And present donald trump joins millions of americans who cast an early vote and with just 10 days to go he and rival joe biden grandpop their campaign schedule. Hello welcome to the program and we begin with the current virus pandemic and in colombia where its expected the country could soon record its infection making it the 3rd latin american nation to hit that milestone that when large protests are over what some say is the governments inept handling of the outbreak the situation in colombia isnt isolated either because across latin america governments are increasingly at odds with the citizens of the efforts to contain the virus elsewhere in the disputed region of garner there are fears that war and instability will help the virus spread its thought that people fleeing the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a taking the disease with them or have more on that in a moment 1st though to europe west pain is considering a new National State the mudge unsee in germany in the Czech Republic have both hit new records in daily cases and in baba has our report. In a small town in the heart of europe the trying. To save a life the intensive care units here in the czech town of key of new bern know is nearly full with covered 19 patients 75 staff at this hospital are off with the virus for their colleagues these are worrying times. The staff are doing everything even at the expense of their personal needs and time even on their days off theyre working to prevent an italian scenario daily infections in the Czech Republic have hit a record high of more than 15000 thats despite tight restrictions including limits on Peoples Movement and a ban on gatherings of more than 2 people in polands daily infections reached a record of nearly 14000 on friday as president andre duda visited the National Stadium which is being transformed into a Field Hospital due to whos 48 is now in quarantine after testing positive for coverage 19 he says he feels fine insisting he and his team followed the Safety Measures for damaged and separated i would like to apologize to everybody whos had to go into quarantine because they met with me in recent days please believe me if i had had any symptoms of coronavirus all meetings would have been cancelled. On saturday police in warsaw used tear gas against protesters angry about new restrictions the countrys entered a socalled red zone lockdown with a partial closure of primary schools and restaurants and people above the age of 70 have been asked to stay at home over the border in germany the coronavirus death toll is now more than 10000 the number of covered 900 patients in intensive care has jumped by 2 thirds in a week chancellor merkel has warned that peoples actions now will determine what the winter period will be like the isnt. Worth when not helpless in facing the virus our actions determine the strength and speed at which it spreads and whats imperative for all of us is to verges contact to meet fewer people. France has now followed spain in passing a milestone 1000000. 00 covered 1000. 00 cases since the pandemic started the capital paris is one of many cities under a nighttime curfew but organizers of a new on re matisse exhibition here at the pompey do center hope visitors can focus on happier themes even for a short while. I can point to we know just how joyous metate is painting was he himself was very open about it so its Perfect Timing because we need this sort of art today. Still here and elsewhere the virus threatens to bring back the truly dark days that so many countries went through earlier this year. Aljazeera. Well as actuation kennys continues to deteriorate in many countries across latin america we were speaking about that earlier i want to get more now on the outbreak that with daniel shine let joins us live now from when is iris and of course danny were just getting an update on whats happening here in europe and in latin america that was we saw that the virus started to escalate that much later than in europe but now it seems as though the epidemic is really growing in the region. And it really does seem to be the case the 1st case of 90 was reported in sao paolo it on the 26th of february and has a while to get going but really has taken off as you mentioned colombia in the next day or 2 likely to pass that grim 1000000 milestone of people infected theyve had 30000 deaths argentina has already passed that 1000000 a 1000000 people infected with 28000 deaths both of those countries imposed fairly tight restrictions that have suffered despite that the worst cases the worst country to suffer has been brazil where president also naro if you may remember called the corona virus nothing worse than the little flu he himself contracted the disease and managed to get it get over it but brazil has suffered over 5000000 people infected 157000 deaths and weve also got countries like peru and mexico approaching 900000 people infected so theyre likely to pass. A 1000000 people infected mark fairly fairly soon. With a big difference between latin america right think and europe is that the infrastructure here before the virus the pandemic hit was much much weaker. There are many hospital beds Education System is much weaker so they have suffered a lot more back in october last year the world bank park. A 1. 8 percent growth of the economies here across the region theyve since revised that to a 7. 2 percent shrinking of the economies across the region and that is translated into jobs being lost people losing their homes were already seeing more people out on the streets certainly here in argentina and right across right across the region so that is the implications of the covert 19 virus but what were having also is that people are out on the streets protesting in ever greater numbers calling on their governments to lift restrictions many millions of people here work in the informal economy they simply need to go to work to vive to be able to eat and theyre willing to take the risk of catching the virus simply because they need to work on people are out on the streets protesting were seeing increasing clashes with the orth already is at the same time the numbers of people infected and deaths continue to rise all right thanks very much for joining us staff and. Well the conflict now and im going to care about where armenia and azerbaijan are battling on 2 fronts theres the war on one side and the coronavirus on the other between them 2 nations have over 120000 people affected by the pandemic the head of an Infectious Disease ward in the capital of the disputed province say says that 9 out of every 10 people in the city of japan occur could have the virus now there are no official figures for this but it is thought that crime to bomb shelters could be excel aerating the spread aljazeera story chalons looks now a deadly relationship between the conflict and the coronavirus. Disease and war have been close companion since humans have been around. And this humanitys latest war is being accompanied by humanitys latest disease these are the shelters of step on a curtain nagornokarabakh during the recent bombardment people crammed together by no mosques the perfect environment for covert 19. 65 and papa spotted when people are forced to hide or be in a close spears like a bomb shelter we cannot speak about social distancing mosque wearing is the obligation of any human being you have a more dangerous problem in front of you as its war and we think peoples attention shifts and priorities change. The people fleeing the fighting in the going to carry back are taking the virus with them some 90000 have spread out across armenia near the border in the town of gori at least 60 refugees are living in this requisition School Building so on the 1st floor of this kindergarten beyond this door there are 5 families who are quarantining obviously we cant go any further than this but this lady has decided shed like to speak to us about it can you tell us what is happening why are you quarantining behind this to. The one that you know one of us got sick now hes in a stable condition he doesnt have fever the all good i just want our government to stop this war we have disease on one side and war on another. Of course its likely refugees are catching coded 19 from their Host Communities too and not just bringing it with them the virus is a problem all across this small country with more than 75000. 00 cases out of a population of nearly 3000000 armenia is in the worst 20 countries in the world the cases per 1000000 people on the other side of the battle lines azerbaijan is being hit by covert 19 to 7 cities and towns are now under lockdown but according to official figures the problem isnt as severe as armenias 5000. 00 cases per 1000000 of the population compared 225000 in armenia those being displaced by the fighting say theyre doing their best. Oh my goodness yes were worried about the coronavirus thats why were doing all the preventive actions to be safe were wearing the mask similar washing our hands and doing some of the disinfection neither the fight against covert 19 nor the fight against each other are over yet both will likely kill many more azeris and armenians rory chalons how does era armenia. Now the opposition in guinea is refusing to accept the results of sundays controversial president ial election the president alpha conde won a 3rd term with almost 60 percent of the vote but challenger. Had declared victory earlier in the week and his shot at palace reports theres anger that condit was even allowed to stand. For calm. 6 days after guinea voted for the president Electoral Commission announced president alpha conde would continue on for a 3rd term in office. 82 year old home day one with nearly 60 percent of the voters according to full preliminary tally and though it still requires confirmation by the Constitutional Court. The announcement follows a week of violence in the capital conakry opposition supporters angry conde could run at all in munch the government how to referendum to change the constitution which allowed conde to run past his 2 term limit opponents say hes broken the law to hold on to power con days main rivals allude. Declared himself the winner on wednesday Electoral Commission sued he only won a 3rd of the vote. Now it is for all of us to fight to preserve to defend our victory and you know that it is threatened by a conde who had no voters but had an army of fraudsters they have transformed the boat you expressed into another in favor of alpha conde we must not accept it. The government mobilized the army as opposition supporters flooded the streets. On day has manpower says 2010 instead of salute. We all the guinea reaches you f. T. G. Thats what given wants if you have d. G. Is not elected guinea will not be calm. Come days decision to run for a 3rd term has sparked repeated protests over the past year and resulted in dozens of deaths the government has denied using heavy handed tactics and accused the opposition of causing chaos on friday the internet and international cooling was cut off across getting. Guineas government faithful to his principle of preserving peace and social tranquility cannot allow this situation to take root we deplore the deaths and valves of their memory. All of them civilians and agents of the security forces. All the final tally has been announced the opposition right time and it will not be declining as a result they move in to contest the outcome in the Constitutional Court shelob ballasts aljazeera. So that for you on the ground. Dont blow up that dam. Its been a source of tension for years but would egypt really destroy if he had his 1000000000. 00 down. And migrants accuse croatian authorities of things and sexual abuse as they try to find a way to a better life in the year and. How there will be change of the clocks across much of europe this week and then rules are changing the weather as well weve got lots of collateral ling in from the atlantic quite an active weather system this tightly packed ice about some very strong winds sparkling of a cloud as well and you can see this cold front here thats going to drive some very heavy rain in across the northwest of europe eventually pushing down through the bad biscay into spy and poor skills so some pretty wet weather for a time as we go through sunday the early part of sunday easing across the low countries into germany and on into scandinavia russia showers are rattling away just spinning away across the Western Isles of scotland old apostle nor the knowledge i had of that not so bad we have got some showers just around hungry pushing across into rumania and into bulga area further north well 14 cells just dry and find the full eastern parts kiev for example well so what follows on behind as we go on in c monday some snow there over the high ground he possibility some localized flooding and that is back to santa ana showers across the northwest in a fresh 13 or 14 degrees celsius some woman across northern parts of africa want to see the showers up towards china but church of the showers the still affecting the gulf of guinea. Stranded at 8 long years on the su is canal. Creating their own community and economy the washing of prison for years you could go anywhere in aljazeera world tells the tale of 14 cargo vessels accidentally caught up in the arab israeli conflict it was quite a surprise to find myself in right in the middle of a war through the sailors whose ships survived the desert sands the yellow fleet on aljazeera. Welcome back lets update you on the headlines then germany in the Czech Republic of both hit new daily coronavirus case records as europes outbreak continues to get worse now this comes as polands president test positive and colombia has also had its millionth case of the virus there are growing concerns that people fleeing fighting between army near and azerbaijan and taking the virus with them its the crime to bomb shelters could be accelerating the spread and are all the headline story alpha conde has been declared the winner of guineas president ial election is supporters of celebrated the win but the countrys opposition has refused to accept the result. Of president on trump is joining millions of other americans in costing an early ballot head of the president ial election it went to a voting station in his private resort in West Palm Beach florida more than 50000000 americans have already voted with many opting for mail in ballots trying to had requested one even though hes regularly said that theyre open to fraud but hes offered no evidence to back up that playing. If youre much more secure that when you send in a ballot i could tell you that everything was perfect very strict right by the rules when you send in your ballots could never be like that you could never be secure like that theyve done a fantastic job will be great people and. So but its an honor to be running its an honor to be in this great area which i knew so well well opponent the democrat nominee joe bidens held a rally in another battleground state pennsylvania he told people that the election could come down to their vote cards are hurt unemployment is way out. Folks are worried about making their next rent or mortgage payment whether their health care will be ripped away in the middle of a pandemic worried about sending their kids to school worried about not sending their kids to school they see folks at the top doing much better. All the rest are wondering whos looking out for me thats Donald Trumps presidency. Patty cohen joins us live now from washington so its a its a mad dash through those battleground states and these final days before the election patty one of the one of the final pitches to voters looking like. Really theyre staying on message from what they had been saying but joe biden saying look how bad a job donald trump is done especially when it comes to crown of ayers donald trump basically targeting attacking pretty much everyone i want to go back a little bit and just point out that the president said there is a lie its not true absolutely no evidence 0 none that there is widespread voter fraud when it comes to malin voting and there are some analysts that say that that could actually bite him in the end because republicans are not showing up early to cast their ballots youre not seeing a large number of republicans mallon in their ballots possibly because the president spent so much time rallying against that move in the years no evidence to prove what hes been saying democrats i think are feeling pretty good right now because if you just look at a couple of the metrics fundraising joe biden has vastly outraised donald trump hes got a whole lot more money on hand and that matters because it costs money to get the vote out it costs money to get people into the stick to vote for you with Television Ads young people are breaking records weve not not seen melon voting early voting for people between the ages of 18 and 29 like this. If ever young people tend to favor democrats the polls show biden has a Comfortable Lead nationwide leading in the battleground states that matter but by a smaller margin the other thing is when you register to vote in this country you can say im a democrat im an independent arm republican so then people can exist see how youre voting so the melon ballots that have come in the vast majority are from democrats and independents get a slight mitt minority of republicans mailing in their ballots so why does that matter well election day in this country could be a very long day weve already seen in early voting in some states people waiting in line from 6 to 11 hours to vote and youd have to take the day off work to do that election day is on a tuesday here many people may not be able to wait that long if in fact turnout is as. Good as it is expected to be the number one takeaway right now is people care about this president ial election they are setting records in terms of voting not just because of the pandemic one expert said that he expects more people will vote in this country this year than they have done since 190865 percent of americans expected to cast their ballot that is remarkable because this is not a country where the majority of people usually vote so right now sides are looking good for democrats but democrats will tell you hey it looked good 2016 to look how that turned out all right thanks so much patty patty calling in washington now ethiopia has summoned the u. S. Ambassador to President Tr