as for cost for years to get to 900 beaches you can imagine the potential for extensive damage possible in the correct your from that of it's slow we think even when it gets on land. this is 0. out there i missed on the attack and this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes voting begins in the u.s. presidential election after a long and divisive campaign between president donald trump and his rival joe biden . she can happen like you've never seen this is their dream in the final hours of campaigning again questioned the legitimacy of principles are saying. it's time stared up to take back our cars but his rival joe biden is promising the beginning

of a new day if he wins. and also on the program for people are killed as gunmen opened fire in the austrian capital of vienna the government there is calling it a terrorist attack. the non pietists improve the sports news audience on football legend diego maradona has been admitted to hospital all those doctors says it's not too late to cope with all of the details of this news though. right now across the united states versus are going to the polls to decide if donald trump will get a 2nd presidential term or if joe biden will become president voting has been open for just a few hours now but already long lines have been forming already nearly 100000000 people have cast their ballots an early voting bracing breaking previous records now this hour 13 g.m.t. polls have also opened and

a number of states including iowa kansas and all important texas. here is our team on the ground for the south gabriel is under as monitoring developments for us from new york kristen salumi is in philadelphia and pennsylvania one of the big battleground states where as we heard voting has begun in the last couple of hours jamal ohio is at a polling station in wilmington delaware biden's home state and from washington d.c. we've got alan fischer will get all the latest from them in a moment but 1st let's take a look at how the last hours of campaigning unfolded our white house correspondent can be how he begins our coverage. us president donald trump wrapped up his reelection campaign still behind in the national polls but convince still pull off a victory and i think we're going to have a tremendous victory truck rally in 4 different battleground states but made his last rally in michigan as he did in 2016 with an 11th hour pitch to voters but

if the errors in the radical left gain power they will collapse our economy and send our nation into a very steep depression trump's rival former vice president joe biden focused to other northeastern state of pennsylvania calling in celebrity artists like lady gaga to wrap up the final night and in. pennsylvania is the same state where biden's campaign started and also where he was born chad stared up a dirt track. would you do this would you be bennett well we. if you're being. asked. and it states of america as the candidates presented their closing arguments the number of americans who have voted prior to election day has set new records nearly 100000000 people have cast their ballots in

early voting. both polls show early mail in voting favors biden but trump believes his supporters are waiting until tuesday to cast in person votes but in the final hours of the campaign both candidates signaled they may not accept the results on election day sheeting can happen like you've never seen this is their dream and they are they are known for trouble even called a recent supreme court decision allowing an extension to count votes in pennsylvania as dangerous twitter flagged the tweet as potentially misleading with an immediate result on election day in doubt both candidates are preparing potential legal challenges to the results under no scenario while donald trump be declared a victory a victor on election night casting widespread uncertainty over poll results now appears to be a tactic employed by both campaigns you know we've already seen challenges to

extended deadlines for allowing a mail in ballots that have been postmarked by election day but that arrive a few days later they have been challenges to adjustments in the law as american voters are anxious hoarding food. and boarding up businesses from new york to los angeles joe biden will be in pennsylvania on election day donald trump will be watching the returns come in from the white house were to add additional fences have been erected around the perimeter in anticipation of. civil unrest can really help get al-jazeera the white house alan fischer joins us now live from the capital washington d.c. and i know everyone says this every time around but this is a hugely consequential election and it does feel at the moment that the country is facing an unprecedented level of polarization talk us through what's at stake in.

it feels significant it feels different and there is greater polarization in american politics but that also leads to greater engagement which is why we're seeing that almost 100000000 people have voted in election why they're expecting long lines that polling stations across the country in the next few hours we have a president who believes that he should be given a 2nd chance seeing that the corporate crisis essentially interrupted what he says that was the greatest american recovery in decades all economic factors don't point to that but it is certainly a story that his followers are willing to believe he points to the fact that he created record employment for african-americans for latinos and also for asian americans and he believes he should be given a 2nd chance the democrats say that donald trump lost the right for a 2nd term because of his handling of the corporate crisis the ignored the severity

of it and killed and it's killed more than 220000 americans they say that they have a better plan for america's economy they believe that given the opportunity they can rebuild the country in the way that barack obama did after the financial crisis when he took office it's an argument that they will make in various radio interviews today in fact though trump has just been on cable television one of the big questions of course will he accept the result when it comes through and he said he's going to when that has been a trump mantra for the last 2 or 3 weeks that the polls are wrong the polls are fake and he feels very much he's in the same position he was 4 years ago when all the polls and i mean all the polls were suggesting that he was going to lose he still believes he can win but we'll know more in a few hours time but the final result might not be known for a couple of days yet simply because there are states that will current those 1000000 votes allen you mentioned president transparent. morning what can the rest

are today. well his intention is to do several more interviews by telephone from the white house he also intends to head over to arlington virginia where the republican party have one of their headquarters he'll be thanking party workers who will be heading back to the white house where you watch the results come in with family members there was an intention to have an event at the trumpet tell not far from the white house but that has been put on hold because of the covert crisis moshing didn't d.c. it means that you can have only a limited gathering so he intends to hold an event in the white house a couple of people are saying well if you can't do it in the hotel why can't you do it in the white house because the white house is a federal building and believe it or not it's not covered by laws and regulations particularly laws and regulations by washington d.c. so about 400 people are intending to gather in the east room we're expecting to get

some comments from donald trump the big question is if he wins a couple of early states say for example texas and ohio will he then claim victory for the whole evening even before we have the full picture as a way of trying to deal objective mice the results as they came and really can can claim that there was voter fraud so this election which has been hugely divisive do expect that as the results start to come in somehow america will become the united states again there's going to be a lot of divisiveness for a few days yet a very tense night and david alan fischer there for us on the ground in washington d.c. thank you allen well let's now get the view from delaware joe biden's home state tomorrow i am as at a polling station wellington for us jamal i know the national polls have been looking pretty good for biden but no one is taking anything for granted as we all remember hillary clinton won the popular vote but then lost the electoral college last time around what's the feeling like in the biden camp today. well let's

say cautiously optimistic and there is still the drive to ensure as many people come out and vote as possible the message from the democrats is that they should be voting as if their life depended on it it's the fact that joe biden is still canvassing in the butts of ground in pennsylvania shows that they aren't taking anything for granted that they don't want to repeat the same mistake as they did in 2016 and trying to canvass as much support as possible we see it here even though it is so to speak a safe haven for biden it is his home town but there are still large voter turnout in the early hours despite the cold despite obviously the pandemic as well the asli there are precautions that are taken here everybody's going to come in we're in the mosque they are wiping the areas and sanitizing bits and so forth but the message that's come out from the democrats particularly in the past 24 hours has been that this isn't just a choice between trump and biden this is essentially an attempt to save american

democracy and that has been the consistent messaging that has come out from both biden and his running mates come of the horrors who've been pointing to the divisive nature as they've put it of trump's policies how that's eroded american democracy and how it's important and peretz of the people come out and have their voices heard when we look at the boarded up shops around the country and you look at the 10s atmosphere that is this is something that is alien so just speak to. an american election and the fact that the tensions are so high is something that really does speak to the fact that there is the message of protecting democracy something that will resonates amongst millions of people here. on the ground for us and that no and thank you very much john always been talking a lot about battleground states let's go now to kristen frame issues in philadelphia pennsylvania one of the key battleground. states chris and i do want

to ask you out a polling station the polling been going now for the last hour or so pennsylvania was won by trump last time by the very very slim mist of margins we could still be waiting for days for results even though polling already begun. yeah that's true but this is a very important state the candidates have spent more time here than any other state it's considered the tipping point with 20 electoral college votes that the candidates need to put them into a victory i'm actually in philadelphia which is considered the birthplace of u.s. democracy this is where the constitution was signed the declaration of independence was signed and i meant the museum of the american revolution which has been turned into a polling station because of concerns about congestion and the coronavirus you can see people are already here voting they were lined up an hour and

a half before the polls opened in the dark i spoke to the woman at the front of the line and she had actually requested a mail in ballot but because of all the concerns being raised by president chomp about counting the votes she decided to come and vote in person instead 3000000 mail in ballots have been requested in pennsylvania about more than 3 quarters of them have already been returned so those are expected to take some time . to be counted in pennsylvania the law requires that they don't start counting those mail in ballots until the day of the election itself 7 counties have said they don't have the manpower to even begin that process until the day after the election so this is why the results are expected to come in a bit later here and why president trump has been raising objections and concerns about those votes coming in later the mail and votes of course expected to be more

favorable sergio biden then the day of voting totals but the governor here has been urging calm other elected officials have also been on urging calm saying that the votes will be counted everyone's vote will count but it's going to take probably. few days before we know the results here in pennsylvania kristen salumi there in pennsylvania all important pennsylvania for us thanks so much kristen well as we are waiting for there is results many people are also bracing themselves for unrest let's not speak to gabriel is under he's outside a polling station for us in new york again we did already see huge protests in new york over the course of this year and we are expecting more people out on the streets in the coming days. we are there are going to be protests at least here in new york but probably some other cities as well as early as tomorrow some protests have already been called protested say that if biden winds still take to the

streets to hold him accountable for the promises that he's made during this campaign and they say that if trump wins they will take to the process to take to the streets to voice their displeasure at his reelection so it's not a matter of if there will be protests in the u.s. it's a matter of where and how big they will be now here in new york city at this polling place we've been here all morning and there have not been very long lines quite frankly but do not mistake that for dis interest in this election we can pretty much attribute this to the fact that 1100000 new yorkers have already voted in early early voting unprecedented numbers so that's why perhaps we're not seeing quite as long of lines here because people a lot of people have simply already voted but this certainly has been a very tumultuous year here within the united states with black lives matter protests protests against police brutality against racism and so now this election

really coleman ates what has been a very very tumultuous year here in the united states and a lot of people wanting to see what these results will be and then see what their reaction will be from people here in america after these. bad 9 passes in new york says he will be being contracted i thank so much came from. well let's put all of this into context the u.s. has a rather unique way of electing its president it's called the electoral college system it's complicated and it's contentious especially if you're talking about who actually got the most votes now each state is given a share of electors and that share depends on the size of the state's population and therefore the number of representatives in congress so populous states like california texas new york and florida have more electoral college votes and that entire nationwide electoral college is made up of 538 members. of

538269 which means the magic number that the candidates need to win is 270 so during the election when people vote for their perfect candidate they're actually voting for these electors who in turn give their votes to the candidates now the states have mostly a winner take all system so if you get the most votes at the ballot box you get all of the electoral college votes for the state except for maine and nebraska they split the electoral college votes so in america it is actually possible to get fewer votes from the population and yet still win the election it's already happened 5 times twice in the last 5 elections like 2016 as you'll remember when hillary clinton got nearly 2900000 more votes than donald trump but trump flipped some crucial states with high electoral vote counts and he got 270 instead of her while almost 50 is the stage of minnesota's electoral college votes have gone to democratic presidential candidates in 2016 president trump lost that state by less

than 45000 votes and now minnesota is one of the swing states that could determine the outcome of this year's election the report's. a patchwork of soybean and corn field stretches across the plain of blue earth county minnesota the campus of minnesota state university is in mint quito the seat of the county it's attracted a small community of immigrants. in 2012 the county voted for president barack obama in 2016 it pivoted to president donald trump. is a somali immigrant he's the 1st person of color elected to the man cato school board the democrat says the evolving demographics of the county are at the root of its political whiplash in 2016 that really gives a lot of my. our white brothers and sisters a lot of anxiety that change of 4 generations the live in you

know they feel a sense of belonging but of a ledge and the system so that being threatened. was something that from exploited. a 20 minute drive away on the duncans and family farm there harvesting the last 8 years of corn sold to make ethanol and pro-business anti regulation mindset of the trumpet ministration i appreciate we don't like people telling us how or what. we there's a sense of freedom out here agriculture and hog production are the economic drivers of blue earth county the population is about 90 percent white according to u.s. census data the county's biggest city bank kato is the site of the largest mass execution in american history in 86238 members of the dakota tribe were

hung after the us dakota war trials when westerman is dakota and the director of the humanities department at the university we have to acknowledge. the injustices of the past. according to native news online the native american vote could be a factor in swing states such as minnesota there has been a robust national get out the vote push that's one way that our voice can be heard is to vote and participate in the process and get in there and help make those changes local say you won't see many campaign lawn signs or hear arguments about the election though they may disagree about politics what people value more is what binds them together as neighbors natasha going to aim old 0 blue earth county minnesota well let's not speak to cheney fly he's

a senior fellow at the german marshall fund of the united states and he was also forman vies a republican u.s. senator marco rubio he joins us now from bell and jamie thanks for being with us i don't know for many people outside the u.s. it does seem crazy that this whole election rests on a very small group of voters in just a few states and this time around a few traditionally red states do seem to be leaning blue do you think that's because of the choice between trump and biden or is it because we're seeing a changing more divests electorate. i think it's related to both those factors as you noted this election has generated passions on both sides and so we have the potential that we're not just dealing with some of the traditional swing states which have been contested now over the last several decades places like ohio florida. parts of the rust belt but there are other states that people are openly discussing possibly flipping places like texas perhaps arizona and some of that is just the energy especially on the democratic side in opposition to president trump

but some of it's also related to changing demographics and a number of those states where some of the democratic party's core constituencies are a growing segment of the electorate and the democrats have invested a lot of energy in this cycle in actually trying to draw all those voters to the polls don't move to states that we're all going to be watching very closely tonight florida and pennsylvania and get specially given the number of that truck college votes and the polling margins that missing that president trump is now already insisting the counting of ballots beyond tonight which he founded practice and is jetson that do you think this is all going to end up in cost. it very well could and that's that would not be unprecedented american presidential elections have often been litigated certainly in 2000 with bush versus gore but even when it was not over the actual determining votes there are always issues related

to voter access and a number of congressional races that often end up in the courts i think the real challenge is going to be in pennsylvania in florida my understanding is that florida starts counting its early pre-election day votes in pennsylvania because of a number of state practices a lot of those votes the mail and ballots will actually 'd be counted probably until election night or even the day after and especially given how tight the margin was last time where it was less than one percent where trump was from took the state you have a very tight margin and those mail in ballots could actually sway the election and that's why it's going to be incredibly difficult if the election does come down to pennsylvania to really determine very quickly what the outcome is so let me ask you then jamie how much of the landslide win this election need to be from biden in order to avoid the court battle going forward. i think the big question will be

what happens in florida if biden is able to capture florida elects world map for president trump becomes very difficult it's not impossible but if president trump can hold on to florida and we'll know fairly early after the polls close in florida and the count in florida begins and i think florida has a history just by the despite the mess in 2000 of counting relatively quickly if we know the outcome in florida that will be an early indication of some of the trends and whether this is all going to come down to pennsylvania ultimately a couple other states if there's a major upset in places like georgia texas states that you would expect president trump to carry but he does not that could also make the whole map less reliant on pennsylvania and give us an early indication of what's going on so much of this comes down to the mental content which in itself is pretty controversial and and many would argue that the natural college actually disenfranchises vice hasn't and

none swing states because most campaigning ends up being focused on those areas and and other issues that are important to my house when they get put aside do you personally think a metro college system shuts down exists. i think it's a a corky system that's difficult to explain to people but i do think it ultimately works i think the founders established this system. for a reason america has always been divided by urban centers and large rural 'd spaces of america rural there was a desire to make sure that you didn't just have people in the cities who had all the political power and i think honestly that's going to continue to be a challenge in american politics as the country in the demographics changes and so i think some of what you've seen with selection is a bit of that rural backlash non-college educated caucasians coming out

in force to support him and even if the democrats are triumphant in this election and take the senate and complete control of congress i think many republicans and many people 'd who supported someone like donald trump are going to still want to place a lot of faith in the system to protect their interests and that's going to be even more important if you have one party controlling the white house and both houses of congress jamie find that senior fellow and gemini national fund of the united states great to do in fine town on to their thanks for being with us john thanks for having me on it is now time for the weather app in hand. ghani has gone thankfully it was the strongest record anywhere on earth since 2030 and that was high on which hit actually the philippines now you know how much damage has done wind damage principally have to say. being put to some use admittedly the only is a much smaller storm and it was only a tropical storm and supposed to a typhoon as

a super typhoon of course where it would have the philippines but it's still got some life left in it it will enter well the coastal waters of vietnam by the end of thursday and make landfall i suspect later on to your early on friday as a friday week storm but very involved sensual of 400 millimeters at sunny may well strengthen the moment it's out over open water that these are just 2 of the 3 existing tropical systems in the world them or the other one is coming on to the coast of nicaragua hurrican eat a record breaking because of the number we've got to in the season to $28.00 now i think this is a nasty piece of work 240 kilometer per hour winds it's moving west was steadily into nicaragua now it's been classified as nick stream the dangerous hurricane it's slow moving it is windy it also contains a significant storm surge and 402900 millimeters of rain. well there's plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including ugandan politician bobby wian is arrested

again shortly after he was nominated for next year's presidential elections. thousands flee ivory coast after president allison atara has declared the winner of the general election back. and a goal celebration goes wrong on the ice here so we'll have those details for you and yours. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november would be this week the cautious and if you believe that there horowitz into our democracy one obvious solution is to break them up informed opinions lucas said his don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get out of aleutian if you want to call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street the inside story on al jazeera. global pandemic.

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decide if donald trump will get a 2nd term although if joe biden will become president as you can see the polls have opened in a number of crucial swing states including florida these are live pictures from there now as well as pennsylvania long lines are already forming outside. both trump and biden made their case to voters in key battleground states in the last night of campaigning the election will be decided by about a dozen states that could swing to either candidate. and almost 100000000 people have already cast their ballots an early voting that's a record high many of those have been by post something that trump has been critical of whether the election result will be accepted by either side remains an open question. well the numbers of. reluctance to fight in passenger in this pandemic but across the u.s. there's no single uniform procedure for processing in tabulation those fights explains from los angeles. there's been

a tremendous surge in mail in and absentee ballots cast in this election we're going to see tens of millions of more americans vote by mail than have than any other former presidential or any election really this despite president donald trump's repeated false claims that mail in voting is rife with fraud no there's there's no evidence of widespread fraud the process catch is that the process is to bahrain to catch these sorts of issues percentage is about 0006 percent of all ballots cast 9 states plus the district of columbia send ballots automatically to all active registered voters in the rest voters may request absentee ballots despite fears that trump appointed postal officials were engineering a mail service slow down observers say delivery time has not so far been an issue we've actually been hearing good stories about very quick delivery when will all

these ballots be counted well it depends on the state all across the spectrum of the united states you have a variation in the rules of which the voters need to abide by the way in which ballots are counted be the laws and policies and procedures or the type of the quitman that they're using most states begin processing and preparing mail in ballots for tabulation well before november 3rd that means they'll get results quickly it's just a handful of states that don't allow that processing to occur until election day or after but that handful includes the crucial swing states of wisconsin and pennsylvania ballot counting there could delay knowing who won if we're down to the wire. and it's all contingent upon a couple of states we may not know the projected outcome and tell long after election day a couple of days maybe a week and as millions lined up for early voting armies of lawyers from both sides

are poised to dispute the results in the courts there have been more than $300.00 lawsuits around election administration so far this year just days ago the supreme court ruled against republicans allowing pennsylvania and north carolina to continue counting ballots after election day look i'm i'm a former elections official litigation can wreak havoc in the election process specially in the middle of the conduct of the election there are many variables but the bottom line is have patience unless one of the candidates wins in a landslide americans and people around the world may have to wait a while before they learn who has been elected president of the united states robert oulds al jazeera los angeles oh i can ask you catherine pieces she is the executive director of the cent a fin for nation technology and public life at the university of north carolina at chapel hill and she joins us now catherine unprecedented numbers of mail in ballots

and the number of problems already very obvious across several states let me start by asking you how has malan voting this time and gone well enough to be seen as an adjustment not only by the politicians but more important by the electorate. absolutely i think what we've seen could be described as a miracle except that i know exactly how many human hands and how much effort have gone into making it work smoothly we saw the number of people voting by mail approximately triple the selection over the 2800 midterm and despite that we're seeing ordinary levels of correctable errors that are being corrected and are allowing people to get those ballots catherine there are also a number of other methods of voting being used to say because of the pandemic drive through voting for instance i say the republicans wanted something like 120000 votes thrown out in texas a federal court has now refuse that request has the pandemic created a potential opportunity here if a new attempts at voter suppression say i think the pandemic is absolutely changed

how we vote and i believe that those changes change always creates some degree of uncertainty and i think election officials have been very careful to communicate how those changes are happening how they're securing the vote and how they're serving voters in this time unfortunately the fact that that uncertainty is still present allows bad actors to be able to for there so that uncertainty i think as an elections community we've been working really really hard to ensure that voters have faith in the system but yes we're seeing challenges to that and people taking advantage of the novelty factor to try to undermine trust in our voting process catherine we just heard our correspondent in his report there say that everyone needs to learn to be patient how quickly do you think we can expect final results especially from the swing states given the time pressure that the trumpet ministration in particular is putting on the counting. absolutely i think. the rule in elections is everything varies based on what state you're talking about

i'm here in north carolina where the election boards have been counting mail ballots and been counting early votes as they've come in and we expect to have results by tonight or tomorrow in michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania the rules are a bit different and we know that it may be a little while and so the answer as to when we'll really know the come of the election depends on which states it really comes down to and how close the names are so we have to be prepared to be patient but we may also know quite a bit yet tonight well given the lack of patience particularly on some parts there has been plenty of discussion about misinformation around this issue throughout the campaigns plenty of that has been taking place on social media i say that twitter has already flagged one of trump's tweets just in the last day how successful do you think the response has been by a social media giants to all of this. i think the social media giants have been working very hard to set good policy and then they've been struggling to enforce that policy when these messages have been coming from the accounts of very powerful

and well placed political actors it's very difficult to decide to put a warning on a tweet from the president and i'm very glad that twitter is enforcing its own rules against even his account but they've been they've been navigating some of these surprises and this uncertainty along with the rest of us the election coverage and democracy network is a group of political communications experts who've been putting out recommendations on how to be able to cover these pieces and i believe that their recommendations about being able to cover the process what isn't is not as expected what isn't is not normal and up holding the democratic institutions who will be doing the vote counting we're really seeing that play out across a great deal of media and i am hopeful that the networks will be able to cover this as a process and to cover it from a frame of what is that worthy of our democracy rather than a frame of what are the candidates saying while we will be awaiting on tenterhooks for all of those results as they come in dade katherine ph says they're from the investigate of north carolina at chapel hill great to get your thoughts here on out

is there thanks for being with us thanks for letting me well moving on to some other news now and memorials have been held for the 4 people who were killed on monday night in the austrian capital and what is now being called a terrorist attack chancellor sebastian katz laid a wreath for the victims he has described at least one of the attackers who was shot dead by police as an eyesore sympathizer several men armed with rifles are on fire starting outside the city's main synagogue police are continuing to hunt for further suspects paul race now joins us from vienna i believe the exact target of this attack still not known but plenty of people were out on the streets there enjoying a night out ahead of this midnight coronavirus cafe. yes there were indeed the stars here and today as you can imagine there's a very quiet subdued depressed feeling to a city that's this really totally unused to this kind of incident in in recent

decades this area with all the international media is perhaps the busiest in the city today you can see this whole cordoned off area around the area where one of the attacks took place last night just see behind these behind these restaurants an area packed with people enjoying their last night of freedom before another lockdown and a curfew. kicked in today now people have been urged to stay off the streets today certainly not all of them following that advice perhaps surprising with with at least one attacker thought still to be at large although we have heard reports that someone has been arrested in the austrian city of limits in connection with this attack which the austrian chancellor has described as a dark night for his country. the attacks took place in the heart of vienna just hours before austria entered

a new coronavirus lockdown a c.c.t.v. camera caught images of a heavily armed attacker looking for victims in the cobbled streets of the city center seconds later he shot at this man at close range upon hearing some shots downstairs i looked on the window and i saw the attacker running into various bars and restaurants around when i was 3. and people running away and. one or 2 attackers chasing them or the history when this all is so. suddenly the shooting started at 1st we didn't know what it was but suddenly people in the neighboring gotten started to run we stayed standing there and there was shooting getting closer so we started to run away because we didn't know if we were running in the right direction and we ran into our hotel and hid there. 4 victims

have been so far confirmed dead but more than a dozen have been injured 7 of them critically wounded one armed attacker was killed by police he's a 20 year old man with the jewel citizenship of both austria and north macedonia he's been named in the media as curtin ass and it's now known that he served a prison term last year for attempting to travel to syria and join the islamic states group 2 arrests have been made in the austrian town of st colton a city 35 miles west of vienna and a manhunt is ongoing if that's the midlevel appreciate picked us it has now been confirmed that yesterday's attack was clearly an islamist terrorist attack it was an attack out of hatred out of hatred for a fundamental values of hatred for a way of life out of hatred for our democracy where all people are equal in rights and dignity last night will therefore go down in history as a night in which some of our fellow human beings fell victim to an attack which in reality was aimed at all of us that attack on our free society but one thing is

clear we will not be intimidated by the terrorists. in the wake of the shootings germany stepped up checks at the austrian border as chancellor angela merkel expressed solidarity and coming less than a week since an attack in the french city of nice president emanuel tweeted we french share the shock and sorrow of the austrian people. while france of course had already been on high alert after the attacks there in recent weeks this attack here in vienna sharing some of the whole box of the shootings in paris 5 years ago that killed so many people with with multiple gunmen hunting victims on the streets shooting people enjoying a night out and indeed leaders in the rest of europe now say they're stepping up vigilance to prevent potential copycat attacks potential more potential planned attacks like this one in the austrian capital last night poor race there on the

ground for us in the austrian capital vienna thanks so much for why the united nations says several 1000 people have now fled from ivory coast into neighboring countries hours after president alassane ouattara was declared winner of the presidential election the opposition says it's creating its own transitional government and there have been calls for protests but there's also concern that demonstrations will result in widespread violence let's speak to our correspondent on that interest he is covering all of this for us from a bridge or amend it does seem like there is an impasse where do we go from here and it does seem like a very tense situation indeed on the ground. it is it's been tense and i think since the referendum but things got worse when allison want to announce just weeks ago that he was running in the presidential elections and despite precious he continued now we're seeing events of 201-2011

repeating themselves although on a much slower scale in terms of refugees at about this time 10 years ago more than 300000 ivorians fled the country and into neighboring countries and 1000000 others have been displaced within the country right now what we see in the numbers we're seeing is we're around 3200. people who fled the homes from ivory coast into gonna liberia and talk more and liberia is hosting most of them i liberia currently host about 2600 of these new refugees who fled the country into liberia and the problem now is the call for more action on the streets by the opposition continued i should while ago we heard that the. main challenge in last week's and last weekend's presidential election has congratulated him saying that though the elections are not perfect he would rather have an imperfect election

than violence and i because he called for national reconciliation on the other hand the 2 opposition figures who boycotted the election and i've been calling for action on the streets on their supporters i do toward another press conference this afternoon the 3rd in as many days they initially announced a transitional council and what we expect now probably that we naming members of those councils already we know that that council is headed by former president horry. was also one of the candidates that boycotted the elections presidential election was held on saturday a statement interest with all the latest for us covering that for us from the bridge or thanks so much and. now ugandan opposition leader musician bobby wian has been arrested again have a look at this video was posted online social media showing police forcing their way into his car his party says police broke into the vehicle a full system out this all happened very shortly after he handed in his nomination

papers for next year's presidential election he's been calling for a long time president yoweri museveni to step down well our correspondent jim webb is monitoring developments from neighboring kenya. he's admitted his nomination papers and was successfully qualified to be a presidential candidate he wants to challenge president obama 70 has been in power for 34 years. bobby weiner is a pop star turned opposition politician is now expected to be on the ballot paper only just last venue when somebody as we saw another video filming on a facebook live on his own facebook page we can safely say breaking into the car body while in the other people inside were dragged out and bundled into a police van and taken off now this kind of violence is normal in ugandan politics and especially in election year but was this different this time the fact that somebody with such a broad following and such a young following bobby wine is going to be on the ballot paper i mean he's been

making music for almost 20 years that the ago got involved in politics has a much bigger following than any opposition politician who's challenging a 70 before our position of always complain that none of the elections that was 70 electoral commission has held have been free and fair they always complain of rigging of voter intimidation and other kinds of irregularities no one's expecting that to change this time but what it certainly looks like is that the police who haven't yet given a reason for probably one arrest today but they certainly didn't seem to want to allow the kind of crowds to gather on the streets of the capital where bobbie wine is indeed very popular. the philippines is bracing for the arrival of another storm as people are continuing to deal with the aftermath already of typhoon go any at least 20 people have been killed after the world's strongest typhoon this year destroyed homes and triggered floods across the country president ford regarded as

a says the new storm named at sunny will also cause severe damage in its path as it makes landfall later this week melinda are going to explain how people are coping already and hard hit all their problems. you were just in a smaller community in by about an hour now from the gaza city and what we saw there was a means to describe what survivors see beyond human comprehension this is a coastal community where more than 90 percent of homes have been destroyed over a 1000 families used to live there and now they're clearly on the hand to mouth existence they're in desperate need of food and emergency shelter and across many areas of by province central and southern lives on the situation is also difficult people who are receiving aid here and there but they don't really know where the next meal will come so they're calling on the local government people in the to come and bring aid immediately and that's just one area nic another island in and

one this just only did they did manage to send aid so this has been happening since sunday you know and the situation is quite dire not to mention that this is the most powerful storm need to ever hit this year category 5 in a country that is still reeling from a coronavirus pandemic and a lot of people basically know and understand the government's resources are very stretched they know that help might be slow to come but they still hope that it will come soon enough you know we were seeing children really were taking and sleeping on the ground in places where their homes once stood to spare and are really afraid to keep their children's clothes at night and during the day they salvage whatever they can the situation is quite desperate. still ahead here on al-jazeera the race that famously stops a nation goes ahead behind closed doors there and nelson case will have a nice house point us toward friends and.

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business leaders is brought to you by the brass paul. it is now time to support peter as does i thank you so much as you've been hearing it's election day in the u.s. and this year american sports stars have been especially engaged basketball here are brown james one of those encouraging people to vote in the last few weeks and on sunday for the delphia 76 ers coach doc rivers spoke at a joe biden rally i'm coming up to you actually coach today. so i want you going to stand this we're in the 3rd quarter the 4th

quarter is to say we have to close the game and to say that when our job is to do. to get out the vote right argentine football legend diego maradona has been admitted to hospital the 60 year old has been suffering undisclosed health problems but they're not related to covert 19 according to you he's dr mariano was taken to hospital in la plata where he coaches a local club his condition is not described a serious the 186 world cup winner has struggled with his health in recent years of the battling alcohol and drug addiction a former manchester united star ryan giggs has denied allegations of assault british media reported that he was arrested on suspicion of attacking his girlfriend is representative say he is cooperating with police giggs who is now the manager of wales will not take charge of the scene for the upcoming 3 games

barcelona's board of directors will proceed with cutting wages at the spanish club after its finances took a big hit because of the coronavirus pandemic interim president skates as also warned that no one will be given special treatment including star player may see the issue of wage cuts did not go down well when it was discussed a few months ago but the board is determined to push ahead before it elects its new president in december. you know this but we'll be able to pay according to the amount of money we have we must take into account that we will have a decrease in our revenues around 300000000 euros if we can't open the stadium and if we are able to open the stadium we won't be that far from that because we won't be able to open it at full capacity maybe a quarter of the seats junior couple of months followed by half the house for another period of time but very likely we won't be able to open the stadium at full capacity during the current season that's football club i.x.

have confirmed they will play their champions league match against mitchell and later despite 11 players testing positive for covert 19 their squad will consist of only 17 players after the outbreak as they head to denmark for tuesday's group game they're still looking for their 1st points and aietes are not the only ones affected kiev are also missing 6 players with coronavirus as they prepare to face barcelona on wednesday and spanish champions rail madrid host into millennia in the champions league on tuesday remarkably real have not yet won a match in the group stage equally odd is that into are also winless after their 1st 2 matches however both clubs do have substantial pedigree and into boss antonio concert is aware of the challenge he faces. but. what we came here to continue what we are doing we want to play our football gets a great team like real madrid we didn't come here to stay in a corner like

a boxer taking punches and hoping to maybe throw just one to knock out his rival we want to face them with the right attitude but without any fear. now it's one of the biggest horse races in the world the melbourne cup in australia no fans were allowed in because of covert 19 restrictions and once again it was gnawed by the death of another horse they had starts reports. the melbourne cup usually attracts around $100000.00 spectators but although the city emerged from months of lockdown last week large gatherings are still prohibited so only jockeys trainers and operational staff are allowed into fleming to racecourse the race that famously stops a nation held behind closed doors for the 1st time in its 159 year history. and the racing can give them a cheer australia where ever you're feeling on a stick despite the pandemic there were lots of overseas runners in the race and it was the irish bred twilight payment he led for virtually all of it before seeing it

home in a thrilling finish to claim the $4400000.00 1st prize by the time i was still 'd trying to try it was just where it was. bought from taco bell at pretty good when you put in to put out these fields not yet it's too many emotions because. it's a very big man met the day he was marred by the death of one of the previous favorites anthony van dyck you had to be euthanized after pulling up with a broken leg. he's the 7th melbourne cup horse to perish on race day since 2013 a day before demonstrators had gathered outside flemington to protest cruelty to race horses who they claim are subjected to severe abuse every band's up as a 5 year old horse has won $4000000.00 he was pushed well beyond his limits and that's why he's dead. this isn't

a surprise this is horse racing horse racing kills horses that's what horse racing does once again both the dark and lighter side of racing on display at the melbourne cup the debate about animal cruelty will no doubt continue as long as the race does david stokes out his era. you know when i saw he coach told these players to go out and smash the game he probably didn't expect them to do that's sort of a chore like i'm carrying the famed shylock school be open a team going to talk to mystically but he celebrates of the go a little too odd against the rinks out of gloss and crashed straight through it and also narrowly missed hitting a photographer who was on the other side of the broken safety screen. that'll hurt most sport coming up again later in the stasia. thanks so much for that is that for me for this news hour but i mean back in just

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run to make my city are your arms they represent. voting is underway in the u.s. presidential election after a long and divisive campaign between president donald trump and his rival joe by. cheating can happen like you've never seen this is their dream and the final hours of campaigning trump questioned the legitimacy of personal voting biden promised the beginning of a new day if you will. hello again i'm starting a tape this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up 4 people are killed as a.