conspiracy theorists engineers and world leaders this is only the beginning. arguing fiercely over control of the latest wireless technology the truth about 5 g. on al-jazeera. coronavirus cases surge in europe once more france announces a nationwide lockdown while germany imposes drastic new restrictions. i'm about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the anonymous author of a scathing op ed about president trump reveals his identity 2 years after it was published in the new york times. another ceasefire crumbles in the battle over nagorno-karabakh azerbaijan accuses armenia

of killing 21 civilians near the disputed territory. and how you can see to slams into the u.s. state of louisiana the 5th major storm to hit the region this year we're going to be live in new orleans. tough new measures are being imposed across europe and fears hospitals are about to be overwhelmed by a growing number of coronavirus patients gemini's imposing restrictions to last a month it's closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open in italy dining out after 6 pm is now banned in theaters and gyms are shot it's a similar situation in spain which is declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings and in the last few hours french president emanuel mccrum has announced a 2nd national lockdown that will last until the 1st of december all nonessential

businesses will have to shut but schools and factories will be allowed to remain open the dash about the reports from paris. innes of the t.v. address french president emanuel macro city of new look. down was necessary because france's health situation had deteriorated rapidly. because of what we learned in spring down will be adapted schools will stay open and can continue visits will be permitted to retirement homes as in the spring 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 cases 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 kovi 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 for months the government and president of earth people in france to live as normally as possible with the virus but these new restrictions reveal to start 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 anticipate the scale of the emergency for some a new lockdown could have been avoided others it was inevitable either way few would have imagined that they would be forced to stay at home again so soon.

al-jazeera paris. well the u.s. is also experiencing record daily spikes in infections even as president trump repeatedly claims on the campaign trail that the pandemic will end quickly democratic nominee joe biden has pledged to prioritize science to combat the virus and has vowed not to make false promises when while newly released audiotapes have revealed donald trump's senior advisor and son in law janet kosta outlining a deliberate strategy to resist expert medical advice u.s. media has released recordings of them saying in april that they were quote getting the country back from the doctor's maicon is joining us live now from washington d.c. so in in couple of interesting quotes on the campaign trail mike let's start off with the controversy surrounding those comments made by janet. well the comments were made in a recorded interview with journalist bob woodward way back in april when the

pandemic was at its height in states like new york more than 2000 people dying every single day and now a cushion has said that his father in law had taken the country back from the doctors what he was referring to was donald trump's intent to open up the country to end the lockdown as quickly as possible in order to revive the economy but cushion is reported statements make very clear too that this was a political strategy at the time with an eye to the november election. outlined the strategy as making very clear that donald trump decided to put it on the governors to combat the pandemic to put it on them to conduct testing campaigns to put it on them to evolve a strategy this would ensure that if the governor's failed president trump could take no blame if they succeeded he could come out as the man who had achieved it all as the come out person as put it who would then receive

a huge bump in the electoral process so certainly there's a great degree of cynicism whether it's going to change anybody's mind set this late point very unclear given the fact that more than 70000000 americans have already cast their votes really it is something that in the last few days of this campaign is unlikely to have any major impact and might just in another twist that's been happening today as i mentioned before back in 28 there was an anonymous anonymously written opinion piece in the new york times that was very critical of donald trump we now know who wrote that tell us more about it. but we now do know because the man who called himself anonymous in 2 separate book . lashing out at president trump has now revealed his identity in an online post miles taylor is his name and he was a chief of staff in the department of homeland security at one point

a very senior official he was highly critical of trump in those 2 books saying that it was necessary for americans to know both the character and the quality of their head of state he has also now come out publicly and endorse joe biden as president saying that president trump must not be allowed to run for another 4 years president trump himself well he's just brushed away the unmasking masking off anonymous out on the campaign trail he's been saying you've never heard of the man he doesn't know him clearly this is just another fraud posted by the media like the new york times although it was not the new york times that broke the story so president trump once again just brushing this all the way but very interesting with the day is to go to election day you have these details suddenly emerging the identity of anonymous and of course those incendiary comments made by jared cushion

and mike thanks very much indeed that's mike hanna for us in washington d.c. . about half of the world's covered 19 infections have been recorded in latin america with venezuela officially reporting 90000 cases so far many people inside the country think nicolas maduro his government has grossly underestimated that figure on the front line hospitals are lacking basic supplies many patients are being left and in some cases to die there is a bow as the story. 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. 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 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 basically i said a minute the health system in venezuela had deteriorated greatly prior to that 90 every doctor knows it is it's a matter about resources about health and sanitary conditions even within hospitals we have population of more than 28000000 or thought is in venezuela report fewer than 800 deaths bike over 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 to see one of them. 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 dig 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 priscilla nicole announced earlier this week that venezuela has produced a cure for over 1000 get all the seed giving us i want to announce venezuela has created a medicine the stop corona virus after 6 months of trial who can certify this 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 it will start preparing the mass production of this molecule and give it to 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 just. a 3rd attempted peace appears to have crumbled in the wrong color back as a by john has accused armenia of killing at least 21 civilians and wounding dozens more in a missile strike it's the deadliest deadliest single incident against civilians since fighting flared a month ago on the honeydew reports from is it a capital bucko. 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 as a by john describes a smirch missiles as there is also accuse armenia 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 in barga 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 a forces are also accused of aiming at civilian targets the maternity ward of a hospital in step and i craved was hit although there are no reports of casualties there as they are by john 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. the people of our talk 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 every military in district surrounding the. president warned his response will come on the battlefield now both foreign ministers of president john enemy and i 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 al-jazeera but. still had an al-jazeera but a tense wait for results in tanzania about after an election marred by violence and accusations of foul play. we look at how armenians living abroad are coming together to help their ancestral homeland during the conflict with azerbaijan. hello hurrican zita makes landfall on wednesday evening local time here it is coming from the satellite picture now give me the overnight hours nasa temperatures drop well below freezing up up in the rockies in the snow as a result the line of rain to take to the as it dies down from when strength of hurrican down to just

a rather vicious storm takes it up the appalachian chain towards d.c. and the cold behind when daylight temperatures tends to woman slowly we don't see more freezing rain which we've already seen the globe which is any more snow except up in the northern plains states and the picture by friday takes the rain offshore and then the cold tucks in behind toronto a new york bugs feeling a bit of a blast from a northerly but otherwise the sun is out and this year in canada you have more significant snow here in western canada so we can say goodbye to the hurrican although it does leave a little trail of rain but we'd see an increase in the showers in other parts of mexico bit further south also in believes or tamala and other places to the south panama and costa rica but the cuba the cayman islands and jamaica having had what seems to be 3 or 4 weeks of britney big showers a lot of rain it's a much draw a picture.

al jazeera world goes inside the military wing of hamas gaining access to keep players in previously unseen footage unless we create a different political reality a must go through. to. look with new shifting you know the alliances we are asking the palestinians to meet the challenge of peaceful coexistence what next for gaza and the palestinian cause and the middle east on al-jazeera. georgiades here a reminder of our top stories this hour

a 2nd nationwide lockdown has to begin in france to fight a surge of covert 19 factions presidents emanuel mccall said restrictions were necessary because previous curfews imposed in major cities didn't work. a former u.s. homeland security official has admitted to being the white house insider who wrote a scathing op ed 2 years ago condemning donald trump miles taylor supporting joe biden and has called trump a moral petty and ineffective. as a by john has accused armenia of killing at least 21 civilians in a missile strike bringing a 3rd attempt at a ceasefire into doubt the attack on the city is the deadliest single incident against civilians since fighting flared a month ago. meanwhile armenians living across the world are showing their solidarity with their ancestral homeland only challenge reports from the capital yet of on. this is a far cry from tiger we are going to day job the dental consultant from los angeles

seals and on float and gets ready. you go see here 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. offers 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 has raised more than half a $1000000.00 from the armenian overseas community as an i mean and what else would i be doing now in knowing let's see if i was here i'm pretty sure i was going to do something to either raise awareness or raise funds to send out fund my volunteer team do it that it's just it's a must i feel like i would not sleep well if i can. i mean you know 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 $150000000.00 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 is 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

a 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 techie'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 your event armenia. votes are being counted in tanzania following an election marred by allegations of foul play president john michael fully is hoping to secure a 2nd town but his government has been accused of cracking down on dissent opposition leaders say electoral observers were turned away from polling stations

and also reported several instances of ballot stuffing katherine sawyer has more. arran samwell came to cast his ballot in the capitol dome ah he's one of 29000000 tonnes and hands who registered to vote and hopes his voice will count. because i have come to vote and exercise my constitutional duty to elect their leaders that i feel is best suited to be in development my province and maybe ridge. is in the semi autonomous 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 fish for world peace secondly they want improvement for those who are an employee. they want things to be easy they want infrastructure to be in place they want healthy services 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 and some analysts are saying that this paul is not transparent or credible. things like this of police using force and 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 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 that could take days to come through and then this is to

say. i want to reach. peace 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. i can see it has made landfall in southern us bringing another round of heavy rain and damaging winds to the state of louisiana but are warnings the category 2 storm could bring a life threatening storm surges after earlier hitting southern mexico residents are being warned to take shelter while the u.s. president has already declared an emergency for parts of the state zita is the 5th named storm to slam into louisiana this year breaking state records ok for more let's cross live to n.b.c. correspondent jamie gray from new orleans jay good to have you on the program it looks a little bit quiet behind you looking at the shot we've got of you now but i'm sure the last few hours have not been like that what's been going on.

rob if we talked to minutes ago i would have barely been able to hear in the eye of this storm right now the back half of this storm does not look nearly as intense but just minutes ago as i'm talking about fear driving winds along with the pounding rain here and that's something we saw for an extended period of time we saw awnings torn away from buildings here we know that there is other damage across the city obviously way too early to assess. this was the. hurricane force winds in new orleans to the city since katrina 2 very different storms obviously not comparing the 2 storms but the 1st time we've seen wind of that significance in this area and it'll be interesting to see how the city fared look over the last day or so we've seen sandbags moving into place boarded up windows and doors and and people really taking this storm seriously it is the 5th named a storm to make landfall in louisiana this season that's

a record and when it made landfall winds of 160 kilometers so that's also a record as the most powerful storm to make landfall this late in the season when you talk to people on the ground they say they're just tired to be real frank they've gone through such a top hurricane season now this late in the season to have another and you combine that with covert 19 and all that that's brought on not only this state obviously but the entire country and people say they just have petite they're ready to move forward the good news is that this storm is moving forward at a very rapid pace and so it's going to clear through it'll give people a chance to 1st thing in the morning get up and really assess what's happened here and and start to clean up and that's what people want right now they want to be able to move forward get this storm behind them unfortunately talking to those who study the weather and especially in this region this season is not over yet and

some are saying that they expect within the next 9 to 10 days we could see another system in the gulf as change very bring us up to date with the latest on hurricane rita which has made landfall in the u.s. he's talking to us from new orleans to you thanks. vigil is being held to remember 13 children killed in a raid on a school in calorie english speaking region mothers in but mendez said they were broken by the increasing violence targeting children although no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the government says separatists are behind the killings in conda independence fighters accuse the french speaking government of marginalizing. in poland thousands of people have taken part in a nationwide strike to protest against a ban on almost all abortions demonstrators marched for the 7th straight day over a court ruling that bans abortions due to fetal abnormalities the procedure will now only be allowed in cases of rape incest or over the mother's health is at risk

poland's conservative government pushed for the change and has vowed not to back down the heads of facebook google and twitter have been grilled by u.s. senators about how they moderate content the senate committee is looking at whether to reform laws that protect tech companies from being held liable for user's posts democrats say there needs to be stronger action over misinformation and republicans accuse some platforms of censoring conservative voices who the hell elected. and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the american people are allowed to hear and why do you persist in behaving as a democratic super pac silencing. to the contrary your political we're not doing that this was wide open. this year and it calls for more transparency we realize we need to earn trust more we realize that more comically is needed to show

our intentions in the short. the los angeles dodgers a one to baseball's world series for the 1st time in more than 3 decades they beat the tampa bay rays in 6 games to conclude a season heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but 11000 fans were allowed to witness it inside the stadium so how monic reports. this site seemed unimaginable a few months ago but off the delayed start to the season because of the corona virus and with numerous positive cases within teams constantly threatening the campaign major league baseball has finally crowned its champions the los angeles dodgers the only was by far one doctor who actually won over the world where people who never waiver this is our year here's a curious. feeling the time he was by no means easy though can't see the dodgers having to come from behind victory in game 6 was and they came alive in the 6th

innings to the delight of the fans a limited number of spectators being allowed into the neutral venue in texas for the series. they witnessed mickey but place starring role again to cap off what's been a memorable c.v. the split was fittingly his home which was the right to the 15th round of the postseason round of the scoring. the dodgers winning $31.00 finally ending that 32 year wait for the championship it was yeah you know it's absolute phenomenal this team was incredible off throughout the year all throughout the postseason all throughout corinth ino we never stopped when we were ready to go us or isabella's called and once it did we kept rolling. and overdue night of celebration for dodgers fans a sigh of relief for league organizes who enjoyed this season did finish. with the

world series win a. helmet. well in a year we've all been looking for simple pleasures 2020 s best pastry chef in the world has been announced these tasty pieces of edible art of one of piano mccauley need the accolade the belgian chocolatier who has 40 shops worldwide was unanimously given the award by a panel of independent journalists. this is all just 0 these are the top stories of france's reimposing a nationwide lockdown to fight a surge of cold with 19 infections president emanuel said restrictions were necessary because curfews in some cities in recent weeks didn't work and germany is imposing a partial lockdown from next monday to try to stop the record rise in infection.