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the people we are. when covert hit america's nursing home on a. al-jazeera . hello i'm adrian sort of this is that he was a lie from joe coming up in the next 60 minutes time is running out on the campaign trail donald trump and joe biden push for votes less than 48 hours before the u.s. presidential election. devastation caused by a super typhoon nearly a 1000000 people have been displaced and at least 7 killed in the philippines. 2 people die in ivory coast during violence with security forces after
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a disputed election. and we speak to the is there is who are longing to go back to their homes after being uprooted by the conflict with the media in the early 1990 s. . and i'm with your school says. a record 7th straight formula one constructive title and lewis hamilton closes in on the driver's championship. so we begin this news hour with one of the most divisive u.s. elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have less than 48 hours now to make their final pitch to the american people and they're doing it in several important battleground states president trump is now on his way to michigan where he won by less than one percentage point and 2016 joe biden is hoping to win that state and he made his case when he visited there on friday trump is expected to hold. these in 5 different states on sunday will focus on pennsylvania another
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crucial state for the full fights president correspondents a closely following the campaigns alan fischer is in washington d.c. but 1st let's go to john hendren who's in michigan where president trump is jus to arrive to address his supporters john why is michigan so important to both president and his challenger. when you said it a little while ago because he won by less than one percentage point he won by actually 0.2 percentage points that's about 10000 votes and he can make up that number of votes right here in mccomb county it's a swing county it voted twice for george w. bush twice for barack obama and then flipped for donald trump in 2016 interestingly you'll find that now in this get out the vote stage of the election a day ago the rock obama and joe biden both campaigned in the urban areas of
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detroit in flint both overwhelmingly black cities where they're hoping to drive out the black vote in this area donald trump has come out here to mccollum county because he's trying to drive out the kind of middle class overwhelmingly white voters who tend to go for him he's been doing his home across the country this is one of fine's donkeys making today is also going to iowa north carolina georgia and florida and he's really doing that. for the last couple of days tomorrow on monday the last day before the election he plans to go to can no show wisconsin another sort of suburban area like this one that's where he tends to get his vote here in mccomb he won by 11 percentage points a year ago and by holding on to michigan he might be able to do what he did last time around and that is to take states that generally vote for democrats and blue.
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them that's what he did last time in pennsylvania in wisconsin and in michigan he won ohio as he was expected to by a small margin and nearly won minnesota which is a solidly blue state he's hoping to replicate that 2016 performance and this is the kind of place where he can mine those votes. counted john had live for us in michigan let's go to washington and bring in al jazeera saw a marathon final push for the president his challenger though focusing today on one key state. and you can understand why he'd be interested in winning pennsylvania 1st of all because it's a swing state donald trump took it in the last election is john said but also it's the state where he was born he comes from pennsylvania he may represent delaware but there's pennsylvania in his roots and he feels very closely connected to this state and i guess he would feel it was a big slight if he didn't win his home state now both campaigns will be pouring
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over the pauls the latest one coming from n.b.c. the wall street journal suggests that joe biden holds a lead nationally but again i'll give you this disclaimer polls aren't votes and the posters got it wrong in 2016 but what this paul does say is that joe biden holds a lead in the 12 swing states up to 6 points in some places now that's good news for the biden campaign not so good news for donald trump but we know that trump is a ferocious campaigner he's got 5 events planned over the next few hours one of them interestingly enough in georgia which suggests that joe biden has expanded the battlefield it's not just about the states that donald trump one in 2016 but joe biden is giving him some cause for concern in texas but it particular in georgia which has been a solid republican state for a long time but the latest polls are suggesting that it might just help to joe biden and that would be a big victory so it's all fit to the pump as far as their hands to the pump foot to
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the floor as far as they're concerned over the next 48 hours to make sure that people get to vote but with early voting returns being so high there are those who are suggesting that that favors joe biden but the message from the democrats is still go out and vote in 48 hours before the election and there's tension between white house task force member dr anthony found the white house today tell us more about that. well this is been bubbling for months but it's exploded into the public just a couple of days before the election anthony of course big member of the coronavirus task force regarded as one of the most trusted men in america he gave an interview to the washington post where he said the word comes to coronavirus the united states is not in a good place more than $100000.00 cases reported over the last couple of days and of course that is the suggestion that donald trump trolleys have contributed to
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a number of breaks and more than $700.00 deaths according to a stanford university study what antony foti is seeing is that joe biden's campaign's approach is very much based on public health whereas donald trump is concerned about the economy and reopening the country he didn't make a judgment in either of those but that's enough for the white house to get very angry saying that this proves that antony foti is part of the swamp that has expressed his political views 3 days before the election that he's plenty of chance to air his concerns in the coronavirus task force meetings but has chosen not to do it and they're surprised that he would do it in a washington post interview what the washington post tells us is that and to the folks he hasn't spoken to the president about coronavirus policy since the beginning of october in fact we're not entirely sure when the last time the coronavirus task force met but it's still going to be a big talking point donald trump is seeing more rounding the corner what we're seeing record numbers of cases joe biden is going to see he would do
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a much better job in dealing with it it's up to the voters to decide which man they believe in who they want to be president as we get into a new year and a new battle against the virus al-jazeera as alan fischer reporting live from washington alan what i think's date or president trump continues to draw fierce criticism for his response to the pandemic but in florida his record on the health crisis could be especially crucial the elderly population has been hit hard along with norah the communities and besides. nessus and he gallagher reports now from miami the sunshine state is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth as election day approaches it's become clear that of all the swing states florida is the one that matters most to both joe biden and donald trump the candidates in the surrogates have crisscrossed the state in a blitz of campaigning that reflects florida's status as the biggest battleground arena it's also a state that's been ravaged by qubit 19 with more than $16000.00 deaths and cases
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once again on the rise state's governor a close ally of the president has refused to initiate a lockdown and trump's doubling down on his opinion that the economy comes 1st we live there i'm still here and now we're open for business and that's about it. and that's what this explosive economic growth is 4 times greater than to what the experts expected but florida's large elderly population has been hit hard accounting for more than 40 percent of all faith teletubbies president trump did well with older voters here in 2016 political experts say that's changed but i think seeing the way the trucking industry has handled this pandemic has convinced a large number of senior voters that they need to see a change need somebody else need to see somebody else in charge of this pandemic
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somebody who's more inclined to take it seriously actually try to bring this country safely through it so they can see the grant it's again communities of color in florida have also been disproportionately hit by the virus underlying health conditions limited access to health care and poverty of all made things worse why voters helped propel the president to a narrow victory in florida 4 years ago he also needs as many votes as possible from hispanics and african-americans though supporting the former vice president so he's more to. trustworthy he is not a racist he always talk about everyone he doesn't separate brought from y. and all their proposals that he have proposed and we believe him he tells the truth and if you make a mistake if he thought that we support will never hear something start for nothing with all the lies that he don't like other states early voting in florida has seen record turnouts with the pandemic a big issue on voters' minds everything about the pandemic joining this election
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cycle has been politicized from the wearing of masks to the balance between keeping the economy going and the dangers of a deadly virus whether that translates to a victory for either candidate remains to be seen but here every vote counts and the optics between these 2 campaigns couldn't be more different an electorate polarized by the handling of the pandemic hasn't given either candidate a commanding lead in florida but there's no question that it's one of the dominant issues one that will play a major role in deciding who wins the presidential election and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. a black lives massive march is due to take place in new york to protest against voter suppression and to call for laws that remove barriers for black voters everyone has to pick the side. people are going to each other down in the streets over political views on saturday tension flared between left and right wing groups during a 2nd bite of protest in the us state of washington the demonstrations in vancouver
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were originally sparked by the police shooting of a black man near the u.s. city on thursday night. and we want to know how immigrants who've become recent u.s. citizens were planning to vote jackson heights in new york is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in america for the latest reporting unheard american city series gabriel is on though has spoken to newly eligible voters. 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
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candidates have been speaking to the issues that are important to you yeah i think so yeah you know if this is very important to. many. a lot of people living here. the most people living. people are thinking. becoming president. 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
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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 hope it will do it look i think. it will do it. jackson heights was one of new york's hardest hit areas during the krona virus outbreak in the spring. everything. everything is a problem. a big problem they're not in a swing state they alone won't tip the scale the election and some are so new
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they're not even eligible to vote but in this call truly rich neighborhood all are seeing this election up close and personal through the eyes of recent arrivals to america gabriel is on doe. new york there with the news from out sarah still to come on the program searching for survivors will have the latest from western turkey 2 days of trouble powerful earthquake struck. the fight for democratic reform in hong kong police arrest several leaders of these chaotic scenes months ago. american athletes get greater protection after a new law is passed in the u.s. following the gymnastics sex abuse scandal peter here with all the rest of the sports a little less. at least 4 people died when typhoon gurney hit the philippines across the coast with
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winds of up to 280 kilometers an hour it was a super typhoon but it's now weakened al jazeera reports from manila. joey mughal is says this is as secure as his boat can get its anchored in the lobby for now along with other fishing boats so we hopes they'll be spared to go any that is battering the central and southern parts of the design region. really look at your 1st we must secure our boat because it is our label who we hope they won't be so bad so we 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 provinces and one is at 5 am local time on sunday before making its way to a 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
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blocked by deep freeze government officials say preemptive measures have been well put in place even before the day typhoon gone these chalk flights have been canceled sea ports are closed and over a 1000000 people have been evacuated from coastal communities and town 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 b. call which have been empty since the groan a virus pandemic are now being used as makeshift shelters the philippines is bettered by at least 20 typhoons each year but typhoon go on the calms 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
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here fear the impact of typhoon gandhi may set them back even further. dogon al-jazeera manila. rescue crews in turkey are continuing to work to save people trapped under the rubble and is me a powerful earthquake on friday hit the province and the greek island of some ostrog a small tsunami at least 64 people have died hundreds more injured 07 cacio who is following those rescue efforts she says it's a delicate operation. 42 what turkey's disaster management agencies say is out of 8 sorry 9 art of 17 buildings that have been highly damaged and collapsed have been completely searched and search and rescue 1st the earth relations under way in 8 of them you see another building behind me which has been highly affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake this building has been staying like the since
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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 2 block building 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 environmental and urbanization ministry here and they have been telling us. that their examinations show that the ground floor of the spill doing it 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 but how they will be able to have a safe demolishing is still an unknown they are trying to do calculations for its weight so that there is no risk cause for the surrounding buildings. police in
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ivory coast a fired tear gas of protesters who are angry over the president's bid to run for a 3rd term in saturday's election opposition candidates are holding a press conference in abidjan to announce their next moves they say that 30 people have died in the run up to the vote that in rallies in the economic capital abidjan and several other towns demonstrators say that president assad watada as attempt to stay in office is unconstitutional he's appealed for calm as votes counted out a series of address is following the situation from what's the latest on that. well adrian that press conference by pascal of its own has ended just a few minutes ago and the position of his party and the opposition is such that they condemn the election us of playground abuse of the constitution or creation by
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what he called the illegal candidacy of president unless on water while talking about the election he said the election commission was never free and fair to all parties involved and that there were no local observers be not a local of the street show that these votes are credible free and fair he claims that 30 people although we are hearing stories from other media or from other sources that between 2 and 4 people were killed in the election violence yesterday . your son says 30 people have been killed during the election and of course up to 100 have been killed since whatever announced his candidacy he said officially they have recognized that the term of office of president ouattara ended yesterday and that ivory coast will need a transitional government to organize free and fair elections to lead the country to democracy he is calling also an ivorian is to stop president water from proclaiming himself as president just as these votes that he said being counted at
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the election commission been in various places especially in the capital. to serious address reporting live from japanese thanks so much 7 pro-democracy politicians have been arrested in hong kong on charges related to a legislative council beating on them 5 months ago the group is accused of contempt obstructing a session they've since been released the police haven't ruled out making more arrests of the law is a former democratic party member of the hong kong legislative council and former chairperson of the democratic party she says the pro-democracy politicians are being unfairly targeted. some of the. beijing members will also involve so why don't you just because if pro-democracy want to arrest it's very very unsteady and no they use is an order to protect the members
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privilege and power to speak within the camp so now they have weaponized the law to target these people so many people fear that even more could be arrested and maybe one day there will be no more precision voices in the council and they probably will use the national security lol to get a legislative and the activists and bet on this very own creation they are using the law which was and acted to protect legislators is each soon to be using everything and i think the whole government is almost completely under the trunk of the chinese government so they are acting according to the orders of presidency jendayi in beijing that they will leave no stone unturned to try to a rest and to intimidate anybody who dared to speak out we want that message to go
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out to the international community that the game is not 0 that the struggle is not over but of course there will be a very heavy price to pay indian security forces of shot dead a top rebel commander in indian administered kashmir saifullah was the chief of operations of the promoter had seen and was killed in a gunfight troops launched an operation on sunday also news. thousands of people are rallying demanding the president alexander lukashenko step down riot police fired warning shots into the air and detained protesters as they marched in the capital the country seen demonstrations every weekend for the early 3 months because shanker claimed victory in a disputed election in august the opposition says the vote was rigged the president of azerbaijan has met turkey's foreign minister to discuss the conflict in the going to a cutback in the sense that there's no reason for russia to intervene in the
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conflict because his forces aren't threatening armenian territory armenia's prime minister has requested russian support armenia and azerbaijan of agreed not to deliberately target civilians but both sides are accusing each other of breaking that agreement well the un secretary general was forded calls for another immediate cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan the region is seeing its heaviest fighting since the early 1990 s. when around 800000 ethnic azeris were forced to flee their homes to syria's horrible hammy it has spoken to some of them in baquba. it's been a month since their last oldest son was tool who joined as every army as a volunteer soldier 30 days filled with worry for over. the fold they were just telling us how they really hear from him when the conversation is interrupted rest is on the phone. you know. you brought us
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a walk i've been crying all day i really miss him i am proud he is there he is doing his duty he will free my land and we can go home but i'm really sad because our children are dying in the battlefield yessiree army broke through armenian defense lines flanking from the south east along the border with iran towards the southwest of nagorno-karabakh i mean as alarmed as areas could be heading next eastward to shusha and important down in the corner of her about or north to the latch in corrie door at the lifeline of the young players. in the in the main goals of this creations are too limited to authorise it doesn't appear we're going too far or hunker down there so later who enters the. army. to compromise with us we were all on the.
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finish you all should finish some last possible. time it's also a very important element of this controversy. back home john and a north chuckle both their home towns are now under very controlled they tease each other about wish they would visit 1st once their son is back. people here watching the developments of this war very closely there among the hundreds of thousands who had to flee the karabakh region 30 years ago and not only one of these children they will tell you where they're from even though they've never been there kind alice from jib rail hussein and daimler from some of the people here told us that for years they had criticized as a very president ilham aliyev for not taking any action now they fully support him the military is very popular here development it has retaken a large chunk of occupied land including the village of guy's yen which means my lova was forced to abandon some 27 years ago. i watched the news all the
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time 4 villages were liberated today ours was among them my only wish is to go there and after seeing my home again i can die i'm glad that soon no one will call us displaced anymore. this is about john's war to lose and many here believe the country should not accept anything short of a full armenian withdrawal as a precondition for a diplomatic solution but up that hamid. a weather update next year and i was here and then a fight for the future of moldova pro e.u. and prove washing candidates go head to head in an election. remembering the part of relatives how the global pandemic is changing mexico's day of the dead and the racial. and in sport but peter some impressive basketball skills from former u.s. president barack obama.
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hello we've got some rain in the full cost of parts of the middle east over the next couple of days we have seen this massive cloud moving across turkey across the black sea unless stretches its way down towards the levant so expect to see some rather wet weather coming into well lebanon jordan may be saying some wet weather just toppling across into syria as we go through monday and you can follow this line of cloud down across iraq into northern parts of saudi arabia so you could even see that a bit of a wet weather here south of that is fine and dry lovely sunshine here in doha temperatures a very pleasant 30 degrees celsius with light winds it really will feel lovely of the next few days meanwhile across southern parts of africa we see some very heavy rain here but toria 50 millimeters of rain from this massive very wet weather
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that's going to continue making its where a little further east which will see that western weather easing away from the eastern cape as we go on through monday but we have the potential for flooding and widespread disruptions the system makes its way through the show is set up towards the north of the country so impossibles want to sing some live then we got leaves will shall is there across the heart of africa some live the one that is just running across a good part of angola looking rather wet there for kenya. frank assessments looking shank is not going anywhere the protesters are going anyway either the battle of the revolution and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the screen inside story on how just 0. november on al-jazeera. who will be the next president of the united states join us for extended coverage of the u.s.
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elections on november 3rd and full of. all hail the lockdown explores the complexities of our global response to the coronavirus pandemic could a proposed traffic scheme threaten one of the world's most famous heritage sites we'll report from stonehenge up front returns with emmy award winning journalist richelle carey she'll come through the headlines and be rigorous debate and former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial on corruption charges we'll bring you the latest november on all jersey.
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it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in ohio with the news from up 0 of the headlines u.s. president trump that is democratic rival joe biden there in battleground states 2 days ahead of the election trump is on his way to michigan while biden is concentrating on pennsylvania. at least 7 people died as typhoon girly hit the philippines crossed the coast with winds of up to 280 kilometers an hour about a 1000000 people have been forced to leave their homes. and the number of people killed by an earthquake in western turkey has risen to 64 rescue teams are working round the clock it is mia and the search for survivors let's return now to our top story the u.s. election there is one issue in particular where the candidates have shown stock differences but of course is the environment let's compare their records and proposals president trump withdrew from the paris climb as a court in 2017 just
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a year after it was signed under the obama biden administration he said that it was unfair to the u.s. and leaving it save jobs but the former vice president says that he'd rejoin that agreement if elected trump was removed multiple regulations allowing drilling in previously protected areas by promises grazer funding for renewable energy while banning new oil and gas drilling on public lands trump says that emissions continue to go down under his administration but some do a tribute that 2 initiatives taken by state governors and local mess biden is proposing the u.s. reach net. 0 carbon emissions by 2050 his 2 trillion dollar plan will be paid for by increasing taxes on corporations and wealthy americans bill mckibben is an environmentalist and shivan distinguished scholar at environmental studies at middlesboro middlebury college she joins us now from ripton and vermont bill it's really good to have you with us written that this election is humanity's last shot
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to prevent climate catastrophe but is it really i mean the u.s. isn't the world's only major palooza why does so much hinge on this election well 1st of all the u.s. put more kerman into the atmosphere than any other country over historical period and it's probably the only country that can figure out how to coordinate a global response its withdrawal from the piers climate accords was a great gift to the oil industry because it let it get on with its task of trying to just keep things the way they are it's going to take in an activist effort on the part of the u.s. and all the other major emitters to get us back on track with paris indeed to go beyond what the paris records called for because the physicists make it clear that that's what we need now an all out sprint so what would a biden victory mean for u.s. policy on climate change and what would be the impact on u.s.
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jobs. well the impact on jobs of moving towards a nubile energy is all to the good they're already far more jobs in renewable energy than there are in fossil fuel but that differential just keeps growing because these are jobs these are and are it technologies that produce lots of jobs fossil fuels capital intensive it takes a lot of money but putting solar panels on roofs and maintaining windmills and things that's labor intensive it takes a lot of people now we don't know exactly what biden will be able to do a lot will depend not only on if he gets elected but if he has a senate in the us that's willing to work with him if he does then there's probably room for really quick and decisive action as we use the depth of the pandemic caused recession is a kind of lever to move quickly towards big infrastructure spending that will help us address this even larger crisis but even if president trump doesn't win big oil
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is still going to be a powerful political force to what extent what it would have still be able to influence policy regardless of who is in the white house. it will do its best to influence policy it always has it's poor huge money into these elections but it's not quite the force that it was say a decade ago partly that's because a giant movement has arisen around the world you know for instance that in down winston portfolios worth 15 trillion dollars and divested their stock in fossil fuel companies that's one reason that exxon is not only not the largest company in the world anymore it's not even the largest energy company in the world anymore it was passed last month by next era energy a big solar and wind provider so i think the trend is in the right direction the problem is we have such a limited short period of time to deal with climate change we have to not just count on the trend to being in the right direction we have to move things very very
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very fast a lot of young people have come onto the electoral roll since the last election in 2016 to what extent is climate change and the a defining issue as far as that new generation of american voters is concerned. the polling indicates that it's by far their number one issue in the early polling indicates that they seem to be turning out in much larger numbers than they have in the past i think that the last few years between the sunrise movement and their push for a green new deal. hold the 10s of thousands of other good a tonne briggs and their millions of followers in high schools and colleges around the world i think these people are ready for this battle and they may indeed turn the tide in this election it's been really good to talk to bill many thanks indeed for being with us bill mckibben thank you very much. voting is underway in algeria in a referendum on whether to rewrite the constitution if past the political system would
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be reformed that algerian troops would be allowed to fight abroad for the 1st time since the 1960 s. the new government says that it's responding to demands from protesters but ahmed vall has more now on what's at stake for all cheery ans. for nearly 2 years millions of our genius have been demanding change they say they want a more balanced system of power sharing a stronger popular representation and guarantees of social and individual rights. president of the machine to boon promised to address those demands through amendments to the constitution. if approved there limits presidents to serve only 2 terms in office and give the president the ability to appoint a prime minister from his own party if it wins a majority and crucially it will give parliament the power to remove the prime minister through a motion of no confidence. the government says the amendments respond to people's fundamental aspirations by stablish ing
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a genuine democracy there are more changes planned on social and individual freedoms we don't recognize this system in power and this constitution if passed will plunge us into the abyss just as the previous s's of those in power plunged us into the abyss we do not recognize them but a form is designed to turn the page on a history of centralized powers and military intervention in our politics. i swear that whatever they do we will not stop until we achieve independence and i swear that we will continue to fight until this regime falls. the protest movement otherwise known as a dark force that is ignition of president of lies is beautifully plain april last year after months of mass rallies but government critics see his loyalists both civilian and military still around the country. even after the presidential election that was organized in december in an attempt to bring
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a change. all 5 presidential candidates in that election were part of the form of government elections for the lowest turnout in algeria as history the date november 1st is symbolic for our judeans it's the 66th anniversary of the beginning of the war of independence from colonial from us but the mood of national solidarity that our junior witnessed on that day 45 years ago is largely absent today because of political division 101 and does your. a presidential election is underway and moldova voters are deciding between candidates who favor closer ties with the e.u. or russia president igor dawdle is the pro moscow front runner and he's hoping to win a 2nd term his rival sandu is a pro european former prime minister who was defeated by dotan in the 2016 election al-jazeera sania gago reports. well so far about 20 percent of the
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electorate have voted taken part and most of those are the older voters that have already been to the polls to cast their ballots those would tend to favor the incumbent president on a man who is viewed as a somewhat of a traditionalist as well in keeping with moldova's previous ties with when it was a soviet state and its closer relations with moscow he seemed very much as a strong man much in line with how other ex soviet leaders would be seen as well so that is the count so far as well but there the polls are going to be staying open until into the night and of course if they're accused then that will they will remain open for a further 2 hours but what's interesting to note is how important how crucial the votes of the moldovan diaspora is going to be because of course almost
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a 3rd of moldovans are abroad for work purposes as well and we've already seen how they are lining up embassies outside particularly in places like paris and london and london even reports of of queues of half a kilometer long outside the moldova embassy for people to vote these tend to be younger people they're more likely to vote for. a change in moldova's political landscape and they are seeking that and of course because of their experience of living in the european union they're more likely to want to vote align themselves with that. police in france have released a suspect after an orthodox priest was shot in the city of leone earlier this week 3 people died in the stabbing attack at a church in nice a priest was closing his church on saturday afternoon in the when he was shot twice at close range he's in hospital and remains in serious condition and another 2 people have been arrested over thursday's church attack in me 7 people are now
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being held including the attacker let's go live now to nice i was there as david chaytor is there walking you tell us of these arrests stated. yes essentially 3 arrests were made in the aftermath of the attack here at the basilica these are all people from in or around this area they were from nice itself and the other 3 have all come from believe the town of crust the purview of the curfew the town of good us now they are thought to be tunisian nationals the other indication we're having from the police is that the the man arrested in tunisia for claiming the attack on social media he's being dismissed they believe by intelligence sources he has nothing to do with this case whatsoever but there
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are more interesting developments being more interrogations of people on the island of sicily where it's believed that. the with the knife man spent up to a week or maybe more with a relative that relative has been arrested trying to get more information out of him so we're beginning to find the track the trace of support and and exactly what his movements were but it also is apparent that he was seen on video surveillance 2 days before the attack happened so he was here and of. he was reckon or touring and he was talking to other individuals who have been arrested so there does seem to be planning behind this and a chain of support here in the city of nice. david chase reporting live there from the stated many thanks indeed the lens international airport is now operational but it opened my ears lace and
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a little fanfare the charlotte palace explains the quality at the touch down 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 willie brant with the most will know it by its code be. construction began in 2006 with an opening date of 2011 but there are a number of technical and planning problems from the stars including fire safety issues. this 6 opening dates were abandoned 12012 was just 4 weeks before flights were supposed to take off. to some of the 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
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the city state and federal governments were burdened with a $7000000000.00 bill due to jaga. 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 ashamed. the new facility replaces 2 cold war era airports teagle served with spillane and shona felts of the east those chemicals were parked on the l. of that 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
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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 it's a combined christmas present as a crisis of real estate i'm dissipating an international airport 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 shallop bellus al-jazeera. this year people in mexico won't be able to go to senator as some mock the day of the dead because they've been closed to prevent the spread of covert 19 but the annual festivities are still providing consolation to those who've lost someone in a country which has the 4th highest death toll in the world john holeman reports
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from mexico city. every year on the day of the dead makes crews departed return to the land of the living. and usually the graveyards of full of their families waiting to welcome them with their favorite food drink and music it's one of mexico's best loved festivals. but this year the symmetries aside are closed because of coated and this play on an island in the ancient waterways of sochi milko district is one of the few events allowed. it's a story of larger on a previous public spirit who walks the streets crying for her lost children. this year the lead actress is dedicating the show to those lost in the pandemic and the many women murdered in a country struggling with domestic abuse but also argue that. we
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want to help people cry if they need to cry to provide a ceremony a way out for all that love more than just pain all the love we see we liked and when we have our dead present so that we know they're with us. you audience watch from the truck in areas long boats floating in the dark altars such a mill cory's one of mexico's special places for the day of the dead celebrations these canals date from pretty hispanic times and the places really kept hold of its traditions to the point where the same pursuit chill flower the orange flower that used in the celebrations is growing here. i mean fields on the outskirts of east to pull up. the district to the simple chill they used to adorn the oldest of the dead to go up in homes across the country part of the tradition that the pandemic can't touch. but if they're. just picking up a big bundle for her family this year the day of the dead will be especially moving
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a mom big 3 died of covert him and once she was taken into hospital the family couldn't say goodbye now they have the chance. when i'm with a friend you can't imagine that you would never see that person again so happy to be here. and that we can feel his presence and that's why we put up with his favorite themes so she knows we await that we love her that even though we couldn't do we haven't forgotten how. we have the privilege of sharing food and stories appeared three's with the garcia family as they waited for her to return just like everywhere in mexico it's a moving but joyous occasion a moment for spike as the pandemic rages on john home and al-jazeera mexico city. just ahead on the news hour will tell you why more than 3000000 people applied for tickets for this top gaming competition that's coming up with the sports next.
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5 g. internet technology game changer threat i don't want to be a human lebron activists. conspiracy theorists engineers and world leaders this is only the beginning. arguing fiercely over control of the latest wireless technology the truth about 5 g. on al-jazeera. london is one of the most important cities in the world and decisions made here have an impact on friday around the globe and so here at al-jazeera we will show you the true impact of those decisions on people but how it affects their every day. we are free to put them on air and to really engage those stories
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because we know that all audience is interested not just in the mainstream news but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go on the reported . move forward. and again transport his peter thank you the mercedes team has clinched the formula one constructor's title for a record 7th straight time with a one to finish in sunday's race at imola despite dropping back to 3rd at the start lewis hamilton pulled out ahead of teammate valtteri bottas to earn victory it puts miss avies out of touch of nearest rivals red bull in the constructor standings hamilton's win also means he can seal
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a record equalling 7th drivers' championship title at the next grand prix in turkey in 2 weeks' time. people watching might maybe think we're used to this but it just always feels like the 1st with this team and i think that's the spirit and so i'm very very grateful to everyone to be a part of it you know to be a part of breaking a record like this no team has done this before so. you know we've got a great leader in the team and i just take the think it's in the state even at the national all of our partners to be really. we will not do what we do without. ac milan have tightened their grip on the top spots in the tele elite thanks to a late goal from abraham of age the 59 year old swede schooled against a 7 minutes from time the acrobatic if it secured a 21 when he became of age has only recently recovered from coronavirus.
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american athletes will get greater protection and more of a say in decision making of the new law was passed on saturday following the gymnastics sex abuse scandal the new act. increases funding for child protection and puts more athletes on the boards of the u.s. a limpid committee and national governing bodies and follows an 18 month investigation which found that usa gymnastics team dr larry nasser was able to assault hundreds of girls and women because of a lack of transparency and accountability among us a limbic officials and coaches now so were sentenced to up to 300 years in prison and 2018 of the more than 350 women testified that they were abused by him among those to come forward as a victim is 4 time olympic gold medalist simone biles as well as several of her a limp dick teammates the scandal triggered lawsuits and mass resignations at the u.s. olympic and paralympic committee and usa gymnastics the latter of which has filed
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for bankruptcy laurie hand is was one of those on the u.s. team that won gold at the rio olympics in 2016 earlier this year she testified against former national team coach maggie haney detailing verbal and emotional abuse she'd suffered at the hands of her long time trainer any of since been suspended for 8 years and hernandez is making a comeback to the sport. i know i'm not the only one who's been through my situation i know people who in my eyes that had it worse that now 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 that there are others hate like this 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
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a part of that change in lindo between the 26 nations rugby champions the 345 win over italy in rome on saturday secured the title for the english army's 100 the parents for england ben youngs school the 1st tribe to match would score again in the 2nd half was jamie george tom carrying him and slade also across the line for 5 tries enough to earn england a bonus point winner. but they needed a favor in paris both france and ireland could have won the title with a big enough victory as it turned out the french ran out 3527 winners a good win for france but not enough to overtake england at the top of the standings it's england's 39th title in the history of the competition the pair. took 5 got 6 nations is probably one of the toughest competitions in the world to win because it's such a good paid leave. physical contest and you've got to you've got to be at your best . now if you needed proof that he sports is growing fast more than 3000000 people
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applied for tickets to the league of legends world championships in shanghai china or learning around 6000 were lucky enough to make it into the venue they had temperature checks and were not allowed to sit too close league of agencies one of the most popular video games of the ruled and the south korean team down one gaming who took 1st place and the rather large trophy which weighs 52 kilograms. will finish with some impressive basketball skills from former u.s. president barack obama while out on the campaign trail with joe biden in michigan needed this. was. not bad at all i didn't leave it there for how marvelous peter many thanks dave that's it for the news out of a teacher report of the day's news in just a few moments what would be alive in both washington and michigan see that.
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it's one of the most consequential elections in u.s. history and i'll just 0 we'll be there every step of the way 9 hours of live coverage up to the minute results as they come in with correspondents across the u.s. and the rest of the world al-jazeera brings you a unique global perspective on the u.s. elections 2025. 0 this is the government the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we. listen i still think
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