al-jazeera. with 2 days to go until the u.s. election donald trump and joe biden make their final push in crucial swing states. however i'm having my head zina this is al jazeera my from doha and also coming up super typhoon go any is downgraded as it sweeps the philippines least 4 people have been killed. and search for survivors continues in western turkey 2 days after a powerful earthquake 60 people of night died. and police in ivory coast for

a tear gas at protesters angry over the president's push for a 3rd term in office. there are just 2 days until the u.s. presidential election and both candidates are crisscrossing the country in their final push for the key battleground states in the next few hours president donald trump will be in michigan where his rival joe biden was on friday with former president barack obama biden himself will go to pennsylvania his home states where trump already held multiple rallies a white house correspondent kimberly hall kit's has more from the campaign trail. with less than 72 hours until election day president 2 trump started early for a full day of campaigning 4 different stops in the north. eastern 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 the hate the fair here refuse to take any responsibility the pair blame trump 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 were 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 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 well official joins us now live from washington d.c. anonymous we heard kimberly's packages old support a for with less than 2 days to go the campaigning continues. exactly and all the campaigns will be looking at the polls that have come out over the last 24 hours or so or there are 11 pours from 4 reputable falling companies 9 of them are good for joe biden 2 of them are good for donald trump but of course the campaigns are going to seize on the ones that they think sure that they're moving in the right direction one of the big pause is the washington post a.b.c.

poll that comes out normally the sunday before the election and it suggesting that pennsylvania joe biden still has a lead there but it has narrowed in the last couple of days and florida is too close to call that it's almost statistically a time though if you speak to the trump campaign they will tell you that they think they have florida in the bag they think that that's important and they're really concentrating on michigan and pennsylvania they think that's where the election will be one particularly in the northeast corner of pennsylvania so they are putting a lot of resources or a telephone banking law to get out the vote efforts into that area as for biden well he knows how important pennsylvania is of course he was born in this state and he has 2 rallies there on sunday he is in pennsylvania in philadelphia both times and he will be telling people to go out and vote you can feel there is a slight anxiousness in the campaigns now if you look at the polls over the last

few months joe biden has had a consistent lead donald trump support hasn't been edged up before much more than 45 percent but there are 2 things to remember here polls aren't votes and the porters got it badly wrong in 2016 they did indeed if we focus on the campaign itself the whilom coronavirus of course one of the big topics that people will be voting on as they head to the polls and there has been tension has there not between the white house task force member on coronavirus stance and in fact and the white house this is coming just days before the election what more can you tell us . 3 days before the election and this tension really high is kind of bus stop and we're down to giving an interview to the washington post where he said that the u.s. is not in a good place at the moment remember a record number of cases reported over the last couple of days more than 100000 each day and also there was

a report from stanford university that said that donald trump's campaign had led to thousands of infections with people attending rallies and tied them directly to a boat. hundreds of deaths as well so folks who are saying look this isn't a good thing particularly as we're about to go into the winter there are steps that need to be taken and he made a comparison saying that the biden campaign is looking at this from a public health point of view donald trump is looking at it from and they cannot make a point of view and getting the country open he didn't offer which one was best he just said those are the differences but that's enough for the white house to get very angry they say that anthony foti is part of this war that he's decided become political and make his political views known 3 days before the election donald trump has of course in the past called him a democrat he's not a registered democrat and in the past the donald trump has said that he would get rid of but he thought that it was just too much bad publicity if he actually did that because. trust with the american public is actually very high so you can see

the white house incredibly angry of this 3 days before the election the thing that one of the key advisors is making political statements meanwhile joe biden on the campaign trail walk in to new donald trump about his corporate response where is donald trump is painting a very bleak picture of joe biden get sensing that with covered and joe biden he's essentially going to shut the country down or the voters will get to decide in just a couple of days which torn they believe which story they believe and which person they believe would be the best president. to leave them out of the crisis ok alan fischer their life is in washington d.c. thank you and a bit later in the program we'll have a report and some of america's newest voters they'll tell us what's at stake for them in the upcoming elections. now at least 4 people have been killed

as times go me hits the philippines across the coast with winds of up to 280 kilometers per hour it was a super typhoon that has no weakened jamila olinto can reports from manila. joey mughal who says this is as secure as his boat can get it's anchored in manila bay for now along with other fishing boats joey hopes they'll be spared from gorney that is battering the central and southern parts of the luzon region. look at your 1st we must secure our boat because it is our label who we hope they won't be so bad so they can head out and fish again more than 19000000 people in the philippines are being affected by the typhoon it 1st made landfall over the island province of aceh and wireless at 5 am local time on sunday before making its way to i'll by and somebody is sore provinces that have likely sustained extensive damage

many areas remain cut off power and communication lines are down and some roads are blocked by. government officials say preemptive measures have been well put in place even before the day. struck flights have been canceled sea ports are closed and over a 1000000 people have been evacuated from coastal communities and down seem to be well within the path of the strongest typhoon to ever hit this year. gone he comes a week after typhoon hit the same region killing at least 22 people and schools in the call which have been empty since the groan a virus spent demick are now being used as makeshift shelters the philippines is battered by at least 20 typhoons each year but typhoon gone the comes at an even more precarious time the country is still struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic and government resources are already stretched this is why many people

here fear the impact of typhoon ghani may set them back even further. duggan al-jazeera manila. rescue crews in turkey year working to save people trapped under the rubble in is near her for earthquake on friday hits the western turkish province on the greek islands of some us triggering a small tsunami at least 60 people have been killed and hundreds more injured well the circus president richard sipe birds of one arrived in is near on saturday nights he visits the site of collapsed buildings and spoke to search and rescue workers. who is following rescue efforts in his mere she says it's a delicate operation. hoarding to what is the best and management agencies phase out of 89 on top 17 buildings that have been highly damaged and

collapsed have been completely search and search and rescue 1st operation is underway in 8 of them you see another building behind me which has been highly affected by the 3rd 1.0 magnitude earthquake this building has been staying like this since friday you see there are 3 cranes that are trying to hold the parts of the building in place because it is about to collapse it's actually a to blow. welding and jason to each other and on my right arm side you are seeing that one of the blocks is detached from the other and we have been speaking to the experts engineers from the environmentalists urbanisation ministry here and they have been telling us. that their examinations show that on the ground floor of this building 2 or 3 columns of the carrying structure has been cut that's why the building has fallen on this side and now they're trying to keep it in place with

the help of the cranes about how they will be able to have a safe demolishing is still unknown they are trying to do calculations for its weight and saw that there is no risk cause for the surrounding buildings police in france serve interrogated one suspect under looking for others after an orthodox priest was shot it's come as the country reels from another attack at a church only days ago when the priest was close in this church on saturday afternoon in the shorts twice coast range he's recovering in hospital and remains in a serious condition police are trying to work out whether the person they've arrested the attack on knows more about it's another 2 people have been arrested over thursday's church attack in nice 6 people i know being held in france they've achieved serious in these he says the surface to suggest the attack could have been

planned and more than one person. what we're hearing is that the investigation has discovered that all the video surveillance footage from the station that actually shows that the chin is ian 20 on roll refugee who carried out the attack was seen that night the night before the attack circling around the church and circling around the area obviously doing a record noise to ring of the attack and then it appears that he went to sleep somewhere in that area and then in the morning launched the attack so this puts a very different dimension of it this is what the police are trying to find out of course what sort of network was there to help this man where did he stay that night why did he come in early how soon did he actually decide to launch his attack how much planning and premeditation was involved now we've also heard that a man has been arrested in tunisia 2 men actually but they're claiming on

a video on social media that they claim the attack that is being discounted by the police here but what i have heard also of course is that the italian police have made 2 arrests or discussing with 2 people in custody in sicily about the movements again of the 21 year old tunisian refugee so we're beginning to piece together exactly where he was and who helped him and this is this is what we're doing at the moment. still to come on the al-jazeera is it time for a change in our ceria tones appleton's in a constitutional referendum and so a new law in the u.s. gives greater protection to athletes on a sex abuse scandal in which in that 6 world.

how i we've got high pressure dominating the weather across china and the korean peninsula so here it does look losey fine and fry that high squeezing that west the weather across the good parts of japan so we're going to see some very heavy rain here as we go on through monday that will gradually fade across honshu the choose day the west the weather moving out into the open waters so we're not too concerned about that but follow that line of plowed right little further south of the circulation here that's is tropical storm at sonnie that's going to feed its way towards northern parts of the philippines as we go to the middle part of next week following on from typhoon super typhoon gone e bay while we got some rather wet weather in city and all the sections of the by of being goalless massive cloud hit bring you some very heavy rain into the northwest of myanmar some fairy heavy rain coming across that east the sort of bangladesh into the final feast of india some state for example sinks into rental

downpours as we go through monday for tuesday that wetter weather just the says a little further east with surprise the skies come back in behind the still quite a few shot with a shell as they run their way down the eastern coast of india still some larger showers that into west for lanka and we seeing further heavy rain across the southwest of india. 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 there stripping away the spam reaping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to kind of i was the group we don't want to delight on the authority and. the listening post on al-jazeera.

the. the. the. this is al jazeera reminds over top stories this hour there's just 2 days to go until the u.s. presidential election of both candidates are making a final push in key battleground states in the last few minutes president donald trump departed on air force one heading to michigan wizen will go to pennsylvania its own state. at least 4 people have been killed as times will go any hits the philippines coast to coast with winds of up to 280 kilometers per hour and a 1000000 people have been forced to leave their homes. and rescue crews in turkey

are still trying to find people trapped under the rubble it is mere least 60 people have died after a powerful earthquake hit the western part of the country on writing the greek island of saml spurs also impacts its. police in ivory coast a fire tear gas at protesters who are angry over the president's bits of one for a 3rd term in saturday's election they have been rallies in the economic capital abidjan and several times protests just say president allison what are those attempts to stay in office is unconstitutional he's appealed for calm as votes are counted that address is following the story from a butcher and he joins me now we are still expecting results to come through the opposition or also cheeto hold a press conference but how are things as they stand right now. well right now we spent the last. 4 set of results preliminary results to be

announced in just over an hour from now $1530.00 local time. so. that it looks like president what are his people ready to celebrate while the opposition are saying that this was an unconstitutional cool and that's no reason why you see all these protests skirmishes here and then today we saw some pictures going around social media in the town of such a cool west some you would have taken to the streets brandishing clubs and some some with machetes and knives we are not sure exactly whether some. fatalities or injuries are but residents are keeping in goes this said the few other things might escalate that we've seen also and heard reports of a few deaths yesterday during election time in addition to the incidents election incidents like ballots not going and the destruction of voters least in some

reporting stations across the country it's reported now the opposition were expected to hold a press conference just. an hour ago and it looks like that may have to be postponed for now because it hasn't happened yet we think there may give an explanation why it's been delayed or it's been postponed altogether so ivory coast is tense right now in many parts of ivory coast a lot of people are praying and hoping that they will pass on peacefully and a lot of them have never forgotten what happened in the post-election of 2010 while violence broke out when former president laurent bible refused to step down for the weight of that vote on a somewhat of the incumbent president who by the way is running for a 3rd time now and is at the center of the controversy rocking ivory coast because of his candidature his supporters on the other end instead of justify his candidature. by saying that the referendum of treasure 16 and the constitutional amendment reflected given him including more about war and holy quite

a bit by the previous constitution was not eligible to strike because of it because of his age and the chance to run for this election this time around yet the opposition is such that it's illegal and he should not stand that's the reason why some of the presidential candidates with so 2 of them principle tell it it's we so boycotting the elections ok at least their life as from a bridge or thank you very much. for the thing is underway in algeria in a referendum on whether it's rebinds the constitution if passed the political system would be reformed and algerian troops would be allowed to fight abroad for the 1st time since the one $960.00 s. their government says it's responding to demands from the tester's. immigrants of often borne the brunt of donald trump's america 1st administrations

the planning to vote in the upcoming election if it's all well jackson heights new york is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in america and part 3 of al-jazeera is unheard american series gabriel elizondo spoke to the newly eligible voters there. when it comes to presidential elections in the united states the voice of recent immigrants are often left out of the conversation so want to wet and rainy afternoon we came to jackson heights considered to be the most culturally diverse neighborhood in all of america even the street signs make it clear where you're at san you will cast his ballot in early voting his 1st since becoming a u.s. citizen do you feel as an immigrant to the united states do you feel that the candidates have been speaking to the issues that are important to you yeah i think so yeah you know if this is very important. many.

other people living here. are the most people living. people are thinking. becoming president of becoming president the 1st immigrants started arriving here in jackson heights in about 1065 and they came from latin america in the indian subcontinent but today there are people from all over the world that live here and there are now more than a 165 different languages spoken here just in jackson. a short subway ride from manhattan and with a population of about $200000.00 in an area half the size of central park jackson heights is home to recent immigrants from nepal bangladesh india pakistan colombia dominican republic puerto rico and people of muslim christian catholic and hindu face and that's just in one block early voting lines have been long in

a solidly democratic party district who is represented in congress by alexander ocasio cortez. is from pakistan and told me he is voting for a democratic white house candidate joe biden. talking a lot about. people i wish and i hope he will do it and i look i think. he will do it. jackson heights was one of new york's hardest hit areas during the krona virus outbreak in the spring the plant is the big problem everything. everything is a problem. the problem they're not in a swing state they alone won't tip the scale the election and some are so new they're not even eligible to vote but in this culturally rich neighborhood all are seeing this election up close and personal through the eyes of recent arrivals to

america gabriel's sandow al-jazeera new york a new law is giving american olympic athletes more protection and follows a sex abuse scandal in the gymnastics world that provides additional funding for child safety programs and puts more athletes on the boards of the u.s. olympic committee and national governing bodies turns 18 in the usa gymnastics dr larry nasser was sentenced to 300 years in prison for sexually abusing hundreds of young female athletes the scandal exposed a lack of transparency and accountability u.s. elim picks while the u.s. gymnastics organization has also been under intense scrutiny for the abuse and 1000000000 of athletes for hernandez was on the u.s. team that won gold at the rio olympics and 2016 she testified against her former coach earlier this year mikey haney who's been suspended for 8 years and andres says she's now focusing on making her comeback. i know i'm not the only one who's

been through my situation i know people who in my eyes look at it or say no it's you know it still exists out there unfortunately but in doing think about it and you know in seeing that there is a consequence for i think it shows other others hey like this isn't ok and hopefully we get a lot of different culture changes because of it and if speaking out about it and you know speaking out against emotional and verbal abuse that's going to help other people then absolutely i really hope i get to be a part. of that balance international airports is now operation no but opened 9 years late and to little fanfare charlotte bellus has more. on that after touched on after nearly 14 years countless construction delays and billions over budget the people of berlin have a new airport officially this is the berlin brandenburg airport willy brandt with

our most will know it by its coach be. construction began in 2006 with an opening date of 20 livin but there were a number of technical and planning problems from the stars including fire safety issues. 6 opening dates were abandoned 12012 was just 4 weeks before flights were supposed to takeoff guns cannot be. to sum it up the airport company is a bad project manager they were not able to manage the construction and before the many changes that were approved over and over up to 2012 the project went completely off the rails. the political fallout ballooned along with the budget as a city state and federal governments were burdened with a $7000000000.00 bill. for the delays spend years in the construction problems that arose from this made not just berlin but the whole of germany into a laughing stock we german engineers were shamed. the new facility

replaces 2 cold war era airports teagle served with spillane and shona felts of the east those capitals were parked on the ls teagle was built in 1948 for the berlin airlift when soviet forces cut landrieu it's to whisper lynn western allies flew in supplies to keep the population alive for a year one plane landed every 30 seconds commercial flight started in 1960 it is slated to close this week. schoenfeld was built by soviet forces at the end of world war 2 and became communist east berlin's main airport last week it was incorporated into the new airport as its 5th terminal it will have a soft opening because of covert 19 travel restrictions those behind the project hope it will become an intercontinental aviation hub and bring an economic jolt to

the city. combine christmas present as crisis of real estate and to see the national not yet reflected. burleson is leaving behind its divided past with one ear port for all but it came at a great cost to taxpayers shell of dallas 0. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines it's just 2 days to go until the u.s. presidential election of both candidates are making a final push in key battleground states in the last star president donald trump departed on air force one heading to michigan biden himself to go to pennsylvania his home state alan fisher has more now from washington d.c. now if you speak to the trump campaign they will tell you that the.