A president ial debate. And yemens largest prisoner swap finally takes place its being described as a milestone in efforts to end the 5 year old conflict. Recorded corona virus infections a reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers are surging particularly in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other major cities where infections are rampant and from saturday more than half of englands population will again be subject to strict rules and where they can go and who they can meet the reports from london. This city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household is the governments latest attempt to rein in a runaway infection rate which is doubling every 10 days we must act now delayed action means more deaths from coated. It means more. Deaths and it means more economic pain later because the virus comes down slower than it goes up but there are questions over whether this goes far enough with the opposition and many scientists instead advocating a short sharp nationwide lockdown not just regional restrictions here in london the new measures will impact 3000 jobs and 7000 restaurants decision will be reviewed every 2 weeks but most of these businesses have already made their orders for the month and this stopping and starting to cripple many in europe find theyre in a similar situation france has declared a Public Health state of emergency and impose an 8 pm curfew in paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest level since june. The curve has nearly taking a vertical shape and thats why we knew we needed to act because this reality would have an impact on hospitals. Very strong impact on intensive care unit. Infection rates are also rising in spain the region of catalonia is closing or bars and restaurants for 15 days and limiting the number of people allowed in shops in its attempt to curb the surge germany Czech Republic italy and poland are all looking at a Record Number of daily cases since the pandemic began and from the World Health Organization a bleak warning that governments mustnt shy away from nationwide lockdowns projections from reliable e. P. A. Demon logical models or not so optimistic these models indicate that launched relaxing policies would propel by generally 2021 daily mortality at levels 4 to 5 times higher than what we recorded in april. Cloven 1000 is now killing a 1000 people a day in europe with winter fast approaching this exponential increase is everyones concern aljazeera london well as many countries tighten the coronavirus restrictions a small few relaxing there is from friday New Zealanders will be able to travel to parts of australia without the need to quarantine as the 1st step in a travel bubble scheme to gradually reconnect the neighbors new zealand currently has no active cases outside of managed isolation but australia is still struggling to control its outbreak australians are not allowed to travel to new zealand shopping malls and football to have the fundamental elements of life in argentina have returned with tight restrictions the relaxation of rules comes even as code with 19 infections and deaths continue to rise downhill sharma reports from one of ours. It was a tentative reopening a limited number of shoppers mosques wall at all times cinemas a restaurant still closed it comes after weeks of pressure from Business Owners calling on the authority to relax the rules. It was very hard because depending on the shops would last around 20 to 30 percent of the 2 months and thousands of thousands of jobs. After a 7 month lockdown a big mothers day one of the busiest shopping periods of the year just around the corner people were keen to leave their homes. Were very excited tickets to we wanted to see how the reopening is cooling what was going on with the people and also to get out of the house a little bit i think its good that theyre opening because many workers depend on the shopping center. Ocean cina has one of the highest number of infections in the world more than 900025000 deaths theyre reopening before its totally safe to do so but before these huge multimillion Dollar Enterprises go under with massive job losses the big question though still remains what is the great to risk a killer virus or further economic devastation. Domestic football is also back the 1st division kicking off at the end of this month after a 7 month break stadiums will remain closed to fans but struggling clubs hope action on the pitch will generate some income off it. I think it was time to reopen the shopping malls as the stores are open everything has to begin to be more flexible. Some students are returning to School National flights and Long Distance bus service is a resuming albeit like Everything Else with restrictions its a slow return to normal activity but with the pandemic still raging and a fully functioning Society Still some way off. Down the shore and theyre all just one osiris. U. S. President donald trump and his white house challenger joe biden have been quizzed by the public during rival televised town hall style events theyre asked about issues ranging from the coronavirus to conspiracy theories the Supreme Court and trumps finances they were supposed to face each other in a 2nd president ial debate trump withdrew from that when its format was changed to virtual rather than in person and the gallagher has more from miami where the trump forum was held. The answers that the president gave were fairly a very. Very good there were some interesting moments he didnt really get many tough questions from the audience on the coronavirus he kept the line hes always kept that hes done a great job save thousands if not millions of lives that he acted quickly when he put travel bans in place for china and europe and once again he blamed china on his taxes which was a big issue in the last debate he didnt deny that he was 400000000 dollars in debt that was an interesting moment on masks he didnt really say or commit to the fact that masks help stop the spread of the coronavirus in fact he came up with some fake statistic that 85 percent of people Wearing Masks actually caught 19 but one of the more interesting moments was about q and on thats a Conspiracy Theory from the right that says the democrats are paedophiles and devil worshipers and that trump is their savior heres what the president had to say i know nothing about it i just tried you know very little each of me but what you tell me doesnt necessarily make it shocked i hate to say that they know nothing about it but you do know they are very much against pedophilia and they should fight it very hard but they know nothing and they believe that if you like an agent of the rabbi she only tell you what i do know about i know about him and i know about the radical left and i know how violent they are in a vicious they are and i know how theyre doing them cities run by democrats if youre an undecided voter im not sure how much you would have taken away from the president s debate last night i think it was a pretty solid performance even though he was quite vague about things but the big loss here is that these 2 men biden and trump didnt meet as was planned they were supposed to meet in miami on thursday night of course the president didnt do that so im not sure what voters would have got out of this 2 separate julan debates. Well how does your castro followed joe bidens town hall event in philadelphia she says biden was measured compared to trump but didnt miss his opportunity to criticize the president but predominant topic that biden really seized upon here in philadelphia was cold particularly knowing that 3 Staff Members or people work or close to his campaign and that of his running mate Caroline Harris tested positive for covert just within the last few hours and in fact that caused harris to cancel the remaining of her in Person Campaign events for this week well jill biden really focused on president trumps handling of the pandemic with 217000 americans having died of the virus and joe biden defending his own stance on encouraging everyone to wear masks you and i know and i think you do too as well the words of a president matter absolutely no matter whether theyre good bad or indifferent they matter and when a president doesnt wear masks or makes fun of folks like me when i was wearing a mask for a long time then you know people say well it must be that important so biden is leading significantly in National Polls 10 to 11 Percentage Points over trump his Campaign Setting out tonight to not really stir that pot much and they may very well have accomplished that early voting continues to be a popular choice in the upcoming u. S. President ial vote along the lines formed outside of them doesnt North Carolina on thursday on the 1st day of the early voting in the state across the country more than 14 and a half 1000000 people have already cost the ballots thats compared to less than one and a half 1000000 at the same point 4 years ago the Israeli Knesset has overwhelmingly approved a deal to normalize ties with the United Arab Emirates israel and the u. A. E. Announced the u. S. Brokered agreement on a deal in a white house ceremony it would only come into full effect when the u. S. Formally says it. Saudi arabias foreign minister has told a washington think tank hes open to working with qatar to resolve the blockade saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt have imposed the economic and diplomatic embargo since 27 team accusing qatar of supporting terrorism which qatar denies fines are been 400 sowed says he hopes a settlement can be reached i certainly hope that cooler heads will prevail in and find a solution i believe that we are committed to finding a solution we are weak from the beginning we have worked with the late emir of kuwait to find a path forward we continue to be willing to engage with our brothers and we hope that they are as committed to that engagement and if we are able to find a path forward to address the legitimate security concerns of the quartet that drove us to take the decisions we took that will be good news for the region would be good news i think for the for stability and security but we do need to address the legitimate security concerns of the quartet and i think there is a path towards that and we are hoping that we can find that in the relatively near future. Time for a short break here aljazeera when we come back keeping a check on things china tests the entire city of 11000000 people in just 5 days. Not backing down protesters in thailand scuffle with wild ponies defying a ban on gatherings more and stay with us. Weve got plenty of sunshine as per usual across the middle east but its got to be on the cool side over the next couple pleasantly cold i should say fine and dry as you can say barely a cloud in the sky well see temperatures here in doha for example struggling to get to 33 degrees celsius cola still on saturday no higher than around 32 is to say pleasantly warm sunshine coming through well its a bad a little further north as well baghdad in kuwait around that is 637. 00 and some lovely weather around the levant with temperatures into the the mid to high twentys here meanwhile we have some showers as per usual just around the ethiopian highlands rolling over towards the gulf of guinea some big down poles there into southern parts of nigeria cameroon seeing some lively showers along with the democratic republic of congo where weather once again here they ram their way up towards the rift valley will see some wetter weather for a time into uganda just around Lake Victoria one or 2 showers into were some are yes and showers there too to the eastern side of kenya and some showers to to the north east of tanzania south of that it is generally looking fine and dry with pleasant sunshine coming through on the warm side as well for some johannesburg around 30 degrees celsius on friday and warmer still by saturday afternoon. I am steep climb. I have a question about these days its hard to filter out the noise and keep track of whats really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues that are shaping the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera and. Unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. From our london broadcast center. On aljazeera. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the aljazeera the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths in europe could be up to 5 times higher by january if containment measures on stepped up france germany on the u. K. Are among countries type restrictions. Us President Donald Trump and his white house challenger joe biden have been chris by the public during a rival televised animal started dennis ross about issues ranging from the coronavirus to conspiracy theories the Supreme Court and trumps finance. U. S. Cities are in a downward spiral financially as the economy feels the impact of the pandemic even as some jobs return each week new jobless claims top 800008 historically high number a stimulus bill that could help is held up in congress and may not arrive until after the election john hendren reports now from chicago. The pandemic his scarred chicagos historic landscape plywood replaces neighborhood haunts sports bar the rain forest cafe all gone the citys famed willis tower is mostly empty it shuttered navy pier the ferris wheel is indefinitely stalled 40 percent divest runs nationwide expect to close in the next 6 months according to the National Restaurant association its going to be fixed the maybe even 80 percent because right now a lot in the warmer days we can throw to hit a break even. If people if the business goes down people are going to run out of money pretty soon do you have any cream in your house. After 3 decades in chicago celebrity chef rick bayless whose trim staff it is numerous chicago be strohs it is bracing for worse to come and his pockets are deeper than most restaurants especially independent own restaurants are sort of the fabric of the neighborhood come next spring if we dont get some sort of Financial Assistance from the government those neighborhoods are downtown area theyre going to look very different and its going to take a few years to rebuild restaurants are getting creative with street closures an outdoor seating and heat lamps theyre trying to keep people coming as long as they can but in cold weather climates like chicago nobody really knows how long they can go on chicagos once bustling magnificent mile shopping district is a shadow of its former self with even open shops boarded against recurring social unrest. Their protests chants echoing in one American City after another violence is up and it is causing some minor flight out of the major cities were seeing more and more people moving to suburbs outside urban landscapes and i think that is a real concern on the other side of this virus this spiraling economy spans across the u. S. As once for a low jobs are gone for good each day the pandemics losses mount in lives and livelihoods the latest here is central camera the Chicago Institution opened it 899 closed in 2020 and hoping to reopen again john hendren aljazeera chicago authorities in the east and chinese city of ching dawa say they finished testing the citys 11000000 people for corona virus that was spotted by the discovery of a handful of cases only about a dozen people with found to be infected katrina you sent this report. Chinas coastal city of qingdao is known for its beaches and beer but this week it made headlines for a coronavirus cluster the 1st local transmissions discovered in months authorities responded by testing the citys entire population of 11000000 over a period of 5 days after her there are in the us mints telling people to protect themselves and social distance people are sticking to the rules the testing aims to reassure residents thousands of medical workers worked 16 hours a day to complete the mass testing a few cases have been confirmed the patients relate to the qingdao Chest Hospital where overseas arrivals with carven 1000 were being treated the head of the hospital and the citys Health Commissioner have been fired several neighborhoods locked down and close contacts traced in quarantined officials have played down concerns of a large scale outbreak. Qingdao cases have many appeared in hospital and we have concluded that the scale of demick its a likely to be as large as that happened in beijing and according to official figures chinas coronavirus cases have fallen drastically but the country remains on high alert up to criticism of its mishandling of the outbreak and we have to see if the Chinese Government is under pressure to respond with a new local case its authorities have put cities into what theyve told us i might follow the discovery of Previous Post as elsewhere in the country i think we did learn a lesson that when there was clearly some missed opportunities at the local government level at this point its a National Government level they have a very clear chain of responsibility in command and they moved very very quickly in may officials tested 11000000 people in the city of one the original epicenter of the outbreak following the discovery of new cases. Chinese state media has contrast to chinas recent coverage 1000 response to that of the us and european countries. Democrats dictions across china have largely eased during chinas golden color day last week more than 600000000 trips are made nationwide the receive visited qingdao have also been ordered to take coronavirus tests katrina aljazeera beijing the outgoing c. E. O. Of the Worlds LargestIron Ore Mining company has faced an inquiry on the destruction of prehistoric caves in Western Australia rio tinto has been widely criticised for blowing up 46000 year old rock shelters in may to expand the iron ore mine the yukon gold caves are one of the earliest known Aboriginal Heritage sites lets bring in James Fitzgerald his Legal Counsel at the Australasian Center for Corporate Responsibility he joins us live from sydney james good to have you with us i mean this is an extraordinary case isnt it where rio tinto knew that these caves were a huge cultural significance to the Indigenous People and yet they still went ahead anyway and blew them up its its hard to see what excuses the departing c. E. O. And his band of merry managers came up with what do you make of the hearing. Court the todays hearing that wraps it up about a month of hearings was quite bizarre you had a sort of parade of the war indeed. People who really resigned from the company presenting evidence to have our fix a problem you know you have you know Sebastian Chris barrie samone even telling the committee. You know the problem has fixed the problem it didnt by accident and so youve got this today government inquiry into the destruction of these caves james what exactly is the government hoping to find out because many people say look the Australian Government has repeatedly failed to give adequate protection to Indigenous Culture and heritage and that they are equally at fault here. Youre quite right there are quite a lot i mean there is a Mining Industry shaped hole in australian democracy Chris Soulsby the outgoing head of our own or at rio tinto say that the very beginning of this to stuff. The company enjoys protests its support of both sides of parliament so i think what well say he is a very strong and strident critical report from the Parliamentary Committee and theres not much else because both sides of Parliament Take the directions on mining policy from the Mining Industry this is the tragedy of it so the last line of defense really is investors who are concerned about the nature of the risks that these companies are not fully disclosing to them and james there was intense public and political fallout from the destruction of these caves and how much has this case do you think put the Mining Industry in australia on notice because it seems that in this case corporate greed took precedence of a culture and heritage. I agree entirely with that observation i think that all of them are the major miners operating in the pilbara region where this disaster occurred that is rio tinto b. H. P. And for disk you metals are all very much hoping that the public that investors will just move on and forget about what happened and i think the big challenge now as the Parliamentary Committee cheer said today is to ensure that there is ongoing independent monitoring of the measures that these Companies Say they are going to put in place its worth remembering that the pay k. K. People themselves those who suffered the effects of the destruction on the lead have said in this submissions you know there is no better case you know a bit of evidence why the government needs to put real regulation in place rather than that and allow the industry itself would you like but i just dont see that happening so again it comes back to the shareholders james has showed great to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to aljazeera its a pleasure thank you. Dons Prime Minister has assumed the powers of the president of the countrys leader resigned saudia jabber of the only became Prime Minister on wednesday and he was in jail until last week kurdistan has been gripped by political turmoil since a disputed election earlier this month john struck the reports now from bishkek. Celebrations on the streets of the cutest capital bishkek to the president s own by jeenbekov resign. Becomes off to more than 2 weeks of chaos in a country that has seen 2 other president s forced out in revolutions in the last 15 years at least but i do eat you just people are ruling the country and we got rid of them it inshallah everything will be fine we are happy we want to be the regime. Jeenbekov and progovernment parties are widely accused of rigging the over the 4th parliamentary elections. The Central Election Committee a no the results and has called for a rerun of the poll. But the man seen is finally forcing the president s resignation the new Prime Ministers son there are 2 parts of hes considered by many as a threat to what little remains of this countrys fledgling democracy. Had been serving the 11 year jail term for kidnapping before he was freed by supporters during the recent postelection protests. His supporters now Want Parliament to be dissolved d hes loveable but the yank guard paypal happy now were calling for 120 lawmakers to make a statement for there to be a self dissolution of parliament because people dont want them here they want to do you a power of to take power and stop working because they only support him who are making this that in just hours after president jeenbekov resigned the parliamentary speaker who along with Prime Minister john karr was voted into office in. Recent days refused to take up his role as acting president the refusal of the parliamentary speaker to be interim president gives acting president ial power to the new Prime Minister so there is a power of a man who many in his country deeply oppose the political crisis and uncertainty in kyrgyzstan is not over yet Charles Trafford aljazeera bishkek. The been scuffles between type police and antigovernment protesters who have defied a ban on public gatherings. The demonstrations in central bangkok come a day after times government announced the ban through an emergency decree but failed to quell the growing protest movement which is calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy will provide a minimum is a time a political commentator she says the growing anger goes beyond disappointment with the government. There has been boiling sentiment on how the situation have been handled so i think that the protests have shown that the deep the depth of the anger and frustration of people in bangkok particularly the protest or the youth sentiments have been going on since before the cause it struck back in earlier this year. And the reason that its growing more i think it partly reflects the frustration that the Economic Impact of corbett has also affected their economic wellbeing of the student and also the it shows the frustration that the government has and trying to accommodate most of their demand so i think together and also remind you that october is quite a politically sensitive one for thailand but equally this year you know october is the 1 of Strong Political unrest in the past back from the 1970 s. When students were also leading progress against the tater ship. A u. S. Court has ruled that body camera video showing george floyd being arrested last year can be made public floyd died in may when a Police Officer knelt on his neck for several minutes during an arrest a lawyer for one of the officers involved says the 2900 footage shows floyd had a history of not a bang the police and he wants it used as evidence in court. The reason we are pushing to get it admitted is because it shows a false narrative by the state the state is portraying mr ford as somebody there. And if you see the 2019 video and compare them theyre almost identical now painting stolen by the nazis and a jewish family has been returned to its rightful owners after 87 is the artwork depicting 2 young 900 centuries skate as was recently discovered in a small museum in upstate new york it had been taken in 1933 the painting was among more than a 1000 items seized from the moss family prominent jews in berlin who were targeted by the nazi party. After the check of the headlines here on aljazeera the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths in europe could be up to 5 times higher by january if containment measures on stepped up france germany and the u. K. Are among countries tightening restrictions