this is it reduces the life of berlin list chaos but just as much conflict in the final u.s. presidential debates with time the running out to convince crucial undecided voters for a democratic candidate joe biden and president donald trump needed a win we asked could really came out on top also coming up to europe on covert high alert as cases search across the continent germany again hit by a record number of infections governments tightening restrictions and imposing new laws down will get the latest from correspondents in italy india and china and

finding intensified this in the breakaway region of nagorno-karabakh with their media and also by john blaming each other for who knew the taps the amount russia and turkey are weighing in on the u.s. plans to choose talks plus a big birthday for if football legend pele turns 80 today the brazilian has been named to leader of this century and the king of football after decades at the top here's his take on the beautiful game. where the rockets great to have you along everyone well we begin in the u.s. where president donald trump and his democratic challenger joe by a faced off in a final t.v. debate less than 2 weeks before election. well the exchange was

a little more civil than the ill tempered 1st debate the coronavirus pandemic dominated the agenda along with race relations taxes and the economy. republicans in longwood florida were thrilled with their candidates performance we love and adore him and tonight he was doing a fabulous job back in 2016 i voted against hillary not necessarily for trump but now i'm 100 percent on board the children but biden supporters seemed equally satisfied and it's hard to sum up is how do you get someone like. that he held his own he made great employment and very different tone and pace defined this head to head between the presidential hopefuls gone with the chaos and constant interruptions of their 1st meeting this was more of a conventional debate with a coronavirus pandemic given the most minutes on the clock. skirting around the dire covered $900.00 situation trump offered

a rosy view. it will go away and as i say we're rounding the turn where 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 such down biden condemned trump's record of dealing with the crisis through 120000 americans dead and he want his response to that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america we're going to the issue of race was also in focus. tract of the matter is there is institutional racism in america and we have always said we've never lived up to it 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 needle 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 of a claim that has been repeatedly challenged by critics as patently false nonetheless voters finally got something resembling a substantive debate but it may be too late to have a major impact on the election result a record number of americans have voted early and polls show most remaining voters had already decided how they'll fill in their ballot. oh i didn't use michele stockman has been of course tracking this story for you great to have you here on the set michele what the difference is the 1st debate were there any knockout moments i mean who came out on top well what both needed to do was to make their final pitch the american people of why they should be the president of the united states and so they needed to do that both in tone and substance so if we look at say a president with his tone he was heavily criticized for making the last debate very

fight interrupted and so he was disciplined at least at the start there were times when he really had some aggressive moments come out he hit joe biden over an alleged corruption scandal over his son hunter he went after him also over the failures of the obama administration of which joe biden was a part of on issues such as immigration and again we talk about the substance that he was trying to put out there he's trying to show voters who support him hey i'm a guy who came out i thought i was going to win. gratian i got tough and he did it . i also really good with economy for this he called it the plague from china came over so i was a president who did what i said it is going to do now critics would say well some of the ways you solve that in terms of immigration separating children from their parents of the border create a whole other host of problems but again voters who support him would say ok he did

what he said he's going to do if we look at biden. he also in tone and substance needed to be presidential he needed to be focused and disciplined unlike the meandering joe biden he was at the town hall and in substance he really hit trump part of the pandemic he really hard on racism in america he said you know basically trump is responsible for pouring gasoline on races fires in america and he came across as someone who said i'm going to bring america together i'm going to be a national healer and get us through these crises that we're in right now. i can believe we're just 2 weeks away for the election but you know here we are did this debate move the needle did it change people's minds ok you know as the report said a lot of people are already decided america is a polarized nation so if we're talking about that crucial precious undecided voter you're going to have one person saying ok i'm looking at trump should i change horses right now well you know i'm looking around me i'm seeing my community more

divided than ever i'm seeing black lives matter sign i've seen gloves matters signs i'm seen pandemic in my own community i'm worried about my kids they might look at what trump said he came across as pretty tone deaf in terms of the pandemic he said it's you know we're really solving it we're moving past it you might say really and also talking about immigration you might look at those children separated from their parents and say that was inhumane and cruel i think i might be ready to change horses or and i'm say to voter might look at biden and say democrats they're known for having big government i'm not sure i want that i'm going to stick with trump and let him get over this hump and get back focus on the economy i'm michelle in the in the 20 seconds that we have left together just like that the debates are over it's crunch time now what's going to happen between now and november 3rd ok so what we're going to see is a lot of voting a lot of efforts for both campaigns to get out the vote and a record number of americans have already voted we're just going to see again about

emphasize we've got to get out the vote so we can swing that needle either way from both candidates michele stockman thank you so much for you. want to say now but the rest of the day's news. libya's 2 warring factions have signed a cease fire deal aimed at ending almost a decade of conflict effective immediately the agreement comes after 5 days of talks in geneva hosted by the un the body hilt the deal is a historic turning point for peace and stability in the country. nigeria's presence in the home audible hari has made an address to the nation calling for an end to protest but despite the growing anger and unrest on the streets of the commercial capital lagos and elsewhere he made no mention of tuesday's police shooting of at least 12 people they have been demonstrating against police brutality. russia is blaming toxic algae for the for the mass death of marine life on its northwest

coast greenpeace has warned of an ecological disaster after bathers fell ill and marine life died on the camp checa peninsula moscow says the problem is not manmade . germany has recorded more than 11000 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours for the 2nd day in a row well the surge in corona virus cases here is near or in other countries across europe with many nations reaching new highs infection rates faced with a spiraling crisis governments around the continent are tightening restrictions and imposing new blog doused a report beacons of france. another sad record in france where more than 41000 corona virus infections were reported on thursday in some cities intensive care units are 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 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 concert has appealed to a tally ends 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. to caseload is exploding in the czech republic a record 15000 new infections on thursday prompted the government to impose a hard lockdown. prime minister. said the health system would otherwise collapse by early next month. the shop shuttered 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 their homes non-essential shops have been closed and restaurants are restricted to take away services. and here's a look now 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 says he is disappointed that there was no coordinated action back in march . from 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 and australia is easing the cap on the number of residents allowed to return each week the limits will rise by nearly $300.00 from next month. next diplomatic efforts to end the conflict over the disputed region of new are being stepped up the foreign ministers of the 2 warring parties about john and armenia are meeting separately with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei you know in washington later on friday the intense fighting is continuing after 2 russian bruford cease fires feel to end the flare up in the long running dispute any escalation threatens to draw in both russia and

turkey. all right let's get you the latest now of course for you leon is standing by in the town of barga in azerbaijan near nagorno a good to have you there a 1st of all i just want to understand put this into context for us these talks are are they part of a confidence building exercise or could we actually really see a diplomatic solution come out of washington. well from what we understand chances are little know that. any solution will come out of these or latest diplomatic efforts there in washington any solution that could lead to an end of this conflict the fighting has raged on for nearly 2 weeks now you've mentioned that already to cease fire agreements have failed in stat of that we instead we hear the 2 sides of a john in armenia blame each other for the violence as about jon's president for

example does not seem to be very interested in a diplomatic solution right now he has insisted that his country has the right to reclaim its territory by force he also claims that azerbaijan has made some significant military gains in recent days that something armenia denies but we have no chance of independently verify any of these claims now to give you an impression of the situation here on the ground i'm in the town of bada. that's about 20 kilometers away from the front line in a corner car abbas this town is considered to be relatively safe but we still hear the sound of artillery shelling so the clashes continue as we speak now i've been speaking to people here in the bar and most of them were telling me that they wholeheartedly support this war and of course this makes it even more difficult for the political leadership in baquba to return to the negotiation negotiation table

now let's listen to what people here told me good. listener gorno karabakh is an inseparable part of azerbaijan a hearts are there we are proud that our president wants to take it back and we will do so with the blood diverse soldiers my.