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10 being arrested and locked up in the 1st of 2 special reports one o one east investigates the stray indigenous incarceration clock on al jazeera. fronts goes back into lockdown and germany impose a strict restrictions the coronavirus pandemic impacts life white across europe. hello i'm adrian from again this is out of syria live from doha also coming up running short of medicine and stuff frontline workers in venezuela say that curve it 1000 patients are being left to die. in the typhoon sets off landslides in vietnam killing more than 50 people. plus how cinemagoers and south korea are using
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technology to adapt to a new pandemic reality. parts of europe are introducing more stringent restrictions as the continent struggles with a surge in covert 19 infections france will go into its 2nd nationwide blocked out friday president emanuel mccall on that the rise in cases could be more deadly than the 1st. reports from paris the cd in a so the t.v. address french president emanuel macro 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 where it can continue 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. exercise in the home of.
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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 talk to says that health workers had one 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 weight that is coming because if we keep accumulating really the cases in the case of cases then very soon we won't have any beds anymore. not for months the government and president of earth people and 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
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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 it's al-jazeera paris germany is also imposing new restrictions for at least one month starting on monday restaurants and bars will be closed but schools will stay open in italy people are allowed to eat out after 6 pm james a shot the situation is similar in spain declared an overnight curfew and limits on gatherings mexico's president has criticized the law in europe calling them all for a tarion. says that europe. governments are treating their citizens like children
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those comments came on the day that mexico passed 90000 deaths linked to the coronavirus is referred to in our story that. by you authorities by the government with all due respect on the part of those who opt for the confuse aren't a sign of faith in people putting yourself above as with dorothy and children why they don't understand what america has been badly hit by the coronavirus and aid workers in venezuela a warning that the country is struggling to respond on the front line their hospitals are lacking basic supplies many patients have been left to die not a serious or is a bow reports of. 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
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father will be looked after. while 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 1000 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 80 famous had a miniature the health system in venezuela had deteriorated greatly prior to covert 90 every doctor knows it is it's a matter about resources about health and sanitary conditions even within hospitals without population of more than $28000000.00 authorities in venezuela report fewer
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than $800.00 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 assume one of the answer. 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 at 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
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that venezuela has produced a cure for gold with 19 get all the soup giving us earlier i want to announce venezuela 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 this molecule and give it 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. peru is reporting its 1st case of diptheria in 20 years is routine vaccinations being made more difficult by the pandemic the government is looking for other infected people after a 5 year old girl was diagnosed in lima to period of affects the throws and leads
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to breathing problems through has the world's 11th highest number of covert 19 infections in india there is concern that covert 19 will spread because large religious festivals are due to be held in the coming weeks india is the world's 2nd worst hit country and has just passed 8000000 covert 19 infections but it's reported one of the lowest death rates and politicians say the rise in new cases is slowing. coronavirus cases continue to climb across the u.s. with the presidential election now just days away half a 1000000 cases have been recorded in the past week with 26 states reporting near record numbers it continues to dominate campaigning why can i reports from washington joe biden the merger's from the voting station having cast an early ballot joining his opponent donald trump who voted in florida last week they're not
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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. why didn't chose to stay in his hometown 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 she was like you just don't care much about it and the longer he's in charge the more reckless he gets it's enough trying to change reports emerging during 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 cushion
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a 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 there's too much focus on the coronavirus and rails against the mitigating measures health experts insist on under biden's cruel and surplus lockdowns countless americans will died from suicide drug overdose deferred medical care
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alcoholism we got to open up pennsylvania we got opened up north carolina and open up california that opened up. the pandemic has dominated this election process like no other subject and ultimately this vote may well turn into a referendum on how well or how badly the sitting president has responded mike hanna al-jazeera washington the u.s. supreme court has rejected a republican bid to limits when mail in ballots can be received in 2 key swing states pennsylvania and north carolina it means the votes posted on november 3rd can be counted for several days afterwards president trump has regularly attacked mail in voting making claims of force without any evidence of former u.s. homeland security official has admitted that he is the white house insider who wrote a scathing opinion piece 2 years ago condemning donald trump miles taylor who no
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longer works for the president called trump a moral petty and ineffective tailoress supporting joe biden for president philadelphia has imposed an overnight curfew to try to prevent a 3rd night of violent protests over the police killing of a black man a previously planned rally was called off a few people detained for violating the curfew hundreds marched on tuesday night demanding the names of the officers who shot and killed 27 year old daughter wallace he made public officers say that he refused to drop a knife his family said that he was having a breakdown. aid workers in vietnam so that at least 50 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a powerful typhoon triggered landslides in remote areas at least 12 fishermen have also been killed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery of been deployed to help search for survivors let's go live now to kuala lumpur al-jazeera florence louis can tell us more florence about the situation in vietnam.
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that's right now this is to one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country in 20 years and before the typhoon hit the government had moved more about 40000 people to emergency shelters it also or told the factories offices and schools to shut to prevent casualties and even though the typhoon had weakened to a tropical depression after it made landfall on wednesday it still brought lots of heavy rain and that rain set of landslides in central vietnam that's buried dozens of people it's also many others are still missing now hundreds of soldiers have been deployed for search rescue and recovery work they're using bulldozers excavators to open up blocked roads they're trying to bring in more rescuers more heavy equipment to help in the search and rescue work but heavy rain is making their work more difficult now the 2 villages where the worst of the landslides took
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place is in a coastal province in central vietnam and this is a region that still recovering from floods earlier this month that killed about $130.00 people and destroyed hundreds of homes the government says this typhoon that hit has damaged $50000.00 homes and left millions of people without electricity and heavy rain is forecast to continue until at least saturday now this typhoon had earlier in the week passed through the philippines where it also caused landslides and flooding and disaster officials there say at least 16 people have been killed their orders are as far as larry reporting live from kuala lumpur florence many thanks. a weather update next here on al-jazeera then. was the. hospital staff and they're going to kind of arc come under fire up and thereby showing by as a very force. how
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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 has more disappeared by thursday but the winds 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 eastern med 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 a sudden sweden that rain tails off into poland which means much of western europe
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is having a day off for vicious where the wrist 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 some 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. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be good because cautious and if you believe that there horowitz into our democracy one obvious solution is to break them up informed opinions look at checkers don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's a bullet with a revolution people all call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera.
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this is. the main news this hour a surge in corona virus infections across france has forced it into a month long lockdown from friday people will have to stay at home unless they have an essential reason to go hours president of ford has warned of a 2nd wave could be more deadly than the 1st. the u.s. supreme court has rejected republican bid to limit when mail in ballots can be received in the swing states of pennsylvania north carolina it means the votes posted on the embassy can be counted for several days afterwards but aid workers in
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vietnam say that at least 50 people have been killed and dozens of missing after a powerful typhoon triggered landslides in some remote areas authorities say that at least 12. have also died. the latest effort for a cease fire in the border of fears appears to have failed as a shot is accusing armenia of killing at least $21.00 people and wounding dozens more in a missile strike it's the deadliest incident against civilians since fighting resumed a month ago on a serious hot of the homemade reports from the is very capital. it was the worst attack on civilians yet an aegis site says the conflict began a month ago the city of barda hit by what does it by jan described as smirch miss south. there's there is also accused 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
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2nd in less than 24 hours aimed at civilians in barda 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 in step and a great 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 jan is said to show armenian military equipment captured during the fighting i mean as prime minister he called passionately and warned of a counterattack. the people of our talk the armenian people all
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armenians who 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 yeah 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 john and i mean you scheduled to meet separately with the men's group on thursday in geneva there might be yet another attempt to impose a ceasefire that never was but it will even more difficult the barda pak marking as seriousness collation that at the. back. let's go live to armenians capitally out of an al-jazeera a challenge what's the latest. well the new.
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author of sees the defense ministry is updated its military death toll. by another $51.00 casualties on the battlefield now they seem to be losing roughly that amount of people every day at the moment so the current total stands at $1119.00 since fighting erupted on september 27th the authorities there say that step down occurred at the main city and shushi 2nd city also came under attack from as a by johnny forces using. multi launch rocket systems and there have been a couple of injuries in attacks on the cities there. the defense ministry has also said that it shot down one of these. drones these are the the this is a piece of technology that are being taken here. in the nagorno-karabakh an
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armenian fight is now the diplomatic movement of the day is the foreign ministry foreign ministers of john and armenia meeting in geneva with the co-chairs of the. group now that is the platform by which negotiations are going to going to go to karabakh have been undertaken for many years now but clearly the president of the by john has faith left in that platform he said as much in recent days and this fighting is evidence that he has run out of patience with the o.s.c. the minsk group and he basically thinks i think the moment there's no point in talking really all paid the negotiations lip service but not much more and there's no real point in actually sitting down properly so negotiate peace until as a by john as either achieve what it wants on the battlefield which is taking back
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the entirety of not going to karabakh and the surrounding areas or he realizes that that is not possible for whatever reason either armenia stops or the other situations change and neither of those circumstances have been achieved yeah. reporting live from rory many thanks indeed u.s. secretary of state has praised indonesia's efforts to push back against beijing in the south china sea during a visit to the country promised to find new ways to help jakarta fight what he called beijing's claims secretary of state is on a 5 nation trip through asia. rejected made by the chinese communist party without the is clearer. on the subject with the . united nations the. role of the group
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of supporters. of the welcome example it is that with this i think actually. the heads of tech giants in the us a been questioned about how they moderate content the c.e.o. of facebook google and twitter appeared before a senate committee it's discussing whether to reform laws that protect the companies from being held liable for users cut posts democrats say there needs to be stronger action over misinformation and republicans accuse some platforms of censoring conservative voices. government workers in mexico is still digging out a thing $59.00 bodies from unmarked graves the discovery was made in the city of the south that's in one. stage one of mexico's most violent where there's been a tough war between drug cartels the commission which searches for missing people in mexico says authorities were tipped off about the graves 2 weeks ago 15 of the
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victims are women and all appear to be young. police in colombia have clashed with indigenous families who refused to follow eviction notice riot police reportedly used tear gas as they tried to clear around $600.00 families from shanty homes in the amazonas region it's one of the poorest areas in the country. food supply encountered in tanzania following an election by allegations of fraud president john mica fully is looking to secure a 2nd term his government was accused of cracking down on dissent ahead of the vote and the opposition claims the election was unfair they reported several instances of ballot stuffing and say that electoral observers were turned away from polling stations police in guinea have lifted a blockade on the main opposition leader's home and jell-o. declared victory a day after votes were cast on october 8th but the electoral commission went on to
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declare 82 year old president condé the winner setting up his controversial 3rd term jell-o. has condemned the 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 the objective we have that of fighting until victory the victory that we acquired in the ballot boxes and those refusing by all means the electoral hold up mr condit is in the process of preparing a vigil has been held to remember 13 children killed in a raid on a school in cameroon's english speaking region no one has claimed responsibility but the government says that separatists are behind the attack in the independence fighters accuse the french speaking government of marginalizing them and artillery attack by regime forces in syria has killed at least 5 people in southern italy the artillery shells struck a residential area in the city of jericho on monday
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a russian air strike targeting a military camp in the province killed at least $78.00 turkey backed rebels it falls within a deescalation zone forged under a cease fire agreement in march between ankara and moscow. a court in hong kong was charged teenage act a teenage activist under a controversial national security law 19 year old toni chong was charged with the session money laundering and conspiring to publish seditious content he was arrested 2 days ago close to the u.s. consulate 11 student activist group wish to spend it when beijing imposed the new law in june critics say the law is a and at stifling dissent south korea's supreme court has upheld a 17 year prison sentence for paul the president lee myung bak he appealed his original 15 year jail term a multimillion dollar fine 2 years ago for bribery and embezzle and another quarter added 2 more years to his sentence for receiving bribes including from the
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industrial giant samsung li also denied stealing funds from a company that he secretly of and. one of asia's biggest film festivals is on the way but it's scaled down this year due to the coronavirus pandemic pride reports now from busan in south korea many cinemas are relying on technology to adapt to the new reality of covert 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 busan film festival was able to be held big movie
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releases like peninsula a sequel to a popular zombie film have gone ahead while globally blockbusters have been delayed all gone straight online 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 to get 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
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away from blockbusters to safer and more manageable productions the know can be successful an industry looking to keep its customers safe and itself in business robin friday al-jazeera busan south korea. it is could have you with us hello adrian finighan here in doha the headlines allows us here a search in corona virus infections across france has forced the country into a month long lockdown from friday people can only leave home for essential reasons presidents of money says the 2nd wave could lead to more deaths than the fast. the u.s. supreme court has rejected a republican bed to limit when mail in ballots can be received in the swing states of pennsylvania north carolina it means that votes posted on november 3rd can be counted the several days afterwards.
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