joe biden will face off for their final debate. smoke rises from a prison in central lagos there's more unrest in nigeria's biggest city. and sri lankan m.p.'s expand the powers of the president.

starting with corona virus really focusing on europe where governments across the continent and the u.k. are finding they have no choice in some cases but to impose more restrictions in france to get a handle on the situation the prime minister has just announced curfews that will extend further than before including into overseas french territories now this is from france info a french rolling news channel showing. the curfews will affect about 70 percent of the country's population all across france over a 1000000 confirmed cases we've got spain as well with the health ministers warning of more drastic measures spain reached the $1000000.00 mark on wednesday and the government is accused of mishandling the crisis however it did survive a no confidence vote in parliament germany is also seeing

a rise in infections with the daily count rising about 10000 for the 1st time which is well above the numbers seen during the initial wave in march though it has to be said testing has increased significantly the government's health ministry says the situation is getting out of control. and finally it's only $16000.00 new cases ever been reported there the region of lombardy which was one of the worst hit at the beginning of the year has imposed a nighttime curfew here is jonah hill now in our european broadcast center in london to bring you up today both france and spain in the past 24 hours passed that 1000000 case milestone and are trying desperately to get to grips with spiraling infection rates not so easy in spain where the federal government has been rankly with local authorities particularly madrid trying to institute stiff measures to try and control the epicenter of the outbreak of the pandemic in

spain which is the madrid region less difficult in france where last week the government put paris and 8 other cities under curfew in the last hour john karr stacks the prime minister speaking to the nation and putting a further 38 of france's departments those are administrative subdivisions small regions out of $101.00 and $1.00 in total $38.00 of them also under curfew that's from friday night it's a curfew curfew that runs from 9 pm in the evening until 6 am so in total from friday $46000000.00 french people will be forced to stay indoors overnight france of course looking at the death toll the total death toll of some $34000.00 since the pandemic broke other countries of course you know looking at similar situations no one is spared at this point.

right before we get to election news an update on the confirmation all of us supreme court nominee amy kearney barret that'll be held on monday follows the approval of her nomination in the senate judiciary committee in a process boycotted by the democrats so it now goes to a full senate vote will go with republicans holding a majority confirmation look at certain elevations in washington he explains why the democrats decided to boycott that hearing. it was really symbolic it was saying to their supporters look we've tried everything we can and there is not much we can do here in fact the judiciary committee brought their own rules there's meant to be at least 2 members of the democratic minority on the committee when they take a vote they pushed it through $12.00 to 0 but the senate rules are normally enforceable it will go to the fool senate for a vote on monday the 1st steps in that will be on friday when they will start the movement the democrats again talking about parliamentary procedure and doing what

they can to delay the vote perhaps even suggesting that the senate should adjourn till after the election that's not going to happen there is one your public and senator who said that she will not vote because it's too close to an election there is another who is likely to fall the same way but that still doesn't matter with 53 seats in the senate take those away you've still got 51 and it looks as if every connie ballot by monday will be the next supreme court justice of the united states what is interesting is that this is taking this away from donald trump as an election issue he could have pushed this through till after the election so you've got to support me will get on the bench it's almost some would suggest and certainly to a couple of people i've been speaking to a suggestion that the republican senate doesn't quite believe that donald trump can win the presidential election so they're pushing through this nomination will have still got the numbers and the president pushing with the nomination at the side of

it. now let's hear from a white house correspondent kimberly how kit looking ahead to thursday's final presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden 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 i wonder why does he do it over as you are president screwing things up the u.s. president we're heatedly interrupted his democratic rival and also the moderator chris are 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 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. all all well. and well i don't. 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 4. 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. sizeable on. candidate. what you do or say but. a long. long long long. long if the undecided voter 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 al jazeera the white house and the final

u.s. presidential debate will be here in full on al-jazeera a 100 hours g.m.t. friday which is around a house from now on to other news and nigeria's presidents to to address the nation in the next hour amid the widespread unrest and violence parts of lagos have been burning with smoke billowing from a prison they had been earlier reports of gunshots as well violence has been escalating for 2 weeks during these protests against police brutality honesty international says at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night the manager says reporting for us from a blue jays as security has been increased around the prison area and the situation brought under control. the roads leading to the prison has have all been blocked by security forces and elsewhere in the city overnight we've seen looting arson and other criminal activities going on across the city this morning there were

incidents in motion area and i shot while ago there was an attack on a warehouse where a food items meant to support the poor during covered 1000 times have been raided by a bank by a gang of youths who opened the warehouse and it was a free for all people have been carting away foodstuffs from that area while that attack on the prison was going on and in neighboring state there was another attempt or other there was another attack on another prison there the 5th prison to be attacked in the last 3 days remember 2 days ago which the 2 prisoners that typed in at the state a total of 1993 prisoners escaped although 160 of them have been recaptured now the 5th prison that was attacked was in on the state where the prison van was set on fire and reports reaching us now indicate that 58 inmates have escaped prison officials have been wounded in that attack and apart from that going back to lagos

again another mall was set on fire after looters took away i can from that building is the same mall that was attacked at the height of protest following these in a 4 week attacks in south africa. sri lanka's president's now has expanded powers after the parliament overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution got up by a rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament before its turn finish its he'll have full immunity from prosecution as well the president will also have the power to appoint key officials including some judges the opposition had urged the government to we're told the legislation which critics say will only impose autocratic rule here is in colombo. the rajapaksa bandwagon which began with the rajah packs of contesting the presidency he went to the people asking for a mandate essentially to make the necessary changes to the constitution to allow him to do what's necessary for this country to report that confidence and

essentially the people voted on mass for him and we're seeing that essentially indication of that coming to fruition in the parliament just a few minutes ago 156 m.p.'s voting to change the constitution as opposed to $65.00 voting against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gotama rajapakse of the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power of p.s.v. to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's

a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa in the news ahead saad hariri is back as lebanon's prime minister for the 4th time promising to rescue the country that rejected him and also the hunt for the most wanted man in georgia with the latest on the bank robber on the run and the traumatised hostages he left behind. hello the weather is slushy set. barack ros the middle east lots of pleasant sunshine coming through a little more cloud up towards turkey having said that just around the black sea the caspian sea just around the caucasus chills of want to shout but nothing too much to speak of so it's pretty much. sunshine all the way sunshine here in concert

temperatures getting up to 33 celsius maybe a 31 there on saturday but in light winds it really will feel rather pleasant at the best time of the year i suggest that we go with the dry weather right down towards say yemen we'll see some dry weather too on the other side of the red sea and then we got the usual showers around the rift valley pushing over towards the gulf of guinea some big damp was a line of heaviest showers coming out across much of the democratic republic of congo pushing into central parts of angola dry just from the eastern side of tanzania but want to want to show showers a possibility as we go through the next couple of days then we'll see the heavier rain once again david schwartz well to was cameroon towards the boma see some big downpours coming in here further south it is generally fine and dry lots of pleasant sunshine coming through warming up nicely as well cape town at 24 celsius 29.

frank assessments if american public opinion piece betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be repercussions if you believe that they're corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break them up informed opinion lucas and his dog anyway the protesters aren't going anywhere either with a revolution. in depth analysis of the day's global headlines that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. top stories this hour on al-jazeera france has expanded the region's facing. sorry

the region's coronavirus related curfews comes as the country passed a 1000000 infections governments across the county continental grappling with how to deal with a rapidly spreading outbreak. vote on the confirmation of u.s. supreme court nominee i mean any parent will be held on monday a fast tracked nomination has been one of the key topics in the lead up to the presidential election and smoke has been billowing from a prison in the nigerian city of lagos amid national unrest the president held an emergency security meeting to deal with the protests against police brutality and subsequent violence. to lebanon now without hariri is the prime minister for a 4th time his appointment announced after consultations between lebanon's president and various political groups he resigned from the job last year following mass anti-government protests against the acute economic crisis and corruption. what stop the collapse of our economy and our society

and our security we would recall struct what has been destroyed by the explosion. you will form as quickly as possible the new government we have a show. we have a shot probably the last to do everything. let's hear from a hobby but both are a journalist and founder of the better reporter since hariri is returned it's just a sign of how little has changed in lebanon since the anti-government protests began last year 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

protests but i don't think we'll see 'd the 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 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 a lot of 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 face back in power what we need is a desperate economic salvation for this country what was so waiting to hear some progress on the peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban those negotiations going on here in qatar but back in afghanistan the fighting shows no sign of ending you know controversy has the support from kabul. mohammad nazir sits in his empty shop and waits for the customers that have stopped coming but mostly he's waiting for the peace that has yet to come. we are really tired tired of this war there's a war here from the last 40 years and we spent all our lives in the war when we see the current situation it really hurts us. but for the united states its longest war is showing signs of ending the largest american military base here background near

kabul is reducing its size president donald trump said he wants all american troops home by christmas but the pentagon and state department say 2 and a half 1000 troops will remain into next year afghan business owners at the bazaar near baghran base have been losing customers because of the withdrawal and along with them hope for the future although now that. we have no hope from the government when they're asking for your vote they make a lot of good promises about our future that when they're in power they don't fulfill those promises they even took the bread from our table. government forces and the taliban are again fighting in the south and province of helmand. tens of thousands have been forced from their homes and dozens of schools closed throughout the decades a war in afghanistan as well as the military casualties civilians have often been caught in the crossfire and afghans have repeatedly called for

a cease fire to let the peace talks in doha progress but the ceasefire isn't happening analysts say the various sides are increasing their attacks to gain leverage in the peace negotiations and while talks have not reached a make or break point if they fail to mean as a says the stakes for the country are too high we already have people in afghanistan rearming. because they say well the americans are leaving the afghan government might hold for a while and we should defend ourselves and i hope taliban realize that because they wanted this africa that this war would become greedy africanized and it will turn into a civil war into a sectarian war internet make war and it will be very bloody afghans hope history won't be repeating itself and the repetition of the bloodshed that followed the soviet withdrawal 30 years ago controversy al-jazeera kabul some

residents of hong kong will be able to begin the process of applying for british citizenship in the new year the u.k.'s offer applies to about 3000000 people living in the former british colony about london has confirmed there will be no upper limit on the number of applications britain said it would start offering citizenship to hong kong residents just after china imposed its new security law in hong kong. the european parliament's highest on a for freedom of thought the socket of prize is going to the opposition movement and better roosts thousands have been staging nationwide protests and strikes calling for an end to president lukashenko is 26 year rule he was declared the winner of the an election in august which many believe was bricked exiled opposition this fanatic going to sky says the movement against the president will only continue. you know you can see. my. each must have seen it only election itself and in the course of the geisha

information i don't think that anybody had responsibility so why because in these cases and you've been promised us to go on human rights for the nation or even this mission all. over the city geisha is now almost going to happen after that action. and that turkey says it will send troops to going to cut about if john asks for them russia says any turkish soldiers sent to the former soviet states would only make things worse though it's been almost a month of fighting in the long disputed region and it is having a devastating impact in both media and us by sham the support from her to a bill i meet in the a series city of baghdad. by the side of this road they watched a war unfolding a few kilometers away. with each explosion they wonder what was hit chino mohammad

has been living in his car for the past month from here he can monitor his village now trapped in the conflict zone. 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 a short 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 the war 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 armenia occupied their land in 1900. salim ahmed gemayel has 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 armenia 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 turtill got bombed i ran away with my 3 children i had lived through all of this so i was 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. mean our son said he wanted to volunteer she gave him her blessing. he sent us he got injured i told it's for the sake of color but you 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 that. the united nations says it needs a $1000000000.00 to meet the needs of refugees in the world's biggest camp and bangladesh the united states britain and european union have been holding a virtual funding conference around 3 quarters of a 1000000 ringgit fled to bangladesh to escape the military crackdown in myanmar 3 years ago but the u.n. says the pandemic has made its already severely underfunded task even more difficult here's what the director of the u.n.h.c.r. regional bureau in the asia pacific he says aid agencies are really feeling the impact of this pandemic. that has been a challenge for the humanitarian response globally but at this point of time we really hope that through this conference we can really need you and redouble that effort to resource the funding gap at this point of time just for bangladesh

almost half a $1000000000.00 and together with the resources i think what is most important is also recommit to questioning the solutions in myanmar recent refugees so desperately need i think one of the key elements here is that in the battle of a she could do a lot for example we have a challenge 60000 people are crammed into a very difficult terrain and a bottle of this government has extended its hospitality to these people at a time where. the global situation in terms of accommodating refugees and supporting refugees has been strained and i think it is really imperative that member states step up and share the burden because it is not just isis from bangladesh all the region and the regional partners us to come in and support in this response bangladesh and the countries in the reason who are supporting these

are refugees but also really work with the myanmar government to create the conditions that refugees can go back to a rematch he had back in you know wanted to matter in safety and dignity while police in georgia are searching for an armed man who held dozens of people hostage at a bank after hours of negotiations he escaped took $500000.00 with him from forced to walk out as more from tbilisi c.c.t.v. from inside this bank of georgia branchings of d.d. shows a gunman well armed and seemingly well trained terrorizing staff and customers hostage is asked to contact the media. you don't notice i'm going to ground any i mean i mean what they are bitching about you one of them relayed his demands to a t.v. station $500000.00 in cash and safe passage armed police units waited officials pledged with the media to stop broadcasting live from the scene.

and you should look on the net is quite limited yes we demand from all media outlets including operators to cut off restrict a live signal in order to ensure the safety of hostages law enforcers and ordinary citizens in order to effectively conduct police measures but there were to be no police measures some hostages were released then after lengthy negotiations allegedly more were freed some clearly traumatized in exchange for cash it's alleged and the local chief of police he and 3 other hostages emerged as human shields with a gunman holding what appeared to be a grenade in georgia there's been relief that nobody was harmed but also disbelief that this gunman whose identity remains unknown was able to get away with such a brazen crime. after the final hostages were released the gunman reportedly

escaped into a forest not far from the breakaway region about highers here where local media speculated he might seek refuge a search is now on to catch georgia's most wanted man robyn 1st year walker al-jazeera tbilisi. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories france has expanded curfews to more regions as coronavirus cases surge. it comes as the country passed a 1000000 infections governments across europe and are grappling with how to deal with a rapidly spreading outbreak the other headlines of votes on the confirmation of u.s. supreme court nominee amy kone barrett will be held on monday fast tracked nomination has been one of the key topics in the lead up to the presidential election.