Along with russia its interfering in the 2020 u. S. Election. Thailands government lifts emergency measures that fail to curb major protests in bangkok. Countries across europe are grappling with a rise in covert 19 infections in some places governments of had little choice but to shut down entire cities to contain the virus france is the 2nd European Union country to have more than a 1000000 confirmed corona virus infections the pandemic has claimed the lives of 34000 people by time curfews were imposed in paris at 8 other large cities on saturday a hospital intensive care wards in the capital and early fall. Spain exceeded 1000000. 00 infections just hours earlier the government which is accused of mishandling the crisis faces a no confidence vote in Parliament Bus is expected to survive Spains Health minister says that more drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak which he admits is not under control but hes not alone. On the part of them with higher fines perhaps an exhaustive control of the positive cases or more strict follow up because what they are doing now is not very good and thats probably what is making people infect others. Were less responsible we like to party go out and gather with family or more close people and we havent realised the only way to avoid this going worse is social distancing simple things like not gathering with many people and wearing the mask even if you meet friends and germanys daily infection count has risen above 10000 for the 1st time thats well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave of march but testing has increased significantly lets bring it out to serious joe the whole of our european Broadcast Center in london just before we talk more about the wider consonant just now the u. K. Chancellor the finance minister has been speaking about a job support scheme for businesses affected by the pandemic whats he been saying. Chancellor rashid tsunami has been on his feet in parliament as you say theyre unveiling the 3rd financial intervention by the treasury in just a month to support businesses and jobs principally in this case in the hospitality sector as a result of the new 3 tier system of restrictions introduced by the government in the past fortnight a lot of businesses in tier 2 the middle section the socalled high risk category havent been receiving the same sort of supporters businesses and employees in tears 3 thats now apparently being put right Government Support being made more available to businesses and payments being made great abatements being made to employees at risk in that middle tier as a said the 3rd intervention by the chancellor in just a month very welcome no doubt to those businesses and employees who need it but at a staggering cost adding yet more hundreds of millions of pounds worth of Government Support to an already blooming debt which has reached its highest level as a ratio to g. D. P. In the last 50 years a deficit currently of 246000000000. 00 pounds close to 300000000000. 00 which dwarfs anything seen in this country during the financial crisis in 2008 or the major recession in the ninetys which really doesnt bode very well for the recovery in the years ahead beyond the immediate crisis of code which of course is only going to get worse over the next 5 or 6 months as the winter sets in and Continental Europe generally is in the midst of a 2nd wave right now as this. Well similarly you know a couple of weeks probably ahead of the u. K. As has been the case throughout the year. Countries in europe seeing as you mentioned there earlier you know uncontrolled infection rates and many of those governments actually using the word uncontrolled which might have seemed alarmist at some point in the in the past no longer so countries like the Czech Republic like spain as you said there like france belgium warning of a tsunami of infections in fact belgiums deputy Prime Minister so if illness has gone into i. C. U. Battling the disease so even public figures. Coming the german Health Minister as well and more and more countries looking at the sort of restrictions that they need ramping up the restrictions that theyve got terrified perhaps of having to go back into full lockdown the Czech Republic has just almost gone back into full lockdown because of the economic costs attached but really there must be looking at the situation now and wondering whether those sorts of measures arent inevitable in the coming months how does the us john holl reporting live from london journal many thanks indeed the South African government is warning of a severe increase in covert 19 cases thats also one of its largest cities cape town reported a 42 percent rise over the last 2 weeks on a serious fall in a military port stuff from johannesburg. Well south africa until this point has adopted what its called a risk adjusted strategy and at the height of the pandemic around june july and august so there fricker was between level 5 level 4 and 3 in the strategy and now has moved down to level one which is the the the easiest or the the most lenient level in the strategy now most social events are allowed theyve increased the number of people that can visit restaurants bars that can attend the funerals and this is the concern from the government that because of the pandemic has now been around for so long people are increasingly complacent theyre not wearing mosque properly theyre not at hearing to social distancing and the major concern i think for the government at this point are these social events specifically in nightclubs and bars youve mentioned that in cape town there was a 42 percent increase in the last couple of weeks and one of the concerns they is any of bar in cape town that is considered a so a super spread away at least 80 people were infected there we saw something similar in the eastern cape where students went to university and so the Health Ministers really and kizzie is saying that complacency the easing of restrictions is leading to what could in ever to be a 2nd surge and this is what the leading expert in south africa is saying around the pandemic and what south africa potentially could face going forward. Saad hariri has been appointed lebanons Prime Minister for a 4th time the announcement was made off of consultations between the president and various political groups already had resigned from the Prime Ministers person last year following mass antigovernment protests in lebanon faces an acute economic crisis things were made was for a huge explosion ripped through beiruts port and only one of us causing billions of dollars worth of damage. Is a journalist and founder of the beirut report he joins us now live from the lebanese capital killing the army killing all of them we mean all charge of the protesters who are demanding the removal of the entire political colossus class now is back how are people going to feel about that well i think people have been through a lot and its asked year theyve been through the explosion theyve been through devaluation of their money by 80 percent value of the currency so i think that many are are not feeling the same revolutionary spirit as they might have been a year ago when things were looking a lot better people are pretty desperate this country so i imagine there will be protests but i dont think well see the same kind of protests that we saw a year ago is. Really going to have any more success leading the country this time the last time when of course his tenure ended with those massive street protests. He i mean that the problem is its a very geo political problem in lebanon still you know theres still a battle between the u. S. And iran taking place in lebanon so i dont know if that if that will change well see any change locally in lebanon a lot on faith is very much tied to the big power brokers that run this country whether its iran or the u. S. Or france or other countries so well have to see what if there is an agreement between iran and the u. S. We could threaten the u. S. Maybe this will have some hope but you know lebanon is really a reality of these x. Warlords running a country that is really not a country at all in many ways later on not really a functioning state so this is kind of more perpetuating the same problem i think well have to wait for elections in this country to really see some kind of a change happening but inevitably lebanons problem is also economic they country has one of the biggest debt in the world today so how can you get out of that hole with a just some smiles and and putting the same faces back in power or what we need is a desperate economic salvation for this country what sort of government will are a very form i dont have him at the head of it but will he be appointing politicians to his capital technocrats. Its going to be a very difficult formation process and a government formation of lebannon takes months and months usually we still have you know. The government was what was resigned several months ago and they were unable to form a new government so this could be a very long drawn out process many of the political allies of the remake may be welcomed back into the fold again you know the structure of lebanon is not the easy one to topple and so we shouldnt be surprised in some way that street protests can really resolve deep seated structural political geopolitical issues and will lebanons backus be happy with me as choice. As the man to lead the country from that that the u. S. The. World bank and i. M. F. Yeah well how did he is a favorite of the western leaders he is so regular and in washington and paris and so he is the most pro western leader in love and on so in a way this is a kind of a victory for the pro western front in lebanon which claims to be supporting that but also supports its longstanding our allies in the country like saudi and the others in his coalition so so yeah i mean its you know the header is very close to the brothers of france and france is the one that is leading this reform call in lebanon its called a new political pact but it seems like the old political act all over again and so the western leaders kind of talk out of one side of their mouth thing thats for the protest on the other side theyre actually supporting this political but the iranians as well weve seen iranian party among supporting giving him the votes he needed although possible abstain. There is some kind of agreement it seems between the 2 sides right now and thats really how lebanon runs unfortunately for the lebanese people who never see any kind of sovereignty could stop to so many thanks dates. In beirut. The f. B. I. Is accusing both iran and russia of trying to interfere with the u. S. Election its less than 2 weeks away now it says the both countries have obtained data on Voter Registration iran is accused of sending fake emails to voters to try to intimidate them like our reports from washington. These are members of a far right wing Group Calling itself the proud boys according to the f. B. I. Iranian agents are planting emails to Democratic Party voters purporting to come from the proud boys with the intention of creating social unrest to that end we have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters incite social unrest and damage President Trump of repeatedly recently when asked to condemn the proud boys President Trump instead asked them to stand back and stand by both the director of National Intelligence and the f. B. I. Head ive been accused of attempting to downplay russian interference allegedly in accordance with the president s wishes but russia was also named 1st we have confirmed that some Voter Registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy barack obama had been warned of russian interference in the months leading to the 2016 election won by President Trump but the only thing apparently on his mind on this day was to catapult his former Vice President to victory. Campaigning for the 1st time a bomber displayed the charm that made him a 2 term president and you know my very good in europe where i have to say that because of my years this actually accentuates. The. Physical things that. Are there really look like i could just take up at any time but a full throated attack on President Trump he hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends were treating the presidency like a reality show that he could use to get attach it was no coincidence that obamas 1st appearance in the Campaign Came in the capital of pennsylvania barack obama took pennsylvania in 200820128 was flipped by donald trump in 2016 the state has a high proportion of African American voters and joe biden and his Campaign Managers have identified pennsylvania as the single most important state to win if he is to make his way to the white house donald trump continued on his campaign trail apparently not pausing to prepare for the final debate with joe biden that will be taking place on thursday my kind of aljazeera washington. A weather update thanks to an outsider and then to the 1st chaotic encounter change for a final debate between donald trump and joe biden. 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Hollow weve got sloppy dry weather in the full cost for japan now but we have still got some outbreaks of rain coming through still a fair amount of wet weather there aid to hokkaido into on ship but its slowly but surely as ing its way east was dry brush the weather struggling to come in behind take care of around 22 degrees celsius then on friday come saturday the heaviest rain will move out possibility of some localized flooding there russia showers coming in behind more in the west sunshine and showers by this day so a lot of sunshine to across the Korean Peninsula and indeed into a good parts of china we have of course call that typhoon now making its way towards vietnam those are very close to Southern China some really heavy rain say with the prospects of flooding into the northeast of india into bangladesh pushing up towards the pole the circulation here thats been spinning away just around more than parts of the babbin go still bringing some very heavy rain in across the region some wet weather to just the west and gas and to some heavy downpours coming through here but for much of india it looks good lets get into pakistan as well heavy rain though will continue into the northeast of india was a solemn state a little further north woods hole for a little trough of bangladesh by the end of saturday. But that guy this is our 1st a singer songwriter dreams of making a mock. One there. A world away a famous you tube artist works in secret. A virtual connection spocks a magical collaboration. Presenting princess shore. Witness on aljazeera. Again this is on the surface for much of the main news this hour france and spain are become the 1st 2 European Union countries to surpass 1000000. 00 confirmed coronavirus cases Spains Health minister says that drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak. Has been appointed lebanons Prime Minister for a 4th time he resigned from the same job last year following mass and take up protests lebanon is facing an accused economic crisis. The u. S. Intelligence official said that iran and russia have obtained voter information to interfere in the upcoming election the f. B. I. Says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos. The African Union says that it strongly condemns any use of violence against protesters in nigeria demonstrators defied curfews in lagos and some states on wednesday to hold more protests against Police Brutality fires were set across lagos and witnesses reported gunfire Amnesty International says that at least 12 people were killed on tuesday night but the government denies that. Thailands Prime Minister has cancelled an emergency decree banning gatherings and protests tens of thousands of demonstrators mostly ignored the ban for more than a week they say theyll press on with their demands for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy and the kings finances. Reports from bangkok. Say started speaking out against the government 6 years ago. Thats when the current Prime Minister led a coup that ousted the democratically elected government hes now working with the protesters who have been coming out to thailand streets by the 10s of thousands the demonstrations started in july and ramped up last week with a gathering every day whats different now from 6 years ago a call for reform. Lost their faith in the Royal Institution condie night that if we dont talk about them want to keep openly people about eventually they want to understand of course have 2 choices either use firelands like they did in the past on change and preserve their status unwavering in his mission to bring about reform and change he says he was attacked last year for being outspoken beaten so badly he spent 2 weeks in hospital but hes not stopping. And im proud to be thai reluctant to tell the guy we have been taught to obey and not question authority i thought it was blinded in the past i and the thousands across the country are working to put that past behind the scenes like this are grabbing attention across thailand and across the world expressing th