an occupation. but what has become of that tree. rewind pencils and bullets. on al-jazeera. donald trump and joe biden make a last minute push to voters with less than 24 hours to go to the most anticipated u.s. election in recent years. come about this and this is all to see on live from doha also coming up. frantic scenes a couple university has gunmen killed 19 students and teachers during an hours long attack on. the country treatment heart surgery life saving procedures movies could be put at risk if we do not get the bars under control british prime minister abbas

johnson defenses decision to impose a 2nd locked up. and the cleanup begins in the philippines after one of the most powerful storms this year killed 16 people and displaces close to 1000000. but are just 24 hours left before the polls open in the u.s. presidential election both donald trump and joe biden are using the final day of campaigning to focus on crucial battleground states a record 19000000 voters have already cast their ballots polls indicate biden has a lead nationwide but the race appears to be tight in some crucial swing states and the galaxy has the latest from miami. president donald trump began his campaign sprint of battleground states in chile michigan or 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 biden. 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 plunge america and the world into one ridiculous war after another you know i think she's a tough guy remember what he said a year ago i'd like to take care behind the bar you know what mom i dearly wanted clothes 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's too much on the line to cities out communities of color have been hit particularly hard by the kobe 1000 pandemic the former vice president says he'll confront all forms of

inequality we're going to address systemic racism a bill real economic opportunity of equality the black community the providers have been taken off their burka people are saying they've seen 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 my dad wants a cruel and very hard place nationwide shut down it won't affect you because you're already shut down i don't know why that heck what's going on with your state are you ready to help it out i think so. more than $90000000.00 voters already cast their ballots but the u.s. postal service is struggling to deliver money on time the u.s. 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 agalloch are al-jazeera miami florida we're going to speak to christensen in dogs town in pennsylvania in a moment where joe biden is expected to campaign in the coming hours 1st let's go to live to alan fischer in washington d.c. allan the deadline is getting closer both campaigns determined to get their messages out. exactly joe biden is heading to ohio and then into pennsylvania he'll have 2 events in pittsburgh the fact that he's going to ohio shows that he thinks he can expand the battlefield no we're looking at polls in georgia that says that is

a competitive state and so is ohio why is that surprising well the tend to be solidly republican so if joe biden can win those $28.00 changes the mathematics of getting $2.00 to $70.00 quite considerably obviously though he thinks that pennsylvania is going to be the important state so it is the trump campaign for joe biden is 1st of all he was born in this state he wants to win that state but he also wants to make sure that he get enough votes to get to 270 and to win the electoral college as for donald trump well he is going to be in 5 different places today 4 different states he's going to echo 2016 in a lot of what he does on the final day and that includes going to grand rapids in michigan which will be his final event as it was in 2016 and he was hoping that that wall be the norm and he is deeply superstitious so hoping that because he did it back then he can do it again this time around what is interesting though is this time if you look at the polls in michigan he isn't within 7 points in any of them

so that gives joe biden a win and of course it was just $10000.00 votes that decided michigan last time around so there are those that are close to donald trump that are suggesting that this might not be the best strategy and fight that none of the 2 major candidates are going to florida on the final day that's very unusual the buy in campaign is sending barack obama there to do some campaigning on his behalf are all these moves worth it well i guess within 48 hours we'll know who had the better strategy for the final day and who will be the president of the united states thanks very much indeed an official talking to us from washington d.c. ok kristen's now joining us from doylestown in pennsylvania and was just explaining to us why pennsylvania is such a key stay. it's for both campaigns talk us through with the key issues are for the people of pennsylvania. it is key and you can see the entrance to voters who've lined up behind me to make sure that their voices are

heard this election day the issues that the candidates are focusing on are many but for president the focus has been on what was a winning strategy for him here back in 2016 a focus on working class voters talking about the economy talking about trade talking about his unrestricted restricted support for the fossil fuel industry now that's put joe biden a bit on the defensive in a state like this where fossil fuels are very important he's had to defend his environmental policy as not being detrimental to that industry he's tended to focus on the coronavirus which has really set back the economy here in pennsylvania as it has in much of the country he's also joe biden very much focused on winning over black voters in this state who are crucial to a victory for him here and in the last week in fact pennsylvania saw the police shooting of a 27 year old black man in philadelphia the largest city in the state so those are

some of the issues that the candidates are talking about clearly they think this state is crucial both of them for a victory based on just how much time they're spending here joe biden has been leading in the polls in pennsylvania pretty consistently but that lead has been shrinking and now he is right about at the same spot where hillary clinton was in 2016 and we all know what happened then president upset in the state winning by less than a percentage point so it was very close than and it's shaping up to be very close again christine thanks very much and do those christianson we're talking to us from in pennsylvania. an attack in kabul university in afghanistan is left at least 19 people dead and another $22.00 injured security forces and the assailants were locked in an hour's long gun battle on the university campus the taliban have denied involvement in the attack but tora gave their 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 as i want to do them. we saw them when they entered they were shooting at every student they saw 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 on 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. the afghan vice president is not convinced he tweeted one day we will correct our intelligence failures but the taliban like minded satanic allies next door won't be able to wash their clinch and save this stinking and non justifiable attack on kabul university. 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 gayton be al-jazeera. for the account of 40 years in kabul and she says there have been a number of assaults by unknown attackers the taliban so far have denied any involvement in today's attack and in fact just so a bit earlier they even condemned the attack and this is just one in a series of such gravesen attacks that have been happening across the country and

especially here in the capital kabul by unknown gunmen who just go and attack soft targets like the one that we've seen less than 6 months ago when this maternity clinic was attacked again by unknown gunmen who just stormed the clinic and they started shooting down mothers with there are known babies then almost 6 months later we still do not know who did it and no one has claimed responsibility and there's more smaller incidents with his own own gunmen who just go and they gunned down government officials and civil servants and this is something that has caused a lot of concern among afghans here who feel that you know there's nowhere where there is saved anymore one of them was telling me earlier that we can go to work we can go to school we can go to a hospital someone please tell us where can we go so we can feel safe. still ahead on al-jazeera in indonesia muslim groups protest comments made by the french

president emmanuel mccall. and a journalist is killed every 4 days we'll find out why most perpetrators aren't held to account. for. how 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 going right across the country pushing into that eastern side of china it will slide further a switch as we go on through tuesday 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 dry and fine too 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. on counting the cost facebook is accused of being a super spreader of hate this information on lives so is it time. breakup the social media giant bust the pandemic destroys 2 decades of poverty reduction we

took the world back on the search for oil in the middle counting the cost on al-jazeera. play an important role when. ringback you're watching how it is you know a reminder of our top stories this hour both dogs on by joe biden are making their final pitches to voters on the last day of campaigning before the u.s. presidential election comes holding 5 rallies in key states while biden is holding to. at least 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured during

a gun battle inside kabul university multiple attackers into the campus early on monday and security forces killed 3 of them. u.k. prime minister barak's johnson has defended his decision to impose a national lockdown in england addressing parliament johnson said he wasn't any slower than other european countries critics say johnson has been too slow to act. i believe it was right to try every possible option to get this virus under control at a local level with strong local action and strong local leadership and i reject any suggestion that we are somehow slower in taking measures in our european friends and partners in fact we're moving to national measures when the rate both of deaths and infections for instance is lower than they were in france we are engaged as a country in a constant struggle to protect lives and livelihoods and we must balance the

restrictions we introduce against the long term scars they leave whether for businesses and jobs or our physical and mental health. ok let's get more on this with paul brennan in london for those of us watching in the poll it's difficult not to see this at least in part as some sort of u. turn by the prime minister is that fair do you think. oh definitely i mean he's been spending at least a month criticizing the labor leader. for advocating a national lockdown while boris johnson has been adamant that his preference was for regional lockdowns this tier system that the government proposed and executed and now of course the the data on the situation in britain's hospitals has meant that the prime minister has had to go back on that and it's left him open to criticism from the opposition parties from within his own party as well very angry about the impact on the economy the reason why is illustrated here where i am in

the center of oxford street now this is a major shopping street in the center of london there are flagship stores of furnishings sportswear fashion on thursday all of these will have to close cafes and restaurants will shut this place will become a ghost town the impact is enormous the 8 weeks leading up to christmas last year 42000000 people came down here to do their shopping on the revenue generators is about 3200000000 dollars this year the prediction is it will be around $9000000.00 people if that generates it generates revenue would be about $647000000.00 you can see the impact in the 10s of thousands of temperate christmas jobs as well that are impacted by that too so the prime minister is in a very very awkward position in the debates he was described himself on his attitude to cake as being having it eating it and the reality when it comes to coronavirus is you can't have the economy and at the same time protect the n.h.s.

paul thanks very much indeed that's paul brennan bringing us up to date from oxford street london. germany's chancellor angela merkel has warned that the end of the corona virus pandemic is some way off she said if new log them measures don't work it'll make it december quarter bearable police in a number of cities have been on patrol as the new restrictions came into force on monday restaurants and bars will be closed along with most recreational facilities germany is among many european countries facing a rapidly spreading 2nd wave this is you know if you don't have this in their hand this means it's in everyone's enhance to make this november a joint success a turnaround to get back to having traceability and if we manage to slow down the secularization of the virus over the next 4 weeks then we'll have the conditions for a manageable of the 7 with of course the need to still follow the current virus rules that prevent for several months now but with more freedom again. dominic king has

the latest from berlin. and the merkel's point of view is pretty simple that the progression of the 2nd wave of coronavirus in this country is so bad that the numbers are rising so steeply that there is no alternative but to go into another lockdown although the lockdown that is now in place taking place right now is not as steep was not as severe as the one that was inforced back in the spring the interesting thing is that to see certain shops that sell essential items remain open schools remain open interesting the many teachers association is a deeply unhappy about that because they believe that some of the teaching colleagues are as it were on the front line of coronavirus and are not are insufficiently protected but nevertheless schools remain open but very many other industries now must lock down and so there's

a practical argument being made by many in those industries who are affected saying well they've already tried to make their enterprises covert safe and now they find themselves being locked down anyway and and facing an economic loss over the government is going to recompense them there's also an ethical argument being made by some on the right and far right to society who say this is a real erosion of individual civil liberties but angle americans argument is very simple she says that right now the metric that matters in so far as current of ours is concerned is that 127 new infections are happening for every 100000 residents around the country. cleanup and rescue operations have begun in the philippines after super typhoon gormley heads the country at least 20 people died in the storm and 3 others and missing some homes have been destroyed in one province as reporters 90 percent of its infrastructure is damaged. ports.

helen piniella was inside her home with her 2 children when flash floods swept them all away they held onto each other and climbed onto a floating matches nearby they all survived but ended up hundreds of metres away from their home helen went back the next day they were home when stewart this is all that's left of it now. it took me years to be able to build this house but i am grateful because i feel that god disc given me another chance this is the town of give the baton by one of the areas in the philippines worst hit by typhoon gone be the most powerful storm this year of farmland community now mostly reduced to rubble at least $300.00 homes have been destroyed here across the region of luzon the damage is staggering to. the vehicle region was once hailed as

a model when it comes to an emergency response not this time thankfully he was just too powerful rescue energy of all operations are almost entirely dependent on machines like this one those in search for missing loved ones say they know that the situation is desperate but they remain hopeful they will still find family members alive beneath the rubble but so is world has collapsed he fears his wife and daughter have been buried in the mud to his son's body was found lifeless several kilometers away. they are holding on to each other but the other sort all powerful and i was pushed back when i got out i didn't. to them anymore heal that somehow their bodies can still be found and be given a proper burial survivors here tell us they were able to flee with just the clothes on their backs but they have lost everything else their homes their livelihoods

there is so much grief and sadness here. in algeria and by province in the southern design region of the philippines in turns a near police arrested opposition presidential candidate to lose subroto call for protests disputing last week's elections that comes after another main opposition leader was earlier arrested and charged with terrorism have been planned protest against the presidential vote the opposition is alleging widespread voter fraud after president john morgan fully was declared winner of a 2nd term electoral commission insists the vote was in the just a minute meanwhile zanzibar has sworn in new president dr hussein morning was elected to govern the islands which are a semi autonomous region of tanzania zanzibaris opposition has rejected the outcome calling for mass protests algeria will get a new constitution after a proposal to change it was biased by nearly 67 percent of voters in sunday's

referendum that's despite the low turnout of just 23 percent there'll be a limit on presidential terms with more power allocated to the parliament and judiciary the government says it's in response to the demands of those who took part in nationwide protests that toppled president with a flick last year a protest leaders say the changes don't go far enough. moldovans will go back to the polls for a runoff after candidates failed to secure a majority in sunday's presidential election opposition leader by a sunday to finish slightly ahead of incumbent igor dong the country's been divided between those who favor closer ties with the european union and those who are pro russian sonia gago reports from the capital she's in l. . the presidential elections have put the pro e.u. contender my ass on do ahead of the incumbent igor dawn by 4 percent now the last time these 2 faced each other in 2016 you got

a lot of was ahead of her white 10 percent so there's been quite a reversal over what the electorate in moldova are searching for nevertheless when we spoke. about her victory in this 1st round she remains still cautiously optimistic we know that our opponent doesn't believe in free and fair elections he has been trying to do the elections and we can't exclude that he will try to the war of this in the next 2 weeks at the same time we have been more. better prepared this time to defend. us now one of the factors that's affected my asunder strong turnout in this round is really down to the moldova diaspora there are younger working people who are abroad who made up 70 percent of the support for her in this round now it's quite evident that it is they who want to

change from the current situation question now is that there is a campaign to go for the next 2 weeks that could turn out to be quite bitter and certainly. was not on to surprising that perhaps he would be behind at this stage there to be more protests in the byelection capital dhaka tens of thousands have been voicing their anger against french president even your mark holmes recent controversial comments on islam some of them have called for the removal of the french embassy. and thousands of indonesians are protesting outside the french embassy in jakarta the protests come after the beheading of a french teacher who showed cartoons of the prophet muhammad in klaas president and defended the images and says he'll talk over the cause of radical islam indonesia's president joker widodo says my colleagues comments hot hurt muslims everywhere jessica washington was at that rally and sent this report. here in the indonesian capital jakarta with thousands have joined

a demonstration organized by hardline islamic groups here in indonesia against the french president emanuel micron regarding his comments on islam now some of these protesters are calling for a boycott on the french products many of them a criticizing the french president holding posters representing him in a negative way there are of course a number of islamic organizations here in tunisia 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 associated with any particular religion indonesia is home to more muslims than any country in the world and the country's president djokovic has already spoken out to condemn the comments made by president my friend he says at this time as the world faces off against the pandemic the world needs unity and not divisive comments lost in america and the caribbean are some of the most dangerous places to be

a journalist that's according to a u.n. report the documents the number of journalists killed in the past 3 years between 201829156 reporters and media workers were killed around the world but that number is actually one of the lowest in recent years in the last decade it's estimated a journalist has been killed every 4 days and unesco the un's education scientific and cultural organization says no one has been held to account for the majority of cases in which members of the media were targeted get on kenya is chief of the section for freedom of expression and the safety of journalists at unesco he says that are a few things that can be done to protect journalists. what we are watching here is a failure of the fader off addressing a comprehensive policy to protect journalists that shoot full of 3 basic feelers one prevention measures protection measures and prosy you should off the crime

so these environment where it goes in you know those killers are not working it's the problem that they're 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 all their problems of violence that journalists are facing during this scene same prior period although we have these good news that the cubans have reduced but other sorts of violence is ours through the president and we need to pay attention not also own that we are really watching journalists that are speaking about important issues for our daily lives being prior to human rights elections corruption corporate wrongdoing journalists that are trying to keep police forces accountable are to journalists that are being killed in different regions of the planet so it's very important that every sits and can pay attention to those numbers because we

are very elite are seeing that these people that are helping us every day to make troops to prevail that being targets by different sorts of violence including killings. and this is al-jazeera things of the top stories have both donald trump and joe biden making their final pitches to voters on the last day of campaigning before the u.s. presidential election trump is holding 5 rallies in key states while biden is holding 2. at least 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured during a gun battle inside kabul university in afghanistan multiple attackers entered the campus earlier on monday and security forces killed 3 of the. u.k. prime minister bars johnson has defended his decision to impose a national lockdown in england.