ringback. antigovernment protests return to the streets of baghdad after coronavirus restrictions are lifted. other than i'm hala my he is in and this is al jazeera life in doha. was a. man armed with guns and machetes kill at least 8 children during the ways on a school in cameroon. france recalls that some bastard are from turkey as tensions rise between the 2 nations over religious rights. and with just 9 days to go until

the us elections donald trump and his rival joe biden campaign inclusions swing states. but 1st anti-government protests are resuming across iraq after a long suspension because of coronavirus restrictions hundreds of people have been killed and injured in the protests so far against corruption and unemployment which began one here ago but across nighty baghdad where some or not full teen is live for us now some more give us a sense of what the turnout is so far. well i would say that there are around there are a few 100 protesters who have gathered in tahrir square which are you can see behind me this is of course if you compare it to one year ago when up over $25.00 it is a relatively small turnout at that time when we were here reporting there were thousands of people that the square was really packed and you couldn't even move

the turnout so far it's relatively small although it is still relatively early in the day it is probably 10 am local time here in but that's but many regard this day today as a real test for the protest movement because it has really died down over the fashion month on the one hand it to the coronavirus pandemic on the other hand also due to the arrest and the kidnapping from the killings that have been taking place targeted against the protesters so that it's really a test today to see whether this movement can once again mobilize really whether it can once again draw the same crowds that one year ago would be a few protesters who were gathering up on the bridges and some of them are planning for a child to cross the bridge on to the other side into the green zone which of course how is that many different government offices by the whether or not they will be able to see the remains to be seen and also remains to be seen how the security forces will respond if they actually managed to cross now prime minister maliki has

given strict orders to not use live ammunition but of course if the protesters cross to the other side the situation could well play this is uproot began a year ago as you mentioned hundreds of people have been killed during these 2 says one year old what would you say the. achievements. well the protest movement did force the resignation of former prime minister atal of the math in this was the 1st time since 2003 since the overthrow of saddam hussein that prime minister was actually forced to resign so that is quite significant but on the other hand the pharma. remained in place the political parties but brought out of the market to power are still there and that is actually what sort of to frame it changed they wanted the parliament to resign they wanted a change of the entire political system and that has not happened until now now we have a new prime minister the problem is we have called for early elections to take place

next june but whether or not these elections will retain something remains to be seen we still don't have a full new electoral law to see whether there will actually be a change that will for example give new from all parties a chance to get inside the parliament and of course one of the things that protesters here really want they want justice for the over 600 demonstrators who have been killed they have given the government and ultimatum to deliver death until today and to look for the 25th and that has not happened until now which is why they say that they need to escalate their demands to be to escalate the movement to try to make their. case some wonderful teen life for us in baghdad for no thank you the united nations and the african union have condemned an attack on school children in southwest cameroon at least 8 students were killed and 13 seriously injured when the sack happens in the city of andrew schapelle has more

a gruesome attack on children who were only trying to get an education armed men carrying guns and machetes enters a bilingual school on saturday saw students in class and opened fire. on the students each 12 to 14 years didn't stand a chance isabel dion's daughter was shot in the stomach but fortunately survived when i run in there and i made my child she was helpless and was she was shelton mournfully said only a goda can see if you know. this act of violence against a school and school children could constitute a crime against humanity no group has claimed responsibility. people were shouting . it's unclear whether the attack was linked to separate spiders active in the south west and northwest 2 english speaking provinces that have long complained of discrimination by the french speaking majority.

being attacked and children being ready. anglo phone separatists have boycotted public schools for the past 4 years as part of their protests against president paul b. s. government leaving hundreds of thousands of children out of school earlier this month the boycotts eased and schools reopened only for students to pull victim to this attack and schapelle al-jazeera. the opposition candidates in the seychelles has won the presidential election the election commission says while the run on has gained nearly 55 percent of the total votes cast it's the 1st presidential win for the opposition in 40 years since the independence of seychelles was into place over 3 days in the indian ocean nation.

in the us both president trump and his rival joe biden have been rallying in support of rallying support rather in battleground states well then 57000000 people have already cast their ballots coronavirus cases meanwhile hits an all time high on friday as trump continues to insist the nation is turning a corner and gallacher reports live from miami. the president trump and his democratic rival joe biden these final days are all about the battleground states i voted for a guy named trouble we can. thank after casting his ballot in florida the president held a rally in north carolina before moving on to ohio all crucial states in his bid for a 2nd term and i would not put joe in charge despite rising cases of the coronavirus a record daily high of more than 80000 on friday the president continues to tell supporters it's not an issue the pandemic that's all i hear about

a chilling you turn on television coverage covered covered go because of it covered a plane goes down 500 people dead they don't talk about it go over it go over it covered go over it by the way on november 4th you want hear about it i wish i could go to private car reach you all in joe biden's home state of pennsylvania the former vice president took a different tone he told the gathered crowd he'd secured jobs keep health benefits and tackle the coronavirus president trumped up pennsylvania by the narrowest of margins in 2016 the biden campaign wants to change that where 10 days left. that may come down to pennsylvania. and i believe in you i believe in my state the choice is never made clear the stakes have never been higher. 6 in miami former president barack obama spoke to voters at a drive in rally. still a popular figure in the democratic party he urged people to vote telling the crowd

that trump doesn't have what it takes to lead the country was. a tough question like what would you like to do in your 2nd tire let us are our make sure he doesn't get a 2nd term. with . the. with the finishing line now in sight both campaigns are expected to keep up their furious pace keeping the focus on the states that may matter most what's at stake of voters here is not just the direction this country will take in the next 4 years but who's best suited to tackle a crippling pandemic biden warns the coming months will be the worst yet as winter approaches trumps as the crow virus will soon be forgotten now voters get to decide who's right they gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. the us vice president's chief of staff mark shorts is in quarantine after testing positive for corona virus mike

pence and his wife are reportedly in good health and tested negative on saturday the vice president though is planning to stick to his travel schedule and continue campaigning around the country despite that positive test results. egyptians have been voicing to elect a new parliament's in a process that will stretch over several weeks 63000000 people are eligible to vote in the 2 stage election results expected in early december that's also a 5 $168.00 seats are up for grabs but under a new electoral law half of those seats will be allocated to pre-selected lists critics say that will benefit president of fatah and c.c. . france has recalled its ambassador from turkey as tensions rise demands to reform islam this after the turkish president questioned. no micron's mental health threat of type or do one says the french leader needs treatment for his

attitude towards islam and muslims french presidency criticized 3rd to one for not offering condolences for the killing of a teacher last week macron has been calling for changes to the way islam is practiced in france. what else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief who behaves in this way towards millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith 1st of all a check on the mental level. 50 countries have signed up to a united nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons and set to be brought into force in 90 days time on dura speaking the latest to ratify the agreement the move has been praised by activists but the united states and other nuclear powers have strongly opposed it afghan security forces say they've killed a senior al-qaeda leader who was on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list seen on musri was killed during a special operation in

a province he was believed to be 2nd in command mastery had been charged in the united states with providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization as well as conspiracy to kill americans. thousands of people protested outside the official residence of israel's prime minister on saturday that we could protest against binyamin netanyahu have been held for the past 4 months they say a number of demonstrators were arrested the protesters want netanyahu to step down over criminal corruption charges and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. there's growing opposition within sudan to the deal to normalize ties but this trio several prominent political groups have rejected the u.s. brokered agreements among them is the national consensus forces alliance there are parts of the coalition that emerged during the uprising against former president or mar bashir it still needs approval from a yet to be named yet to be formed its rather transitional legislative council so

to come here on al-jazeera hoping for change tester's a chilly make a final push ahead of a referendum that could play write the constitution. and the chairman of the alex tronics giant samson has died after being in hospital for the last 6 years. how there will be change of the clocks across much of europe this weekend and rules are changing the weather as well we've got lots of cloud a rolling in from the atlantic quite an active weather system this tightly packed ice bar so some very strong winds spackling of our cloud as well and you can see this cold front here that's going to drive some very heavy rain in across the northwest of europe eventually pushing down through the bad biscay into spain and

portugal so some pretty wet weather for a time as we go through sunday the early part of sunday easing across the low countries into germany and on into scandinavia rasher showers are rattling away just spinning away across the western isles of scotland northern parts of northern ireland ahead of that not so bad we have got some showers just around hungry pushing across into rumania and into bulgar area further north well 14 cells just dry and fine there for eastern parts kiev for example where the weather follows on behind as we go on in sea monday some snow there over the high ground he burst of right possibility some localized flooding there that is back to sunshine a showers across the northwest in a fresh 13 or 14 degrees celsius somewhat warmer across northern parts of africa want to see the showers up towards china but joe to the showers though still affecting the gulf of guinea.

dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the spare eclipsing story about presidential corruption it is real with it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to tell our story we don't want to rely on the authority and it's media listening post on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera quit trying to all the top stories for you know antigovernment protests on resuming across iraq after

a long suspension gigia the coronavirus restrictions is that mr ations against corruption and unemployment 1st began one year ago the united nations and the african union have condemned an attack on schoolchildren in southwest cameroon at least 8 children have been killed and 13 others seriously injured no group has claimed responsibility. and us presidential candidates donald trump and democrat joe biden have been campaigning in battleground states with the election just 9 days away the new poll stressed biden is in the lead nationally but it's a tight race in the swing states. latin america seeing a surge in coronavirus cases colombia has now passed one mentally and infections becoming the 8th country to do so. has been following the latest developments from one of sirees. the health ministry in colombia announced surpassing that 1000000 figure 30000 deaths there in the world to pass that grim milestone the 3rd in latin

america argentina passed it a few days ago brazil the worst country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. across the world there's been something like 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so it's got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world and the number of deaths approaching the 400000 marks a grim picture right across the region very few bright spots to be had anywhere in the numbers only seem to be going up every everywhere you look a year or so ago the world bank predicted that the whole region economies in the region would grow by 1.8 percent they've now revised that talking about a 7.2 percent drop across the region and we're already seeing the consequences of businesses closing tens of thousands of people losing their jobs and many many

people moving having to move out onto the street. european leaders are struggling to figure out how to bring danes soaring coronavirus infection numbers in germany more than 10000 people have died on infections have jumped to a new high of 15000 per day and france the health minister is warning hospitals cannot cope well and poland's president himself is in quarantine after testing positive the same barber reports. in a small town in the heart of europe they're trying to save a life the intensive care units here in the czech town of key of neighbor no is nearly full with covered 19 patients 75 staff at this hospital are off with the virus for their colleagues these are worrying times. the staff are doing everything even at the expense of their personal needs and time even on their days off they're working to prevent an italian scenario daily infections in the czech republic have

hit a record high of more than 15000 that's despite tight restrictions including limits on people's movement and a ban on gatherings of more than 2 people in poland's daily infections reached a record of nearly 14000 on friday as president andre duda visited the national stadium which is being transformed into a field hospital due to who's 48 is now in quarantine after testing positive for coverage 19 he says he feels fine insisting he and his team followed the safety measures for damage and separated i would like to apologize to everybody who's had to go into quarantine because they met with me in recent days please believe me if i had had any symptoms of coronavirus all meetings would have been cancelled. on saturday police in warsaw used tear gas against protesters angry about new restrictions the country's entered a so-called red zone lockdown with a partial closure of primary schools and restaurants and people above the age of 70 are being asked to stay at home over the border in germany the coronavirus death

toll is now more than 10000 the number of covered 900 page. since an intensive care has jumped by 2 thirds in a week chancellor merkel has warned that people's actions now will determine what the winter period will be like the isn't. when not helpless in facing the virus our actions determine the strength and speed at which it spreads and what's imperative for all of us is to contact to meet few of papal fronts is now followed spain in passing the most 1000000 covered 19 cases since the pandemic started the capital paris is one of many cities under a nighttime curfew but organizers of a new. mission here at the pump you do center hope visitors can focus on happier themes even for a short while. i can point to we know just how joyous metate is painting was he himself was very open about it so it's perfect timing because we need this sort of

art today. still here and elsewhere the virus threatens to bring back the truly dark days that so many countries went through earlier this year. al-jazeera. people in chile are getting the chance to change the constitution now this follows mass process calling for social change millions are expected to head to the polls in a referendum on sunday a latin america editor lucien newman has more now from santiago. a message impossible to me it's displayed in full each of these presidential palace approved a new constitution for a better future it says. on the other side of the street that the lean at that is joined to the celebration so that her daughters she says could live in chile with dignity they can let our constitution is our original sin it regulates all the laws what we can and cannot have and clearly it's no good. 40 years ago

military dictator general i will still be to shake called for a new constitution to be drafted it was offered tarion it also consecrated in extreme free market economic model with almost no state oversight it was ratified in a widening contested referendum which is why all these people say that it was illegitimate from its conception over the years is that money has become known as an abandoned american success story the fact that the government has been forced to cave and it demands this new referendum seems to suggest that something was seriously wrong. chile's not the poorest country in latin america by a long shot but it has the highest income disparity the constitution does not guarantee many basic social rights as in most modern democracies. when millions of chileans took to the streets last year to demand better minimum wages

education pensions and health care they pointed the finger at their politicians but also at their magna carta going to look at the sent us a government that are going to us our constitution basically recognize private property as the supreme right above all others the rights of an individual or private interests take predominance over those of society as a whole. but critics insist drawing up the current constitution and starting from scratch creates false expectations and economic instability not by police or nabby ultimately blames chillies. not change things made. there are very well bottom up reports that drastically transform be acquired through everyone and start looking. that's the pessimistic view but right now the prospect of drafting a new constitution with a popular input is seen as a major triumph by those who are hoping to set chile's democracy on

a new more socially equal path. you see in human al-jazeera sente at will. far fighters in colorado are struggling to contain the 2nd largest wildfire in the u.s. state's history large plumes of smoke can be seen rising over gran's can see as the fire continues to spread its is forced people to flee their homes but an elderly couple were killed after refusing to leave the house they had lived in for decades . the samsung group's chairman. he has died at the age of 70 eight's in hospitals and 2014 after suffering a heart attack lee was one of south korea's most influential and controversial business figures from seoul brian looks back at his life. it was a stage fit for the coronation of an emperor and for some song that was in effect what leak on he would become on his father's death in 1987 the took the helm of

a business that he would turn into south korea's dominant family conglomerate or chaebol he focused on increasing the ambition of the electronics are famously urging his staff to change everything except your wives and children the company was able to take this vision and able to dole it out into you can say ideological tracks that they would hand out to employees and their employers would study how they would read his words like they were literally a page out of the bible and there was an almost religious fervor to the public destruction he ordered of defective phones in 1995 the call to innovation and higher value products transformed samsung into the global giant it is today in south korea the sprawling network of samsung businesses covers everything from ship building to life insurance construction to credit cards the group's revenues are equivalent to 20 percent of south korea's g.d.p. in 2008 silly was given a suspended jail term and ordered to pay

a $110000000.00 fine for tax evasion after the discovery of secret samsung accounts worth billions of dollars in 2014 he suffered a major heart attack he spent the rest of his life in a samsung hospital. the empire now rests on the shoulders of lee's son j. young also known as jay wiley he was also imprisoned after he became embroiled in the corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of former president park geun hye. found guilty of bribing part with millions of dollars in exchange for government help with the merger he received a 5 year sentence but after a year in prison an appeal court freed him and dismissed most of the corruption charges against him. and even while he was behind bars sampson posted record profits leak on his legacy as a global corporate giant and also one of the most powerful and impenetrable

institutions in the country some call the republic of sam so let's get more on this now from donald kirk he's an author and journalist and joins us now live from seoul good to have you with this he was clearly a titan of korean industry have average every day koreans been reacting to this nice is he a much loved figure in the country. well he's a much admired much respected figure i'm not sure we can say he's much loved he's very controversial from 2 points of view for one thing he was twice convicted of major crimes and twice exonerated once he was the 1st time he was forced out as chairman of the entire somes an empire and the 2nd time he had to retire he had to resign again but he came back as chairman of the essential company in the empire

something electronics which competes with apple's and in making smartphones the world's leading smartphone manufacturer so there's their move here in south korea to try to dilute the power of the jebel or conglomerates there's a strong sentiment do try to provide do encourage an atmosphere of greater competition at the same time nobody wants to destroy something on which a lot of the south korean economy about 20 percent in fact resides so it's controversial from that point of view as well as from the point of view of corruption and it was that record of corruption that brought about the downfall of the former president park geun hye and led to the rise of the liberal president moon j yeah is it is quite fascinating isn't it these these control for say surprisingly could he and also his son that mean they have lost the the power of these carrying conglomerates and so on in sanaa tional spotlight really tell us

more about these big family businesses how much power do they how thin kerry and i think an issue is this for the country the chancellor conglomerates are often rick referred to as the engines of the korean miracle the something empire is the biggest but then one day motormen pyar is the 2nd biggest and hyundai include and the whole greater hyundai includes several other groups so one day something. and then comes s.k. and l.g. these are of the mighty conglomerates but there are and there are dozens of others which also have great power and great wealth so why so it's very important in terms of butters you the economy to respect and admire the record of these chat about the same time there's a whole problem of competition rising competition and diminishing creativity at

the top of these empires and 2nd and 3rd generation takeover j.y. legally j. young will be the 3rd generation and he said he's placed a number of charges he was in jail for a year but they let him out finally gave him a suspended sentence for corruption now he's back on trial again he's not in jail but he's still on trial for having manipulated shares so that he could ensure that he will leave the psalms and group the idea was that they wanted to take care of this before his father passed away j. wiley is here and it was begun for control of. an interesting possible keep an eye on i'm afraid we're out of time but thank you very much indeed donald kirk joining us and i saw scythe carol. i've.