Colombian capital. And in a major sft, the he ofhe catholichurch voices his support for samesex unions, saying they too have a right to a family. Nigerian protesters have defied a curfew and faced off against Security Forces in their biggest city. Demonstrations against Police Brutality threatened to paralyze the nation. The 24 hour curfew has been imposed in the financial heart of africas largest economy. Security forces fired at protesters later tuesday, drawing international condemnation. Amnesty International Says at least 12 people were killed that night, blaming the violence on the military. The government has not confirmed that, but the nigerian parliaments speaker says it is clear there were casualties. It has been more than two weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality after a video of a man being beaten by officers, allegedly from the special antirobbery squad known as sars, went viral. We have a report from the capital. Reporter in Early Morning fire set by arsonists barnes at a government bus station in lagos. Officials say 30 buses were destroyed. Security forces opened fire at protesters the previous night. The standoff continues. The lagos state governor who victims who visited victims of tuesdays attacks is more than two dozen have been hospitalized. Pray for the recovery of the injured. Were confronted that we have not we are confident we have not recorded any fatality. Reporter but protesters dispute that. I cannot really say until we know who was shooting. I cannot give you the number of casualties, because i am not god. I had to run for my life. Everyone was running for their lives. I escaped. Reporter Amnesty International agrees, saying there appears to be credible evidence of fatalities. But pictures have not been independently verified. United nations secretary general has spoken with the president in recent days, and has called for restraint. The secretarygeneral said he is following closely the developments in nigeria and calls for an end to reported Police Brutality and abuses. He condemns the violent escalation of the october 20 in lagos, which resulted in multiple deaths and caused many injuries. Reporter protests started two weeks ago after a policeman shot and killed a man in the south of the country. Protesters are demanding the police unit, accused of murder, extortion, and disappearances. They also want an overhaul of the police system, a trial of the officers, and compensation for victims. Some of these demands have been met, but deep distrust remains between protesters and government. Journalists have also been caught up in the sudden turn of events. Here, an independent television station in the city is set on fire. A few hours later, another broadcaster was temporarily forced off the air because of what it calls an imminent threat to its staff and operations. Here in the capital, the streets are calmer than in lagos. Wednesday, Security Forces dispersed a group of young men gathering on the outskirts. Many schools and businesses here remain shut for most of the day after the violence and destruction in lagos. Theres a general feeling the antiPolice Brutality protests may have been infiltrated. It is not clear how much damage this has done or could do to their cause, which many nigerians still see as legitimate. Lauren protests have taken place across sudan as anger rises over dire Living Conditions and this months crackdown on demonstrators. The protests came on the anniversary of a 1964 uprising that ended six years of military rule. Sudan is currently ruled by a Transitional Government after mass protests toppled former dictator bloomberg are berkshire last year. Reporter protesters in various parts of sudan are commemorating the 21st of october, which marks the anniversary of the first civilian revolution in 1964. The black smoke you see behind me is the result of protesters burning tires to express their frustration at how this government has been operating over the past years. Protesters say the Economic Conditions have been getting worse since this government took power in august of last year. They also say the military is still in control of many institutions, something they say goes against their revolution which started in 2018. Protesters have been met with tear gas and stun grenades. Most of them have run away from where they are right now, to just a little bit to where i was, then back again. They say that is because they do not accept this use of force by Security Forces. Many of them also say they are not here to oust the president , but rather to vent their frustrations and put pressure on the government to try to improve the economic situation, as well as complete with a site is the demands of the revolution, which is holding to account those who are responsible for killing protesters since 2018. Lauren in guinea, three days after a disputed president election, results show the president heading for another victory. But the opposition has already claimed it won the vote. Heres more from neighboring senegal. Reporter we are just outside the guinean embassy, and police have fired tear gas to disperse an angry crowd of guineans living in senegal. Against their government after the Election Commission announced the results, or the partial results of the president ial election. Four regions outside of 38. All four, according to the Election Commission, went to conde. He wants to hold onto power, and that is not ok. For 10 years we have been living difficult lives. We have been suffering. Reporter this has sparked violence not just here in the senegalese capital, where there is more than 3. 5 million canadians million guineas hwere, who also were not allowed to vote. But people were also shot and killed. Among them, a Police Officer that was lynched. We smell the teargas coming our way. Theres a level of tension and violence happening here because the Opposition Leader says that he has won the vote. And therefore, what were going towards what seems to be a postelection crisis. All actors should stay calm until the full results are made public. Lauren the manufacture of a powerful painkiller that helps set off an Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8 billion settlement. Purdue pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin, which is linked to an addiction crisis that has killed more than 400,000 people in the past 20 years. Reporter Purdue Pharmas decision in the 1990s to begin aggressively marketing its prescription opioid oxycontin for a range of illnesses despite the risk of addiction has long been seen as a major factor in the u. S. s opioid crisis. Wednesday, the u. S. Government said they would now be held to account. Todays announcement involves one of the most important participants in the supply chain of prescription opioids, at the manufacture level. Reporter between 1999 and 2018, some 450,000 people died in the u. S. From an opioid overdose. The rise in prescription and illicit opioids is connected, as initial opioid prescriptions became gateways to fentanyl and heroin. In 2018, 10. 3 Million People aged 12 or older misused opioids. 9. 9 million misusing prescription pain relievers. Two out of three Drug Overdose deaths that year involved opioids. Purdue pharma has admitted it paid doctors and pharmacists to prescribe oxycontin without a legitimate medical purpose, a practice alleged to have subsequently gone widespread among other pharmaceutical firms. And that it misled regulators about how widely it was distributing the drug. The company agreed to an 8 billion settlement, although it is likely to only pay a fraction of that. The Sackler Family, which owns purdue and was able to sponsor cultural institutions around the world with the billions they made from oxycontin sales, has agreed to pay 225 million and give up ownership of the country company. In some small states in the u. S. , 8 billion does not cover what one state would be the tally of the cost. Just in terms of cost of hospitals and jails and coroners offices and foster children agencies. You go down a very long list. Reporter perdue still faces hundreds of other lawsuits. Some state attorneys general say the government has let the company and the Sackler Family off too easily. The fines are comparatively minimal, a cost of doing business they argue, and no one is being criminally prosecuted for the enormous devastation caused by their actions. Nonetheless, a few weeks before the election, the Trump Campaign will now be able to claim they lived up to a Trump Campaign promise from 2016 to go after big pharma and address the opioid crisis. Lauren almost 40 Million People have already voted in the u. S. President election, which is now less than two weeks away. Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump will hold a rally in north carolina. The race there is expected to be tight. Meanwhile, barack obama made his First Campaign appearance on behalf of jill biden in pennsylvania. Here are live pictures of him now. National opinion polls suggest biden has a tight lead in some crucial states and obama is expected to do a series of appearances in these last two weeks. This one is a driving rally at a parking lot in a stadium where the Philadelphia Phillies play. Mike explains the importance of Obama Joining the campaign trail. 13 days until the most important election of our lifetimes. And you dont have to wait for november 3 to cast your ballot. Youve got tweo ways to vote right now. And what we do these next 13 days will matter for decades to come. Reporter it is deeply significant. Barack obama is probably joe bidens most potent weapon in terms of this campaign, and now he has been unleashed. Starting in pennsylvania, an absolutely key state for joe biden to win if he is going to go to the white house. But once again, obama bringing with him almost a sense of nostalgia, a look back at a time when a president was dignified, when a president tried to seek copper mice and bipartisan agreement rather than the trench warfare which has characterized the last four years. So certainly among voters, barack obama certainly has immense weight. And this is important, particularly among africanamerican voters. Pennsylvania has a very large propose sure in proportion of africanamerican voters and this bloc is critical for joe biden to get as much support as possible if he is going to go to the white house. So unleashing barack obama at this particular time is absolutely essential to the Biden Campaign to get the momentum leading into the election. Millions of americans have voted already. Many have already made up their minds, even if they have not voted. There will be another debate within the next 24 hours which could have a bearing, to a degree, on the outcome of the election. But the most important factor at this particular point is Barack Obamas presence back on the campaign trail. He was disliked by some during his two terms as president , but for many, he does represent something that they would hope joe biden does, and that is a return to a presidency that is rooted in moderately, and that is rooted in the ability or the desire to forge some kind of bipartisan compromise. Lauren still to come on al jazeera. Reporter not far from the battlefront of nagornokarabakh. Keep watching to find out what an International Charity is doing to make sure that unexploded munitions like these do not kill civilians around here. Lauren blessed lights, cameras, but little action. Asias Biggest International Film Festival begins, but without the usual glitz. The first waterfalls of spring have stopped falling, but the showers that prompted them are moving further east. You can see some pretty peppy showers the next couple days. Not very much on thursday except new the coast but affecting sydney and brisbane. In Western Australia and along the coast of South Australia you have an onshore breeze with cloud and significant rain. Then more widespread all the way down to the south. You have the likelihood of thunderstorms all over the place. Not particularly wanted. We have had enough rain for the time being, so i am told by the farmers in new south wales. Equally we have rain coming back towards japan. This should be a drying time of the year, and it is for the most part for the Korean Peninsula and china. It is almost bone dry. Just a few showers down the east coast. For japan, that is not true. The rain is moving slowly and will be occasionally heavy thursday and friday. The south china sea, a tropical cyclone. The bambang gall, big circulation with equally heavy rain and potential flooding for bangladesh. The first reaction was hushhush. Across the u. S. , meatpacking plants are covid19 hotspots. These are peoe being treated as cogs in a machine rather than being cared for. We investigate wheer Corporate America has put profit before the lives of its workers. They care more about pieces of meat going in the tray than they care about their team members. Virus on the poultry line, on al jazeera. Lauren nigerian protesters have defied a curfew and faced off against Security Forces in their countrys biggest city. Police opened fire on protesters on tuesday. Amnesty International Says at least 12 were killed. The manufacture of a powerful painkiller that helped set often Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Will plead guilty to come in all charges as part of an 8 billion settlement. Purdue pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin, which is linked to an addiction crisis that has killed more than 400,000 people in the past 20 years. Almost 40 Million People have already voted in the u. S. President ial election. President donald trump will hold a rally in north carolina, while former president barack obama is making his First Campaign appearance on behalf of joe biden in pennsylvania. A volunteer in the clinical of a Coronavirus Vaccine has died in brazil, but Authorities Say testing will continue. Brazilian mita media are reporting the volunteer received a perceive out. It is being received a placebo. They say there are no concerns about the safety of the trial. It is one of two potential vaccines facing Clinical Trials in brazil, one of the nations worst hit by the virus. More than 154,000 people there have died from covid19 and more than 5. 2 million have been infected. The mass protests taking place in the colombian capital boo the top against a social and Economic Policy of the president. The protests are led by union members, students, teachers, and a large contingent of colombias indigenous population, and part of a National Strike action. They are demanding a meeting to discuss the recent deaths of indigenous activists. About 10,000 of the community have arrived in the capital from southwestern colombia. Our reporter was at the protests in bogota, one of the first major gatherings since covid19 restrictions were eased. Reporter colombia has had five months of quarantine in the country that have greatly affected the economy, and the livelihood of many people, even worse. So they are out here demanding the government to respond to this reality. Particular unions are asking for at least a temporary benefit such as minimal wage for people who have lost their work during the pandemic. They are also here protesting a number of reforms that the government has been proposing, that protesters believe would greatly affect both the workers and what people here call the proletariat in the country, the middle class. So they are out here demanding a meeting with the president. The other reason has to do with the worsening of the security in many parts of the country, especially in very remote, rural areas where drug traffickers and criminal gangs are disputing these territories. And have the possibility to further attack who they see as their enemies in these territories. Community leaders, hundreds of them have been killed in record numbers in particular this year. And people here are tired, sandy government is not doing enough. Also saying the government is not doing enough in implementing the peace accord that was signed in 2016, with the Largest Rebel Group in the country, the fark. And this is one of the reasons so much violence has been seen. The last reason is police abuse. Remember in september there were protests against the killing of a citizen of bogota at the hands of the police that turned very violent. People died in those protests. People are saying the government needs to do something against Police Brutality in the country. Lauren armenias Prime Minister says at this stage he sees no possible diplomatic solution to the conflict in the disputed nagornokarabakh region. Sporadic fighting between azerbaijan and armenia has been going on for more than three weeks despite two ceasefire deals. The regions main city has borne the brunt of the most constant shelling. Reporter the siren wails and seconds later, the first of several cluster bomb strikes rips down the streets. Each, a collection of mini explosions, saturating the air with killer shrapnel. The people of nagornokarabakhs capital have suffered multiple rocket and artillery attacks in recent weeks. International charity and halo trust is here to keep track and prepare for its teams to remove explosive debris when the fighting calms down. They will come and do full clearance of this area, a visual bac, battle area clearance, clearance of this area, checking for any unexploded items. And then destroying them. Because these items cannot be moved or touched. Reporter and they can land anywhere, such as buried in the mud inside this chicken coop, another one for the clearance teams. The danger is that anyone can pick them up, either because they do not recognize the latest weapons, or because they want to move them out of the city, which is exactly what happened here. So here we have a collection of different munitions. Most of them, the ones with the red ribbons, are cluster bombs that fell and have been brought here by local residents who physically picked them up and put them in a box. Any one of them could have exploded. So what are the halo trusts other jobs here going from street to street, to homes in bomb shelters, warning people of the dangers. They look very nice, attractive. When you see it, it is like a toy you want to play with, but it is dangerous. Yesterday we had been in 300 shelters speaking to about 600 people. We want to talk to as many as possible to tell them these are dangerous things. Reporter for the recent fighting started late last month, halo was dealing with unexploded bombs and mines from the first nagornokarabakh war of the early 1990s. People here are still losing life and limb to them. Now, Charity Workers and the weary inhabitants have a whole new wars worth t contend witho. Lauren the french president Emmanuel Macron has led a National Tribute for the teacher who was beheaded in paris last week. Samuel paty was killed after showing his students cartoons of the prophet mohammed. The suspected attacker, an 18yearold from russia, was shot dead shortly after by police. Seven suspects have been taken to an Antiterrorism Court for questioning. Others have been charged with capacity. A thai protest leader has been arrested was than two hours after given the Prime Minister a three day deadline to quit. She says she was not worried as she was taken away in a police car. Earlier wednesday, the Prime Minister said he was prepared to lift a state of emergency imposed last week in a bid to appease demonstrators. It came as tens of thousands of people marched once again in the capital bangkok, despite a ban on gatherings of more than five people. They want the Prime Minister to quit and are demanding changes. Pope francis has endorsed samesex civil unions for the first time, and the first such statement by Roman Catholic pope. He made the comments in a documentary that has just premiered at the rome Film Festival. He says homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of god and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it. He goes on to say what we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up to that, referring to a similar comment he made when he was archbishop of buenos aires. The documentary director says the comments from pope francis were less about catholic doctrine, and more about equal rights. It was a conversation with him. He was discussing the doctrine. He was talking about that people who basically allowed to have the same freedoms like everybody else, and he was not discussing the doctrine of the church. He was talking that people should not be discriminated, and the Gay Community should have equal rights like everybody else. That is what he was trying to point. Lauren asias largest annual Film Festival has begun in the south korean city of bussan. On a much reduced scale because of the pandemic. Covid19 has been devastating for the moving industry movie industry, forcing the closure of many cinemas. Even in his cut down form, the busan International Film festival is eagerly anticipated. Reporter it is the biggest Film Festival in asia, and busans organizers were determined it would go ahead. But instead of the usual glitz of previous years, 2020 is a very different kind of show. A limited number of screens with a reduced offering of films, and a fraction of the usual participants. The Film Industry is suffering. There is a lack of audience is going to cinemas, and films are being delayed. So we want to give the industry a boost. Reporter no official red carver red carpet photo blitz, the standard busans main beach would normally host festival events, try to rival the glamour of the cannes Film Festival in france. This year there is just the beach without the party. But at least busan is going ahead with this festival, whereas cannes was canceled. Ironically, that has been a windfall for this festival, with a number of [dialogue in spanish] [explosion] [camera focus adjusting] [camera shutr
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