now to bring you the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. the church attack in the french city of nice leaves 3 people dead president macro raises the national security alert to its highest level. in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up new lockdowns begin as european governments try to put the brakes on spiraling coronavirus infections. the battle for votes in the battleground state donald trump and joe biden rally supporters in florida 5 days out from election day. and new zealanders say yes to legalizing euthanasia but it appeared to have blocked

a push to allow the recreational use of cannabis. new details have emerged about an attack on a church in the french city of nice in which 3 people were killed investigators say the suspect is from tunisia and arrived in europe last month on the italian island of lampedusa when arrested after being shot he was found to be carrying papers issued by the italian red cross president emmanuel macron described the attack as an islamist terrorist one against france's taste for freedom he's put the country on its highest security alert level thursday's attack followed another 2 weeks ago a teacher in paris was beheaded days after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to some of the students there are reports now from these. a place of worship now a crime scene inside not to don basilica the congregation had been praying when

a man armed with a knife attacked the 3 people were killed one of the victims a woman was decapitated according to. the police another victim was a churchwarden she be mostly you know what i still imagine him i still see him lighting the candles and now i'm thinking he's not there anymore. he's good nephew 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. working for the police 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 mackerel visited the sea. yemen to 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 hits you tell him nice in this not to die. and very clearly france is under. a new sun to think 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 to qualify i 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 the number of troops patrolling france will more than double the

present 3000 to more than 7000. said that this would ensure that all places of worship will be safe the attack comes to weeks after the murder of a school teacher 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 . al-jazeera nice explosions have been seen on the outskirts of the capital of the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh. the artillery and rocket strikes look to be part of intensified fighting in the region between azerbaijan and armenia diplomats from the 2 countries have been preparing for more

talks to try to end the conflict after 3 failed ceasefire attempts were not far away the azerbaijani army said to be closing in on the key town of the horn of the karabakh separatist leader says very troops have advanced to within 5 kilometers this urging residents to help fend off the attack the world has recorded more than half a 1000000 new coronavirus infections in a single day marking a new threshold in the pandemic in europe france is back in national lockdown germany will impose similar measures next week while spanish regions are closing borders are 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 and with exactly what we have lots of exams that will be delayed now so i'm not sure what will happen next it's so make me fenech it's not just the young that are anxious to get my government because. 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. with like some people have chosen to leave the city while others focused on last minute chores many had mixed feelings about the shutdown. i understand the law 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 knocked out 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. we knew that a 2nd wave was possible even probable and we anticipated it but the fact is no

country look around us had for seen they would accelerate in such a sudden and brutal manner rising infection rates have forced 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 is going to be dynamic rate of infections will overload our 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 effects us all without exception my girl 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 a lasting much longer if the situation doesn't improve its national popular al-jazeera paris the e.u. will make more than 250000000 dollars available to member states to help them transfer cope with 1000 patients between the european commission president on the

land says governments need to reach out for help cases are rising numbers of hospitalization are rising numbers are day of death are rising not as fast fortunately because we understand better today how to treat coverage patients and how to deal with the disease but the spread of the virus will overwhelm our health care systems if we do not act urgently. for a 2nd straight day iran has reported its highest coronavirus death toll $415.00 were reported in 24 hours and health officials have warned the worst is still to come as winter approaches iran is the worst affected country in the middle east recording almost 600000 infections. and yet another record for the u.s. which announce almost 84000 new cases on thursday the last week has been its highest daily average since the pandemic began almost 9000000 people are known to

have contracted the virus that. now is just 5 days to go until the u.s. election donald trump and joe biden have been trying to win over voters in the swing state of florida the president again supporters together for his rally while biden opted for a smaller socially distanced event in florida and as she had reports trump had some good news to campaign on. before the pandemic struck donald trump wanted to run for reelection touting what he said was a strong economy as a sign of his successful presidency and on thursday he finally got some numbers to boast about record breaking g.d.p. growth of 7.4 percent in the 3rd quarter we created the greatest economy in here and now we are doing it again so you. make america great again right we're going to

make it do it make america great again again. yes. we did it now we're doing it it again my 1st lady would do it again but as always the numbers don't tell the whole story yes there's been a rebound as the economy reopened off to look down i'm government stimulus was felt however the u.s. economy is still 3.5 percent smaller than it was at the end of 2019 by comparison during the 2008 great recession the economy contract at 4 percent plus with rising cobra hospitalizations and the threat of future look downs if you expect the economy to continue growing at such a pace the u.s. is leading infectious disease expert once again contradicted the president's repeated claim that the u.s. is rounding the corner we will start to approach what we call normal i don't think francis that it's going to be at a level where people are going to feel like there were no public health measures to be implemented until we get to the end of 20215 days left folks also

campaigning in florida on thursday joe biden this election is the most important one you've ever voted in what is your 1st or tan ladies and gentlemen the heart and soul of this country is at stake right here in florida up to you you hold the key florida goes blue it's over it's over biden has a narrow lead in florida winning the state's $29.00 electoral college votes would make victory for much harder a majority of ballots cost here will be by mail or early in person voting and unlike other swing states florida is already counting votes received authorities say they expect 90 percent of ballots to be counted before midnight on election night so even if a national result takes days florida should be one battleground state with a result with a conclusive on won't relatively quickly she had al jazeera. 3 politicians from

india's governing b j p party have been shot dead in indian administered kashmir police have blamed the attack on rebels fighting against indian rule in the disputed region and newspapers and nongovernmental organizations have been raided by indian authorities that accuse them of kashmiri separatist activities the national investigation agency sees documents and devices from the homes and offices of journalists and activists it's been criticized as a crackdown on dissent but authorities said funds were being collected for secessionist purposes. let us come here on the program including the search for survivors after vietnam's most powerful typhoon in 20 years and north ursus south england's national divide is laid bare in the fight against corona but it was more than that stainless for huge.

hello despite the time of the it's very very quiet road to the arabian peninsula and the river now there are indeed showers forming in turkey moving northward into the black sea i think it will throw us some time and something of a breeze coming into an area has been up until now really particularly evil for this time of the year so a slight cooling trend damascus picks it up the average here is about 2425 we've been in the thirty's so we're now trending downward saturday sunday to monday a back down to probably about normal as the cloud picks up and that breeze comes in from the west and equally seasonal is the amount of rain we are starting to see in the horn of africa showers mostly light but not entirely so a likely in somalia and parts of ethiopia that are not in the highlands we still got quite a rush out a valid rain in south sudan which had a couple of days off a given the flooding store in juba maybe that's not what you want to see the heavy

stuff is probably further west in the wrong for example but not exclusively so but there is a southern limit to it as halfway down. it has been particularly warm equally recently in places like botswana on the eastern side all did a good part of south africa there is rain for the sas now but it's still warm in the capital and johannesburg. jump into the stream and julian on global community bio diversity is bio security is that essential for our species to survive be part of the debate i know you have 90 days and you can be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table the police are not neutral and all of these cases goal here is to terrorize and here's the other part of this there's no consequence this stream on out is the.

welcome back it will come out of our top stories here this hour french authorities say the man who killed 3 people in a church attack in nice was a 2 museum arrived in france from its any president has called the incident is next terrorist attack. european leaders are reintroducing strict measures in response to rising corona virus infections france has gone into a month long lockdown in spain's catalonia region shutting its borders for 15 days . president trumpet his democratic challenger joe biden has been running in the battleground state of florida with just 5 days to go until the election a record 80000000 americans have voted early. some more now on the attack and nice

that happened as france debates what role islam should have in a 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 islam is separatism 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 is young not islam is an idea with this radical islamism 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 a 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. 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 m.m. had put on facebook a video of a parent angrily criticizing samuel patty more than

a 1000 people use the mosque notice 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 islamist talked about they don't hear the word radical or radical islam for them all they hear is islam and they are offended by demonstrations have taken place around the world as muslims criticized macro's comments about islam and the repeated showing of the cartoons more are expected on friday in france on friday a month long covert lockdown will start it may only bring a pause in the threat of further violence burnet smith al jazeera paris now the u.s. says it sold fuel that it confiscated from iranian tankers and most of the money will go towards a fund that supports victims of state sponsored terrorism just over a $1000000.00 barrels were seized from 4 tankers on their way from iran to venezuela in august the u.s.

says it made $40000000.00 from the sale. now new zealand has voted to legalize euthanasia from november next year people with a terminal illness and less than 6 months to live will be able to apply for assisted dying under strict conditions the bill was approved in a referendum during this month's general election new zealanders also voted on whether to allow the recreational use of marijuana but preliminary results suggest that it will be rejected what will traffic is a reporter with the new zealand herald and joins us via skype from auckland will good job in the program how significant is this referendum result because i think much of this stems from that legal case of the creationist seals who argued before her death that euthanasia should not be interpreted as suicide under the crimes that because this is all about a person suffering before and inevitable deaths i'm porton was that case to this result. you know it was so important because as you said with that case of lucretia who had this brain tumour 5 years ago and unfortunately passed away to the high

court and basically argued the high court exactly as you see it the high court on the other hand sitting at basically back to parliament and saying look we can't rule on this is needs to be a decision from parliament it gave the impetus for parliament to pass a conscious of last year on this issue and obviously they put it to refrain which is where we are today and what a landslide this interview life choice act the euthanasia bill 65.2 percent voting and support worth noting that they actually had a similar bill up and use it on parliament for 1995 that didn't pass again in 2003 and are just one vote now it is definitely there yet will euthanasia has always been a controversial topic all over the world there was strong criticism even in new zealand from palliative care groups and even the salvation army so what their concerns. you know they can understand the concerns that we tend to also reveal and health professionals alliances where people like that saying essentially they obviously don't want to be forced into this line of work and we've seen

a struggle in fact that has actually been assured of medical professionals who haven't really been available to do this and so a lot of them have been overworked. little britain poured into this isn't really easily compared to the other ones were belgium what we now have in new zealand it's much more stringent terminal patients with 6 months to live they need to doctors to approve this is a checklist as well to ensure that they're not being coerced and it was so they can't qualify and of mental health or psychotic psychiatric illness or anything like that you might see overseas yeah that's an important point to make will because now that the referendum has been successful and it legalizes euthanasia is going to ask you what sort of safeguards will there be for doctors and families to ensure that euthanasia is carried out under the strict guidelines of this new law and is not abused in any way well that's obviously the discussion we've looked at usually internationally before this law was drafted in new zealand there was a lot of consultation a couple of revisions to it to ensure that we're well listen in line with what's been seen obviously because we're not you know we're now at

a fast countries but we're not the 1st the government says basically they're very comfortable with this point we we've got to do with this but like i said before it is the terminal patients they need to doctors to approve that's actually a cluster around and cope with that kind of thing we'll just a final thought you before you go new zealand is also on course to reject the use of recreational marijuana those referendum votes we understand are still not finalized but which way do you see the vote going and why. well that's really important to note and we've heard from the new zealand drug foundation after these results came out remember these are the preliminary results we have special votes from people who i was a ses that need to be counted as well this almost half a 1000000 of those 480000 of those if we had a 70 percent swing in favor and we know that usually this is voters tend to vote towards a lift where there's actually a chance that the matter could potentially be passed so the drug foundation coming out just minutes after the vote saying it's not over yet there's

a really good chance the criticism every member of the sponsors of that bill particularly in the green party and the prime minister who got to the election and work for him had said that she had smoked marijuana quite a long time ago but she refused to declare her vote she's come out today and c.j. actually voted in favor of the legalization so again the majority so a bit of criticism around that well trafford great to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera will now aid workers say dozens of people have died in central vietnam in landslides triggered by typhoon mullard the army has been deployed in affected areas to help search for survivors it's one of the most powerful storms to hit the country in 2 decades millions of people have been left without electricity more than 50000 homes have been badly damaged from snowy reports. typhoon larvae is one of the worst type foods to hit to be in 20 years it lashed the central region with heavy rain causing floods and setting off

landslides hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to the worst hit areas to help and search for missing people in the we must reach the landslide the fastest way 1st sending more soldiers before we can get the big machinery that we have to reach there by all means including using helicopters this village is blocked off and bulldozers and excavators are being used to open a road. 2 fishing boats also sank off the coast of vietnam as the typhoon approached this region is still recovering from floods that killed more than $130.00 people and destroyed hundreds of houses earlier this month in a series of storms aid agencies say relieve resources will be pushed to the limit the government says more than $50000.00 homes have been damaged and millions of people left without electricity and more heavy rain is forecast to fall in central

vietnam in the coming days florence al-jazeera america's top diplomat continues to take aim at china during his tour of asia secretary of state mike pompei o called on indonesians to take a stand against china's treatment of weak and muslims addressing indonesia's biggest islamic organization pompei 0 describe the situation in china as the greatest threat to religious freedoms jessica washington has more now from jakarta . and there he spoke to them and told them that he believes in tunisia is a model. shows how different religions can live in harmony and he used the example of what is happening in china. as the greatest threat to religious freedom and group of moderate muslims to consider what is happening to the. west and he did say that he acknowledges that has made efforts to attempt to describe.

as counterterrorism. efforts. to seriously consider. true for the most. country human rights abuses against the. don't really get that much attention and that's clearly something. i know that the chinese government has tried to convince even the. when you hear these arguments to do this search your hearts. look at the facts listen to the tales of the survivors and of their families this is part of the secretary of state. very brief trip through. now and he did meet with president. this is part of

the u.s. efforts to try to contain chinese influence here. but indonesia has a long history of. foreign policy what that means is that. positive relations with both china and the u.s. . now there's a growing divide between northern and southern england over the response to corona virus and its economic impact local lock downs are in force across many areas in the north as code 19 infections rise and as al-jazeera as andrew symonds reports now from manchester both cities are demanding more help from london. the north of england has long been the pole relation to the self in its economy and welfare with cove it hitting harder here now that the rest of the country it's open the gap even wider magisters 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 descent to the north can be measured by the industrial scale of voluntary food distribution for the poor be . it's a lot of children and to simply live 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 rushed with 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 a tiny bit too much and that actually what we really need is more centralized leadership and forge a 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 can't 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. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera french authorities say the man who killed 3 people in a church attack in nice was a to z. and arrived in france from its only carrying an italian red cross travel document. president emanuel has called the incident islamist terrorist attack. don't miss you ladies and gentlemen once again our country has been hit by an islamist terror attack once again this morning 3 of our compatriots in nice in this not to die. and very clearly france is.