 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the major newsday elements from around the world. Our headlines International observers for upcoming Bolivian elections face harassment and threats, health workers protest in France amid COVID-19 spike, Palestinian administrative detainee on verge of death as this hunger strike nears 90 days, fishermen oppose release of contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, and Houthi rebels in Saudi-backed Yemeni government begin prisoner swap deal. In our first story this week, international observers who arrived in Bolivia for the elections that are going to be held on 18th October have reported harassment and threats from right-wing extremists in the country. Contributors for the grey zone who arrived in Bolivia as part of the international allegation have said that their photos were taken and circulated on social media accompanied by threats of violence. They have accused a minister in the right-wing coup government, Arturo Murilopiric of coming out with veiled threats on Twitter. Hours after the photos of the observers were circulated online, he came out with a tweet that read, warning the agitators and people who seek to generate violence that they are not welcome. In his tweet he also threatened that he would put them on a plane and behind bars and he told them to behave and added that we know who you are and where you are. The observers have claimed that the threats they are receiving is just one example of to quote them, the suffocating atmosphere of right-wing intimidation in Bolivia on the eve of the election. They added that the campaign of menacing has targeted not only the movement towards socialism party of former elected president Ivor Morales, which is leading in all the major polling, but even international electoral observers approved by the government of Jeanine Ernest. The coup government had also recently approved a controversial decision to let the organization of American states oversee the upcoming elections. The OAS spread unsubstantiated claims accusing the government of president Ivor Morales of electoral fraud last year. This was followed by the coup that overthrew him. These accusations have since then been debunked by leading international experts including scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. Incidents such as these have raised concerns from all sides regarding the Ernest's government's intention to carry out open and fair elections. On Thursday, the French health workers organized a demonstration outside the Ministry of Health in Paris amidst a fresh rise in COVID-19 cases in the country. The protesting health workers are demanding increased employment through an immediate hike in wages and improved working conditions. In light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases since last week, French President Emmanuel Macron had declared a state of health emergency in Paris on Wednesday. Protests were also held in various hospitals and healthcare centers across the country. As part of the protest, healthcare workers and trade unions including the General Confederation of Labour have also initiated a campaign on social media. Protesters have also urged parliamentarians in the country to come up with a new law or a plan to save public hospitals. Doctors, nurses and other staff in the accident and emergency departments of around 250 hospitals in France have been on strike since the spring of 2019 with similar demands. As Paris and other parts of the country saw a new spike in COVID-19 cases, authorities have announced a curfew between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. in the capital city. According to latest figures from the government agencies, the number of hospitalizations for coronavirus increased in France by 6,529. With nearly 810,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, France is the second country with the second highest infection rate in Europe behind Spain. In our next story, as of Thursday, Palestinian administrative detainee Mahir Akhras has seen a significant deterioration in his health after completing 82 days of his hunger strike. Akhras had lodged his hunger strike in the end of July this year, following his arrest to protest against his illegal administrative detention by Israeli authorities. Palestinian activists and political leaders had expressed concern regarding his health at Bethlehem on Tuesday, saying that he was on the verge of death. The news of the decline in his health condition comes as the Israeli High Court on Monday rejected an emergency petition by his lawyer seeking for his immediate release. The court only offered to not extend the administrative detention for Akhras, following the completion of his current term. But even this was on the condition that the prisoner immediately end his hunger strike. Administrative detention has been widely criticized as policy Israel uses to hold suspected resistance fighters in Palestine without charge. Meanwhile, on the last couple of days, several protestant demonstrations were organized across the occupied Palestinian territories, calling for his immediate and unconditional release. In our next story, in Japan, local fishermen and environmental groups are opposing the government's decision to release millions of tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. On Thursday, the government has announced that the water which is kept in over a thousand containers will be gradually released into the sea to create new space for storage. The company which operates the plant, Tokyo Electric Power, has claimed to have collected over 1.23 million tons of contaminated water since the collapse of the nuclear plant in 2011. As per TEPCO, if this collected water is not released, the site will run out of water storage by 2022. Local fishermen and environmental groups have opposed the move citing the potential damage it can cause to both the local seafood industry and the marine environment. The Fukushima Daishi nuclear plant has been under the process of being decommissioned since 2011. In that year, an earthquake and a tsunami struck the plant. The incident partially damaged the plant and led to the release of radioactive contaminated material. At least one person has been exposed and reported dead due to exposure to the leak from the plant and several others were injured. According to reports, the release of contaminated water stored in 1044 tanks at the site will be gradual and take decades to complete. The authorities have also assured that the water will be released after decontamination and a safeway. However, local fishermen have argued that due to the 2011 accident, people had stopped buying their products and that they are still fighting against the rumors of contaminated seafood. Fresh release of contaminated water has raised concerns of another such backlash. Environmental groups have long opposed such moves because the uncertainty of the process and the lack of studies or its impact on the marine environment, particularly the impact of Romanian Tresium on treated water. And finally, on Thursday, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government of President Abdurah Mansur Hadi and the rebel Houthis initiated a prisoner swap deal. The development is being seen as a significant confidence building measure between the two sites. It raises hopes for an eventual end to the bloody conflict in Yemen. The news comes yesterday after reports of another prison swap brokered by Yeoman that saw the Houthis release two U.S. nationals in exchange for around 250 fighters. The two Yemeni factions had agreed to a prisoner swap deal in Switzerland last month involving 1,081 prisoners, which include 15 Saudi nationals. The Houthi official in charge of prison affairs indicated that the process will take place over Thursday and Friday. The UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, expressed hope that the warring sides would meet soon again and enter UN broker talks to conclude future prisoner swap deals. He added that such peaceful dialogue had been effective in eschewing progress, seconds violence, and war. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching People's Dispatch. Pied cantar, que vamos a triunfar Avanzaña, banderas de unidad Y tu vendrás, machando junto a mi Y así verás Tu cantoy, tu bandera, flores en la luz