even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. this is al-jazeera. it's just going to 100 hours g.m.t. hello i'm come all santamaria welcome to the news hour from al-jazeera facing a resurgence coded infections across europe are up and governments are tightening their restrictions also in the use u.s. supreme court nominee amy county barrett is a step closer to confirmation of donald trump and joe biden face off for a final time. and here is president's due to address the nation as more unrest rocks its biggest city. and sri lankan m.p.'s voted to expand the powers of the

president rajapaksa. we're starting with the coronavirus pandemic this hour focusing on europe where governments across the continent and in the u.k. are finding they have no choice in some cases but to impose more restrictions will start with france where to get a handle on the situation the prime minister's announced curfews that will extend further than before even going into some overseas french territories they will affect as you see on this map from france info a french news channel 70 percent of the country's population gets hit by those curfews there are over a 1000000 confirmed cases in spain the health minister is warning of more drastic measures spain reached the 1000000 infection mark on wednesday the gulf. and which

is accused of mishandling the crisis did survive a no confidence vote in parliament germany is also seeing a rise in infections a daily count there is above 10000 for the 1st time which is well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave in march should say their testing has increased significantly the government's health ministry says the situation is getting out of control and we've heard from italy as well today 16000 new cases reported there the region of lombardy you remember one of the worst hit at the beginning of the year it is imposed a nighttime curfew so to bring all of that together for us here is john hall in our european broadcast center in london. 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 with the federal government has been roundly 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 carr stacks the prime minister speaking to the nation putting a further 38 of france's departments those are administrative subdivisions small regions out of 101 and one in total $38.00 of them also under curfew that's from friday night is 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 so in short this is the much vaunted 2nd wave happening in front of us in real time but i want you to see in those european

countries just how much bigger these 2nd waves are we've got some graphs here from our world and dates are at the university of oxford these are daily new cases they are what we call a 7 day rolling average which means we're looking at the overall trend rather than the you know really specific ups and downs of every single day so this isn't the 1st of all 1st wave way back here 5 and a half 1000 cases a day was the the peak of the average look at it now we're looking up a bit that point there which is the $11000.00 mark and it's such a steep. increase their similar in spain maybe a little more stack it they're gone from 7600 at the start now up above 14000 germany is an interesting one because they had actually quite a few cases in the early stages 5 and a half 1000 there it's only just heading up above this line here which is the $7000.00 mark but again like italy i mean it's almost straight up there isn't it

that that increase in the last few weeks really 2 more to have a look at the u.k. well i mean this mark here now where actually looking at 20000 of the top line there which is a mess of increase from the 4 and a half 1000 back in march and april and france again this top line here the top one keeps changing this time it's 25000 from a similar 4 and a half fare this is what the 2nd wife as it goes up quite simply when we spoke to gloria tell yani who is a professor of infectious diseases university of rome she says there is a bit of good news the hospitals are better prepared this time around unfortunately if we look back at other 10 days and weeks in the past 1st of all the 17. 100. are known happened to

me the 2nd wave was much worst paired to the 1st one and there has been no to our 3rd wave that was mild there then the other 2 so if pandemics. behaved the same way. it was probably. possible to major that the 2nd one would be worse than the 1st one and it's happening like it's good nice is aspect of this story is that the majority of patients. we find out dismemberment are not seriously sick and they don't need to be hospitalized which is a big difference compared to the thirst so we have many more infected people much less diseased people and for the moment we can cope with remembers and we don't have any is huge and c.

in the e intensive care units and we can still add meets more patients to the hospital we have 3. this space for new patients on to other news and a vote on the confirmation of u.s. supreme court nominee judge amy honey barrett will be held on monday it follows the approval of her nomination in the senate judiciary committee a process that was boycotted by the democrats now goes to a full senate vote and republicans of course hold a majority there so barrett's confirmation looks certain and official with more from washington particularly on why the democrats boycotted the 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 the vote they pushed it through $12.00 to 0 but the senate

rules aren't 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 him 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 this side of it. right so that is the information coming in from the supreme court with of course got the election happening we've got the next debate happening here is our white house correspondent kimberly hellcats on thursdays final showdown between donald trump and joe biden. she wasn'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 would otherwise we do it over as you are my president sure brings up the u.s. president repeatedly 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. are all well 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 foreign policy adding more domestic issues like covert 19 and racial injustice meanwhile biden has spent the. we could 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. your candidate. what you do or say. all along. but what. if the undecided voter

have it 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 at al-jazeera the white house that debate happening a little under 7 hours from now you can watch it in full on al-jazeera a 100 hours g.m.t. friday is when the debate begins. sri lanka's president now has expanded powers to the parliament overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution by rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament before its term finishes and has full immunity from prosecution the president would also have the power to appoint key officials including some judges the opposition and urge the government to withdraw the legislation which critics say will impose order across the world here is this in colombo. the rajapaksa bandwagon which began with

the rajapaksa 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 repose 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 gautama 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 obviously 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. almost a quarter past this news are in here's what's coming up saad hariri the name does lebanon's prime minister designate it could be the 4th time he gets the job he's promising to rescue the very country that rejected him. to be it want people to not to forget about our situation not prepared to fight the opposition and winds york's top prize for human rights honoring efforts against the presidential election is widely regarded as a great sport manchester united feeling the financial pinch should we will hear

more about that in sport a little later. turkey says it will send troops to know if john asks for them but russia says any turkish soldiers sent to the former soviet states will only make things worse it's been almost a month of fighting in the long disputed region and it's having a devastating impact on both armenia and azerbaijan hot up the heat reports now from the city of baqubah. 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 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 turtill 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. 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 is a growing hope among many here that they will soon return to their lost land that had that hamid but that. an update on nigeria now where the president's been addressing the country following days of widespread unrest and violence gunshots

were fired shops looted a prison was set on fire as well on thursday as protests over police brutality intensified international condemnation is also been growing after security forces opened fire on demonstrators on tuesday amnesty international is now saying 56 protesters have died since the protests broke out 2 weeks ago. managers following the story from joe what has the president had to say. well the president after a long long time from the from the time the protests started has finally addressed the nation after. clamor for him to speak to the nation over the past one week or so now in his speech he said the voices of the youth protesting in the streets of nigeria has been a nod and clear and he's asking them to discontinue the protests he said the 5 demands have been noticed and they're being gradually implemented the president

however said while the government acknowledges the right of citizens to protest to assembly freedom of expression it will also not forward it and watch people break the law he paid tribute to security forces who lost their members during this crisis he said he feel pain by the loss of life and destruction 2 lives and property but government always it a responsibility to the such as us to protect lives and property and also talk to spoke about how 'd these these past few weeks have been projected to the international community on this the president asked the international community to frost see clarification or very fiery some of these information that some he said are propaganda before taking has to be decisions the president stated that his government has focused on improving the lives of youths across the country over the

past few years and was wondering why this is why these protests have suddenly become so ugly leading to loss of lives and property and also commended those individuals who understood the position of government and try to intervene on behalf of the government on the part of the youth he also wanted to address some of the critical issues raised by the protesters over the past 2 weeks and said that the government is taking them one by 11 of the most important. said was the disbanding of the police unit but they've been asking for for years now which he said should have paved the way for dialogue between them that he emphasized is necessary now that the government is not ready to listen to them to discuss all the issues on the table so how would you actually characterize the protests now are made if the president's saying yes we hear your demands we hear what you want ending the group was obviously a major one of them but what are people protesting about as

a whole. right now it's difficult to say whether the original protest demands or original protests. the ones out on the streets we've seen how the past few days these protests up turned violent and now it's chaos and anarchy in many parts of the country talk to some of these protesters they will tell you that violence is not in their script they're not participated in some of these prison breaks or the attacks the arsons lootings and what have you that's currently been going on across the country the president also mentioned about people killing security officers in the past few days so right now a lot of people in nigeria even government officials themselves believe that the objective of the protest in the prost instance while legitimate and genuine but how things

turned out to be over the past few days have become a source of concern for many people and a lot of people i looked up nigeria's believe that these protests may have been hijacked by people with criminal intentions nuts what the president is saying actually in his address just a few minutes ago ok thank you i made a choice with an update on the situation in 1000 area. now the u.s. investment bank goldman sachs will pay more than $2000000000.00 in penalties over its role in a huge corruption scandal in malaysia this is off to goldman you know van agreed to pay guild story to plead guilty to violating foreign bribery laws the bank was being investigated for raising billions in bond sales for that malaysian state fund the you won the m.v.p. fund which you may have heard of where it's alleged billions of dollars was stolen from the fund and used to buy luxury goods let's try to make some sense of all of this with an automatic go to who is a former us a federal prosecutor joining us from chicago illinois 1st of all i think just for

and global audience or may not know the name goldman sachs is almost as big as it gets in investment banking for it to be hit this hard and for actual senior executives to be named in this would be a huge hit to the bank. no no question about goldman's paid some very big settlement for but here you actually have all the bank who are in their own losses who are facing their own separate cases and look over well over 2000000000 dollars is a lot of mind anybody can go very soon if you get bribery is the word being used can you explain to us or do we know exactly what went on. now than there is literally. over a $1000000000.00 and that was go into foreign officials uterus use of. shell companies in the whole economy system for the fun of this money and of course

it's money that could be going to people citizens of those countries who use it so it's really i think a story that goes beyond the actions of one particular financial institution goes to corrupt practices and mult countries ok so is this is much a story about what was going on and of course you know malaysian government was was part of this but. as much as it is about the bank it's about the government officials doing business with them that they pay but happy to do business with each other in this way. don't know if you can still oh yes you've just been frozen sorry. i'm sorry. i don't if you had my question. here. just sort of. obviously this is something which is hitting the bank here but is it as much about the officials that they did business with as it is the banking executives. to me

that the real scandal is that to do business in certain countries europe's end a massive amount of money and presumably it companies are willing to pay that kind of mine who's paying the price is the citizens of those countries who does money could have been different to not projects that would help citizens whether it's infrastructure all care or education and instead that money is being diverted to corrupt leaders so i think it is a international scandal or it's a scandal where i think should cause citizens and other countries to look at their own practices and of course citizens here in the united states who wonder why some of our you know a large institutions are engaged in these practices. that's why not somebody out to joining us from chicago i'm not going to test the scut. but thank you for talking to us we do appreciate it and here now 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 but london has confirmed there will be no upper limit on the number of applications britain said it would stand offering citizenship to hong kong residents just after china imposed a new security law in hong kong let's talk to do about this a pro-democracy activist a freelance writer former chairman of the kiel university young conservatives who campaigned for this visa to be a no british nationals overseas visa thank you for joining us today how much of a win is there i mean we knew the british had flagged up that it was going to happen but how much of a win is it for the people of hong kong. i think in terms of if we just look at the be and issues it sound i think it's quite a big win because i mean initially we thought some way when we started the campaign and i think to be in a campaign actually predates the current. protest movement you know it's actually

going to one in 10 u.s. . you know in the past 10 years campaigners like me you know we've been asking the u.k. government you know this is your responsibility you know these are british nationals and they've been treated as 2nd class citizen which is unfair but you initially we never expected it. but you came to take it free be you know hung on us we were talking about that's almost 3 millions we don't know the exact numbers but we're talking about it for just b.n. or people will be in the be in a status that it's nearly 3 millions but this scheme is so extraordinary it also includes not just your children but your parents and even your siblings living with you and their dependence on you that you can also bring them with you so we're talking about the potential number could be more than 3000000 so that is exceptionally extraordinary and i have never seen anything as generous as this in the british immigration history in the past 20 years but to play devil's advocate

here it took an extraordinary crisis for it to happen that is the beijing security law which was brought in and it's what helen has at 23 years since alcohol was handed back to china it's it's taken a lot to actually get to this point. yes i mean it's unfortunate in the sense that . you know hong kong has to be declared body not the states no longer autonomy us in order to make britain to do this right thing you know i think in a sense it is rather sad but this is the right direction to go unfortunately it took so long and it took such drastic measures from china in order to improve the situation of being a hong kong has what about potential backlash for the u.k. from china over this. i think the chinese government. that they have been

saying that they will not reckon on e.s.p.n. i mean they have they have not recognized b.n. at all people will be in a status in hong kong day and in china they cannot. get any consular assistance so they have don't have a pulse not recognising at the end of possible how does operation but of course you know we don't know whether china will kick any drastic measure to stop the hong kong as the leading home call but bear in mind are lots of british home columns you know but you know hong kong misstate also have to hong kong as they are possible so there is a way for them to be talking to that's one thing in terms of the safety of holcomb's whether they will be allowed to leave from cancun that's that's one thing and of course china is not particularly happy with britain taking this russians but i think the reality we have to look into this is this is a totally internal matters for the u.k. of course of though the situation is related to home called the situation is

related to national security legislation but it reality is that u.k. is taking its responsibility for british national overseas which is british people and so therefore it is a time in tournaments of some of course i would expect china would continue to be very unhappy about this whole arrangement but the reality is you case you're right zain and i'm incredibly impressed and thankful to you governments of taking such responsible way to ensure the safety of conference. a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time today appreciate it thank you. in the news the heads of the united nations appealing for a $1000000000.00 to help the rangar refugees the thing is only half has been pledged and the hunt for most of the most wanted man in georgia will tell you about the bank robber on the run and the traumatized hostages he left behind plus your sports news we hear from one of the most dangerous men in the world ahead of his

long awaited return to the octagon. hello the weather is slushy set fire across 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 show has been nothing too much to speak of so it's pretty much blue skies a sunshine all the way hazy 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 was just there 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 downpours a line of heaviest showers coming out across much of the democratic republic of congo pushing into central parts of angola dry just around that 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 jo'burg 29. 'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied their right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent mike minter saying his crime journalist. to demand my new truths and voice solidarity

with all detained journalists sign the petition. 3 minute saying. he began with war and to put it just here i called shock i felt i felt like i was that a documentary filmmaker once granted unconditional assignment contrasts his experiences with those seeking refuge today and intimately know of the consequences of the policies of detainments is really almost the sort of illness misery they cannot absorb this number that people have to suffer and in this way it is unacceptable and refugees tan on al-jazeera on the deserted streets of bogota they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go miss a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health

insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as own skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus i receive messages on the app saying that we are you know so i was a nurse back home what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. on the news hour here at al-jazeera these are the top stories france has expanded curfews to more regions as coronavirus cases search governments across europe are grappling with how to deal with a rapidly spreading outbreak. a vote on the confirmation of u.s.

supreme court judge nominee any tiny parents will be held on monday for fast track to nomination has been one of the key topics in the lead up to the presidential election. and sri lanka's president now has expanded powers after the parliament overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution your position that urged the government to withdraw the legislation which critics say would only impose intrade pressure. well while we wait for progress from the peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban those negotiations going on here in qatar the fighting shows no sign of ending in afghanistan itself. has this report now from the capital 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 more. 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 their 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 me 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 afternoon that this war would become really africanus 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 in the repetition of the bloodshed that followed the soviet withdrawal 30 years ago when you controversy al-jazeera kabul the south african government is warning of a severe increase in covert 19 cases after one of its largest cities cape town reported a 42 percent rise in the past 2 weeks family miller has moved 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 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 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. the european parliament's highest honor for freedom of thought the socket of prize is going to the opposition movement and thousands have been staging nationwide protests and strikes calling for an end to president alexander lukashenko 26 year this report from sanyo. an announcement. it is a great honor to inform you that the conference of the president has decided to give the sachar a prize for freedom of thought to the democratic opposition groups a message this continued to be strong and continue to fight your fight and your struggle we will stand by your side. and applause a show of unity from the european union which has condemned political repression and belarus and it is the women of the opposition movement who have been at the

forefront since the august presidential elections alexander lukashenko remains in control after 26 years the opposition continues to call for a peaceful transfer of power in response to what they and the west say was a rigged vote i'm really. glad that. the. award because this is not only for. you know for me it's what or for all the glory sent people because now we like one organism who is who is fighting the regime among the finalists of the award the archbishop of mosul. who helped iraqi christians escape the onslaught of eisel and safeguarded more than 800 historic manuscripts the members of the one. defenders the hunt juror an indigenous activist who fought against illegal logging

and land grabs tacitus was assassinated in 2016 by armed intruders in her home after years of threats against her life. the war together with e.u. sanctions may bring new international pressure. but inside tens of thousands of people have continued to march through the streets of the capital minsk every weekend despite the police brutality the jailing of members of the opposition and the muscling of independent media their fight goes on a sunny day ago. saad hariri has been named as the prime minister designate of lebanon for what it would be his 4th time or this 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 we spoke to about the journalist founder of the

beirut reporter says hariri return is 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 the 'd same kind of protests that we saw a year ago 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 or lebanon's fate 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 acts of 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 faces back in power what we need is a desperate economic salvation for this country. the united nations says it needs a $1000000000.00 to meet the needs of refugees in the world's biggest camp in bangladesh the united states britain and the european union were holding a virtual funding conference around 3 quarters of a 1000000 reading fled to bangladesh to escape the military crackdown in me and 3

years ago but the un says the pandemic has made its already severely underfunded task even more difficult let's hear from him who is the director of the u.n.h.c.r. regional bureau for asia and the pacific he says aid agencies as a whole are really feeling the impact of the 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 remain 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 refugee so desperately needs i think one of the key elements here is that in the body of a she could develop for example we have 860000 people crammed into

a very difficult terrain and the body 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 rice is 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 our roads our refugees but also really work with the myanmar government to create the conditions that refugees can go back a repository of back in you know wanted to matter in safety and dignity. some of india's most prominent rights activists hold a news conference in the capital to highlight what they say is the government's crackdown on dissent this includes a recent supreme court ruling that public places cannot be occupied by protesters

more from elizabeth in new delhi. by a group called concerned citizens collective under the banner of democracy on the streets. of india's most prominent human rights. here and there to the right. about the present moment of human rights did on the country and also about the recent supreme court ruling that public spaces cannot be occupied by protesters this is what one of them had to say everything we should read held together by this by this this nationalistic. so i think that everybody was knocked off the view of hindu nationalism doesn't agree with the whoever it is whether it's a judge whether it's a cop whether it's a doctor or whether it should journalist whether it's a politician whether it's a chief minister. everybody has to stand up right now otherwise it's all this press

conference is taking place just 2 days after the u.n. high commissioner for human rights. appealed to the indian government to review something called the farm contribution regulation act the un says that it's being used to deter n.g.o.s full human rights reporting the statement referred to the indian government freezing the bank accounts of amnesty international facing them to stop working in india but also referred to a stringent anti-terrorism legislation that's known as the unlawful activities prevention act which is being used against protesters and that's something that's also been the. georgian police searching for an armed man who held dozens of people hostage at a bank after hours of negotiations he escaped taking $500000.00 with them from forced to walk as more from tbilisi. c.c.t.v. from inside this bank of georgia branch ins of d.d.

shows a gunman well armed and seemingly well trained terrorizing staff and customers hostages were asked to contact the media you know you notice i'm going to ground any i mean i mean what they're 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 should look on the night of calm and yes we demand from all media outlets including mobile 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. we're still going to sport to come on this news on tampa bay's head back in the world series and the baseball action and the rest of sport in

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tough sport that santa. thank you very much by munich have made a winning start to their u.f.o. champions league title defense things the common was the star scoring twice to help seal affordable home win over that let it go by and of course didn't have an ideal build up to the game with star forward this missing a from the team after testing positive for covert 19 game was aleister this is we wanted to win the match today we have done that excellently we were very sovereign and very convincing concerning the last 24 hours at the end the corona virus has also hit other teams therefore we have to stick to hygiene rules and keep on wearing masks and keep distance so there's no other way we can secure ourselves. for the biggest shock on wednesday came in madrid rail going down 32 against ukraine in team shuttle and to milan that were held by bruce you're watching gladbach in group b.

both english teams that were in action also won at liverpool beating i.x. while pep guardiola as man city downed porto we lose the fish and make the last example williams usually the greatest and cheaper. in the. second. so we can concede control. should be sizzling there's always some we don't allow me to drown with you know losing the ball in the position the world is dangerous in the year we did it. and there are going to store for us really good. matches say not to say the club will continue to invest in the team despite posting and 20 percent drop in revenue for the last financial year 668000000 dollars that was the figure posted for 2900 to 2020 that's down from $823000000.00 that they gave before like with many clubs across the world the

global pandemic is taking its toll on united's finances game since march for instance that have had to be played behind closed doors. no fans at old trafford so matt stay revenue for 19 percent to $118000000.00 broadcasting revenues also fell by approximately $132000000.00 that's more than a 40 percent drop which include an $18000000.00 premier league broadcasting rebate for last season added to that the club spent more than $250000000.00 some players last season including shelling out around $100000000.00 for defend him a quiet well we've been speaking to daniel plummy a football finest lecturer at sheffield hallam university he believes the pandemic isn't the sole reason why majesty not as revenues have taught i think the current situation has affected all football clubs in england so more than others and it's worse for close in england further down the league system so those clubs are more

reliant on much to come and that's what we're talking about here the biggest impact has been the lack of funds in stadiums and must be imparted much they revenue if you look at the premier league and manchester united as an example they still have the crocus the money or the majority of growth across the money and obviously still have a big issue also under stable aish in their revenue at the minute i imagine income will obviously hit them hard it will affect all clubs even at the top and probably all we do know in terms of photocells is obviously the sporting performance goes hand in hand with the financial performance so we are absolutely seen a drop off in manchester united supportive performance in continuing the dominance in in recent years compared to the last few years so that will affect sport informant's things like you know not consistently qualifying for the champions league not finishing as high as they used to in the premier league all has monetary value attached to that so of course sport performances and if you win then you get caught in the cycle whereby you you need to spend more in the transfer market all

the more pressure to spend more in the transfer market because. stakeholders and their own in order to see them back at it. to major league baseball where the tampa bay rays it be the los angeles dodgers are wednesday to level the world series at one game apiece brendan annoy finally came to life he broke out of his slump with that 2 home runs one had 3 r.b.i.'s of his own as the rays beat the dog just 6 form game 3 takes place on friday the very time that i wasn't feeling too good you know that's what is so great about his team his coaching staff i think that you know as soon as i started drag my feet you know somebody was right there to pick me up and tell me to you know focus up let's get going and. just pure joy going in. and that dog on a train at home run everybody's happy everyone's jumping up and down you know it's not an individual thing out there it's everyone with the team and you know whatever

help a team when you have sr hubby but a normal guy made all the steps back into the octagon on saturday for his 1st fight in over a year lightweight champion of from doug just on the rochelle will be facing justin gates he'll be looking to improve on his $28.00 and 0 record the longest active unbeaten streak and. it's always difficult when you fight when you can't wait when it's so much pressure on you know when you're a shoulder you know it's always difficult it's never been like easy you know right now it's like special time for me. fighting here you know but not being with all these pandemic stuff with all this weight without crowded old friends and i think it's a little bit difficult and also as well for me i will have more for you later on. thank you for that. coming up after the break up song the beginning.

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