women are strong we. my my dear on al-jazeera. we are going to win the state of michigan a. promise battleground blitz of swing states as the u.s. prepares for a knife edge vote on its next president in less than 48 hours. or entirely this is al jazeera live from london also coming up typhoon devastation in the philippines leaves nearly a 1000000 people displaced and at least 10 dead. a commanding lead for the ivory coast president in early election results but on rest continues as the opposition

says the vote was neither free nor fair plus he says equality as a touchstone is really landing but 9 years late lindsay new airport finally welcomes its 1st passengers. hello donald trump and his democratic opponent joe biden have embarked on the final 48 hours of campaigning to be the next president of the united states a targeting 8 states on sunday head of tuesday's poll but will the 93000000 voters have already returned their ballots early president trump has been campaigning in michigan where he won by less than one percentage point in 2016 biden's lead in the opinion polls has stayed relatively steady in recent months but trump remains confident. the baidu in china wins when we when america with the of one of the 16 michigan voted to fire this corrupt political

establishment the new elected an outsider is your president who is finally putting america 1st. if i don't sound like a typical washington politician it's because i'm not a politician. as i don't always play by the rules of washington or the washington establishment is because i was elected to fight for you and nobody has ever fought harder for you. in a moment we'll go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett following the biden campaign in pennsylvania but 1st john hendren he was at the trump rally in michigan so why is michigan so important. well nagin is a state they don't trump won by the narrowest of margins in the entire united states the closes margin was right here where he won by 0.2 percentage points that's about 10000 votes that's enough votes he can pick up with just

a little exposure in this state and you know that he is going to be here today he's going to come back twice again tomorrow joe biden has been here yesterday so the candidates both recognize the importance of michigan for troops it means he's going to play out that same strategy that he did last time when a big state like florida and then flipped what used to be called the blue wall of democratic states in the midwest and last time he did it like this it was pennsylvania ohio wisconsin michigan nearly one in minnesota is well ohio was the only one of those states that he did not win by an upset he was expected to win there and the reason he comes to places like this is that he's trying to convince people in suburbs like this this town is called romeo it's in mccomb county in mccomb county is a swing county voted twice for barack obama. and then twice for george w.

bush after that or before that rather and then in 2016 voted for donald trump this is where he's hoping to get those 10000 votes or so that he got last time around just to put him over the top of the democrats are working hard as well doing that they tend to get the urban areas so that's why joe biden hit detroit and flint yesterday also majority black neighborhoods because they're trying to get out the black vote trump is coming to places like this a majority white county a suburban place and he's doing that across the country. john hendren thank you very much and let's go to our white house correspondent came to help as you mentioned only by the campaign trail in philadelphia so what's the focus on philadelphia why it why the effort by. one of the big reasons is because this is where joe biden needs to shore up votes it's in the city centers of the united states and philadelphia is one where they've seen

a little bit of trouble and that's in regard to the african american male vote there have been some signals that there are a few that maybe going in the other direction are not voting at all and that's a worrying sign for the biden campaign so that's one of the reasons they're here he also wants to continue to hammer down on issues of race and there was a lot of unrest this week following the police shooting of a black man here in philadelphia so that is why joe biden is going to be holding 2 different events now we should point out you notice we're not actually out that events that speak how was the media has been relatively held back now the argument for the biden campaign has been this is because of covert 19 social distancing but it's also opened the biden campaign up to criticism that he's so concerned about his lead in the national polls and wants to keep it that way that he is avoiding any sort of scrutiny or accountability from journalists so. be what it may this is

where we are we're in the city we're watching very carefully where they're headed next but this is a pivotal state in terms of battlegrounds in fact it is so 2 pivotal we know that now the biden campaign has said they were to return to pennsylvania for the final day of campaigning to make the closing arguments before november 3rd election day and commitment on the background of coronavirus there's been tension between the white house toss board member dr anthony found she and the white house just days before the election tell us more about. yeah so what happened was dr anthony fauci on the current virus taskforce a top infectious disease specialist in the united states gave an interview to the washington post what he said the white house has deemed political essentially he said that the trumpet ministrations approach to covert 19 and opening up the country may be reckless going into the dark winter that we're expecting with a rise in infections combined with the flu and then asked about the bottom plan he

said that he feels this might be the more appropriate step to take well this isn't brage the white house given the cautiousness but he is advocating on the biden side they feel as a member of the court a virus taskforce that he should be a political something they accuse him of not being given how to thank you very much . these 10 people have been killed after one of the most powerful typhoon is to hit the philippines this year a storm of cold gurney brought heavy rain and winds of up to 280 kilometers per hour to eastern parts of the country it used to be felt overnight in the capital manila and went to media and into got reports. joey among his says this is as secure as his boat can get its anchor done millipede for now along with other fishing boats joey hopes they'll be spared from gone any that is battering the

central and southern parts of the luzon region reveals that you are the 1st we must secure our boats because at this hour we hope they won't be so but so we can head out and. more than 19000000 people in the philippines are being affected by the typhoon it 1st made landfall over the island province of the some one is at 5 am local time on sunday before making its way to old 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 go 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 are the strongest typhoon to ever hit this year. connie 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 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 may set them back even further. dogon al-jazeera manila. incumbent president anderson what are has taken a commanding lead in early election results in ivory coast electoral commission says he won in all 20 districts announced on sunday with 88 more areas set to

declare the country's opposition has already denounced the election saying it was neither free nor fair there are fears of more unrest after at least 5 people were killed during clashes on election day the president is running for a 3rd term insisting a constitutional change resets the country's 2 term limit amid injuries isn't a budget for us so what's the latest on the results so far. well allison water is still powering ahead with a wide margin of victory from the results being announced by the and action commission in abidjan right now it looks like he is certain of victory at the end of the day remember the 2 leading opposition figures in the race quit the race boycotting it calling his candidature unconstitutional and therefore they are both courting the the vote however their names remained on the ballot and some of them are even scoring higher than he is only challenged in the

boat so for now a less than water looks for victory at the moment from the results we are hearing or receiving from the election commission and assuming that is the case and the president does win and how will the opposition respond. well the response of the opposition from day one is that. campaign of civil disobedience even before the election they called on the supporters to disrupt this vote as much as they can and today one of the opposition figures or presidential candidate. i think it's all in a press statement issued earlier today said officially well alison what tourist kenya's president says and that and what we are witnessing now is probably a transitional period for ivory coast with out president of us and what he's calling opposition supporters to resist what to this candidacy or his imposition i

see calls that. president so he said a transition program would be all out to organize fresh credible elections that can auction democracy in ivory coast what we expect to see some of the supporters of the opposition on the streets and that said them against security forces who are out to ensure that peace is maintained and ivory coast avoids what it avoid what it witnessed 10 years ago when post-election violence resulted in the deaths of at least 30000 ivorians in that country thank you very much indeed. still to come on out is their search for survivors of a powerful earthquake 2 days ago in western turkey $62.00 people have now died. and the rest are separate hong kong pro-democracy politicians and the scuffle is condemned as absurd and chilling.

however got some rather cold wet and windy weather continuing to tumble across the atlantic into the northwestern corner of year a tightly packed i suppose. wrapped around this area of low pressure will drive some very strong winds into that western side of scotland looking pretty breezy across much of the british isles northern areas of france through the low countries well aware cross into scandinavia the fight in dry weather the quiet weather is further south high pressure dominating there across central and southern parts at least for the time being we got a few shows just around the eastern side of the med running up across turkey into the black sea that western side of russia but also wetter weather for the west as well and they will rattle their way across the northwest and colder as we go on through monday line of cloud here across northern parts of france south of germany

coming down across by and portugal sinks further south was and look at the temperatures behind was struggling to get into double figures there for london on choose day ha then around 10 degrees celsius what's the weather just pushing down towards southern parts of germany still a few showers across the eastern side of the mediterranean for many it is fine and dry as is the case across northern parts of africa and the seasonal showers gradually edging their way a little further south for monday. 5 g. internet technology game changer lobel threat i don't want to be a human leverett activists. a. conspiracy theorists engineers and world leaders this is only the beginning. are going fiercely over control over the latest wireless technology the truth about 5

g. on al-jazeera. kalugin amount of top stories around his her race to be u.s. president is in its last 48 hours president trump is holding rallies in a total of 5 states on sunday on his opponent joe biden will target pennsylvania. 10 people have been killed as a powerful typhoon sweeps through the philippines a storm called carney is the strongest to hit the region this year submerging several villages and destroying homes. incumbent president our son or daughter has

taken a commanding early lead in ivory coast election winning in 20 of $108.00 electoral districts the country's opposition which boycotted the poll says it was neither free nor fair. a 70 year old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building 2 days after a powerful earthquake rocked parts of turkey and greece but hopes of rescuing more people are dwindling as the total number of deaths passes 60 most of those victims and much of the damage was in the turkish city of izmir where sin and cos the early reports. this man is desperate for news of his wife and daughter he hopes rescuers will find them alive in this huge pile of debris they've been missing since last friday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake that shook turkey's west coast city of. efforts continue to rescue as many people as possible with the help of sniffer dogs. while clusters of distraught relatives wait outside

the flattened building. another building in the same district where the ground is so what's clay according to geology experts and at risk of collapse its foundation and 1st 2 floors have all of the songs into the ground. troops who want to be lifted the magnitude of this earthquake wasn't very high but it shows how weak our buildings are bad concrete which meet liters into sand. at these 2 or 3 columns to use on the 1st floor reportedly removed to make room before the earthquake experts here tell us that this building is another example of poor quality construction cranes are holding quarts of it in place until it's safe enough to demolish the structure. friday's earthquake struck some parts of favoring greece as well both countries sit on major fault lines. people and is

mayor have been experiencing hundreds of aftershocks that continue to shake their city parks have become a temporary shelter for some. it was a strong earthquake we were so afraid there was no damage in our building although it's 40 years old but our children are scared that's why we're staying in a tent. until a full damage assessment can be carried out across the city people may have to stay in tents like pleas for days to come. see them close all of al-jazeera is mid western turkey. police in france of questioned one suspect and are still looking for others after all the docs priest was shot he was closing his church on saturday afternoon in new york when he was shot twice at close range he's recovering in hospital but remains in a serious condition. a lot thousands of extra soldiers have been on patrol as french catholics celebrated all saints' day around 4000 troops were dispatched to

schools and places of worship on sunday in nice amasses been held at the basilica of not where 3 people were killed on thursday. has more from nice where 6 people in our custody after thursday's knife attack. 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 the town of gras the perf yuma the curfew 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 record or touring and he was talking to other individuals who who have been arrested so that does seem to have been planning behind this and a chain of support here in the city of nice 7 hong kong pro-democracy politicians have been arrested over legislative council for more than 5 months ago they're

accused of content and obstruction but critics say it's part of an increasing attempt by china to sideline dissenting voices that reports from hong kong. and. it's not unusual for disputes to break out in hong kong's legislative council but they have become more frequent and heated in recent years as the divide widens between prob aging and pro-democracy legislators after 16 weeks of deadlock debates on who should control an important house committee a session on may 8th descended into a brawl but your coffee you know you will use some lawmakers were disruptive they were running towards the security guards who were trying to maintain order in front of the chairpersons table so the conference could not be held and some were throwing papers from the public seats above tend to give how dare they came all the way 5 months later police arrested 7 politicians 4 of them current legislators on

charges of contempt and interfering with members of the city's legislative council or they can go from formal we will not give in to these absurd charges and continue to serve in a legislative council that has no justice we do our best to express the people's voice and especially our dissatisfaction with the government they say this is just another step in the government's efforts to crack down on dissent and crushed political freedoms since the last legislative council elections in 2016 the number of sitting pro-democracy lawmakers has dropped nearly 30 percent because of resignations or disqualifications it's seen as a result of beijing's tightening control of the city in july the communist government imposed a national security law in hong kong similar to the one used in mainland china to silence opposition in recent months chinese agencies have been weighing in on how the legislative council conducts its affairs the made clear the tactics such as

stalling the passage of bills and obstructing meetings could be in breach of legislators oaths and could even amount to misconduct in public office it's what's believed to have prompted these latest arrests. the lol use is a lot to. remember this privilege and power is in the can so now they have weaponized the law the arrested politicians could face up to a year in prison if convicted and police say they have not ruled out making more arrests palin are designer of hong kong. police and by the recent fired warning shots into the air at protest against the president stun grenade to use and several people detained as tens of thousands of people marched through the capital minsk demonstrations have become a regular fixture every weekend 12 weeks since the country's disputed election the protesters are calling for veteran leader alexander lukashenko to step down but he says he has no intention of quitting. as

a state donald trump often refers to as his home but his response to the coronavirus pandemic could be damaging his chance of winning votes in florida as elderly population has been hit hard along with minority communities and businesses and the gaga has more 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 deaths and cases once again on the rise 48 states 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 when

a lot of that 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 or 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 tom did well with older voters here in 2016 political experts say that's changed 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 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 those supporting the former vice president say he's more trustworthy he is now under a 50 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 if it is far away and that reason for women here something a story for nothing at all the life 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 an electorate polarized by the handling of the pandemic hasn't given either candidates 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 a gala crowd is there a miami florida ballons brand new international airport has opened 9 years late and a little fanfare thousands of construction delays errors and oversight pushed billions of dollars over budget charge ballasts explained this as a quantity as a touchstone of after nearly 14 years countless construction delays and billions over the just the people of the lynn have a new airport. officially this is the berlin brandenburg airport willy brandt with the most will know it by its coat. construction began in 2006 with an opening

date of 2011 but there were a number of technical and planning problems from the stars including fire safety issues. says 6 opening dates were abandoned 12012 was just 4 weeks before flights were supposed to take off. 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 due to yahoo learning 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 ashamed. 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 ellis that teagle was built in 1948 for the berlin airlift when soviet forces cut landrieu it's to whisper lynn whiston 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. showing a felled 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 900 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. 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. kind of money and catch up any time on our website address that is al jazeera dot com. top stories are now jazeera the race to be u.s. president is entering its last 48 hours with both candidates speaking up the pace of the campaign president trump is holding rallies in a total of 5 states on sunday while his opponent joe biden will target pennsylvania but more than $93000000.00 people have already voted early a record total one which posters think favors the democrats joe biden is maintaining a lead in national polls but the result could come down to a handful of so.