you cannot think of. a strong we. on al-jazeera. 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. get on a very unfunny get this is out as here on live from doha also coming up typhoon goni is downgraded as it sweeps the philippines at least 7 people have been killed . the search for survivors goes on in western turkey 2 days after a powerful earthquake 62 people i know them to die and. 2 people die in ivory coast

as results of 2 out of the presidential election the opposition says that it's time for the president to step down. we begin with one of the most divisive u.s. elections in recent years donald trump and job i have less than 48 hours to make that final pitch to the american people and they're doing it in several important battleground states president trump is expected in michigan shortly he won that state by less than one percentage point in 2016 biden is hoping to win that state but he made his case when he went there on friday trump is expected to hold rallies in 5 different states on sunday well by will focus on pennsylvania another crucial states for the fall former vice president our correspondents are closely following the campaigns alan fischer is in washington d.c. but 1st let's speak with. hendra is in michigan where president trump as usual

arrives to address his supporters john why is michigan so important to both the president and his challenger. michigan is one of those midwestern swing states that donald trump managed to let that were leaning democratic before the 2016 election with hillary clinton and then one state amp or another for drama there was until maine yet michigan wisconsin and we also want to know why oh wait he was slightly expecting to win at a nearly one minnesota which has been a solidly democratic state for many years but here in michigan. it's a bit trickier literally divisive year right now because of the current outbreak they're going through a nasty 2nd wave of that outbreak in the governor bredesen whitmer a democrat has cracked down while he refuses to let people even go to their own to

make it you know in michigan and that might end up i'm like here donald trump has banned the flame mill you don't want to wear masks and don't want to be on lockdown and it got so bad that a group of 13 militia members were actually arrested for trying to. put the governor on trial donald trump continues to say as i expect him to say today you need to get your governor to open up your state when that happens here in michigan the crowd at these trump rallies keeps chanting lock her up and the reason maybe he's coming here to mccollum county is that's the kind of need that he really needs to win across the country. sent him over trump cities tend to vote for the democrat anything here in these suburban areas we're many of these races are really won last time he won this county by 11 percentage points he needs to do that again if joe biden can deny him this the. tribe is going to have to look for other states that

he can win and he and joe biden and barack obama were here just one day ago they went with they had stevie wonder singing with them and. they are going for the urban vote of trying to drive out the black vote in detroit in the lead and that battle is going on across the country but you can tell that where these candidates are right now tells you something about where their priorities are and where they think they can drive out the vote for donald trump but even like this mccomb county michigan. from washington michigan to john headroom to go to washington d.c. . in a marathon final push for the president about his challenger focusing today on just one state. exactly and one city he's in pennsylvania and he will be in philadelphia for 2 events there it's versatile for joe biden when he talks about pennsylvania that's where he was born he feels it's part of him he talks about his

pennsylvania upbringing a great deal and so he would dearly like to flip a state that went to donald trump in 2016 it would also be a significant block in getting to 270 electoral college votes what is interesting is that his vice presidential candidate coming to harness is going to be in georgia no georgia isn't normally in play but it shows that his campaign has expanded the battlefield slightly and you'll remember that there was a very contentious governor rice don't in georgia a couple of years ago well that led to a number of democrats pushing forward with registration campaign and they think they think that might just be enough to tip this state democratic and so they're going to put a lot of effort the over the next couple of days now there's a poll that's just been out in the campaigns will tell you we don't look at the polls they do they look at them very closely and they tried to set them to see where they can make gains where their weaknesses are but this poor from the n.b.c.

in the wall street journal says that in 12 battleground states joe biden is up by about 6 points that will be good news for the democrats they'll be very pleased with that they're also looking at a national lead of somewhere in the region of 10 points but as we nor polls our votes and they've been wrong before so the democrats will be hammering the message over the next 48 hours thanks if you voted already but please if you haven't get out and vote if you want to be donald trump that's what we need you to do so expect to hear that message from joe biden in pennsylvania over the next few hours and just 48 hours after the election there's been an altercation between white house task force the doctor and they found she and the administration tell us more about . well we know there have been tensions bubbling there for a few months we know that donald trump and even said he would fire but he felt that the backlash would be too great we knew anthony foti is one of the most trusted man

in america he gave an interview to the washington post over the weekend where he said that the united states is not in a good place we've seen more than 100000 covert cases in the last few days there's a new stanford report which says that donald trump's campaign events have led to a spike in cases in those areas and perhaps even been linked to $700.00 deaths he says that the biden campaign is approaching the idea of dealing with color from a public health point of view but the trump campaign is looking at it from an economic and reopening the country point of view didn't judge the merits of either of those just stated it is fact but that's enough for the white house to get very angry the accused and to the photo being part of the swarm saying that he's showing his politics just a couple of days before the election saying that he did plenty of chances in the taskforce to say that he was concerned about certain things to hear his views there to give his views to the president and so they are very very angry with anthony

foti until he told the washington post they hadn't spoken to donald trump since the beginning of october but in the next 48 hours the people of america will be able to go to the polls and decide who they want to take the next step in the corporate crisis whether it's joe biden or whether it's donald trump on sirius alan fischer reporting live from washington many thanks indeed 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 that has been hit hard along with minority communities and businesses as al-jazeera sandy gallacher reports from larry. 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 there reflects florida status as the biggest battleground

arena it's also a state that's been ravaged by qubit 19 with more than 16000 deaths and cases 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 scared. and now we're open for business and that's what. and that's what this explosive economic growth is 4 times greater than to what the experts expect that 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 condensed 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 somebody who's more inclined to take it seriously actually try to bring this country safely through it so they can see the grandkids 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 trustworthy he had non-racist he always thought. 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. and that we support women over here something a story for nothing with all the lies that you 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 cycle has been politicized from the whirring 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 and 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 it gallacher al-jazeera miami florida at least 7 people died when typhoon gurney hit the philippines across the coast with winds of up to 280 kilometers an hour it was a super typhoon but it's now weakened officer as john allen dougherty reports from manila. joey mughal he says this is as secure as his boat can get it's

anchored in manila bay for now along with other fishing boats so we hopes they'll be spared from typhoon connie that is battering the central and southern parts of the design region. first we must secure our boats because it is our livelihood 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 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 blocked by. government officials say preemptive measures have been well put in place even before the day on these truck 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 b. call which have been empty since the groan a virus spent demick are now being used as makeshift shelters the philippines is bettered 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 gunny may set them back even further jim duggan al-jazeera manila. a weather update next year and i was 0 then i will visit

some of america's newest poses to find out what's at stake for them in the upcoming election. and the law in the u.s. gives greater protection to athletes following a scandal in the world of gymnastics. how i we've got high pressure dominating the weather across china and the korean peninsula so here it does look losey fine and dry that high squeezing that west the weather across a good parts of japan so we're going to see some very heavy rain here as we go on through monday that will gradually feed 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 under a little further south of the circulation here that's is tropical storm at sonnie

that's going to feed its way towards moving parts of the philippines as we go into the middle parts of next week following on from typhoon super typhoon gone meanwhile we got some rather wet weather into the all the sections of the by a single this massive cloud hit bringing some very heavy rain into the northwest of myanmar some fairy heavy rain coming across that east the side of bangladesh into the final feast of india some state for example sinks into rental down pools as we go through monday for tuesday that wetter weather just the says a little further east was surprised the skies come back in behind the still quite a few shot with a shallow as they were on their way down the eastern coast of india still some ladies showers there into west lanka and the same further heavy right across the southwest of india. in a strategy of aboriginal children as young as 10 being arrested and locked up. in the 1st of 2 special reports when i won

a steam base to gates the strategy is indigenous and costs russian cross on al-jazeera. our 20. every. move. the a. well again this is al jazeera but so much of the bad news this hour u.s. president trumpet his democratic rival joe biden are in battleground states 2 days before the election trump is on his way to michigan while biden is concentrating on

pennsylvania. at least 7 people have been killed as typhoon cody hit the philippines across the coast with winds of up to 280 kilometers an hour rather a 1000000 people have been forced to leave the us. rescue crews in turkey are still working to save people trapped under the rubble and is mia a powerful earthquake on friday hit the western turkish province of the greek island of samples triggering a small tsunami at least 62 people are known to died hundreds more injured al-jazeera simcoe seal who is following rescue efforts and is man she says that it's a delicate operation. according to what turkey's disaster management agencies say is out of 89 out of 17 buildings that have been highly damaged and collapse 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 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 on 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. the president of azerbaijan has met turkey's foreign minister to discuss the conflict in the glow of color back ilam alive says that there's no reason for russia to intervene in the conflict because his forces aren't threatening armenian territory on the knee as prime minister has requested russian support on the area and azerbaijan of agreed not to deliberately target civilians but both sides are accusing each other of breaking that agreement. voting is underway in algeria in a referendum on whether to rewrite the constitution if poss the political system there would be reformed at algeria and 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 opposition candidates in ivory coast have denounced saturday's election saying that it was neither free nor fair at

a press conference they called on president alassane ouattara to step down several people died in protests in the run up to the vote rallies so place in the economic capital abidjan and several other towns across the country are just series of addresses following developments from a budget. the position of his party and the opposition is such that they condemned the election as a flag and abuse of the constitution or cation by what he called the illegal candidacy of president a lesson what. 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 enough local of the history show that these votes are credible free and fair he claimed 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 what are 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 a democracy he is calling also and ivorians to stop president water from proclaiming himself as president just as these votes that he said being counted at the election commission in in various places especially in the capital police in france of release the suspects after an orthodox priest was shot in the city of lille earlier this week 3 people died in the stabbing attack at a church a nice priest in leon was closing his church on saturday afternoon when he was shot twice of close range he's in a hospital and remains in a serious condition meanwhile another 2 people have been arrested over thursday's church attack in nice 7 people are now being held there including the attackers

david chaytor reports. essentially 3 arrests were made in the aftermath of the attack here at the basilica these were all people from in or around this area they were from nice itself and the other 3 have all come from the town of grass the perf yuma the purview of the town of grass now they are thought to be tunisian nationals the other indication having from the police is that the the man arrested in tunisia for claiming the attack on the social video he's being dismissed they believe by intelligence sources he has nothing to do with this case whatsoever but there 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 in 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 in advance he was reckon ordering and he was talking to other individuals who who have been arrested so that does seem to have been planning behind this and a change of support here in the city of nice comments by the president of france sparked protests in many majority muslim countries and many alike wrong calls for secular values to be reinforced in france his words followed the murder of a teacher who shows his class caricature of the prophet mohammad al jazeera some of

been java reports now from a protest in istanbul. a few 100 people have gathered here in istanbul to protest against the publication of the caricature they've been passionate speeches which will be made in the crowd people have been chanting against the french president they've been shouting against. those living. muslim community across the globe to unite there have been some calls murder many people have been saying from. the. freedom of expression to hide its losses on the parts of the world and it isn't particularly talking about getting turkey because it wants to be. some sort of standing internationally the force are people from various parts of life of come here not just themselves but with their families as well to show solidarity against what has been happening

after the publication of these caricature as many people who we've spoken to say they are against the violence but they feel that they have been offended and there needs to be recourse not just blatant republication of these offensive characters. live pictures now from washington michigan where president trump is campaigning this is the 1st of 5 stops that he's making today in a final push for votes before the election which gets under way in 48 hours time immigrants have often borne the brunt of donald trump's america 1st administration the question is how are they planning to vote in tuesday's election if at all jackson heights in new york is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in america for the latest reporting on the american series our correspondent gabriel as on the has spoken to nearly eligible voters that.

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 hock cast his ballot in early voting his 1st since becoming a u.s. citizen. as an immigrant to the united states do you feel that the candidates have been speaking to you. yeah i think.

the 1st immigrants started arriving here in jackson heights in 65 they came from latin america. but today there are people from all over the world that live here and there are now more than a 165 different. we're just spoken to here just in jackson heights a short subway ride from manhattan and with a population of about 200000 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 faiths 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 democratic white house candidate joe biden.

i think. jackson heights was one of new york's hardest hit areas during the krona virus outbreak in the spring. they're not in a swing state they alone won't tip the scale of 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 is on to. new york. a new law is giving american olympic athletes more protection it follows a sex abuse scandal in the gymnastics world it provides additional funding for

child safety programs and puts more athletes on the boards of the u.s. olympic committee abashment governing bodies in 2018 the usa gymnastics talked to larry nasa was sentenced to up to 300 years in prison for sexually abusing hundreds of young female athletes the scandal exposed a lack of transparency and accountability in the u.s. olympic well the u.s. gymnastics organization is also been under intense scrutiny for the abuse and bullying of athletes lori handlers was on the u.s. team that won gold at the rio olympics and 2016 earlier this year she testified against her former coach maggie haney who's been suspended for 8 years 100 says that she's not focusing on making a comeback 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 you know 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 hate 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 change. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in the headlines on al-jazeera it is just 2 days now until the u.s. presidential election both candidates are making a final push in key battleground states president trump is holding a rally in michigan right now his rival joe biden will go to pennsylvania his home states alan fischer reports from washington you know if you speak to the trump campaign they will tell you that they think the how florida in the bag they think that that's important and they really caught some true.