as more i want to see chanson made for us by these complex piece of code the question that comes up is inevitable can we trust algorithms in the 1st of a 5 part series questions the neutrality of digital deductions trust me i'm an algorithm on a. france extends its nighttime curfew to 46000000 people as coronavirus cases continue to surge there and around europe and disturbing images from the basement of a siberian hospital where the bodies of victims are mounting up. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. if you are president. donald trump and joe biden prepare to go head to head for their 2nd and final

debate but will it be a repeat of their 1st ill tempered encounter plus viewers this is just to their. another day of on rest in lagos nigeria president calls for an end to the protests but doesn't address tuesday's deadly shooting. at hariri becomes lebanon's prime minister for a 4th time here after the protests the pushed him out of power. france is extending its curfew on 9 major cities to a further 38 areas meaning 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors at night for 6 weeks after following spain and passing a 1000000 confirm coronavirus cases it's now recorded an all time high of 41 and a half 1000 new infections in 24 hours germany croatia and russia are 3 of the

other european countries who also posted their biggest one day rise in infections well jim's foreign minister sophie vilma's who was the caretaker prime minister until recently is now in intensive care with the virus the country had on average nearly 10000 new cases each day last week despite a population of just 11000000 it's 2nd only to the czech republic in europe in terms of infections per capita 1st day saw new limits on movement and the closure of shops and hotels as hospitals fill up there and in slovakia all schools will be closed for a month from monday and they'll be 2 rounds of population why testing jonah hole has more on the situation around europe. these pictures filmed anonymously and leaked onto social media herald a ghastly return to the worst of the covert 900 pandemic in europe bodies wrapped in black plastic apparently filmed a week ago in the basement of

a siberian hospital there are said to be awaiting autopsy into custody. the voice behind the camera says all of them had the virus or thoughtless. russia's health services are under severe strain in places with the toll of daily deaths and infections rising to record highs. it's a familiar story across europe now firmly in the grip of pandemic once again both spain and france have exceeded a 1000000 cases of coded 19 with more french cities and 2 thirds of the population placed under a nighttime curfew. yet in the coming weeks will be tough and hospital services will be put to the test and the number of deaths will continue to rise and italy the country where dramatic pictures of the sick and dying were a glimpse of europe's future in the spring is posting its own record daily infection numbers in the autumn. around the situation was quiet and remained so

for a couple of months now we are completely saturated at the moment we're not able to receive any we only have 4 beds left in the intensive care unit in germany where effective testing from the start has helped the country fare better than most the infection is said to be back with full force health authorities have warned of an uncontrolled escalation. i'm very sad and thoughtful about this i suspect we'll have to face even more restrictions but i think it's justified we have to live with this pandemic in someone a field hospital in the czech republic the country in effective lockdown after the government brought back measures introduced earlier in the year balkan countries are seeing steep rises too and belgium says it's facing a tsunami of infections with political figures not immune 45 year old sophie vilma's deputy prime minister is in

a brussels hospital undergoing emergency treatment in intensive care the condition is described as stable the same cannot be said for the pandemic across europe jonah how al-jazeera. the spanish government has overwhelmingly survived a confidence vote in parliament over its handling of the pandemic the motion had been brought by the far right vox party but it failed to win any other support and was rejected by 298 votes of 52 the minority coalition government of country sanchez has faced criticism over its policies but the result is being seen as the main conservative opposition party distancing itself from the far right in the united states the daily death toll has passed $1200.00 for the 1st time since august over 19 deaths have been running at around $700.00 a day for most of october but this spike was expected after the number of new cases started rising 5 weeks ago the us is the worst hit country with almost 223000 deaths since the outbreak started. the antiviral drug ram does appear

has been approved to treat covert 1000 patients in the u.s. the country's food and drug administration says the drug will be used by those requiring hospitalization and does a b. was one of the drugs used to treat donald trump it's become a standard of care for patients with severe coated 19 of the u.s. after a major study showed that it reduced time in hospital but just last week a world health organization sponsored study found gram disappear did not help patients survive or recover faster. president trump supreme court nominee amy kearney barrett has moved a step closer to being confirmed those are $1210.00 no it's. the nomination will be reported favre bullied to the floor with a unanimous vote the senate judiciary committee approved her nomination even though

the democrats boycotted the ballot it will now go to a full senate vote on monday the republicans hold a majority making balance confirmation look certain. well i just under 3 hours donald trump and joe biden will go head to head in the 2nd i'm following all u.s. presidential debate a white house correspondent kimberly how could join so slow for the debate venue in nashville tennessee kimberly there was a same sort of the mood the build up ahead of this. very important debate. you know there's a lot of anticipation here on the campus of belmont university in nashville but all around the united states this is the final time that they are going to see the 2 presidential candidates on the same stage before the november 3rd election the debates expected to last about 90 minutes it's going to discuss a range of policies in terms of domestic as well as foreign policy and there's also

going to be a there was some controversy about this uninterrupted 2 minutes for each candidate at the start before it goes into a more free flowing open mike type of debate now in the midst of all of this there is a lot of question about what the attack lines will be we know that joe biden is expected to hammer donald trump on his handling of coronavirus and for his part donald trump hoping to hoping rather to hit back against some of these sort of talking this about the supreme court and whether or not biden presidency would see that expanded but many americans are really wondering what the tone and tenor of this debate will be given that the 1st one was quite contentious quite rambunctious mostly watching to see if donald trump is aggressive as he was last time you she was on the 1st presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden according to many political analysts was a low point in the 2020 us election because i want to do it over as you are

president sure things up the u.s. president worked he did leave interrupted his democratic rival and also the moderator chris you're there waiting there is now early and just 3 days later trump . was in the hospital after testing positive for cope with night team 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 its stead both nominees participated in their own separate town halls at the same time and on the same night but now with the final debate set to take place in nashville there are questions about trump's tactics and whether he'll take an aggressive stance as he did in the 1st debate. what. boeing. and

so i don't think we need. one notable change this time the campaigns agreed to an uninterrupted rule which means the microphone of the candidate who doesn't have the floor will be muted trump is unhappy about the change and has repeatedly attacked the debate commission and the next moderator as biased against him. earlier this week the trump campaign sent out a letter to the debate commission complaining it changed the focus of the debate from foreign policy adding more domestic issues like covert 19 and racial injustice meanwhile biden has spent the week at home without any public events analysts believe he has the most to lose by a porsche owing in the final presidential debate will be.

on. what you do or say a long. long. long long long. it's the undecided voter that candidates 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. so it can be a slightly different form of this round the all important mute button as you mentioned in your reports but you think there's going to be a new strategy for president trump going into this well. you know what we know about the president's strategy where he interrupted repeatedly joe biden and last time they met up this time there's going to be more of a chance for joe biden to expound on his answers they feel that this is where he sometimes

gets into trouble makes a mistake a potential gaffe that's what the trump campaign is really hoping for but the other big thing that is going to be one of the president's attack lines will be the questions around hunter biden that's joe biden son so they're going to make this personal sensually what the strategy is is to ask about those business dealings of hunter biden and whether joe biden as vice president favored policies that allowed his son to in rich's pockets whether it be policies in ukraine or even china so this is something that we expect them to really hammer on donald trump to hammer on we expect that job joe biden rather is already prepared for this he did have this question and he stumbled a little bit in the 1st debate but we expect donald trump to come even stronger this time around for joe biden really his strategy is just to try and ride out the clock because he does have the the lead in the national polls so this is what we're going to see we're essentially going to see donald trump trying to close that gap

make up some ground and for joe biden is basically to try and maintain status quo and total bamber a 3rd or i can believe in. nashville tennessee thanks so much the update i'm sure will come back to you as the day progresses and of course you can watch the final u.s. presidential debate in full here. oh $100.00 g.m.t. on friday. still to come this half hour the tragic aftermath of guinea's presidential election families mourn the deaths of that children at the hands of the security forces and sri lanka's parliament decides its presidential future a landmark ruling on new powers for it heads of state. we've got some rather wet weather in the full cost across the east the sod of

australia over the next few days not seep out of the moment but quite an active area of low pressure whirling away just moving through south australia bands of cloud and right and they are going to make their way for the race would. be that eastern half of south australia saying some wet weather some heavier spells affright all suspect the west the weather is going to be into victoria maybe northern parts of victoria southern areas of new south wales also seeing some rather wet weather but even up into queensland some pretty wet weather coming in here for the outback pushing up towards northern territory too that will make its way further responses we go through saturday again some heavy a burst of right localized fighting pretty much in out on here try whether dust pushed back in behind at 15 or 16 celsius in melbourne dry there for rest south australia and find a drop of perth 29 celsius that's the place to be if you don't like it so you went ahead of the rain bad we got some dry weather a little on the cloudy side there for new zealand but essentially tossed it is that

last satellite a fair bit of cloudy weather to across japan at the moment but bands of cloud and rain they're making the way for the race was brighter skies coming in behind. from. a korean doomsday cult is would hundreds of followers to a tropical paradise wonder when a student instigates the secretive sect accused of abuse and violence in fiji. on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. here's a. sneeze into your own. food to.

a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera france is extending its curfew on 9 major cities to a further 38 areas this means around 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors at night it comes as the country reported a record 41 and a half 1000 new cases in the united states the daily death toll is past 1200 for the 1st time since august 1000 deaths have been running at around $700.00 a day for most of october. and the confirmation vote for u.s. supreme court nominee amy kone barrett is set to go ahead on monday after the senate judiciary committee approved her nomination this as presidential candidates donald trump and joe biden are in nashville preparing for their final presidential debate in less than 3 hours. nigeria's president has addressed the nation after

more than 2 weeks of protests against police brutality muhammadu buhari called for an end to the demonstrations after a day where prison and other places across lagos were set on fire but he didn't mention the shooting of protestors on choose day idris reports from a bridge or for days the president has been under pressure to speak to and they should not be age. after meeting the country's top security officials on thursday he asked security forces to act within the confines of law to halt the rising violence across the country. continue to ensure the. end of freedom as well as the fundamental raids of those protected to members this go month. has the other to get in to protect the legs and the properties as well as the day

to all citizens to go of those their daily business is seen and. violence for more than 2 weeks demonstrators mainly young men and women took to the streets demanding an end to police brutality compensation for victims and the reform of nigeria's police force they also want officers guilty of extrajudicial killing us torture and disappearances to be prosecuted and punished. in a shocking move captured on mobile phones by witnesses security personnel used live rounds of demonstrators on tuesday after curfew was announced today cause. or be under jewish law and there has been part of the end sauce protest since it started a brother missing for 12 years was last seen in the custody of the now disbanded group this year and at the center of the protest she watched the president's address on television and he's personally not impressed. the president doesn't have

any respect for the president doesn't think our lives are what you have. now. regarded as. she said the protesters would meet and decide their next line of action all day thursday security personnel what kept busy as mobs attacked police stations looting and burning properties across the city. here one of nigeria's main prisons the corrie correctional facility is on fire and security officials say they fold an attempt to set the prisoners free it's the 5th prison to be attacked in 3 days in a scene of the 1st mass prison escape more than 1700 prisoners are still at large the past 2 weeks have been some of the most difficult for this nation of over 200000000 people since its return to democracy in 1909 and the next few days will

be critical in determining whether the president's pronouncement are enough to calm the situation armitage reese al jazeera america official results from $37.00 out of 38 of guinea's a voting districts show president alpha condé winning a 3rd term with a landslide victory since sunday's election at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others injured when security forces fired at supporters of opposition presidential candidate sello del and yellow he says he has evidence of fraud and will contest the results in the constitutional court because haq reports. for a brief moment the gunfire start was interrupted by families who are in the morning . i do say do jello 14 years old charitableness he was 13 years old and 10 year old marcelo these young victims were shot by security forces some in the face while they were celebrating

a candidate said he would die in jail it was a preliminary victory announcement in sunday's presidential vote on the military firing of children small points 10 to 20 years old they never pick on a real man i hope that their death will not go in vain and that the violent will stop after the election commission known as the seine announced some of the provisional results all in favor of incumbent president alba condé jello supporters took to the streets in protest. and. nothing. nothing to do with. mobile phone footage circulating on social media like this one showing election officials pending votes in favor of the president is deepening mistrust in the

electoral process the 82 year old president amended the constitution earlier this year which allowed him to run for a 3rd term in office the decisions part of widespread criticism in protests president condé believes he will win the final vote which is expected this weekend meanwhile the government is accusing jello for mentoring unrest by announcing his victory before the official election results. condé is a democrat he will accept the outcome no matter the result additional mobile phone footage shows the military taking position inside for the neighborhoods known to support giallo power has been cut and people live in fear look at these dogs comments that we've been filming they're shooting our people over 10 people have died and scores have been injured shot by security forces using force to silence dissent against a population that is meant to protect not kill nicholas hawk al-jazeera

sri lanka's president now has expanded powers after the parliament overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament before its term finishes and has full immunity from prosecution they also have the power to appoint key officials including some judges the opposition had urged the government to withdraw the legislation which critics say will impose autocratic rule with reaction from 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 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 156 m.p.'s voting to change

the constitution as opposed to 65 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 his leave 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. so hariri has again

been named lebanon's prime minister with the country in the grip of a political and economic crisis his appointment was announced after consultations between lebanon's president and various political groups hariri resign from the job last year following anti-government protests saying the holder has more. solid how d.d. has returned to power the 3 time prime minister was appointed to form a government after receiving enough votes from lebanon's parliamentarians it will be the 1st anniversary next week of his resignation during the unprecedented popular uprising that called for among other things a new leadership that movement failed to bring change but had it is promising to stop the collapse of the economy and provide a new way forward at the origin of the sure it was. my frank my fellow employees and especially those who honored me by naming me by force quickly as possible and you know in parties and government of experts with a mission of economic financial and administratively forms contained in the french

initiative road map we have a chance possibly the last chance lebanon is facing multiple crises the economy is collapsing the local currency crashed there is rising poverty and unemployment the state which is close to bankruptcy is in desperate need of financial assistance the international community is conditioning aid to a reform minded government as part of an initiative by french president and manuel mccraw who has been leading rescue efforts this political class as we know and does not care to listen about what the lebanese people have been calling for a sense they rose up on october 17th on words this is part of the nation of this counter-revolutionary that started from the moment people took to the streets lebanon has been left with a caretaker administration since has sandy have resigned over the beirut port explosion in august that killed nearly 200 people and devastated many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital. the previous prime minister designate most of the it was

forced to step aside after failing to convince traditional parties to give up representation in cabinet it's never an easy process in a divided political landscape where factions are now lined with foreign powers. he is a papered of the western leaders he's a regular walking errors. he has the most role western leader in lebanon so in a way this is a kind of a victory for the pro western front in lebanon how do you do you may have friends in the international community but it's the other camp led by the pro iranian hezbollah that holds political power had it is returned could be a step towards a deal but for now it doesn't signal an end to lebanon's political crisis center for their. international donors of pleasure nearly $600000000.00 to support displaced ranger refugees britain the us the european union held a virtual conference with the un refugee agency on thursday they were aiming to

meet a funding target of warmed 1000000000 dollars this year close to a 1000000 range and now live in crowded bangladesh camps which comprise the world's largest refugee settlement the u.n. says the pandemic has made it already severely underfunded tosk even more difficult . poland's top courses ruled that a law allowing abortions to keep fetal defects is unconstitutional the decision means terminations are now almost totally banned abortions will only be allowed in the case of rape incest or if the pregnancy threatens the mother's health poland's opposition says the court is carrying out the political will of the ruling conservative party means something else to the same people who want to see the constitutional tribunals says the law is unconstitutional so a public debate should develop so that the protesters were gathered here understand that this is not about threatening a woman's life or safety it's about protecting the lives of children who are born sick or with down's syndrome or born with physical defects so that we can save

these children my home you're going to see the market for years i cannot get my head around a situation in which i'm forced to give birth to a child who is going to die this is traumatic for everyone for 9 months you'll be carrying a child with serious genetic defects which you know is not going to live very long this is traumatic for a woman for her whole family and everyone else around her i hope that maybe in 20 or 30 years that the next generations will have easy access to abortion investment bank goldman sachs will pay almost $3000000000.00 in penalties for its role in the malaysian one m.t.b. corruption scandal the settlement comes after its malaysian subsidiary pleaded guilty to violating bribery laws and admitted to paying more than $1000000000.00 to foreign officials to win business a 5 year investigation into the scandal involved or thirty's in nearly 9 different countries. the fugitive united states whistleblower edward snowden has been given

permanent residency in russia snowden fled to russia 7 years ago and has been living there on a series of temporary visas he's wanted in the u.s. on espionage charges after revealing security forces were collecting telephone records of millions of u.s. citizens. and you can find much more on our website the address is al-jazeera don't call. the top stories on al-jazeera france is extending its curfew on 9 major cities to a further $38.00 areas this means about $46000000.00 people will now have to stay indoors at night it comes as the country reported a record 41 and a half 1000 new cases u.s. president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are in nashville tennessee where they'll go head to head in 2 and a half hours in their 2nd and final debate organizers.