to the minute results as they come in to correspondents across the u.s. and the rest of the world al-jazeera brings you a unique global perspective on the us elections 2020. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes coronavirus surges through europe once again with the continent's most powerful economies going bank back into lockdown. another ceasefire crumbles in the battle over in a corner back as a by john accuses armenia of killing 21 civilians near the disputed territory.

muslims across the world protest against the french president's comments on islam while turkey's leader threatens to sue the magazine charlie a bow. and tanzanians vote amid accusations of electoral fraud and human rights violations in a country once praised as a beacon of peace and. it became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring with entire nations locked down and hundreds of millions of people told to stay at home now tougher measures are being imposed across europe after deaths from covert 19 surged by almost 40 percent in the past week doctors in several countries are warning hospitals are just days away from being overwhelmed germany is imposing in emergency months long lockdown closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools

open nearly 15000 new infections are reported there in the last 24 hours italy has 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 theaters and james wood shop. it's a similar situation in spain which has the cleared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings nearly 20000 more people have contracted coronavirus there in the past day and in the last few hours french president manuel mccrone announced a 2nd that national lockdown that will last until the 1st of december all non-essential businesses will have to shut but schools and factories will be allowed to remain open well the cash butler joins us live now from paris is some of the announcement was made just about 2 hours ago have we seen any reaction or what reaction are we expecting from the people of france to news of another lockdown.

well i think over the past few days it was clear that more restrictions were coming here in france the government made it very clear that the health situation is deteriorating from fast in france we have seen coronavirus new infection cases rise every single day some days recording more than 50000 so i think it's no surprise that there were tougher restrictions on the horizon the french president now though saying well maybe the toughest of all really national lockdown it may have taken some people by surprise in some ways because they didn't necessarily imagine that there would be a national lockdown the government had previously talked about regional localized lockdowns or targeting certain segments of society the most vulnerable asking them to stay at home but what we have is pretty much the same situation we had earlier this year in march april and may in which the whole of the country has been told to stay at home people are encouraged to work from home it sounds like it would be

quite strict from what we understand the 1st details coming through once again people are only allowed to leave their home for about an hour a day they have to stay within a kilometer of their house only going out for essential shopping one of the main differences though than the 1st lockdown early this year is that schools will remain open the government has long said that it's very important that children continue to have access to education with that so that's an offering in a sense of equality amongst all children is very important of course for the government as import the parents are able to keep working whether that's at home or in factories which will be allowed to stay open important of course for the economy . when president macross spoke either ticket in the 1st 10 minutes or so of his address to the nation really explaining what the situation was like in france and why he had to take the situation that he taken and if you look at the numbers it's staggering 1000000 165000 total cases and cases per 100000 which is how

people i guess judge how widely the disease is increasing 6291 of the highest figures in europe is there any understanding as to why france is finding itself in the situation. well nobody really seems to have the answers but one thing i can say is that so many doctors and a doctor i spoke to today said look we have been warning the government for months that the situation could spiral out of control because the lockdown in spring was ease pretty rapidly life seemed to return almost to normal and in fact that was very much the government message the government kept saying to people you know we have to learn to live with a virus we must continue our lives as normally as possible while now that is certainly not the case it shows the real challenge is the reality of trying to live life as normal when there is this virus among us and many people saying the government has failed to anticipate this health emergency and the fact is having to

put another lockdown in place is in many ways embarrassing because for so long the government was saying that they were adamant they would not reimpose along down that france would be able to continue as normal as possible and now we find ourselves in a situation where where france is facing what we're told will be a 4 week lockdown it could be extended much longer of course we've had that experience in the polls where these lock downs get extended further and further cross saying that he hopes that people will be able to be reunited with their families for the end of year holidays but at this point you can imagine many people are very worried about what's happening people of course support the fact that the hospital and health workers need support because there is so much pressure on resources on the icy unit bedspread i think there are more and more questions about why france is in the situation again just 5 months after the 1st lockdown and of course it's not just france no question about that with the latest from paris natasha thank you all

a speak now to stereo small caesar geneticists that northumbria university sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera we're just hearing from our correspondent what the situation is like in france but we really have had a few sobering weeks in europe where a lot of countries are seeing their. cases skyrocketed even countries that had a strict lock down like spain or italy that then had encouraging figures now seem to be experiencing this exponential growth was it inevitable or have european countries just done something wrong and not handle the correct. i think you've answered the question yourself just the unfortunately it was inevitable because we didn't have a containment with regards to the contact between individuals within countries and between countries that is one of the major. problems of what happened over the summer in springtime so. it's a term but when school started across of europe we saw

a massive increase in transmission amongst children university students and as a result of that we've seen now the transportation progressing through the community you know almost like a wildfire and we know what happens with wildfires that just burn up everything in the process and this is what's happening right now we're seeing the next step as we saw it in march we saw the spittal as ations agrees and it was same fatalities increasing as a result of the spread of the disease in the population but so are you saying it and leaving the economic issues to one side are you saying that keeping borders open and allowing travel between european countries and reopening universities in september are you saying that those were mistakes if if we were trying to contain the virus so. i belong to the group of scientists stop still believe that elimination is still the key and it should be the target of what we should be doing we've already tried it once of containing the

virus and they're trying to come back to normality and this is what happened we're now into lockdown in at least 3 nations in europe and it's sure is and if any of us will fall or if not more if not the whole of europe again and. there's no 2 ways about it at a virus that there is no means by which to stop it transmitting that response so effectively the house shown evidence that can reinfect you within it here that there is no treatment for that there is no vaccine proven boxing yet for is going to come back so what we options we have right now is really have been a ship and to eliminate the virus we need to set up the posts the situation that will allow minimal community transmission known ideally a hunch as possible so that we can reduce and get the point where we see no new cases for at least a week in each country and then reopen slowly slowly being the key word again try

to achieve what new zealand vietnam and south korea have achieved not what we have failed to achieved in the last government of course i mean that's a scientific point of view as i'm sure you know there will be a lot of economic arguments perhaps against such a strict lockdown that my question no remains of story god disagree i'm sorry to interrupt you but many economists back in march predicted that if we do not contain this disease and the eliminated as quickly as possible we will have a series of locked o's whose commutative effect over time over a hero 2 or 3 years will be catastrophic how many times can you set fire to your house and rebuild it again before some disruption surety that's what we're doing right now and the insurance policies us it's ourselves paying taxes back into the into the governments and businesses being able to function and exist so if we are going to keep hammering businesses in a period of a 56 months until the solution is there what's going to happen to the western

economy. well i guess you know that's one of the questions i may find the answer in the next months or years even let me put a question to you regarding the health services the national health service here in the u.k. but most of the health services around europe back in the spring we were told that strict lock downs were necessary to effectively give the health service time to get themselves organized to deal with what was another known virus do you think the same argument goes now or do you think that actually yes we are seeing more cases but we do find ourselves with health services that are more at least knowledgeable in how to treat the virus. the health services are more knowledgeable but the dynamics this time around are different we can see this from if you look at the 7 day average curves that are out there you will see that up we not us deep in the transmission of the answer to the disease we have slightly

better ways of trying to prevent death but we also have knowledge we didn't have early in the year and this critical knowledge is that we know there are long term effects for anywhere between 30 and 50 percent of the people who develop symptoms and yet there are reports that asymptomatic people may have other effects that are sustained over time some of these individuals have never recovered so if we think about the doubt to economy and society this infection brings we must not focus on death we must not focus on the health services being unable to deliver cancer care for example but we must understand that this is going to extend father in deeper into fit into society by disrupting businesses will be unable to get back to normal efficiency simply because a 3rd of the personnel potentially are not going to be able to function properly so again it's not about just preventing damage because of coronavirus of the hospitals

now it's about the damage that is being brought to the rest of society outside and yes to come to patients as well now these kinds of patients rather than active surgeries or other necessary surgeries that cannot be dead dealt with because i say you also can start filling up are going to be also unable to be treated properly and begin this will come and haunt us back again in the future as additional damage but it will also repeat itself if we don't manage to clear the virus and we can't keep poking about a vaccine we don't have yet made you know months time it will but we can't rely on that can wait. serious muscles geneticists that northumbria university sir thank you so much for sharing your views and expertise with us thank you. now officially 90000 venezuelans have been infected with the coronavirus but many people inside the country think that this is a massive underestimation from the government of nicolas for the little on the

front line hospitals are lacking the basic supplies to care for patients it's meant that many have been left alone to cope with and in some cases die from the disease that i support reports. fighting over $1000.00 is a major challenge in most countries but even if we're hospitals are running short of medicines and staff the battle is even harder. every day to this hospital and get access to care for her father she says her presence is the only guarantee her father will be looked after but i mean well my dad is there for me while he is alive it is already a victory and we have to thank god one more day of life for him and ongoing economic crises and sanctions are having a devastating effect in venezuela thousands of health care workers have migrated the government says it has tried to prepare hospitals in the country to fight covert 19 this hospital for example has received help from doctors without borders

it has running water and air conditioning but it's the exception in the country these days. janet by the don't is in charge of the intensive care unit here which is supposed to be one of the best prepared in the capital $83.00 i said a minute the health system in venezuela had deteriorated greatly prior to that 90 every doctor knows this it's a matter about resources about health and sanitary conditions even within hospitals we have population of more than 28000000 authorities in venezuela report fewer than 800 deaths by covert 1000 but the opposition says the figure is much higher because many people are afraid to go to a hospital or cannot get tested. just says her father died of course with 19 she had to be isolated in a hotel with her family not assume one of them asked her now we were received by the national guard and we were told that we were under their care and if we tried

to escape we were going to go on trial for bacterial terrorism our ins had no electricity they would do. it looks like a red cave it took a while before we were tested we basically had to beg for a test because we wanted to get out of the hard tell we were experts say been a swill us economy crisis may have helped at this time the lack of gasoline has reduced movement across the country and slowed down the spread of the virus in spite of the daily struggles people face priscilla. announced earlier this week that venezuela has produced a cure for gold with 19 get all the superior surely i want to announce going as whale has created a medicine the stop corona virus after 6 months of trial who can certify the study as part of the experts and scientists with all the proof in the next day we will go to the world health organization to ratify once it's ratified will start preparing the mass production of the smaller cure gets the world a cure against coronavirus but many people in the country have doubts venezuela was

once one of the richest countries in latin america and now millions are struggling just to survive it's a crisis that has been looming for years and that for now is unlikely to end anytime soon. and. still to come on this news hour from london. i'm john hendren in ohio a state known for picking u.s. president it might just do it one more time. and ensuring the world's largest democracy is not a victim of coronavirus but voters in parts of india have doubts about safety. a 3rd attempt at peace of pierce of crumbled in the corner as a brush on has accused their meaning of killing at least $21.00 civilians and wounding dozens more in a missile strike it's the deadliest single incident against civilians since

fighting flared a month ago or the reports now from the as every capital back it was the worst attack on civilians yet on either side since the conflict began a month ago the city of barda hit by what does it by john describes a smirch missiles as a result the accuser minya of using cluster bombs to inflict maximum damage in a densely populated area of the city. i mean it denied carrying out the attack the 2nd in less than 24 hours aimed at civilians and barda a 2 years old child was among the victims the city now is home to hundreds of people who fled the conflict zone in the karabakh region. both sides have been exchanging fire despite 3 attempts in as many weeks to impose a humanitarian ceasefire. as area forces are also accused of aiming at civilian targets the maternity ward of

a hospital is to penetrate was hit although there are no reports of casualties there as it is imposing itself on the battlefield regaining territory and inflicting heavy losses on armenia with more than a 1000 soldiers killed this video released by azerbaijan is said to show armenian military equipment captured during the fighting i mean as prime minister he called bash me and warned of a counterattack. the people of salk the armenian people all armenians will fight to the last for every tree every stone every centimeter and every millimeter. an accurate counterattack delivered at the right moment will have the effect of a devastating collapse for the enemy but at the moment armenia appears unable to stop the advance of the as a very military industry surrounding the. president ilham aliyev warned that his response will come on the battlefield now both foreign ministers of as

a bridge or an enemy and are scheduled to meet separately with the men's group on thursday in geneva they might be yet another attempt to impose a ceasefire that never was but it will prove even more difficult the barred attack marking a serious escalation but at the hamid. onto minimum ago there is an expert on the caucasus region and she joins us now over skype from london madame thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera we've seen i guess you know several ceasefires if you can even call them that fail do you think that it is possible to have a long lasting cease fire right now or that until there is a change in the political makeup that's just not realistic. good evening barbara thank you for having me well as we've heard from the president was a bunch on who's at the moment clearly winning on the battlefield i think the only way to stop the war is for me is to withdraw the troops from the territories that

have been gained by as i shant and according to president leave at least 5 regions have to be released now from army in presence and i mean it's very unlikely that armenia would agree to do that when it comes to actually negotiating or i guess getting foreign powers involved which unfortunately the seem like this is in the you know heading towards which players which international players do you think could help broker some kind of ceasefire. well i think both are mean and azerbaijan hoped that russia would get involved there mia hopes for it. slightly more than a because you know already to their mutual agreements under the security cooperation organization. has to help me at some point and it is helping us we speak with sunday weapons for example. and try and trying to be

neutral nevertheless as a russian would be happy for turkey to get more involved in the ongoing negotiation process so i think that turkey and russia are clearly that you countries that show elsewhere for example in the middle east that they are capable of certain cooperation with such an example in syria although i cannot say i mean we're all saw the incident and it's all it's different situations and i suppose countries like turkey and russia taking a lead coincides with the u.s. in many ways taking a step back seeing is days away from a u.s. election do you think that a new leadership on the perhaps would become more involved in the international community once again do you think that that could make a difference in the in the situation in a corner kind of a. well i think if preston truong wanted to get involved this is not the right time

for him to do so there is a substantial army and diaspora living in the united states especially los angeles i don't think that that would be a wise thing to do for him to get involved that doesn't mean that he wouldn't want to resolve the conflict but i just don't think that's the right time for for america to get involved going joe biden i think that during and i remember that during the. obama president obama's tenure. as the white vice president he met with both president leave and then president over me a search started some and i have a substantial talks on the board a car a box that sense to me that biden is a bit more pet at least politically because he has been involved in international politics for quite some time so i do hope that eve biting gets elected perhaps would be able to see some changes on the ground and for to this situation though and until that or in spite of that remains

a tense as we see it. joining us from london madame thank you thank you very much. with just 6 days to go until the u.s. election president on trump and democratic vice presidential nominee kemah harris are taking their campaigns to the battleground state of arizona polls show that trump narrowly is naturally trailing his challenger joe biden there despite winning the state in 2016 arizona has the support of the democrats since bill clinton in 1996 and is considered crucial for a trump victory next week. meanwhile joe biden has cast his ballot in is hometown of wilmington delaware and he's one of more than 74000000 americans who have chosen to vote early in person or submit postal ballots analysts say the record number of mailing votes could take days or weeks to count meaning the winner might not actually be the clarity on november 3rd. while i counted joins us live now from

washington d.c. so mike it's just 6 days to go the we've just heard we may not get the result for quite a while tell us a little bit about what's happening with the campaign generally. well the campaign is speeding up in these final days leading to election day president trump as you mentioned in arizona just one of a number of battleground states which is absolutely essential for president trying to win as you mentioned 2 democrats have not won there since 1996 this is another state like georgia where joe biden was in the past 24 hours which was last won by a democrat in 1992 but all these states have come into play in arizona for example polls indicate that biden and trump on neck and neck this in the state that trump won easily back in 2016 biden himself off the campaign trail as it were he's been having a meeting at his home in wilmington delaware with

a coronavirus group of experts hearing big opinions basically showing that he is interested in scientists opinion about how to combat the pandemic president trump for his part continues to hold mass rallies many of the attendees not wearing masks areas that he's been to like wisconsin for example an absolute peak there of corona virus infections recently so here we've got the candidates stall playing out with just a few days to go to that critical election and mike there are reports that trans son in law jared cush there actually boasted in april that the president was in his own words getting back in the country from the doctors and by the by the time he said this more than 40000 americans had already died from coronavirus we're going to use to donald trump for having a lot of so-called scandals not really stick or make any impact do you think this

might have an impact on the election. well previous scandals have not really had a lasting impact in that same interview we know was interviewed by a journalist bob woodward bob woodward was told by president trump that the virus was 10 times as dangerous as flu for example this of the time when he was telling americans that the situation was going to be worked out that it like a miracle it would go away that did not stick for that period of time this revelation coming now late in the elections scenario once again would have a last minute impact very difficult to say most experts believe that most people have already made up their minds and certainly that more than 70000000 who have voted but one area in which krishna was reported to speak to woodward about as well is potentially damaging within the republican party cushion or was deeply critical

of the republican party describing it as a collection of a kind of bunch of tribes he also said that president when he was nominated took over or affected a hostile takeover of the republican party now these are comments that are not going to go down well with fellow republicans and certainly as well but the timing that cushion and made those comments this was at a period when the pandemic was at its height in a state like new york and cushion of making very clear in his reported comments that the way president trump was dealing with it was in a fact a strategy with a view to the election he says that president trump was intent as being seen as the open man the man who opened up the society he was pushing at that time for states to open up also at that particular time responsibility for fighting the pandemic was being pushed on to the governors of the states they were made responsible for testing they were made responsible to defy

a strategy and cushion his words make very clear that this was intentional. mrs quite bluntly during that president trump was able to claim credit should be governor succeed or apportion blame should they not as the situation has been certainly this is very cynical and if there are any undecided voters out there yes it could have a minute impact on the last minute decision i guess we'll find out in a couple of days or maybe a couple days after that again mike hanna with the latest from washington d.c. mike thank you well when it comes to us elections analysts say it's often ohio that predicts the winner known as a bellwether state it's picked the winning candidate in 30 of the past 32 elections john hendren has been speaking to voters in cleveland. cleveland's industrial skyline rises from the ohio coast on lake erie and it's ohio's mix of industry agriculture and service jobs that make it a microcosm of the u.s.

and that's what makes ohio the bellwether state. for decades all routes to the white house have gone through here ohio has voted for the winner in every presidential election since 1064 and they take voting seriously here i think it's most important especially if you want to see change no republican has ever won the presidency without 1st winning in ohio. at may holes bowling alley winning is the name of the game. here in suburban cleveland the diversity within international border the crowd leans toward democrats and away from president trump he's mentally imbalanced and he is a threat to the health and wellbeing of everyone on the planet i'm looking for a change this upcoming election season just that we can kind of get back on track as a country. on the state's vast farmlands and in the factory town of canton where apache

industrial services recently expanded into coronavirus cleaning solutions penetrates the d.n.a. of the sal the workers lean toward republicans and the blunt spoken president he's straight to the point he doesn't really take too much from people kind of says well it's only wanted to time his character not so much. but what he's done politically what he's done for policies and stuff i stand again polls show joe biden in trump in a dead heat here where trump won handily in 2016 but that was before the coronavirus and a wave of economic shutdowns oh i wonder stands the importance of economic issues also understands the moment the country is living the democrats have very wisely then shifted the. politics to be the campaign to being the referendum on president with just days to go both candidates have made a priority of navigating ohio's shifting political waters if history is any guide

whichever candidate wins this great lake state will likely win the presidency john hendren al jazeera cleveland ohio and philadelphia is imposing a citywide curfew from 9 pm local time to prevent a 3rd night of violent protests over the police killing of a black man 500 people marched to a police station in west philadelphia on tuesday night demanding the names of the officers who shot dead 27 year old walter wallace officer saying he was holding a knife and refused to drop it the spite several orders wallace had bipolar disorder and his family say he was having a mental breakdown. so to come this hour america's top diplomat touches down in sri lanka with a warning over chinese influence why my compel is calling beijing a predatory. it's just it's a must and feel like i would not sleep well if i get. into the land of their

forebears the armenian the same then springing comfort and financial help during a call as in mean what. hello october and november is when old hurricanes come across the atlantic and give some pretty stormy weather to the british isles in general to northwestern europe this is no exception epsilon is more dissipated by thursday but the wind strength is there bringing plenty of rain to the british isles dance in the low countries germany and some more snow i think to the hours not the same time what was stormy weather around greece in the east and met has more or less dissipated given a few showers in the black sea and around turkey so glasgow's the focus of strongest winds and heavy rain on thursday and then again all saturday yeah

something else is happening on saturday but for friday the time in between the rain heads across to denmark some snow on the high ground in southern sweden and that rain tails off into poland which means much of western europe is having a day off for vicious weather is looking quite nice in paris for example i'm probably in london as well we still possibly got a day's worth of hail showers likely in libya as they finally fall apart as a pretty vicious ones further west during wednesday and indeed tuesday but for most in north africa it's a dry picture in west africa there are a few showers but they are mostly now offshore. temperatures are on the rise global warming is taking effect. as one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the u.s. is set to withdraw from the paris climate accord the day after the presidential

election we care and we will deal with climate change get a new president reversed the decision in time and face up to the climate crisis for all of the key issues of the us elections on al-jazeera one of america's worst coronavirus outbreaks in the prison happened in california after infected inmates were transferred from one facility to another no ventilation when those are welded shut till everyone is breathing the same air all of the time every day for a week straight then the knees alarms it's called man down man down man down man down all day all night for klein's office who is responsible. pandemic in prison to some quentin outbreak on a just 0. time

now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the french president has imposed a new national lockdown but schools will stay open it comes as the country recorded a record one day rise of more than 30 $6000.00 cases germany is heading into a new months long coronavirus lost and as well with restaurants bars and james order to be shot from monday chancellor angela merkel has announced an $11000000000.00 relief program and azerbaijan has accused armenia of the deadliest single incident in their month long conflict it says 21 people were killed when shells hit a town near the disputed region of the. meanwhile armenians living across the world are showing solidarity with their ancestral homeland sharing support and crucially money for each island's reports now from wherever.

this is a far cry from the day job the dental consultant from los angeles seals and on float he gets ready. you go see here it's another way of finding a fallen soldiers home it's on for 40 days it's a symbol that there is a fun soldier's family inside. you is about to come face to face with intense grief to armenian families are mourning sons killed in the war with azerbaijan took off as comfort asks about the man that leaves $3000.00 for each house to house hospitals a hospital she's done this many times now. with regular social media posts turkey has raised more than half a $1000000.00 from the armenian overseas community as an i mean what else would i be doing now in a link let's say if i was here i'm pretty sure i was going to do something to either raise awareness or raise funds to send a fund my volunteer team do it that it's just it's

a must i feel like i would not sleep well if i get in. armenia has a population of just 3000000 but the diaspora in the united states russia europe the middle east and beyond easily doubles that number and this war has mobilized them to help. famous armenians have been spreading their message to the world from the us kim carr daschle in west tweeted to her 61000000 followers and donated 1000000 dollars to the all armenia fund it's the main vehicle for armenians abroad to give money $150000000000.00 has been raised since the war began in late september. rallies against perceived as a by johnny and turkish aggression have been organized to this one in los angeles on october the 12th. here's poland and this is argentina. such as the importance of the diaspora to armenia that it has

a high commissioner to liaise with them we have not only major fund raising drive that's happening in the diaspora we also have large amounts of humanitarian aid coming to armenia from all parts of the world and we also have volunteers every everything from doctors to. various professionals and people who want to be on the front line and defend their homeland the fact that armenians are dying in significant numbers on the battlefield has galvanized many for armenians far and wide this is not a time to question what responsibility armenia bears for the current conflict turkey's efforts may be among the more remarkable but thousands maybe millions are doing something to help their country in this time of suffering. al-jazeera year of an armenian. anger is growing in muslim nations against french president emanuel mccraw with new protests in bangladesh iran and pakistan across as again vowed to

crack down on what he calls radical islam after a teacher was killed earlier this month for showing his students cartoons of the prophet mohammed alexy o'brien has more. than that in various cities from mumbai was to mogadishu they came to stand up for their religion and the man they believe brought them the word of god. which we are protesting against the french president who insulted our prophet muhammad we are marching we are burning the french play we are full of emotion was in the bangladeshi capital dhaka they burned in effigy of emanuel mccrone the ngo was sparked by the french president's recent comments claiming islam is a religion and crisis to crack down on what he called separatism and defending the publishing of cartoons of the prophet muhammad. 7 and now france has become

a hated nation in the islamic world we want to say if micron does not stop the cartoon the world will boycott them but france is doubling down saying it won't give in to intimidation. that france will never renounce its principles and values notably the freedom of expression and freedom of publication the 2nd thing i want to clearly remind is that it was hateful comments towards journalists towards a newsroom that led to the bloodshed we have seen in recent years in our country. teachers somewhere patsy was beheaded in france italy of this month for showing images of the prophet to students in the lakes and on freedom of speech. following the murder and a memorial service hailing the teacher as a hero mccrone said francois. not give up its cartoons he's up for re-election in 2 years many say the rhetoric is slanted towards a domestic audience vying for right wing votes but muslim leaders say it's hate

speech. chatter than the. disrespecting the prophet incites violence and it's a moral westerners must understand that all muslims love the prophet and soaked in the prophet means insulting muslims and all prophets also feeling insulted as turkey's president richard tie a bedouin he's the latest target a french magazine shadley a dove which has a cartoon mocking him on its front page the magazine originally published cartoons of the prophet 2015 prompting an attack on its office in which 12 people were killed. everyone says the magazine is trying to spread racism and hatred and is threatening legal action for our server general or france and europe in general do not deserve the vicious provocative ugly hateful policies of mccrum and those who share the same mentality we ask those who use anti muslim and turkish hostility to

cover up their failures in their domestic politics to lay their dirty hands off our sacred values. but they don't want to is playing to his base turkey and france have had a fractious relationship in recent years on opposite sides over the conflict in libya and gas exploration in the eastern mediterranean muslims of france say they feel stuck in the middle elixir brian al jazeera. thousands of people in poland have taken part in nationwide 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 which bans abortions due to fetal abnormalities the procedure will now only be allowed in cases of rape incest or where the mother's health is that risk voters are being counted in tanzania following an election marred by allegations of foul play president john mccain fully is hoping to secure

a 2nd 5 year term but opposition leaders say electoral observers were turned away from polling stations and also reported several instances of ballot stuffing katherine soy has more. arran samwell came to cast his ballot in the capital doma he's one of 29000000 tons in the end who registered to vote and hopes his voice will count. i have come to vote and exercise my constitutional duty to elect the leader that i feel is best suited to bring development my province and maybe change. is in the same you know tone of mass region of zanzibar here they get to vote for their own president he says he wants a better life regardless of who he will be people who they want 1st toward peace secondly they want improvement for those who aren't employed. they want things to be easy they want infrastructure to be in place they want health he said he says

but allegations of election fraud by some opposition candidates are worrying many a lot is at stake in this election opposition leader. appears to be preparing to contest the result he alleges widespread irregularities and threatens to call for mass action the electoral commission has responded by saying the opposition is trying to cause trouble and tanzania's should not be drawn in samana list is saying that this ball is not transparent or credible. things like this of police using force of protesters and increased government restrictions in the run up to the poor have also caused a variety there's been a large number of restrictions on. their key important groups that would facilitate free and fair elections. very long period of time which is sort of intensified in the past few months leading up to the elections with the voting

complete tanzanians attends as their way to the results it could take days to come through and then this is a monday i want to retrieve that women face because there is life after the election. voters here say they want peace but beyond that they also want a free and credible outcome catherine al-jazeera. millions of indians have been queuing to vote in what could be the world's largest election since the coronavirus pandemic began voters are picking a new local government in the state of bihar which is one of india's poorest and most populous regions the world's biggest democracy also has one of the worst corona virus outbreaks on the planet with nearly 8000000 infections elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi. a new set of voting protocols people in bihar sanitised a hands on have their temperature taken before casting their ballot in the 1st

election in india since the start of the coronavirus pandemic around 20000000 people lined up to vote in a local election season is an important national test and whether large events like these can be held safely during the pandemic. voters who wanted to have their say despite safety concerns. it's not 100 percent safe because you may be sanitizing areas but you seen the rallies whoever's holding them and they're so crowded we don't think anyone is safe. the government hasn't helped us deal with the coronavirus i would give them a 4 out of 10 people are forced to walk on roads they face many problems. the election is also seen as a test of how prime minister in the interim already and his party have handled the coronavirus outbreak when the indian government imposed one of the world's stripped as lockdowns in march hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were forced to walk

on many for hundreds of kilometers. $1500000.00 workers who lost their jobs elsewhere and returned to be hired including plame paswan the father of 5 says they feel abandoned by the government. the government hasn't helped us at all i lost my identity card we haven't been given a food distribution card we have difficulty finding food. the heart is one of india's most impoverished states with a public health care system that is struggling to deal with the virus outbreak yet prime minister modi campaigned on what he said was his coalition government success in fighting the virus. i want to congratulate the people of be hard for fighting the battle against with courage the decisions have been taken quickly to tackle the pandemic. the b j p promised free card vaccines for the people of the heart the party is reelected but for the millions of biharis who are unemployed in

a struggling to feed their families a yet to be developed vaccine is not what they're asking for elizabeth pran of al-jazeera new delhi. america's top diplomat has accused china of exploiting sri lanka and the maldives u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 has visited both countries holding talks to boost times now for now and there's reports now from colombo the president's office in colombo and a meeting with good of the rajapaksa was the 1st stop for the u.s. secretary of state on wednesday mike pompeo was in the island for 1000 hours as part of the south asian tour and he again condemned china's growing dominance in the region. indeed a strong sovereign sure is a powerful and strategic partner for the united states on the world stage they can be a beacon for a free and open indo-pacific. but that's quite a contrast to what china 6 we see from bad deals violations of sovereignty and

lawlessness on land and sea that the chinese communist party is a predator in the united states comes a different way we come as a friend and as a partner china's embassy in colombo dismiss pompous allegations by tweeting sorry mr secretary we are busy promoting china sri lanka friendship and cooperation not interested in your alien versus predator invitation the u.s. can play 2 roles at the same time as always sri lanka's foreign minister more than a said he's meeting with promptly it was an opportunity for both sides to understand each other's priorities as a sovereign free independent nation sri lanka's foreign policy will remain neutral . non-aligned and friendly despite the stated policy actions especially of the rajapaksa brothers have tended to favor the chinese in recent years china has cultivated a close rapport which lanka such as during the closing stages of the 26 year war with the tamil tigers and helping repair the damage since then that worked heavily

in china's favor leading some to question its priorities as well as those of the united states if should not because true interests are at heart any of the international players around they would be pressurizing should not get to conform and to respect the rights of its citizens and sustainable democracy but clearly that's not could happen what is going to happen i think that there is to work here i think there is a level of what could be considered bullying there could be a defense deals at stake here they could be pressure applied to india sri lanka strategic location has shifted the flow know both of us against each other in a race for dominance in this part of the world with projects like the port city which you can see behind me and the only thing of the vices shipping lanes china seems to have

a fact payoff is to count. and then there's al-jazeera colombo. still ahead this news hour the seeds of strong growth are there but could a divisive election force ivory coast's economy to ground to a halt. or

. it's one of the fastest growing economies in the world then is often touted as the best destination for investment in west africa but ivory coast's upcoming election

has sparked fears that political rivalries will once again lead to violence on the streets and it's making business owners worry about the country's economic future as a risk now reports. on the outskirts of operational workers of this coffee processing factory are under pressure to deliver customers orders. established only a few years ago its owner is already dreaming of a number bishop's exploration program. the plant is one of dozens of small and medium enterprises huling economic growth in ivory coast thanks to the government's liberalisation policies of the past 9 years economy. runs on un to prove new era skills program for young people in africa. from 2011 to 2020 we now know plus 7 percent in terms of economic growth which is tremendous

which is more than 11 gaining influence. back in. 2911 as well the country. revenue fair share in hobby days was a wrong $1000.00 all right known they are more than $2000.00 right. and eventually they didn't p. capital. to what was one of the greatest or highest d.t.p. pace copies ours across from foreign countries despite copy 1000 concerned businesses remain hopeful but such a deep contentious presidential election is a big worry. violence after the election 10 years ago destroyed not only lives but also businesses many of them feel to reopen. from what i hear runs the 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. a sentiment shared by docilely mark who runs a happily insular. feel is 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 its policies including a commitment to infrastructure development as one of the confidence 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 a 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. well in the past year we've all been looking for simple pleasures and 20 twenties the best pastry chef in the world has just been announced these tasty pieces of edible art have won that pierre mark will be neatly accolade the belgian chocolate tiara who was 40 shops worldwide was unanimously given the award by a panel of independent journalists the jury also took into account markham in his commitment to the use of sustainable cocoa beans for his luxury products the chef said that he hopes his chocolates bring some comfort to people during the coronavirus pandemic. chocolate certainly part of our comfort to a lot of people i know during lockdown anyway that is it for this news hour do stay with us we're going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news about.

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