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A moment of silence in honor of the victims. Also ahead strict restrictions are imposed across europe as a surge in the coronavirus impacts life on the council. We begin then with continuing coverage of the knife attack in france 3 people have been killed at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured or was wounded by police that is in custody in hospital. Frances antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of nice says that it was a terror attack and is called for a crackdown on what he describes as islamofascism. Looking for the use we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side i want to say that with exonerating the laws of peace in our country we will wipe out islamofascism just as david chase has on the line now from nice stated describe the scene there right now. Adrian yes im a few 100 yards away from the the civic of not saddam where the attack took place this is the biggest Catholic Church in nice unmistakeable a few 100 yards away from the sea front now all the areas around this. Pacifica have been taped off by the police c. R. S. Police cross Municipal Police who c. R. S. Got assault rifles still on full alert and the meanwhile of course trying to reach the shops which an old enclosed all trying to reach the top and so many people are Walking Around still looking dazed about what has happened here. And shocked that it could happen another terrorist attack in their city of course 4 years ago there was a much more Major Incident what many people died in the truck instance which drove into the crowds who were watching the bastille day fireworks on the seafront so its a city not unused to these sort of attacks but here that particular shop because just on the evolve the lockdown which starts tonight with the 9 pm curfew they were out and about with their children with their families doing shopping trying to get a last minute conditions before the lockdown started and thats when they heard about the attack and saw the effects with hundreds of Police Sirens converging on this facility david are we any clearer as to what actually happened that same morning. Clearly not yet i think the details are still being worked on by the police it appears he was alone attacker we dont know where from how he got there. Its well known place of course and on the eve of all saints day and halloween this weekend there were some worshipers inside the basilica. It wasnt a large congregation or a large gathering so i suspect that they were hoping that there would be more people in the pacifica but that wasnt the case and it was tracked down only 12 minutes after the attack was launched in a cafe and has been injured by the police during the arrest and what are we to make of the of nieces comments describing the attack as islamofascism. Well its one of the more extreme comments of course from politicians they usually try and keep calm with their descriptions of these attacks we dont know the exact motives behind the man who lost is not attacked we dont know where he came from why he decided to attack that particular target well have to wait and see before the police check his backgrounds and do his interrogation by the moment hes still in a hospital bed probably giving no information to the police but yes strong reaction from the a nice and i suspect it will be one of many in the course of the next few days as you say. People in the scene in a state of shock that the lockdown comes into effect across the country on friday evening and people were out as you say grabbing last minute supplies if this attack made them more nervous about about being outside. Yes it did you know that they were already worried about facing another month of lockdown here in nice the city was already on red alert for the number of covered 19 chases that being here rapid increase in number of cases and so they had to take it seriously they had to use what time they had left to go and get provisions for the family to take their children thats one more little walk against the mediterranean on the same side and this is only a few 100 yards away from that and so it was particularly shocking to them to have to hurry out hurry away. And get their children back into safety because nobody knew whether this was a single operative or there were more attacks planned and you can imagine how terrifying that was for families and for the parents who had their children here algiers David Chaytor reporting live there from nice david many thanks indeed francis Prime Minister addressed the National Assembly in paris where he said the attack alert level in the country has been raised urgent lucky pause the response of the government will be firm and immediate i have already decided to raise the attack level 2 agent in the entire National Territory and america paris has responded to the attack in a tweet and had algor said that her 1st thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones and she tells the people of nice that they can count on the support of the city of paris lets go live now to paris not a serious Bernard Smith is there for us but of the Prime Minister then raising the alert level urgent what does that mean. Its the highs its a nationwide alert level it says the threat of an attack is imminent now john kass sticks french Prime Minister says there will be a meeting of Frances National Security Council tomorrow morning to discuss this it has to be said that there is going to be a lockdown anyway that begins overnight tonight in front starts and during the day friday and so most all of france in fact is now under this lockdown youre only allowed out of home to exercise do your shopping or if he sensual to go to work if you cant work from home silvia lot less people out on the streets in france tomorrow anyway to make it easier for the for the or for a tease to police this new high level of alert but an indication of. The i think the seriousness of the french authorities further attacks we know also that not long ago this morning after those attacks a nice man was shot dead by police in avignon in the in province in the southwest of france. He was shot dead after threatening people were told with a knife and then threatening the police with a knife so as a consequence of that on the attacks in nice this is why john kass texas written increased frances alert level to the highest the threat of imminent attack the vatican has condemned the attack in saying that terrorism is Never Acceptable the pope is praying for victims churches across france will be showing solidarity with the people of the slaves. Yes the church bells according to the council of french bishops theyve asked all churches to ring the bells 3 pm this afternoon french time that they say a symbolic time 3 oclock because it is the time of the death of christ and they want to show their solidarity to the people who were killed in that church as you mentioned yes. Suppose messages of support and condemnation coming in from across europe and the from across the world and including from turkey which has condemned the attack and says it stuns the turkish people stand in solidarity with the french there is a lot of tension between turkey and france at the moment because of what the turkish government perceives as a french crackdown on muslims liberty to freedom to practice their religion and frances position the relationship between president manual macron and the french and the turkish president read it type one has been particularly strained but the Turkish Foreign ministry very quick to join with others in condemning this attack and and how would you describe the mood in the country all of this of course coming just 24 hours before the country enters a new month down month long lockdown due to the support of the coronavirus. Yes already there was a lot the the had been tension in france because of the murder of this history and geography teacher samuel patsy he was murdered by an 18 year old hes been he was also decapitated on his way home from school because it seems hed given a class in a class to sit in a class to students all about secularism and lay city in france and the values of the republic hed shown children caricature was of the Prophet Muhammad and this offended some and particularly their parents and through social media anger was whipped up and its believed that it is this that led to this young man to travel 50 kilometers from his own home to the paris suburbs and murder the teacher and in the wake of that there was a widespread crackdown in france arrests on some people on a french water watch list one mosque was closed because of the mosque had put out on facebook video of a parent complaining about the teacher and so the problem this is created is that its left the vast majority of french muslims again feeling on the back foot being forced to defend themselves because of the actions of really the tiniest of tiny minority less than a handful of people perpetrating these horrific and violent and brutal attacks where the problem is that the way the french state responds to that leaves many people muslims weve spoken to in the wake of the attack on the murder of thomas petty certainly feeling forced to defend themselves just because of they happen to be muslim i was there as Bernard Smith reporting live from paris many thanks indeed Bernard Mario is the president of the institute of european perspective and security he says that authorities must have been expecting more attacks. To dreadful situation but i have to say as someone expecting unfortunately and you attack after the attack which targeted a french professor a few days ago the minister of interior shot them in a few days ago said the perspective and the correct was very high and calling for more protection of schools more protection of churches multiplication of Cultural Centers unfortunately this attack happened in the worst period possible offenses in does it take it to leak and trying to reel up the country putting more pressure on results in the future putting more pressure on the police and the Security Forces i have to say of course that the symbol of the city which has been targeted needs after. 4 years ago attack the fortune to fly is very balika well its a city in which the mayor. Puts a lot of to protect the citizens arming the local police and by the way these were the forces who intervened in the 1st very rapidly so again its a situation which is a sort of. As symbolically striking as the beheading of the french professor a few days ago in a context in which france is under pressure france in a way putting a lot of command under attack after the call for boycotts of its products around the world and of course the ongoing and very d tension between france and turkey or fueled by the opposition between president again and president in many im a clue. This is no stranger to attacks with a series of them over the years 4 years ago a truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating the steel day 86 people were killed hundreds of others were injured and 20153 soldiers guarding a Jewish Community center was stabbed by a knife wielding attacker he was sentenced to 30 years in prison but in 2316 people were injured in a bomb blast at a local Government Office weve been getting ongoing reaction in the hours since the attack peter allen is a journalist in paris he explains how these attacks are being perceived. I have. Covered a lot of these terrorist attacks in paris and indeed in need some in power the moment of the todays terrorist atrocity is in need they are absolutely barbarous everybody condemns them but you have got to be able to discuss those terrorist attacks in one context and the nature of the way 5 to 6000000 or 20 muslims are treated as well and at the moment as an appalling conflation of the to decide dear if you speak out against attacks on is lamb and the many muslims who live in atlanta youre somehow supporting people that madmen who go and beheading people and this is the huge problem with it all so yes there is shock and outrage we all condemn this vile terrorism but on the other i dont think theres a nice appreciation of how muslims feel and plans about these constant attacks on their religion and this pop trail of muslims through the charging up head the cartoons i keep coming back to these cartoons because theyre very high profile at the moment a summit somehow being cratylus in outside a society just figures there to be mocked and laughed at if you put any other social group in that position and said the government is going to support these attacks on you know be an upcoming. As you were hearing earlier theres also been an incident in the french city of every police say theyve shot dead a man after he threatened members of the public with a weapon and were also hearing that a man has been arrested in jeddah in saudi arabia after stabbing a guard at the french consulate thats according to state television yes a lot he is the head of the justice and liberties for all committee at a Civil Liberties activist he says the french governments counterterrorism strategy has proven time and again to be a failure. We are in a country that has implemented must surveillance the government said we need to monitor all conversations on the internet we need to be able to predict the terrorist attacks we need extra means for the state to to prosecute any person preventive justice to put people under house arrest in a ahead of time the need to act and yet this is happening again just one week after the the beheading of summit but whats going on with this countrys counterterrorism just listen and this country is counterterrorism strategy so to quote again the Domestic Intelligence themselves of the repression based mugger is a complete failure i can bring you here this book from. 40 years of failed concerts there isnt and yet were not asking ourselves why is this happening to us and what this keeps happening again and again and again and what are we going to do now to stay at home and dont go out and just do nothing about it this is these are really serious questions and the government yet again would fail to address this question by saying what is not working within the counterterrorism framework and that makes these attacks happening again and again when the why so far nobody is answering to because they keep getting these people or what are we going to are these people in there well get them on their motivations when are we going to able to act ahead of time and we put these things from happening i mean i woman was beheaded inside that church that mean these people have nothing sacred there is nothing there are no more you know budrus for them and this is happened again one week after a teacher was beheaded so not the 1st nice will really address these questions and say what or how we fade and why are these people a people are talking to us now a church of you know saw this beheading today 750 people got killed in mosques or across the muslim world like you can at the dots and see that this ideology has been spread and that we lost so far the budget idea because again these keep happening again and again and we keep dealing with these at all these attacks are separate from one another they are not apparently and as you just mentioned that 3 attacks happen today. So how many how many more at times before we start wishing i was right that you approved its not working were going to do a no bring with them so i got them you are responsible because the men did that like it happened in nice and after some good but you for example honestly this is really a disaster for france really a disaster and for us asking the government when are you going to start asking serious questions it and stop beating around the bush when it comes to a fed counterterrorism strategy lets bring in Matthew Mcconaughey of the world terror watch director at the european strategic intelligence and Security Center good to have you with us what are your thoughts on this attack in nice today. Good afternoon. I think. What we know for now is that a man introducing his health into a church early in the morning at 9 am. And attacked. People who wear listening to the mass people are being killed 2 of them beheaded and there are several injured. And its interesting to see these attacks in context of the previous attacks that we had in front in our relatively short period of time. Its a particular model duranty and were dealing what we can define as a low cost easy jihad and these are type of jihad a type of model that and the dead bodies lie makes they do not have in fact often focused on. In their official communication and programmed. Confirming these is the last of the oriel that he gave it to the attack in france against that what the. Latest issue of you feel the Islamic State weekly magazine. In debt issue based my mixtape or not was not taking credit for that but pretty great for inspiring sajan dynamics so for what we know about what happened in nice this morning we can say that there are similarities in the models look at mt it feel im naive. Its the ill probably we will not be able to find links between the attacker and they wrecked their own networks ok. Indeed we can say that this is linked to darcy to ation in in france and there were tensions. Today rock around so it was once again a lone attacker is this a failure on the part of the Intelligence Services in france to prevent this sort of attack or is it just impossible for them to do so given that the tension is currently so high in france. So i would say i did it next week we should not talk about a lone wolf like some lone wolf or bags i dont think this is the case but we are dealing with the failings and this is true for knees but it is also true for the previous the truth knocks the one against the work that he and the one against the whole not. The former head or does or shut the door were dealing with a sane and that or do do not appear to have a record to link with Jihadist Networks but at the same time they are not isolated in the applied methods that are indeed somehow linked to propagandize all they spy me state and of course that hes a copycat element here but that they the attacker all. Of a summit but he was talking about the chechen president in finance we refugees that you use or like the pakistani a statement who committed the doc in the form of shadow premises in september both feed the profile of psychological before dying in the middle allianz to the French Police id and the driver it and the fine we had. There and by the allies communities they frequent on the so these people are not alone in the sense that they do preplanned internet communities that help a radical life in the sense that create a just deviation for their action but so are we still dont know what it. Was why all the while they have hunted since they have had a sense agencies in france able to find these people and prevent this sort of thing happening. More because the are they are below the rather they are but all the other day or not people wore. Through the path of running at his age and we have seen so far and some have all these attacks that were seeing today or in the result of the increase its called troll and religious then sions that we are seeing in. Danger and there are of course increases by reaction to the reaction of the International Actors across the across the word especially the reactions all. Priest and so muslim countries. Around the word should go what has been for a long time i mean kernel of politically in kernel political struggle in france is now becoming an international issue. But if thanks to material critically i thank you a spring or some other news now and corona virus cases are climbing across the u. S. For the president ial election just days away half a 1000000 cases have been recorded in the past week with 26 states reporting near record numbers it continues to dominate campaigning as mike how reports from Washington Joe Biden emerges 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 trying to change reports emerging tearing 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 cushion a 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 are 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 susa 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 how badly the sitting president has responded mike hanna to syria washington. Government workers in mexico of on earth 59 bodies from unmarked graves are looking for others the discovery was made in the heart of a state where drugs gangs battle for control the commission which searches for missing mexicans says that a tip off was received about the graves 2 weeks ago 15 of the victims are women or appear to be young aide workers in vietnam said at least 50 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a powerful typhoon caused landslides in remote areas local Authorities Say that at least 12 been killed to hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery have been deployed to affected areas to help search for survivors Florence Louis reports. Typhoon is one of the worst typhoons to hit vietnam in 20 years it lashed the Central Region with heavy rain causing floods and setting off landslides hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to the worst hit areas to help and search for missing people in the media we must reach the landslide the fastest why 1st sending more soldiers before we can get the big machinery that we have to reach there by all means including using helicopters this village is blocked off and bulldozers and excavators are being used to open a road to fishing boats also sank off the coast of vietnam as the typhoon approached this region is still recovering from floods that killed more than 130. 00 people and destroyed hundreds of houses earlier this month in a series of storms aid agencies say relieve resources will be pushed to the limit the government says more than 50000. 00 homes have been damaged and millions of people left without electricity and more heavy rain is forecast to fall in Central Vietnam in the coming days florence aljazeera. Counterterrorism police in india have carried out nationwide raids in connection with the separatist fights in india administered kashmir the National Investigation Agency Task Force searched the offices of charities newspapers and prominent human rights activists elizabeth broader reports from new delhi. Were outside the office. 20. The past 2 days now residents of this neighborhood have told us that the street was filled with. A little bit in the day the National Investigation agency says the. Trusts raising money in india and charitable activities and then using that money for. A separatist activities administered the raids began wednesday. And. They have continued today. And. Offices. Of prominent human rights activists have been raided they include the. Commission now prominent politician has the raids he says the. Crackdown on dissent and Peoples Democratic party have been detained. For protesting against the raids. The headlines from aljazeera 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the Southern City of nice several others were injured or was wounded by police but is in custody and hospital frances antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation there of me says that it was a terror attack at a school for what he describes as islamofascism. But we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side. I want to say that with exonerating the laws of peace in our country we will wipe out islamofascism frances Prime Minister trust the National Assembly in paris where he said the attack alert level had been raised a lot of course the response of the government will be firm and immediate i have already decided to raise the attack level to agent entire National Territory. In other years alarming surge in coronavirus cases across europe is forcing governments to take drastic action france and germany are about to introduce nationwide lockdowns people will only be able to leave their homes for essential reasons aide workers in vietnam said that at least 50 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a powerful typhoon triggered landslides in remote areas local Authorities Say that at least 12 fisherman have also died 3rd so being counted in tanzania following an election marred by allegations of fraud president john mica foully is looking to secure a 2nd term his government is accused of cracking down on dissent ahead of the vote independent observers say the election wasnt credible u. S. Secretary of state mike compare has described the Chinese Communist party as the biggest threat to religious freedom it was speaking during a visit to indonesia he says the policy of trying to justify its brutalization of weaker muslims as necessary for Counter Terrorism those are the headlines well have more news here on aljazeera off the full clients next. We understand the differences. The cultures across the world so much. We. Kind of for that matter. Here again. In august we received phone calls from inside californias oldest prison in san quentin doing. A number of inmates at san quentin who are now positive for coven 1000 x. Bloated over the weekend more than 2000 men are over half of the incarcerated population tested positive for corona virus despite being on lockdown since march of fish called with the biggest Prison Health catastrophe in the states history. Those we tracked down described their fear and anger whats your experience been like these last 2 months were. Very eerie. They were trapped in tiny cells or shared dorms going days without showers and fresh air illness and deaths around them. How concerned are you about your own health. And. Their families wanted them out of. This group of activists and relatives of incarcerated people are marching band clinton right now where theyre calling for more humane conditions that i was in and i want to also faultlines investigates how san quentin prison became the site of one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States was. One of. The virus likely came to san quentin from this prison 7 hours south of the California Institution for that or cia its located in chino not far from los angeles when the pandemic hit the prison was at nearly 120 percent capacity more than 3000. 00 men many of them were housed in tight dormitories toilets showers and sinks. A perfect breeding ground for covert 1000. Belindas fiance Marcos Trevino was serving a life sentence as. We would crack you gave me joy. Belinda was worried when she heard about the 1st covert 19 cases at the prison marcos was a diabetic and had other medical conditions that put him at high risk i think the majority of good time he was trying to keep me from worrying because he would tell me its not in my yard i would tell him are the guards wearing gloves or anything like that and he said thats not going to happen here he said they dont care about it i used to tell him make a mascot of your socks because its killing people marcus got sick in may by that time the prison had reported more than 500 cases he called me he said dont worry. There are. 14 days ill call you when i get out he says i have a little fever. You know you recall. One week later belinda got word that marcos was dead. She was 57 and one of at least 23 people who lost their lives to the virus at the prison. He is. Going to be accountable for your. Pressure to ease the overcrowding at sea i am was mounting in late may state prison officials decided to transfer 121 medically vulnerable men to stand clinton. Up to that point there had been no reported cases among the prison population there it was later revealed that some of the men from cia were not tested for as long as 4 weeks before the transfer really were very good at keeping. Out of san Quentin Andrew pullman worked at san quentin at the time and spoke exclusively to fault lines the only thing we were doing to make sure that it didnt enter the facility was working just monitoring your. Thing in making sure people were jelling up making sure people ring. Then the all faded bus ride. So we was informed that 6 or 8 buses from c. M. I. Chino are on the way to san quentin right now as we speak what did you think when he told you that i was you know mean shocked i dont know if it was me or one of my coworkers said can resist turn the bus around no there are in row. 2 cries we spoke to a nurse in 5 san quentin who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their job. Or it. Goes on the quote unquote how did you feel when you heard about it. The story. Of the world that was covered. Going to log. On. I was thing i was like they were in a bus for like 7 hours together theyre all affected i was like yeah its over its here it was because. When you do the work to do the course. Work. Prisons are designed to to hold people in close proximity for control purposes they are ill equipped to deal with a pandemic one building designed for 400 people with 800 people in it every part of the building just massively overcrowded. If you can just imagine walk into a. Dungeon door and then the whole thing just open up and youre like well theres us sitting in here. And theres no. Windows are welded shut their doors over the front door so everyone is greeting the same air all of the time every day the cells are about 4 biden. And you live in that cell with another person. Men transferred from cia and were placed in such cells not isolated in a separate house. The 1st reported case confirmed case the mood of the prison really went. Down past dreary you can hear people yelling out the doors. How this is nonsense is why you bring them here why are you making a sick we said oh no here we go its going to be its going to be inevitable that we all get it. Tonight nearly one in 3 prisoners is now infected with that virus the virus spreading rapidly in a population that is already 42 percent medically vulnerable once covert came i knew it was a deaf sense for a lot of people and i was like man if i ever get out im just going to hear names coming out and im going to remember. And it happened. I mean i feel bad for him predicting that when i was there i was like. Hes going to die it could be he could barely breathe now things are reaching a critical point a virus spreading so fast the prison is running out of places to safely hows inmates in to spread like wildfire do you blame for that. I mean administration its c. D. C. Does the thinking does the planning theres a so theyre all to me responsible for all of our well being. C. D. C. Are or the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation is the agency that carried out the transfer on july 1st the state senate held a hearing to address the unfolding crisis. Diaz was the head of steam d. C. Are at the time but the question of who was responsible for the transfer is complicated in 2006 after decades of overcrowding that led to illnesses and deaths a federal Court Appointed overseeing for to oversee health care in californias prisons that office signed off on the prison transfer perspective what responsibility do you do you take with our current level outbreaks with them why i share all of the same accountabilities and i was the secretary of the department on all matters and im accountable and. Responsible both for the successes. And for the failures after the disastrous transfer and me. That was nothing more than the worst prison. In state history we see the same kind of lack of regard in our own c. D. C. Our system when it comes to how we treat these prisoners we have a responsibility to care for them as human beings. And were not doing that theres a thought but the department of corrections or myself. Elation are we we view them subhuman or they dont deserve the same considerations as all of us are all of us receive out here thats a concern that sets us apart from the truth. Meanwhile the outbreak and take us out of. It was the 1st largest outbreak in. People showing sick left and right for a week straight then be these alarms is called man down everybodys been sick starving man down and down man down all day on fire when blam and he will begin taking out on a 9. 0000000000 security Worth Building there was a. Little boy there we believed. To be doing. It. He was. Pretty good. We. Just heard. Were super. Hero. Really it unfolded into chaos there was virtually no way to keep up we would train one group of people in the am really get revised instructions and what we train people that afternoon would be different. And it kept changing like that on a rapid basis what was being required of stuff from the outbreak happened a lot of over time and as a result of that people are just getting burned out i am high risk they would not accommodate my risk factors. Thats why youre retired thats why im retired. How and why do you think the situation got so out of control. I was didnt chills and headaches and temperatures at night and i was scared and i thought im out of luck the infected man were sometimes isolated in cells used for solitary confinement to avoid ending up there some refused to be tested because theres no medical treatment that theyre receiving if they test positive unless they have to go out of the on a ventilator base people see no benefit in taking the test and once a person test positive theyll put that person in the hole in administrative segregation as a way of isolating them from the Larger Population that person is removed from all of their personal items usually the cell in the hold is dirty filthy a lot of people scared commandant to see if they can ride it out because theyre locking you up and when they lock you up they put you in a worse place but there were too many sick men to isolate so some had to remain in their cells confined with their healthy cell mates if you were positive and your selling wasnt there said you know what you guys just Stay Together because youre exposed. But that dont make no sense as the exposes neighbor exposed this guys exposed could you imagine a big warehouse with no air people cough and its just there theres no where to go. To any of your friends. Yes i had 2 friends that died. Eric was myself for about 2 years and he was he was worried about it he always had 2 masses on he was like kept himself away from people but i think he caught in the shower if he has to go shower and thats only time he took off his mask. Eric was one of the 1st person to help me change because when i arrived in san quentin our i didnt understand the nature of san quentin so out of promise like you know what im going to go beat this guy up and then before the door could open eric called me hes like you know what you dont have to live that you can live with me and just avoid all that problem. So he took me into his his cell he took me in his house and we were selling for like 2 years. He said when he got out him and his brother was going to travel the world by train or boat i said wow its. Your compass. You know we just run a nice air to the to the situation that was we was in a tommy inside of. Ours live and under my circumstances and ministering to the above my circumstances my brother really became sort of this role model prisoner he really had a purpose in life and he was really helping others and im proud of my brother. Can you tell me about your last conversation with aaron he was really struggling for every breath of air. I bring ive been with my brother through this journey there was never a moment we cave on his freedom and so i wasnt going to give up on his life i wanted him to fight till the end. For his life and for his freedom. So i never gave him permission to let go. Never encouraged him to give. Snottiness. To you. But he was fighting for those guys too. Eric warner died on july 25th he was 57. Incarcerated men werent the only ones getting sick prison staff were also affected. One of them was a corrections officer named gilbert. Thats my husband. He worked at san quentin for 34 years a great man he is the man. You dream about marrying you know its real because all my friends a lawyer make comments about it too like how are you so close with your dad hes a vest friendly i tell him everything so we start making mass for him i was i was scared you know i didnt want him to get sick he was scared he was scared i know he was because he would tell me and dont know if i can deal with this any any longer you know. But i have to do it because all the officers are falling down there theyre not coming back to work they were getting sick they were getting sick gilbert was around it so much you know that he also drove the end mates to the hospital that had kogut so i mean he was close up front you know he started coughing and he thought it was just exhaustion of him going to work so he working a lot. Because there was no one to fill in those spots. I think it was the 2nd day after he tested positive where he was not doing well he said thats it i cant i cant breathe. Sergeant along go went to the emergency room on july 3rd now that his ill the you know then mates have been telling officers what theyre feeling and saying prayers to him and our family which says a law its its its a lot you know speaks volumes we were on a video of the worsted eating him and getting him prepared to be on the ventilator we were just telling him everything we could possibly in within that minute or 2 couple minutes that we had to. You know we love him dont worry were going to survive this youre going to come come through you will fight to the end you know. 3 days after this interview on august 9th Sergeant Gilbert along go died ringback. We tried to speak with representatives from the c. D. C. Are you know or you know not yet here im going on you would like but they declined multiple interview requests hi my name is dina secretary im actually standing right outside your offices in sacramento right now hoping for an interview in an email statement a c. D. C. Or representative said they implemented unprecedented measures to address the coven 1000 outbreak us one clinton. After transfers from c i am tested positive they set up a 220. 00 bad alternative care site provided all staff and the incarcerated population with it and 95. 00 respirators and sent hundreds of additional stop to san quentin. But for those with loved ones inside it was too little and too late. To look. Well for her it would finally be her. Can you tell us whats going on. With one she told me through human beings they are foreign films he. Was told 33. I know. You learn a thing when you live in london or. The cove in 1000 pandemic has cast a spotlight on overcrowding in u. S. Jails and prisons for 2300000 people are locked up california has struggled with this for decades. In 2011 the u. S. Supreme court ruled that overcrowding in the states prisons violated the constitutions ban on cruel and unusual punishment this extensive and ongoing constitutional violation requires a remedy and a remedy will not be achieved without a reduction of overcrowding loads are in there but theres surely when the pandemic hit lawyers are good for people to be released immediately for cold Good Public Health requires population reduction for the culture it requires staff testing Public Health requires complete control over transfers mean you would have avoided some of these disasters i think the crowding is the biggest thing that lets them mistake and it can still happen today because were so crowded the grades are critical about schools more than 50 percent of people must be reviewed to make social distancing possibly within these facilities because of the way they cant imagine seeing cannot since april the state has released some people early to reduce the population but many california prisons have remained at well over 100 percent capacity. Advocates and public Health Experts say c. D. C. R. And california. Gov must do more. Than welcome home celebrations that we are done most of the people that have been released so far have been accelerated release he was going to get out anyway i just let him out 30 days earlier 6 days or 90 days theyre not based by the way on a covert risk at all theyre not based on their risk of recidivism theyre not based on whether or not these people are the safest to get out. Free my husband my husband has a home to go to he has a community he has a family hes loved i believe that at this point in time hes learned his lesson hes liar how to become that productive citizen in society we need everybody talking and then we need everyone to contact the cases of corona virus have been reported at every california prison without least 15 of them having outbreaks of more than 100 people. Out there out of how many we cant hide from covering 1000 pretend our prisons are not part of our communities these are dangerous sources of outbreaks the largest outbreaks in the United States right now are in prisons and jails. Rather sulkily. Prisoners are always going to Public Health issue for people who are incarcerated its now a Public Health issue for the entire state in the entire country really but beyond that its a human rights travesty that we are. Refusing to release mostly elderly and infirm to people because of our fears and bias sees. Every time i look at that cove it and i see that another loved one has passed away he dies all over again i hear the car were again. Those guys in there they have boundaries. The government just wont take responsibility i know theyre scared you know what it is they release. A mass amount of people but. Right now in the condition that we haue tomorrow is not promised. Since a coronavirus arrived in san quentin one section of the president has avoided a large outbreak. Lisa ling and euna lee reach some of the men being held there literally. In every police union yet youre. Being monitored not even internally a little girl and you are living in those we learned in the looted. At the highest rate for action in the world and all foreigners are afraid or are searching for this bill over to pick a passerby well where is the party right now or would it be acceptable for a public official to 300. 00 perfect as it would be accessible scoles restaurant or kaline anywhere during a scaly i think that the virus will be here i will come back. And when you get here do you honestly think your life can worry that your sentence was galvin turning it would get. The us. Hello the spring sunshine is aits right argentina now but theres a bit of a cold breeze which means temperatures ought to be higher than they actually are we could be talking about the low teens to someplace sickly if you jump across the river plate into a year ago i were you should be expecting the low twentys thats true up in porto alegre is what it is at 40 and theres your average 22. 00 now that cold air has enhanced the rain to the south the south paolo and rio the significant rain which have wanted this more significant rain the western side of amazonia of brazil parts of peru bolivia as well which means east of brazils dragon it was just a couple of days ago as hurrican seaters zooms and it really has to go across the u. S. Mainland its left behind briefly quiet weather for cuba the Cayman Islands yucatan but there is cold air leaking out of the u. S. Has produced significant snow in for example new mexico that cold when it comes over the water the gulf produced some pretty big showers in mexico potential flooding from that obviously flooding from the track of the hurricanes it slowly loses its force but its still classified as a hearken at the moment the Tropical Storm warning out for a planter in georgia a very rare event so thursday is going to be dumped as one theory but improves on friday. A diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on aljazeera. This is aljazeera. However im hella mohit c. N. N. This is the aljazeera news our life in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a knife attack in the east story people are killed and others injured. The attack in the east comes at a time of heightened tensions in france as muslim nations around the world push back against president michel his comments about islam. In paris french m. P. s stand for moments of silence in honor