A pandemic as the number of cases continues to rise. An explosion kills at least 8 people and injures more than 100 others at a Religious School in pakistan. Calls for Peaceful Elections in tanzania off the violence and the arrest of an Opposition Leader in zanzibar. Welcome to the news hour well its of course exactly a week to go before the election in the United States donald trump and joe biden is spending choose day crisscrossing the country in an intense day of campaigning National Polls are giving democratic contender biden a solid lead but its a lot tighter in some of those crucial battleground states of course the coronavirus pandemic has continued to overshadow the campaigning President Trump is holding 3 mass rallies on tuesday again downplaying the impact of the pandemic hes been attempting to shift the focus on to the economy. Its troubling the number one region that observe the year because of through return that a room. 70 were going to read the great state of. Arizona you will care for years ago where. Joe biden has accused the president of dangerous incompetence in his handling of the outbreak and has promised to act quickly if hes elected next week infections are surging with some states even concerned about it being a lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began a rescue package meanwhile remains held up in congress with democrats and republicans deadlocked over the details while gerrys mike hanna is in washington joins us now and so this is the final appeal to voters isnt it mike with a focus on the koven 1000. 00 pandemic where joe biden is focusing his attacks of course President Trump trying to trying to persuade voters that its nothing to worry about. Yes a candidate sal told in a series of meetings in the course of the day trump going to 3 states biden focusing on the state of georgia now this is an interesting indication of where the selection may be going georgia has been in republican hands since 1992 bill clinton was the last democrat to actually take georgia and now that state is in play for the democrats and that is why joe biden is there campaigning in a state that democrats have given up on in past elections but now realizing that theres a possibility that not only may he win the president ial race in georgia but they could also flip the senate seat in georgia along with take control of the state house so that a lot of issues at play here now the one thing that has emerged in every poll that weve seen is the common factor and that is that if every single poll indicates that the public believes joe biden has handled the coronavirus more adroitly than has President Donald Trump every single poll favors bidens handling of the coronavirus and the way hes still true that as opposed to what is seen as an apparent failure by a President Trump to deal with the coronavirus and its become a central part of this president ial campaign. Joe biden insisting that the fact that trump has not been able to deal with the virus is indicative of his failure as a leader this is what biden has to say this administration has yet to offer a single plan thats one of the reasons why the most one of most prestigious medical journals in the world the new england journal of medicine call the president quote dangerously incompetent went on to say president turned a crisis into a tragedy im ready to act i know what to do starting on day one of my presidency we will do it. Biden is leading in National Polls but as we know present trump doesnt need to win the popular vote in order to come out on top in this election possibly what whats the polling showing from those battleground states. Well barium is always polling it has to come with a Health Warning we all know that in 2016 polling indicated until very shortly before the election that Hillary Clinton had a handy leave to over President Trump then but that being said joe biden is leading in a number of states now the very important ones to look at all those states that were solidly republican that trump won by anything from 5 to 13 points back in 2016 and in states like michigan in North Carolina these states are now nick and nick according to the polls so biden has pulled back a whole lot of support in those particular states in other critical states like florida for example biden is showing a very strong lead as he is doing in pennsylvania and of pennsylvania is simply the most critical state for joe biden to win if hes going to make his way to the white house and there according to the latest poll he has a lead of some 4 Percentage Points the other point that the democrats are looking at is the massive early voting figures indicate that some 66 percent of the electorate has already cost their votes now why this is significant is that early voting traditionally goes towards the democrat side rather than the republicans but against that and more republicans are likely to come out on election day say observers bidens people saying very clearly that there is always the possibility that trump can turn all of the surround despite these polls come election day with a massive showing in person at the polls by his republican supporters but that being said every indication that we are looking at shows joe biden leading in states where in the past the democrats had little chance at all. As the same like a Crucial Point about whether that polling data reflects a contingent of Trump Supporters that could end up turning out on election day itself meanwhile the president has been lashing out at their back. Bamma trump is not happy that is pretty assessors been stumping for joe biden. Indeed years and hes not happy about what president obama has had to say about president obamas been absolutely lashing out at President Trump speaking at meetings in favor of joe biden. Has been Holding Drive by meetings the latest in florida some 300 cars once again he attacked donald trump not only for his character but also for his handling of the pandemic now once again florida very important and thats why barack obama is there this is the 2nd time youve held a meeting in florida in the past 3 days so once again this is signifying the importance of florida to the Biden Campaign a state that trump won back in 2016 and now the poll showing that biden has a handy leave about obama is the just like last week a bomb that went to pennsylvania that critical state that i mentioned earlier a very very crucial to the Biden Campaign given the fact that hes he receives acceptance from such a large proportion of the public who did not vote in the past thank you very much the latest from washington mike hanna well President Trump surprise victory 4 years ago was partly because he now only won the state of michigan from the democrats is to be reelected in a week hell almost certainly have to carry that state as well and hes likely to be need of macon county from where john hendren now reports mccomb county in suburban detroit is auto country its also home to the reagan democrats who switched parties in 1980 to vote for Ronald Reagan and after voting twice for barack obama it switched again in 2016 devote republican donald trump. Mccomb county which sits between 2 great lakes lake huron and lake erie is scenic patriotic middle class and overwhelmingly white in the last election trump resonated here in 2016 pledged he would not cut Medicare Medicaid or Social Security very different from other republican candidates and i think that combined with a lot of his appeals to white identity politics really i think really appealed to a lot of people in mccomb county trump inspires tributes on land and water and a rare devotion among supporters to the greatest president weve ever had in my lifetime he has made so many promises and hes kept more promises that hes made which has never happened ever as i believe in his policies hes gotten the job done so far hes prolife hes everything i believe in. The 2020 election will test whether hes still popular here despite the coronavirus and an economic collapse has democrat joe bidens Campaign Workers canvassed the county early so i am proud are there are 3 more he leads trump handily in recent polls whats changed is this mask. The epidemic here has been very difficult we have lost over a 1000 people to the president doesnt have a plan doesnt pretend to have one he wants more people to die joe biden will have a plan that will fix this code so that we can try and get back to normal life what has also changed is a growing political conflict within the state by the democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer as aggressive Pandemic Response led armed protesters to force their way into the State Capitol and it led to the arrest of 13 militia members who allegedly planned to kidnap or in trump has been fanning the flames you got to get your governor to open up your state. For donald trump to win again in 2020 he will almost certainly have to win michigan and to do that he will likely have to win right here John Hendren Mccomb county michigan and in part 3 of our series tearing some of those battleground states in americas midwest johns going to be reporting from the swing state of ohio to find out what matters to voters is that on wednesday on aljazeera. Only been 2 of the stories now and 4 people including 2 children have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of france a may just search operation is underway after the boat capsized don cook or than a dozen people have been taken to hospital but was still to have been trying to reach the u. K. When it hit rough seas its believed to be the biggest single loss of life from a during my current crossings in the english channel. Well now the 2nd wave of covert 19 is hitting europe hard the death rate in france is more than doubled in the course of the past 24 hours theyre reporting 523. 00 deaths thats up from 257. 00 on monday record numbers of new cases are also being reported right across the continent more than 230001 monday almost 3 and a half times the daily rate at the beginning of the month belgium had a daily high of more than 18000 last week almost a 10 fold increase on the highest number seen in the 1st wave in spring and germanys government is saying they are likely to hit 20000 cases a day by the weekend. While all this comes as protests erupted across italy against new restrictions to tackle a spike in cases that now protesters clashed with police in milan in turin where religion stores were looted riot Police Responded with tear gas on sunday the government ordered new restrictions which include restaurants and bars closing at 6 pm its also promised a relief package or the medical workers in spain are holding a series of one day strikes demanding improve safety and working conditions they say very exhausted after months of dealing with the pandemic and theyll come out on strike on the final choose day of every month in response although in reality its largely symbolic because theyll still be seeing their patients martyr her reports now from madrid. Doctors across spain came out in the thousands for a 24 hour a nationwide strike medics are calling for better working conditions and more Health Spending as the number of corporate 19 cases continue to rise spain with more than 1000000 cases and 35000 deaths is one of the worst affected countries in europe we are now in the middle of the 2nd wave of spain especially in madrid. All the Health Workers are very exhausted because we are very tired from the front of her eyes wave. Were tired physically young men selling there is not enough. Praise or if we have an old make enough to see our tears. Clearly saw seal and confinement mess or work on the later we still havent gone from nowhere poultices after years of whole service cast and after battling on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring doctors are taking action they are demanding better conditions and improved safety before they are in merced in the 2nd wave of college 19 of the strike came as a Spanish Government unveiled its budget for 2021 what they promised a 150 percent increase in Health Spending. The Coalition Government led by federal sanchez has already imposed a state of emergency given Central Government shipping powers including restrictions on freedom of movement a curfew has been introduced from 11 pm until 6 am everywhere except it can marry i like the state of emergency does also give regional governments some powers to try to stop the spread of the virus each region will be able to apply its all measures after central and regional governments clash on the best way to battle the pandemic the Central Government hopes to extend the state of emergency until may next year but for the state need the backing of other Political Parties and that wont happen without a fight. Meanwhile cover cases continue to spiral of course buried on the do it. Well dr gloria tally on the as a professor of Infectious Diseases at the university of run joins us now via skype and we have seen protests taking place in the country the new restrictions for bars and restaurants to close at 6 pm i mean that comes as a quite a serious blow to Small Businesses can you describe for us the mood the atmosphere there now well we are really worried and scared because the increasing in number of patients some new infections is the saw her eyes saw or deep saw in a suspected in a way because at the beginning of the mountain we were in a clearly a less severe condition so we are really worn but nevertheless we are aware that it is impossible to continue on the strategy of closing our t. V. It is because. Activities are important prolife economy economical issues are extremely important therefore we believe the most important thing is to learn how to cope with 2 hours instead of closing up to it is and closing the reducing the movement on the person tree which is important in a moment of crisis but should not be the issue today because we had the 1st wave we have learned the disability to reduce the contacts and the infections i cannot deny i ask why you think were seeing this exponential rise in cases if people have been avoiding the not getting too close to each other and with masks and other safety measures. Because we have been reassured that the school and the activities involved in this School Opening which happened exactly at the 2nd half of the kember were all safe which is not too bright the finish and end nothing is safe at this moment so we have to be aware that anything we do means that we must take a lot of attention to avoid contents spreading of gloom of the virus and acquiring infection in most of the in young people who are n. T. Carriers in totally a symptomatic carriers of the runners and spread the rows in their contacts which are mainly defaming contacts in the family you dont have young people you may have old for older people more. I mean i was just going to ask you what are your because we were had a report earlier from madrid the situations getting worse there also france is seeing an escalation in the number of cases and sadly the number of deaths this is after many countries in europe successfully managed to slow the pace of the outbreak how we what is that from what youre saying its now the focus is on young people but the only way to sort of stop this in the long term future is to just completely separate the from the old possibly. Well it is not such an easy. Such an easy goal to achieve because you know its impossible to separate the youngest from the oldest because mostly they behave they belong to the same Nuclear Family and so its impossible it is important to teach the young people to protect themselves when they are in the. Social life so they have to behave properly wash their hands protect themselves it doesnt say i mean as you say because people are living in close proximity you cant you cant separate cant necessarily stop them from coming into contact with their parents and their grandparents that just mean that people have to learn to live with this itll just continue to spread well whenever you can separate all this from the youngest to its wise to do it but of course when their children go back to their families they have all their parents that could be infected and all their parents go to work and they can transmit infections could be all their colleagues and therefore the chain is impossible to kept in a way the only way we can manage the infection is to teach continuously and properly in and teach and learn ourselves out to protect ourselves from getting the infection and this is the most important measure we have in our hands and when i say of our hands i mean really out hands because hands are the most powerful way we can transmit infection yeah as you say its about washing hands not touching the face thank you thank you very much yeah i really appreciate that dr laura tell jani joining us there from of alina. You know. With the news hour live from london much more still to bring it has been anger and violence in another u. S. City after the Fatal Shooting of a young black man. And defending reproductive rights demonstrations in poland against more restrictions on abortion. One out of pakistan where at least 8 people have been killed in a bombing at a Religious School in northwest city of bashara more than 135 others were injured police say the bomb was hidden in a bag left in the schools main hall a device detonated a students gathered for their lessons in the reports. Up to 500 students were packed into this room when the bomb exploded. They were listening to a lecture by a prominent scholar at the jimmy is a very a Religious School impish our could even start out a budget it was 8 oclock in the morning the teacher was giving a lesson we just heard a big bang and all the students are running here and their. Police say the bomb was hidden in an abandoned bag in the main hall pakistani an afghan students teachers and other members of staff are among the dead and injured several are in a Critical ConditionPolice Expect more faith tallaght. The injured were taken to the citys main hospital where relatives gathered waiting for news of. The attack comes days after pakistans Intelligence ServiceWounded Armed groups could target public buildings including Religious Schools across pakistan Prime Minister imran khan condemned the bombing. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack the Pakistani Taliban condemned the bombing and denied involvement the group has targeted schools mosques and the military since 2001 when pakistan supported the us invasion of afghanistan who starts out on whom garman runs. So there. Arent. Any. And the mint. Moved in 1000 students were at the school when the bomb went off police say most of those killed were young people in their twentys Victoria Gate and be there. At least 8 people have been killed and more than 45 injured in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan 5 Police Officers were killed when a suicide bomber detonated their vehicle in the Eastern Province of haast an explosion occurred near a Police Special forces base and then at least 3 civilians were killed in kabul when a car full of explosives was detonated near the interior ministry they want to claim to be behind the attacks which have obviously taken place just when the government of the taliban holding talks in cattle. When out one of tanzanias main opposition parties is accusing the police of killing at least 9 people who were protesting alleged vote fraud in the voting fraud and the ongoing election protests have been centered in the semi autonomous island of zanzibar by the main opposition candidate was arrested and then released the chairman of the African Union has spoken out calling for calm Catherine Sawyer has our report. The at this protestors in tanzania semi autonomous region of zanzibar are mostly supporters of st sharif from that the main opposition president ial candidate was arrested in the Early Morning at a polling station during advance voting a special group such as security personnel Election Officials and people with disabilities he was related released. Its been tense in the last few days on the island with fighting between opposition supporters and police after a political rally at the cannes tanks and troops from the tanzania and mainland have also been deployed voting continued at the polling stations despite demonstrators alleging that the election will be reet. Its a few protesters who wanted to cause destruction and. We have arrested some of their criminals but everything is going well no there is no major problems of the us in the zanzibar acapella several people on pemba are reported to have been shot and killed and others injured after attempting to block the distribution of voting material they said some ballot papers had been premarked. Elections in zanzibar have often been contentious and violent in voting during the 2015 president ial call malim safe sheriff claimed victory for the Electoral Commission a nod to the results and the opposition courted are repeat an action. Some analysts fear that an unfavorable result for the opposition this time could trigger another violent fall out with the ruling party. Is known for its vibrant culture but many people say theyre feeling increasingly marginalized others want more tanami from tanzanias rulers in direct and Everyone Wants to benefit from the resolves of natural gas discovered off the coast Catherine Sawyer aljazeera. More than 90 people have been arrested during protests in philadelphia over the Police Shooting of a black man 30 officers were injured during the Unrest Police cars and waste bins was set on fire while several stores were looted 27 year old Alton Wallace was shot dead by police in philadelphia on monday as a bystander film the incident and posted it on social media offices say wallace was holding a knife and it ordered him to drop it several times the citys mayor has called for calm we need a speedy and transparent resolution for the sake of mr wallace his family the officers and for all philadelphia i know that many thought all of us are feeling frustrated and outraged following yesterdays tragic incident i fully support your 1st amendment rights protests but we also ensure that our communities are not further her as a result please be careful lets get more on this now from Gabriel Elizondo whos in philadelphia and gabriel do we know do we have any more information as to how this happened why 27 year old well to wallace was shot. No we know that his mother actually called police but she called police for help because she said that he was mentally troubled and just needed some help she did not call police she says in order to have her son arrested or the tragedy of what happened shot and killed of course the police did hold a press conference and they did not give a lot of new information they would not answer questions such as identifying the 2 officers that fired the shots or why the officers felt they needed to do that even though mr wallace was several meters away from the police when the shooting occurred now its up out to be nightfall here in West Philadelphia were just a few blocks away from where the shooting occurred in front of one of the police. Precincts here you can see theres a Large Police Presence but i now want to bring in here to speak with us karen come on over cant this is karen school goof see who feel yes youve lived in the neighborhood for 40 years yeah you have a 10 brand children 5 kids. Why are you out here right now whats going through your mind. That tomorrow i wake up and one of my grandsons are my sons could be just like that boy that got killed yesterday the police dont come when you call they dont come the only come when they get to try to kill somebody that thats how i feel i didnt always feel like that i go to church every sunday i believe in god. But i dont believe in people no you live in this neighborhood where this tragedy took place did it surprise you that this happened or not. Here it was so close to home it was close to home it didnt it didnt surprise me like i know this is going on but it was too close this time and i watched it i got to see it for myself. I got to see this young man coming. Down there. What do you think is going to happen now what do you want in terms of a resolution to this or is there even a resolution to this bill is still if the 2 officers that shot that young man were brought to justice and go to jail for murder i think that will quiet down a whole lot thats all these people what they want justice you think that will happen. Now theyre going to get all theyre going to have desk duty and then theyre going to get a good retirement thats what i believe and i might be wrong but in my heart thats what i believe was going to happen theyre not going to get jail time thank you miss cool feel for taking the time to talk down to 0 we appreciate it thank you thank you. So as i mentioned earlier night is falling here in West Philadelphia there are more protests planned later in the evening after last night we saw some looting and some violence some officers that were injured but you said minor injuries but overall we have seen at least one protest here peaceful protest with clergy members all calling for the same thing that im in school field just called for you just heard for a minute ago Justice Justice and justice the latest from philadelphia gabriel thank you. I still much more to come on this news hour from london bangladesh joins several muslim countries condemning french presence and i knew my own controversial comments on islam. Al jazeera gains exclusive access to operations at the biggest u. S. Military base in the gulf. Hello expect warnings to be issued for the weather in graces this thing with lots of thunderstorms when it heads in your direction now its picking up more warmth and the bottom half of the cold front to be chopped off and start to spin up like this into a revolving storm which means wind potentially wind damage and thunderstorms will spread through greece and eventually towards turkey leaving behind a rather dry picture for italy the adriatic and generally speaking where its raining now it wont be by the end of wednesday athens forecast then gusty day on wednesday the shasta one you had on thursday then it quietened down the temperatures dont suffer a tall really know what do they really for most of europe is fairly mild the air thats coming in and being blown in some thoughts thats the remains of epsilon hurrican thats on the way still quite warm air so weve got teens despite the fact its overcast and raining in london and in paris but the real strength there will be felt in the low countries i think heading sas much quite the pictures for most of the north africa has been particularly warm recently in senegal because the wind is coming off the land its still going to be fairly warm. Wet weather thats really going south as you might get a share or 2 in the south of nigeria probably nothing else in west africa is now hitting the rift valley and get on. In nigeria life you see beats on 46 an effort boy is one of whom is a guy who writes i do not to know all they need to be junk that is followed. By nigeria that is suck up by nigeria is your Development Manager is their cities this is my nigeria. My nigeria on aljazeera. Temperatures are on the rise Global Warming is taking effect. As one of the worlds biggest emitters of Greenhouse Gases the us is set to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord the day after the president ial election we can and we will deal with Climate Change for the new president reverse the decision in time and face up to the Climate Crisis for all of the key issues of the us elections on aljazeera. To move. Her to. Walk back a look at the main stories now donald trump and joe biden a crisscrossing the United States campaigning in battleground areas that could swing the election latest polling shows biden leading in michigan up to the jew in my neck and neck in North Carolina. The death rate from cover at 19 in france is more than doubled in the past 24 hours theyre reporting 523. 00 deaths up from 257. 00 on monday. Doctors are warning that many hospitals are just days away from being over run. And police in zanzibar reportedly killed by people who took part in protests alleging ballot fraud had a tanzanias election on the wednesday the main opposition to that was arrested choose day but has since been released. U. S. G. D. P. Figures that youd be released on just 5 days before the election americas economy has started to recover from state lock downs imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus and figures will show likely to show how big the bounce back is ill how much of a bounce back has been for a closer look at how this could impact the election im joined by Laurence Kotlikoff a professor of economics at Boston University so this when we look at the state of the economy its influenced by so many Different Things whats happening in the rest of the world the Central Banks as well as government policy of course the big factor this time around is kovan 1000 isnt it and i suppose much will depend on what voters think about whether President Trumps policies have helped or handed. Yes and i think it definitely hindered we had the ability to solve the virus back in. Starting in it in april april 1st because there is a method methodology called Group Testing which we can take people in boats in a household and swap everybody put all their swabs together and one in one vial test the entire batch and if that houses theres no if everybody comes out if the whole batch comes back negative you can tell those people ok you can go to work and go to school and get a reservation restaurant you know with a picture of the result. You know verifying your status as it is clean and then people that came back read it could have been quarantined as a household so we had the ability back. By the to buy the i would say if we had stepped on the gas starting april 1st one when i and others were informing the white house about how we could do Group Testing to stop this virus we could have ended the virus. Be a play in a month or so in april. By may per store certainly by june 1st be can we be sure of that do you think because one thing we have seen is that even a countries in asia that were successful in bringing the virus under some control knew just speaking about whats happening in europe right now and that can be even if the situation is better in the spring it could have been a 2nd or 3rd wave of the pandemic just before the election. Well if youre testing every household once a week and you keep the people and the people that are identified to be positive are kept in quarantine with the help of the National Guard and delivering food in the unified dont want to participate. You dont need for compliance by all households to get the or are not the reproduction rate down below one so there is a very cordial careful protocol worked out by a top. Operations Research Professor at cornell my brother is the progress of cornell we worked on this together with the with Peter Frazier the professor kotlikoff do you when you do i mean i suppose you look to when you look at polling data and the opinion of many votes says on the economy to people feel as though that better off financially now compared to 4 years when president from took office. I think with 10000000 people unemployed its hard to say that anybody feels better that you know its either youre here or sell for a lot of work or you know somebody roger friend so and we have so many businesses of close we have one 3rd more bankruptcies really than we had a year ago so the kind of the out the output is down 4 percent from where it was a year ago which is you know a Great Recession levels i mean actually the peak of the Great Recession so what im trying to say is that things are very bad right now this is not good news for the president but im also trying to get across the point that we had Testing Technology then and we have a today that can stop this virus dead in its tracks overnight using existing p. C. R. Testing methodology just a more clever way you just mentioned france with 500 deaths today the french such scientists wrote about this and that protesting in Washington Post on march 31st i wrote about this with my brother in the hill dot com on march 31st now that theres a disturbance or verbal you know a clear perma call for how to stop this virus it could be adopted by a country right out certainly could have been adopted by us we would have had probably a 100000 pure deaths by now had the white house stepped on the gas at that point and it wasnt that the white house didnt know about this because i was in direct contact with people from the White House Task force talking about retesting back in march back at the end of march and so this has been a failure of colossal proportions by our country but i also think by leaders in other countries because theyre all you know tech Group Testing goes back to the fortys and its use for the blood supply to test it so we do have the the possibility of drug getting the whole as a virus in the next month or 2 using rapid home tests as another way of basically testing everybody all the time and getting the people there were voluntarily do this and we hope that will be close everybody well to comply thank you thank you thank you very much chef and making the point appreciate it tresor of economics that Laurence Kotlikoff thank you for your time. My pleasure thank you now a United Nations delegation has made its 1st visit to several camps in syrias edler province for years it comes a day after a russian air strike killed at least 78 turkish back rebels in Northern Syria on monday syrian observatory for human rights has more than 90 others were wounded in the attack on a Training Camp in ed led a Syrian Special envoy to the u. N. Is urging cooperation now between russian taki and back opposing sides in the conflict and diplomatic editor james bass has more from the u. N. The u. N. Special envoy Garr Pedersen has told the u. N. Security council hes worried about the situation in northwest syria where theres been a deterioration in the security situation with an airstrike its believed it was carried out by russia all opposition fighters about 50 of them were killed and then retaliation from opposition groups whove been shelling Syrian Government positions he believes it could destabilize the situation where there has been for some time a shaky truce these dynamics come in rubble the previous calm achieved through possibly russian turkish go parisian corp which already faces junctions even joint patrols have remained stalled for all mom i appeal both the russia and turkey who are to contain the situation. There is one bit of good news coming out of it live and thats reports from the local media saying that theres been a visit by a un humanitarian delegation to the province the 1st of its type in 1000000 years however the humanitarian picture in the province and across syria is not good at all cope with 19 cases going up winter is coming theres the fear of further shortage of food in the area and the u. N. Says theres a problem of bring in food a and medical supplies because there is now only one authorized Border Crossing from turkey into syria or bangladesh is now the latest muslim nation calling for a boycott of french products there a growing protest against french president emanuel lachlans recent controversial remarks about islam it follows the beheading of a french teacher who showed cartoons of the prophet mohammed in class and that quote has defended the caricature as and says he will tackle what he calls radical islam can be a chadri has more from the capital dhaka where crowds gathered and try to march to the French Embassy. It started off with social media several days people to go in the street and protests. People to boycott french products so today there was a large gathering in the largest mosque in the capital city but the crowd around with tens of 1000 mostly on the Islamic Party banner unity of islam these people gathered here to protest and they wanted to go in front of the French Embassy but in the city intersection they were blocked by the police so they couldnt go since then it was dispersed theres been protests in the Dhaka University campus yesterday and the social media has been very active just to give you an context i mean these are not just islamic parties already people who are protesting the Common People there saying. French as a double standard put people in social media in a stance saying that france and other countries put freedom of expression as a defense but when it comes to groups like jewish groups or the holocaust and things like that are not you are not able to criticize it should be the same for islam because he is the most revered person for one over 1000000000 people and it is a blast maybe to carry. Depict him in any form now this movement probably will continue because there is a lot of chatter in the social media arguing for more protest in the streets the biggest u. S. Military base in the gulf is getting a multibillion dollar upgrade on the construction work so well on the way. A date at banks plays a central role in u. S. And Coalition Operations that are carried out every day across the region aljazeera is Stephanie Deca visited the facilities i was granted exclusive access to join a flight we fueling f. 16 fighter jets. Need to behind and head out across the gulf. Weve been given exclusive access to join this refueling flight on a validated air base near doha it will be topping up the tanks of american f. 16 fighter jets already out on missions my job is pretty much to refuel other aircraft in the air so they can stay airborne longer and so were going to take place here at the back of the plane and you have to get down low so this is where the refuting happens its called the view college and its in the belly of the plane easy to lie on your stomach to be able to fit know what were going to witness is the boob operator is going to connect with a fighter jets that are going to approach the aircraft from here. The 1st f. 16 approaches. These are multimillion dollar fighter jets. Out on active mission and were not told what or where that is. They get so close you can clearly see the pilots. The entire process only takes a couple of minutes we spend around 4 hours in the air while the crew fumed 5 and sixteens with the fighters we do a lot of cargo aircraft we can pretty much refuel anything as long as scout of them are sceptical they also refuse allied aircraft not just american on the day the air base hosts a variety of nationalities back on the ground we speak to Brigadier General daniel tani who is the commander of the 379th air Expeditionary Wing aljunied is here in a Central Location in the Central Command a. O. R. Very strategic location so were engaged up in afghanistan still with our forces on the ground up there up in syria and iraq and then out in the gulf forward to touring iran and were partnering with other nations to ensure the free flow of commerce the government of qatar is in the process of upgrading the air base so the base is being expanded so fav to say youre here to stay i would say we are here to stay i would stay away from the word expansion were actually up. Grating modernising what we have is already a huge facility its one of the largest power projection platforms in the world i think but here to stay is probably a Fair Assessment americans are about to vote for their next president to be their commander in chief back in the sky finally have you voted i have your say of will you be watching if im not flying despite the unpredictability of this president ial campaign for these men and women at least appear it seems and for now its business as usual Stephanie Decker 0 in the skies above the gulf. Whatever you news of a new study by research is here in the u. K. Potentially dashing hopes that socalled herd immunity to covert 19 can be achieved because natural antibodies appear to be wearing off of a time now researchers from the Imperial CollegeLondon University found that the number of people testing positive bodies as fallen by 26 percent since the lockdown was eased over the summer the study hints that immunity appears to be fading and that there is a risk of catching the virus multiple times Scientists Say herd immunity can only work if around 50 to 60 percent of the population have protection against the virus so it can no longer transmit efficiently dr christina actress and is one of the authors of the react to study report says its too early to say if a vaccination will provide people with that long term immunity. These results do not necessarily mean immunity arising from wrecks a nation would be short lived or we would see immunity from vaccination and behaving in the same way as it does from natural infection a good vaccine may well be effective the Natural Immunity we just current we dont know and were waiting for the results of some of the some of the trials going on that does need further research in terms of whether vaccination will provide longer immunity it is possible that people might need to boost the vaccine like we do for other Infectious Diseases and if if the vaccination does appear to be short lived so you know i appreciate that this stuff this isnt good news but equally it doesnt mean bad news in terms of vaccination and immunity from vaccination going forward. Now to poland protests is a continuing to demonstrate after last weeks near total ban on abortions a ruling by the countrys Constitutional Court means of only be legal in extreme cases like rape or incest aka reports. Defending what demonstrators say are reproductive rights opposition m. P. s brought protests to the floor of polands parliament on choose day chanting this is war in thousands of joint daily marches across the country in defiance of coded 19 restrictions in the capital warsaw streets were blocked bringing traffic to a standstill. I am so sorry i need to fight for my daughters future i cannot imagine not being. Like it follows last weeks ruling by polands Constitutional Court that abortions in all but a few cases are legal the move paves the way for the governing right wing law and Justice Party to approve a viable terminations even in cases of fetal defects and when there is no chance of survival outside the womb abortion will only be allowed in cases of rape incest or where theres a threat to the mothers life. Polands Prime Minister promised to defend what conservatives see as an arm born childs right to life son of the prince for those of us is there a good pollicie dippold the freedom of choice truly is a fundamental thing that we should all agree that in order to have this freedom of choice one needs to be a life the one who is dead cannot implement ones right to freedom of choice. But the moves led to fears about a possible rise of illegal procedures how sad when you see just how about this law will not to crease the number of aborted foetuses what it will do is put womens lives in danger because theyll be less prenatal screening it will put childrens lives in danger too because they will not be tested 3 prenatal screening. On sunday activists disrupted Church Services across the country polands predominately Roman Catholic church strongly opposed to abortion wields enormous influence the musette the country even further apart from the european mainstream e. U. Leaders have accused the polish government of violating shed standards for years and of rolling back on democratic reforms demonstrators have promised many more days of action. So i had for you on the news hour talks resume between 3 african nations of the worlds most controversial dam project. And the Cannes Film Festival not as we know it an empty red carpet that they see as small events. Welcome back now sudan ethiopia and egypt have resume negotiations over a controversial dam project on the river nile after a 3 month suspension the African Union mediated talks follow a warning from the us president that the project could spark military action from egypt if you know pierre is accused donald trump of inciting war after he said egypt might blow up the dam. The video new rule interrogation by the u. S. President sexually calling on egypt to blow up a very Important National project in. A Country House to go to the commotion and saw the president or so i would love to who is also the chairperson of the African Union announced that there is option or talks today the parties are talking about there really the question of whether or not the sea country is in particular if you have been egypt would agree the kind of call outstanding issues depends again in way that this this 2 parties negotiate in good faith and a spate of corporation and the brotherhood issues that are in dispute between the 2 countries that issue that of significant importance to blows both countries fields according to a discount of schedule the initial stage of the really been done without any reduction to the floor whatever but there are also other issues such as for example the nature of the agreement between countries ethiopia is hesitant to enter into a binding agreement that is had since for example to have a dispute resolution mechanisms that is international so it once for example an off week in the disputed region mechanism it gives once the Permanent Court of arbitration to sort of. A set of forum in that in the event of a dispute between the 2 countries. Now the chinese in payments china and korea is to fly on the stock market next week in whats planned to be the biggest challenge in history they aim to raise that a 4000000000. 00 basing the 29000000000 raised by Saudi Oil Company around car last december and it still will be shared between hong kong and shanghai but significantly not in new york the u. S. Government has been closely scrutinizing Chinese Tech Companies because of security concerns and and an. Trade war between the u. S. And china and great dominates the chinese payments industry with annual transactions exceeding 17 trillion dollars duncan clock is it is the chairman of b. D. A. China an Advisory Firm serving investors in Chinese Technology and consume a sect as he says the and group and its online Payment System have transformed personal finance its very much focused on not only young users but young users love it because its a game of hide theres lots of games you can play madden your bank i mean a gaming application but also its accessible to all and deeply for investment you know helping chinese consumers diversify away from the traditional that money in the you know the boring bank and by proxy this is introducing them to a whole new range of Financial Products but try to actually use more innovative than you would think that the government is taking more risks than we see in the west partly because they know they have to make changes theyve been trying to deregulate and get things going to allow people to save last and spend more and buy into products and you know they they have state owned banks that really control the Financial Sector and theyre allowing technology to kind of push reform where policy and so they are more negative than we give given credit you know that this balancing act between the private sector and the Public Sector is very interesting in the fall and its not what weve come to expect but the red carpet has been rolled out for a scaled back version of the Cannes Film Festival just 4 films will be screened over 3 days they are the 1st screening since the main event was postponed in may because of the corona virus pandemic while open to the public seats on limited and of course socially distance and mosques are compulsory. That wraps up the news hour but ill see in a couple of minutes with another full button. Since 2013 wish the World Innovation summit to health has gathered Health Care Leaders practitioners and researches together to larry interact and engage with innovative organizations. This year wish will take place virtually under the banner of one world our health. Register now wish dot org dot q. A. One of americas worst coronavirus outbreaks in the prison happened in california after infected inmates were transferred from one facility to another no ventilation when those are welded shut to everyone is breathing the same air all of the time every day for a week straight then these alarms its called man down man down man down man down all day all my fault lines asks who is responsible. To make in prison some quentin outbreak on the jersey you know. Do you feel validated in south way as a type of performative activism. Lets go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist the lights are on that theres nowhere to hide then so my special guest and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. Front row times on aljazeera. Understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the lines on how you take it well bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. Its dr oblique the number one reason im standing here because of trade and have we turned that around. President trump focuses on the economy with a week to go in the u. S. President ial contest as biden criticizes trumps record on a car and a virus. Hello im Maryanne Demasi in london youre watching aljazeera also coming out. Resistance in some parts of europe over the governments handling of the covert 19 pandemic is the number of