you're asking the palestinians to meet the challenge of peaceful coexistence what next for gaza and the amnesty comes and the middle east on al-jazeera. 'd the grisly attack in the french city of nice leaves 3 people dead president raises the national security alert to its highest level. i.o.i. monied saeed this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. for the lockdowns are about to begin as rates of coronavirus than factions spread throughout europe. with only 5 days until the u.s. election campaigning is in overdrive as both candidates try to woo voters. and we

look at the crucial role native americans could play in deciding the winner. we begin with new details about what happened in the moments leading up to an attack in a church in the french city of nice where 3 people were killed france's chief terrorist prosecutor says the attacker was a to nation born man here arrived in paris earlier this month with an italian red cross document he traveled to nice by train before changing his clothes and then walking to the church he is now in custody president in my new micro has called the incident an islamist terrorist attack it's prompted the government to raise the security alert to its maximum level. thursday's attack follows another this month

a teacher in paris was beheaded days after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammed to some of his people's president micron's defending france's secularism the right to mock religion david chaytor reports from nice. a place of worship now a crime scene inside not to dump a silica the congregation had been praying when a man armed with a knife attacked them 3 people were killed one of the victims a woman was to capitated according to the police another victim was a churchwarden she the most but i still imagine him i still see him lighting the candles and now i'm thinking he's not there anymore. we are always with him he's always there he spends the day that he shares his life here he's not someone who comes and goes witnesses say the attacker shouted. during his attack he was shot by police near the church and is now being treated in hospital for his

injuries. but the priests we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side. i want to say that we can no longer with the laws of peace in our country wipe out islamofascism within hours of the attack the french president emmanuel macro visited to see. miss you ladies and gentlemen once again our country has been hit by an islamist terror attack once again this morning 3 of our compact it's nice in this not to die. and very clearly france is under. the sun is a day if we are attacked it is for our values for our taste for freedom for this possibility on our soil to believe freely and not to give in to any mind of terror and to qualify say it with great clarity once again we will not give in france

has now raised its state of emergency to its highest level. we revolted with what's going on is an attempt to take french hostage with regards to its muslims will not fall into this trap we will not fall into this trap. as part of operation sentinel the number of troops patrolling france will more than double on the present 3000 to more than 7000 president mccall said that this will ensure that all place of worship will be safe the attack comes 2 weeks after the murder of school teacher samuel petit in a paris suburb he had been decapitated after showing caricature of the prophet mohammed to school children to illustrate a lesson on freedom of speech and secularism prime minister. says the government's response to the murders in these will be for implacable and immediate

david chaytor al-jazeera nice. the world has recorded more than half a 1000000 new coronavirus infections in just a single day marking a new threshold in the worsening pandemic and it's the rapidly rising infection rates that are forced several european governments to take drastic action the spanish region of catalonia shutting its borders for 15 days while germany's announced a new month long lockdown for next week tied to restrictions have also just come into force in france reports from paris. savoring a lost coffee on a cafe terrace in paris before a new knockdown in france the prospect of another month indoors fills the students with trepidation exactly what we have lots of exams that will be delayed now so i'm not sure what will happen next if so make me fanny it's not just the young that are anxious. because with. this measure will be dramatic for many it's more isolation

and it'll probably last until christmas for single people the elderly students it'll be very difficult to cope. but some people have chosen to leave the city while others focused on last minute chores many had mixed feelings about the shutdown. i understand a lot and i support it but the economy needs to go on and right now we don't know how the future will be french president emanuel macro says the lockdown is necessary to stop the 2nd wave which could be more deadly than the 1st but some say it will be a disaster for the economy and the government should have done more to prevent the health situation from deteriorating so fast. in parliament france's prime minister defended the government's handling of the pandemic. but we knew that a 2nd wave was possible even probable and we anticipated but the fact is no country

look around us had ever seen they would accelerate in such a sudden and brutal manner rising infection rates have for several european governments to tighten restrictions and defend their choices spain's catalonia region closed its borders while germany announced a new lock down and it's going to be dynamic rate a few factions will overload their intensive care units in just a few weeks from now all of this shows us that at the start of the cold season we are in a dramatic situation it affects us all without exception mike ross says that the impact of france's lockdown won't be known for a few weeks it's due to end at the start of december but many people are resigned to it lasting much longer if the situation doesn't improve natasha butler al-jazeera paris mexico's president has criticized the lockdowns in europe calling them authoritarian and there's many a look as obrador believes european governments are treating their citizens like

children as comments come on the same day mexico passed 90000 deaths linked to corona virus for a 2nd straight day iran has reported another record coronavirus death toll $415.00 were reported in just 24 hours and health officials have warned worse is yet to come as winter approaches iran is the hardest hit country in the middle east recording almost 600000 infections. thank. you. we're just 5 days to go until the u.s. election a record breaking 80000000 americans have already cost in person all mail and votes setting the stage for one of the highest voter turnouts in u.s. history president donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have been holding competing rallies in the battleground state of florida arjen held

a socially distance drive an event in stark contrast trump spoke to a crowd of thousands of supporters many of them not wearing masks florida of course is crucial to the president's reelection campaign and his pasta victory becomes near impossible without it let's go to our correspondent shihab rattansi who is live now from washington d.c. good to see both candidates back again battling it out in florida reflects how crucial the state is especially for donald trump. right if donald trump loses florida as you said it's a very difficult path to $270.00 electoral votes he would need to win wisconsin michigan pennsylvania the key battleground states we always hear about plus a battleground state he didn't win last time around he narrowly won in these other states you'd have to have to pick up another state somewhere that he didn't win in 202016 here the other fast everything about florida which we were just thinking about was we always worry you know florida has a school reputation of being

a bit of a disaster when it comes to elections because of 2000 but on tuesday we should have a pretty good indication of what's going on in florida because it's so key that all drum that should give us a pretty good indication of after all these polls and counter polls and claims and counterclaims as to you know what direction the country is looking to be in because as you said there's been this wreck or nail in voting absentee balloting early in person voting and unlike a lot of states florida counts its votes early doesn't wait till election day or even after in person election day voting is have been counted as happens in some counties and and sylvania so the votes are already being counted in the forty's say that if all goes well in florida that means a lot if all goes well 90 percent off the ballots will have been counted by midnight on on tuesday into wednesday so that's really interesting too so that's something we'll have to watch because again trump is really counting down on his

traditional base in florida the north the panhandle cuban community venezuelan community increasingly rid of easter then as well in community in the south and that that idea that there are loads of voters who didn't vote in 2016 perhaps white without a college degree who will now come out and support will trump now so that's what he's banking on that the polls really are within the margin of error although biden has had a consistent lead but pretty much in the margin of error right now not long to wait . there for us live in washington d.c. many thanks. the u.s. labor department is reporting a significant reduction in the number of new people claiming unemployment benefits last week 751000 applied for assistance the lowest weekly total since economic shutdowns began back in march still more than 7 a half 1000000 people are receiving unemployment benefits and many more jobless people on illegible to receive them well the official unemployment rate now stands

at 7.9 percent down from a high of nearly 15 percent in april but with coronavirus infections surging large companies continue to announce layoffs on wednesday boeing said it would cut $30000.00 jobs by the end of next year i want to ask correspond to how could has more from washington d.c. . the historic jump in the g.d.p. in the last quarter up 33 percent what i think it indicates as well as those numbers of jobs going down is what donald trump has been selling on the campaign trail and that is that he is trying to reopen the economy allow people to get back to their daily lives and so this is a major campaign promise on his part and he is contrast to get to kind of a doom and gloom prediction if joe biden gets elected that his plan is to shut down the economy for an indefinite period of time much like we've seen happening in parts of europe and that this would have a negative impact on those numbers so what we're seeing is this message being

delivered by the 2 candidates 2 very different and contrast in messages that we should also point out that when it comes to joe biden one other thing that he started to talk about a little bit as these numbers continue to be good for him in terms of the national polls and his solid lead and these now kind of tempering expectation about what he can do on day one as president if he does win the election in terms of turning the pandemic around who's now saying that he'll look at science but don't expect to turn things around with the flick of a light switch so this is certainly an interesting message from a president or rather a presidential candidate that has repeatedly criticized donald trump's handling of the cove in 1000 pandemic here in the united states. still ahead on al jazeera cries of unfair treatment in northern england but there can all make response to coronavirus compared to the south. and grades are held on newspapers and the homes

of activities in indian controlled kashmir and what critics call of a crackdown on dissent. her off the rarity of a tropical storm warning for atlanta a major city in georgia has this hearkens swept across zito is now really going to be in the western atlantic very rapidly has left a legacy of flash flooding and wind damage is also drawing particularly cold air behind it temperatures really are on the low side there is for you that they will rai's that was don't start they will rise one into the teens were up to 16 in denver which is a considerable warming over the last 3 or 4 days but there's a cult flow and you'll notice that normally behind me is toronto is down to for new

york's 11 with stoke quite likely once again for new england the major snow is still encounters you can see we've got a fed a good sunny skies for the most part doesn't matter what the temperature is from that point of view so much quieter weather now on the gulf of mexico having said good part of the harken but again that that northerly for the cold weather when enhanced the showers particularly in mexico if you see you know we orange tops out big sun the storms flash flood territory here quite likely in this part of mexico and nearby countries a little bit less pronounced come saturday you know it's just a figure of the far end in cuba from the came announce. to the vast soviet era to make manufacturing back. with a decade's old. and recruited by an outsider. and

the fusion of western style management and socialist worker values appeared destined for a car crash. the russian. witness documentary on al-jazeera. the are. you watching al-jazeera mind our top stories this hour french authorities say the man who killed 3 people in a church talent in the schools a tunisian arrives in france from italy carrying an italian red cross travel document president a monument cross has called the incident islamist terrorists attack. european

leaders a reintroducing strict measures and response arising crighton of arson factions france has gone into a month long national lockdown and spain's catalonia region is shutting its borders for 15 days. of president don't trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have been holding pitting rallies in the battleground states of florida just 5 days to go until the u.s. election a record breaking 80000000 americans have already cost in person or mailing folks. more now on our top story the attack in nice comes as friends grapples with the question of what role islam should have in a traditionally secular society the country has the largest muslim community in europe but some have been made to feel unwelcome after the president declared a fight against what he called islamist separatism and it smith reports from paris . islam is in crisis the world over france's president declared at the beginning of

october in a speech when he announced his intention to fight what he calls islamist separatism not islam is not with this radical islam islam this is the central topic so let's talk about it and give it a name there is a desire openly stated a methodical organization which aims to break the rules of the french republic and to create a parallel order with other values nurturing a different organization for society separate is that 1st but with a final goal to take complete control like ron's rhetoric prompted objections from several muslim leaders and commentators in the polls suggest individual secularism in france is practically a religion and it's the strictest secularism even in the western context mccrone his mistake was that he talked about separatism in the plural but in his speech he only talked about islam and he kept talking about islam and that offended muslims 2 weeks later teacher samuel patty was decapitated outside his school in

a lesson on freedom of speech he'd shown his students caricature of the prophet mohammed the 47 year old history and geography teacher was then posthumously given france's highest honor the late john donner memorials were held nationwide and at some of them in solidarity the caricature is where again show. at the same time the government unleashed a crackdown on muslims accused of extremism carrying out dozens of raids this paris mosque was closed for 6 months because the mom had put on facebook a video of a parent angrily criticizing samuel patty more than a 1000 people use the mosque nooses this but exact among the young don't quite get it they know they belong to a culture and then all day on french t.v. channels they see a type of ostracism of this culture so when you talked about they don't hear the word radical radical islam for them all they hear is islam and they are offended

demonstrations have taken place around the world as muslims criticized macro's comments about islam and the repeated showing of the cartoon more are expected on friday in france on friday a month long covert lockdown will start it my only bring a pause in the threat of further violence burnet smith al-jazeera paris in yemen thousands of turned out to celebrate the birth of the prophet muhammad local leaders set a record crowd gathered in the capital to mark the occasion comes amid tensions with france with many protesting against present stance on islam. and alltel are attacked by regime forces in syria has killed at least 5 people in southern italy the shells struck a residential area on monday a russian air strike targeting a military camp in the province killed at least $78.00 turkish bad rebels it falls within a deescalation zone for under ceasefire agreement in march between ancora and moscow

. 3 politicians from india's governing party have been shot dead in indian administered kashmir police have blamed the attack on rebels fighting against indian rule in the disputed region. newspapers and non-governmental organizations have been raided by indian authorities alleging smeary separatist activities the national investigation agency seized documents and devices from the homes and offices of journalists and prominent activists has been criticised as a crackdown on dissent authorities say farms were being collected for secessionists purposes elizabeth poor on them isn't tell you the latest. we're outside the offices of a charity organization called the charity and lions it's one of around 20 locations which have been raided by india's national investigation agency over the past 2 days now residents of this neighborhood have told us that the street was filled with police officers a little bit earlier in the day the national mr geisha agency says the rates are in

connection with what it says a so-called n.g.o.s and trusts raising money in india and abroad for charitable activities and then using that money for what they say separatists a session of activities in indian administered kashmir the raids began there on wednesday there were $9.00 raids in india in the one in the southern city of bengal lou they have continued today indeed in this meet again and here in delhi and number of offices of n.g.o.s and newspapers and owns and offices of prominent human rights activists have been raided they include the former chairman of the delhi minority commission now a prominent politician member he has condemned the raids he says that there are a vicious crackdown on dissent and members of the people's democratic party have been detained and indeed administration use capital for protesting against the

raids. there's a growing divide between northern and southern england over the response to coronavirus local lockdowns are in force across much of the north of 19 factions rights and as andrew simmons reports from manchester those cities are demanding more help from the government. the north of england has long been the pole relation to the self in its economy and welfare with cove it hitting hard ahead now that the rest of the country it's open the gap even wider might just as initial refusal to move into the highest level of restrictions led to a standoff with central government over funding it's resolved now but are reframing it's. this is the north of england has consistently lost out. consequently it's created an entrenched north south divide descend to the north can be measured by the industrial scale of voluntary food distribution for the poor be

. in the disappear in poverty is an issue that skyrocketed throughout the u.k. highlighted by the social media campaign run by manchester united football and marcus rushford he grew up in poverty rushford efforts to persuade the government to provide food for children join the school holidays in england failed but nationwide businesses large and small along with shoppers are donating food and money. it leaves boris johnson's government on the back foot although he says improved social benefit payments will provide for the poor on the ground charity workers working with rushford say the government isn't doing enough reflecting as a charity worker of over 30 years experience myself i am worried that perhaps the government is depending on the charity sector to you know fill the gaps perhaps tiny bit too much and that actually what we really need is more centralized leadership in foreign nation and boris johnson is facing pressure from within his

own party $54.00 m.p.'s from right across the north of england have formed an action group many of them won seats from labor in last year's election and they're saying that the government looks set to break its promises of a levelling up of the north-south economic divide. in warrington a town where the highest restriction level was imposed this week again the focus is on deprived areas the number of children in need of food support has risen by more than 20 percent we're in the 21st century with the 5th richest country in the world and we come to feed our families i feel very very angry at times we all stand together had been a successful clarion call of the government in the height of the pandemic it worked then but not now andrew simmons al-jazeera manchester the conflict in the gone account of back is showing little sign of breaking with renewed

fighting on thursday the azerbaijani army closed in on the key strategic town of shushi with separatists taking up arms to defend the area civilians have been wounded and homes and churches have been destroyed by heavy shelling. now back to the race for the white house native americans are a small but potentially important group of voters particularly in swing states but many are facing obstacles in casting their ballots as rob reynolds finds out. on the vast and remote stretches of the navajo nation where people live in isolated communities there is keen interest in the presidential election. voted early so that we can see. how important kony should joe is a nurse and has seen firsthand the devastating effects of culvert 19 on the reservation according to the u.s. census bureau there are about 6800000 native american and alaska natives in the

u.s. but native voters could have a disproportionate effect on the election in several important swing states the native american vote at least in 7 battleground states could actually sway the election one way or the other many native americans believe president donald trump has treated them disrespectfully as when he used a white house ceremony honoring navajo world war 2 veterans to attack one of his critics democratic senator elizabeth warren they call or pocahontas. who turned the suspects the colts or other native voters oppose trump's decision to green like controversy oil and gas pipelines on native land many demand stronger efforts to end extreme poverty and low life expectancy on reservations and recognition of sovereign treaty rights joe biden and kamel harris have met with

native leaders to discuss these issues of concern i think that you will see more participation of native americans throughout the united states but many difficulties stand in the way of native voters some states with voter identification requirements won't accept tribal i.d.'s others require voters to provide a street address which most native americans on rural reservations don't have there are few polling places on reservations mail in voting is difficult because reservation post offices where most people pick up and send their mail often are closed or have limited hours of operation and are also few and far between on the navajo nation. in or that the the medium for a person to check their mail is 38 miles a marathon and a half so there is nothing in voting by mail that makes it easy for native

americans native voter advocacy groups are suing in several states to force more voting access on reservations and less unequal treatment compared to other voters no one really understands like what we're going through the original people of this land determined to have their voices heard on election day rob reynolds al-jazeera . america's top diplomat continues to take aim at china on his tour of asia secretary of state mike pompei have called on indonesians to take a stand against china's treatment of missed them wages home pay describe the situation as the greatest threat to religious freedoms during an address to indonesia's biggest islam organization on pay also vowed to cooperate with intonation to speak with beijing and the south china sea. at least 6 people are dead and millions are without power after hurricane easy to hit the south and united states and made landfall in the state of louisiana as

a category 2 storm on wednesday and it's leaving damage through several states as it moves in the east many fear this could impact voting in next week's presidential election season is the 5th hurricane to hit louisiana this year breaking state records. this is out is there are these are the top stories french authorities say the man who killed 3 people in a church attack in nice was a tunisian who arrived in france from a with an italian red cross travel documents president emanuel. is another attack on france and it's. going to miss you ladies and gentlemen once again our country has been hit by the islamist terror attack once again this morning rebel compact jets well in east.