3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the french city of nice several others have been injured the attacker was wounded by police and is in custody in hospital but its with reports. A place of worship now a crime scene inside not a dumbass silica early on friday people have been praying when a man armed with a knife started to attack them 3 people were killed one of the victims a woman was decapitated according to the Police Another victim was the churchs warden. I still imagine him i still see lighting the candles and now im thinking hes not there in. We are always with him hes always there he spends the day that he shares his life hes not someone who comes and goes witnesses say the attackers shouted out of akbar he was shot by police near the church in central niece and is now being treated in hospital for his injuries. But we are heard to once again see that our city has 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 we can no longer with the laws of peace in our country wipe out islamofascism Frances NationalAssembly Held a minutes silence as news of the attacks came through. We revolted with whats going on is an attempt to take french hostage with regards to its muslims will not fall into this trap we will not fall into this trap does. This attack comes 2 weeks after the murder of School Teacher samuel petit in a paris suburb he had been decapitated after showing caricature of the Prophet Muhammad to schoolchildren to illustrate a lesson on freedom of speech and secularism france has now raised its state of emergency to its highest level Prime Minister john kass texas says the governments response to the murders in nice will be therm implacable and immediate. Bernard smith aljazeera paris. President trying to con isnt nice hes called the incident an attack on from so dont give me the film of the absolute its a firm message that i want to share today and its equally a message of unity in france there is only one community the National Community i only want to tell all of our citizens no matter their religion whether they believe or not we must at this moment unite and not cede to the spirit of division i know that all of our citizens are profoundly shocked by what has happened and therefore i call for unity. Lets go live now. There david tell us more about emanuel khans visit what else he had to say and also what security measures have been put in place. Well the president 1st of all was very keen to appear on the scene to offer its regrets and comfort to the relatives of those d who were killed in such appalling circumstances inside the roman catholics Biggest Church here in nice right in the center of the city of facility basilica of not too damn so as it was pointed out by the police who witnessed the aftermath of the attack it was in the poor living scene an appalling scene one womans head of being completely cut off and many others have been slashed with a knife he was carrying so the president 1st of all wanted to try and reassure the local residents of nice plan is in place a strategy is in place and that france will not tolerate these type of attacks which are meant to divide the communities to divide the Muslim Community from the Christian Catholic community of france this what is most Important Message and of course it came in the wake of the islamic fascist comment by the nice man i think he was keen to sort of remove those sort of divisive comments entirely from the agenda here in nice he wanted to bring back calm bring back unity because if that doesnt happen then the people who are launching these attacks have started to gain victories and thats what president is determined that will not happen and it was apparent when i came here just after the top the sense of shock once again in the people of france and also here in nice once again they were going out to the shops are they heard Police Sirens or. Out of the shops with me because theyre about to enter lockdown and all the months of lockdown so they want to get things for their families instead they heard those sirens again from the police remember this was the city that 4 years ago and i was here when it happened. A truck driver killed dozens of people who were celebrating the steel day fireworks on the coast here just a few 100 yards away from this attack so this was a deliberate attempt to try and break that unity those secular values of france where they say that. If you want to live in the republic you have to abide by the laws of the republic nevertheless the Muslim Community here 5000000 people the biggest in europe do feel under pressure at the moment both because of the attacks in france but also because of the comments from president marc draw and others which are putting them under pressure under equal pressure so its a very delicate balance the president has to walk here he has to be on the scene he had to be talking to the people who sort the eyewitnesses on the police who reacted so quickly shooting the gunman just 12 minutes after the incident began taking Mental Hospital under arrest in his hospital bed its important the president or his police and intelligence chiefs now find out if he was alone if there was a chain of people behind him who funded them why did he do this these are all the important things that people have nice in the people of france want to see because they feel under threat they feel very vulnerable which is why of course president has announced that. Over the weekend starting from tomorrow will double the number of soldiers patrolling across farms from 30027002 make sure that all the places of worship in france are safe and secure and thats a very clear message from the president from the elisei or his senior ministers of france is not going to give in to this sort of attack. Ok thank you there live for us in the. Well mary im. A journalist and a Research Associate at the center for islamic studies at the university of london she says france has failed its muslims. France is facing multiple fires and sometimes when you are faced with one very large fire with right now obviously as people are being attacked and killed that becomes the focus there is a there are the fires which have been burning for a while now and that is each you of Civil Liberties when it comes to frances masoom minorities now the problem is that you know this isnt the right time to have that conversation because the really and truly the focus needs to be on ensuring that people are not being killed in the street and that is i think fully understandable at the same time these instances cannot be used to silenced very legitimate concerns from a community that has seen. All changed in many ways weve seen a state of exceptionalism that was instated after the 2015 paris attacks which so many people. You know detained at home arrested with very little justification is necessary because of exceptions being made to what would otherwise be the rule of law so i think my point my point in that piece in my point i guess more broadly is that there are much wider issues of discrimination against frances most him population which do need to be tackled which otherwise can potentially feed into a narrative that exploited by extremists nice is no stranger to attacks 4 years ago a truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating the still day 86 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured and 20153 soldiers guarding a Jewish Community center was stabbed by knife wielding attacker he was sentenced to 30 years in prison and in 2316 people were injured in a bomb blast in a local government office. Peter allen is a journalist in paris he explains how these attacks are being perceived. I have. Covered a lot of these terrorist acts in paris and indeed in need some in power the moment of the todays terrorist atrocity is in need they are absolutely bob with us 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 is an appalling conflation of the to decide dear if you speak out against attacks on islam and the many muslims who live in atlanta youre somehow supporting people that madmen who go around beheading people and this is the huge problem with it all so yes theres shock and outrage we all condemn this while 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 portrayal of muslims through the child had the cartoons i keep coming back to these cartoons because theyre very violent moment some somehow being cratylus in outside a society just figures there to be not a lot that if you put any other social group in that position and said the government is going to support these attacks on you it will be an up. And alarming surge in corona virus cases across europe is forcing governments to take drastic action politicians in spain are voted to extend a state of emergency for 6 months it gives regions the power to impose their own restrictions as winter threatens more infections germany is also headed toward a National Lockdown lasting all of november chancellor Angela Merkel is warning that intensive care units could fill up. And. The dynamic of this race of current infections will overload our intensive care units in just a few weeks from now all of this shows us that at the beginning of the cold season we are in a dramatic situation it affects all of us without exception france is imposing a month long nation wide to lock down from friday with no one allowed to leave their homes except for essential reasons. Has more from paris people in france facing another month of lockdown at least because what we understand from the head of frances Scientific Council is that that lockdown could well be extended the french president says that he hopes that people will at least be out of their homes by the end of Year Holidays but whether that happens no one really knows because everyone has been watching over the past few weeks the cases the new cases of Current Affairs infractions rise exponentially weve seen on some days more than 50000 cases a day some experts say that could actually be around a 100000 cases a day if you count people who are asymptomatic so the french president says this meltdown is necessary to try and stem the further spread of the coronavirus he says though the smoketown be a little bit different than the one at the beginning of the year in march and april in the schools will remain open have the children from the age of 6 will now have to wear masks at school at the moment its only from the age of 11 and some industries can stay open so factories and building and Construction Industries like bass and Public Services will be able to remain open nevertheless it will still be very strict for most people they must work from home as much as possible and in terms of whether they can leave the house or not only one hour a day probably within a want to kilometer perimeter so very tough times ahead for many people here in france. Still ahead on aljazeera a thai firm sets off landslides in vietnam killing more than 50 people and leaving many missing at sea all Indian Security forces conducted raids across the country and what theyre calling a crackdown on separatists. The Arabian Peninsula and the levant less so turkey the weather is quite quiet at the moment though its turned stormy in the igi in and thunderstorms are turkey could produce a bit of flash flooding and there will be some increase in the cloud running from the eastern med over places like israel and syria as a result temps will drop a bit but they still above where they want to be quite otherwise because the rain is gone sciences thats for circumference the horn of africa which means rain in the form of showers probably thunderstorms in somalia but usually causes some flooding but mogadishu looks dried now and in the forecast the showers are reappearing in south sudans theyve just gone north a little bit the general trend should be taken south with the sun of course and then the heaviest in gabon now if you come south again its been fine dry and warm for the last couple of weeks and it still is but theres an increasing cloud pretty obviously running the strain and maybe at the western side of south africa that will bring some rain through Port Elizabeth and nearer the coast of south africa but if you come inland a little bit you get to the walk to gutting travel around 36 degrees for example johannesburg has been above average for a long time which is 24 youre back down to normal on sunday. Lincoln to the left of ass a soviet era to make you manufacturing becky of weather decades old the book is being torn up and recruited by an outsider. And the fusion of western style management and socialist worker values appears destined for a car crash. The russian job a witness documentary on aljazeera. Youre watching on jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the southern french city of leeds several others have been injured your attacker was wounded by police and is in custody you know. French president emmanuel corn has visited the scene and he says the number of soldiers deployed to protect against attacks will be doubles to 7000. European governments taking action to contain coronavirus addictions spain is extending a state of emergency until may and france and germany are about to introduce nationwide long downs. The us economy has expanded by 33 point one percent of the 3rd quarter as it recovers from the pandemic the 2nd wave threatens to choke off that growth and the u. S. Labor department is reporting a significant decline in the number of people claiming unemployment last week 7 151000 americans applied for jobless benefits the lowest weekly total since the onset of the pandemic in march still more than 7 and a half 1000000 people are receiving unemployment benefit does not include those not eligible for the benefit the official Unemployment Rate now stands at 7. 9 percent down from a high of nearly 15 percent in april but its unclear whether it is a sign of recovery Large Companies continue to announce layoffs on wednesday boeing said it will cut 30000 jobs by the end of next year our White House Correspondent kimberly how good has more now from washington d. C. The historic jump in the g. D. P. Of the last quarter up 33 percent what i think it indicates as well as those numbers of jobs going down is what donald trump has been selling on the campaign trail and that is that he is trying to reopen the economy allow people to get back to their daily lives and so this is a Major Campaign promise of his part and use contrast to get to. Kind of a doom and gloom prediction if joe biden gets elected that his plan is to shut down the economy for an indefinite period of time much like weve seen happening in parts of europe and that this would have a negative impact on those numbers so what were seeing is this message being delivered by the 2 candidates 2 very different and contrast in messages that we should also point out that when it comes to joe biden one other thing that he started to talk about a little bit as these numbers continue to be good for him in terms of the National Polls and his solid lead in these now kind of tempering expectation about what he can do on day one as president if he does win the election in terms of turning the pandemic around hes now saying that hell look at science but dont expect to turn things around with the flick of a light switch so this is certainly an interesting message from a president or rather a president ial candidate that has repeatedly criticized Donald Trumps handling of the covert 1000 pandemic here in the United States dozens of bodies from the month of fasting and were going to kind of bach have been exchanged by armenia and azerbaijan the handover was a brief pause and hostility to cease fire appears to have failed the city of stephanotis came under heavy shelling from the very forces of the by john accuses army of killing at least 21 people wounding dozens in a missile strike on the city of fatah intelligence has more from the armenian capital. Well the. Author of the Defense Ministry the. Military death toll. By another 51. 00 casualties on the battlefield now they seem to be losing roughly about amounts of people every day at the moment so the current total stands at 1119. 00 since fighting erupted on september 27th the Authorities Say that stepped on a car at the main city the. Second city also came. Under attack. From as a by johnny forces using. Multi launch rocket systems and there have been a couple of injuries in attacks on the cities there the my armenian 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 are being taken here hes a devastating toll on the nagornokarabakh and armenian fighters now the diplomatic movement of the day is the Foreign MinistryForeign Ministers of both as a by john and armenia meeting in geneva with the cochairs of the. Minsk group now that is the platform by which negotiations are going to go on to go karabakh have been undertaken for many years now but clearly the president 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 mints group at least 140. 00 migrants have drowned and all the u. N. Is describing as the worst shipwreck of the year 60 others were rescued off the coast of senegal the vessel caught fire of a sailing from st louis on saturday bound for the Canary Islands theres been a major increase in boats trying to reach the spanish territory and their plan took around 400. 00 migrants have already drowned this year and other sinkings Counterterrorism Police in india have carried out nationwide raids in connection with the separatist fights in indian administered kashmir the National InvestigationAgency Task Force searched the offices of charities newspapers and prominent human rights activists elizabeth purana has more from new delhi. Were outside the offices of a Charity Organization called the Charity Alliance its one of around 20 locations which have been raided by indias National Investigation agency over the past 2 days now residents of this neighborhood have told us that the street was filled with Police Officers a little bit earlier in the day the National Investigation agency says the rates are in connection with what it says a socalled n. G. O. S and trusts raising money in india and abroad for charitable activities and then using that money for what they say are separatists a session of activities in indian administered kashmir the raids began there on wednesday there were 9. 00 raids and indeed in the one in the Southern City of bengal lou they have continued today indeed in this meet again and here in delhi a number of offices of n. G. O. S and newspapers and in offices of prominent human rights activists have been raided they include the former chairman of the Delhi Minority Commission now a prominent politician member of the has condemned the raids he says that there are a vicious crackdown on dissent and members of the Peoples Democratic party have been detained and indeed administration used capital for protesting against the raids. The persian president has replaced his interior minister with the police chief is led the crackdown on antigovernment protesters in the capital minsk Alexander Lukashenko also appointed a former head of the k. G. B. Police as one of 2 new aides around 16000 people have been detained since the disputed reelection in august which opponents say was rigged. Britains Opposition Labor Party has suspended former leader jeremy cool but he downplayed a report that found evidence of anti semitism in the party during his leadership coleman says he was not part of the problem and that it had been overstated the investigation by britains equality watchdog found jewish Party Members suffered harassment and their complaints were ignored carney to cast alma says the report is a day of shame for labor. After all the pain all the grief and all the evidence in this report there are still those who think theres no problem with antisemitism at the labor party but its all exaggerated or thought. But frankly you are part of the problem to a jew should be no weight in the labor party either. U. S. Secretary of state has described the Chinese Communist party as the biggest threat to religious freedom speaking during a visit to indonesia he criticised chinas treatment of week is in june jan we know that there is no damage there is a justification for forcing we were muslims to eat pork during ramadan or destroy the most cemetery theres no Poverty Alleviation justification for forced sterilization or taking children away from their parents to be we have reeducated in state run boarding schools. I know i know that the Chinese Communist party is trying to convince the league to look away when you hear these arguments just as you do this search of ours. Look at the facts listen to the tales of the survivors and of their families. I had workers in vietnam say at least 50 people have been killed and dozens of missing after a powerful typhoon cause landslides in remote areas local Authorities Say at least 12 fishermen have been killed 2 phone story reports. Typhoon malaria is one of the worst typhoons to hit vietnam in 20 years it lashed the Central Region with heavy rain causing floods and setting of 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 way 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 the u. S. Supreme court has rejected a republican bit to limit when mail in ballots can be received and through king swing states and so when youre in North Carolina it means votes posted on november the 3rd can be counted for several days afterward. Staying with the u. S. Election in may for americans are a small but potentially Important Group of voters particularly in swing states there are many are facing obstacles in casting their ballot or brand reports. On the vast and remote stretches of the Navajo Nation where people live in isolated communities there is keen interest in the president ial election. Noted earlier so that we can show how important kony should joe is a nurse and has seen firsthand the devastating effects of colored 19 on the reservation according to the u. S. Census bureau there are about 6800000 native american and alaska natives in the u. S. But native voters could have a disproportionate effect on the election in several important swing states the native american vote at least in 7 battleground states could actually sway the election one way or the other many native americans believe President Donald Trump has treated them disrespectfully as when he used a white house ceremony honoring navajo world war 2 veterans to attack one of his critics democratic senator Elizabeth Warren they call or pocahontas. Who turned the suspects the colts or other native voters oppose trumps decision to green like controversy all oil and Gas Pipelines on native land many demand stronger efforts to end extreme poverty and low Life Expectancy on reservations and recognition of sovereign treaty rights joe biden and kamel harris have met with native leaders to discuss these issues of concern i think that you will see more participation of native americans throughout the United States but many difficulties stand in the way of native voters some states with voter identification requirements wont accept tribal i. D. s others require voters to provide a street address which most native americans on rural reservations dont have there are few polling places on reservations mail in voting is difficult because reservation post offices where most people pick up and send their mail often are closed or have limited hours of operation and are also few and far between on the Navajo Nation. In or that the the medium for a person to check their mail is 38 miles a marathon and a half so there is nothing in going by mail that makes it easy for native americans native voter advocacy groups are suing in several states to force more voting access on reservations and less unequal treatment compared to other voters who no one really understands like what were going through the original people of this land determined to have their voices heard on election day rob reynolds al jazeera. This is al jazeera and these the top stories 3 people have been killed and knife attack at a church in the 7 french city of nice several others being injected to tackle was wanted by having scientists in custody and Hospital Press president a man in mcallen has visited the saying he says the number of soldiers deployed to protect against attacks will be doubled to 7000