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this year at least 16 people dead. and a journalist is killed every 4 days we'll find out why most perpetrators are not held to account. hours along attack on combo university in afghanistan has left at least 19 people dead and another $22.00 injured security forces an unknown assailants were locked in an alice long gun battle on the university campus in the reports. as students rushed to get out of kabul university gunshots could be heard close by. witnesses say attackers entered the campus through its north gate and started shooting indiscriminately because i want to know the authors of the no didn't you know we saw them when they entered they were shooting at every student they saw

they even shot at students who were running away a few of us managed to leave the scene through another gate. security forces quickly surrounded the campus but it took them hours to bring the situation under control as parents of students trapped inside waited for news. i was downtown when i heard from people that there was a suicide attack at kabul university i got here so quickly and started ringing my son's phone i don't know whether he's in class or somewhere else in the university campus i asked him where he is but he just told me to pray for the attack happened during a book exhibition by afghan and the iranian publishers no one has claimed responsibility the taliban says its fight is on not involved this is the 2nd attack on a school university in the last 10 days while government and taliban negotiators meeting cattle to broker a peace deal violence continues to affect the lives of many afghans victoria gave

him be al jazeera. well for all ages let's now speak to fair contre for issues on the ground for us in the afghan capital kabul for you and i war details are coming in this happened very very recently to talk us through what you're hearing. well you know in the past hour the ministry of interior already revised at the number of dead and injured and so far it has confirmed that 19 people have been killed and 22 have been injured and according to the ministry of health some of them are in a very critical position. condition now we do know that the number could rise even further because the minister of interior says that the operation has ended just a little while ago so afghan forces are now moving inside the campus and they're just starting to remove the bodies they're in there they did say it's mostly students and faculty and they will not know their identities until they're

transferred to the hospital. they will release that information in the coming hours this has been a very complex operation with afghan forces fighting 3 gunmen all of whom the 3 of them have been killed according to the ministry of interior was a complex operation because the afghan forces were trying to rescue the hundreds if not thousands of students the faculty were trying trapped inside that camp was while at the same trying time they were trying to apprehend the assailants. one to us here because we were saying earlier kabul is really no stranger to attacks me even in recent weeks is there any indication yet who might be responsible for this . ever was behind that attack it's this brazen attack actually it's for sure that it was somebody that was looking for a lot of attention and some somebody or a group they were trying to terrorize all those students and everybody in the

afghan capital and it's only one in a serious of similar incidents that we've been witnessing here in the past month i will remind you the maternity clinic attack that happened less than 6 months. go when a gunman stormed the maternity clinic and they started to indiscriminately start shooting mothers a newborn babies and up to today we still don't know who did it nobody has claimed responsibility and all these attacks are something that have been causing a lot of concern among afghans and why no afghan earlier actually told me we don't even know where to go in this country anymore we can't go to a school we can't go to a hospital we can't go to a mosque everything since it's a target so somebody please tell us where can we go so we feel safe nastasya contra phoria there on the ground for us with all the latest from kabul thanks so much really.

well the race to the white house says now entering its final state with just one day left of campaigning before tuesday's fires now this long and often bizarre campaign has seen both donald trump and joe biden focus on battleground states some 19 men right as i've already cost the ballot some polls do indicate that biden has a lot nationwide but the race remains tight and crucial states and canada has the latest from miami. president donald trump began his campaign sprint of battleground states in chile michigan 4 years ago trump took this state breaking the democratic party's so-called blue wall in this nation's industrial rust belt as election day approaches national polls show he's trailing by tim. thank you very much i love you too he told supporters he saved the state's car industry that he could keep refugees away and continued his attacks on the former

vice president biden will pledge america and the world you one ridiculous war after about the united think she's a tough guy remember what he said a year ago i'd like to take her behind the bar you know what mom i didn't want to close i just thing he's got. in pennsylvania joe biden focused on taking back a state the president won by just over 44000 votes last election as part of a nationwide effort to mobilize the black vote he told people there is too much on the line to cities out communities of color have been hit particularly hard by the covert 900 pandemic the former vice president says he'll confront all forms of inequality we're going to address systemic racism bill real economic opportunity of equality of the black community the providers have been taken off every worker people have say they've say how bad things are. trump's whistle stop tour saw him in iowa georgia and florida his message for voters didn't change it any of the

rallies in north carolina he once again said he'll keep the economy open despite rising corona virus infections now by watching rule of very hard place nationwide shutdown it won't affect you because you're already shut down i don't know what that what's going on with your state are you ready to go without it i think so. more than $90000000.00 voters have already cast their ballots but the u.s. postal service is struggling to deliver money on time for us judges now issued an order for the service to take extraordinary measures to get ballots delivered if the processing of mail in ballots slows especially in battleground states it may lead to long legal battles in more than half the states including here in florida mail in ballots don't count if they arrive after election day the postal service says its employees know it's all hands on deck but neither candidate nor voters

want to see a delay in results and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida well our correspondent joins me now for the latest from washington d.c. allan less than 24 hours to polls i think both candidates i see taking the fight to pennsylvania talk us through their plans for the rest of the day. but as far as joe biden is concerned this personal for him he was born in pennsylvania he wants to win this state and it really is one of those key moments we could tip either way it certainly went for donald trump last time around joe biden thinks he can bring it back into the democratic fold and that would secure for him a clear road to the white house he's going to be in pittsburgh for 2 events on the day before the election. will be in pennsylvania it sure is just how important that the democrats believe this state is what is interesting is that. neither of the main candidates is going to be in florida on the day before the election i

can't remember the last time that that happened and certainly the polls were giving don't trump a very narrow lead there so perhaps both sides thing is going to go for donald trump and when you look at the the voting numbers that might be the case although the arab league numbers gave the advantage to the democrats all the playing where do we get the best advantage where do we get more bang for a box donald trump is going to go to a number of states is going to end up in michigan is where he ended up his campaign in 2016 but there's been a lot of their cause of what happened in 2016 for donald trump continues to his democratic challenger he calls. criminals says he should be locked up part of a crime family all echoes of similar attacks on hillary clinton in 26th even though being grand rapids in michigan for the final event the exact same place where he held this event in 2016 believing that helped tip the balance in michigan but all

the polls there suggest that he has no closer than 7 points to joe biden who has a lead in this day so quite why you spending so much time there i'm not entirely sure but clearly donald trump believes that the old ones are good and if you speak to people in the campaign they say they're in the same position they were 4 years ago and we know how that turned out when alan there's clearly a lot of tension even animosity heading into election day i see the government as well as everyday people are now taking security precautions how rare the people there really feel the threat of violence is after this fashion. well there is a concern i think this fear of violence is perhaps too strong but there is a concern and people are concerned enough that businesses around the white house but not just their own the white house from some distance away from the white house have started to board up in case there is any violence after the result we know the

national guard to put 250 people on standby here there are barricades going up all around the white house watch wider than we've seen since the protests in the summer and there's a concern among people that if either side doesn't get the result that they want they will end up gathering here in front of the white house and that could provoke violence and saw that can say particularly after what we've seen with buses being challenged by cars on the roads in the huge roadblocks in other parts of the country there's a concern i'm sure people wouldn't want it to leak into fear but they're worried they're worried about what might happen after we hear the results coming through starting in on tuesday evening and we'll continue watching very closely for you here on out is there indeed alan fischer there for us in washington d.c. thanks andy. well still ahead here here on al-jazeera we report from germany as it goes back into coronavirus town to tackle

a rising number of new infections. and anger and to casa muslim groups protests comments made by the french president among a lot. of . hello we've still got some right in the full cost for japan but it's in the process of moving out of the way some showers will follow one behind having said that see this long line of clouds running right across the country pushing into that eastern side of china it will slide further east which as we go on through or choose day showers do follow back in behind them we've got this long line of very heavy rain out into the open waters joining up with this circulation that we have spinning away here just to the northeast of the philippines that say developing typhoon that will bring some very heavy rain into northern parts of the philippines

just make our way through the 2nd half of the week we'll see some wet weather coming into taiwan for much of china it is going to be dry and fine over the coming days try and find 2 across the korean peninsula and there you go you can see those showers continuing to northern parts of japan showers continue across the far north east of india as well little clutch of storms still in place here old parts of the bengal still seeing some wester weather so there was some cloud and rain there into myanmar will see some showers too pushing up into bangladesh for a time heavy showers continue along the western ghats will see the dry weather crash pushing back into sri lanka but some wet weather here for wednesday. but. there are we are this is the government not for the. the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air

travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the soldiers their own. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. hello again i missed on here today and our hunt let's remind you of our top stories here in the south there are reports that a number of students have been killed during an attack at afghanistan's kabul university afghan security forces deployed to the campus when a gun battle took place. donald trump and joe biden have just one day left of

campaigning before the presidential election a judge has ordered the postal service to take extraordinary measures to ensure votes are delivered on time. and cleanup operations have begun in the philippines after a super typhoon hit that country at least 16 people died in the storm and 3 others a missing there's extensive damage to homes and one province has even reported around 90 percent of its infrastructure as damaged as one of the sea is strongest typhoons correspondent allen duggan has the latest from albania province which has seen some of the west. very very early today by and that usually takes about 9 hours but it took us 13 hours to get here because along the way there were many roads that were difficult to cross because of the. electricity lines and also some areas that are quite flooded now what we did with rate the area believe you were

hit by. it is a town called. by and we focus a 1000000000 there will be what farmland. now it's just been completely rubble and more than 300 homes have really been very bare or either swept away with. said they are grateful they are able to they were able to survive but only with clothes on their back basically because they had to leave everything their home their life while others are actually are with the backhoe operator as he was busy. digging through there the rubble hoping that there is though after viber you know so this is quite a difficult situation and you know about that and that's just one area among the many areas that actually have been barely affected by the strongest for a year. now germany's chancellor angela merkel has warned that the end of the corona virus pandemic is still some way off as you can see she's holding a press conference right now and has said that if the new lockdown measures what it

will make to send that quote bearable these new restrictions came into force on monday as part of those at risk restaurants and bars will be closed along with most recreational facilities and germany is among many european countries facing a rapidly spreading 2nd wave our correspondent on a cane is also in berlin and says the latest measures are an attempt by the government to try to regain control of the infection raise the metric that matters to the government here and to the robert cock institute which tabulates all the information to do with covert 90 they say that because more than $127.00 new infections of corona are happening every day per one $100000.00 residents it means that they are not able to track or to trace how those infections came about and who cause them in 75 percent of the cases they say that metric has to come down by at least half flaps more than half for them to be able to regain control of how this

pandemic is going and one other point to make which is that almost a 5th of all the infections that have happened in germany since the pandemic began have happened in the last 7 days that is the reason why the government here has brought in this lockdown despite the protestations from certain industries and that's why they say that bars restaurants and other kinds of services have to close for the rest of this month. well british prime minister barak's johnson is set to face parliament then the next hour to defend his decision to impose a 2nd national lockdown in england and johnson is facing opposition from some members even within his own party who are concerned about the economic impact these restrictions will have brennan has more on just what we can expect from johnson's address boris johnson will say that he's been forced to do this because of the data the data which appears to show that hospital beds are filling up fast that the

infection rate and the number of deaths could be and i say twice as high as the 1st wave and that the virus is spreading even faster than anticipated the reality is that he's staked a lot of political capital on the idea of regional lock downs and a 3 tier restriction system and you know. carried on with that despite the advice of his senior scientific advisory group and. the pressure from the opposition party the labor party as well for several weeks in fact criticizing kissed arm of the labor leader for wanting to recklessly shut down the economy something that boris johnson has now been forced to do so there is a huge amount of sympathy in many quarters for boris johnson's position here and even his own backbench members of parliament many of them are unhappy feeling that instagram brady who's the spokes person for those backbench is saying that the measures that is being introduced by the government will be regarded as evil if

they were brought forward by a totalitarian regime so there is foment both inside and outside of the parliament building behind me. now a 3 year old child has been found alive in turkey after being buried under rubble that for 65 hours the young girl was rescued along with her mother and 3 other siblings and is when they were found in an apartment building which had collapsed in friday's earthquake. a 14 year old was also found alive beneath that rubble she'd been trapped there for almost 60 hours at that point crowds cheered as rescue workers moved her into an audience more than 70 people are now confirmed dead but crews all still working to try to find survivors of the quake in the aegean sea also caused damage and greeks. demonstrations are continuing on the streets in bangladesh as capital dhaka tens of thousands of bangladeshis have been voicing their anger against french president manuel muffin's recent controversial comments on islam some of them have called for the closure of the french embassy

there and thousands of indonesians protesting outside the french embassy in jakarta the protests there come off the beheading of a french teacher who showed her showed call chains of the prophet muhammad and klaas defended those images and says he'll topple what he calls radical islam indonesia's president juggle widodo says mccraw comments that hurt muslims everywhere just to washington was that indignation running. here in the into the capital jakarta with thousands have joined a demonstration organized by hardline islamic groups here in indonesia against the french president emanuel micronor regarding his comments on islam now some of these protesters are calling for a boycott on the french products many of them are criticizing the french president holding posters representing him in a negative way there of course a number of islamic organizations here. many of the more moderate organizations are

simply condemning the president's comments rather than calling for a boycott of products they say that terrorism should not be so. ca did with any particular religion indonesia is home to more than any country in the world and the country's president joke of a daughter has already spoken out to condemn the comments made by president mike brown he says at this time as the world faces off against the pandemic the world needs unity and not divisive comments. well algeria will get a new constitution after a proposal to change it was backed by nearly 67 percent of verses in sunday's referendum and that's despite the low turnout of just over 23 percent they'll be a limit on presidential terms 'd and more power on occasion in the parliament and the judiciary the government says it wants to appease those who took part in a nationwide rallies that toppled president. last year but protest leaders say those changes don't go far enough well tons of the main opposition leader is now

facing terrorism charges police arrested freeman both way ahead of planned protests ahead of against the results of wednesday's election police say ambo and his supporters planned to blow up oil stations and doris along the opposition is alleging widespread voter fraud after president john legere was declared the winner of a 2nd term the electoral commission insists that vote was legitimate. well latin america and the caribbean are some of the most dangerous places in the wild to be a journalist that's according to a un report that documents the number of journalists killed in the past 3 years of between 201829156 reporters and media workers were killed around the wild about numbers actually one of the lowest in recent is in the last decade it's estimated a journalist has been killed every 4 days and unesco that's the un's education scientific and cultural bias ation says no one has been held to account for the majority of cases in which members of the media were targeted dilemma canela is the

chief of the section for freedom of expression and the safety of janice at unesco he says there are a few things that can be done to protect journalists. what we are watching here is a failure of the fader often dress in a comprehensive policy to protect journalists that should full of 3 basic feelers one prevention measures protection measures in brissie you should not the crime so these environment where it goes in you know those killers are not working it's the problem that they are keeping the cycle of violence on and as you said we are watching a journalist to be killed every 4 days and we are not speaking here about the other problems of violence that journalists are facing during this scene same prior period although we have these good news that the killings have reduced but other sorts of violence is are still present and we need to pay attention also on them we

are really watching journalists that are speaking about think poor conditions for our daily lives being prior to human rights elections corruption corporate wrongdoing on journalists that are trying to keep police forces accountable are to journalists that are being killed in different regions of the planet so 'd it's very important that every sits and can pay attention to those numbers because we are we are seeing that these people that are helping us every day to make troops to prevail they have been targets by different sorts of violence including killings. veteran journalist and author robert fisk has died at the age of 74 falling short. the irish times is reporting that feste president sent to a hospital in dublin on friday he began his career reporting in more than islands joining the troubles that he then spent decades covering the middle east from the

lebanese civil war and the iranian revolution to the u.s. led walls in iraq and afghanistan. 20 years ago the 1st group of people went to the international space station since then well the 200 others have followed performing experiments that have led to scientific advancements right here on earth anderson pellets at the future of the isis as it now heads towards its for time. have switched to a wide angle 350 kilometers above the earth the hatch was opened on a newly assembled station and on a new era of permanent human presence in space 20 years in 150000000000 dollars later the international space station has grown to the size of a football field circling the world every 91 minutes. the video. of the day before. this is where we eat we have a dining table and with this we can get hot and cold water and make ourselves something to eat. scientists from 1000 countries have spent time on the i assess

each day we are learning something new we find something that breaks in a different way than we expected performing experiments that have led to life saving advances here on earth from vaccine development and robotic surgery to air and water purification systems and cancer treatment station harnessing the ever they are. and it is really a testament to the fact that clear minds is something if we listen to the experts we work together as a sea in accomplishment. all up astronaut scott kelly has spent nearly 500 days on board including a 340 day mission with the russian cosmonaut mikhail korean co to better understand how the human body copes with long stints in space the program has also shown what nations can accomplish together even while squabbling back on earth. you know sometimes when i'm out of events and our earthly politics come up i say that we

should send all our presidents to the i assess for at least a month they'll learn how to cooperate and all our problems down here on earth can be solved in this way. as its 2024 retirement looms so to do business opportunities tourists are expected late next year after hitching a ride on a commercial space x. rocket we have bob behnken from space x. demo to mission entering the international space station another private company axiom plans to attach a module to the i assess which would eventually break off and grow into the 1st commercial space station and as nations again look to the moon and onward to mars the experiences aboard the i assess over the past 20 years will prove invaluable preparing women and men for the more grueling journeys ahead you some glum. it's not just like a business trip to another city or country where you feel nostalgic but it's the absence of the earth itself it's difficult psychologically and the next generation who fly to mars need to confront this. it'll be even tougher for them because they

won't even see the earth out of their windows we could at least see the years from our window it is the most audacious thing we've built so far proving almost anything is possible when we put our minds to it and are chappelle al-jazeera. kind of that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines at least 19 people have been killed after hours a long attack on a couple university another $22.00 have been injured multiple attackers entered the campus fighting with security forces the taliban says its fighters are not responsible for the raid contre free has moved from the capital this has been a very complex operation with afghan forces fighting 3 gunmen all of whom the 3 of them have been killed according to the ministry of interior was a complex operation because the afghans.