we took the world back on the search for oil in the middle counting the cost on al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. we're going to win this state. trumps battleground blitz of swing states as the u.s. prepares for a knife edge vote on its next president in less than 48 hours. curve it concerns among the elderly we have a special report from florida on how the pandemic could influence voters in a pivotal sunshine state. also on the program typhoon devastation in the

philippines leaves nearly a 1000000 people displaced and at least 10 dead. and a commanding lead for the ivory coast president in any election results don't rest continues as the opposition says the vote was neither free nor fair. donald trump and his democratic opponent joe biden of embarked on the final 48 hours of campaigning to be the next president of the united states they're targeting 8 states on sunday ahead of tuesday's poll but more than 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. divide ruins china wins when we when america with.

one of the 16 michigan voted to fire this corrupt political establishment and you elected an outsider as 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 is ever fought harder for you. biden is currently speaking he's been focusing on the state of pennsylvania which is key for both campaigns if they want to pos to victory so i have to vote like we never did before every day every day's a reminder of how high the stakes are how far the other side will go to try to suppress the turnout especially here in philadelphia president tropfest terrified

of what will happen in pennsylvania as the people of pennsylvania get to have their say if you have your say he doesn't stand a chance and we will have a chance he is following the campaign from washington but 1st top white house correspondent i can really help get to sit with biden campaign in pennsylvania company why is that what's so important about that elfie. well what i can tell you is that it's important because it's increasingly looking like pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that ultimately will decide this election now as you mentioned there has been a lot of optimism you heard there from joe biden that they believe that his campaign will win pennsylvania but in the last 24 hours there have been a few worrying signs it appears and so we've just received word from the biden campaign that in fact joe biden will be doing his 2 events including the one that he's

speaking at right now he'll go home to delaware and then he's coming back to this state tomorrow that signals the fact that they're going to be blitzing the state one more time before november 3rd that they are not exactly confident of taking this state even though the polls show that biden will win pennsylvania now donald trump when he spoke here in pennsylvania yesterday said that he believes if he takes this the election is all over so each candidate sounding confident but the polls show trump behind and joe biden well in the lead it's clear that his campaign is taking nothing for granted and can believe there's been a tension between the white house toss course on coronavirus a member. and the white house just days before the election post more about that particular rao. yeah there's a bit of a controversy and it has to do a lot with a man by the name of scott atlas he's one of the president's advisors many of called into question some of his credentials and he has made controversy repeatedly

but the president continues to back him now dr anthony fauci in a wide ranging interview not only criticized the approach that donald trump has taken out against chrono virus but he's also raise some questions about this advisor scott atlas scott atlas is also made some news recently for giving an interview to a network known as russia today that apparently he was not aware that they are registered as a foreign agent in the united states and so he took to twitter to make an apology for doing so of course any sort of connection to russia particularly in this information in this administration is always called into question and of course we went back to the russia probe involving donald trump one that he called the hoax so in terms of the controversy surrounding scott atlas the touch dr anthony found she the white house is now coming out and criticizing dr foushee saying that he shouldn't have been political he shouldn't have been criticizing scott doubtless

she should have been criticizing the president's coronavirus response given the fact that he is on the task force and he should remain a political especially so close to us elections so the white house clearly not pleased particularly knowing the president is fighting hard right now for reelection can be ok thank you very much want to join she have now from washington d.c. to talk us through the nation's polls. right well as can be suggested that the headline is they're very close except in wisconsin where we've seen consistent large leads for joe biden in wisconsin which was trying to narrowly took him 26 you know as more of that in a 2nd perhaps but then it just depends on which poll you look at so the new york times by 4744 but in florida but if you take a look at c.n.n. and it's much closer or in pennsylvania biden has

a big lead in in a couple of these polls but it's much narrower others with the rebels the margin of error in others so it's all much of a muchness i think if we're trying to get something useful out of the polls i think the worrying thing that we saw in the new york times polls was that a lot of the folks who didn't vote in 2016 according to the new york times are going for biden and that's significant because we keep on hearing from the trump campaign that part of the their strategy is to have people especially white males without a college degree registered this time around they didn't vote last time around and that will be the huge turnout you know that will give trump that red wall on tuesday of the new york times just that isn't true having said that i just came out with them interesting information about what trump's inside polls are saying to them off the record now they have their own polling their own polling and they admitted tax yourself of the things all worst as far as i can see and i were in georgia than expected but they think things are better in texas nevada north

carolina arizona and wisconsin them than expected so look i mean you make of this as you will we will we can really say it is things are very very close in the polls she have a transit thank you very much to state donald trump off investors his home his response to the vice pandemic could be damaging his chance of winning votes in florida it's elderly population has been hit hard and on with minority communities and businesses and you got to 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 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 what. and that's what it is 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 trump 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 and actually try to bring this

country safely through it so that they can see their 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 r. 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 we support will never hear him say sorry 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 gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. coming up on this news hour from london clinging to hope in turkey 2 days after the earthquake the search for survivors continues. and the arrest of 7 hong kong pro-democracy politicians over the scuffle is condemned as absurd and chilling.

at least 10 people have been killed after one of the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year the storm called goni brought heavy rain and winds of up to 280 kilometers per hour to eastern parts of the country it's due to be felt overnight in the capital manila for much of an hour and into gun reports. joey mughal is says this is as secure as his boat can get it's anchored in the lobby 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 design region we had that that you were the 1st we must secure our boats because at this hour livelihood we hope they won't be so bad so they can head out and face again. more than 19000000 people in the philippines are being affected by the typhoon it 1st made landfall over the island province of some 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 to 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. gandhi comes a week after typhoon more lobby 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 gandhi may set them back even further. duggan al-jazeera manila. incumbent president alassane ouattara 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 $88.00 more areas set to declare the country's opposition is already denounced the elections saying it was neither free nor fair their fears of mourning rest off at least 5 people 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. i mean aegis is in a big jet he says the opposition candidate guess all is calling for a civil transition the position of his party and the opposition is

such that they condemned the election as a flagrant abuse of the constitution or creation by 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 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 water and that 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 has to stop president water from proclaiming himself as president just as these votes. are being counted at the election commission in various places especially in the capital we're now joined by. the president and chief executive of africa international media group she's live via skype thanks so much for being with us so just how much is a little bit about why a less than what i ended up running in this election in the 1st place. you know. cause obviously he had only 2 terms to google but he's. hand-picked successor and i googled for you barry has to wait certainly a couple of weeks ahead it will be election just a couple weeks and you are a very sinister past in terms of. in.

other words when you eat. what has built the country and made it to a very prosperous. we seem to be having a few problems with that with a line to my or below i'm afraid we're not hearing you and you're breaking up quite badly i'm sorry apologies for that and thanks to my old have your for that contribution there now 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 from western i'm going to report. 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 is mere 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 are on 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 this store 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 the 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 nobel laureate joseph stiglitz has criticized saudi arabia for its human rights record during a saudi hosted summit the american economist used his keynote speech to call for

a moment of silence for murder journalist. with this meeting being held hosted by saudi arabia as reflected by of these basic rights we cannot cause but a moment and think of a great journalists i could show good mercilessly killed with those behind the perpetration of this heaney is crime having impunity we cannot think to get shilled that that puts on a free press we cannot think of a woman being held in prison simply for the desire to exercise their rights as human beings if this meeting does not come to the terms chump come to terms with the violations of these human rights and those in other countries around the world it and hope to achieve that inclusive societies for which we all strive what

is par for a moment of silence in memory or milk or sugar and in honor of all those women oh these people being held in prison in respect of the soccer of sacrifices that they have made in quest of an inclusive world and he's in france have questioned one suspect in a still looking for others often orthodox priest was shot he was closing his church on saturday afternoon in lille when he was shot twice at close range is recovering in hospital but remains in a serious condition. meanwhile thousands of extra soldiers have been on patrol as french catholics celebrated all saints day 4000 troops were dispatched to schools and places of worship on sunday in nice a mass has been held at the basilica of natal with 3 people were killed on thursday 3 men who police believe had been in touch with the tunas in suspect have been released but 3 others remain in custody the suspected at attack remains in hospital

. 7 hong kong pro-democracy politicians have been arrested over legislative council scuffle 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 if you go part 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 probating 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 then begin how dare they came out here 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 ok or they can go from form 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. you know you. remember. hala this was in the can so now they have. all the arrested politicians could face up to a year in prison if convicted and police say they have not ruled out making more arrests if you go paula hong kong. still to come this hour more than 93000000 people have already voted in the u.s. we crunch the numbers for clues on a presidential contest that's too close to call. and it's the place they call him even though many have never been that we may be

a series of closely watching the conflict in nagorno-karabakh. however got some rather cold wet and windy weather continuing to tumble across the atlantic into the northwestern corner of year a tightly packed ice. 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 fought 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 west of 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 postal sinks further south with a 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 no the piles of africa and the seasonal showers gradually edging their way a little further south from monday. i know it's going 5 go yes i have to would that likely is not you don't learn about august 9th something else happened august might lose. interest among 18 year old michael brown was gunned down 2.13 songs on ferguson was

really me i saw my son in 15 i saw used that argument or not enough felt like you know at this my time to stand up when the news breaks and the racism protests continue in a number of cities across the united states when people need to be heard in this trial so they are relying that nearly 500 homes were destroyed and about 80 percent of this land does al-jazeera has teams on the ground people are just talking about wind and solar as if that's going to solve the problem if want to bring you more room documentaries and life moves on and on and on line.

armaan of the top stories here now to 0 the 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 is targeting pennsylvania. 10 people have been killed as a powerful typhoon sweeps through the philippines a storm called goni is the strongest to hit the region this year submerging several villages and destroying homes. incumbent president other son water hot has taken a commanding early lead didn't ivory coast election winning in 20 of 108 electoral districts but the country's opposition which boycotted the polls says it was not a free nor fair. to sit closer look now at the u.s. presidential contest elizabeth anker is an associate professor of american studies and political science at george washington university she joins us via skype from

washington d.c. thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of the latest polls. well the polls pretty clearly show that biden is up not only nationally but more importantly at the state by state level so we see that in a majority of the swing states that states that you know typically can go either for republican or democrat we see biden has a pretty strong lead and we're seeing him actually start to turn some of the swing states that were previously seen as only republicans such as texas north carolina arizona that he started to become competitive in there as well and presumably that we've seen with with trump is really talking about some different races in the in the final few days of the campaign one thing on it is that there was a one poll and that's i was the only one poll showing trump ahead in iowa if that were to be the case not a statistical anomaly what how significant would that be. you know there are so many different ways to calculate how many how many points or how many electoral

votes each candidate needs so to be competitive in iowa would mean that biden would have to be extra strong in pennsylvania which might be why we're seeing him there today to make sure that he can get that that senate and me to get those electoral votes when that state so each state gets into a complex really with others to see if one person wins with one what are the other ones that that it will need and what about the early voting i mean there's reports of more than 90000000 ballots already been cast anybody who stands to benefit most from the from that kind of high turnout. well we do see if she had enormous turnout in early voting i believe at this point it's almost 70 percent of the entire people who voted on election day last year have already voted early so that people believe that that will benefit biden in some places it might benefit trump another's but the other problem that we're seeing is that there are forms of voter suppression that are happening in states so some of the states where people of the did early some of their ballots are now not going to be counted because a signature might not precisely match

a signature on file or there might be only one polling place to go to you know in a in a county with you know 600000 people so all of these are also ways of suppressing votes that we can't actually tell from the polls which votes are actually going to count on election day in which well what about the big increase in new voters how do you think they would affect the result this time. by and large people feel that a lot of the new voters will be voting for biden that part of what he has been doing especially by galvanizing support among people who. joined a lot of the black lives matter protests or have been really frustrated with trump's coronavirus response that they will be likely supporting biden even if they were not participating in 2016 but then again in the 2016 race there were also a lot of people that were considered people who wouldn't vote but they ended up voting for trump and pushing him over the edge so sometimes it's those voters who

haven't participated before that can actually really sway an election one way or the other professor thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. security forces of shot dead a rebel commander in indian administered kashmir so i feel islam meir known as saifullah was the chief of operations for the hizbul mujahideen a militant group fighting indian rule he was killed in a gunfight on sunday afternoon troops had received intelligence that he was hiding in a residential house in srinagar or 30 said the rebel commander fired at security forces triggering the gunfight as about jon's president has insisted russia shouldn't get involved in his country's conflict with armenia meeting with turkey's foreign minister. said his forces are not threatening armenian territory the 2 countries have agreed not to target civilians deliberately as they fight of the disputed province of nagorno-karabakh but both are accusing each other of breaking the agreement armenia's prime minister has asked for russian support while the as areas

of fact by turkey. the u.n. secretary general has support of course for another immediate cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan the region is seeing its heaviest fighting since the early ninety's when around $800000.00 ethnic as areas were forced to flee their homes i don't have meat spoke to some of them back or. it's been a month since they last saw their son rest tool who joined as ery army as a volunteer soldier 30 days filled with worry for over jan and may nor youssif of they were just telling us how they really hear from him when our conversation is interrupted rest is on the phone. you brought us 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 there's

a very 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 the 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 uncle. in the in the main goals creations are. terrorists. or hunger and so. forth. to compromise with us all on the. finish you all should finish some last possible. also very important element of this controversy. back home john and a nurse chuckle both their hometowns are now under very controlled they tease each

other about wish they would visit 1st once their son is back. people here are watching the developments of this war very close to their monk 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. from gibb rael hussein and are from zion gillan some of the people here told us that for years they had criticize 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 guys yan which 1000000 israel over was forced to abandon some 27 years ago. i watched the news all the 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

colas 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 the. back of sudan and egypt have kicked off the latest round of talks about ethiopia's controversial dam on the river nile the african nations have been at odds over the filling and operation of the reservoir egypt and saddam's it downstream and are concerned about their future supply of water. a group of 2000 former fark fighters are protesting against rising violence in remote areas of colombia at least 230 demobilized rebels have been killed since the signing of a peace deal in 2016 the former rebels say the government is responsible for the lack of security and the failure of the peace accord hundreds of community leaders

and human rights defenders have also been killed. as around beauty joins us now from bogota tell us more about what the form of fog rebels have been doing. yes lauren they've been traveling for days throughout the country coming from a number of remote provinces that during the country's very long internal conflict there used to be under control of this rebel group to far the largest rebel groups in colombia possibly the largest that ever existed in latin america the problem is that they after signing a peace deal in the story peace deal with the colombian state in 2016 they have seen violence rising in these regions in these territories since giving up their weapons so now they all have traveled to the capital. from all these different regions and they are marching here in downtown bogota towards the president so

palace central plaza a believer with a message for president t. vand telling them that the government these to do more to defend their life and to implement the peace process is now they are in the middle of fighting of different groups paramilitary groups received will rebel groups this is the end of the fire in just regular mafias who are fighting for a look pretty of the drug trafficking illegal gold mining among other illegal activities in this territory which the government hasn't been able to control since the signing of this peace deal and how much impact has this change in having. oh that's probably too early to say there's no doubt that of course it will help to bring more pressure on the government it's also happening at

a time when the government is already under a lot of pressure you might remember that a couple of weeks ago a large group of indigenous people. also traveled to bogota trying to speak to president the event ducasse sensually for the same reason for the rise in violence that we have seen especially during the last year and now remember president ducat campaign the against the peace the oh and also saying that this would have been a government of law in order to would have pacified all these areas of the country and what we have seen is that has been the contrary not only more than $230.00 x. fighters that have been killed but also hundreds of human rights defenders community leaders in these areas have been killed and practically total impunity there also have been more than $100.00 massacres or mass killings in these theories

that and there's also growing calls for the government to do more internationally coming from the un just a couple of weeks ago also burned our own son who was the employee then us president barack obama in the peace negotiations also critics eyes the government for lack of political will to do more to implement the peace you understand where i'm getting thank you very much. but he said by the recent fired warning shots into the air at protest against the president stun grenades were used and several people detained as tens of thousands of people marched in the capital minsk demonstrations have become a regular fixture every weekend for 12 weeks since the country's disputed election the protest as a calling for veteran need to an example because shankar to step down he says he has no intention of quitting. while davis president appears to have a small lead over his main rival but not enough to avoid

a runoff in the country's election preliminary results suggest ego dawn took 36 percent of the vote is main opponent why a sunday received 30 percent the president is hoping to win a 2nd term with the promise of closer relations with russia is rival a former prime minister and my son do want the country to join the european union. the polls are closed in a referendum on whether to rewrite jarius constitution if past the political system would be reformed and algerian troops allowed to fight abroad for the 1st time since the 1960 s. the new government says it's responding to demands from protesters hoping it will calm a movement that forced the previous president from office last year it comes as the current president is being treated in a german hospital after aides tested positive for corona virus my brother has more on what's at stake for algerians. 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 establishing a genuine democracy there are more changes planned on social and individual freedoms we don't recognise this system in power and this constitution if passed will plunge us into the abyss just as the predecessor 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 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 a condition of president of laos is beautifully plain april last year after months of masalas 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 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. judeans it's the 66th anniversary of the beginning of the war of independence from colonial frosts but the mood of national solidarity that of

judea witnessed on the 45 years ago is largely absent today because of political diffusion homage brought up to 0. still ahead this news hour huge america's newest poaches wonders that president will visit one of the country's most diverse neighborhoods just as equal a day after touchdown smooth landing but 9 years late early as new airport finally welcomes its 1st passengers. southbound on the economic heartbeat of a thriving brazil but boom times mean rising rents and the lack of public housing isabella's just one of thousands looking for a place to call home with no choice but to occupy one of the city's many vacant buildings facing an uncertain future. he'll find a latin america occupying brazil on al-jazeera.

examining the impact of today's headlines the escape from countries the misty but we don't feel safe here setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions my blood crying in my hole as is my whole being out there weaponized international film makers the moon class journalists tell us how and why the textile and fashion industry is a major of water polluters bring programs to inform and inspire news on al-jazeera . immigrants have often borne the brunt of donald trump's america 1st administration

so what impact will it have on who they choose to vote for jackson heights in new york is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in america in part 3 of our unheard americans series government is underspent to the area's 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 samual hock cast his ballot in early voting his 1st since becoming a us citizen do you feel as an immigrant to the united states do you feel that the candidates have been speaking to the issues that are important to you yeah i think so yeah you know if this is very important to. all of the. immigrants of many countries the. lot of people living here. here the most

people living. people are thinking. we've become a bit didn't mean we've become 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 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 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 think. yes jackson heights was one of new york's hardest hit areas during the krona virus outbreak in the spring. the big problem everything is . everything is problem. the problem 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 call truly rich neighborhood all are seeing this election up close and personal through the eyes of recent arrivals to

america gabriel's andro. new york england's 2nd 4 week lockdown isn't due to start for another 4 days but a senior government minister has warned it could be extended michael gove who is close to a promise to boris johnson says the health system could be overwhelmed if the infection rate doesn't fall i think it's important we don't get entirely ahead of ourselves here i think the 1st thing to say is that the reason we need to take these steps is because of the the danger of the edges being overwhelmed none of us relish taking these steps if we can succeed through all the measures we're taking in getting the all rate down we can look at which restrictions could be lifted where the 1st time in 5 months australia has not recorded a single locally transmitted case of current virus the former hotspot state of victoria recently lifted its lock down and hasn't had a case in 2 days it's seen only one case without a known origin state officials have failed saturday as another great day for

victoria restrictions continue to ease across the rest of the country. this time every year mexicans are preparing to remember family members they've lost but this year's day of the dead has become just another victim of the coronavirus pandemic festivities are instead providing consolation to those who've lost someone in what's become the world's 4th most deadly outbreak john heilemann reports from mexico city. i don't think. 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 love festivals. but this year the symmetries asylum closed because of coded 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 or a previous public spirit who walks the streets crying for her lost children who. are all 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 i'm also aware that also for you and i told you what we 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 factored don't we have our dead present so that we know they are with us. the audience watch from the truck in areas long boat floating in the dark waters such a milk or is 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 your flower the orange flower that

used in the celebrations is growing here thanks i mean fields on the outskirts of east to pull up a district to the simple chill they used to adorn the oldest of the dead that go up in homes across the country part of the tradition that the pandemic can't touch. but. just picking up a big bundle for her family this year the day of the dead will be especially moving her mum bear 3 died of covidien may 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 will never see that person again that we are so happy to be in that she would be here. that we can feel her presence in that way we put up with his favorite themes so she knows we are waiting that we love her that even though we couldn't do we haven't forgotten her. we have the privilege of

sharing food in 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 of response as the pandemic rages on john home and. mexico city. purchase have been taking place in turkey had comments on islam by the french president or in the recent attacks in his country emanuel mccoll called for secular values to be reinforced after the murder of a teacher who shared his class cartoons of the prophet mohammed. was at a protest in istanbul. a few 100 people have gathered here in istanbul to protest against the publication of the characters they've been passionately toure's with to be made in the crowd people have been chanting against the french law and they have been shouting against. those.

communities across the globe to unite there have been some calls murder a main rebel have been saying that from. the car more freedom of expression to hide its losses on the parts of the world and it is particularly targeted. because it wants to. 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're 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. in this brand new international airport has opened 9 years late and to little fanfare thousands of construction delays errors and oversights

pushed it billions of dollars over budget child alice explains he says equality as a touchstone of after nearly 14 years is countless construction delays and billions over budget the people of the lynn have a new airport officially this is the berlin brandenburg airport willy brandt with the most well known by its coach. 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 guns. 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 ya get lonely 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 l. of 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 $900.00 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 combine the last christmas present as the crisis of the state and to see it in an international airport are not yet reflected burleson is leaving behind its divided past with one a port for all but it came at a great cost to taxpayers shallop bellus al-jazeera a quick reminder that you can catch up anytime with all our news on our website address that is our dot com you can watch us live by clicking on the live by khan. a tip from a darn tell if this news app i'll be back in a moment with more news thanks for watching back now.

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