the official night. we need to tell our story look we don't want to deny the opportunity and. the listening post on. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes voting is underway in the u.s. presidential election after a long and divisive campaign between donald trump and joe biden. cheating can happen like you've never seen this is their dream in the final hours of campaigning from questioning the legitimacy of the whole story voting biden is promising the beginning of a new day. 4 people were killed during

a shooting in the austrian capital vienna the government calls it a terrorist attack ugandan politician bobby wine is arrested again shortly after he was nominated for next year's presidential elections. and the sports news argentine football legend diego maradona has been admitted to hospital although he's done to says it's not related to code 19 all of the details coming up this hour. it's 1500 g.m.t. and 10 am in the eastern united states where polls are open for one of the most controversial and highly anticipated elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have campaigned for months it's now up to the american public people in all but 5 states are now voting with 3 of those california idaho and oregon opening their. polls this hour the man battling for the presidency haven't stopped

campaigning with biden in scranton pennsylvania and trump in arlington virginia. let's speak to our coverage good begin our coverage by speaking to alan fischer in washington d.c. allan where into the final hours now and the messaging still continues. exactly right i mean talking about this election almost since the moment donald trump was inaugurated on the 20th of january 20th 16 and the reality is that in just under 9 hours time the 1st polls here on the east coast of the united states will close and for many people the 2020 presidential election will be over donald trump is determined to keep fighting it until the final moments he's been on television in the last couple of hours saying that people should get out and vote saying that he deserves another 4 years in office that he had built the greatest

economy and american history not strictly true but a message that he is how murder again and again and again and it was all because of the plague as he described it covered 90 coming from china as he claimed that ruined that economy so he deserves a chance to build it all again he's been over to arlington in virginia as well to republican party workers who have essentially coordinated his efforts particularly over the last 3 weeks you'll remember that it's not that long ago the dollar trump a man in the seventy's was actually in hospital with covert 19 he got out of hospital a few days later and within a week was back on the campaign trail holding eventually across the country in fact 17 in the last 3 days hitting the states what he's really got to shore up his support if he's going to win this election so he's been visiting the likes of north carolina florida of course he's been in pennsylvania and he's also been and michigan when he ended this. campaign 2016 there's

a lot of things that donald trump likes to do is a repeat of 2016 because he believes it was successful for one of those things is looking at the polls you'll remember that 4 years ago all the polls and i mean all the polls said that donald trump was going to lose the election this time around the polls are saying exactly the same thing he's not put off he thinks that that's just the norm and making sure that he's going to get another 4 years in the white house and we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this of course isn't just a race for the presidency this is all about the balance of power between the white house and congress and senate. it's not something that donald trump has made a big deal about that's not surprising given who don't or trump is. he's gone and he's helped a few candidates here and there but joe biden has realized and campaigned more for other senate candidates as well because you remember the senate is 5347 in favor of the republicans so if the democrats can flip 3 seats then when

the senate now if you look at the polls across the country there's a real chance they can do that in fact there's probably 6 seats that they might win 5 is probably slightly more realistic but 3 is definitely within their grasp and if joe biden won the election as well that would give him a house a senate and the white house all governed by the democrats and that means he could put forward his own agenda and push it through very quickly as for donald trump he has warned that that will mean a radical agenda that this will change the face of the united states forever it will become a completely different country he believes it is the radical left that is driving the democratic party but we'll know in a few years time whether people are buying that argument donald trump desperately wants a 2nd term you'll remember that when he was campaigning 4 years ago he talked about

how barack obama was the worst president the united states had ever seen watched even he said then jimmy carter then jimmy carter was a one term president donald trump would hate to have that tag hung around his neck so that is another reason why he desperately wants to when when the results are finally announced but just a word of warning to you rob and to viewers around the world there is no guarantee we'll get a clear result by the end in the few hours after the polls close on tuesday night where we have in years gone by there are going to be a lot of tight races and that means a lot of states will be counting votes for some. after the polls close and that could mean be maybe even 2 before we get the full picture of what's happened in the 2020 presidential election for now thanks very much that's alan fischer talking to us from washington d.c. let's get the view from delaware that's biden's home state jamal is in wilmington jamal one of the catchphrases if you like of the biden campaign had been that this

was a fight for the soul of america how are people in delaware reacting to all of this . well rob this is joe biden's hometown in fact the polling station where it is where his wife used to teach so they are very much the majority at least in favor of the democrats' agenda but as you mentioned central true the messaging has been that this is a fight for the core of america even for american democracy and this is why we've had the messaging coming out from biden on from his running mates for people to come out and vote as if their life depended on it and what we actually have here is obviously a mix of young and old but we do have some 1st time voters and i want to just introduce them how you guys are going to what brings you out to vote in this cold day why is this election so important and i feel like this election will be any other it's very important for the future of the country with everything going on it

so important even in the pandemic for us to vote and we're actually taking a break from classes right now to stand in line and vote in our 1st election because it's just so important that everyone gets out the matter is that what makes it so important i mean elections come and go every 4 years are going to get a chance why this time you've decided to come out of class to come stand in line in the culture of what is at stake here i think our entire civil liberties our human rights they and they have been for the past 4 years i don't think anyone realized just what damage could have been done 2016 which makes this 2020 like an even more you need. because the things that have occurred in the past 4 years have been awful and we cannot withstand another 4 years of that especially with the pandemic and everything that has gone on and so we are fighting for our lives today so do you guys think that it is your civil liberties here that are of course not just an issue of choosing between republican and democrat that actually your rights as

americans that's what you're voting on right especially as people of color it's really important in this election that we vote blue that we vote from. trump has made really racist remarks really xenophobic remarks and it's really important that we as a country stand up for our beliefs and our right people and not only made the remark he made actions against people of color that everything happened that way and our grandparents and those around them fought very hard for us to be able to vote and for us to have human rights and so it is our duty especially if like people as people of america to fight and get out here no matter what party you belong to we need to vote trump out thank you very much so as you heard that's one opinion here obviously we are at an election that has probably been the most divisive in recent history and that's what's led so many people to come out and vote almost 100000000 votes early right now if you look at this long line this is a line that stretches all the way round to the back of the school here and this

polarization has pushed so many people to come out and have their voices heard and that's what's actually also going to lead to a very long and drawn out vote count and this is where maybe some of the problems will arise we've already had both come speaking about that's the legal teams that are getting prepared to fight and you contention in different grounds but as it stands now huge voter turnout the message from the democrats is to get out and vote despite the polls being in their favor they don't want to make the same mistake that they did back in 2016 where they thought that they had a. in the bag only to find out that they had lost and that's why even we saw joe biden in pennsylvania coming out in that battleground to try and count votes even people are going to the polling stations there jamal though so i'll bring us up to date from wilmington in delaware the polls in florida open just a few hours ago in the state could decide the outcome of the election tom won there

4 years ago but by a little more than one percentage point and gallacher explains why the state is so important it seems like every 4 years when a presidential election comes around we end up talking about florida this state of course has a long history of razor thin elections that have a huge national impact but what makes it so important well the demographics unit tend to reflect those of the entire nation about 20 percent of voters are elderly and has a very large latino and hispanic population here but perhaps more importantly this state has 29 electoral college votes only texas and california has more interestingly no republican nominee is ever made it to the white house in almost a century without winning this state now voter turnout here has been huge shattering all records but coded 19 has been a massive issue in this state but one thing is. whatever happens on election day in this state really matters. well it's not just florida that could decide the whether

states like michigan illinois wisconsin and ohio could also have a huge impact let's speak to john hendren who's following developments from chicago john you're watching some of the key states down the middle of the u.s. to talk us through what's been happening. and try donald trump got elected in 2016 after campaigning that he was going to build a wall a wall along the mexican border where the democrats had a wall too and it was called the blue wall of democratic states and it stretched from pennsylvania in the east to minnesota in the west and in between there were some key states that he is still trying to play defense on he wants to win these states just as he flipped each of those except for minnesota back in 2016 so there's michigan michigan is a state that he won campaigning hard in by 0.2 percentage points that is the slimmest margin in the entire country in 2016 and wisconsin was the state that put

him over 270 electoral votes that's what anyone is going to need to win tonight so it's clear that he's playing defense in trying to hold the states that he won last time and then you've got ohio ohio is known as the bellwether state it is voted for the eventual president in every election since 1964 and since the republican party was founded $854.00 no republican has ever won the presidency without ohio so there is a kind of superstition about that state trump is has been campaigning it's no accident that 2 of his last stops were cocksure wisconsin and grand rapids michigan he desperately wants those states but he is behind in polling by about 4.2 percentage points in wisconsin in a summary of polls by real clear politics and between 6 and 7 percentage points in michigan it's a dead heat in ohio so we already know that michigan is not likely to have all its votes counted by wednesday morning wisconsin says they. they expect to have those

counted by 6 am and ohio we don't know could be very difficult because of the expected close race there but we're already hearing about some problems in indianapolis indiana there were wife i outages and that delayed the opening and in franklin county around columbus ohio there were problems with the electronic voting system and so they had to look people up by hand bad is going to delay voting and counting there these things happen every year somewhere but right now they're happening in key states in the midwest but the the ones really to watch that trump absolutely must get in this region are michigan wisconsin and ohio which possible for him to win without those but his routes to victory narrowed dramatically if he loses them tony where you are in chicago we've been hearing a lot generally about concerns that there might be some violence off to the election as the results begin to come out as you've been in the city as are you getting any indication about people being concerned about violence or protests that

might be out on the streets. absolutely downtown the macy's is been boarded up the gold coast which is sort of a wealthy shopping area and wealthy homes area that has been hit again and again throughout these protests the black lives matter protests following the death of well the death of george floyd and the shootings of jacob blake and others so there are protests expected in the next 24 hours or so they're generally peaceful in the daytime but they have gotten violent sometimes at night so the mayor and the police department have set out a plan they will be out in force every police officer here will be on duty and the national guard is standing by the governor of illinois j.b. pritzker said he's got them standing by hopes not to use them but they are ready for things to go badly here in chicago and of course that's a problem in all the major cities throughout this region john obviously we're going

to be checking in with you as the i was go by but for now john hendren following developments from chicago john thanks a lot. well here's how the 2 candidates stack up on china north korea and russia donald trump started a trade war with beijing confronted it on security and blamed it for the spread of coronavirus joe biden says he wants to work with allies to put pressure on china on trade and human rights and trump was the 1st u.s. sitting president to meet a north korean leader but he's been unable to persuade pyongyang to give up its nuclear arsenal biden says if elected he will not personally meet kim jong un without concessions on his nuclear program to strengthen ties with russia and moved away from traditional allies in europe biden says he will cement old alliances like nato and that he'll be tough on russia ok let's bring in jamie fly in berlin he's a senior fellow at the german marshall fund of the united states and he was also

a foreign affairs advisor to u.s. senator marco rubio good to have you on the program given the level of the disentanglement if you like the trumpet ministration has done with global entities such as nato for example is it possible for the biden administration should we have one to actually stick that all together again. i think it is i i think that you'll see if there is a by the administration a lot of initial outreach to traditional u.s. partners like the european allies and efforts to reaffirm america's commitment to alliances like nato the question though is what does the president biden want to achieve with those allies and you mentioned for instance as america enters into this competition with china working with allies on china but it's unclear yet because this has not been a policy focus campaign exactly what president biden's foreign policy goals would be 8 and what he would be then asking of us allies do you think that foreign

governments around the world regards the america in the same way as they used to or has the trumpet ministration essentially forced some governments into partnerships and alliances that normally they wouldn't have considered. i think he's clearly up ended in the traditional perception of america especially amongst america's allies i think there's both good and bad aspects of that i think the good aspects are that he's been much more blunt with allies about what a merica wants from them and i think that most of those assets are ass that i think your average american would expect of us allies but the problem is his rhetoric is often gone much further than that it's actually started to question the legitimacy of our alliance and of america's commitment so those alliances and that's where i think he's turned off a lot of partners and started to drive some of them away from the u.s.

these are all things that right now i think if there's a by the administration that can be repaired if there's a 2nd trump term though in another 4 years of this approach to the world i think it's going to set in motion some fundamental changes to the international order and it's going to make america more isolated on the world stage given the fact that donald trump had maintained that for example chinese trade or china's trade had been very unfair to the rest of the world he made claims about pricing and states supported business is there is some element of truth to that isn't there and there is a concern and one would imagine that if a biden administration gets in that it may not have this strength if you like the the force to be able to push china in the way that a trumpet minister mud ministration might have done. i think even if donald trump loses a polls today this will be one of his lasting legacies is

a shift in the debate in the u.s. about china he himself has been a bit erratic early on in that shift in terms of the views expressed about china but he's put the u.s. government on a collision course with beijing on almost every strategic front and they ministration has really framed this as a long term competition with china and started to ask allies to contribute so that i think the by the administration lightly pursue at least some of that same approach they'll probably tone down the rhetoric but ultimately they're going to face a similar challenge of how far do you try to go with this competition how much do you try to disengage your on me from the chinese economy and ultimately what is the long term goal 'd of this china strategy when this and by the ministration will likely want to also cooperate with the chinese on other global issues like climate change let's put trade to one side for a moment talk about the military elements of all of this because obviously the dynamic within south asia particularly has changed but also the dynamic with russia

as well do you see a difference in the way that a bi ministration might approach russia and china and countries around asia and south asia in a different light to the way that the trumpet ministrations been doing. i think clearly on russia if you just look at some of the polling the democratic parties the use of russia are a very different place than they were when barack obama left the white house. president trump while he or you know himself has expressed interest in working with vladimir putin the reality is u.s. russian relations have not improved under is tenure so i think the by the ministration will likely continue a lot of the policies pursued by the trump ministration when it comes to russia but they'll probably be even tougher with the rhetoric on china we discussed a bit some of the goals of the by the ministrations going to have to kind of determine what their approach is to be beijing but i think when you look outside of beijing to other partners in the region you'll see a lot of continuity and the u.s.

approach sure you'll see a continuance of the strategy of shoring up u.s. alliances in asia trying to deepen military cooperation with other asian partners and so despite the major differences between biden and trump i think on some of these foreign policy topics you'll actually see a certain amount of continuity when you go to get your thoughts on this to me fly we appreciate it thank you very much thanks for having me. millions of americans have already voted and many have done it by mail but is largely jews and some reluctance to vote in person during the pandemic across the u.s. there's no single procedure for processing those votes rob reynolds has more 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 be it 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 reach 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 katherine peters is from the university of north carolina at chapel hill and she says it's unclear how long it's going to take to declare the results of the election i think the pandemic has 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. 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 things are so we have to be prepared to be patient but we may also know quite a bit yet tonight. still ahead an al-jazeera thousands free ivory coast after

president allison what's harder is declared the winner of a 3rd term in. the philippines begins the clean up after being struck by super typhoon goalie but more storms are on the way and the race that famously stops the nation goes ahead behind closed doors in melbourne it is going to have the details of this sport. out of the arabian peninsula and iran and the good part of the middle east. obviously is cloud up here the activity in the eastern med suggest some pretty big thunderstorms i was cyprus the coast levant and turkey is cold enough air for the high ground turkey to see snow this is going to continue through wednesday and thursday spreading east into jordan and eventually iraq and focusing maybe on syria

with cooler weather behind but still you got 21 degrees in various in about 17 in jerusalem so we're done about the average a bit below the average of the rain it's the thing to watch that could be intensive for a while this rain in the whole of africa of course is the right time of the year and you see in the line the fall weather it still rains in south sudan is a moot point but forecasts wise we have very few showers and they're more or less all in somalia or down through the rift valley concentrating further west in the gabble as an example and to the south of that yes the showers are becoming more extensive you know how woman's been in places like johannesburg and i think it's 10 degrees above average with that's coming down now and the forecast for most of south africa and parts but swan is not a shower one. a

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to. watch out as iraq or one of our top stories this hour voting is underway in the u.s. as people decide a dog song forget a 2nd time democratic party challenger joe biden will become president. trump and biden have been making their cases to voters in battleground states and the last night of campaigning the election is going to be decided by about a dozen states that could swing to either candidate. any $100000000.00 americans cost their ballots during early voting that is a record high many of those have been by post and that means it could take longer for the ballots to be counted. for almost 50 years the state of minnesota's

electoral college votes have gone to democratic presidential candidates in 2016 president trump lost the state by less than 45000 votes now it's one of the swing states that could determine the outcome of the election reports. a patchwork of soybean and corn field stretches across the plain of blue earth county minnesota the campus of minnesota state university is in man cato 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. that change of for generations the lived in you know they feel a sense of belonging but have an edge in the system so that being threatened. was something that from the exploited. a 20 minute drive away on the duncans and family farm there harvesting the last acres 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 over 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 counties biggest city bank cato is the site of the largest mass execution

in american history in 86238 members of the dakota tribe were hung after the u.s. 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 the locals 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 name el dizzy or

a blue earth county minnesota well later we're going to have live uninterrupted coverage of the u.s. elections our correspondents will be reporting from crucial states across the country well of expert analysis and of course we're going to bring you the results as they come in you can watch it here on al-jazeera from $2200.00 g.m.t. . at least 14 people have been arrested in austria after monday's shooting in vienna a memorial was held for the 4 people who died another 22 were injured when a gunman opened fire in the city austrian authorities are describing it as a terror attack paul reese is joining us from vienna paul what more do we know about what the interior minister has been saying because i understand they've been speaking fairly recently. yes robbers' darkness falling here again in vienna just under 20 hours since this attack that the prime minister called

a dark night for austria the interior minister held a press conference not long ago giving the update for the 14 people detained as you said in 18 raids on choose day as people were urged to stay at home and particularly so with more gunmen thought to be thought to be on the loose still but the interior minister did update that site that according to the evidence there was only one attacker who carried out these these attacks here in the in the busy restaurant district of vienna on monday night paula is there any indication about who the target of the attack might have been or is there is speculation that it was just random. well this being in proximity to a synagogue that was originally speculated as a target but it was closed at the time and it seems much more likely that this area

was chosen because it's very busy lots of terraces with people sitting outside. eating and drinking lots of people outside because a curfew was about to start a lockdown starting on tuesday so they were an easy target for this gunman who moved through the streets behind these behind these buildings. killing 4 people so far as we know being involved with a gun battle in a gun battle with police and eventually being shot and killed by police we know it's a 20 year old male of north macedonian background but with an austrian passport as well. found with an automatic rifle a handgun and a machete and also with a fake suicide vest on he's released from prison in december early from a 22 month sentence having tried to go to syria to join the islamic state group

last year and the interior minister said he had fooled the radicalization program allowing him to be released and killing the 4 people last night 22 more injured 3 of them critical here in austria obviously paul this is a developing story we are going to be checking in with you as the hours go by but for now paul recent going to thank you very much ugandan opposition leader i'm musician but we wind has been released he was arrested once again shortly after he was successfully certified as a candidate in next year's election according to a spokesman for his party one was forcefully taken out of his vehicle by police after handing in his presidential nomination papers supporters gathered outside his home after he was released he's been calling for a long time president yoweri museveni to step down. ok let me take you to the ivory coast now where police have clashed with supporters of former president and opposition leader only conan bady as they tried to enter his house to arrest him

when it came just hours after president allison what's hot it was declared the winner of the presidential election the opposition says it's creating its own transitional government there's been a lot of anger over the vote and concern the demonstrations are going to result in violence causing thousands to flee the country and the digits is following developments from. how great the fear is that there is going to be violence as a result of this. well the stories we're hearing from my records down the incidents being reported of thousands of ivorians now fleeing across the border into neighboring countries signifies that the situation is far from calm in ivory coast now with a call for muster demonstrations from the opposition leaders and as well as the announcement of a transitional government has sort of taken the situation to

a high and not much and a lot of people believe that in the next few days when the opposition try to implement what they say or what they call a transitional program in ivory coast when they use an elected president we are bound to see an lot of violence on the streets by the way there were incidents earlier reported today at the will of one of the presidential candidates will boycotted the election for president. where right now we're hearing that journalists and supporters of the former president 84 year old president former president have now been dispersed from that area we're not sure whether he's been arrested or be kept under house arrest at the time being for the time being but the developments things like developing quickly in ivory coast on the part of president alassane ouattara he feel that the. validation of these election yesterday was enough for i voters to celebrate while on the other hand the opposition feel that it was a monday that was illegally acquired and they calling with us or just out onto the

streets to protest and to force president alassane ouattara to leave and i sort of with think a lot of people are afraid that things will go from bad to worse right now as i mentioned a moment ago the opposition party saying it's creating its own transitional government do we have any indication of how they think that's going to work is it going to work in parallel are they hoping that there's going to be some sort of agreement with the watada administration oh there is no agreement with what ministration about forming a transitional council or transitional government at the time for the time being what we have now is. the person we are you spoke about who police have surrounded or visited his house earlier today is now has been appointed by the opposition as the head of the transitional council in ivory coast so already the government has reacted angrily i wonder what officials called for legal steps and legal actions to

be taken i guess monico to begin as well as. a few guess now who are not who made the announcement yesterday so there's no agreement between the 2 but many ivorians and observers from foreign and domestic institutes hoping that reconsideration will be at the top most should be the top us priority of both sides so that ivory coast can not be sent or may not descend into what we sow in 201-2011 after the elections that former president by boat if used to sort of concede to president and us and whatever and sammy davis giving us the latest on ivory coast talking to us from a thank you. a prominent journalist in hong kong has been arrested in a probe linked to a recent documentary she helped produce showing young bling worked on a film that investigated police misconduct relating to last year's anti-government protests local media reports say she's been taken into custody over distributing

fake news activists say it's a government attempt to censor access to information rescue workers in turkey have pulled a 4 year old girl from the rubble after an earthquake 4 days ago she was trapped for 91 hours after the quake demolished her apartment building and the city of ismir more than 100 people are now confirmed dead but crews are still working to find survivors there quake in the aegean sea also cause damage in greece. iran's supreme leader has spoken out ahead of the u.s. presidential election i tell a lot of companies says his country's stance towards washington well the main the same regardless of who wins these years that is true christie's our policy viz a viz the united states is a calculated unclear policy and this approach is independent of political individuals today's the election day in the us some speculate what happens if x. or y. wins some incidents may happen but it won't have anything to do with us whoever

wins the us election will not change our policy i said big has more from tehran. well he is the supreme leader who is the political and spiritual leader of this country and he was speaking of the occasion that marks the birth of the prophet mohammed is a national holiday here he's addressed was broadcast live on state t.v. and what is essentially saying is that it doesn't matter who is donald trump or joe biden iran's policy will remain the same he also went on to say the supreme leader also went on to say that the u.s. was on a downward path morally socially and politically and that from this day forward that wouldn't last long he also said the united states had chosen iran as an enemy because he said iran had opposed u.s. crew u.s. policies accrued policies in the region and that iran has stood up for the palestinians so very much using this date this event. target the united states and address directly the u.s.

elections the donald trump presidency has had a dramatic impact on iran both economically and politically president donald trump pulled the united states out of the 2015 nuclear deal a deal that took years to negotiate imposed sanctions on iran a really affecting the economy. economy here but also the reputation of president hassan rouhani and his reformist have taken a massive hit because what the 2015 nuclear deal had done had given people iranians hope hope of a new era a hope of new relations with the united states now that hasn't happened and they also are hoping that joe biden will win the election that the united states will return to that nuclear deal and those sanctions will be lifted offering of relief to the economy and a normal. evacuations are under way along central america's atlantic coast as hurricane it's in makes a land fall it's expected to be one of the strongest hurricane to hit the area in

years authorities in nicaragua and honduras moved people from outer islands and low lying areas the system is closed rivers in honduras to break their banks the u.s. national how to consent to describes as extremely dangerous. the philippines is bracing for the arrival of another storm and that's as people continued to deal with the aftermath of typhoon goni at least 20 people have been killed after the world's strongest typhoon this year destroyed houses and triggered floods across the country presidents or do you go to texas says the new storm named at sunny will cause severe damage in its path as it makes landfall later this week general allen dolan explains how people in aa coping in the hardest hit province of all day. you were just in a smaller community in the wee hours by about an hour an hour 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 nick another island in and one this just only to the authorities managed 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 gorney 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 in sports a goal celebration goes wrong on the ice peter's going to have the details in the sport. that would be.

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a pop art exhibition has opened in central london but you don't have to be in the city to see it robots are being used as guides so people can take in everything from the home let's go baldwin want to see them in action. follow the lobster there is bound to be modern art zany works by philip called there a natural progression from andy warhol and pop art but it's not just the art that's interesting these robots are awaiting instructions from viewers at home the machines will follow the commands of virtual visitors zipping the one work or lingering on another that's incredible it's a pandemic proof show. visitors can stay safe while going to a museum i really miss being able to see art so i think the road out of option is is appealing. certainly if there's nothing else available it's it's creative it's interesting and it gives you a chance to feel like you're in the museum to kind of simulate that experience

there are strict rules for the robots they have to keep their speed down they're not allowed to run into other robots or real visitors if they do a plug is called and they're locked up. call there came up with the idea during lockdown to ensure his show was seen i thought well i have to try and like use the situation do some interesting and then i was they were actually with technology to be released into almost creating exhibition which is almost like a fantasy shipwreck under the sea where you have to send like diving cameras into it and i thought was something quite poetic about this idea of basically making art something new and crying to create like a new dimension to experience an exhibition who knows contemporary art is always a step ahead and the future could see the robot put to use for countless tasks bringing the outside home if lockdowns continue and people feel the pinch of covert restrictions jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. stiver the sports fears peter rob

thank you very 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 a liberal and james is one of those encouraging people to vote in the last few weeks and on sunday philadelphia 76 ers coach doc rivers spoke to joe biden really . 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 for everybody 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 his doctor donna was taken to hospital in la plata which is an hour away from where our side is where he coaches

a local club his condition is not described as serious the 186 world cup winner has struggled with these health in recent years after battling alcohol and drug addiction. former manchester united star ryan giggs is temporarily stepped down as wales coach after being arrested for an alleged assault british media reported that he was arrested on suspicion of attacking his girlfriend giggs denies the allegations and has been released on bail he's representative say he is cooperating with police it's been agreed he will not take charge of wales for the upcoming 3 games this month barcelona's board of directors will proceed with cutting wages of the spanish club after its finances took a big hit because of the coronavirus pandemic interim president. says also warned that no one will be given special treatment including star player leno messy 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 elect 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 dutch football club i accept confirmed they will play their champions league excuse me for the champions league match against mitchell and later despite 11 players testing positive occur over 19 this court will consist of only 17 players after they are break as they head to denmark for tuesday's group game still looking for their 1st points in i.x. on the only ones affected here are also missing 6 players so with coronavirus as they prepare to face barcelona on wednesday the spanish champions real madrid host

into millennium the champions league on tuesday remarkably rael have not yet won a match in the group stage equally odd is that into or also winless after their 1st 2 matches however both clubs 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 against 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 wanted to knock out his rival we want to face them with the right attitude but without any fear. now in football a goalkeeper seldom schools a go but if they do they are inevitably a hero and this year the sky on average the hardest is the 95th minute of a local community league game in spain carlos of y.-o. is the goalkeeper schools this goal for his team out of us to level things at 11 all good up until that point until the opposition team penny school or school from

the kick of by law being. here it's a 0 tennis go into one. of the 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 marred by the death of another horse david stokes 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 race course the race that famously stops a nation held behind closed doors for the 1st time and its 159 year history to crash the racing car 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 reds twilight payment he led for the whole of it before seeing it

home in a thrilling finish to claim the 4 point $4000000.00 1st prize 5555 still 'd try this try $5550.00 for the 5th but for chalk up at fritz over can you put into words how this feels not yet it's too many emotions . to bury people i 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 has 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. now when i saw he coach told his players to go out and smash the game he probably didn't expect them to do this i'm very independent marcos shylock school be open a full team in the top domestic league but he celebrated the goal of little do all that against the rinks out of glass and crashed straight through it so i felt so narrowly missed hitting a photographer who was on the other side of the broken safety screen. our. most would later of what that looks over this hole where peter thank you very much indeed that's it for me rob matheson for this news hour i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news don't forget of course and get more background information on the web site al-jazeera dot com join in

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on not just on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants. a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind not of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus i receive messages on the scene that i was a nurse back what i'm doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. do you feel validated in south way is a type of performative activism. let's go back to specifically you calling. the lights are on the there's nowhere to hide join me richelle carey is up at the questions to my special guest and challenge them to some straight talking political

debate. front on al-jazeera. voting is underway in the u.s. presidential election after a long and divisive campaign between donald trump and joe biden. sheeting can happen like you've never seen this is that dream. in the final hours of campaigning tom questioned the legitimacy of postal voting while biden promised the beginning of a new day. come about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up security in place in vienna after 4 p. .