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more data we produce we're in the midst of a great race for dot and big tech companies are in the chips and right now while information we have a commodity in the 2nd series i'll be re-examined is where the corporations are. like. power of pick track just. in search of victory president donald trump and his rival joe biden make their final push in crucial swing states ahead of tuesday's u.s. election. hello i'm comfortable this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. at least 2 people killed in
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a super typhoon gone it hits the philippines with winds of up to 280 kilometers per hour. another lock down for england this time for one month as it like other european countries grapples with spiraling corona virus infections plus. i'm katrina in beijing where a nationwide census is expected to reveal the slowing birth rate and alluding aging lysis. with less than 3 days until the 2020 u.s. presidential election both candidates are making a final push in key battleground states donald trump went to 4 rallies in pennsylvania in just 10 hours his democratic challenger joe biden told michigan the help of former president barack obama white house correspondent kimberly heloc it has more from the campaign trail. with less than 72 hours. until election day
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president trump started early for a full day of campaigning 4 different stops in the northeastern state of pennsylvania in just 10 hours trump narrowly won pennsylvania in 2016 and on tuesday he's hoping to do it again and if we win pennsylvania it's over. this is one of a handful of states the trump campaign considers a must win for reelection what i didn't expect from such good friends leading in national polls former vice president joe biden skipped pennsylvania on saturday instead he joined former president barack obama fighting for votes in another election battleground michigan i believe the most is going to be loud and it's going to be clear it's time for donald trump the pack is back sandro we're done here is the chaos the treats burying her they hate the fair here their future to
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take any responsibility the pair blamed for the rising cases of covert 19 in the united states america just had its single worst week of new covert cases and what's his closing argument here we are the worst week this week and we were been going to snow for months the federal government has had an opportunity to respond for months. back in pennsylvania trump painted an apocalyptic picture of a biden presidency joe biden go shut down your economy wipe out your factories and shut down your state ship your jobs to china raise your taxes but trump trails his democratic rival in this state steal his supporters are adamant trump will win pennsylvania and the election i think the majority of the polls
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are pretty wrong i think there's a lot of trump supporters that don't come out publicly and say you know and support you know. because they're afraid as of saturday just one in 3 voters in pennsylvania had cast their ballot donald trump is making a push to win over those remaining voters in a state that could help decide the outcome of the u.s. election kimberly held at al-jazeera reading pennsylvania. right to basic also is an election for costa she explains the difference between polling data now and in 2016 when it favored the losing candidates. it really is important to understand there are very important differences in the data this time around in 2016 and that most important difference would be the tremendously high number of undecided voters that remain in the 2016 polls that is not
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a feature of these 2020 polls that said you know trump does push things to outside the bounds of normal democratic you know rules and so we are looking at of the election here where the you know trump and never republican party are looking to exclude ballots and other things so it's it's not going to be a pretty election one way that the polls were wrong in terms of them actually being wrong and not interpreted wrong was under a waiting are representing non-college educated voters which is of course the trump base this cycle pollsters are waiting heavily for those if anything there's a built in bias towards trump so there might be an underestimation frankly of biden support. and again we just don't have the level of uncertainty and in 2016 voters really didn't like either a nominee and in this case you know people like biden ok they're not love them like
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they charge base loves her own on the left or on the other side people who are more into truck than they are pro biden but there isn't that unsettled now that we're seeing in the day and so you know again if the if the all the ballots are kept are counted that we should really see a decisive biden win. saturday is the last day to vote early in the u.s. state of north carolina the state's democratic party is accusing lord force mint and one city of voter intimidation police and graham pepper sprayed a group of demonstrators who had marched to the town square to encourage people to vote at least 8 people were arrested the police department has defended its actions that accuse the marchers of blocking traffic. economist at stanford university say president trump's election rallies could have led to more than $30000.00 additional covered 19 infections they also estimate there were as many as $700.00 more deaths this study is based on a statistical model applied to rallies from june to september in all the actual
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tracing of cases the paper which did not cite disease experts among its author also has not been peer reviewed. mexico says it has no record of unaccompanied migrant children entering the country as a response for new york times report that says more than 200 children from central america have been expelled from the u.s. to mexico of the past 8 months they reportedly were sent back alone with no adult and no one to receive them across the border mexican government says it will continue to investigate. these 2 people have been killed as super typhoon gone one of the most powerful this year hits the eastern philippines. the weather agency says across the coast with catastrophic lee violent winds gusting up to 280 kilometers per hour about a 1000000 people have been evacuated from its projected path the power of god is evoking memories of typhoon haiyan which led left more than 7300 people dead or
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missing 2030. british prime minister boss johnson is putting england back into lockdown for a month after being warned the resurgent coronavirus are break threatened to overwhelm hospitals within weeks austria's announced similar measures adding to a growing list of european countries re imposing restrictions they've banker appoints from london a major u. turn in the british government's covert 19 strategy for weeks the prime ministers insisted on local restrictions to avoid the need for a nationwide lockdown but infections have just continued rising as across much of europe the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst case scenario of our scientific advisors from thursday into the store to december. you must stay at home you merely leave home for specific reasons i'm afraid non-essential shops leisure and entertainment venues will be closed the virus is
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spreading much faster than forecast the 2nd peak could be one and a half times higher than the 1st with as many as 4000 deaths a day the government hopes to use the new lockdown as an opportunity to dramatically accelerate testing there is one consolation though schools and universities can remain open and relief for parents struggling with childcare leading scientists advise the british government last month to introduce a 2 week circuit breaker when the infection rate started to creep up again the government resisted citing concerns over the health of the economy in scotland where tighter restrictions have been in place in september there is some evidence to suggest that the infection rate there is. in here in england boris johnson's gamble hasn't paid off the u.k. isn't the only country to announce a nationwide lockdown the austrian chancellor's order the closure of restaurants and hotels from choose day high schools and universities will move lessons online
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and they'll be a nightly curfew the measures remain in place until early december the greek government also announced a partial lockdown from tuesday with mandatory mask wearing and gatherings banned one by one europe's largest economies are switching from a piecemeal approach to the pandemic to more drastic measures france and germany reintroduced nationwide restrictions earlier this week the world health organization urged countries to act sooner or recover faster. but with many of europe's economies in trouble the prospect of more months of covert confinement is difficult to bear neave parker al-jazeera london. the concerns about a 2nd wave are covered 19 in summer trees have been closed to prevent people from gatherings the traditional day of the dead celebrations and all new infections have been slowing people are being warned not to be complacent about protection daniel
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reports. despite a tight lockdown early on peru has struggled to contain the virus with $34000.00 deaths it has one of the highest per capita fatality rates in the world more than $100000.00 people have been infected the rate of increase has been falling but your thora to say there's no room for complacency emerged in the year we have had weeks and months of good results do not affect this trend by being irresponsible. cemeteries in the capital lima would normally receive more than $100000.00 visitors for this week's traditional day of the dead festivities this year they're closed and the more. we usually have gatherings of the public in our symmetries thousands of people but faced with this we decided to close our cemeteries to stop a wave of infections. some restrictions have in recent weeks been lifted in efforts to activate peru's economy which is set to contract when you least 13 percent this
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year the worst slump in a century healthcare professionals say they still lack the resources they need more than i think feeling like we are not receiving enough protective equipment we are not receiving the test sci fi infected or not as the decree mandates it should be done every 7 days but we are receiving it every 15 days or every month and some places are not even performing tests that are. adding to the strain health workers began a vaccination program off to peru recorded its 1st case of pit bierria in 20 years a disease often more contagious in the coronavirus the 5 year old patient died. through does have one story to celebrate. born in. a hospital 3 months prematurely and with the cold with 1000 virus is going home it's only loud it's a miracle it's a miracle that we are together that we can have contact as mother and child for me for he too is a symbol of love hope and above all else faith she can track to the virus in june
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or he doorway just 580 grams when he was born but battled through to become peru's youngest cobbett 19 survivor and now to 0. there's anger and frustration in spain overcovered 19 restrictions protests in several cities including madrid turned violent demonstrators that size and threw bricks at police officers they in turn fired blank bullets spain's prime minister has condemned the arm rest 6 month state of emergency came into effect this week because corona virus cases started rising once again. still ahead on al-jazeera vote counting is under way into what is parliamentary elections also. 5 feet of rescuers race against the clock to save people trapped under rubble in turkey friday's powerful earthquake killed dozens of people.
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but. the weather is still set fabric cross the middle east lots of fine and pleasant sunshine nazi hot pleasantly warm then we have got some cloud some showers up towards the black sea some wetter weather sliding across northern and central parts of turkey eventually heading over towards armenia georgia maybe into john as we go through monday and on into cheese day could see just around syria lebanon jordan maybe or shouts into northern parts of iran but to the south of that there we go with a lovely sunshine 31 celsius here in doha with lots of pleasant weather coming through we got showers meanwhile across central parts of africa as we should do we have got some western weather for a time coming into somalia maybe into central and southern parts of here as well south sudan still seeing some unusually wet weather here democratic republic of
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congo seeing some rather heavy showers as well and the showers extend all the way down across the gulf of guinea northern parts of angola seeing some rather wet weather the wet as well the probably lingering around the rift valley but we could see some showers moving into coastal parts of tanzania for south africa well here we do have some very heavy rain in the forecast over the next couple of days it could lead to some flooding for many by monday. do you feel validated in some way is a type of performative activism. let's go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist the lights are on there's nowhere to hide join me richelle carey is up at the front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. from. his era.
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go to college there are a reminder of our top stories this hour just 3 days until the u.s. presidential election both kinds of it's a fuss and votes in battleground states trump is holding rallies in pennsylvania joe biden is on the road with former president barack obama to woo voters in michigan. super typhoon going to be one of the most powerful this year is hitting the east in philippines the weather agency says across the coast with catastrophic pre-funded winds gusting up to 280 kilometers per hour about a 1000000 people have been evacuated from its projected path. and britain's prime
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minister is putting him moved back into lockdown for a month at the different groan of virus infections down the other u.k. countries scotland wales and northern ireland have already imposed varying lockdown measures. a greek orthodox priest has been shot and wounded in the french city of leone as the country reels from another deadly church attack days earlier the priest was fired on twice with a sawn off shotgun as he was leaving for the day a man is in custody. and 5 people have been arrested over thursday's church attack in nice 4 in france another man in tunisia is accused of releasing a video claiming responsibility on behalf of an armed group that has more from nice . here in nice have been a lot of people police patrols they've been increased around this specific are all day people have been arriving to pay tribute to the victims of the knife attack on thursday night and during that time politicians been making some extreme statements
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some who said that they should change the constitution to allow a proper war to be fought on those who are who are coming from extreme islam is ideology they're not trying to say there's a war against the religion of islam but against this extreme ideology and at the same time president has reached out to try and calm events here and across the world he said that he of course understood why cartoons of the prophet muhammad did upset many muslims but he said also that any violence was unacceptable so he's moving towards trying to to moderate his tone at least to try and bring back to the communities to the values of france to police here in nice and across the country and they are sending out many more patrols they've got assault
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rifles with them also there will be increased army patrols as part of operation central the number of troops on the ground in france will increase from 30027000 more than doubled to make sure the curacy around all the bundled places places like public park parks places like places of worship for all creeds and of course schools so tense and nervous here in nice and across many parts of france because they believe that there could be more attacks. protesters in pakistan's biggest city karate have burnt effigies of french president emanuel called as the demonstrators in several demonstrations in several. muslim countries after mccollum defended the right to mock religion in the hours to crackdown on what he described as radical islam there were some of protests in pakistan's capital islamabad on friday. hundreds of people ramallah in the occupied west bank protested to chanting
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anti front slogans thousands of people also took part in rallies in hebron and east jerusalem earlier this week and i am a concept down without so to discuss the way very he says the problems he is confronting are a threat to all people especially muslims the prophet mohammad the guy get you on the field. mission man welcome paula listen to monks and i understand the sentiments being expressed and i respect them but you must understand my role right now it's to do 2 things to promote calm and also to protect these rights. what i want to say is very clear that today in the world there are people who distort islam and in the name of this religion that they claim to defend they kill they slaughter they make speeches justifying a kind of expulsion of human groups from the world today there is violence practiced by some extremist movements and individuals in the name of islam. of course this is a problem for us from because muslims are the 1st victims and as i mentioned before
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more than 80 percent of the victims of terrorism or muslims and this is a problem for all of us. rescue workers are racing against time to save people they believe are trapped under the rubble in turkey a powerful earthquake on friday hit the turkish province of is near and the greek island of a samo struggling a small tsunami at least 44 people have been killed and hundreds more injured cynical see all the reports. this is the aftermath of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake. when the buildings and as more provinces collapsed within seconds killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds. some were buried alive this woman and her 3 children were pulled out of the rubble 23 hours after to earthquake. there are similar stories throughout as my province here people wait to hear for any news and a sign that their loved ones may still be alive but that the rubble tried because
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of people my sister is trapped under this 8 story building she just came home from work we waited with hope but she still hasn't been rescued yet she loved animals they rescued her cats there have been more than 615 aftershocks is friday's earthquake people in this region of turkey and in nearby greek islands have been a warrant of further damage. most of the collapsed buildings were apartment blocks but there are still people in this building again until we get this last person we always keep ourselves more to wait at that we're going to find someone alive so based the idea still. despite their efforts at least one mother and her 2 children couldn't make it their bodies were recovered from one of the flattened buildings home to at least 60 other families. north korea has a systematically selective chain because of the grant because of the building because of the age of the building and the the cement the quality of different
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formats the fact that turkey has lost all beings and we are trying to i mean rebuild we are trying to change buildings search and rescue workers are still looking for people who may be trapped under the rubble for families who have been here outside all they can do is wait patiently for some good news the emergency teams i'm hopeful they can rescue some more survivors. the turkish red crescent has sent tents beds and food to the region but depend and the need for social distancing could at yet another challenge to the state's aster see now because so little al-jazeera is mere western turkey. freezing breaking news now 7 current and former pro-democracy politicians in hong kong have been arrested doesn't appear to be related to the national security nor beijing imposed on the city earlier this year to find out what it is about let's go to algiers devika palm who's on the
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phone in hong kong didier what more can you tell us. no i understand that these charges are still coming in but i understand the charges that relate to events. which took place during a legislative 5 thing. but the council is very clearly divided between those who support democracy and those who support more. than ok i had a rough in the 2 camps particularly the fact that the house committee wanted to remove the chairman democracy and move with the made against that it was complete chaos of 'd the council at the time pictures would be across the cherry 'd tree 5 people throwing things and shouting and eventually. the weeks later but 5 with a person put in charge of the part of the person. but we understand that these legislative councillors who have been arrested are being arrested on
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charges 9 of contempt interference with them a and interference let's let the count procedures here yet exactly what each person is being charged with but what a they can be fined up to 10 9 dollars which is over a $1000.00 and they could face up to one year in prison now this all is happening i'm sure. security laws is wide ranging far reaching common almost according to law someone say on the city to protect what beijing calls curacy that was imposed on july 1st but that is. the same 'd that we are seeing taking place are coming under the national security law but it is want to get a signal of a tightening grip on hong kong and perhaps activists to restriction of freedom of expression political expression and approach of office he can once again coming
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under the force of a law that is. very much to work and can ok thank you set out to be a polish on the phone from hong kong. hope china has kicked off its once in a decade since this is the government collects started to chart the future of the world's most populous nation analysts say they expect the survey to highlight problems associated with china's rapidly aging population could train you has more from beijing. then cellulose says he's part of a family of 3 but this is not a typical chinese household the 40 year old and his wife are going against tradition and have decided not to have children the couple say caring for their dog is enough. if we had a kid we wouldn't have enough time for things we enjoy that would be too much pressure as the cost of living in china is rising and the pace of work life is very fast these days. isn't alone an increasing number of chinese couples are choosing
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not to become parents a low birth rate is one of the problems to be highlighted by the national census this month 7000000 workers will be collecting information from china's more than 1400000000 residents in person and online analysts expect the once in a decade survey to point to an increasingly educated and urbanised society as well as a looming aging crisis made worse by china's almost 40 year long one child policy but the year 20221 in every 5 people in china will be over the age of 60. more retired people means a smaller and a less productive labor force as the population ages and the family resources drop who will care for the elderly it also affects our scientific innovation economic vigor any no variation from a young labor force china's one child policy was replaced by
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a true child while still in 20 days but many believe this came too late the country is struggling with a massive gender imbalance about 30000000 men especially in rural areas. and those with partners a truism to marry later and many prefer to have one child at worse. family planning limitations as well as policies to encourage families to have more children such as free child care and education in young people's mindsets and consumption habits have changed they may earn more but they are expectations for a certain quality of life have also rising. only children themselves shall go and say they are worried about who will care for them when they're older those with children come here older than they are because there are so many things to worry about i have less burdens and some say i look younger than my age they're focused
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on enjoy their lives and staying fit and healthy 1st longest possible. al-jazeera teaching. police in ivory coast survive tear gas at protesters who are angry over the president's bid to run for a 3rd term and said this election has been rallies in the economic capital and several towns demonstrators say president allison with heart as attempts to stay in office is unconstitutional he has appealed for calm as votes are counted. u.s. navy special forces have rescued an american citizen who was kidnapped in the share earlier this week pentagon says phillip walton was taken from his farm in the village. by a group of armed men into northern nigeria where they demanded more than $1000000.00 from his family u.s. media reporting that 6 of his captives were killed. oscar winning actor sean connery has died at the age of 90.
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he's best known for playing the james bond 962 connery went on to win an academy award for his role in the untouchables 2 best isn't 3 golden globes it's going to act it was knighted by queen elizabeth in 2000 for his services to film and on a he called one of the proudest days of his life. this is just there are these the top stories just 3 days until the u.s. presidential election both candidates are in battleground states donald trump is holding 4 rallies in pennsylvania a state he won by just one percent to 26 saying meanwhile by then for former president barack obama to woo voters in michigan. farmers your. power to change that country is not fair is learning in your. i don't
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