Magazine charlie. And a tense wait for results in tanzania after an election mobbed by violence and accusations of fall. Thank you for joining us we begin with the coronavirus pandemic and germany is imposing a partial lockdown from next monday to try and stop the record rise in cold in 1000 infections chancellor Angela Merkel says its needed to avoid a National Health emergency germany recorded nearly 15000 new cases on wednesday evacuees following developments from london and has more on germanys. In the local service she was responding to a very serious situation indeed she said that the doubling time for the virus house got shorter and the numbers in intensive care were doubling every 10 days she said shes been Holding Meetings with the leaders of germany 16 different federal governments have largely been able to set their own coronavirus rules but what shes looking for is a nationwide concerted effort to bring these spiraling figures under control so for november the 2nd all bars and restaurants the asus cinemas will be forced to close all nonessential travel will be stalled hotels will only be allowed to remain open for essential travelers so no tourist shops will remain open but fewer than one person in an area of 10 meters squared will be allowed inside those shops or expect long queues of people in possibly a rush to stock up on goods before the new measures come into force or also schools will be allowed to remain open but we have heard that some schools are already shifted some of their lessons online in anticipation of a tightening of restrictions to come because the german chancellor said that these measures would be under review and could be adjusted within 2 weeks time so stringent measures across the board will likely to seriously affect how people live their lives in germany. Now with cases soaring in france president Emmanuel Mccoy is expected to shortly announce new restrictions there speaking after meeting with the estonian Prime Minister in paris earlier he said european leaders would discuss a Pandemic Response at the summit on thursday level. Of course we talked about the killed situation in europe the seriousness of which requires the greatest good in the nation on the european level to avoid a repeat of the border closures and above all to coordinate our National Strategies against the virus but if you kill italy our testing policies our fears of a rapid rise in corona virus infections across the u. S. And europe have driven down stock markets in europe and on wall street lets check in with Christian Salome whos in new york for his christian everyone very very nervous about in europe and the u. S. And how will affect economies sell us about how the markets are reacting. Yes as weve been getting the news about rising cases here in the United States and across europe and new lockdown measures in europe the markets have been falling in response here in the United States its been a bad week all told with the trend continuing today the dow and the s. And p. Were down more than 3 percent at session lows for the dow thats more than 800. 00 points and looks like it could close today at the lowest level its been out since august this following on news as well of germany imposing new lockdown measures as we just heard thats also speaking investors we know the dax germans market close down as well more than 4 percent and the declines that were seeing are stocks across all sectors both travel and leisure which youd expect to be impacted by more restrictions more sickness stocks like boeing Delta Airlines and so on but even stocks that had been more immune more pandemic friendly if you will like amazon and netflix are also down in this suggests that investors are reducing their exposure reducing their wrist amid so much Uncertainty Oil prices also down more than 4 percent on news that stockpiles are rising and demand could also continue to fall given these latest numbers and figures what are we seeing here in the United States almost a half 1000000 new infections in the last week 2 days of record high factions and no relief bill in sight in washington d. C. Either it looks unlikely that there will be any attempt for congress to address these economic concerns before the election and oh yeah the election as well lots of uncertainty there too less than a week away here in the United States and theres possibilities that people are talking about we wont have the results on election day because of write in ballots and contested races and close races and so on all of this creating this very uncertain atmosphere and a lot of concern for investors. Thank you for that christensen and we in new york and as we mentioned france is expected to announce a nationwide lockdown in jest under an hour were expecting at present a man in my car to speak. In paris so or what are we expecting the president to announce. While we do know there is the french president a man or mark raul will certainly be announcing tighter restrictions exactly what those restrictions are yet are yet to be confirmed we have to wait to hear what he says but there is no doubt that there are a few options on the table that have been widely reported in french media one is the possibility of another National Knock down a lock to knock down that could be perhaps a little bit more flexible than the very Strict Lockdown we saw in france in march april and may another possibility would be to continue the curfew that was put in place now and less than 2 weeks ago nighttime curfew and also add to that a weekend curfew so effectively people be locked out of the weekend and in the evenings but daytime during the week would still be ok people still be allowed to go out and do their business now well hear from the french president it is clear though that this response is to the deteriorating Health Situation here in france we have seen new cases of corona virus infections saw over the past 2 weeks weve had a couple of days where theyve been more than 50000 new cases a day ahead of frances Scientific Council saying it could be as many as 100000 people actually infected because there are so many people who of course are asymptomatic are not getting tested is an urgent situation and the french government is looking to respond no tasha the there was already fatigue from you know this and the restrictions in france whats going to be the publics reaction to any more new restrictions. Well i think over the past couple of days talk of the possibility of another lockdown means that a lot of people of course prepared for that as an eventuality it doesnt mean though that it will be easy by any means because it was very difficult the 1st time for many people psychologically and certainly in terms of the economy there was absolutely people be very worried indeed about their Financial Futures about perhaps losing their jobs certainly not a pile of anyone wants to go down yet at the same time people that there is a Health Crisis many support the fact that the medical workers in the country under a lot of pressure hospitals the hospitals are under pressure half of the countrys i. C. U. Beds are already full and the government says in the next few weeks if nothing is done then we could see the hospitals even under even more precious saturated the point that they could no longer cope so i think people understand that nevertheless there are questions increasingly being asked as to why were actually in this situation in the 1st place because we had a lock down at the beginning of the year everybody knew that covert havent disappeared so why did the government not anticipate perhaps better the possibility of this 2nd wave and prepare the country better so that it would have to have such tight restrictions thank you for that matter there in paris. In other world news the latest cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia is crumbling after just 2 days by john is accusing armenia of killing at least 21 civilians and wounding dozens more in strikes close to the disputed region of. The attack in the city of baidoa is the deadliest on civilians since fighting started a month ago between the 2 nations armenia denies the attacks which comes days after the u. S. Brokered humanitarian truce residents of have told andras year they suffered hours of intense shelling Hoda Abdelhamid has more from azerbaijans capital buckle. It was the worst attack on civilians since this round of hostilities began now the latest number is still stands at 21 dead but more than 70 injured and as we understand it some are in very Critical Condition this comes on the back of 4 other people who died on tuesday evening including an infant not very far from barda city in a village nearby the authorities here were quick to condemn that attack president ilham aliyev himself said that the response will come back will be on the battlefield and aides to the president said that the armenians had used cluster smersh long range missiles to hit the city of bard today and the army is saying that this still trying to figure out the extent of the damage that has been done but we as we understand it there has been several civilian infrastructures that were hit too and here is really challenge now with a view from armenias capital yerevan. Today has been a grim day the worst for civilians it seems in this conflict so far the armenians have deny that they attacked shelled but the pictures obviously tell a different story they are medians are saying that it is they who have been the victim of shelling today in my car a back that the capital the main city in going to catechize to kind of being attacked and that the main hospital there has been badly hit particularly the maternity wing of it no casualties as far as we are aware in that incident but they have also said the armenians that. The city of shushi has been attacked as well and that one civilian died in that rocket attack i think theyre calling it and who were injured now. Saying that this is a continuation of what hes calling a genocidal policy against the civilians of going to care about the armenians of nagornokarabakh perhaps this is the kind of thing that we might see more of as as both sides gets increasingly invested increasingly desperate perhaps that attacks on civilian centers are going to increase as well. Anger is growing in muslim nations against french president emanuel call with new protests in bangladesh and pakistan this after he vowed to crack down on what he calls radical islam and defended the right to mock religion lexy obrien reports. In various cities from mumbai was to mogadishu they came to stand up for their religion and the man they believe in brought them the word of god. Which we are protesting against the french president who insulted our Prophet Muhammad we are marching we are burning the french play we are full of emotion was in the bangladeshi capital dhaka they burned in effigy of emanuel mccrone the ngo was sparked by the french president s recent comments claiming islam is a religion and crisis valent to crack down on what he called separatism and defending the publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. And now france has become a hated nation in the islamic world d we want to say if micron does not stop the cartoon the world will boycott them but france is doubling down saying it wont give in to intimidation. As a process that france will never renounce its principles and values a no to believe the freedom of expression and freedom of publication the 2nd thing i want to clearly remind is that it was hateful comments towards journalists towards a news room that led to the bloodshed we have seen in recent years in our country. Teaches some wildcats he was beheaded in france italy of this month for showing images of the prophet to students and the lesson on freedom of speach. Following the murder and a Memorial Service hailing the teacher as a hero mccrone said france would not give up its cartoons hes up for reelection in 2 years many say the rhetoric is slanted towards a domestic audience vying for vital win votes but Muslim Leaders say its hate speech. Chatter that. Disrespecting the prophet incites violence and its immoral westerners must understand that all muslims love the prophet and soaked in the prophet means insulting muslims and all prophets also feeling insulted as turkeys president richard tie a bedouin hes the latest target a french magazine. Which has a cartoon mocking him on its front page the magazine originally published cartoons of the prophet 2015 prompting an attack on its office in which 12 people were killed everyone says the magazine is trying to spread racism and hatred and its threatening legal action for our server general of france and europe in general do not deserve the vicious provocative ugly hateful policies of mccrum and those who share the same mentality we ask those who use anti muslim and turkish hostility to cover up their failures in their domestic politics to lie their dirty hands off our sacred values. But they dont want to is playing to his base turkey and france have had a fractious relationship in recent years on opposite sides over the conflict in libya and Gas Exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean muslims of france say they feel stuck in the middle elixir brian al jazeera. The sprint team on this news hour including back in the hot seat heads of Facebook Google and twitter are facing some tough questions from senators over how they monitor content on their platforms plus. Im john hendren in ohio a state known for picking u. S. President s it might just do it one more time and in sports details of a parting shot from boss a bonus football clubs outgoing rising. Price just under a week to go now until the u. S. Elections democratic president ial nominee joe biden has cast his ballot in his home state of delaware he met with Health Experts and delivered his brand on how he would tackle the cold in 1000 pandemic in the coming hours present donald trump and democratic Vice President ial nominee come a high School Address supporters in our zona thats bringing our White House CorrespondentKimberly Hahn cant be so 6 days to go the final stretch where and what the campaigns focusing on well as you mentioned is joe biden is home state of delaware where hes voting holding a Health Care Speech as well as a Virtual Event the focus of this is really his Closing Argument how he believes he could heal a divided nation kamel harris in arizona and 2 rallies for donald trump in arizona as well or he is going to make the case in those make America Great again rallies to ignore the polls that he says they were wrong in 2016 and even though there is a double digit lead nationally for joe biden he says theyll be wrong in 2020 once again 17000000 votes have already been cast kimberly thats more than half of the overall turnout in 2016 what does that mean for turnout on election day. Well it means that in many cases a lot of those who are doing in person voting tend to lean republican the early mail in voting has tended to favor joe biden thus far one thing thats not encouraging for donald trump is the fact that there is a surge in young voters thats in the demographic of 20 to 29 year olds who overwhelmingly are liberal in their persuasion and so this is also not good news for donald trump in fact in 2 battleground States Joe Biden leading in both wisconsin and michigan and the other discouraging thing even if donald trump says that the polls were wrong in 2016 and be wrong again is that joe bidens lead is far greater this time around than 2016 as well there are fewer undecided voters and of course the coronavirus pandemic is overshadowing all of this weve got record numbers of cases in the u. S. Is this election can be ultimately going to be a referendum on handling of the pandemic you know theres no question that that is motivating many people to get in their ballot the you have to remember that donald trump presided over historically low unemployment but all of that was wiped out with the introduction of covert 19 to the United States now we have high unemployment rates particularly for women of color and that is a target demographic that has been trying to reach out to but has been experiencing a lot of blowback as a result of the economic woes being faced by so many in the United States kimberly thank you very much for that company how cant live at the white house. Now when it comes to us elections im going to say its ohio that predicts the winning candidates than that in 30 of the past 32 president ial elections john hendren has a report. Clevelands industrial skyline rises from the ohio coast on lake erie and its ohios mix of industry agriculture and service jobs that make it a microcosm of the u. S. And thats what makes ohio the bellwether state. For decades all routes to the white house have gone through here ohio has voted for the winner in every president ial election since 1964 and they take voting seriously here i think its most important especially if you want to see change no republican has ever won the presidency without 1st winning in ohio. At may holes Bowling Alley winning is the name of the game. Here in suburban cleveland the diversity within International Border the crowd leans toward democrats and away from President Trump hes mentally imbalanced and he is a threat to the health and well being of everyone on the planet im looking for a change this upcoming election season just that we can kind of get back on track as a as a country. On the states vast farmlands and in the factory town of canton where Apache Industrial Services recently expanded into coronavirus cleaning solutions penetrates the d. N. A. Of the cell the workers lean toward republicans and the blunt spoken president hes straight to the point he doesnt really take too much from people kind of says well its only wanted to time his character not so much. But what hes done politically what hes done for policies and stuff i stand again polls show joe biden in trump in a dead heat here where trump won handily in 2016 but that was before the quran. Virus and a wave of economic shutdown thats why we understand the importance of Economic Issues also understands the moment the country is living the democrats have very wisely then shifted the politics to being the campaign to being the referendum on president with just days to go both candidates have made a priority of navigating ohios shifting political waters if history is any guide whichever candidate wins this great lake state will likely win the presidency john hendren Al Jazeera Cleveland ohio. The chief executives a face full google and twitter are being questioned by u. S. Senators about how they moderate content the Senate Committee is looking at whether to reform laws that protect Tech Companies from being held liable for the uses pulse democrats say there needs to be stronger action over misinformation republicans accuse some platforms of censoring conservative voices that speak to hide the casseroles on capitol hill for us so heidi 1st of all why this hearing now and why when we heard so far. Right the hearing today was supposedly called to discuss whether to reform this law that basically governs whether Companies Like facebook and twitter can be held liable for user created content but the republican controlled Commerce Committee that called this hearing did so 6 days before the election and democrats on the committee are saying that timing is suspect and in fact they accuse the republican colleagues of using this as a platform to deliver a final punch at these big tech heads ahead of the elections who conservatives accuse of being anti conservative an anti President Trump twitter taking the brunt of that criticism at the moment of course it has put kabhie odds of a put warnings on some of President Trumps recent tweets calling them misinformation or inciting violence and most recently blocking users from sharing a New York Post article that has and there are 5 claims against joe biden and joe bidens son hunter now the twitter c. E. O. Jack dorsey took some very heated criticism today exemplified by this exchange from republican senator ted cruz who the hell elected. And put you in charge of what immediately allowed to report and what the American People are allowed to hear and why do you persist in behaving as a democratic should per pack silencing to the contrary your political were not doing that. This year and thats calls for more transparent we realize we need to earn trust more we realize that more common good is needed to show our intentions in the show they consider if youre the concerns and theres knowledge of them. Or that we want to fix the roots in terms of. And ted cruz targeted also the c. E. O. s of facebook and alphabet googles Parent Company calling the 3 men who all testified today he said collectively they pose the greatest threat to free speech in america now it was certainly difficult to be in those hot seats today even though remote leave because democrats certainly were not jumping to the c. E. O. s defense either but democrats saying that facebook you tube and twitter should be doing more to moderate content that is misleading or may have be from foreign sources no matter what happens now as the election carries on and after the election you will certainly see more of these c. E. O. s return to the world even further starting next month heidi thank you for that live for us there on capitol hill lets discuss this further now with fried whos chief Technology Correspondent for x. Us via skype from San Francisco very good to have you with us on aljazeera again what do you make of whats happening on capitol hill today is more political and an opportunity for republicans and democrats to school some points on each other with just a week to go before the election. Yeah i think today was exactly what happens when you schedule a hearing a week or less before the end of an election cycle you get a lot of you know partisan talk now that happens any time that were discussing these issues because it is viewed really differently by democrats and republicans but i think today we got even less into the issues around content moderation and really each side just trying to hammer home what it sees as an attempt to interfere in the election republicans see. Facebook and twitter as trying to throw the election to the democrats and the democrats see the republicans as using these allegations of bias to try and put their hand on the table if you will tilt the scale toward their favor so this was largely a partisan or almost exclusively a partisan exercise and how effective really is legislation on hate speech on line and his regulation the answer i think. Well thats a great question that we really didnt get into at todays hearing but you know i think it is really important when we look at this free speech is really about the government regulating speech private companies have a right to set their own policies in the u. S. And in fact it never comes up but we have a far right sides far left sites and you dont really hear much because they dont have a lot of scale so no one is complaining that they have a bias obviously facebook and twitter have tremendous reach and it is important how they moderate it but its not about free speech so much as it is what are the rules and whats allowed and whats protected section 230. 00 which comes up at all these hearings gives extra protection to publishers and a lot of people feel like those protections should be limited and that criticism comes from both sides of the aisle just for Different Reasons right and the Tech Companies of course their position is that its not a problem is congresss problem but they should have some responsibility to me. Yeah i dont think theyre saying its not our problem i think they are disagreeing with some of the contentions leveled by both sides and i think where this conversation should go is how are they using their powers only what speech are they allowing but what speech are they amplify and weve heard this more twitter has gotten more aggressive on this as opposed to some degree facebook in recognizing the power that they do have in choosing what gets promoted what gets surfaced you tube actually tackled this a lot last year when it was shown that they were leading a lot of people down a rabbit hole around conspiracy theories and that they could do a lot by not recommending them and i think thats the constructive area where you might even find some agreement among all 3 parties which i know in 2020 sounds like a crazy notion thank you so much for talking to us and as always good to have you with us on. Thank you i still ahead on this news hour of the morning from the u. S. 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Youre watching the news hour on aljazeera with me fully back to a reminder of our top stories germany is imposing a partial lockdown from next monday to try and stop the recognize in corona virus infections cafes boss teachers and restaurants will be closed france is expected to make a similar announcement shortly. As right john has accused armenia of killing at least 21. 00 of its civilians and wounding dozens more after a strike close to the disputed region. This is the deadliest attack on civilians since fighting started a month ago between the 2 countries and there is growing anger against french president a man in my call with new protests in bangladesh pakistan any body thats after my call vow to crack down on what he calls radical islam techies president has accused him of having an anti muslim agenda. By more now on our top story the surge in the number of coronavirus cases in europe has many countries reimposing knocked on restrictions closing bars restaurants and theaters lets talk about the Economic Impact of this with adam botha whos the director of the European Policy Information Center at the institute of Economic Affairs hes via skype from london thank you very much adam for being with us so some of these countries have started showing signs of economic revival but now theres a risk of new lock downs i mean one spin announced in germany weve got maybe one coming up in science and space in their economies handle this. To be sure we all expected a very difficult winter in europe and so the key is really whats going to happen next year and keep the last 2021 minutes to be gooing for crews who we need to return to are prepared to make economic output in europe as fast as possible and the best way of achieving that is really through economic liberalization on all fronts cutting back tape simplifying taxation cutting the various to global trade basal need to be done simultaneously once the pandemic is over i do lies were going to be in very deep trouble in the long run yeah youre talking about once a pandemic is over but wait seems that way a long way from that the governments are implementing these new orders to show that theyre taking aggressive steps but what are the economic and social no long term impacts of closing down the economies again. Great trouble. Political decision had the movement to shut down economic output for Public Health reasons so it has long as these restrictions are in place there is better news on science but hopefully this is only a temporary measure we knew that the winter is going to be difficult but the public Health Experts are reasonably cautiously optimistic about the medium term and hopefully we only have a couple of months of the procession ahead of us but the key off it wards is really diving into domestic policy reform and you have mentioned spain and france and the e. U. Lockdowns there but the bad news is that their economy policies even before the pandemic as being pretty bad they have a very complicated tax system they have very strange and labor regulations hiring the people off to depend that make as has is incredibly costly in these countries so the political leaders do need to assess and reform a lot of their domestic policies that were in place before the pandemic as you say some of these economies certainly were ill prepared for the scenes of lockdowns in february because it happened so quickly do you think theyre better prepared now and also can the European Central bank contain the financial risks. There is a lot that you can imagine that has or even 750000000000 recovered sean cole next generation which is partially crams and partial interest. To Member States and spain italy and france are receiving a great amount of money through that mechanism but this will be enough. And just threw money at the problem is not going to be the result of the situation in these countries so they do need to look price they meet us thats a domestic reforms which im afraid is not going in the right direction of the movement does Spanish GovernmentJust Announced craved number of new taxes and its bringing back that well acts its increasing b a t its increasing Corporate Tax rates income tax rates its bringing a new tax on Multinational Companies and the digital sphere so everything that it should not be to adam thank you very much for talking to us about this adam botha directo of the european policy and from ation center at the institute of Economic Affairs thank you for your time. The polls have closed in a general election in tanzania violence and allegations of fall foul play present john before he is seeking a 2nd term the government has been accused of cracking down on dissent on tuesday the opposition in the semiautonomous region of sands of os said that they say people were killed during protests over a ballot sought catherine so is monitoring developments from neighboring kenya. Throughout the day weve seen a lot of conversation online a lot of conversation in tanzania as well especially with opposition supporters claiming widespread. The Opposition Leader to lisa has been tweeting as well saying that he is receiving reports that hes polling agents are being denied access to polling stations in some parts talking of stuffing intimidation some peoples names missing from the Voters Register and so one and in another tweet he is calling for mass action without giving details really of what this. Is we have not been able to identify. To to verify independently this information but then i have to tell you the Electoral Commission president has just had a briefing to talk about what has happened throughout the day and he said that todays process has gone fairly smoothly he did address those concerns and allegations by the opposition and say that it is not sure that those allegations are not based on evidence he has told tanzanians not to listen to what is being said by the opposition saying that this are just ways of the opposition just trying to weave top emotions he also said that they will not he was asked whether theyre going to have perhaps extend. Voting time and he said they will not but people who are already in the voting in polling stations in the queues are going to be allowed to would so basically he say the process has gone fairly well its just a few technical issues and this allegations by the opposition are not. Until recently ivory coast was seen as the best business destination in africa but the upcoming election that political rival could again boil over into violence. On the outskirts of. Workers of this coffee processing factory under pressure to deliver Customer Support is. Established only a few years ago its owner is already dreaming of a number shows expression program. The plant is one of dozens of small and Medium Enterprises fueling Economic Growth in ivory coast thanks to the governments liberalization policies of the past years economy sample mart runs on entrepreneur Skills Program for young people in africa from 20. To 2020. 7 percent in terms of Economic Growth which is tremendous. More. Points. Back. In 2011 as well the country. Was wrong. But right now they are more than 2000. 00 right. Eventually they did. Was one of the greatest. I cross. Country. Despite 1000 consents businesses remain hopeful such a discontinuous president ial election is a big quarry. Violence after the election 10 years ago destroyed not only lives but also businesses many of them fail to reopen. Runs a distribution business he says is shutting down until after the elections. I see how things happen in the world and when there is war how it destroys everything and how brothers kill each other in the end it doesnt lead to anything but. A sentiment shared by docilely mark who runs a half plate insular. Feel is wrong for the people are afraid of spending almost everyone is waiting to see how this election ends these are Uncertain Times we pray that everything works out well otherwise we will be in trouble. President Alassane Ouattara a former Top Executive of the International Monetary fund has presided over a high flying economy his policies including a commitment to Infrastructure Development as one of the comforters of International Donors and investors alike helping ivory coast to largely regain its historic role as a Financial Hub of french speaking west africa. But the president s controversial bid for a 3rd time which the opposition says is unconstitutional on the high levels of Political Violence in recent years could wipe out some of the economic gains the country has made since he was 1st elected. Aljazeera polls have closed in the 1st phase of voting in the indian state of bihar as the countrys 1st election since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and as for some new delhi. A new set of voting protocols people in bihar sanitise they hands and have their temperature taken before casting their ballot in the 1st election in india since the start of the coronavirus pandemic around 20000000 people lined up to vote in a local election seen as an Important National test and whether large events like these can be how safely during the pandemic. Voters wanted to have their say despite safety concerns. Its 100 percent not safe because you may be sanitizing the areas but youve seen the rallies webers holding them there are so crowded we dont think anyone is safe. The government hasnt helped us deal with the coronavirus i would give them a 4 out of 10 people are forced to walk on roads they face many problems. The election is also seen as a test of how Prime Minister and his party have handled the coronaVirus Outbreak when the Indian Government imposed one of the worlds strict as lockdowns and march hundreds of thousands of Migrant Workers were forced to walk on many for hundreds of kilometers. 1500000. 00 workers who lost their jobs elsewhere and india returned to be hard including. The father of 5 says they feel abandoned by the government. The government hasnt helped us at all i lost my Identity Card we havent been given a Food Distribution we have difficulty finding food. Is one of indias most impoverished states with a Public Health care system that is struggling to deal with the Virus Outbreak yet Prime Minister campaigned on what he said was his Coalition Government success in fighting the virus. I want to congratulate the people of be hard for fighting the battle against with courage the decisions have been taken quickly to tackle the pandemic. The b j p promised a free card vaccine for the people of the heart if the party is reelected but for the millions of biharis who are unemployed in a struggling to feed their families a yet to be developed vaccine is not what theyre asking for elizabeth proud of aljazeera new delhi and. U. S. Secretary of state mike bump alias pressing sure longer to be on guard for what a false predatory lending and investment by china is message comes a day after signing a defense pact with india now fernandes reports from. The president s office in colombo and a meeting with go to of the rajapaksa was the 1st stop for the u. S. Secretary of state on wednesday mike pompeo was in the island for 19 hours as part of the south asian tour and he again condemned chinas growing dominance in the region. Indeed a strong sovereign sure walker is a powerful and Strategic Partner for the United States on the world stage they can be a beacon for a free and open in the pacific but thats quite a contrast to what china 6 we see from bad deals violations of sovereignty and lawlessness on land and sea that the Chinese Communist party is a predator in the United States comes the different way we come as a friend and as a partner Chinas Embassy in colombo dismissed from his allegations by tweeting sorry mr secretary we are busy promoting china should lanka friendship and cooperation not interested in your alien versus predator invitation the u. S. Can play 2 roles at the same time as always she lankas foreign minister of the nation going to more than a said hes leaving with complete was an opportunity for both sides to understand each others priorities as a sovereign Free Independent nation 3 languages Foreign Policy will remain neutral. Nonalignment friendly despite the stated policy actions especially of the rajapaksa brothers have tended to favor the chinese in recent years china has cultivated a close rapport with such as during the closing stages of the 26 year war with the tamil tigers and helping repair the damage since then that worked in chinas favor leading some to question its priorities as well as those of the United States if she lankas true interests are at heart for any of the International Players around they would be pressurizing to conform and to respect the rights of its citizens and sustainable democracy but clearly thats not could happen what is going to happen i think the very scenario that work here i think there is a level of what could be considered bullying there could be a defense deals at stake here they could be pressure applied through India Sri Lanka strategic location has shifted the 2 global superpower against each other in a race for dominance in this part of the word with projects like the 4th city which you can see behind me and the leasing of the wife of shipping lane china seems ahead of fact fail is here to count. And then theres aljazeera colombo. In vietnam the most powerful typhoon in 20 years has killed at least one person 12 fishermen are missing in half a 1000000 people are being moved away from cultural areas the government has ordered the shutdown of schools and offices in several provinces. And theres International Outcry over a plan by japan to release radioactive water into the ocean as from the Fukushima Nuclear plant which was damaged in 2011 journey earthquake and tsunami rob mcbride spoke to communities in south korea worried about the potential fallout. For lead joho and his son. Be more yall this is a Family Business thats been built up over 30 years a fish farm j i learned a community that is heavily dependent on these waters. In these season the fishing industry is important both fishing and fish farming we have both here demand for their fish was already suffering because of the pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has meant japanese fish farms have been dumping unwanted stock onto the open market further driving down prices but its what might be coming next from japan that has everybody worried at the Fukushima Nuclear plant steadily increasing rows of tanks now hold more than a 1000000 tonnes of mostly groundwater that has flowed into the site becoming radioactive with Storage Space due to run out in 2022 theres growing speculation it might be released into the ocean. Then i think we cant hold off making a decision on the policy forever we will take us apart ability as a government to make a decision on how to dispose of the contaminated water possibly japan insists the water is treated to remove the most harmful radiation and that it is safe enough to release a claim disputed by environmentalists and it sparked strong opposition in northeast asia especially been known for we hope that the japanese government will act with a high since of responsibility towards its own people neighboring countries and the international community. Most people in fukushima are opposed to the plan including local fisherman who fear their livelihoods could be devastated and people here believe its only a matter of time before the radioactive water finds its way to the shores of the leaf family says even if discovered in the tiniest amounts any radiation in fish stocks would ruin its business. You know if there is even a slight problem it would harm not only trust in japan but also confidence in elfish so i think its not just south korea but all countries that should be concerned nearly 10 years on from the devastating tsunami the legacy although it might be about to deliver another unwelcome shock rob Mcbride Al Jazeera j island south korea. Sports. Over june bracing for these baseball fans as the wall series reaches its conclusion. Face. To face time for sources andy. Thank you very much well the Los Angeles Dodgers have won baseballs world series for the 1st time in walls and 3 decades they beat the Tampa Bay Rays in 6 games to conclude a season heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic helmet reports be this site seemed unimaginable a few months ago but off the delayed start to the season because of the coronavirus and with numerous positive cases within teams constantly threatening the Campaign MajorLeague Baseball has finally crowned its champions the Los Angeles Dodgers the we were both one doctor who was actually won over the world where god people who never wavered this is our year heres a curious. Feeling the time he was by no means easy though that 6 months the doctors having to come from behind victory in game 6 was a came alive in the 6th innings to the delight of the fans a limited number of spectators being allowed into the neutral venue in texas for the series b. Was they witnessed mickey but play starring role again and to cap off whats been a memorable series was fittingly his home which was the right to the 15th round of the postseason round of the scoring was the dodgers winning it 31 finally ending that 32 year wait for the championship thanks i was yeah you know its absolute phenomenal this team was incredible off throughout the year all throughout the postseason all throughout corn to you know we never stopped when we were ready to go serviceable was called and once it did we kept rolling. And overdue night of celebration for dogs. And i thought i really for League Organizers who ensured this season did finish with the world the reason winner. Helmet 0. Well earlier on we spoke to American Sports broadcaster michael calls and he said finishing the season was an achievement in itself i think its Pretty Amazing given you know we were talking about this son al jazeera back in march and april when they were trying to come up with a plan that would please everybody and keep the players safe and there were a number of times when it looked like that might not even go into effect then when it did go into effect you had a player won so testing positive an hour before the season was about to start and in the world series you had Justin Turner of the dodgers literally testing positive they got the results of the test back an hour before the finish of the last game so he played in the last game after 3 at bats he was taken out of the game because he had tested positive so well have to wait now you know a week or so to see what the effect of that is on both teams now out going barcelona president. Claims he accepted proposals for the club to join a European Super League discussions about the league remain at an early stage boss and i was facing a vote of no confidence after more than 20000. 00 club members signed a motion to get rid of him also face events in the European Champions League later on this wednesday now chris general allen has been left out of the u. V. Squad for that game the 35 year old has been self isolating since testing positive for corona virus earlier this month rinaldo how to another test ahead of this match but you they havent said if he was still positive on social media rinaldo insisting he is feeling healthy. Money id sit at home cert German League leaders abi leipsic united beat price argument see one in their last Champions League game leipsic they reached the 70s in this tournament last season before losing outs p. S. G. Now assholes former manager Arsene Wenger insists the club are missing out on an exceptional player by excluding message as all from their league and european squads the world cup when i mean 2013 was signed by vang a friend then a Club Record Fee of 55000000. 00 hasnt played a game since march i just think that the release of a player. To accept 1st of all the decision of his manager at the moment is not selected you when you play you can only do one thing is work out and the put the pressure on the manager to put you to put you in the team. Secondly. I personally think he is an exception football player. In the new do not have as well to how can you fit in the player i got in the team and here is World Champion newsbin World Champion has been a top assists player in league in the premier league so much is exceptional quality and yes you have to find a way to get him back into the team and the best way for him is to put the pressure on the manager by being an example in training and the lawyer of World Champion sprinter Christian Coleman says the run out will be appealing against that sygate doping ban coleman one of the one of her mates a title in doha last year has been banned that series after missing 3 out of competition drugs tests if the ban is upheld the american wont be answered run next year carol lin picks. Ok that is i suppose looking for not more lights on and a thank you very much thats it for this news hour on aljazeera from the foley back to the now team thank you very much for watching live next to my london news center with bob pressac to stay with us d. 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