the corona update counted 19 special. monday to friday on to you don't you believe. this is your news live from berlin and less chaos but just as must get much conflict in the final u.s. presidential debate with time running out to convince crucial undecided voters that both democratic candidates joe biden and president donald trump need a when we ask who really came out on top. also coming up in europe on cold with

higher alert test cases served across the continent germany is again hit by a record number of defections governments tightening restrictions and impose food lockdowns we have the latest from 4 sponsors italy india and china plus looted buildings and prisons set on fire in lagos nigeria president bush is calling for an end to the on drugs too sweeping the country but after weeks of protest against police violence demonstrators say they will keep up the pressure on the government . i'm sara kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have faced off in a final t.v. debate less than 2 weeks before the election the exchange in nashville tennessee

was a lot more civil than the 1st ill tempered 1st debate between the 2 men the racism taxes and the economy were on the agenda but for both candidates the coronavirus pandemic was top of the list. a different tone and pace the find this head to head between the presidential hopefuls gone were the chaos and constant interruptions of their 1st meeting this time the event was more of a conventional debate with the coronavirus pandemic given the most minutes on the clock trump offered an optimistic view on the way forward it's like a prison it will go away and as i say we're rounding the turn were rounding the corner it's going away we have a vaccine that's coming it's ready it's going to be announced within weeks and it's going to be delivered cost of said biden condemn trump's record in dealing with the crisis 220000 americans dead and he want his response

for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america all right we're going to the issue of race was also in focus a fact of the matter is there is institutional racism america and we have always said we've never lived up to it that we hold these truths to be self-evident all men and women are created equal guess what we have never ever lived up to put it we've always constantly been moving the middle further and further to inclusion not exclusion this is the 1st president to come along and says that's the end of that nobody has done more for the black community. and if you look with the exception of abraham lincoln possible exception but the exception of abraham lincoln nobody has done what i've done record but your response the debate gradually got more heated and shrum separation policy for migrant children came under fire. parents were ripped their kids were ripped from their arms and

separator and now they cannot find over $500.00 sets of those parents and those kids are alone no where to go no where to go it's criminal it's criminal let me put it about this they went through and i reporters everything they are so well taken care of there in facilities that was so clean some of them got mr good night it would just ask one question who built the cages i'd love you to ask of that who built the cage let me ask about voters finally got something resembling a substantive argument but it's unlikely to have a major impact on the electorate a record 45000000 americans have so far taken advantage of early voting and pulls so a majority of those yet to vote had already decided what they'll write on their ballot . and i am joined now here in the studio by didn't have to use william glue croft

from our u.s. election team who came out on top here i say everyone did i mean not just the candidates but the moderator she was fully in control much more than chris wallace was she had the help of muted microphones but even without those she was really in control of both can especially donald trump who we saw in the 1st debate loud really quite abrasive and it didn't do well for him in the polls and of course viewers actually got a chance to listen to these candidates debates are never that substantive and in fairness to both candidates to have 30 seconds or or 2 minutes even to explain their solutions to very complex policies you're never going to get that deep into things but certainly a far cry from what we saw in the 1st debate you know donald trump needed to as we say to be more civil and he was by pulling a lot of his punches trying to make a lot of these accusations money of them baseless especially this new e-mail thing that we're hearing about biden and his son and their involvement around the world

i'm trying to make those lamb but at the same time pulling his punches by not trying to you know it's had too many concrete accusations that are like they say basically baseless and or at least not yet proven and biden just had to hold the line because he is up in the polls he is doing well on the issues so he does have to not say anything that would that would put true much criticism his in his direction given all of that that did the debate matter will it impact the election it matters to the extent that it's one of the few times that voters can can see these 2 candidates unfiltered you know not you know not through the filter of attack ads or the media or pundits it's just the 2 of them on the stage more or less answering questions so that it's refreshing to see in that regard but as you heard the report 45000000 it's probably even more by then michael mcdonald the u.s. politics professor is crunching all these numbers and is really the go to source on this saying as much as 50000000 people have already voted at this time in 2016 according to his numbers it was. about 6000000 people have voted in advance so a lot of people already voted the idea of this swing voter or undecided voter i

think is really very small in this election so the debate nice to see but 2 weeks out i think a lot of people have made up their minds william glu croft from our d.w. election to thank you. so in the debate we heard a lot of bold claims from both sides which ones are credible let's bring in dave that he has had a fact checking. so tell us coronavirus was clearly one of the main issues president trump said that the u.s. was rounding the corner in fighting the disease if the worst over in the u.s. . i'm afraid that's not the case president from indicates that the united states of being over the the crisis will be over soon this is not true and here's why the u.s. will facing a new rise of cases of 3rd surge we can say more than 65000 new cases put day according to the c.d.c. this is a sharp rise of around 30 percent compared to 2 weeks ago so the numbers for me are

more concerning than relaxing actually and claims that his administration has done a great job so far and i've studied in the john of the american medical association tells us a different story in the us not only the biggest absolute number of covered deaths over the past 5 months the rate of death per capita was bigger than in 18 other high income countries in this report so i don't think that's a coronavirus will be defeated soon in the u.s. and another topic was health care donald trump attacking joe biden about the previous administration's reforms known as obamacare let's listen to what biden had to say not one single person private insurers would lose their insurance under my plan nor did they under obamacare can you verify what. joe biden claims that is not one person lost their health insurance under obamacare this is a least misleading then president barack obama promised that everyone could keep his health insurance under the affordable care act a c

a but that's not the case for all of them when obamacare took effect in 20145900000 people lost individual health care insurance plans following a study by us think tank rand so biden is wrong here but on the other hand you have to see that more than 22000000 u.s. citizens now have health insurance through the a.c.s. so there was a net gain we can sleep we know that this is just sort of a sampling actually in terms of the statements that the candidates have made that you and your to me of a fact check into lots of statements they're out there campaigning where can we find those results our team found more misleading or false claims from both for example check on biden's claim that republican run states are hit harder by the virus or trump telling us that gas is cleaner than wind energy you can find all of this in our in-depth fact check on d.w. dot com. of ever fact checking all of those claims for us thank you so much.

a quick summary now of some of the day's other headlines russian president vladimir putin says that nearly 5000 people have been killed in fighting over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh the warring parties azerbaijan and armenia estimate much fewer losses to russian brokered cease fires have failed to end the 3 week flare up in the long running conflict. to lay arms are expected to vote for constitutional change in a historic weekend referendum programme form parties staged final rallies you know the presidential palace the opposition wants to sweep away a legal framework dating back to the former dictator augusto pinochet government supporters say that the constitution has ensured stability. hindus in the indian city of kolkata are holding an annual festival despite coronavirus restrictions public access to the celebrations have been limited and many events have moved

online the festival commemorates the slaying of a demon marking the triumph of good over evil. germany has recorded more than 11000 new corona virus infections over the past 24 hours for the 2nd day in a row the surgeon coronavirus cases here is mirrored in other countries across europe with many countries reading reaching new highs and infection rates faced with a spiraling crisis governments around the continent are tightening restrictions and imposing new lock downs our report he gets in france for. another record in france when more than 41000 corona virus infections were reported on thursday in some cities intensive care units already reaching capacity a public health crisis looms large the government has responded by extending curfews already in effect in the capital paris to

a total of $38.00 regions. france is set to become the 2nd european country to exceed 1000000 cases. after spain reached this grim milestone earlier in the week with an infection rate 3 times the national average the region of nevada has resorted to drastic measures. it has banned most travel into and out of the region and closed all restaurants and bars. the capital madrid has been under a similar lockdown for the past 2 weeks to stem a spiraling caseload. italy was the 1st european country to be hit hard by the coronavirus. prime minister just set the context as appeal to tally and to adhere to curfews imposed in italy's 3 biggest cities the country is desperate to avoid the massive casualties and overflowing hospitals witnessed earlier this year. the

caseload is exploding in the czech republic a record 15000 new infections on thursday prompted the government to impose a hard lockdown. prime minister i'm sorry bobbish said the house system would overwise collapse by early next month. the shop sheltered in the capital prague. the army moved in to set up a field hospital. a lockdown is also in effect in ireland over the next 6 weeks households are not allowed to mingle and people have to stay within 5 kilometers of the homes non-essential shops have been closed and restaurants are restricted to take away services. over 1000 has wreaked havoc on health systems globally about especially in 4 geographic hotspots there are well over 8000000 cases in the us 9000000 in latin america 4000000 in europe and more than 7000000 in india we can get an update now from 3 of those different regions correspondents

are standing by in rome beijing and delhi and i want to go 1st to seem a group who is standing by in rome seen but we know that italy hit very hard in the 1st wave of this pandemic one of the highest death tolls in europe what is the situation now. well what we're seeing is we're hitting records in terms of new infections daily just in the last 24 hours more than 16000 new infections but it's important to note that they're also carrying out with more tests now than they ever did back in that 1st wave in the springtime you're also seeing $136.00 deaths in the last 24 hours a green figure but it doesn't compare to the highs 1 of 900 deaths we saw back again in spring if you look closely though at the admissions into the intensive care unit that is beefing up you now have about 992 admissions for corbett 19 cases

so the region that was hardest hit back that long but it still is counting for the most in terms of the number of defections and the governor of that region saying today that the situation is dramatic and they've made the decision to open that temporary cold that hospital that was set up in the milan fair grounds a curfew has been in place in milan in the surrounding long but the region from thursday and here in rome and the surrounding lot see a region from this this day onwards there's going to be a curfew this evening from midnight till 5 k. in the morning so back again with those self declaration forms seem a thank you so much over to you and material you're standing by in beijing unlike europe china appears to be containing cases there why no 2nd wave. why i think the reason is 1st of all technically that they have a lot of testing capacities and they're cracking don't very quickly on any new outbreak or teen in people and testing mosques is off i think the main difference

between the europe and here is that often things got out of hand in january in 1 hand the government decided to take a hard line and to eradicate to bring the cases down to 0 and not to try to mingle through with having them below the infection. rate of one or any other targets so they really waited this out until there were no more cases and whenever something appears now they aged identify them quickly there very early people are still very scared of what's what might happen and the borders are closed so no new infections come in via travelers mathias thank you so much to you over now to delhi where many are challenged area is standing by many are over all the cases are relatively high there the numbers however are coming down has india

reached its peak. well going by via official numbers given by the government and the force that we have seen this seems to suggest that india may have crossed its peak in the mid of september when you were showing all were 90000 cases. so india speak having been cross might be one of the reasons why we're seeing a declining trend where there was also concerns that india might be testing low because in the immediately following that there was a slight difference in the number of tests so they looked on sunday regarding that but that number also picked up an honest blurts out suggesting that a part about the apart from the peak having been crossed another reason to wish that it line in chad trends can be attribute it to is that india may have a better working system of death to tracing isolation and hospitalisation of cases which can get worsened but again india is a country with a huge population and a high population density so we have. over $50000.00 cases but the declining trend

it's important to nort can also be seen in parallel with the increasing recovery rate and as far as the daily life of then sun it's more or less has or done lucy reportedly it's clear that we may not go back to log on to do asian because that have huge economic costs but the ongoing festive season and the approaching winter season is giving cause is giving into the concerns that we need to see a bit of the right bit of a rise in the number of cases that get. there in delhi mathias bolinger in beijing sima gupta in rome thank you so much to all of you. and here is a look at some other developments in the global health emergency the united nations is urging the g 20 group of leading economies to work together to fight the virus secretary general antonio good 10 ish says that it's disappointing there was no

coordinated action in march south korea has confirmed to 155 new cases its biggest jump in more than 40 days most of the infections have been traced to hospitals and care homes around the capital seoul australia is easing the cap on the number of residents allowed to return each week the limit will rise by nearly 300 from next month on a jury as president is calling for an end to protest across the country as demonstrations against police brutality continue president mohammed who bihari warned protesters would not undermine national security his address came after 12 people were killed when the military opened fire during a protest in lagos earlier this week. lagos has descended into chaos. gunfire rang out shops were looted and a prison was set ablaze in nigeria's biggest city on thursday prompting the president to call for calm. by their full quarter on. to

discontinue the street forests and construct and give government in finding solutions. has been hard. and. people are losing faith in their security forces and the government after 12 protesters were allegedly killed earlier this week peaceful protests against the police unit known as sars have been underway across the country since earlier this month with the unit accused of torturing and killing citizens. not good night from dancing on their feet but tensions escalated on tuesday night when security forces fired into a crowd of protesters singing the national anthem according to amnesty international for what we are seeing on the ground clearly the they did not

respect international human rights and they just constitution as well in themselves in people's lives and during it was. the incident sparked condemnation from the international community and violent unrest within the country mobs vandalized and burned police stations courthouses and t.v. stations while police fought back but the nigerian military has denied shooting at the protesters. and members of the international community. many of whom have expressed. a bozo ongoing development in the media we thank you as you or to seek to know all the facts available before taking action or action to judgment and making history for now it's months and the president said he was pained by the loss of innocent

lives but did not directly acknowledge the protest shootings it's a rhetoric that may not be well received by the nigerians who have been calling for an end to corruption for weeks. and from our let's go to lagos where we are joined by correspondent fred verney fred tell us president hu hari as we've heard has called for calm to end the protests following weeks of on rest how are these comments likely to be received. his comments where received by some protesters as as kind of defy the president was kind of defiant and instead of addressing the issue for example of tuesday the president didn't mention that he didn't even mention prosecuting people who are behind those killings. saying that actually address

the issues he was kind of sending warning that if you go back on the street we are going to deal with you but some of their saying that i'm sure they're going to take this to bach and started gys again so given that i mean what is the situation like in lagos and the rest of the country today. yeah today is much better i mean this moment but you never know sometimes there are surprises in 2 hour was something come harp and this is this is very close this is nigeria people want to see change and by all means but of course some of them are taking cautious tapes after the president's speech do we know more about what really happened earlier this week.

we know that people were assured by. the diffused or denied that they were behind those attacks but from the speech of the government over there goes for example he says that the forces behind. that's why corresponded to our correspondent there in our lagos nigeria for a fred of any apologies for the technical difficulties there and moving on to some other news now firstly in football great pele turns 80 today he is still regarded by many fans as the best player in the game after winning 3 world cup titles events are taking place around brazil to mark a milestone the man himself has been displaying his famous sense of humor brazil's love for pele is a strong as ever a huge mural in the spiritual home of santos has been unveiled to celebrate the

football greats 80th birthday the tribute artist cobra is just one of many pele shot to fame as a 17 year old helping brazil win the 958 world cup i he repeated the trick in 1962 and also guided an iconic brazil team to the trophy in 1970 all these years on and the man named player of the century remains an icon sao paolo football museum has opened an exhibition honoring him on his birthday and despite brushes with ill health in recent years he has lost none of his sparkle. that is on my 80th birthday i thank everyone who has already sent me a message others have already sent me an email. now that i'm 80 i need to thank god for giving me the health to get this far and stay so lucid even

if i'm not always so intelligent. no one can do this. job to the king of football pele's still immensely frank full for what the game has done for him. i hope that when i get to heaven god welcomes me the same way that everyone welcomes me nowadays and that is thanks to our beloved football. that's 80 years of age pele continues to be one of brazil's most enduring figures. of the top stories we're following for you here on news u.s. president donald trump and as democratic challenger joe biden have faced off in a final t.v. debate less than 2 weeks before election day the economy crime and climate change were among the topics discussed the coronavirus pandemic top of the agenda. don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the go just download our top from google play or from the app store it will

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