people will visit homes around china together vital demographic data for the country's 7 relations census. how china complete such a huge challenge during the closet $1010.00 a. special coverage on iraq. coronavirus cases and surge in europe once more france announces a nationwide lockdown on germany imposes drastic new restrictions. about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. supreme court rejects republican attempts to limit male and balloting in 2 key

swing states. another seems far crumbles in the battle over nagorno-karabakh john accuses our media of killing 21 civilians near the disputed territory. and how we can see to it slams into the u.s. state of louisiana the 5th major storm to hit the region this year. tough new measures are being imposed across europe and fears hospitals are about to be overwhelmed by a growing number of coronavirus patients germany's imposing restrictions to last a month that's closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open in italy dining out after 6 pm is now banned and theaters and gyms a shot it's a similar situation in spain which is declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings and friends. president emmanuel has announced

a 2nd 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 but 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. want creators of in mali partly because of what we learned in spring down will be adapted schools will stay open you can continue visits will be permitted to retirement homes but 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 covert patients this talk to 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 in cases then very soon we won't have any beds any more. really not any 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 stop settlement thing 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. economy 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 look down 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 it's national butler al-jazeera paris. or the us is also experiencing records daily spikes in infections with 6 days to go before the presidential election president trump has repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail that the pandemic will end quickly as opponent joe biden spent the day in his hometown of wilmington delaware meeting with health professionals and casting an early vote my kind of reports joe biden emerges from the voting station having cast an early ballot joining his opponent donald trump who voted in florida last week they're not the only ones 6 days out from election day a record 70000000 americans have cast their votes early amounting to half the total number of ballots recorded in 2016 biden chose to stay in his home town holding

a meeting with health professionals to discuss the ongoing pandemic. shaking his head at what he heard and afterwards lashing out at the president he contends has given up trying to contain the pandemic seems like he just don't care much about it and the longer he's in charge the more reckless he gets it's enough he's trying to change. reports emerging tearing the day indicate that president trump and his advisers were seeking political capital out of the pandemic as far back as april in a recorded interview with journalist bob woodward jarrett cushiony reveals that his father in law in his words was getting the country back from the doctors question was referring to donald trump's insistence on ending the lockdown as soon as

possible he was tweeting support for anti lock down protests at a time that americans were dying at the rate of some 2000 a day cushion a says he and trump are focused on what would help the president on election day by their calculations he contended trump would be seen as the open up president which would give him a boost in the polls and on the campaign trail president trump continues to insist this too much focus on the coronavirus and rails against the mitigating measures health experts insist on under biden's cruel and centers lockdowns countless americans will died from drug overdose. deferred medical care alcoholism we're going to open up pennsylvania we're going to open up north carolina and open up california and open up. the pandemic has dominated the

selection process like no other subject and ultimately this vote may well turn into a referendum on how well or help badly the sitting president has responded mike hanna al-jazeera washington the u.s. supreme court has rejected a republican bid to limit mail in ballots can be received in 2 key swing states pennsylvania and north carolina president trump has regularly attacks mail in voting making claims of fraud without any evidence. 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 whilst hillary supporting joe biden and has called trump a moral petty and ineffective a 3rd attempt at peace appears to have crumbled in the ground or caught a buck as a by john has accused our media of killing at least 21 civilians and wounding dozens more in a missile strike as the deadliest single incident against civilians since fighting

flared a month ago although are the honeyed reports from the capital back home it was the worst attack on civilians yet an eager sight since the conflict began a month ago the city of barta hit by what as it by jan describes as smirch missiles as there 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 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 force is 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 they are by gen is imposing itself on the battlefield regaining terry 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 this prime minister nicole passionately and warned of a counter attack. the people of iraq 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 i mean your peers unable to stop the advance of the as every military industry surrounding the. president ilham aliyev warned that his response will come on the battlefield now both foreign

ministers of president john and i mean yeah 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 bard attack marking a serious escalation but at the. meanwhile armenians living across the world are showing their solidarity with their ancestral homeland challenge reports from the capital you're a van. this is a far cry from tiger we are going yams day job the dental consultant from los angeles seals and on float he gets ready. like that you can see here it's another way of finding a fallen soldiers home on for 40 days. symbol that there is a fun soldier's family inside. who is about to come face to face with intense grief to armenian families are mourning sons killed in the war with azerbaijan turkey 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 turkey has raised more than half a $1000000.00 from the armenian overseas community as an i mean what else would i be doing annulling let's see if i was here and 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 dollars has been raised since the war began in late september i am 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 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 our media baz for the current conflicts 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 you know of an armenian. policing guinea have lifted the blockade on the main opposition leaders home. declared victory a day after votes were cast on the top of the 8th but the electoral commission went on to declare 82 year old president after condé the winner setting up his controversial 3rd term challenge has condemned the un pass after the post-election dispute led to deaths and violence. i don't want people to consider that this is ink if we can call it that should obscured object if we have that of fighting until victory the victory that we acquired in the ballot boxes and of refusing to elect

or hold up mr afrikander is in the process of preparing still ahead analogise here the warning from the u.s. secretary of state to sri lanka about chinese influence. plus we look at how cinemas in south korea using technology to adapt to the new reality of covered 19. the. color temp is about to come down but into the week for japan as this eastward movement becomes more of a science had been in the air behind is more of a normal you see the start of it or the snow in siberia not quite catching her car in fact supported and seem to get much effect from the temperature in tokyo comes down a course so the teens are in beijing in hybrids of the plus 9 hong kong gets the

rather pleasant feeling low humidity sunshine and 25 degree type much the same as taipei because all the actions one has been in the sea of japan has now made land for a vietnamese in the process of falling apart and spreading rain throughout laos and thailand and to some degree northern cambodia the next one if it forms is out here so we're quite a few days away for the time being now that rain ends up going house into myanmar is a rather wet and to the week otherwise it sunshine and shouts and frequent shastra throughout indonesia as the rainy season and it's showing itself where as we see the end of that obviously in india now there are showers still in the bay of bengal also under pradesh possibly tom and caroline slack you'll see the rain and you know what's going to happen to me and the rest of india and bangladesh it is dry. for. 2013 wish the world innovation summit or

health has gathered health care leaders practitioners understand just together to larry interact and engage with innovative organizations. this year wish will take place virtually under the banner of one world are on the. register now wish dot org dot q a. or . you want to see a reminder of our top stories this hour a 2nd nationwide lockdown is to begin in france to fight

a surge of cope with 19 infections president emanuel mccrone said restrictions were necessary because previous curfews imposed in major cities didn't work. the u.s. supreme court has rejected a republican victim limit plan the mail in ballots can be received in 2 key swing states pennsylvania and north carolina president trump has regularly attacked mail in voting. as a by john has accused the media of killing at least 21 civilians in a missile strike bringing a 3rd attempt at a ceasefire into doubt the attack on the city of is the deadliest single incident against civilians since fighting flared up a month ago. story is under pressure from the united nations to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 years old to 14 aboriginal people as well as total strait islanders make up more than half of those detained the al-jazeera program one of one east has been given rare access to the criminal justice system in

western australia the state with the highest rate of indigenous you think costa ration. reports. adams only 13 but he's used to hardship he's parents were addicted to drugs and took their own lives so in homeless he was jailed last year after he was caught breaking into houses when i 1st went to try to act tough. for the 4 lock. what things did you say that you think a kid should be subjected to. a lot of 10 year olds can bashfulness 16 year olds. i sat. with. adam and all western australian child offenders end up inside the banksia hill youth detention center in the state capital of perth tiny hassle is in charge of the prison system here i think what you have to understand is it's the last resort people who are

here the young people and they are young people here primarily for quite dangerous offenses and the government has to protect its citizens many youth inmates grow up in poor dysfunctional communities in remote corners of western australia like the kimberley local outreach workers say putting them in detention is not the answer i have seen so many kids they sent to paris where i don't believe that should be the case they should be somewhere in the kimberley's. not traumatised a striker is under pressure from the un among others to raise the age of criminal were sponsibility for. 10 to 14 because it's largely indigenous children who are being arrested and incarcerated. senior sergeant neville repairs been a police officer in remote indigenous communities since the 1980s he says there needs to be change it's a hard balancing act to keep the victims happy and also the

perpetrators should. be incarcerated it 10 years or veitch i don't think so. i don't think so. in july the national government deferred a decision into next year to possibly raise the age of criminal responsibility so at least until then a strain when children will continue to be locked up drew ambrose out jazeera western australia for more on investigation you can watch part one of young black and behind bars at 2230 g.m.t. on thursday and part 2 on november the 5th 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 users posts that are cracked say there needs to be stronger action over misinformation

republicans accuse some platforms of censoring conservative voices. i can see to it has made landfall in southern us bringing another round of heavy rain and damaging winds to the state of louisiana there are warnings the category 2 storm could bring a life threatening storm surges after earlier hitting southern mexico residents have been warned to take shelter while the u.s. president has already declared an emergency parts of the state zita is the 5th named storm to slam into louisiana this year breaking state records and racing correspondent jane gray's monitoring the storm from the city of new orleans. severe driving winds along with counting rain here and that's something we saw for an extended period of time we saw on things torn away from buildings here we know that there is other damage across the city it will be interesting to see how the city pared 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 storm to make landfall in louisiana this season that's the record and when it made landfall winds about 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 u.s. secretary of state my pompei is pressing the sri lanka to be on guard for what he calls predatory lending and investment by china as resins comes a day after signing at the fence pact with india where he urges closer cooperation to come to threats from beijing and often and us reports from colombo. the

president's office in colombo and a meeting with go to the rajapaksa was the 1st stop for the u.s. secretary of state on wednesday mike bump ale 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 shakur 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 to land and see that the chinese communist party is a predator in the united states comes the different way we come as a friend and as a partner china's embassy in colombo dismissed on bills 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 she lanka's foreign minister going to 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 3 lanka's foreign policy will remain neutral. non-alignment 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 in china's favor leading some to question its priorities as well as those of the united states if she lanka's true interests are at heart for any of the international players around they would be pressurizing 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 there are various scenarios that work here i think there is a level of what could be considered bullying there could be a defense deals at stake here there could be pressure applied to india sri lanka strategic location has shifted the full global superpower against each other in a race for dominance in this part of the world with projects like the 4th city which you can see behind me and the only thing of the vices shipping lanes china scenes ahead of fact pale east to counter. and then there's al-jazeera colombo long queues have formed outside western union branches across cuba after the government said its local operations will be forced to close because of u.s. sanctions the new rules don't come into force until late november that means there's still time for the money transfer company to find a way around them i mean so as the story. these cubans are waiting to pick up money

sent from their relatives abroad millions here we lie on remittances from the u.s. to make ends meet but the money transfer company that allows them to get those payments is under threat. the government in havana says it's being forced to shut down the local operation of western union due to new u.s. sanctions. washington is banning anyone on u.s. soil from sending money to cuba via the company because its local partner is a military controlled firm the u.s. accuses cuba of profiting from the transfer business to oppress its people and fund interference in venezuela so more people who got him to go look we're the ones who were harmed the people there are people who can't work here for one reason or another and live off their children their mother their brother and now this who's being harmed the ones at the bottom not those top our president or don't they i'm

flying president donald trump to live here in cuba for one day without family remittances received from western union just one day living in them and independently of all the politics i asked the u.s. to think about the people and we need the situations resolved no matter which party wins the election. analysts say donald trump is ratcheting up sanctions on cuba in a bid to secure votes from cuban americans who fled from fidel castro's communist rule about 1000000 are registered voters in the key swing state of florida in a tweet cuba's foreign ministers that the sanctions would hurt cuban families the new rules won't come into force until the end of november meaning there's still time for western union and the government to come up with a new business arrangement with nonmilitary companies. as of now western union employees have not had any news that they're going to close or anything no

information has arrived yet we only received news that everything was very normal until further notice it's not yet clear whether western union will be able to keep its 400 offices across cuba open beyond november 27th raising fears among many that they'll be out of pocket if they can't get health from abroad and they sue. one of the biggest film festivals in asia is currently underway in south korea organizers had to scale things down because of the corona virus pandemic and as robert bribe reports from busan many cinemas are relying on technology to adapt to the new reality of covered 19. it could be the way we all go to the movies in the future minimum interaction with anyone else from the snack machines to getting your tickets this cinema group says its customers like dealing with technology rather than other people. they have told us the new digital experience is fun and

interesting so we're working with this digital trend to introduce other you know patience despite a 70 percent drop in business cinemas here have managed to stay open while most worldwide have not and the annual buson film festival was able to be held big movie releases like peninsula a sequel to a popular zombie film have gone ahead while globalise blockbusters have been delayed will come straight on line 30. people have become more familiar with services on online platforms which shows a new generation of audience could emerge. cinemas have been fighting back with the introduction of multi-sensory and multi screen technology. heavily invested in ever more sophisticated movie theaters cinema operators are looking at innovative ways of getting audiences back such as streaming live events from music concerts to video gaming the aim to exploit the big screen experience that smaller screens of

hand phones and laptops contact for however we watch what we watch is also likely to change. has the number of moviegoers dwindle it's natural for studios to move away from blockbusters to safer and more manageable productions they know can be successful an industry looking to keep its customers safe and itself in business robin friday al-jazeera busan south korea. this is a disease these are the top stories france is a reimposing a nation wide lockdown to fight a surge of call that 19 infections president of my own mark wrong said restrictions were necessary because curfews in some cities in recent weeks didn't work. and germany's imposing a partial lockdown from next monday to try to stop the record rise in infections

their proposed restrictions include closing cafes bars theaters and restaurants.