policies of detainment really amounts to sort of all this misery because not absorb this number the people have to suffer in this way it is an excerpt of a refugee status on al-jazeera. making their final pitch the us presidential candidates seek to win over undecided voters with just one week to go before the election. hello there are more of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a general election end times a live overshadowed by ickes ations the government has stifle dissent. marching against police brutality demonstrators and philadelphia denounce the killing of

a black man by officers. and fears among south korean fishermen over japan's plans to dump greater active water into the sea. the u.s. presidential candidates are making their final push to win over voters with just one week before the election there crisscrossing the country campaigning in key battleground states so far more than 60000000 americans have already voted that's record that could lead to the highest of voter turnout in this century mike hanna reports. a final for next week week of campaigning before election day president trump doing a swing through 3 of the states with polls indicate he is neck and neck with joe biden wisconsin michigan and the brusk. attempting to remove one issue from the agenda at the beginning of the day tweeting fake news media is going full on.

we are rounding the turn 99.9 percent. and he's attempting to reset the conversation around an economy he claims to have revived it's troubling the number one reason that i'm standing here because of trade and how we turn that around thanks 7 days from now we're going to win the great state voters we're going to win 4 more years in the war. but joe biden kept the discussion sent to done what he describes as a trumpet ministrations failure to deal effectively with the pandemic this administration has yet to offer a single plan that's one of the reasons why the most one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world the new england journal of medicine called the president quote dangerously incompetent went on to say president turned

a crisis into a tragedy i'm ready that act. i know what to do. biden spent the day in georgia which polls indicate has come strongly into play for the democratic party it's been a solidly republican state for decades but full clinton the last democratic candidate to take it back in 1992 the fact that democrats believe there's a chance of biden winning it is a clear sign of how the traditional electoral landscape is changing another good sign for the democratic party is the massive number of votes that have already been cast close to 70000000 americans have already voted that's more than a half the number of total ballots cast 4 years ago but the biden campaign warns against complacency traditionally it's republicans who cast the most votes in

person on election day a factor that could still tilt the balance mike hanna al-jazeera washington. polls opened in tanzania as presidential and parliamentary elections president john mara food is seeking a 2nd term but leading up to the vote the government has been accused of cracking down on dissent on choosing the opposition in the semi autonomous island of zanzibar said least 8 people were killed during protests against ballot fraud catherine sawyer reports from neighboring kenya. president john palmer marco fully popularly nicknamed the bulldozer wrapped up his campaign in the dhamma the new capital of tanzania some analysts say he is favorite to win and throughout the campaign he's exhibited confidence outlining his achievements in the last 5 years staring clear of accusations that his government has ruled by violently clamping down on critics and curtailing the freedoms of the media.

a minute. let's protect peace in tanzania peace will prevail if you vote for me for another 5 years alone bring even more development and progress. now go fully his main opponent to listen finished his campaign in the former capital director was the reason he returned home from belgium to run for president he left tanzania 3 years ago critically injured when he was shot multiple times pass aliens who haven't been caught he's accused the president of being a dictator and doubts the election will be credible. there wasn't a local mission has the responsibility of preventing where is in bed announcing it is not before cowed to he's concluded he's creating. do not allow them to announce pretty much what is or even go to this i go to is also being held in the semi

autonomous indian ocean. which has a history of contested polls and violence after results are announced opposition leaders have accused police of using force on protesters who allege some ballot papers had been pre-marked there is no doubt of this election. without doubt issues. of course. the playground not limb. both in terms of our institutions which are governing or managing this election as well as the conduct of the security agencies in the run up to the selection of. the ruling party candidate dr has and with the son of a former president and a relative newcomer into politics is up against safe sheriff might compel me for the 6th time state he won the last presidential election 5 years ago the result was

announced by the electoral commission and he played quite actively by some analysts fear that an opposition defeat could trigger another violent fall out with the ruling party cathy zoi al-jazeera. saying i will back or as an observer where tanzania elections watch he says the opposition will struggle to challenge the ruling party given the context of what is going on in tanzania it is very difficult to have credible elections in tanzania but we would not like to call this elections at this i want to do a lot all the time we wish you well to go through the remaining steps that begin this morning encounter what the context is such that it is new or level playing field and that. political actors other than the party

actors and how great a challenge to compete evenly with. those of the ruling party and this is partly. a situation or the constitutional legal and administrative infrastructure that has a legacy of single party. politics and have not been updated to allow for democratic multi-party competition. europe is struggling to contain the spread of coded 19 many countries in are dealing with a 2nd wave in france the death rate has doubled in the past 24 hours tighter restrictions to battle the outbreak of course protests in rome police fired tear gas at demonstrators angry over restaurants and bars having to close at 6 pm some protests turned violent with rubbish bins set on fire and shops looted. and medical

workers in spain have gone on strike to demand better safety and working conditions they say they're exhausted after months of dealing with the pandemic and plan to strike on the last tuesday of every month until their demands are met a lot of her reports from madrid. doctors across spain came out in the thousands for a 24 hour nationwide strike medics are calling for better working conditions and more health spending as the number of coffee 1000 cases continue to rise spain with more than 1000000 cases and 35000 deaths is one of the worst affected countries in europe we are now in the middle of the 2nd wave of spain especially in madrid. all the health workers are very exhausted because we are very tired from the from the 1st wave. we're tired physically and mentally there is not enough. praise or we have no the making of our. clearly source and confinement

mess or work on the way to we feel. from nowhere poultices after years of whole service cast and after battling on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring doctors are taking action they are demanding better conditions and improved safety before they are in merced in the 2nd wave of current 19 of the strike came as a spanish government unveiled its budget for 2021 with the promise to 150 percent increase in health spending the coalition government led by better sanchez has already imposed a state of emergency given central government shipping powers including restrictions on freedom of movement a curfew has been introduced from 11 pm until 6 am everywhere except it can marry islands the state of emergency does also give regional governments some powers. to

try to stop the spread of virus each region will be able to apply its all measures after a central and regional governments clash on the best way to battle a pandemic the central government hopes to extend the state of emergency until may next year but for the stay need the backing of other political parties and that won't happen without a fight. meanwhile covered cases continue to spiral upwards not that i don't i guess eat out much of it. so has had on al-jazeera and being a lifeline in cuba how new u.s. sanctions will impact those were lying on money sent from abroad you and me and rolling out the red carpet with very little fanfare we take one a look at how one of the world's most famous film festivals will be different this year.

at the moment the weather throughout the arabian peninsula through heart everything you can see with the exception the caucasus and turkey is quite quiet and despite this winding up storm around greece the effect has not been felt and probably won't be felt in the band is too quiet on the warm side here that runs through western society as well gentle breeze down the gulf there has about 30 or 31 that's fair enough and there are showers not just off the coast of yemen affecting so culture on the horn of africa the warmth is maybe telling in the damascus shows it may be best 24 is the average this time the down to 8 at night and you're up to 30 down to about 12 so it's warm both day and night of course it's not just the masses that picking up the rain in the whole of africa that means some rain for somalia rather less so for ethiopia rather less so for south sudan the source of it is for the census so places like rwanda and uganda this is where it will be wettest and that's true for the west and gamble come ridin down to angola as well as the republic of

the congo south of that it's a lovely dry picture it has been very warm recently in both south africa and botswana the world has prompted some showers they're still there but equally johannesburg is still warm. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land stripping away the spin. about presidential corruption it is real it's not if you're challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to tell our we don't want to rely on authority and it's media listening post on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminded of our top stories this hour close to 70000000 americans have already voted with so one week to go before the u.s. presidential elections the krona far as pandemic continues to cast a shadow over campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections in the past week. polls have opened in tanzania's presidential and parliamentary elections president john mica food is seeking a 2nd 5 year term as government has been accused of suppressing his critics the opposition. and police initially have fired tear gas at people protesting against new covert 19 measures much of europe is seeing a spike in infections as

a 2nd wave hits the continent. has been the 2nd lights of protests against police brutality in the u.s. city of philadelphia it will demonstrated against the death of get another black at the hands of offices on their reports from philadelphia. protesters gathered at night to voice their anger over the police killing of a black man monday afternoon a killing they say did not need to happen cell phone footage shows police shooting 27 year old walter wallace jr police say wallace was wielding a knife wallace's mother says her son had mental health issues and needed help and begged the police not to shoot him. the shooting comes in a year that's already seen mass protests against systemic racism and police brutality across the country was. anger frustration but also determination 3 words that come to mind as for the 2nd straight night protesters

are on the streets calling for justice earlier in the evening another protest outside the police station near where the shooting took place karen school field who has lived in the neighborhood for over 40 years wondered why police had to shoot wallace so many times there what are you feeling right now. i feel her i feel . i feel that i have 3 my hands were and ok and what i'm seeing yesterday was great big deal ok i'm not saying i'm against the police but there's the other way that we have a knife what happened to a taser what happened to shoot women. ok i know i shouldn't have killed them ok we all guys children ok this is ridiculous others were calling for peace we don't want any. dangerous given station we don't want any looting we want people to channel day energies elsewhere can you understand why there's so much anger on the streets

with a young black man right now yes i can understand it because they are at risk did they did did their being shut down know anybody that about others but didn't know would be those that we that we will sort of protect also. when you when you know kind of. can you turn to. there was however further outbreaks of isolated looting on tuesday night far away from the scene of the protests dozens of people taking from a store in the north east to deceive. another black man dead in america anger on the streets police on the defensive in what has become an all too familiar cycle. al-jazeera philadelphia and poland demonstrations continue. on abortions a ruling by the country's constitutional court means a procedure may soon be legal only in extreme cases including rape or incest or

i i defended what demonstrators say a reproductive rights opposition m.p.'s brought protests to the floor of poland's parliament on cheese day chanting this is war. thousands of joint daily marches across the country in defiance of kovac 19 restrictions in the capital warsaw streets were blocked bringing traffic to a standstill. i am so sorry i need to fight for my daughter's future i cannot imagine not being everything is. ok if follows last week's ruling by poland's constitutional court that abortions in all but a few cases are legal the move paves the way for the governing rightwing lauren justice party to approve a final determinations even in cases of fetal defects and when there is no chance of survival outside the womb abortion will only be allowed in cases of rape incest

a where there's a threat to the mother's life. poland's prime minister promised to defend what conservatives see as an unborn child's right to life son of the parents for the rights of people keep their polls the freedom of choice truly is a fundamental thing that we should all agree that in order to have this freedom of choice one needs to be a life the one who is dead cannot implement one's right to freedom of choice. but the moves led to fears about a possible rise in the legal procedures how can you see just how about this law will not to crease the number of aborted foetuses it will do is put women's lives in danger because they'll be less prenatal screening it will put children's lives in danger too because they will not be tested 3 prenatal screenings. on sunday activists disrupted church services across the country poland's predominantly roman catholic church strongly opposed to abortion wields enormous influence on the

musette the country even further apart from the european mainstream e.u. leaders have accused the polish government of violating shared standards for years and a rolling back of democratic reforms demonstrators have promised many more days of action. police in hong kong have arrested 3 people from a student group advocating for the city's independence from mainland china as the area is said to show tony chung leader of the disbanded group student localism being led away by officers he was taken near the u.s. consulate where he was reportedly about seeking asylum the group was arrested under a controversial security nor imposed by china this year sarah clarke is in hong kong with more on those arrests. overnight the police have confirmed the arrest of those 3 activists this is 19 year old chinese children 17 year old jani her and 16 year old william chan other charges have been laid in those offenses are of

relating to the national security laws the police say they were breaching the national security laws in connection with some social media posts but uploaded since september they've also been charged with offenses of inciting others to seek independence now attorney children reports that he was actually detained when he was approaching the u.s. consulate here in central hong kong there's a group called friends of hong kong based in the u.k. it says he was seeking asylum but he was arrested before he managed to get inside that building that he arrived potentially we believe early and as a result went to a coffee shop across the right and this is where he was detained the other 2 they were arrested early on chu saying they were arrested when they're reporting to police on those various charges that have been laid already under the national security laws that they were charged with those offenses back in july and now they also belong to a group known as a student localism and this particular group it was just disbanded before the national security law was introduced a back in july 1st but that particular group has been accused of promoting independence from mainland china. in the u.s.

too big wildfires are raging through parts of southern california powerful winds are fanning the flames in orange county where the 100000 people have been forced to leave their homes and local electricity company says it's equipment may have accidentally started one of the fires has been following develops developments from los angeles. well these are 2 major fires that are burning in the. area south of los angeles orange county which is mostly a quite affluent area a 100000 people have been forced to leave their homes under mandatory evacuation orders and the fires have burned a considerable amount of of land now the 1st one the largest one is a wind driven fire that local officials are calling the silverado fire it is a burning in the brush covered hills near the city of irvine so far it has burned

more than $5000.00 hectors and is only about 5 percent contained. and national outcry over japan's potential plan to release radioactive water into the ocean the waters from the crippled fukushima nuclear plant where engineers continue to deactivate the reactors damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami bride traveled to the southeast coast of south korea where communities are worried about possible radioactive pollution. lead junko and his son lemo ya'll this is a family business that's been built up over 30 years a fish farm j i learned a community that is heavily dependent on these waters. in the season for fishing in the threes important both fishing and fish farming we have both here demand for their fish was already suffering because of the pandemic and the postponement of

the 2020 tokyo olympics has meant japanese fish farms have been dumping unwanted stock onto the open market further driving down prices but it's what might be coming next from japan that has everybody worried at the fukushima nuclear plant steadily increasing rows of tanks now hold more than a 1000000 tonnes of mostly groundwater that has flowed into the site becoming radioactive with storage space due to run out in 2022 there's growing speculation it might be released into the ocean. i think we can't hold off making a decision on the policy forever we will take us apart ability as a government to make a decision on how to dispose of the contaminated water possibly japan insists the water is treated to remove the most harmful radiation and that it is safe enough to release a claim disputed by environmentalists and it sparked strong opposition in northeast

asia especially been known for we hope that the japanese government will act with a high scenes of responsibility towards its own people neighbor. in countries and the international community. most people in fukushima are opposed to the plan including local fisherman who fear their livelihoods could be devastated and people here believe it's only a matter of time before the radioactive water finds its way to these shores the leaf family says even if discovered in the tiniest amounts any radiation in fish stocks would ruin its business. if there is even a slight problem it would harm not only trust in japan but also confidence in our fish so i think it's not just south korea but all countries that should be concerned nearly 10 years on from the devastating tsunami the legacy of it might be about to deliver another unwelcome shock rob mcbride al jazeera j island south korea money transfer service western union is closing hundreds of off says end of

the us and pays new sanctions and prevent western union from dealing with the military one company that controls remittances into the country more than $400.00 officers will be shot which will affect many cubans who rely on money from relatives abroad funds worth is vice president of the council of the americas he tells us more about who will be affected. the people who most likely be affected in addition of the cuban military of course will be the recipients of the remittances which is the common people in cuba and they're not just in the major metropolitan cities like atlanta but they're also spread out around the country and rural areas which are already hurting because of economic slowdown pandemic and the why so the people who will be heard from the ones who rely on remittances really to meet their basic daily and weekly needs are trying to target the cuban military which does

have its hand in the the remittance transactions in fact it runs the remittances on the island of cuba and so in trying to get at the military to squeeze the sources of income to reduce financing to the cuban government they're taking this step and it's not an insignificant step i mean remittances to cuba every year represent some $3000000000.00 u.s. dollars of hard currency to the island some reports would indicate it's the 2nd highest source of foreign income for cuba so this is a big deal if indeed the spigot is shut off the government of the united states has given 30 days to try to come up with some sort of solution to try to work out a solution with the cuban government. the red carpet has been rolled out and fronts for a scaled down version of one of the world's most famous film festivals the cannes

film festival was postponed and made you to the crowd of eyes pandemic movie. it's now going ahead but some are worried the event will never be the same again and the c.e.o. reports. the show must go on only 4 films will be shown and no major prizes will be given for the cannes film festival is happening 5 months after it was postponed open to the public seats are distanced and face masks are mandatory. organizers say the 3 day mini event won't compare to the original but it will be a boost to the cinema industry hit hard by the pen demick. we figured we wanted to light up the screen the city has been highly impacted by the crisis we still wanted to create a celebration of film here we decided to do this many of it not a mini festival in can but a mini moment to all be to give it to show the films to invite the creators earlier this month france imposed a nighttime curfew on 2 thirds of the country as corona virus cases there past

1000000 it's now the epicenter of the 2nd wave of cold but 90 infections sweeping much of europe. festival goers say the cannes festival offers a great distraction from reality. even with the mosques on you have to take safety measures but it's important to take your mind off it. if it's. i think it's good to be able to continue dreaming even though the same much anxiety right now. we don't know what all what the health situation will be like but we hope that next year it will go back to normal and. also absent from the can red carpet this year are the biggest names in hollywood card really across this makes. a list star burned on over here are wearing fabulous fashion and so i don't know that we're going to that in the new year maybe definitely not. ration that we have seen it

before or i mean a western you know art in the past in a different kind of way but the downscaled festival means only a few films will get global exposure and one of them is the beginning. there's a religious drama by 1st time george and director they are really 2 french comedies a japanese drama and several short movies will also be shown on the. screen in cannes in a festival known for premiering some of the creative spill most of the time and soon just. go around to 0 these are our top stories with just a week to go until the u.s. presidential election a record 69000000 americans have already voted both sides have been campaigning furiously as the coronavirus pandemic into.