on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why 'd. corona virus surges through europe once more with the continent's most powerful economies going back into lockdown. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up . after yet another ceasefire crumbles in the battle over nagorno-karabakh azerbaijan accuses armenia of killing $21.00 civilians near the disputed territory muslims across the world to protest against the french

president's comments on islam wild turkeys leader threatens to sue the magazine charlie a dog. and tanzanians voter made accusations of electoral fraud and human rights violations in a country once praised as a beacon of peace in the us. but let's begin the program by going to paris where french president manuel mccrone is a dressing the nation about the coronavirus restrictions let's listen in a little 'd town to 3000 and he was really on board from the heart for the national strategy all of the really truly fundamental day us going to face closing let me give it to look after it was a perfect night in patients we have started to do programs. it's a card operation from cancer operations sometimes even sending them to the sebring

we have taken these measures which are already difficult which was vital and which were often dispirited because. people turn to joy as. if they sometimes are insufficient in. the way which today affects the whole to hear about strategy is to live with it it's a question of politics controlling its collation by relying on our capacity to test and to protect with measures namely localized measures which is what we have been doing since the month of august. everything right know we can always improve but we need to get our strategy was and immediately be mentioned which we had just and it was the right one and if. we

are one as a country that. has the most strict it is just about us and if any. should have collectively preschool to be respected more value families with friends in places where. people are the most serious emulated one must above all recognize like our neighbor get merged. celebration at least occupy protests make 5 viruses. strengthen as the temperatures fall once again because a lot of humility is required and you know the people all of us are surprised by the evolutions of our countries like spain ireland the low countries vision vagg take even stricter stronger measures than our own people. overtaken by 2nd wave which we now know will no doubt be stronger than the 1st wave and at

this stage we know that whatever we do almost 9000 patients will be inattentive that bind you live in that 6 day almost total capacity of french services services in france. overnight thing ourselves we are opening additional beds and we will apply the maximum effort but it will not be sufficient if we do not give. cause to contamination and to to full drastically our hospitals will be saturated without any possibility of transfers because the virus is everywhere doctors will then have to choose between one patient who is a victim of courage and a person who's the victim of a road accident between 2 illnesses because it illnesses which in few of our values is today is unacceptable in this context my

responsibility is to protect all french people and in spite of the polemic and the difficulty of the decisions that i have to take. you decision before you fully receiving what is. objective 1st of all the 1st is the dead deal today those who are the weakest those who affect victims of obesity diabetes high blood pressure chronic illness who are the 1st example because 19 ages is a key factor 85 percent. of people who are sick who have died more than 70 years of age the 2nd objective is to protect the young people young people. zags the 2nd to do. understand is in serious forms all generations all ages we cannot say today

what will be the long term effects of the loss of smell of taste. viruses that are harmless even when one is 20 years of age the 3rd objective is to protect our parish in hospitals to medical structures and in cities that's already done a lot they then have to redouble their doubled up their activity during the summer to catch up to the people who are being affected in the spring. in any missions all the precautions it's been taken to limit the increases of hours if you. do it for them it's a question of protecting 'd those who. do the difficult. job of the economic and social consequences of the crisis finally we need to protect our economy i do not believe in the

opposition between health and economic and the economy which some people want to talk about there is no prosperous economy in syria aged health situation with the far east which is actively circulating plus the health system. which. it. is it's a delicate balance when we must never lose sight of the intangible simple rough nothing is more evil than human life water for now on the possible strategy it will just reach our active we could recommend. do nothing and just let the virus circulate that is what we call collectively nearly daily when 50 or 60 percent of the population has been kinetic terminated. to leave so that the power is. in the short term that means. the.

the people in hospitals within a few months that will mean a $100000.00 additional deaths by never has france adopted such a strategy we shall never let hundreds of thousands of our citizens die. of it is not our values it is also not in our interest the 2nd part of the 2nd is to be too confining nicam to poli people who are risk this path because it cannot be used to oppose this festival and that's a call to debate the elderly just as the weakest often leads to external have some level also with their families their children and often have very little means it creates a bubble around a generation. if you needed. it so it is that is not the solution to

confined solely elderly people is inefficient because the virus would circulate much too quickly and in much very serious form that for the rest of the population we cannot protect our carriers. harman's and long term the elderly this tragedy maybe by the fans but it is not sufficient we could also. just. we could gamble on the fact of of gambling on only one using a strategy to test to detect. so mean we are trying out 1900000 test week language to the work of. medical insurance and the i.r.s. 100000 calls each day to identify. the. contact cases and to break the contamination chain but there are still 4 to do

to $50000.00 daily to the. 'd people who are affected no other country. has seen the increase in our capacity a 1000000 of intensive care. and today it's very clear that we are trying to do our best but here again it is not the right solution we have the. respect. them of. us we have also trained 70000 doctors to work a little intensive care that we have enough increased our are going to ascertain which have increased from 5000 beds for the 1st wave to 6000 beds today and we will increase it to 10000 in intensive care there is

a question of investment and painting but it is not sufficient. with this wave we are also acting in the medium of. the health department which. comes 8 which means $8000000000.00 euros would be investments to strengthen the traction of jobs but it will take. 5 years to train a nurse 10 bernie's needs to say there is no magical solution and she really does not in the few months that we can create the. complete such completely different past to the fact that other european countries are also saturated you cannot call upon the foreign labor would be needed but. even when we can open we can have many more beds festival they can take weeks our compatriots colleagues spend weeks in itself which method what does it mean medically speaking

what is this what is the strategy to dubbed to confine the alternator project precisely because it's in itself under these pollution is a busy. sufficiently pant sizes that we've been talking with. various medical austerities be after having communicated been exchanged with european partners discussing the born again so i've decided. to stop the valley the old and the whole national countries affected only. apartment and overseas tariff because we have discovered we have seen what happened in the spring it will be at the top 3 main focus points will be adjusted whose remains open very top what will be the rules of this new this new stage and the. laws government will detail during. a press conference the way.

you will be able to go out only filter for work you'll be able to go to for medical appointments you will be able to help family member to do your vital shopping or to get some fresh air knowing your home. it is the return to the place of such a case and it's people. outside of you going to family unit. public meetings are the best and you will not be able to move from one region to the next examine the return before you decide with regard to the ability this weekend. as non-essential travel has. bars and restaurants will remain closed. small companies. just get digital model for that and

this is where becomes as is by 10000 year is a month for the loss of income employees and employers that cannot. will continue and if it from. partial harshly employment. as regards social. services charges for the freelance people for shopkeepers. small companies which i know. a good what is going to be happening of the next few weeks in relation to march and april that's why certain rules will change 1st of all children will not be deprived of because of their schooling 'd. or deprived contacted the school system simply consequences to me damaging too much damage. specially for the poor in society.

to colleges least say will remain exactly schools will then open our education establishment will provide online classes. but this is another difference compared to the spring activity will continue with more intensity. of the public offices will government will remain open and will continue to function on viju i ask you. as every person is able to see this is to make this effort by working by supporting local companies. who have been innovating and is encouraging remote working. home deliveries really small medium sized companies and. will take

a digital initiatives in the digital sector because we are space and will remain open and external borders will remain closed french people abroad will be able to go home but quick. question will be supplied in airports and in the ports traveler. must be must be returned without being certain that he is not a carrier of the virus virally to avoid any artistic. human dramas people those to the end of their lives find themselves isolated to home visits. people in retirement will be authorize the siege. the disable also be able to benefit. families will 'd also move to new to be able to provide burial facilities for their families this new consignment new

lockdowns as regards people who are received the most honorable the age the aged 'd mother 70 as a page i ask for specific vigilance less in my family meetings or meetings with. friends even if it upsets you social distancing including a home systematically went on when your home or even a child which is very important for you carers and hospitals also plays a vital role but we also need to insist is the nurses health professionals in cities to ensure busy. the caring of the patients in this business they showed early symptoms. to avoid them from. having further symptoms. as a played

a vital role and i salute them i welcome them the presence of into communities of cities we will not lead to more and more to go further in terms of prevention to mobilize assess the asians to help people. to mobilize assess to help people who are the weakest those just give support to the children in the preschool say in the schooling and to support honorable people we need it. security forces and civil security forces to make contact with the population we also. have a feeling of individual responsibility. and citizenship for me on the part about everyone to respect the civil rules and and amongst ourselves how will this develop over time these measures must be introduced as

quickly as possible in the night 'd from the friday night to friday and least until the 1st of december debates and discussions will to take place tomorrow in parliament the government mari will detail these measures. we we must be honorable and also. apply these decisions and any form of expression big suppressed i will participate fully in the european council to codebase to help one replies responses from the different countries of the union we shall assess within 2 weeks if we can lighten distractions and particularly with regards to this is this. a lot of a lot of shopkeepers are hoping not to close i know. for one shop in town centers it's

a very very big ask. and we must supply with rigor over the next 2 weeks they do better control the situation and then reopen trades and particularly over the christmas period it is important we will see if it is possible to. make the most of this. this. vitally important period. for the pope on christmas period our objective is is to is to switch from 425-5000 contaminations. significantly the to a ploy strategy to test and to protect the massive effort required to put into place through innovation a new organization we must apply collectively much more massively. the application of all. which will be an industry and we have been listening to the

french president the man when the crown is the announces a new restrictions in france to trying to deal with the escalating numbers of corona virus infections let's go straight to natasha johnson who joins us live now from paris natasha was interesting he spent a good 10 minutes at the start explaining to the french people exactly why d's new measures will be needed talk us through some of the announcements that he made. yes effectively the french president announcing the front is going back into lockdown for at least a month it could be longer depending on the health situation and whether that improves now imagine michael said that this time the lockdown would be a little bit more flexible if you like in that schools will remain open universities will shots however people so we have to go for medical appointments and public services will remain open so those are things that were shot during the

april march april may lock down so little bit more flexibility but still it sounds as if it will be a very strict lockdown we will get more details on friday from the prime minister jacques aspect that's what the french president omar cross said if he said that this form of tough restriction was necessary because of the health crisis in france we have seen new infection cases spiral over the last few weeks several days recording more than $50000.00 new corona virus infection cases a day doctors in hospitals saying that they may soon be saturated in fact half of the country's i.c.u. beds are already full and amount of markel said that in fact that could get even worse if the situation is allowed to go on and that is why he justified the need for this rican fineman this new lockdown and the butler in paris with the latest on that thank you so the pressure was explaining that the situation in france which is

serious for let's take a look now at how other european countries are grappling with their own outbreaks germany is imposing an emergency months long lockdown closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open nearly 15000 new infections of reported in the last 24 hours italy is also registered a record high of nearly 25000 new cases on sunday the government announced restaurants and bars will not be able to do seated service after 6 pm. and see it has and james would be shocked it's a similar situation in spain which has the claritin 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings nearly 20000 more people have contracted coronavirus there in the past. well means barker joins us now in the studio so it's interesting because the numbers are wildly different if you look at france and germany the situation in germany nowhere near as bad as the french one and yet we are seeing a very stringent lock down there as well to those who are in germany as a proportion of the population the death toll is significantly lower around 10000

compared 235000 in spain or 45000 here in the u.k. but the situation is a worry enough for her call to plow ahead with a meeting with the 16 leaders of the different states in germany to come up with a united plan so from november the 2nd we touched upon some of them earlier all bars restaurants theaters cinemas will close schools will remain open that's relief to parents but when it comes to shops few of them one person will be allowed into a shop within a 10 meter square area so you know you can imagine huge queues of people possibly some panic buying before the restrictions come into force all non-essential travel is being discouraged some hotels will be allowed to remain open but only for essential travelers and the german chancellor said that they will review the case in a couple weeks time and possibly tweak an adapted as they go along all of this said angela merkel is designed to protect the country's health system which she said. if

you can. we can say that our health system can cope with a challenged day but if the pace of infections continues like this then we will reach the limits of what the health care system to manage with. the list offered to germany was viewed very munchers a beacon in how best to deal with the pandemic it reacted very very quickly indeed in bringing the situation under control largely because of preexisting services that were already in the country but already had an existing contact tracing system in 400 different health authorities based around germany but what the german chancellor has conceded is that it's simply not able to cope with this huge influx in the infection rate we've heard from one health official in bavaria in the southeast of the country who said it's like trying to stop an avalanche with his

bare hands and the severity of the 2nd wave certainly seems to have taken a lot of governments in europe by surprise need barker with the latest on that thank you now a 3rd attempt at peace pierced have crumbled in the corner cut about azerbaijan has accused their meenie of killing at least $21.00 civilians and wounding dozens more in a missile strike close to the disputed region the attack in the city of by today is the deadliest single incident against civilians since fighting that between the 2 nations it flared up a month ago armenia denies the attack which comes just days after a u.s. brokered cease fire came into effect the port of karabakh is recognized as a territory but has been controlled by ethnic armenian forces since 1904 where residents of barber have told al-jazeera they suffered hours of intense shelling or the bellamy has more now from the 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 at this time 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 to lori chalons is in the armenian capital yet abandon says this could be a deadly new turn in the conflict. today has been

a grim day the worst for civilians it seems in this conflict so far the armenians have deny that they attacked shelled but the pictures obviously tell a different story they are medians are saying that it is they who have been the victim of shelling today in the go and i care about the capital the main city in going to catechize to kind of 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 are 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 they're calling it and 2 injured now. saying that this is a continuation of what he's calling a genocidal policy against the civilians of going to karabakh the armenians of

nagorno-karabakh perhaps this is the kind of thing that we might see more of as as both sides gets increasingly embittered increasingly desperate perhaps that attacks on civilian centers are going to increase as well. thousands of people in poland have taken part in a nationwide strike to protest against the ban on almost all abortions demonstrators marched for the 7th straight day in a mass outpouring of anger at a court ruling banning abortions due to fetal abnormalities the procedure will now only be allowed in cases of rape incest or where the mother's health is at risk. over something a bit lighter now in a year we've all been looking for simple pleasures 2020 is best pastry chef in the world has just been announced these tasty pieces of edible art have won pierre markedly needy accolade the belgian chocolate here who has 40 shops worldwide was

unanimously given the award by a panel of independent journalists the jury also took into account marketing his commitment to use sustainable cocoa beans for his luxury products the chef said that he hopes his chocolates bring some comfort to people during the coronavirus pandemic. a time out to take a quick look at al-jazeera has top stories france will return to lock down as the rate of corona virus infections there soars president the man went across said his country was being overwhelmed by new infections as the country recorded a record one day rise of more than 36000 cases ours in restaurants will be forced to close down and movement will be limited but restrictions will be lighter than in the 1st a tweet shuts down with schools allowed to stay open.