so as the and. and i just your development manager. this is my nigerian the heir to my mind on al-jazeera. the arab. has a by john accuses army of killing at least 21 civilians near the disputed region of my garden academy. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha would need for you back to go also ahead more protests against the french president's comments on islam as turkey's leader threatens to sue the magazine charlie hebdo 2 of europe's biggest countries consider nationwide dogs of characterizing corona virus infections and a tense wait for results in tanzania after an election marred by violence and

accusations of. the at. the end of. the latest cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia is crumbling after just 2 days as a by john is accusing armenia of killing at least $21.00 civilians and wounding dozens more in strikes close to the disputed region of my god. the attack in the city of bada is he dead the civilian since fighting sought as a month ago between the 2 countries denies the attacks which come a days after the u.s. brokered a humanitarian truce or residents of bada told they suffered hours of intense shelling. has more from azerbaijan's capital. it was the worst attack on civilians since this round of hostilities began now the latest number is still stands at 21 dead but more than 70 injured and as we understand it some are in very

critical condition this comes on the back of 4 other people who died on tuesday evening including an infant not very far from barda city in a village nearby the authorities here were quick to condemn that attack president ilham aliyev himself said that the response will come back will be on the battlefield and aides to the president said that the armenians had used cluster smersh long range missiles to hit the city of bard today and the army is saying that this still trying to figure out the extent of the damage that has been done but we as we understand that there has been several civilian infrastructures that were hit too. and rory challenge has a view from armenia's capital yerevan. today obviously has been a grim day the worst for civilians it seems in this conflict so far the armenians

have denied they attacked shelves but the pictures obviously tell a different story the all medians are saying that it is they who have been the victim of shelling today and i care about that the capital the main city and they're going to care about stuck on a kurtz's being attacked and that the main hospital there has been badly hit particularly the maternity wing of it no casualties as far as we're aware in that incident but they have also said the armenians that. the city of shushi has been attacked as well and that one civilian died in that rocket attack i think recording it and who were injured now. saying that this is a continuation of what he's calling a genocidal policy against the civilians of going to care about the armenians of nagorno-karabakh perhaps this is the kind of thing that we might see more of as as

as both sides get increasingly invested increasingly desperate perhaps that attacks on civilian centers are going to increase as well. in other world news turkey's president or ship divert on is threatening legal action against a french magazine for publishing a cartoon on the front page of its latest edition that mocks him at a one has criticized the satirical weekly shot calling need to discuss the never describe racism and hatred tensions have between turkey and france about cartoons of the prophet mohammad after a french teacher was beheaded for showing students' images in a lesson on freedom of speech french president ammonia mccall has vowed to crack down on what he calls a radical islam on the cost comments on islam have sparked protests across a number of muslim countries this was a scene early in the iranian capital tehran iran as president has some ronnie. he says france must not insult the prophet and egypt's president abdel fattah ass he says freedom of expression should stop at offending more than 1500000000 people

al-jazeera senior political analyst ron bashara says the french and take its leaders need to promote dialogue and not more deficient there's multiple levels to this tension that's going on. and go on there is that person or these are very. charismatic very outspoken. i would even say within their society elitist in some way why you know leadership centric and so it's very very sensitive over there a major difference in the fight how different sects and it's also those of the world and one of them are in the midst of full of all health and you know crises them off their friends so the president michel is running for election in the year and a half or so and 3rd my home is really trying to speak for europe and the west and just as much as. president though i was going to speak with

a muslim or the killer of the french future this is one muslim who is not 1300000000 muslims and that one cartoonist whether he is in paris or he is in holland he isn't one european who is not europe he's not but mr world and i think that's basically but the center of the problem is a not going to do i normally grow know the west nor the east to study if i think i don't want out of the action of one person to talk to them to his credit he did not bring christianity when he talks about iraq when he talks about michael. to over a europe's largest countries are considering tough new restrictions asked corona virus infections hits record highs and he does daily tally in germany recorded nearly 15000 new cases propose restrictions include shutting bars cafes restaurants and limiting social contact and in the coming hours france is expected to announce

a 4 week nationwide knockdown neve aka has more from london. german chancellor angela merkel has blamed a lack of discipline for a steady increase in the infection rate we know that she's going to be meeting the 16 leaders of germany's different states to discuss a whole raft of new measures that will come into force possibly as early as november the 4th including the closure of all bars and restaurants necessary so the german chancellor to bring the situation there of the control a difficult situation is how she described it we also know that some schools are moving some lessons online in anticipation that eventually they may need to close as well let's not forget that germany has often been seen as a leading lights in being able to deal with a coronavirus pandemic its secret weapon has really been is 400 or so health authorities are across the country for some time germany has already had its own

contact tracing system in place to deal with other illnesses such as measles so while other countries in europe were playing catch up germany appeared to be on top of the situation but given the rapidly increasing rate in infections one health official in bavaria has described it as being like trying to stop an avalanche with his outstretched hands. the u.s. presidential candidates are making their final push to win over voters with just under a week to go until the election crisscrossing the country campaigning in battleground states more than 70000000 americans have already voted a record that could lead to the highest voter turnout in a century i can has our report from washington. a final frenetic week of campaigning before election day president trump doing

a swing through 3 of the states with polls indicate he's neck and neck with joe biden wisconsin michigan and the brusca attempting to remove one issue from the agenda at the beginning of the day tweeting fake news media is going full on. we are rounding the turn 99.9 percent. and he's attempting to reset the conversation around an economy he claims to have revived its troubled lead the number one reason that i'm standing here because of trade and how we turn that around. 7 days from now we're going to win the great state. we're going to win for 4 years in the way. but joe biden kept the discussion sent to done what he describes as a trumpet ministrations failure to deal effectively with the pandemic this

administration has yet to offer a single plan that's one of the reasons why the most one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world the new england journal of medicine call the president quote dangerously incompetent went on to say president turned a crisis into a tragedy i'm ready that act. i know what to do. biden spent the day in georgia which polls indicate has come strongly into play for the democratic party it's been a solidly republican state for decades but full clinton the last democratic candidate to take it back in 1992 the fact that democrats believe there's a chance of biden winning it is a clear sign of how the traditional electoral landscape is changing another good sign for the democratic party is the massive number of votes that have already being cast close to $70000000.00 americans have already voted that's more than

a hof the number of total ballots cast 4 years ago but the biden campaign warns against complacency traditionally use republicans who cost the most votes in person on election day effect that could still tilt the balance mike hanna al-jazeera washington and live now to our white house correspondent kimberly hackett soaking believe the final stretch just 6 days to go now and the campaigns are focusing on the key battleground states. that's right well joe biden will be in his home state of delaware delaware he'll be delivering a speech on health care and also why he believes he's the best person to heal the divisions in this nation his running mate come to harris will be in arizona as will u.s. president donald trump where he will be holding to make america great again rallies so 70000000 votes have already been cast says mike said in this report and that's

more than half of the overall turnout in 2016 what could that mean for results the actual results on election day. well it doesn't look good for donald trump already his rival joe biden is leading in national polls and of wisconsin a battleground state as well as narrowly in michigan and the fact that there is this surge of early voting which tends to favor joe biden as well as among young voters this is certainly trouble for donald trump but he says the polls were wrong in 2016 and expects will be running again in 2020 so can be for people who haven't made up their minds yet you know in the last week what may sway them you think well the problem is there are many undecided voters so there's very little that will sway them and that's a problem for donald trump because he believes that he would be able to hold these large scale rallies and that they he could with the undecided voters as he didn't 2016 but again with so many early ballots already cast their very few undecided

voters left thank you for that committee how can live for us at the white house. still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state wants her noncombat chinese influence calling beijing a predator. and plans by japan to release radioactive water into the sea are setting off among fishermen and environmentalists. was. a. fellow weather in east asia still quite quietly for we see the bite of winter at the moment the clouds moving from west to east is not particularly cold the temperatures are in the teens or the low twenty's and apart from the south china where it's fairly human and there was cherry stuff in ground 0 it's largely dry skies sunshine if you're lucky this bit of

a winter spin up the hole card of even sapporo matches 30 degrees and tokyo's dropping in temperatures that normally breeze following the still 17 votes and we get to friday hong kong is draw about that time dry and with low she minute is the forecast for friday saturday and sunday looking good the right time to go for the well overseas activity in the south china sea you're probably aware of that malawi which is a typhoon has made landfall in vietnam pretty strong winds up to about 120 kilometers per hour significant right still there declining in strength for spreading rain southern laos and thailand of the next day or so showers the south that's right malazan into the tis the rainy season and those showers just make you feel like he's particularly i think in java in the bay of bengal also we have an enhanced in the rain in myanmar the next day or so currently just a little bit on the coast of under british.

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killing at least $21.00 of its civilians and needing dozens more it follows a strike close to the disputed nagano region this is the deadliest attack on civilians since fighting started a month ago between the 2 countries there's growing anger against french president emanuel luck or with new protests in bangladesh pakistan any iran this after my call vowed to crack down on what he called radical islam turkey's president has accused call of an on time muslim agenda. and germany's chancellor i'm going to merkel is reportedly considering tough new gun restrictions as krone virus infections reach record highs because of measures include the due to start next week in 2 closing cafes bars and restaurants as well as limiting social contacts. are the news now and in the u.s. has been a 2nd night of protest against police brutality in the city of philadelphia hundreds of demonstrators against the death of another black man at the hands of police

offices given it is on to has our report from philadelphia. protesters gathered at night to voice their anger over the police killing of a black man monday afternoon a killing they say did not need to happen cell phone footage shows police shooting 27 year old walter wallace jr police say wallace was wielding a knife wallace's mother says her son had mental health issues and needed help and begged the police not to shoot him. the shooting comes in a year that's already seen mass protests against systemic racism and police brutality across the country was. anger frustration but also determination 3 words that come to mind as for the 2nd straight night protesters are on the streets calling for justice earlier in the evening another protest outside the police station near where the shooting took place karen school field

who has lived in the neighborhood for over 40 years wondered why police had to shoot wallace so many times there what are you feeling right now. i feel her i feel . i feel that i have 3 my hands were in ok and what i'm seeing yesterday was great they killed ok i'm not saying i'm against the police but there's the other way that we have a knife what happened to a taser what happened to shoot women. ok not shoot him to kill him ok we all guys children ok this is ridiculous others were calling for peace we don't want any . dangerous given station we don't want any looting we want people to channel day energies elsewhere where can you understand why there's so much anger on the streets with a young black man right now yes i can understand it because they are at risk did they did their being shot down know anybody who's there about others but didn't

know would be those that we that we will serve to protect. when you when you know kind of which we're going to turn to. there was however further outbreaks of isolated looting on tuesday night far away from the scene of the protests dozens of people taking from a store in the northeast to deceive. another black man dead in america anger on the streets police on the defensive and what has become an all too familiar cycle gabriels and 002 adelphia. the chief executives saw a face full google in twitter of being questioned by u.s. senators about how they moderate content a senate committee is looking at whether to reform laws that protect tech companies from being held liable for users posts democrats say they needs to be stronger action over misinformation publicans i q some platforms are censoring conservative

voices. to africa now and polls have closed in a general election in tanzania which was mobbed by violence and allegations of foul play president john mughal felicie in a 2nd term the government has been accused of cracking down on dissent on tuesday the opposition in the semi-autonomous region of zanzibar said at least 8 people were killed during protests or ballot fraud catherine so he has more from nairobi kenya. throughout the day we've seen a lot of conversation online a lot of conversation in tanzania as well especially with opposition supporters claiming widespread dug. the opposition leader to lisa has been tweeting as well saying that he is receiving reports that he's polling agents of being denied access to polling stations in some parts talking of stuffing intimidation some people's names missing from the voters' register and so one and in another tweet he is

calling for mass action without giving details really of what this. is we have not been able to identify. to to verify independently this information but then i have to tell you the electoral commission president has just had a briefing to talk about what has happened throughout the day and he said that today's process has gone fairly smoothly he did address those concerns and allegations by the opposition and say that it is not sure that those allegations are not based on evidence he has told tanzanians not to listen to what is being said by the opposition saying that this are just ways of the opposition just trying to weave pop emotions he also said that they will not he was asked whether they're going to have perhaps extend. voting time and he said they will not but people who are already in the voting in polling stations in the queues are going to be allowed to would so basically he say the process has gone fairly well it's just

a few technical issues and this allegations by the opposition are not. until recently ivory coast was seen as the best business destination in west africa but the upcoming election has sparked fears that political rivalries could again boil over into violence it's caused a lot of uncertainty among business owners. on the outskirts of. workers of this coffee processing factory are under pressure to deliver customer support is. established only a few years ago its owner is already dreaming of a number shows expression program. the plant is one of dozens of small and medium enterprises fueling economic growth in ivory coast thanks to the government's liberalisation policies of the past 5 years economy some will mark runs on entrepreneur of skills program for young people in africa from 20. to

2020. 7 percent in terms of economic growth which is 3 main goals which is more. points. back. in 2011 as well the country. was wrong. but right now they are more than $2000.00 right. eventually they did. was one of the greatest. across. the country. despite could be 1000 consents businesses remain hopeful such a distant presidential election is a big quarry. violence after the election 10 years ago destroyed not only

lives but also businesses many of them fail to reopen. runs a distribution business he says is shutting down until after the elections. i see how things happen in the world and when there is war how it destroys everything and how brothers kill each other in the end it doesn't lead to anything but. a sentiment shared by docilely mark who runs a have played insular. wrong for the people are afraid of spending almost everyone is waiting to see how this election ends these are uncertain times we pray that everything works out well otherwise we will be in trouble. president alassane ouattara a former top executive of the international monetary fund has presided over a high flying economy his policies including a commitment to infrastructure development as one of the comforters of international donors and investors alike helping ivory coast to largely regain its

historic role as a financial hub of french speaking west africa. but the president's controversial bid for 3rd time which the opposition says is unconstitutional on the high levels of political violence in recent years could wipe out some of the economic gains the country has made since he was 1st elected. al-jazeera the us secretary of state has a talent at china's ties with sri lanka in his latest stop on a tour of the region by compared discuss trade and security wisher lanka's foreign minister in colombo is fretting the country to be on guard against what he called predatory lending and investment by china. now from london and a strong sovereign shakur is a powerful and strategic partner for the united states on the world stage they can be a beacon for the free and open in the pacific. that's quite a contrast to what china 6 we see from. the sovereignty of the sun lended

see that the chinese communist party is a predator and the united states comes in a different way we come as a friend and as a partner. with more from colombo essentially this sort of rhetoric ratcheted up obviously in the run up to. basically the u.s. secretary of state in that address talking about that sort of predator kind of role that china as he sees it is playing in sri lanka where he says that the u.s. comes as a friend now china has also been responding because right at the outset before the secretary of state came to south asia there were obviously briefings and one of the principal deputy assistant secretaries in his briefing said that the urge to make

some difficult decisions but necessary ones to ensure and secure economic independence obviously china took umbrage to that responded saying that the u.s. was basically interfering as well as violating diplomatic protocol and they basically accused the united states 5 of having a sort of a cold war mindset and a sort of a. mystic sort of a mentality and an attitude now the u.s. basically saying that they come as a friend wanting to see sovereignity for sri lanka wanting to see development and sri lankans having that ability essentially to be in control of their future. there is international outcry over a possible plan by japan that could see radioactive water released into the ocean as on the focus plant where engineers continue to deactivate reactors damaged in the 27 earthquake and tsunami rob mcbride reports from south korea where

communities are worried about possible radioactive. lead junko and his son lemo ya'll this is a family business that's been built up over 30 years a fish farm i learned a community that is heavily dependent on these waters. in these seas the fishing industry is important both fishing and fish farming we have both here demand for their fish was already suffering because of the pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 tokyo olympics has meant japanese fish farms have been dumping unwanted stock onto the open market further driving down prices but it's what might be coming next from japan that has everybody worried at the fukushima nuclear plant steadily increasing rows of tanks now hold more than a 1000000 tonnes of mostly groundwater that has flowed into the site becoming radioactive with storage space due to run out in 2022 there's growing speculation

it might be released into the ocean. i think we can't hold off making a decision on the policy forever we will take us a part of the government to make a decision on how to dispose of the contaminated water soon as possible japan insists the water is treated to remove the most harmful radiation and that it is safe enough to release a claim disputed by environmentalists and it sparked strong opposition in northeast asia especially been known for we hope that the japanese government will act with a high since of responsibility towards its own people neighboring countries and the international community in rupie. most people in fukushima are opposed to the plan including local fisherman who fear their livelihoods could be devastated and people here believe it's only a matter of time before the radioactive water finds its way to these shores the

levy family says even if discovered in the tiniest amounts any radiation in fish stocks would ruin its business. if there is even a slight problem with home not only trust in japan but also confidence in our fish so i think it's not just south korea but all countries that should be concerned nearly 10 years on from the devastating tsunami the legacy of it might be about to deliver another unwelcome shock rock macbride al-jazeera goji island south korea. where again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera azerbaijan has accused on many of killing at least $21.00 of its civilians and wounding dozens more after an airstrike close to the disputed region of now that. it's the deadliest attack on civilians since fighting started a month ago between the 2 nations there is growing anger.