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Kind of a cause shaken as both sides continue shelling. We begin though with breaking news 2 people have been killed in a knife attack near a church in the southern french city of nice there are reports that several other people have been injured zeroes but its with us on the line now from paris but at what more do we know. Adrian the french authorities just updated the information on this it now seems 2 people were killed in this attack amman and a woman by killed by a man who attacked them inside the mall today which is right in the sense a nice several of the people injured we are told this all happened about an hour ago and according to local television reports the attack was arrested very quickly. The scene or near the scene at the church hed been he was in the church 2 People Killed him on the woman several others injured on the attack a rested about an hour ago now it happened just about 9 oclock local time. Not about local time in france. And so this story still developing at the moment what are Officials Saying about about this incident. Were just having a has only happened in the last hour or so but at the moment the matter of me. Hes describing it as a a terrorist attack he says he seems like a terrorist attack the local and p. For the region news in the news in paris at the moment he at the National Assembly he also says it seems like this is a terrorist attack he was speaking to the press just outside the assembly which is gathering today to talk about covert restrictions. But it yes it comes just a not long ago the murder of a teacher. In paris who was beheaded by chechen attack and this was following the teachers decision to show come to terms of the Prophet Muhammad to a class of students this appended to lots of parents and the attack as a using this as an excuse. To attack a mother this teacher son lopez too since then hows it been cracked down in some went to the french president has described his extremist elements of the community the crackdown reliably has been widely and also lots of areas where. Movings has been a d crackdown zoellner particular mosque from a sort of things are quite a bit of tension and runs over the last couple of weeks since that move the are now 2 more murders in nice and what about the situation you talk about tension across the country what what what is the situation in east of the moment. The situation well much of the countrys about to go down anyway but all the countries about to go into it into a type of lock down people are. Much quieter on the street anyway that lockdown officially starts overnight tonight and into friday so its much quieter. Anyway but there were people in church this morning. Of course. We got into the church and of the church. 2 people stabbed. Many thanks to downstairs Bernard Smith reporting there from paris on that attack in nice. But it was saying. The instant happened within the last hour details so emerging well bring you more on this developing story when more details but as you heard france is going into its 2nd nationwide lockdown on friday president Emanuel Mccraw warned of the rise in cases could be more deadly than the 1st. Reports from paris. In a sort of a t. V. Address french president emanuel micro said a new lockdown was necessary because frances Health Situation had deteriorated rapidly. Even monopod because of what we learned its bring down will be adapted schools will stay open you can continue with it will be permitted to Retirement Homes as in the spring you can only leave home to work for a medical visit to help someone for essential shopping or exercise in a home of. The number of new cases is rising fast in france with more than 50000 on some days more than half of the countrys intensive care unit beds are occupied by kovi patients this doctor says that Health Workers would want for months at a 2nd wave has come. And would be worse than the 1st november is going to be very very hard and we have so we have you know to break that wave that is coming because if we keep accumulating really the cases in the case and cases then very soon we wont have any beds anymore. Really not any for months the government and president of earths people and to live as normally as possible with the virus but these new restrictions reveal just how subtle and think that really is. A government a strike to navigate a delicate process try to find if i could go in terms of focusing more on. Economy the situation we are in now is a result of this precarious balance. The func that the new restrictions come less than 2 weeks after a night time curfew was imposed on most of the country could indicate that the government failed to anticipate the scale of the emergency for some a new look down could have been avoided others it was inevitable either way few would have imagined that they would be forced to stay at home again so soon its aljazeera paris lets go live to our european Broadcast Center in london i. Mean youve got france going into lockdown again germanys chancellor has been speaking of the last number of people in intensive care has doubled over the last 10 days what else did she say. Well i repeated at the end of stock want she had mentioned to on wednesday saying that that was because of the increasingly worsening picture in germany and need to tighten restrictions she had met on wednesday with the leaders of the 16 federal states of the country to come up with a joined up approach to dealing with the country and to dealing with the with the crisis previously each of these individual federal states could essentially set the rules but given the worsening picture it was important now to draw out all the dots up so all nonessential travel is to be restricted bars restaurants theaters cinemas up to close all of this from november the 2nd of relief to parents perhaps those schools and nurseries will be allowed to remain open and they will review these restrictions within 2 weeks time to see whether they need tweaking or adapting now to put it all into perspective germany as a portion of the population has a relatively low death toll of around 10000 and had been ahead of other countries when it came to dealing with the virus because they already had a Contact Tracing system of sorts in place but Health Officials are worried about how fast the virus is spreading while on the burberry and Health Official on wednesday said it was like trying to stop avalon show with his bare hands and merkel has conceded that they could only trace amount 25 percent of all cases back to their original source and whats the situation elsewhere places like spain its in the eastern europe. One by one Different Countries are introducing a variety of different measures weve seen curfews be reasonably effective but perhaps not effective enough in from sun and also in belgium where the picture is darkening concerns coming from hospitals in brussels about their intensive care units being overwhelmed of course france and spain the 2 countries in europe that have reported over a 1000000 cases of coronavirus but in spain it resistance at the moment to introduce a more nationwide law they are basically seeing how the curfew that came in place over the weekend is doing a worsening picture too in the Czech Republic they imposed a curfew last night a new. Makeshift hospital has been hastily constructed to deal with an influx of patients that some new information by researches in the u. K. Gives us an idea of how fast things are spreading here is called the react study and according to researches they could be as many as 100000. 00 new infections daily here and according to this situation here in the capital london the all important are rate the rate in which the infection reproduces in a population is now at around 2. 00 so for every one person whos infected they have the potential to infect up to 3 of the people that is a dire situation here for the capital and the the hint from these researches is that perhaps there needs to be more of a blanket clearcuts possible knock down short term lockdown in place rather than the more localized approach that the British Government is taking the tiered approach to avoid the economic woes that come with us over the full a lot. Under serious need baka reporting live from london need many thanks indeed more details emerging about that knife attack in the city of nice early on thursday morning merged that a woman was decapitated. In this knife attack according to Police Sources 2 people are confirmed of been killed several of the people injured in this knife attack youll remember that. A short while ago a teacher samuel party was decapitated off to showing. His students pictures cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson about free speech in france that set off a controversy in the country other been many many protests and now this knife attack in nice this morning latest reports say that a woman was dick capitated in that attack details still emerging well bring you more news on that as and when we get more information in the meantime lets move on the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o describe the Chinese Communist party as the biggest threat to religious freedom he was speaking during a visit to indonesia he said the policy of tried to justify its brutalize ation of week of muslims as necessary for Counter Terrorism and pay was visiting the worlds biggest muslim majority nation as part of a regional trip to boast a trade and security ties we know that there is no damage tears and justification for it for forcing we were muslims to eat pork during ramadan or destroy the most cemetery theres no Poverty Alleviation justification for poor sterilization or taking children away from their parents to be reeducation reeducated in state run boarding schools. I know i know that the Chinese Government authorities tried to convince the leaders to look away when you hear these arguments i just ask you to do this search your hearts. Look at the facts listen to the tales of the survivors and of their families i was there as jessica washington reports from jakarta. Well the secretary of state just wrapped up a meeting with into the asias largest Islamic Organization the youth wing of that organization and there he spoke to them and told them that he believes in tunisia is a model for the world of religious pluralism and shows how different religions can live in harmony and he used the example of what is happening in chinas northwest as the greatest threat to religious freedom and he urged this group of moderate muslims to consider what is happening to the weak minority in chinas northwest and he did say that he acknowledges that beijing has made efforts to attempt to describe what is happening in engine as counterterrorism efforts over the education efforts but he also to seriously consider whether this is in fact true now for the most part although into the Worlds Largest muslim majority country human rights abuses against the weak ethnic minority dont really get that much attention and thats clearly something that secretary of state. Is trying to change the this is part of the secretary of state mike compares very brief trip through asia. And now he did meet with president and the foreign minister here in indonesia and this is part of the u. S. Efforts to try to contain the chinese influence here in this region but indonesia has a long history of having a nonaligned Foreign Policy what that means is that indonesia tries to have positive relations with both china and the u. S. More details coming in on that by. Being so French Police now confirming that 3 people have died in that knife attack a woman has been capitated in that attack other people have been injured. That attack. Thursday morning it occurring just 9 am local time. Aid workers in vietnam say that at least 50 people have been killed dozens are missing after a powerful typhoon triggered landslides in remote areas at least 12 fishermen have also been killed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery of been deployed to help search for survivors Florence Louis reports. This is to one of the strongest typhoon to hit the country in 20 years and before the typhoon hit the government had moved more about 40000 people to emergency shelters it also or told the factories offices and schools to shut to prevent casualties and even though the typhoon had weakened to a tropical depression after it made landfall on wednesday it still brought lots of heavy rain and that rain set of landslides in Central Vietnam that is buried dozens of people its also many others are still missing now hundreds of soldiers have been deployed for Search Rescue and recovery work theyre using bulldozers excavators to open up blocked roads theyre trying to bring in more rescuers more heavy equipment to help in the search and rescue work but heavy rain is making their work more difficult now the 2 villages where the worst of the landslides took place is in a coastal province in Central Vietnam and this is a region that still recovering from floods earlier this month that killed 130. 00 people and destroyed hundreds of homes the government says this typhoon that hit has damaged 50000. 00 homes and left millions of people without electricity and heavy rain is forecast to continue until at least saturday now this typhoon had earlier in the week passed through the philippines where it also caused landslides and flooding and disaster officials there say at least 16 people have been killed there this is. The main news this hour police say that 3 people have been killed among my foot truck at a church in the southern french city of nice they say that a woman has been the capitated several other people are reported to have been injured local Officials Say the suspect was quickly arrested following the attack. The International Red cross is condemning growing violence in the nagornokarabakh conflict the latest cease fire between us about appears of failed. Doctors have tried to move patients since the city of panic and came under heavy shelling from the saudi forces as a bias shot accuses armenia of killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens in a missile strike on the city of bada under serious war a challenge reports from all medias capital. Well theyre going to care about. The Defense Ministry there is updated its military death toll. By another 51. 00 casualties on the battlefields now they seem to be losing roughly that amount of people every day at the moment so the current total stands at 1119. 00 since fighting erupted on september 27th the authorities there say that stepanek at the main city and shushi 2nd city also came under attack from Azerbaijani Forces using. Multi launch rocket systems and there have been a couple of injuries in attacks on the cities there the Defense Ministry has also said that it shot down one of these turkish made by reactor drones these are the the this is a piece of technology that have been taking huge and devastating toll on the nagornokarabakh an armenian fight is now the diplomatic movement of the day is the Foreign Ministry Foreign Ministers of both as a by john and armenia are meeting in geneva with the cochairs of the o. S. C. Group now that is the platform by which negotiations over not going to go karabakh have been undertaken for many years now but clearly the president s of as a by john has no faith left in that platform he said as much in recent days and this fighting is evidence that he has run out of patience with the o. S. C. The minsk group. An artillery attack by Regime Forces in syria has killed at least 5 people in southern england the artillery shells struck a residential area on monday a russian air strike targeting a military camp in the province killed at least 70 eights turkey backed rebels force with a deescalation zone force them to a cease fire agreement in march between ankara a moscow. Coronavirus cases continues to climb across the us with the president ial election just days away how 4000000 cases have been reported in the past week with 26 states reporting near record numbers it continues to dominate campaigning mike hanna reports from Washington Joe Biden the merges from the voting station having cast an early ballot joining his opponent donald trump who voted in florida last week theyre not the only ones 6 days out from election day a record 70000000 americans have cast their votes early amounting to half the total number of ballots recorded in 2016 biden chose to stay in his home town holding a meeting with Health Professionals to discuss the ongoing pandemic. Shaking his head at what he heard and afterwards lashing out at the president he contends has given up trying to contain the pandemic seems like you just dont care much about it and the longer hes in charge the more reckless he gets its enough hes trying to change. Reports emerging during the day indicate that President Trump and his advisers were seeking Political Capital out of the pandemic as far back as april in a recorded interview with Journalist Bob Woodward jarrett cushiony reveals that his father in law in his words was getting the country back from the doctors question was referring to Donald Trumps insistence on ending the lockdown as soon as possible he was tweeting support for anti lock down protests at a time that americans were dying at the rate of some 2000 a day cushion a says he and trump focused on what would help the president on election day by their calculations he contended trump would be seen as the open up president which would give him a boost in the polls and on the campaign trail President Trump continues to insist this too much focus on the coronavirus and rails against the mitigating measures Health Experts insist on under bidens cruel and centers lockdowns countless americans will died from suze drug overdose. Deferred medical care alcoholism were going to open up pennsylvania were going to open up North Carolina and open up california and open up. The pandemic has dominated the Selection Process like no other subject and ultimately this vote may well turn into a referendum on how well or help badly the sitting president has responded mike hanna to sarah washington. The u. S. Supreme court has rejected the republican bid to limit when mail in ballots can be received in 2 key swing states pennsylvania and North Carolina it means the votes posted on november 3rd can be counted for several days afterwards President Trump is regularly attacked mail in voting making claims of fraud without any evidence philadelphia has imposed an overnight curfew to prevent a 3rd night of violent protests over the Police Killing of a black man a previously planned rally was called off a few people detained for violating the curfew hundreds marched on tuesday night demanding the names of officers who shot and killed 27 year old water wallace be made public officers say he refused to drop a knife his family said that he was having a breakdown the heads of tech giants of the u. S. Open questions about how they moderate content c. E. O. s of Facebook Google and twitter appeared before a Senate Committee which is discussing whether to reform laws that protect the companies from being held liable for users posts democrats say the needs to be a stronger action over misinformation republicans accuse some platforms of censoring conservative voices in a fried is the chief Technology Correspondent of access and says senators got caught up in partisan fighting and failed to discuss the real issues. 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 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 sites 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 to spring you speed with the breaking news this hour the knife attack in the french city of nice local police there comes from that 3 people have been killed in that attack several planes several of the people were injured it happened shortly after 9 am on thursday morning reports speak to of one of the victims a woman being beheaded in that attack. The french antiterrorism Prosecutor Says that his department has been asked to investigate the knife attack in the mass of nice confirms that 3 of the victims 3 victims of died following a knife attack and that the perpetrator. Has been arrested details so for the sketchy in the coming in well keep you up to speed with whats been happening in nice and when we get more information in the meantime well move on in india theres concern that covert 19 will continue to spread because large religious festivals used to be held there in the coming weeks india is the worlds 2nd worst hit country and has just passed 8000000 covert 19 infections but its reported one of the lowest death rates in politicians say the rise in new cases is slowing peru meanwhile is reporting its 1st case of diptheria in 20 years as routine vaccinations are being made more difficult by the pandemic the government is looking for other infected people after a 5 Year Old Girl was diagnosed in lima. Diptheria affects the throws of beads to breathing problems peru has the worlds 11th highest number of covert 19 infections. Government workers in mexico of on earth 59 bodies from unmarked graves on the looking for others the discovery was made in states where cocaine and other illegal drug gangs can battle for control the commission which searches for missing mexicans says a tip off was received about the graves 2 weeks ago 15 of the victims are women all of them appear to be young. Police in colombia have clashed with indigenous families who refused to follow with fictional orders riot Police Reportedly used tear gas as they tried to clear around 600 families from shanty homes in the amazonas region is one of the poorest areas of the country long queues of foregone side Western Union branches across cuba after the government said that its local operations will be forced to close to see u. S. Sanctions the new rules dont come into force until late november that means there is still time for the Money Transfer companies or find a way around them every soon reports. These cubans are waiting to pick up money sent from their relatives abroad millions here rely on remittances from the u. S. To make ends meet but the Money Transfer company that allows them to get those payments its under threat. The government in havana says its being forced to shut down the local operation of Western Union due to new u. S. Sanctions. Washington is banning anyone on u. S. Soil from sending money to cuba via the company because its local partner is a military controlled firm the u. S. Accuses cuba of profiting from the transfer business to oppress its people and fund interference in venezuela so more people the current the well look were the ones who are harmed the people there are people who cant work here for one reason or another and live off their children their mother their brother and now this whos being harmed the ones at the bottom not those top of our president or their own hey im fly President Donald Trump to live here in cuba for one day without family remittances received from Western Union just one day living in them and independently of all the politics i asked the u. S. To think about the people and we need the situations resolved no matter which party wins the election. Analysts say donald trump is ratcheting up sanctions on cuba in a bid to secure votes from cuban americans who fled from Fidel Castros communist rule about 1000000 are registered voters in the key swing state of florida in a tweet cubas Foreign Ministers that the sanctions would hurt cuban families the new rules wont come into force until the end of november meaning theres still time for Western Union and the government to come up with a new business arrangement with nonmilitary companies. As of now Western Union employees have not had any news that theyre going to close or anything no information has arrived yet we only received news that everything was very normal until further notice its not yet clear where