but isn't that the american way. tells us what kind of people we are. when. america's nursing home mcnair and i. think with your help your devotion and your drive we are going to keep going to work we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning winning winning when saw him fall strong out donald trump goes on a 5 state frenzy to drum up last minute support ahead of the u.s. elections. first to parch on the lawn to sit it out we only have 2 more days to put an end to this president saying that it's for the for johnny short to the fire those tears for. joe biden crowds in pennsylvania

a state that will be vital to victory. by money inside of this is al jazeera life and also coming up. in another battleground state florida it's a look at house wiring coronavirus infections are affecting voters. nearly a 1000000 people displaced and at least 10 dead off the typhoon goni rips through the philippines. and remembering departed loved ones how the pandemic is changing day of the dead celebrations in latin america. it's all down to the battleground states ahead of tuesday's the u.s. presidential election. donald trump is holding

a rally in north carolina as he goes on a well when blitz of 5 different states. in iowa he painted more gloomy pictures of was a biden presidency could look like the biden herons plan would outlaw american energy would at least economic bizzare for iowa wisconsin pennsylvania michigan and every other state in america your energy costs would go up at a level that you've never seen he wants to raise your taxes and you know him he has no clue he's shot ok he's got the guy has a total who you know it i know it we're all trying to be nice but i know i'm also for a while he's not a nice guy joe biden is in pennsylvania trump won the all important swing state by less than half a percent in 2016 bought in people to come out and vote against trump this time last time donald trump ran he won the state by 44000 vote so every single

vote matters the power to part of change a structure is literally your hands i don't care how hard donald trump drives there is not enough it is going to do to stop this nation from voting no matter what it drives well with kevin 1000 infections spiking a record 91600000 early ballots have been cost the president continues to question the legitimacy of early and malin votes nationally he is still trailing biden in opinion polls but the race is tightening in the swing states let's go to and he got to go live for us in miami where trump is expected to hold a late night rally than a furious campaigning by the president why is he in so many states. well we are down to the last few hours before election day and i think the president really wants to just make the people in those particular states aware

that this is going to be a close race look he was in iowa he was in michigan is heading to north carolina georgia and then finally here in florida they're all states. play in this election because as we've said time and time again over the past few weeks this is going to come down to the battleground states like the one here in florida with its 29 electoral college votes only texas and california has more electoral college votes than that and by the way no presidential republican nominee has made it to the white house in almost a century without winning this state so that is some furious campaigning on the part of president donald trump meanwhile joe biden just focusing on the all important state of pennsylvania of course both candidates have been there a lot you heard joe biden himself saying the margin by which trump won that state was about 44000 and it's the same picture here in florida trump won florida by about just over 100000 votes or one and

a half percent more votes than hillary clinton at the time and if you look at the polls here in florida you know biden might have a slight edge but when you put in you know the possibility for those figures to be wrong it's a neck and neck race so that makes these states entirely important to both these candidates which is why you're going to see donald trump turning up here tonight close to midnight by the way to give his final rally in this 5 state stop tour and he may even be breaking the local curfew by having all those crowds out at the opa-locka airport here in miami and the fact that with this late in the campaign has there been any changes toward to the messaging that we're seeing from our candidates. i mean from the reporting that i've heard president trump's advisors have been telling him look talk about the economy please talk about the economy because the figures for the last quarter were pretty encouraging but he isn't doing that he's as you heard just then attacking his rival joe biden saying

that a biden shutdown would ruin the american dream so the messaging isn't changing he's also continuing to say that this nation is rounding the corner when it comes to the coronavirus case and incidentally on saturday there were 99000 new cases reported as we head into those winter months joe biden of course taking a completely different approach saying look i will listen to the science if i am president come january they'll be a mandatory masque order we're going to really get our hands around this thing and stop it so no the messaging from either candidates isn't changing and with more than 90000000 people already voting early i don't know how much this last minute campaigning will change anyone's mind. many thanks that got to go there for us live in miami in other news police in france have released 3 men who were arrested over the attack on a church in nice where 3 people died on thursday several others remain in custody and the suspected killer is still in hospital and mourners gathered at the church

to pay tribute to the victims from nice david chato reports. inside the basilica the photographs of the attackers 3 victims. their blood and their deaths but desecration of a place of worship. the bishop of nice used holy water to consecrate the building again to allow it once more become a building for prayer and hope and healing. leap year perfectly here. the stones can speak of their horror in the face of a lot of hatred violence and death the mission of this place was perverted this place was profaned the chief suspect is among 7 people arrested since the knife rampage investigators say here right in the city 2 days before he broke into the basilica his network of supporters is now being pieced together

outside the church police kept the crowds back with berries perhaps the strongest words during the ceremony came from the bishop of nice monsignor. he said that 3 lawyers had been stolen and 3 lives stolen in the name of a false face of god or of a perverse ideology those are phrases that perhaps will echo across nice and across france. all places of worship every creed and frogs are now being given protection david chaytor al jazeera nice at least 10 people have been killed as typhoon goni hits the philippines about a 1000000 others have been evacuated from its projected path it barreled through the country as one of the world's most powerful storms this year but has since weakened. and reports from manila. joey mughal is 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 connie that is battering the central and southern parts of the us on 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. provinces that have likely sustained extensive damage many areas remain cut off power and communication lines are down and some roads are blocked by . government officials say preemptive measures have been well put in place even

before the day. struck flights have been canceled sea ports are closed and over a 1000000 people have been evacuated from coastal communities and down seem to be well within the path of the strongest typhoon to ever hit this year gone he comes a week after typhoon hit the same region killing at least 22 people and schools in 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. duggan al-jazeera manila. preliminary results from although this presidential

election suggests the incumbent holds a small lead over his rivals but that won't be enough to avoid a runoff the country's been divided between those who favor closer ties with the european union and those who are pro russia sonia gallagher reports. the president arriving to cost his vote he go to the un says he represents continuity and that for him also means keeping moldova firmly under moscow's influence. are voted today prepared and stability for harmony between different ethnic groups in moldova and for balance in relations with our overseas partners it is not an opinion shared by his opponent maya sandu leads a party that is representing an alternative agenda unlike president visitors i'm old over that is no longer so closely tied with what russia and its president vladimir putin wants i voted for the country that fight corruption illusions to

stop all this corrupt land i want to put the future of. all of the civilized. in this soviet country wedged between ukraine and european union member romania there is often a clash of ideals president calderon has cultivated warm relations with moscow but there is plenty affinity here for the west yet moldova has also had to contend with being one of europe's poorest nations for years its younger generations have got abroad in search of work leaving behind fewer people of working age and an economy reliant on remittances conditions that have left a population weary of more promises of change. in these elections despite the pandemic moldovans living abroad have felt compelled to vote double the number than those who voted in the last presidential elections and 2016 this is the voter transparency has also been an issue in particular in the breakaway region of

transnistria just been a valuable buffer for russian interests in moldova the hub for voter corruption in favor of pro moscow candidates so this is on the border crossing to try sinister in the breakaway region that's only recognized by russia. what happened allegations of vote rigging coming from this region so rough the local mall drove and sometimes it's brought up the road to try and stop them from coming in and voting here the main candidates represent opposite ends of the political spectrum in moldova and it is the voters who will choose whether the country and easton or western backed leader to help take it forward in this turbulent time sony al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera searching for survivors we'll have the latest from western turkey 2 days after powerful quake struck. opposition parties in georgia refuse to recognize the results of this weekend's parliamentary election.

how is that we have got some more wet weather coming into japan at the moment some very heavy rain and see this band of cloud moving through the sea of japan bringing some torrential downpours across the western side of qana she running rural across cuba shoe it will gradually make its way through the eastern side of honey she was we go on through the course of choose day prices guys coming back a bit high but look at this line of really heavy rain a case out into the open waters follow it down to the northeast of the philippines and we are going to see another developing typhoon coming through here this one is called at soddy that something is going to affect northern parts of the philippines northern areas of luzon as we go through 2nd half of this week for the time being of course it's all been about super typhoon has caused widespread flooding it has

caused wind damage power outage chase landslides as well as we go on through the coming hours it will punch its way back out into the south china seas sweet can significantly but it's still a damaging feature this one further spells a very heavy rain coming back in behind as it moves across the south china sea it's going to run back towards the those flood affected parts of vietnam will be a tropical storm by the time it makes landfall but it will exacerbating the flooding here this week. when coronavirus struck america care homes for the elderly became ground 0. they cut corners things don't get done and people die as a result kline's reveals how a troubled industry imploded under the weight of the pandemic proper care. but isn't that the american way. tells us what kind of people we are.

when. america's nursing home or. the. the world. you're watching out there are mind our top stories this hour donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final push for support in battleground states president is touring 5 states in one day while biden focuses on one swing state pennsylvania. a vigil has been held at the church where 3 people were killed in a knife attack in the french city of nice free of the men arrested have been released the suspected killer who was shot by police is in hospital. police 10 people have

been killed as typhoon goni barrels through the philippines it's destroyed hundreds of homes and shops manila's court. let's get more on our top story now the countdown to the u.s. election only 2 days to go i'm joined by tim constantine he's electoral college expert and a political writer at the washington times joining us from florida many thanks for speaking to us on al jazeera the latest polls show biden ahead what do you make of the polls and trump's chances as we head to as a final. most of the polls are national polls which tell us absolutely nothing about how things will go on election day the united states is made up of 50 states and each one of those 50 states are guaranteed of voice in the election and so it's not

a national poll of who gets the most books hillary clinton is the best example that is 4 years ago got more votes than donald trump but the majority of her votes came from new york to california and so every single state gets a vote the united states in there and we start breaking down on which state which candidate is doing better and that's where we really can tell who is likely to win tuesday. we have had significant early voting this time around so i do wonder will this frantic campaigning we're seeing now is that likely to have much impact on the final result i think it will has less impact and it might have 20 years ago but it still has a tremendous impact the estimates are that somewhere in the 90 to 95000000 people have already voted last time around and there were 140000000 votes cast in the trump clinton race so if their member who are going hold steady this time around it

would be still another $50000000.00 people to vote so if it were me running i would be out there doing everything i could do encourage those 50000000 people to vote for me so you are not convinced by the polls what do you think trumps chances as we head towards election day. the mainstream media has made it into the number of states they call tossup states states they think are too close to call among those are states like texas which are not too close to call texas will go for donald trump or the r t u s north carolina that will go we're going to trial but there are several states that are very very important will be the deciding factor florida where i am right now there's 29 electoral votes that's more than 10 percent of what either candidate needs to win pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes michigan. i wore

a couple other states are very important in this but i think it comes down to the story of florida which i think donald trump will win michigan which i think joe biden will win him and pennsylvania and there is one scenario that is not so far fetched that if donald trump were to win pennsylvania you could end up with each candidate getting $269.00 electoral votes and not one word in which case it would be decided by the house of representatives 2020 would continue to be more chaotic than any time in history indeed good to speak to tim constantine electoral college experts from the washington times if you will than 2 days after a powerful earthquake a 14 year old girl has been found alive beneath the rubble in the tech a city of its man crowd cheered as rescue workers moved into an ambulance more than 70 people though on the confirmed dead the rescue workers

a still working to find more survivors the quake in the aegean sea struck both techie and greece. correspondents an emphasis on live reports from missed me. 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 off its minute 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 these 2 or 3 columns you saw 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 in is more 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 these for days to come see them close all of al-jazeera is mid western turkey. algeria has recorded a low turnout of only 23.7 percent in its referendum on whether to rewrite the constitution the proposed changes aim to appease the protest movement that topped the president. last year but protest leaders had called for a boycott of the vote saying the changes don't go far enough the referendum proposes limiting presidential terms and giving more power to the parliament and the judiciary. thousands of people in georgia have gathered outside parliament to protest against election results opposition parties in the supporters accusing the governing party of raiding the parliamentary election and intimidating voters they say they'll continue demonstrating until a new election is called car like reports that was anger on the

streets of georgia's capital tbilisi sauza as of opposition supporters marching on parliament demanding a new vote after the governing party claimed another election victory in the floors log. jam lection results did not mirror the real meat of the georgian people would protest against a government that is trying to steal votes the alternative to all the results of this elections are totally wrecked we the majority of people think this b.s. this should be changed and most democrats want to separate even before the election commission declared the result. the georgian dream party and its billionaire leader already said day one was i was going to try. this summit with georgian dream wins the elections for the 3rd time what a country wanted a solid team we have got it the georgian voters learn very quickly to differentiate

and analyze the european spent much more time on this. the opposition coalition led by former president mikhail shakur accuses georgian dream of making near lection and intimidating voters out there who just didn't go into the elections in the eyes of the world using the kauravas. remember there was a very high turnout was by far and wide a lot of them all races is very much a central asian belorussians international observers however say the vote was generally free despite several shortcomings very lections where competent deve and overall fundamental freedoms were respected nevertheless and of as the allegations of pressure on voters and learning of the line between the ruling party and the state to reduce fabric confidence in some aspects of the process the georgian dream

party has held a strong majority in parliament for 8 years but its popularity has dwindled steadily as economic problems of deepening during the coronavirus pandemic. and with allegations of a stolen election fueling calls for more protests the government faces the threat of a political crisis carli leg al-jazeera. another round of talks has started about ethiopia's controversial ground run us on stem sit on in egypt fear the dam will divert too much of the water they rely on from the river nile if you're here argues the project set to become africa's largest hydro power plant is crucial to its economic future much of piccies ancient cities l has reopened to visitors in peru the us go world heritage sites had been closed since major curve 19 strict rules are now in place including limited numbers to $600.00 a day on

a typical day before the pandemic up to $3000.00 people would come to see it for his government is closing cemeteries where people normally gather for a day of the dead celebrations while the corona virus infection rates has been slowing there the government is worried about complacency or the 900000 cases have been recorded in peru mexicans are also being kept away from cemeteries the day of the dead is still providing consolation to those who've lost a loved one and the country with the 4th highest coronavirus death toll john holeman reports from mexico city. well i don't think. every year on the day of the dead it makes crews departed return to the land of the living. and usually the graveyards of full of their families waiting to welcome them with their favorite food drink and music it's one of mexico's best loved

festivals. but this year the symmetries aside are closed because of code and this play on an island in the ancient waterways of sochi milko district is one of the few events allowed. it's a story of larger on a previous public spirit who walks the streets crying for her lost children. 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 us i think that's when i call 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 like to own we have our dead present so that we know they are with us. you audience watch from the truck in areas long boats floating in the dark altars 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 chill flower the orange flower that used in the celebrations is growing here. 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 to 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 was a friend you can't imagine that you would never see that person again that we are so happy to be here. that we can feel his presence and that's why we put out these

with his favorite themes so she knows we are waiting that we love her that even though we couldn't do more we haven't forgotten how. we have the privilege of sharing food and stories appeared three's with the garcia family as they waited for her to return just like everywhere in mexico it's a moving but joyous occasion a moment for spike as the pandemic rages on john home and i'll just see it or mexico city. this is al jazeera these are the top stories donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final push for support in battleground states the president is touring 5 states in one day while biden is focusing on the swing state of pennsylvania last.