A powerful painkiller will plead guilty to aiding the start of the u. S. Opioid epidemic is part of an 8000000000. 00 set. And in some of the clearest language to date the head of the Roman Catholic church says same sex relationships should be protected by law. Nigerian protesters have defied a curfew during a face off with Security Forces as demonstrations against Police Brutality threaten to paralyze the nation the Rights Group Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday night leaving the violence of the military up and it drew support in the capital abuja. And Early Morning fire set by arsonists burns park to be coarse at a government bus station in lagos Officials Say 30 buses were destroyed. In lekki while Security Forces opened fire on protesters the previous night the standoff continues. The latest state governor who visited victims of tuesdays attack in hospital said more than 2 dozen have been hospitalized so you know chance. For. You. Well. We have nothing to do any fatality. Used. To some media but protesters dispute that i cant really see who was shooting we know who was the get i cant give you the afternoon because im not god i have to run my life were running for their lives within the going to be was it so i. Might want to. Im listening to national agrees say there appears to be credible evidence of fatalities but the pictures have not been independently verified. The United Nations secretary general who spoken with president bashar in recent days has called for restraint its time for all countries to understand and i hope nigeria will be able to do so that Police Brutality needs to stop and those that are responsible for acts. Such. Violence. Made accountable and these is essentially essential everywhere. Proctor started 2 weeks ago after police men shot and killed a man in the south of the country the protesters are demanding the scrapping of an old police unit accused of murder extortion and disappearances. They also want an overhaul of nigerias Police System the trial of the officers accused of crimes and compensation for victims. Some of these demands have been met but deep distrust remains between protesters and government journalists have also been caught up in the sudden turn of events here an independent television station in the city is set on fire a few hours later another broadcaster was temporarily forced off because of what it calls an imminent threat to its staff and operations yet in the capital the streets are common in lagos early on wednesday Security Forces dispersed a group of young men gathering on the outskirts of a. Menace cools and businesses here remain shut for most of the day after the violence and destruction in lagos oh. Theres a general feeling that the end to Police Brutality protest may have been infiltrated its not clear how much damage this has done or could do to that course which many nigerians still see as a legitimate decrease al jazeera. Has one of the organizers of the end as movement in nigeria she says her brother hasnt been seen since he was arrested in 2012 and that people are tired of feeling unsafe the impunity with the q was a little bit limited now you find out that. Everybody is it gets its no longer about whats. A boy or girl is no longer about cristiano and hes no longer about fair or dark the look out for anything the way you dress if you dress nicely if you have good fortune if you have dreadlocks if you have time to everybodys feeling needs but the middle class and the poor the only people who do not feel these are people who have parents in high places who do not attack us is that is why it has gained a lot of traction because a lot of people are feeling it the average nigerian is not safe on the road this would be defaults time if not a fever that the Nigerian Government to be despondent us as of last year they Vice President. Of the president and c. E. O. Dion is distance the reason why would we would we didnt leave the streets when they announced that sars has been dissolved is because we nor. Off to sas are still on the road wearing a uniform and attacking civilians attacking protesters. Are not bonded we nor the government lies a lot and that is why would you not trust them for us president barack obama has made his 1st appearance on the campaign trail for democratic nominee joe biden urging supporters to vote early we cannot afford 4 more years of this. Former president says trump is incapable of taking the job seriously a bomber stepped in for his former deputy as biden stayed home to have the final debate in nashville the 2 candidates will face off for a final time before elections on november 3rd microphones will be muted to avoid interruptions. Well i think abuse is very unfair and i think its very sad that not talking about Foreign Affairs is the most about Foreign Affairs and i think that the banker is a very biased person her parents are very biased but thats my life in the meantime at the white house right. Joins us live now from washington d. C. Mikes a former president barack obama has been hitting the campaign trail whats he been doing and how valuable an asset is he to joe bidens campaign. Well many would contend that hes probably the most powerful weapon in the Joe Biden Campaign and hes being unleashed in pennsylvania and this is a very important fact barack obama took pennsylvania in 200820128 was flipped by donald trump in 2016 its got a large proportion of African American voters and importantly joe biden and his advisers have identified pennsylvania as the single most important state to win if hes to make his way to the white house so bringing a job barack obama in at this particular stage very very important to the Biting Campaign and this is what a bamma had to say. We cannot afford 4 more years of this build up. But the good news is right now you can choose change right now or you can vote for my friend joe biden and his running mate kaamelott earth as the next president and Vice President of the United States of america tweeting at the television doesnt fix things making stuff up doesnt make peoples lives better youve got to have a plan youve got to put in the work and along with the experience to get things done joe biden has concrete plans and policies. Now well turn our vision of a better fairer stronger country into a reality we literally left this white house a pandemic playbook that would have shown them how to respond before the fire was reached our shores they probably used that. Oh no prop up a wobbly table somewhere we dont know where that playbook went a month into this pandemic cases are rising again across this country down a trap isnt suddenly going to protect all of us he can even take the basic steps to protect himself and mike so tomorrow nights the final president ial debate the 1st one of course descended into chaos and insults the 2nd one moved into this town the whole style event so what can expect tomorrow night. Well one would hope that its an improvement on that 1st debate that you mentioned weve already heard president complaining about the subject matter full this debate thursday complaining about the fact that the microphones are going to be muted when the candidate is speaking for the 2 minutes at the beginning of each segment but certainly the organizers of the debate introducing these rules to try and hold what happened in that 1st debate which looked like this. The issue is the American People should speak you should go out and vote youre in voting now vote and let your senators know how you get older you feel that vote now that in fact they were sure you in fact let people know it is going to senator i should im not going to answer the question who has said that because you are the New Washington is yours is the radical left would you she wasnt based on who is are on your list you know theres a reason youre right jonathan is i think this is sort of this on the president actually couldnt they have done to give a little you have ended this segment were going to move on to the 2nd segment it was really a pretty productive segment. Keep yapping the people understand shes a shorty 7 years youve just think. Well barack obama back on the campaign trail creating a sense of the start of a time when president ial debates did not look like that fight in the trenches. Of their lives for us in washington d. C. Mike thank you. Time for a short break here and ill just when we come back the french president emanuel growing leads tributes and the moral from a School Teacher who was beheaded in paris plus. Chalons instead not far from the battle front of the corner karabakh people watching to find out what an International Charity is doing to make sure that unexploded munitions like these dont kill civilians around. 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Bricks of heavy rain moving up towards the gulf coast and this line of weakness in the atmosphere means there be more in the Cayman Islands to cuba for jamaica and answer to Central America as well south of that some use for showers of falling in western side of brazil on the scene significant rain still around the river a place thats argentina and uruguay affecting what is or isnt one today the temperatures come dime but the rain is still falling. But. Stranded 8 long years on the su is can now. Creating their own community and the economy the washing of president bush used to go when you aljazeera world tells the tale of 14 cargo vessels accidentally caught up in the arab israeli conflict it was quite a surprise to find myself in russia in the middle of a war through the sailors whose ships survived the desert sands the yellow fleet on aljazeera. A war where the. Whole the the the. Welcome back if you come out of our top stories here at this hour nigerian protesters have defied a curfew to continue demonstrating against Police Brutality the Rights Group Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday. Former u. S. President Barack Obama Says donald trump is incapable of taking the job serious me as he made his 1st Campaign Appearance for joe biden. Supporters to vote in the. Mass protest has been taking place in the colombian capital bogota against the social and economic policies of president even do k. The protests are part of a broader National Strike being led by Union Members students teachers and a large contingent of colombias indigenous population there demanding a meeting with president do k. To discuss the recent deaths of indigenous activists about 10000 people from the community of arrived in the capital and speak to understand around puberty in. Just bring us up to date with these protests and whats been happening there in the capital today. Well the. Largest demonstrations since the easing of the coronavirus restrictions at the beginning. For shows like the large sector sector of the population who is willing to take to the streets despite the fact that their pandemic is still here and bring their grievances and their anger against the government president. Who they see as increasingly. A government that has turned up blind many killings social Leaders Community there is in many rural areas in the country also members of most of the country unions. Were on the streets they are demanding that the government do something for the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their jobs doing them particularly theyd like to see a temporary and minimum income for these people the economy here as it has happened in many parts of the world as contract to the story levels and a country with so much inequality and still such a large segment of the population and works informally or. Just hand to mouth of course are much more worse off today so theyre calling on president to do more on a number of items that they think are very important and they fear feel that this president has not been willing to meet with them so far. Has insisted that the most of these demonstrations and protests have been politically motivated that the government has indeed been responding to the demands of many of these sectors now remember that a year ago or almost a year ago in november and december of 2009 t. In the country had seen some of the largest demonstrations in many decades against this government. Most of those grievances remain probably even made worse by a pandemic and what were seeing here is possibly just the resume of another wave of protests in the organizations year calling for another protest next month all right alison from petty live there in the colombian capital bogota alexandra thank you. Now the manufacturer of the powerful painkiller that helped set off an Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Is sent to plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8000000000. 00 settlement Purdue Pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin which is linked to an addiction crisis has killed more than 400000 people in the last 20 years. Purdie farmers decision in the ninetys to begin aggressively marketing its prescription opioids oxycontin to doctors and patients for a range of illnesses despite the risk of addiction has long been seen as a major factor in the us is Opioid Crisis and on wednesday the Us Government said purdue would now be held to account todays announcement involves one of the most important participants in the supply chain of prescription opioids at the manufacturer level between 192018 some 450000 people died in the us from an opioid overdose involving Prescription Drugs like oxycontin or illicit opioids research has shown the rise in prescription and illicit opioids is connected as initial opioid prescriptions became gateways to fentanyl and heroin addiction in 2018 an estimated 10300000 people aged 12 or older misused opioids 9. 9 misusing prescription pain relievers 808000 using heroin 2 out of 3 Drug Overdose deaths that year involved opioids. Pharma has admitted it paid doctors and pharmacists to prescribe oxycontin without in the medical purpose a practice alleged to have subsequently become widespread among other pharmaceutical firms and that it misled regulators about how widely it was distributing the Drug Companies agreed to an 8000000. 00 settlement however its likely only to pay a fraction of that amidst bankruptcy proceedings the Sackler Family which owns pro do and was able to sponsor cultural institutions around the world with the billions it made from oxy contin sales has agreed to pay 225000000. 00 and give up ownership of the company some small states in the United States 8000000000. 00 doesnt even cover what one state would would tally would be the cost just in terms of you know cost hospitals and jails and. And coroners office. You know on a very very long worst purview still faces hundreds of other lawsuits some state attorney general say the government has let the company and the Sackler Family off too easily the fines are comparatively minimal a cost of doing business they argue and no one is being criminally or civilly prosecuted for the enormous devastation caused by their actions nonetheless a few weeks before the election the Trump Campaign will now be able to claim it lived up to a Trump Campaign promise from 2016 to go after big pharma and address the Opioid Crisis she returned to see out 0. Now a volunteer taking part in trials of a Coronavirus Vaccine has died in brazil but i thought to say testing will continue its the 1st death reported in the various trials taking place worldwide the court said the person was given a placebo and not the test that scene is being developed by astra zeneca and Oxford University which says there were no concerns about the trials safety Cathay Pacific airlines is constantly a quarter of its workforce around 6000 employees will lose their jobs mostly in hong kong where the airlines based the company will also close down its Regional Airline carriers incomes have been decimated by travel bans and border closures because of coronavirus. French president emanuel micron has led a National Tribute for the teacher who was beheaded in paris last week. A hero and his killer a coward 7 suspects including 2 teenagers will face charges for assisting the attacker Bernard Smith reports from paris. Samuel pattis the face of the french republic according to emmanuel mccrum frances president was leading tributes at a National Memorial to the teacher who was murdered by a teenage chechen refugee described by prosecutors as a radicalized muslim. Samuel patty was killed because the islam is want our future and because they know that with com heroes such as him they will never have it mr patsy was walking home from school in a paris suburb last friday when he was attacked and beheaded prosecutors say hes 18 year old killer wanted to avenge the teachers use of caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression after the murder french authorities launched a widespread crackdown on people and groups they say incited anger that led to the killings this paris mosque has now been closed for 6 months because it published a video on facebook of an angry father of a student at the school calling for action against the teacher worshippers at the pantai mosque so theyre being collectively punished its. Kind of injustice because just one person did something wrong and were going to to to close the mosque and theres like 1000 people that are praying here mosques in the french cities of bordeaux and bessie and now under Police Protection because theyve received threats of violence to 14 and 15 year old students from some of your party school amongst those facing charges what prosecutors call complicity in a terrorist assassination prosecutors say they were paid around 400. 00 by the killer to identify his victim and a father who published a facebook video angrily criticizing the teacher could face charges for inciting the attack on. Aljazeera paris. At least 25 afghan Security Forces have been killed in attacks by the taliban thats according to the government it happened in the Northern Province of. The taliban has intensified attacks in the past few weeks as peace talks with the Afghan Government held in cattle the ministry of defense as 115 taliban fighters have been killed across 26. And at least 12 women have been killed in a stampede in afghanistan in a rush to apply for visas to pakistan they were among thousands of people gathered in a temporary venue in a sports stadium in the city of jalalabad. The latest conflict between armenia and azerbaijan never the nagornokarabakh region is bringing trauma to a new generation the main city of panic and it has been hit almost constantly by artillery now one charity is helping to clear unexploded shells really challenge reports. The sirens wales and seconds later the 1st of several cluster bomb strikes rips down the street. Each collection of mini explosions saturating the air with. The people of nagornokarabakh capital step on a carrot have suffered multiple rocket and artillery attacks in recent weeks International Charity the halo trust is here to keep track and prepare for its teams to come and remove explosive debris when the fighting dies down. Full clearance of this area of visual. Clearance clearance of this area checking for any unexploded items and then destroying them almost in situ because these items cannot be moved there kind of touched. And they can land anywhere such as buried in the mud inside this chicken coop another one for the Clearance Teams the danger is that anyone could pick them up either because they dont recognize the latest weapons or because they want to move them out of the city which is exactly whats happened here so here we have a collection of different munitions most of them the ones with red ribbons are cluster bomblets that fell on step panic and theyve been brought here by local residents who physically pick them up and put them in a box any one of them could have exploded. So one of the halo trusts other jobs here is going from street to street so homes in bomb shelters warning people of the dangers. Of rushing yards they look very nice attractive i mean you see it its like a toy you want to play with but it is dangerous and yesterday we you know 300 shelters or speaking to bolt 600 people we want to talk to as many as possible to tell them this are dangerous things. Before the recent fighting started late last month halo was dealing with unexploded bombs and mines from the 1st nagornokarabakh war of the early ninetys people here are still losing life and limb to them now Charity Workers and stepanek are its weary inhabitants have a whole new wars worth to contend with rory talents how to 0 stop panic its not going to karabakh. European lawmakers have sent a letter to egypts president Abdel Fattah Sisi denouncing his governments human rights abuses many are set to remember the European Parliament is calling for the release of dissidents. The level of repression in egypt is unacceptable we voted a year ago on a resolution on the same thing we hope that the egyptian regime will listen to this message because europe is an important partner for egypt which does not listen to us we know that the corona pandemic has led to a further crisis and worsen the conditions of prisoners in their prisons this message is directed strictly to mr sisi and we will continue to demand the release of journalists human rights activists and intellectuals a thai protest leader has been arrested less than 2 hours after giving the Prime Minister a 3 day deadline to quit but volatile market verbal porn said she wasnt worried as she was taken away in a police car earlier the Prime Minister of the channel said he was prepared to lift a state of emergency in a bid to appease demonstrators it came as tens of thousands of people marched once again in bangkok despite a ban on gatherings of more than 5 people they want the Prime Minister to quit and are demanding a more democratic constitution and reforms to the monarchy. And fighting broke out between some of the protesters and accountability ration by a problem on a case movement known as the yellow shirts and happened during a rally at a university in the suburbs of bangkok the royal family is highly revered in thailand than any criticism of them is against the law calls for changes to the monarchy and angered many traditionalists pope francis told the makers of a documentary that homosexuals should be protected by Civil Union Laws in the film francesco he refers to those in a same sex relationship as children of god this is some of the clearest language yet used by the head of the Roman Catholic church to defend gay rights he speaks of his time as the archbishop of buenos aires when he opposed legislation to approve same sex marriage but supported Legal Protections for gay couples well the documentary film director says the comments from the pope were less about catholic doctrine and more about equal rights. It was a conversation he locals discussed and the doctors tried to change the doctrine he was talking about people who basically allowed to stop the same freedoms like everybody else. Discussing the doctrine of the d church he will try to change the doctrine the church he was talking to the people and not should be discriminated and the Gay Community should help the equal rights like everybody else thats what he was trying to point. Out for a pick check at the headlines here on aljazeera nigerian protesters have defied a curfew to continue demonstrating against Police Brutality the Rights Group Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday former u. S. President Barack Obama Says donald trump isnt capable of them taking the job seriously as he made his 1st Campaign Appearance for joe biden a bomb and supporters to vote early