just to be on the ground was going to the release of the words and it's really good . to. see this they represent. a race against the coronavirus that europe is not winning the w.h.o. wants governments to speed up their response. though i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program french products in the firing line as a war of words between turkey and france escalates. reports of violations of the u.s. brokered cease fire and of course lost in peace continues to remain out of reach

and find out what nasa has discovered on the sunlit surface of the moon. welcome to the program our top story world health organization has warned that european governments need to accelerate their response to the corona virus cases are rising sharply right across the continent with dozens of countries reporting record numbers of infections among them spain which added more than 52000 new cases over the weekend but hopes of a vaccine are growing in the u.k. with the british government anticipating a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year the foka has our ports. hospitals across europe are under mounting strain in spain emergency wards are overrun with coated 19 sufferers many of them elderly the country's followed france

and belgium sladen imposing nighttime curfews a response said prime minister pedro sanchez to an extreme situation. countries are tightening restrictions from says been reporting record daily figures but a leading scientist who advises the french government believes the infection rate could be twice as high adding to calls for a full a short term lockdown. the virus is so present around us today we no longer have a choice we have to downsize a bit like what the irish and the welsh have done to reset a time or allow ourselves to reorganize and to stop the situation of intensive care units. in parts of russia doctors are understaffed and overwhelmed during the 1st wave this hospital in siberia handled only a few mild cases now it's over a 3rd of hospital staff have tested positive. it's an ongoing war and

we have daily losses as medics get sick and people get sick rushes racing against time to develop a vaccine it's one of a dozen internationally in the final stages of testing in the u.k. the oxford university astra zeneca vaccines reportedly shown an immune response in both young adults and the elderly that's encouraging news given the immune system weakens with age and the elderly a most at risk of dying from the virus. 10 thousands of people are being tested and so we are quite optimistic that we will soon see the result of that he's the 1st woman to beg seems being published maybe even as early as december but effective vaccine would be a game changer in the battle against corona virus several could be available civil taney asli in the 1st half of next year but with a vaccine comes the big question over who should get it 1st europe's bracing for

a long winter but there's hope the burka al-jazeera. well u.s. president donald trump has again insisted his country is rounding the corner on the crown of virus pandemic despite surging cases and hospitalizations trump has defended his strategy after a senior aide admitted on sunday that america will not control the outbreak white house chief of staff mark meadows says the virus can only be defeated through vaccines and therapeutic treatments democratic presidential challenger joe biden says the white house has waived the white flag of defeat more than 225000 americans have died since the pandemic began that is the highest figure of any country. let's go to white house correspondent can be held kits and yet more questions and concerns over the trump administration's response to the virus. yeah that's absolutely right in the u.s. president pushing back on criticisms that this administration is waving the white

flag in fact as he continued to hold multiple rallies in the us state of pennsylvania the us president has said compared to europe the united states is doing really well and blames the what he calls the fake news media for watching to scare everyone and asked for those comments by his rival joe biden that he is waving the white flag giving up on controlling the virus or even containing at the u.s. president saying that biden is waving the white flag he doesn't want to live life in is just hiding in his basement well what we've got here are 2 very different approaches to dealing with the pandemic in the united states there is the trump administration's approach which is mitigation versus prevention by joe biden it's a strategy that the chief of staff mark meadows earlier pushed back on. a national lockdown strategy or a national porn teen strategy that is proposed by the left. is not

effective is not what we're all timidly contain or control this virus so any suggestion that we're waving the red flag i mean the white flag is is certainly not in keeping with this president you know him he didn't give up and he's not going to give up until all americans are safe and we defeated this virus. now donald trump tweeting on monday that he believes the reason for the rise in cases in the united states is the increase in testing there's no question that numbers are rising 8600000 americans infections and in terms of deaths 225000 and counting in fact in the past 2 days the u.s. has recorded on 2 different days both the highest numbers of infections and this is a concern that this continues to increase exponentially so in the midst of all of this there is growing concern as americans are set to go to the polls in less or

rather in just a little more than a week and as they can to do that this ministration still continuing to campaign in that includes the vice president mike pence who has tested negative for covert 19 as of today but 5 members of his staff have tested positive. thanks so much from the white house committee. now present russia type one has called for a boy caught on french goods as tensions continue to rise of plans for reform for islam in france on saturday are the one question president emmanuel micron's mental health for his attitude towards islam and muslims that prompted france to recall its ambassador from turkey not quantised and calling for tougher laws to prevent what he calls separatists and separatism in french society should. i'm now telling my nation just as the saying in france not to buy anything from turkish brands i call on my nation here now do not pay attention to french labor goods do

not buy them. well then him because he who has more on ones comments from istanbul . it has been this way for a while between french president 7 and mark one and turkish president dan basically the there are several reasons. for the dispute between 2 countries which has. which has actually centralised between. first turkey's military presence in libya turkey's oil and gas explorations in the eastern mediterranean the latest level knickerbocker dispute between are many and as these i did these are the problem attic areas at which those 2 nato allies are at odds with against each other and personally aragorn and mark grown have been criticizing each other very harshly in the last couple of months but. especially our

dance of recent statements. recent verbal attacks as other diplomats name it. has been perceived as concerning basically present there don and his allies see that there is rising islam or for be a in europe in particular in france and netherlands and that's why into in his speech today he called france and other countries as racists and fascists basically our don is trying to corner france because he believes that mark will miss trying to corner turkey in its rising regional efforts especially in this the mediterranean and the has the reaction now from the french capital parish. we've heard from the culture minister rosen in bash lo she made some comments about her once a call for a boycott by saying that a boycott is not in a french tradition that what is needed is dialogue and discussion in order to try

and calm tensions i was in buffalo also said that him at all my call is not as he's accused by the turkish president anti muslim he is simply trying to fight against what he calls radical islam in france something that is detrimental and destructive says my core all of french society to people who are muslim and not muslim living in france we also heard comments from the head of the muslim council here in france that is a body which is seen as something of a go between between the muslim community and the french government the head of that council says that muslims are not persecuted in france they are free to worship they're free to build mosques he said so lots of reaction coming into everyone's comments of course the turkish president's comments a couple of days ago saying that a man or michael was anti muslim that he needed a mental health check went down very badly as you can imagine with french

authorities at the least say also with the foreign ministry saying that this sort of talk is in a way it's beneath a saw it's beneath the head of state it is not very diplomatic it is not very constructive and they called on the turkish president to end this kind of talk which is also not very befitting of an ally turkey and france of course both nato allies. well now a 3rd attempt a humanitarian ceasefire between azerbaijan and armenia is already in jeopardy just hours after coming into force fighting has continued with the 2 countries blaming each other for the violations they've been clashing over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh which is part of azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic armenians late to cease fire was agreed in the u.s. off to separate talks between secretary of state might come in the foreign

ministers of both nations respectively or a challenge reports now from the armenian capital yerevan. armenians insist that they are honoring this cease fire at a hearing to it but they say that the aires have been shelling civilian settlements that they have kills one civilian and wounded another 2 in the going to karabakh that they have been using smirch rocket systems the as areas have been say similar things back to the armenians so yes the prospects for this particular effort at a ceasefire not particularly rosy at the moment i mean you have to look at this situation and say perhaps it is in the armenians best interest to come to a ceasefire not necessarily in the interests of the as areas have been in the military ascendancy over the last few weeks it could still go wrong for the by john

on me but the presidents of of as of why john. doesn't seem to really be in the mood for the cease fire anyway he has said that we will continue on our part in an address to the nation earlier if they want to cease fire let them tell the occupying states to leave our territories no and we will go on to the end he seems fed up with peace process is fed up with the o.s.c. a fed up with international medias he says a biased in favor of armenia aid we are creating a new reality says he. and that does not seem the right kind of circumstances for a last thing ceasefire. and watching out is that life from london much more still ahead. in 2016 donald trump who won the presidential election in part by winning the key swing states in the great lakes area ohio michigan and wisconsin we take it to more of the great lakes states to see how they'll play in the 2020 election.

had i was about to get stormy as i was in the eastern atlantic that massive cloud there is the remains of hurrican epsilon that will eventually turn itself into a real big storm and it will throw its weight against the british isles what extend his influence into much of western europe in the mean time snow that's already formed on the alps as stop for the sun's come out not be good beautiful white ground in the rain or down 3 of your attic and focusing just south of italy and heading towards greece that could be a pretty vicious circulations ahead in towards athens for example on wednesday same times windy rainy for the british isles the low countries and france quite quiet for much of central and eastern europe and relatively mild in a good part of scandinavia but the snow may be coming into norway or sweden but in

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energy solutions for future generation the brush fire nearing future energy. to move. the world. come back the headlines now w.h.o. is warning europe it needs to speed up its fight against the coronavirus but is optimistic countries won't need to return to national lockdowns dozens of european nations are reporting a wreck or rise in infections. president other one has called on people to boycott french goods as tensions rise over french president emanuel mack crohn's plans to reform islam in france macron has been calling for tougher laws to prevent

aussie call separatism in french society. and armenia and azerbaijan of accused each other of violating a 3rd humanitarian ceasefire just hours after it came into force countries are fighting over the disputed territory nagorno-karabakh which is part of azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic armenians. well in all the stories we're following for the 2nd consecutive day huge crowds of demonstrators have marched in the capital of better reuss ramping up pressure on veteran leader alexander lukashenko opposition groups had it they had set a deadline of monday on midnight on sunday for the president set down or face a wave of national strikes a battery says seen months of demonstrations now since the shank is widely disputed election victory an organist paul brennan reports. the call for a national strike pushed the protests in belarus into a critical new face a litmus test of whether the demonstrations by looking his political opponents can

sustain support from the country's workers. for the 2nd consecutive day many tens of thousands of people marched draped in the white and red it was bella who says national flag before it took a symbolic yearning for a time without him in charge the exiled opposition figures from atlanta skier thanks to the demonstrators for their continuing support and tweeted photographs of striking factory staff the prime minister's office insisted that all the major companies were working normally the russian media reported that the strike all had been answered by workers at many major state controlled enterprises analysts believe that's significant there are several groups that were loyal to her in the previous years and those were the workers of the state and oh and enterprises and also the pensioners like the older generation people and now they are withdrawing support or looking schenkel and going on protests and going on strikes this propes

even more that look at franco lost his legitimacy and he is not perceived as the legitimate leader of the country. social media video shoot medical students marching out of classes in solidarity. and elderly protesters saying belarusian folksongs in the street. there have been confrontations and standoff with the riot police in some cases the police chose to withdraw. in others such as this police raid on an apartment male students were violently beaten and arrested. more growth rate of miscellaneous cousin proper many groups are now subject to violence my children work and they have already been offered the chance to emigrate so i'm very worried i want to see my children my grandchildren here in al country despite the demonstrations and public protest president lukashenko still appears to have the support of the country's powerful neighbor russia but if these

demonstrations spark a sustained wave of industrial walkouts that will certainly have a crucial impact on the geo political calculations paul brennan al-jazeera. but just a way to go until the election the attention of both sides is now focused on the battleground states wisconsin lies on a political knife edge the traditionally democratic state recently replaced a republican governor with a democratic one now the democrats hope to recapture a state that seems to be swinging now way john hendren reports from door county in wisconsin. donald trump swept into wisconsin like a cool wind off lake michigan and he left in 2016 with an upset victory in a state that hadn't voted for a republican for president since 1984 and he did it in part here in door county a swing county that voted twice for george w.

bush twice for barack obama and in 2016 for donald trump door county is a treeline peninsula jutting into lake michigan home to dairy farms apple orchards multimillion dollar lakefront homes and tourism at the farmers' markets and quaint stalls on this scenic landscape fotr seem is divided as they were 4 years ago i went into the biggest. key person to. american people could actually vote for somebody who. treated other people that way. totally way our president has done a good job. and whether he's going to get in or not i don't know and i hope he does . i don't think. a strong enough to handle the job with just days before the sun rises on the november 3rd election party activists say both sides know if not for wisconsin hillary clinton would be running for

reelection and they are more motivated this time early on they realize that joe biden is playing going to be the candidate they could best beat donald trump there's a lot more enthusiasm and energy both sides people didn't realize probably that. you know they maybe didn't think it was going to go to trump so i think they know ok we want to last time we got a shot this time too and i think people realize how pivotal wisconsin is in wisconsin and elsewhere political makers say battleground state polls are more reliable than they were when trump won upset victories across the great lakes states but 2016 has left many wary i think biden will win wisconsin but i think it will be fairly narrow even though the polls are saying $5.00 to $7.00 points it wouldn't surprise me if it came down to a point like last time or maybe 2 points whatever the polls say if there's one thing we learned from wisconsin in 2016 is that you can't take this great lakes state for granted. will john joins us live now and so just pace of picking up on

the point you made there about those crucial northern states and i suppose that there is skepticism a to whether president can win them in this cycle. how much can we rely on the polls. pollsters will say that they have those battleground state polls and they. likely voters one of the problems with the polls in 2016 was if people are relying on national polls as opposed to these individual battleground states but really ultimately. the votes are counted next week but i'll give you a preliminary view right now in an average of the polls in wisconsin. by 8 points another average of polls in michigan. it's a dead heat in ohio and in pennsylvania we were just told that.

at 45 president trump is making 3 stops in pennsylvania today as he does that joe biden is simply making. and that's where his base is. mike pence the vice president on the republican ticket is in minnesota so you've got the candidates really spending a lot of time in the field but it seems that joe biden is taking a much more laid back approach aggressively campaigning through the states as if he were still on those steroids. but to give you another indication of how confident the candidates are joe biden is expecting to make a stop in georgia a generally republican state this is where generally you don't expect democratic candidates to be campaigning this late in the season so they seem to be believing the polls at least to some extent but i have heard pollsters say you might want to

give. percentage points in those states because. voters who just don't show up in the polls but they show up on election day. and in part 2 of our series touring battleground states america's midwest john's going to be reporting from detroit detroit michigan to find out what matters to voters in a trump majority county that's on choose day on al-jazeera. so our time some other stories now in a russian as strike has killed at least 78 turkish backed rebels in northern syria the syrian observatory for human rights says that while the 90 others were wounded in the attack on a training camp in the. area of russia and turkey by a back opposing sides in the conflict at a fuller than a deescalation zone forged under a cease fire agreement in march. now libya's national oil corporation

says that it's reopen the l. feel oil field ending the closures of oil facilities and ports from an 8 month blockade by forces loyal to war. officials hope the full production will soon resume country used to produce more than a 1000000 barrels of crude a day but while mcduffie's downfall in 2011 plunged the country into violence last week libya's war in fact warring factions signed a cease fire agreement in geneva under the auspices of the united nations on the thailand's parliament is holding a 2 day special session to discuss months of protests calling for reforms to the government and curbs to the monarchy biggest opposition party says the prime minister prime has become a burden and needs to quit on monday protest as are instead focusing on the german embassy to petition lynn to investigate the thai king's time in germany scott heil has more on this now from bangkok. so after marching for about 2 hours the

protesters a few 1000 of them have arrived here at the german embassy now there's something they've been announcing for a while that they're going to come here and do the german embassy official said that they recognize the protesters right for a peaceful gathering and that's exactly what's happening here what they're going to do they're going to present this document to the embassy officials here saying that they want their investigation into the king's use of his power on german soil we know the german government has already started to look into this at the same time with this march started the german foreign minister and now it's that he has been looking into the course of our own journalist role for a long time long term so obviously they're looking into the legality of it what is there the king oh a lot of the time spends in germany but also particularly this year has been spending an overwhelming amount of time so the protesters are here are saying that they want an investigation into that german officials saying they're going to do it

and this is kind of their symbolic move to deliver this letter to say that they want that investigation to go and they have been doing it now it's going to be interesting what we'll see on tuesday the ongoing political dialogue and emergency session of parliament will continue the right now the focus is on this and will be very interesting to see what the german government does after this letter is officially deliver. now nasa says that it's found water on the sunlit side of the moon for the 1st time the u.s. space agency confirmed water molecules have been discovered and one of the moons largest craters which is visible from the us now previously water has been detected but only in the shadows of the dock site the discovery was made by the sophia flying observe a trail which is housed on board a modified jumbo jet nasa hopes of pastoralists back on the moon again by 2020 full . space journalist an analyst leo and writes things the significance of this latest

discovery previous work in particular one has to say by the indian space agency their wonderful try a dry emissions certainly identified the possibility of water all across the moon which was in itself a stunning suggestion what the americans of which is new is they have detected only ambiguously water molecules slow to get would appear of both the lunar surface like. near clay vs crater if you will get more information on that on that remarkable discovery you could try checking web site al jazeera dot com and of course you got all the latest on a headline stories there as well.

look at the main stories now the world health organization is warning that europe needs some serious excel aeration they say in the fight against the corona virus but is optimistic that countries won't need to return to national lockdowns cases are rising sharply across the continent with dozens of countries reporting record infection rates among them spain which added more than 52000 new cases over the weekend hopes of a vaccine are growing in the u.k. with the british government anticipating a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year. u.s. president donald trump continues to insist his country is rounding the corner on the coronavirus and that make this despite surging cases and hospitalizations president had to defend his strategy after a senior aide admitted on sunday that america will not control the outbreak white house chief of.