Unrest in Lagos Nigeria as president calls for an end to the protests but doesnt address tuesday shooting by Security Forces. So one can m. P. s expand the powers of the president allowing him to dissolve parliament and giving him immunity from prosecution. President Trump Supreme Court nominee moves a step closer to confirmation as he prepares to face joe biden for the 2nd and final debate. France is extending its curfew on mine major cities to a further 38 areas meaning 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors at night for 6 weeks it had already followed spain in passing a 1000000000 confirm coronavirus cases and its now recorded an all time high of 41 and a half 1000 new infections in 24 hours germany croatia and russia 3 of the other European Countries who have posted their biggest one day rise in infections belgiums foreign minister sophie vellum who was the caretaker Prime Minister until recently is now in intensive care with the virus the country had on average nearly 10000 new cases each each day last week despite a population of just 11000000 is 2nd only to the Czech Republic in europe in terms of infections per capita thursday saw a new limits on movement and the closure of shops and Hotels Hospitals filled up there and in slovakia all schools will be closed for a month from monday and therell be 2 rounds of population wide testing so on the whole house more on the situation around europe. These pictures filmed anonymously and leaked onto social media herald a ghastly return to the worst of the covert 900 pandemic in europe bodies wrapped in black plastic apparently filmed a week ago in the basement of a siberian hospital there are said to be awaiting autopsy. The voice behind the camera says all of them had the virus or. Russias Health Services are under severe strain in places with the toll of daily deaths and infections rising to record highs. Its a familiar story across europe now firmly in the grip of pandemic once again both spain and france have exceeded a 1000000 cases of covert 19 with more french cities and 2 thirds of the population placed under a nighttime curfew. The coming weeks will be tough Hospital Services will be put to the test and the number of deaths will continue to rise and italy the country where dramatic pictures of the sick and dying were a glimpse of europes future in the spring is posting its own record daily infection in the altered how. The situation was quiet and remained so for a couple of months now we are completely saturated at the moment were not able to receive we only have 4 beds left in the intensive care unit in germany where effective testing from the start has helped the country fare better than most the infection is said to be back with full force Health Authorities have warned of an uncontrolled escalation. Im very sad and thoughtful about this i suspect well have to face even more restrictions but i think its justified we have to live with this pandemic in some way. A Field Hospital in the Czech Republic the country in effective lockdown after the government brought back measures introduced earlier in the year balkan countries are seeing steep rises too and belgium says its facing a tsunami of infections with political figures not immune pulte 5 year old sophie vilmas deputy Prime Minister is in a brussels hospital undergoing emergency treatment in intensive care the condition is described as stable the same cannot be said for the pandemic across europe jonah how aljazeera the Spanish Government has overwhelmingly survived a confidence vote in parliament over its handling of the pandemic the motion had been brought by the far right vox party but it failed to win any other support and was rejected by 298 votes of 52 the Minority Coalition government of Pedro Sanchez has faced criticism over its policies with the result is being seen as the main conservative Opposition Party distancing itself from the far right in the United States the daily death toll has passed 1200 for the 1st time since august covert 19 deaths have been running at around 700 a day for most of october but this spike was expected after the number of new cases started rising 5 weeks ago the us is the worst hit country with more than 220000 deaths since the outbreak started. The South African government is warning of a potential 2nd wave of coded 19 cases after a 42 percent rise in 2 weeks in and around its 2nd largest city cape town south africa east strict lock down last month for me to mail for me to millar in johannesburg johannesburg has more on the governments strategy. Well south africa until this point has adopted what its called a risk adjusted strategy and at the height of the pandemic around june july and august so there fricker was between level 5 level 4 and 3 in the strategy and now has moved down to level one which is the the the easiest or the the most lenient level in the strategy now most social events are allowed theyve increased the number of people that can visit restaurants bars that can attend the funerals and this is the concern from the government that because of the pandemic has now been around for so long people are increasingly complacent theyre not Wearing Masks properly theyre not at hearing to social distancing and the major concern i think for the government at this point are these social events specifically in nightclubs and bars you mentioned that in cape town there was a 42 percent increase in the last couple of weeks and one of the concerns they is any of bar in cape town that is considered a so a super spread away at least 80 people were infected there we saw something similar in the eastern cape where students went back to university and so the Health Ministers really in kizzy is saying that complacency the easing of restrictions is leading to what could in ever to be a 2nd surge and this is what the leading expert in south africa is saying around the pandemic and what south africa potentially could face going forward. I. Know jury as president has addressed the nation after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations which initially began as protests against Police BrutalityMuhammadu Buhari said the government called for an end to the demonstrations but made no mention of tuesdays shooting of protesters. Who are on. The streets of the its the constructs of. Government decisions. As these. Roads and as disciplined wary of the president held an Emergency Security meeting smoke was seen rising from a prison in lagos on thursday fires were set across the city and witnesses reported gunfire demonstrators defied curfews in lagos and other regions on wednesday to hold more rallies Amnesty International says at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on choose day which the government denies or from or less lets go straight to it tourists in a big jag made whats the president been saying has he been able to calm these tensions. Well the president mention that some of the information out there on social media and the press were actually misinformation propaganda designed to deceive people and hes asking the International Community to be cautious of the information they see on social media they need to verify so as not to be misguided and they should take those steps before taking his to decisions and this is coming as International Condemnation of the recent violence weve seen in lagos pouring in from different parts of the world the president mentioned that they have heard the 5 demands of the protesters and theyre addressing them gradually mentioning the fact that the. Police unit the special interest chord has been disbanded process is now on to run psychological evaluation of all offices and the saas and a new outfit is being put up to the police sobs as well as. Talking about those other demands like compensation like. Dialoguing with the protesters but a short minutes oh i short while after the president s speech ended i called up one of the protesters weve been talking to over the past 2 weeks and she doesnt seem impressed she said the protesters will analyze the situation but personally she doesnt think that the president sort of address some of the critical things they want to see they demanded action all the words however the president insisted that some progress has been med like the disbanding of the police unit process is now on to set up commissions of inquiry to investigate officers responsible for the atrocities theyve been accused of committing over the past 30 years or so since the special interest court was formed. But weve been seeing some pictures of the situation in lagos some 10 seeds there what do we know about the jail breaks and gunfire in lagos it seems like the curfew is now crumbled. Well its been its been a difficult situation since this curfew was announced the 1st day we saw the demonstrators in lekki and then the Security Forces opening fire on them the next day weve seen how things escalated people not respecting the curfew they went on protests they want to run ph people burning cars destroying homes raiding banks raiding moles and what have you so although the protesters say they are not part of the script that is playing out in lagos the violence script is being played out as lagos a lot of people are beginning to think that these protests are been hijacked by people with criminal intent so what weve seen in lagos today the raid on that prison was not the 1st 3 days ago there was a raid on 2 prisons in your state while 1993 prisoners escaped after raiding the area of that prison so far 160 of them have been recaptured apart from that weve also heard about another prison attack in the east of the country and then 2 attacks today the one in lagos and another one in not so far on the state why are 58 inmates have been freed in lagos in particular that prison Officials Say there were they did not give i do complete assessment of the situation but they said they are in control of the situation meaning that probably prisoners did not escape but weve seen a level of violence there weve also heard gunshots before we saw the fire or the smoke emanating from that prison facility thank you very much that interests and abilities are there on the latest from my geria. Sri lankas president has expanded powers are the parliament overwhelmingly approved and a member of the constitution got a by rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament before its term finishes and house full immunity from prosecution and also have the power to appoint key officials including some judges the opposition had urged the government to withdraw the legislation which critics say will impose autocratic rule on elephant and as has the reaction from colombo. Rajapaksa bandwagon which began with the rajapaksa contesting the presidency he went to the people asking for a mandate essentially to make the necessary changes to the constitution to allow him to do whats necessary for this country to report that confidence and essentially the people voted on mass for him and were seeing that essentially indication of that coming to fruition in the parliament 156 m. P. s voting to change the constitution as opposed to 65 voting against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gautama rajapakse of the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the Prime Minister any minister he has the power of p. S. V. To take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the National Police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a Constitutional Council has been done away with now theres a Parliamentary Council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa still to come this half hour saad hariri becomes lebanons Prime Minister for 4th time a year after the protests to push him out of power. Most valorise Opposition Movement wins europes top human rights prize the countrys interior minister says protester are turning into a terrorist threat. We got some decent spells of dry weather across eastern parts of here at the moment but we have got some wet weather over towards the west bands of cloud and rain still streaming in from the atlantic will keep it on settle but not says sun settled as it has been over the past few days so whats the weather moving for us by the post go for time but some heavy downpours possibly some localized flooding moving in across the central and southern parts of france over towards the out some lesser weather also creeping into germany and some blustery showers rolling in across the northwest there for oland and the u. K. But a bit of wet weather over towards that east inside if youre up to moscow it around 13 celsius so elise its warming up but im afraid getting a little wetter in the process clear skies follow one is to go on through saturday some showers there into poland into batteries and that wetter weather moving across the outs fading over into the balkans but brighter skies to come back in behind the southwest which was a northwest horrible looking back and of cloud and rain swirling in a proper autumn storm so wet some blustery weather to be respected as we go through the weekend basin places a wet weather to into northwestern parts of africa maybe they are challenged in the libya and egypt and then she was there for the central belt. He began need to move and to put it just here i cant show i fall down i felt like i was that a documentary filmmaker once granted unconditionally a sign of contrasts his experience and speak very seeking refuge today and intimate you know of the consequences of the policies of detainment is really unnecessary all this misery they cannot absorb this number that people have to suffer and in this way it is a lot of the refugees stand on to sierra. A reminder the top stories here on out which is here are france is extending its curfew 19 major cities to a further 38 areas this means around 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors at night it comes as the country reported a record 41. 00 and a half 1000 new cases. Nigerias president has called for an end to protest the began 2 weeks ago against Police Brutality but how to do bihari also said his government had an obligation to protect its citizens. And Sri Lankas Parliament has overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution expanding the president s powers got to by rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament and house full immunity from prosecution. The Us Senate Judiciary committee has voted to subpoena the chief executives of twitter and facebook over allegations of censorship the move comes after the social media platforms decided to block recent stories from the New York Post which made unverified claims about joe bidens son the tech c. E. O. s are already set to testify before the Senate Commerce committee next week about alleged bias in privacy matters the head of google is also due to testify for president Trump Supreme Court nominee amy has moved a step closer to being confirmed those are 1210. 00 no its the nomination will be reported faber bullied to the floor with a unanimous vote. The Senate JudiciaryCommittee Approved her nomination even though the democrats boycotted the ballot it would all go to a full senate vote on monday the republicans hold a majority making biarritz confirmation look certain one of the issues likely to come up is the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court which at the moment as a conservative majority biden was asked on the c. B. S. 60 Minutes Program whether he would poke the nations top court with liberal judges this was his response if elected i will do is put together a National Commission a Bipartisan Commission of scholars constitutional scholars democrats republicans liberal conservative and i will ask them do over 180. 00 days come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because its getting out of whack or lets bring it out of official the white house 1st im amy carney baratz and the democrat boycott of the Judiciary Committee vote did it make a difference. No it didnt i mean the rules see theres got to be a quorum of democratic members in there but the senate can ignore its own rules and thats exactly what happened the democrats did make a stand they put up pictures of people they said that would Lose Health Care if the Supreme Court after the election votes to essentially scrap parts of the Affordable Care act they believe the equally bad it will side with the conservative majority in the court and push that through. Charles schumer whos the leader of the democrats in the senate said that this was a sham hearing essentially that it was appalling that they did it but they realized they couldnt stop it so this was really just playing to their base saying look we did everything we could to the last possible moment to the senate itself we will see the 1st part of that being moved on the senate floor on friday the vote will be on monday there are 2 republicans who are suggesting that they wont vote for him equally by its nominations simply because were very close to the election but that doesnt matter theyve got 53 votes in the senate if they lose 2 then theyre still going to be able to push this through the democrats needed to flip to others and there is no one coming out at the moment saying that they wont vote so by monday we expect to be the next justice of the u. S. Supreme court but of course weve got this immense looming the final make or break debates happening later whats the mood music ahead of the showdown. Well of course the Supreme Court might well feature in the debate itself because of joe bidens comments essentially thats just political delaying hes not making a decision about whether or not he would pack the court but by saying look we will have a commission thats passing the ball to someone else till after the election so he doesnt have to face that question sammys a big night for donald trump if you look at all the poors hes behind not just nationally but also across all the states but as ive often said polls are not votes theres still a long way to november the 3rd and so this will be interesting because of course many people floating voters were turned off by Donald Trumps performance at the very 1st debate they thought the interrupted too much that he came across as a bully this time theyll be a change in the rules that speak cause when they have their 1st 2 minute response to any question the other persons mike will be turned off so donald trump cant interrupt quite as much as he did in the 1st debate joe biden did as well but obviously not as much and the Trump Campaign also wanted to cover mainly Foreign Policy the see this is a win for them they think its a big deal given that they have negotiated treaties with the United Arab Emirates and israel and they believe that other countries are going to to join up to that they think that donald trump has done enough hes talked often enough about who is nominated for the nobel prize but this is going to cover a whole lot more than that and korver it will be right there front and center and thats what many people are talking about donald trump might try to throw in a few questions a few points about joe bidens son hunter but really on the streets thats not what people are talking about theyre talking about the economy and the talking about corporate expect that to be reflected in the debate in just a few hours time or official the clock is ticking at a mainstay in u. S. Policy alan fischer at the white house there. Our White House Correspondent kimberly hell could have more on their upcoming debate you shouldnt listen to. First president ial debate between donald trump and joe biden according to Many Political analysts was a low point in the 2020 us election because i want our water as we do it over as you are my president sure brings up the u. S. President repeatedly interrupted his democratic rival and also the moderator chris youre there waiting theres not a day and just 3 days later trump was in the hospital after testing positive for cope with 19 raising questions about whether or not he knew he was affected with the virus when he took to the debate stage trumps refusal to do a virtual debate led to the cancellation of the 2nd president ial match up instead both nominees participated in their own separate town halls at the same time and on the same night but now with the final debate set to take place in nashville there are questions about trumps tactics and whether hell take an aggressive stance as he did in the 1st debate. Hall only. One notable change this time the campaigns agreed to an uninterrupted rule which means the microphone of the candidate who doesnt have the floor will be muted trump is unhappy about the change and has repeatedly attacked the Debate Commission and the next moderator as biased against him. Earlier this week the Trump Campaign sent out a letter to the Debate Commission complaining it changed the focus of the debate from Foreign Policy adding more domestic issues like covert 19 and Racial Injustice meanwhile biden has spent the week at home without any. The Public Events analysts believe he has the most to lose by a poor showing in the final president ial debate will be. Dangerous for a candidate. What do you do or say. To the wrong woman when. Its the undecided voter that habit its often try to win over in a president ial debate but there are fewer undecided voters this year than in 2016 with early voting surging most have already made up their mind about who they want to win on election day can really help al jazeera the white house and you can watch the final u. S. President ial debate in full here on aljazeera no 100 g. M. T. On friday. Hariri has been named Prime Minister of lebanon for the 4th time with the country in the grip of a political and economic crisis his appointment was announced after consultations between lebanons president s of various political groups hariri resigned from the job last year following mass antigovernment process. I will stop the collapse of our economy and our society and our security we will of course stuck to what has been destroyed by the port explosion and i will form as quickly as possible the new government we have a chance we have a chance probably the last chance to do everything journalist how is founder of the beirut reports he says he really is return is a sign of how little has changed in lebanon since the protests began last year. I think people have been through a lot in this past year theyve been through the explosion theyve been through devaluation of their money by 80 percent value of the currency so i think that many are are not feeling the same revolutionary spirit as they might have been a year ago when things were looking a lot better people are pretty desperate this country so i imagine there will be protests but i dont think well see the d same kind of protests that we saw a year ago the problem is there is a very geopolitical problem in lebanon still you know theres still a battle between the u. S. And iran taking place in lebanon so i dont know if that if that will change well see any change locally in lebanon a lot on faith its very much tied to the big power brokers that run this country whether its iran or the u. S. Or france or other countries so well have to see what if there is an agreement between iran and the u. S. We could threaten the u. S. Maybe this will have some hope but you know lebanon is really a reality of these exit warlords running a country that is really not a country at all in many ways a lot of not really a functioning state so this is kind of more perpetuating the same problem i think well have to wait for elections in this country to really see some kind of a change happening but undoubtedly lebanons problem is also economic this country has one of the biggest debt in the world today so how can you get out of that hole with a just some smiles and and putting the same faces back in power what we need is a desperate economic salvation for this country their Opposition Movement and by the russos won the european parliaments highest human rights award the sakharov prize do you know that they are this city and continue to be strong and continue to fight your fight and your struggle we will stand by your side. It was a show of unity from the European Union which has condemned the political oppression in belarus for weeks hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in nationwide protests in the country calling for an end to president Alexander Lukashenko 26 year rule the opposition continues to call for a peaceful transfer of power after what they say was a rigged vote or the opposition may of only been owners but their protests are being called a terrorist threat by the belorussian government earlier president alexander look at showing cohosts the director of the Russian ForeignIntelligence Service in minsk the 2 men have accused the u. S. And its western allies of fueling the protests polands top court has ruled that a law allowing abortions juta fetal defects is unconstitutional the decision means terminations are now almost totally banned abortions will only be allowed in the case of rape incest or if the pregnancy threatens the Mothers Health polands opposition says the court is carrying out the political will of the conservative ruling party. The top stories on aljazeera france is extending its curfew on 9 major cities to a further 38 areas this means about 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors at night france is now the 2nd to surpass 1000000 covert 1000 cases nigerias president has called for an end to protest that began 2 weeks ago initially against Police Brutality demonstrators have been defying curfews and leg