and we are the commodity and the 2nd the series not be re-examined is where the regimes are colonizing the internet like me or it's the end power of big tech. coronavirus surges through europe once again with the continent's most powerful economies going back into lockdown. it. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming out. and that the ceasefire crumbles and the battle over nagorno-karabakh thousands by john accuses armenia of killing 21 civilians in your disputed territory. muslims across the world protest against the french president's comments on islam while

turkey's leaders threatens to sue the magazine charlie a bill in tanzania vote amid accusations of electoral fraud and human rights violations in a country once praised as a beacon of peace in africa. it became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in 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 kobe 1000 surged by almost 40 percent in the past week doctors in several countries are warning hospitals are days away from being overwhelmed let's take a look at what some of the countries are doing germany is imposing any merge and see months long lockdown closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open nearly 15000 new infections were 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 theaters and jim jim's would be shocked it's a similar situation in spain which has declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings nearly 20. 1000 more people have contracted coronavirus there in the last day and in the past few hours french president manuel macross announced a 2nd national lockdown that will last until the 1st of the sumber all non-essential businesses will have to shut schools and factories will be allowed to remain open reports from paris. in a soviet t.v. address french president emanuel said a new lockdown was necessary because france's health situation had deteriorated rapidly. because of what we learned in the spring down will be adapted schools will stay open can continue visits will be permitted to retirement homes but i think

it's been you can only leave home to work for a medical visit to help someone for essential shopping or exercise in a home of. the number of new clothes each case is rising fast in france with more than 50000 on some days more than half of the country's intensive care unit beds are occupied by covert patients this doctor says that health workers would want for months at a 2nd wave was coming and would be worse than the 1st november is going to be very very hard and we have so we have you know to break that wave that is coming because if we keep accumulating really the cases in the case and cases then very soon we won't have any beds anymore. really not any for months the government i'm president of urged people in france to live as normally as possible with the virus but these new restrictions reveal just are challenging that really is. a government

a strike to navigate a delicate process try to find if i could go in terms of focusing more on. the situation we are in now is a result of this precarious balance. the fact that the new restrictions come less than 2 weeks after a night time curfew was imposed on most of the country could indicate that the government failed to. paid the scale of the emergency for some a new lockdown could have been avoided for others it was inevitable either way few would have imagined that they would be forced to stay at home again so soon but i should butler al-jazeera paris officially 90000 venezuelans have been infected with the coronavirus but many people inside the country think that this is a massive underestimation from the proud government of nicolas maduro 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 died from the disease that

i support reports. fighting over $1000.00 is a major challenge in most countries but even if we are where hospitals are running short of medicines and staff the battle is even harder. every day to this hospital and get our guys 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 an ongoing economic crisis 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 over 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 what and so 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 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 in this time the lack of gasoline has reduced movement across the country and slow down the spread of the virus in spite of the daily struggles people face christening 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 days will go to the world health organization to ratify once it's ratified it will start preparing the mass production of this molecule and get to the world a cure against coronavirus but many people in the country have doubts. 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 just cedar. a 3rd attempt at peace appears to have crumbled in a corner about azerbaijan has accused her nini 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 up a month ago 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 air is also accuse or 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 this 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 depend a great was hit although there are no reports of casualties there as a budget 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 his or by jan 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. i 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 our media 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 president bridge 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 war difficult the barred attack marking as serious as coalition put up hamid. with just 6 days to go until the u.s. election president donald trump and democratic vice presidential nominee kemah harris are taking their campaigns to the battleground state of arizona polls show

trump narrowly trailing his challenger joe biden they are despite winning the state in 2016 arizona hasn't supported a democrat since bill clinton in 1996 and it's considered crucial for a trump victory next week. joe biden meanwhile has cast his ballot in his hometown of wilmington delaware is one of more than 74000000 americans who have chosen to vote early in person or submit post of ballots analysts say the record number of mail in votes could take days or weeks to count meaning the winner why not be declared on november 3rd. mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. so it's just 6 days to go pick us a picture of where we are in the campaign right now in the last week effectively. well both candidates have been speeding up their campaign president trump in particular he's been flying from state to state in arizona today that's because he

couldn't go to nevada which neighbors arizona because of the coronavirus restrictions in that particular state but president trump has covered a number of states in recent days as has his opponent joe biden both focusing on the key states arizona for example is one for the democrats they now believe that arizona may be in play it hasn't been in the past as you mentioned the last time democratic candidate won there was way back in 1996 there's a couple of other states like that georgia which joe biden visited recently that was lost by a one by a democratic candidate back in 1992 and yet the democrats now are combatants that they may take that particular state not only with the presidential candidate but also the senate and possibly the state house so democrats writing in a way a way all the polls indicate that they have some. candy lead however there are a number of states where it remains neck and neck such as arizona and that's why

a president trump is there on this particular day to try and eat every single vote he can in a race that is exceedingly narrow remembering that he won arizona handily back in 2016 but now it's one of those states that's neck and neck so the candidates entering now this final stretch joe biden has cast his vote donald trump cost his vote in florida a week ago a few more campaign rounds will be happening in the days leading to this critical election i can with the latest there from washington d.c. mike thank you. so to come here on al-jazeera. i'm john hendren in ohio a state known for picking u.s. presidents it might just do it one more time. and then attempt to bring a more calm to iraqi politics mystery is can it work.

hello bruce fans been hit hard by big showers recently now they're mostly drifting away you can see them to the extent of them on a satellite pickup but if you're in sydney then thursday is not going to be your best day that's an on shore breeze the showers are in your neck of the woods all were down to new south wales and stretching across towards adelaide as well but i think the sundry ones will be in the east a forecast as sydney gives you suddenly winds increasing and then easterly winds on saturday with the sun's storms coming back in by that time so that's a picture for friday then looking a little bit briefly but of a nuisance well so if a breeze been asked the purpose nor show of his record breaking a pretty big increase in temperatures up to 36 degrees in the hot sunshine now of course we're due for a change of season it was it way up in japan 1st of all the final phase to china

this is funny with a little winter load trying to form itself it keeps temperatures in sapporo 13 but tokyo gets a bit of a cooling trend and about 17 but time to get to friday but everywhere else for the west is looking reason the far at the moment there's been a cloud rain in western china the monsoon rains going south and $700.00 some in sri lanka but mostly it's not a dry. 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 these alarms it's called man down man down man down man down all day all night faultlines our asks who is responsible. pandemic in prison to

some quentin outbreak on a just 0. to. the at. the welcome back time now for a reminder of the top stories on our jazeera the french president has imposed a new national lockdown but schools will remain open this comes as the country recorded a record one day rise of more than 36000 case cases germany meanwhile is heading into a new months long grueling of arse lock down with restaurants bars and james ordered to shop from monday chancellor angela merkel has announced an 11000000000 dollar relief program and that's her by shon has accused armenia of the deadliest

single incident in their months long conflict it says $21.00 people were killed when shells hit a town near the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh. anger is growing in muslim nations against press french president emanuel mccrone with new protests in bangladesh iran and pakistan mccrone is again vowed to crack down on what he called radical islam after a teacher was killed earlier this month for showing his students images of the prophet mohammed and they see o'brien has more. 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 a 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 valent to crack down the most he called separatism and defending the publishing of cartoons of the prophet muhammad. 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. as it crosses france will never renounce its principles and values a no to believe 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 news room that led to the bloodshed we have seen in recent years in our country. teaches some while patsy was beheaded in france italy of this month to showing images of the prophet to students and the lesson on freedom of speach. following

the murder and a memorial service hailing the teacher as a hero mccrone said france would 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. disrespecting the prophet incites violence and it's immoral 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. 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. 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. votes are being counted in tanzania following an election marred by allegations of foul play president john magaw 40 is hoping to secure a 2nd 5 year term and his government has been accused of cracking down on the scent

catherine sawyer has more. arran samwell came to cast his ballot in a copy told adama has won 29000000 tonnes of man's 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 of my province and maybe change. now she is in the semi autonomous region of zanzibar here they get to vote for their old president he says he wants a better life regardless of who he will be people who they want to fish for world peace secondly they want improvement for those who are an employed here they want things to be easy they want to infrastructure to be in place here 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 iraqi larry it is 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 some analysts are saying that this 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 groups that would facilitate free and fair elections over a. 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 that i want to retrieve that women take place 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. algeria's president has been transferred to germany for medical checks a day after being hospitalized 75 year old development bruna has been isolating since saturday after several senior government aides had tested positive for corona virus the bullens the parcher for germany comes just days before a jury ans vote on a new constitution. indian police say that they've killed the 2 separatists in indian administered kashmir security forces launched the night kind of raid which led to an exchange of gunfire officers say the fighters belong to joshua mohammed an armed group based in pakistan that fights against indian rule in the region. now is iraq marks

a year since the start of fierce antigovernment protests the country's parliament is voting on changes to election rules an early parliamentary election is due to be held next june and will include a new electoral districts but as someone a fulton reports now from baghdad it's unclear whether those changes will bring better representation. voter registration in iraq is under way ahead of the early elections scheduled for june next year over half of the 26500000 iraqis eligible to cast their ballots have registered so far after a tumultuous year marked by large scale protests and political crises the election offers a chance to bring about the change people are demanding. we hope that it will be more transparent than in the past and that the choice will be better hopefully there will be genuine change after all that we've suffered over the past year. prime minister. called for early elections after mass demonstrations toppled the

previous government which protesters demands for an overhaul of the political system to placate protesters demands for better representation parliament passed a new election law last december it abolished party lists which had previously allowed parties to sweep up all the votes in a given province in favor of individual candidacy it also divided iraq's 18 provinces into multiple electoral districts with each district electing several candidates for iraq's 320 member parliament. but it's uncertain whether these changes will help new parties get a foothold. i believe that it's become more difficult for the smaller parties because as you know for the small or medium parties it's in their interest to garner support from people across the country and even outside iraq if there are no violations then iraq is a single district is good in my point of view voting on the demarcation of

electoral districts is underway in parliament the boundaries of the electoral districts have been subject to fears to face as incumbent parties try to protect their interests in the meantime the protest movement has struggled to convert momentum on the streets into political capital out of the $214.00 parties that have registered to run so far only 16 are new. one new party in nonstick formation just before the 1st anniversary of the protest movement on october 25th the so-called october front says it represents dozens of movements across southern iraq . after a series of meetings dialogues and strenuous efforts we know it's the emergence of the it tobar front which is a project to unify the work of all revolutionaries but the party doesn't appear to represent the you've that used to be the engine of the protests i wanted to show it's this it is their vehicle for the future for

a future. i don't see has done but they don't see the value of. coming here showing their faces they don't believe in the political parties they didn't see any benefit from the previous political parties with the protest crowds in tahrir square in baghdad becoming ever thinner the pressure on the political establishment is waning the new electoral law has yet to be ratified and with less than 8 months to go until the election some officials fear that the vote may need to be postponed simona fulton al jazeera bugged out ok let's go to the u.s. elections now an analyst say it's often ohio that predicts the winner it's known as a bellwether state and it's picked the winning candidate in 30 of the past 32 elections both parties have invested heavily there with the belief that winning ohio means winning america 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 most being 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

that shift of the pie. multics to be the campaign to being the referendum on president trump 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 now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera france will return to lock down as the rate of corona virus infections they are soars president emanuel mccrone said his country was being overwhelmed by new infections as the country recorded a record one day rise of more than 36000 cases bars and restaurants will be forced to close and movement will be limited at hash about the reason paris for us.