and you go when you hit al-jazeera world tells the tale of 14 cargo vessels accidentally caught up in the arab israeli conflict it was quite a surprise to find myself right in the middle of a war through the sailors whose ships survived the desert sands the yellow fleet on al-jazeera. they're calling you a corrupt politician. corruption allegations coronavirus strategy and foreign policy take the center stage is donald trump and joe biden face off in their last presidential debate. i'm sorry is a than this is al jazeera live from coming up european leaders announce new

restrictions for millions of people to try and stop a new wave of covert 19 cases. preliminary results show france of alpha condé is one a 3rd term in getting the opposition says little challenges. and back for of. lebanon . as prime minister once again as the country battles a political and economic crisis. the 2nd and final debate between president donald trump and democratic nominee joe biden was a less chaotic affair than their previous meeting there had lively exchanges ranging from the economy and health care to corruption and the election interference the pandemic kicked things off trump promised a vaccine against the coronavirus very soon in his opening statement or biden told

him to the president over the more than 200000 americans who have died so far. it will be by the end of the year but i think it has a good chance or 2 companies i think within a matter of weeks and it will be distributed very quickly to tell us which companies johnson and johnson is doing very well mode earner's doing very well pfizer is doing very well and we have numerous others then we also have others that we're working on very closely with other countries and particularly europe let me follow up with you because this is new information you have said a vaccine is coming soon within weeks now your own officials say it could take well into 2021 at the earliest for enough americans to get vaccinated and even then they say the country will be wearing masks and distance and into 2022 is your timeline realistic though i think my timeline is going to be more accurate i don't know that they're counting on the military the way i do but we have our generals lined up one in particular that's the head of logistics and this is a very easy distribution for him he's ready to go as soon as we have the vaccine and we expect to have 100000000 viles as soon as we have the vaccine he's ready to

go 220000 americans did you hear nothing else i say tonight to this anyone who's responsible for not taking control in fact not saying i'm i take no responsibility initially anyone is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america joe biden says he'll take action against any foreign powers who interfere in the election. any country no matter who it is that interferes in american elections will pay a price they will pay a price has been overwhelmingly clear this election won't game get into the last one this election that russia has been involved china's been involved to some degree and now we learned that that iran is involved they will pay a price if i'm elected they're interfering with american sovereignty that's what's going on right now they're interfering with american sovereignty and the best of my

knowledge i don't think the president said anything to putin about it joe got 3 and a half 1000000 dollars from russia and it came through putin because he was very friendly with the former mayor of moscow and was the mayor of moscow as wife and you've got 3 and a half $1000000.00 your family got 3 and a half $1000000.00 and you know someday you don't have to explain why did you get 3 to have i never got any money from where because there has been nobody tougher to russia with between the sanctions nobody tougher than me and russia between the sanctions between all of what i've done with nato you know i've got the nato countries to put up an extra $130000000000.00 going to $420000000000.00 a year that stood against russia all the to also clashed over the u.s. relationship with north korea biden says he would meet kim jong un but only if he promises to reduce his nuclear capability north korea is a problem and we're going to continue to do it so we can control them we're going

to make sure we can control them and make sure they can not hurt us and so if you want to do something about it step up and help if not it's going to continue what has he done he's legitimize north korea he's talked about his good buddy who's a thug a thug and he talks about how we're better off and they are have much more capable missiles able to reach us territory much more easily than ever to be flown. he indicated we would be in a war with north korea guess what it would be a nuclear war and he does have plenty of nuclear capability in the meantime i have a very good relationship with a different kind of a guy but he probably thinks the same thing about me we have a different kind of relationship we have a very good relationship and there's no war and you know about 2 months ago he broke into a certain area they said oh there's going to be trouble or such move because he's not going to do that and i was right look instead of being in a war where millions of people sold you know is 25 miles away millions and millions

32000000 people and still millions of people would be ok right now president we don't have is not even that a good thing or should you a white house correspondent kimberly how it is in nashville she has more on how the candidates performed they both support some points and they both made some mistakes and i think that the winner from that and from the substantive discussion is the american public that really didn't get to see much any sort of policy discussion in that 1st presidential debate and all they saw was a lot of what they don't like about washington that is fighting partisan fighting bickering in dysfunction so this was an opportunity is both men laid out their closing arguments to really make a case that i think what american voters got was a clearer sense of what each man would do should they become president or in the case of a real action and there was there was sort of measured discussions and what this

did was give the undecided voter of which there are many in the united states the opportunity to know where each man stands on our bridey of different issues that are making headlines right now. but i don't like minutes professor of history at the american university he's well known for predicting the winner of every us presidential elections in 19 eighty-four he's calling it a job ali than my prediction is based on my 13 keys to the white house which has been correct since 1984 and the keys to gauge the strength and performance of the party holding the white house in other words the big picture of governing not the campaigning counts and absolutely nothing in this debate has changed the big picture of governing on which my prediction is based certainly this was a vastly better debate frosty donald trump was not interrupting and growing but in

terms of the issues in the argument absolutely nothing new pay mout in this debate you heard the familiar arguments on both sides donald trump calling biden a career politicians done nothing all these years out of hating him for the crime bill is blaming he's going to bankrupt the economy with this climate change plan and in turn joe biden joe ding that donald trump bought the coronavirus pandemic and has no plans to produce only with it i thought the most affected moments provide him with what he pointed out that donald trump has been promising throughout his presidency for a plan to replace obamacare and it's never a mertz it still isn't there and i thought donald trump you know was very vulnerable on the separation of the family and the children with over 500 children

still not united any and no answer as to how those children could be united. now the united states has imposed sanctions on 5 iranian groups accusing them of attempting to interfere in next month's election on wednesday u.s. intelligence agency said iran and russia obtained information on u.s. voters they accuse them of trying to influence public opinion on the sanctions applied to iran's revolutionary guard and t.v. and media companies like the u.s. drone strike targeting al qaeda leaders in syria has killed 14 members of the group they were hit and that's syria's last rebel held province the u.s. army says the strike killed the 5 is meeting for dinner corona virus cases are spiraling across europe leaving leaders with little choice but to impose new curfews and restrictions on millions of people the french prime minister put it bluntly saying the 2nd wave is here

a nighttime curfew is being extended covering 2 thirds of the population restrictions on movement are also happening in italy and greece with people in major cities ordered to stay off the streets in the evenings spain experienced a recording crease in infections on thursday almost 21000 in a single day many regional governments are having to bring in soft lockdown measures cases in germany recently passed 10000 for the 1st time it's issued travel warnings for switzerland ireland poland italy austria and the u.k. jonah hill reports from london. 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.

the voice behind the camera says all of them had the virus. 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 covert 19 with more french cities and 2 thirds of the population placed under a nighttime curfew. the coming weeks will be tough but all 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 record daily infection numbers in the to. 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 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. also ahead on al-jazeera china's president marks the anniversary of the korean war with a warning against its rivals and might interfere in its affairs. living out of a car and struggling to survive we look at the plight of people displaced by fighting in the. however the weather is set fair across the middle east some lovely sunshine for us here we'll see light winds as well so not so much of a problem it could be very pleasant over the next day also a little further north we got some lively showers into the eastern side of the mediterranean the fine in try for the most parts a little bit of cloud between the black sea and the cocoa says just pushing ever towards the caspian sea but again fine and dry mid 37 back that i'm full q.h.

said safe the south doha 3132 maybe a 33 degrees celsius as i said some lovely sunshine coming up over the next couple of days on the other side of the red sea lossie fine in try for the eastern half of ethiopia around the horn of africa and i believe will show us just rolling away through the democratic republic of the congo just around the rest was like victoria heavy downpours to slide in the way into were no them parts of angola pushing up towards the bomb to was cameroon as well some big showers here but not as wet as it has been to southern parts of nigeria to the south of our right well this form dry and lastly sunny some pleasant sunshine coming 1st warming up as well cape town at 22 celsius johannesburg still getting into the high twenty's.

jumped into the stream and julian on global community bio diversity is bio security is that essential for our species to survive be part of the debate i know you her mind is and you can be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table in the coming rains are not neutral and all of these cases goal here is to terrorize and here's the other part of this there's no consequence to this stream on out is the. root. or the or. welcome back you're watching our time to recap our headlines u.s. president trump and democratic nominee joe biden faced off in their 2nd and final

debate of the election campaign they had lively exchanges ranging from the pandemic in the economy to corruption and the election interference voters will decide the winner on november the 3rd. governments across europe are struggling with how to deal with a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak france has expanded curfews to more regions as cases surge comes as the country passed 1000000 infections. china is marking the 70th anniversary of the korean war the 1st and only time american and chinese troops have been in large scale direct combat with one another president xi jinping used the occasion to send a clear warning to any future adverse or. look we won the great victory declaring to the whole world that the era of western invaders setting up several cantons in the oriental part of this world and occupying one nation as a result was over china will never see germany or expansion will stand firmly

against germany and power politics will never stand idle when our national sovereignty security and development interest is undermined will never allow anyone or any force to invade or separate land and when such thing occurs to chinese people you'll meet the challenge head on. a dream brown is following the story from hong kong so what else is the messages that china is sending on this. well summary i think the message that president xi jinping was sending out on friday was essentially this china resisted u.s. aggression 70 years ago and it's quite prepared to resist u.s. aggression today whether it be on the trade front door over taiwan or hong kong and also what's important was the context in the setting of what the president had to say on friday because he delivered his speech in the great hall of the people and

that's where all important speeches by chinese leaders are delivered amongst those in the audience were veterans of the war in north korea chinese veterans and of course china lost almost 200000 soldiers fighting on the side of the north now in china it's often referred to as the war against u.s. aggression whereas in the united states they use the more neutral term the korean war now context well of course this is the 70th anniversary of the start of that conflict and for chinese leaders it's always an important time to use the history card at times like this to remind the chinese people of the sacrifices that were made by previous generations now often this anniversary goes sometimes largely are marked in china 10 years ago for instance when hu jintao was president this was a very muted anniversary because on that occasion relations between china and the

united states were pretty good 20 years ago in the aftermath of the bombing by u.s. warplanes of the chinese embassy in belgrade and this anniversary was played up big time in state controlled media as it is now in 2020 state controlled media has been running films from the korean war and highlighting the fact that you know from china's perspective this wasn't a defeat or a messy truce it was. a victory by china standing up to a technologically superior furrow now back in 1950 china had its red lines and it has its red lines in 2020 and this week it would seem sami that those red lines have once again being crossed by the united states agreeing to sell more arms to taiwan or i will leave it there thanks so much adrian brown. now in getting

preliminary results from 37 out of 38 voting districts show president alpha condé winning a 3rd term with a landslide victory more than 20 people have been killed and dozens injured since the election on sunday after security forces fired at supporters of opposition presidential candidates. well he says he has evidence of fraud and will contest the results in court because hawke reports. for a brief moment the gunfire stops was interrupted by families who are in mourning. i do say you do jell-o. 14 years old chair known as he was 13 years old and 10 year old marcelo these young victims were shot by security forces in the face while they were celebrating candidate said i was preliminary victory announcement in sunday's presidential vote for years military foreign children small boy 10 to 20 years old they never pick on

real ma'am i hope that their death will not go in vain and that the violence will stop preliminary results announced by the election commission known as the sen he suggests alpha condé said to win a landslide victory jello supporters are taking to the streets protesting the election results his party believes jello won with 53 percent of the vote. and. nothing. nothing to do and. the media. and. 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 may. the constitution

earlier this year which allowed him to run for a 3rd term in office the decision sparked widespread criticism and protests condé said to become one of the continent's oldest heads of state in a country where most are under the age of 25 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 new neighborhoods known to support giallo power has been cut and people live in fear look at these dogs comments the women filming their shooting are people over 10 people have died and scores have been injured shot by security forces using force to silent dissent against a population it is meant to protect not kill nicholas hawk al-jazeera. suddenly he has again been named lebanon's prime minister he'll be back in charge of dealing

with the political and economic crisis how do you do you resign from the job last year following widespread anti government protests then hold the reports. sad 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 ship but it was. my frank my fellow employees and especially those who honored me by naming me by for me as quickly as possible a new nonpartisan 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 since they rose up on october 17th on words this is part of the culmination of the 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 doesn't have most of a db was forced to step aside after failing to. in vince traditional parties to give up representation in cabinet it's never an easy process in

a divided political landscape where factions are allying with foreign powers. he is the favorite of the western leaders he's a regular at washington errors and so he has the most role western leader in lebanon on 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 and to lebanon's political crisis that offer there. just go by is a lebanese activist and former chatham house analyst she says how do these reappointment shows nothing is changed. there is a wide feeling after spare especially among the young generation in lebanon and protest but if you want to keep expectations in check that was bound to happen big

eys says the system is of is a sectarian system that's built on power sharing of all these people coming in to go so they all need each other in a way to maintain their kind of business martyrs and their vested interests in the system so we've expected had to come back and change it is not going to happen overnight in lebanon despite the feeling among many have been years that we're back to square one and probably actually we were sent square one because what has happened in one u.b.s. didn't have been a lot of the policy action could have been taken to me to gauge the impact of the financial and economic crisis and that didn't happen and we and was a chain of haiti you cannot extract actual forms and so we're going back and we're going down and we're going to get to us in lebanon and everyone expects that heavy fighting has continued between armenia and azerbaijan on thursday in

a conflict increasingly threatening to draw in turkey and russia vladimir putin says nearly 5000 people have died in the 4 weeks of fighting many of those civilians is calling for an urgent truce comes as turkey offered to send troops to support john if asked russia says any military deployment by ankara would intensify the conflict of the fighting in the on account of his heavy having a devastating impact on people on both sides of the conflict. fells and have been forced to leave their homes many of them are struggling to survive what are the met some displaced people and data in central as a debate john. 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. jemele 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 her house was hit my sister was 11 she was wounded and my brother was killed i remember all of this it engraved in my memory when turtill got bombed i ran away with my 3 children i had lived through all of this 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 about that i mean our son said he wanted to volunteer she gave him her blessing to them and that he sent us he got injured i told it's for the sake of color back up 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 army 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 poland's top court has ruled having an abortion because of 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 causes a threat to the mother's health poland's opposition says the tribe you know is carrying out the political will of the conservative ruling party. let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump and democratic nominee joe biden of faced off in their 2nd and final debate of the election campaign they had lively exchanges ranging from the pandemic and the economy to corruption and the election interference voters

will decide the winner on november the 3rd we had the best black unemployment numbers in the history of our country hispanic women.