this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. four people are dead after a gunman opened fire in the heart of vienna. police carry out a series of cross—border raids and arrest 16 people. i saw the attacker with a long weapon, a rifle or a gun, running around shooting at people, targeting people sitting outside bars and pubs. there's mounting concern across europe, and tonight the uk terror threat level has been raised to "severe". voting is under way in america — asjoe biden takes on donald trump in one of the most bitter and divisive election campaigns in living memory i can say that texas, arizona,

a few of them are looking really very, very strong. florida looking very, very strong. if you will me, i'm going to be an american no red state, no blue state, if the united states! the uk government's scientific advisers face tough questioning over their predictions of a steep rise in coronavirus cases unless action is taken as england prepares for a second lockdown. a story of survival and rescue against the odds — the young girl pulled from the rubble 90 hours after turkey's deadly earthquake. the chancellor of austria has descibed last night's attack in the country's capital, vienna, as an act of barbarism.

four people were killed and nearly two dozen injured when a gunman, described as an islamist terrorist by the authorities, fired into crowds of people in six different locations. austrian police have made 1a arrests in connection with the attack, including two this evening in switzerland. the attack took place in the centre of vienna outside the city's main synagogue. people were enjoying a last night out in restaurants and cafes before another coronavirus lockdown. our correspondentjenny hill sent this report from vienna. violence, confusion on the streets of vienna. people fled as shots were fired, and armed police raced to secure the city. it was the eve of a coronavirus lockdown. many had gathered for a last night out in a city with a reputation for safety.

just heard shots everywhere and the police helicopters were flying around us, and we got really afraid, so we decided to hide ourselves in the restaurant. caught on camera, a man thought to be the perpetrator. this rabbi told us he looked out of his window to see him shooting, apparently at random. i saw the attacker with a long weapon, rifle or a gun, running around shooting at people, targeting people sitting outside the bars and pubs which are lined along the street. just days after terror attacks in france, another country mourns its dead. among the victims, an elderly man and woman, a young passer—by and a waitress. others are in hospital, critically injured. the hunt for suspects continues.

detectives have made several arrests, but attention‘s focused on the 20—year—old gunman shot dead by police last night. the shooter was born in austria. he has a migration background from northern macedonia, and he was in prison because he's a supporter of the islamic state. but, of course, we will have to find out the details in the next days. vienna's streets quiet today. fear and corona have brought the city centre to a near standstill. but this doctor told us he felt compelled to do something. it's really hard to show that you're grieving, because nobody should be outside. and i want to grieve, i want to show sympathy. as you'd expect, there's shock here, there's disbelief, but there's also a sense of resignation. this has become a depressingly familiar scenario for europe,

a city centre street which felt safe transformed in a matter of minutes. the question for austria now is this — will last night's attack change the country, and if so, how? for now, though, a quiet defiance. last night, as violence raged outside, members of the city's philharmonic orchestra were trapped in a concert hall. they chose, quite simply, to play on. jenny hill, bbc news, vienna. in response to the attack in vienna and those in france in recent days, the uk has raised its terror threat level to severe. that's its second highest level and means the security chiefs believe that an attack is highly likely. but the uk's home secretary, priti patel, stressed there was no specific intelligence of an imminent attack. this is a precautionary measure following the terrible incidents that we've seen in france last week and the events that we saw

in austria last night. the first and most important duty of the government is obviously to protect the british public, and we are doing that and will continue to do that through the measures and the tools that we've put in place in terms of dealing with terrorism and terrorist activity. it's finally here — after months of campaigning, us voters are making their choice between donald trump and joe biden for the country's president. it seems it's caught the attention of the american people in unprecedented numbers. latest figures suggest that just over 100 million people had already cast their vote before election day. but we may have to wait longer than usual to get a firm result. our north america editorjon sopel has more from washington. a pandemic, a president hospitalised in the midst of the campaign, racial unrest, an economic shutdown, billions of dollars spent by the two candidates and now today, finally,

the sun is rising on polling day. america's exhausting, seemingly endless election has reached its climax. unprecedented numbers. nearly 100 million voted early, but big numbers are turning out today as well. i voted for the greatest president in history, donaldj trump. trump is doing nothing for us. he's going down today. donald trump returned to washington last night after a gruelling final day of five rallies in four states. and this morning, sounding croaky and weary, he denied reports that he might try and claim an early victory before all the votes are counted. when there's victory, if there's victory, i think... i think we'll have victory. i think the polls are, you know, suppression polls. and i think we'll have victory. but only when there's victory, i mean, yeah, there's no reason to play games. joe biden returned to his childhood home of scranton, pennsylvania, actually returning to the house where he grew up. the president was here yesterday.

make no mistake, pennsylvania is absolutely key to this election. and the third reason i'm running is what i want to talk to you about today, and that is uniting this country. we can do it! i think the country's ready. a quirky tradition of us elections is that the first place to vote is the small village of dixville notch, in the mountains of new hampshire. at midnight, the polling station opened. it closed a few minutes later. all in favour? polls are closed! i'm a lifelong republican voting forjoe biden for president. and that, in a nutshell, will decide this election. how many people feel like that? put one here and put one here. in the oldest political slogan in the book, is it time for a change orfour more years? but divided america is bracing for unrest, whether here in the nation's capital, the chi—chi shops

of rodeo drive in beverly hills or the financial centre of new york, this is a nation that's not at ease with itself. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. with me is our correspondent will grant in washington and and our correspondent lebo diseko is arlington, virginia. first the unprecedented numbers we've been hearing americans are turning out. a huge turnout. almost 100 million votes before we reach this point on polling day which means we are probably on course for record numbers of the times those polling stations open. and i think we heard in the report they're just how divided and divided this election has been full somehow divided the end device of this presidency has been and how clear it is that perhaps we have seen such a large numbers. all this is coming of course on the coronavirus pandemic which is claimed to 30,000 american

lives. so it does not come as a cue to present lots people will have wa nted to present lots people will have wanted to vote early but with donald trump provoking such extreme views and people, it is not surprise me either that people are wanting to turn out and make their views known. and we have got the polls opening in some places and closing and others but we have got a bit of a wild to wait before all of the counting is done. talk as to what you whispered to see over the next few hours. yes, we have. certainly on this coast and also on the east coast of the us we are going to see things close first obviously and then as it moves across the country. i think that the key thing to remember is it depends on those different states and when they start counting their postal votes. so in florida they have been cou nty votes. so in florida they have been county for days already whereas in pennsylvania they will wait until the last polling station closes before counting those postal votes so before counting those postal votes so it could be days before we have a full clear picture of what is going

on. thank you very much for that. now to arlington. donald trump has been speaking a short time ago there. let's have a listen to what he had to say. no, i'm not thinking about a concession speech or acceptance speech yet. hopefully we'll be only doing one of those two, and you know winning is easy, losing is never easy. not for me, it's not. i think we're going to have a great night, but it's politics and it's elections and you never know. i can say that texas, arizona, a few of them are looking really very, very strong. florida looking very, very strong. they spent hundreds of millions of dollars in florida, but the people of florida, they know i love them and they love me. we just have an automatic bond. donald trump they are speaking in

virginia. and sounding very hoarse, coming to the end of a very long campaign run. i'm not surprised. he has been doing a whirlwind tour of all of these key battle ground states. incredible number of rallies, sometimes four or five rallies, sometimes four or five rallies a day, really getting out and speaking to his fans. interesting, he sounded a little bit more, i don't know if the word humble is the right one but two here in the town the possibility that he may lose or he may win. that is something i have not heard in many of his speeches or addresses before up of his speeches or addresses before up until now. he has been very much saying it is going to be a huge win for him. not even considering the possibility that he might lose but at the same time saying that he will challenge any attempts to count past election night and also undermining the credibility of or how fair

postal voting might be. the credibility of or how fair postalvoting might be. indeed if the credibility of or how fair postal voting might be. indeed if we still have will grant, i understand from where she is an donald trump will make his way eventually back to the white house, is that right? yes, he is admitted to watch the results come in here. there is some kind of celebration expected at his headquarters and i think traditionally presidents have seen it and this is where they currently reside. this is the grand prize so it sort of stands to reason that he would watch it here. so we are expecting that unfold and of course his supporters will be extremely excited and his headquarters one way 01’ excited and his headquarters one way or the other. but of course that mood could change drastically as those results come in. it will be fascinating, let's put it that way. it will indeed and a quick word of course support their very strong for donald trump but our people they are feeling optimistic about what is the, had? in terms of this state of

virginia, that has been reliably democratic in terms of the way it's noted for the last few elections. it used to be much more swinging in vote and more republican than it has to on the last few elections. this particular area of virginia, arlington, is very democratic. not the case in other parts of the state. there are more republican parts of the state but donald trump really needed to get his voters out in force today. i was told a couple of hours ago that based on the numberof of hours ago that based on the number of registered voters in the fa ct number of registered voters in the fact that two thirds have already voted here already, they were looking at about 800 people in this precinct left to vote. thank you so much and you will be with us throughout the next few hours in indeed longer than that. both of you, thank you. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, we'll be getting more on the us elections from the key swing state of pennsylvania.

we've also heard this evening from joe biden. the democratic presidential candidate headed to his childhood home in scranton before going to philadelphia, the state capital of pennsylvania. let's take a listen to what he had to say there. i want everybody to understand. the people have figured it out. we are going to rebuild the middle class! applause and by the way, the middle class built this country and unions built the middle class! applause and thirdly, i promise you this, although i'm running

as a proud democrat, if you elect me, i'm going to be an american president. it will be no red states or blue states, just the united states of america! let's stay with the us presidential election, as we've been hearing, an unprecedented number of people have voted early, most of them by post. that's been contentious, with donald trump saying without evidence that the process is open to fraud. he says he has his lawyers ready. clive myrie sent this report from the key battle ground state of pennsylvania. america is unnerved... ..but energised. the mining of votes by the campaigns is now over on this election day. and norb dotzel, who helps run a family quarry business in rural pennsylvania, is adamant his voice will be heard. he'll vote in person. he doesn't want to risk a mail—in ballot. despite coronavirus. how you doing? not too bad. good, good.

bottom line is, you just don't trust them? i don't trust them, no. i don't trust them. no. and i'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything like that. ijust wanted to know... i'm going to go do it the way i always did it. they have all these safety protocols in place, six feet, wear the mask, all that stuff. if they're so sure that works, why shouldn't i be sure it works? studies show republicans are more likely to want to vote in person than democrats, whose worries about covid—19 have seen an extraordinary rise in mail—in votes. your voice matters, and it will only be heard if you vote. whatever the method, the urge to vote has been heard loud and clear. in an election that pits two very different ideas of what a future election looks like. but for some, despite

the enthusiasm, there is a darkness over this exercise of democracy, with threats of lawsuits to try to invalidate the votes of many. hi, jacqueline. hi. jacqueline victor is 23 and voted by mail last week. a democrat, she believes donald trump in suggesting without evidence that postal ballots are susceptible to fraud, is trying to steal the election. i think he wants his people to turn out in big numbers, and he's afraid of people like me, of younger people, you know, voting, or maybe people who weren't able to get to the polls on election day. he wants to delegitimise those people. and i do think he is trying to take away people's voice. norb dotzel and his 84—year—old father make their way to the polls, like millions of others today, in what is expected to be a huge turnout. a sign of america's democratic strength. but lawyers on both sides are watching closely, especially in crucial swing

states like this. a sign that weakness might also lurk at the heart of the american idea. clive myrie, bbc news, in pennsylvania. clare malone is a senior political writer for fivethirtyeight, a data—driven news website. shejoins me now. thank you very much forjoining us. firstly what is your take on how the campaign has been run on both sides of this election? i think the easiest way to sum it up is the campaigns have been operating in two different realities. joe biden in the early stages of the cover 19 pandemic stayed at home for a long time and in the closing days of the pandemic, election, he is spoken of the pandemic quite a bit and talk about the difficult time that america faces. donald trump has consistently made it seem as if we are over the hump of the pandemic in america and in reality we are coming over the third wave, a winter wave, and he has spent a lot of his

closing arguments in the campaign saying that america is overcoming things. so they are kind of spinning different versions of what the reality is in america. there is a lot that has been set on the 2016th hangover and by that i mean the reticence of people to accept the polls for what they are and where the results structure is. going into this and coming into election night, the results may be coming days away, who knows? what is your assessment of that? things are a bit different in 2016. first of all there are fewer undecided voters and they were in 2016. hillary clinton and donald trump were historically disliked candidates so many people did not know who they were going to vote for which made for a lot more fluidity in the polls. this year, pollsters have gotte n in the polls. this year, pollsters have gotten a bit smarter about what they missed last time around any particular they no doubt whether or not you have a college education is a big indication of who you might vote for. i think we all know by now many white people without college

educations previously had voted for democrats in a 2016 switched over to vote for donald trump. so pollsters are taken that into account so i think we know a little bit more about the sort of electorate that we are seeing in this kind of election. your domain is data. it's about data driven results here. with that in mind, how much has the idea of misinformation played its role in this election? it's been a huge problem in america. and i think every newsroom that you would talk to would say that we are playing out not just how to to would say that we are playing out notjust how to deal with robo calls that are some people the wrong things about polling places, or twitter bots sending out misinformation but frankly there has been some talk about whether or not the president will declare victory without that being clear that he is the actual winner. so it's a very... the evolution of misinformation in the us in the past four years has

been quite quick and it's certainly something we are all grappling with today. what do you think is going to happen? i will go by our forecast and we give joe happen? i will go by our forecast and we givejoe biden 89 out of 100 chances of winning the election but we are all say donald trump has as good a chance of winning the white house as there is a chance that it rains today in los angeles. and it's 77 degrees and sunny in los angeles today. thank you so much for that and we appreciate your time. an interesting night ahead. david levine is an elections integrity fellow at the alliance for securing democracy. he's spent many years observing elections in the us, and hejoins me now. good to see you. many years watching and what do you make of this one?|j make and what do you make of this one?” make a couple of things. number one, the sheer number of people who have voted early is a real wonder. 0ne, it demonstrates people are passionate about taking part in this election and two, it means that people have heeded the warnings about the need to vote ahead of time. to lessen the likelihood that

they could contract the coronavirus. and three, i'm hopeful that it shows a people are in fact confident about the integrity of our election. if people had reticence about it, not be less likely to vote ahead of time and instead what we see is a record turnout in terms of early and mail in voting and it appears that we are seeing tremendous turnout on election day. that is a big change. with that in mind, how does that change the forecast if you like? they really concentrate on election night itself and the results in the traditional way but what is your prediction for that? that's a really good question. i'll make a couple of points on that. first, i think it gives a better likelihood that we might have results on election night that we can share. now i want to be very clear, there are a number of states where because of the processes that exist in those states, ballots will still be counted after election day. 0ver half of the states in the us allowed

mail in ballots and it some mail and balance to be received. there are some states don't begin processing balance until election night. but if vote rs balance until election night. but if voters are returning more of their ballots ahead of time to the election office or voting in person of course at a polling place, that gives election officials a greater possibility of actually being able to turn around unofficial results on election night. but is that not dependent on the preprocessing of those ballots? it is, and i think there are two things that are part of this. number one, that in a numberof of this. number one, that in a number of states what you see is that if lots of voters are turning ballots in to those states and those states are beginning to preprocessing will ahead of time, then they are in a better place. in then they are in a better place. in the second thing of course is even if states start closer to election day, if they already have many if not all of their ballots, they were ina not all of their ballots, they were in a better position. but to your

point, especially for those states allow ballots to be submitted following election night, there are still certainly ballots that could be tabulated and of course there are certainly ballots that will be need to be verified after election day. for example there are people who may vote on election day in a provisional ballot, a ballot in which the eligible to could not be decided and that ballot could be verified after election day. many people are voting ahead of time, that puts a little less pressure on election officials both in terms of dealing with any election day issues that may arise and hopefully putting a little less pressure in terms of their ability to count all of these ballots postelection. thank you so much for being with us. fascinating, david living there, promises to indeed be an interesting night to say the least and you can of course join us for... you canjoin us tonight for our us election special results programme from 11.30pm gmt on bbc world, and in the uk, the bbc news channel,

bbc one and iplayer. you are watching bbc news. stay with us, i will be back with more headlines. good evening. it won't surprise you when i say it's been the fifth wettest 0ctober since 1862. now, november, of course, started on a very wet and windy note, but for the rest of this week now, it's drier and it's calmer weather, which will prevail with frosty nights and foggy mornings taking over. the reason is the change from low pressure to the azores high moving in, drifting across our shores, drifting its way eastwards. for about three or four days, it promises to bring primarily dry and settled weather. but at this time of year, as we've seen, it means we're prone to some frost and fog. and we've still got showers out there this evening. temperatures are already tumbling away, so they could leave the surfaces damp and with the frost expected, there could be the odd icy patch around. now, we keep quite a bit of cloud through the night across scotland and still some showers,

so the north of scotland largely escaping frosty conditions. but for most others, but particularly for england and wales, the first widespread frost of the season is expected. as i say, with a few damp surfaces, that could be a little bit icy. there'll certainly be ice to scrape off the cars in the morning, and it will be a crisp start for many. now, there also could be one or two mist and fog patches around to wait to clear. and at this time of year, they do take their time to clear. and you can see there are a few showers dotted around for tomorrow. although for the majority it's much drier, escaping the showers, more sunshine and lighter winds, it would just be the odd shower around and the cloud will thicken across the northern half of scotland later in the day to bring more persistent rain as well. but i think for most of us, it won't feel as chilly as it has been today that we've lost that wind. and those light winds continue through wednesday evening. just a smattering of rain mostly in the north, which means it won't be quite as cold tomorrow night going into thursday morning. and instead, we're more likely to see fog patches more widely. so that lingering fog

as well this time of year, very little strength in the november sunshine to clear it away. so, in some places on thursday, it could stay all day. and in those areas, it'll be cold and grey throughout. difficult to pinpoint. we're thinking england and wales mostly to see the foggier conditions, but it should clear to some sunshine. we've got this general south—westerly drift, so any sunshine east of the grampians will allow those temperatures into the mid—teens still, so feeling very pleasantly warm here but low cloud further west. and again friday, it will dawn on a potentially foggy note and the fog risk pushes further northwards towards the weekend, by the end of which we may be inviting more rain back in by that stage.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. four people are dead after a gunman opened fire in the heart of vienna — police carry out a series of cross—border raids and arrest 16 people. i saw the attacker with a long weapon, a rifle or a gun, running around shooting at people, targeting people sitting outside bars and pubs. there's mounting concern across europe — and this tonight the uk terror threat level has been raised to ‘severe'. voting is underway in america — asjoe biden takes on donald trump in one of the most bitter and divisive election campaigns in living memory. i can say that texas, arizona, a few of them are looking

really very, very strong. florida looking very, very strong. if you will elect me, i'm going to be an american no red state, no blue states, just the united states! the uk government's scientific advisors face tough questioning over their predictions of a steep rise in coronavirus cases unless action is taken — as england prepares for a second lockdown. a story of survival and rescue against the odds — the young girl pulled from the rubble — ninety hours after turkey's deadly earthquake. the uk's chief scientific adviser sir patrick vallance has defended predictions of the possible rise in coronavirus—related deaths which led to the prime minister

boris johnson announcing a new national lockdown on england. the government had been warned that unless action was taken, deaths in the uk could escalate up to 4,000 a day. but some members of parliament have criticised that as alarmist. 0ur science editor david shukman reports. it is the risk of the health service being overwhelmed that suddenly changed government policy. decision based on scientific projections for how many thousands the virus might kill in the coming months. but looking at this official graph, what are the real chances of the worst scenario being great? that is the question that mps raised today, putting the government's top advisers on the spot. you don't think you are just frightening people who do not have your scientific background and understanding of models? well, i hope not. i hope not, and that is certainly not the aim. it is very difficult to project

forward in a way that doesn't inevitably lead to the problem of, is that real? no, it's not real, it is a model, but it is what we need to understand. because this is it is a disease that is spreading like all epidemics in a way that will affect us in weeks to come, but isn't felt today. some of the projections for future deaths were made before the regional three tier system had any effect. and like any computer models, they are meant to be a guide to what might happen, rather than a firm prediction. so, is there a clear sense of the impact of the virus? today, we got the latest figures for what are called excess deaths, that is deaths above average, shown on this line here, based on data over the last five years. back in april, losses were massively above that average line and nearly all of them were because of covid—19. and looking more recently, there are signs of another increase in deaths above average and the main

cause is covid. the number of hospital admissions is the key indicator of what is happening right now. and whatever the arguments over future scenarios, there is a warning things are mostly going the wrong way. the rates are still steadily tracking up in all the data that i have seen, in the older age groups, the ones who are likely to translate into hospital admissions, marquetry cases and deaths. the reality is that on average, someone who is infected is spreading the virus to more than one other person and the hope is that the new restrictions will help to reverse that. david shukman, bbc news. as we've heard, the england lockdown comes into force in just under 28 hours' time, when a whole new set of restrictions will take effect. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has been taking a deep dive into the detail of them — he told us in what ways this new lockdown differs

from the first one. it is different in that it is not quite as strict as march was, but it is also different to some of the iterations that came after march. it is titled the health protection coronavirus restrictions england, numberfour coronavirus restrictions england, number four regulations 2020. it's winded be, they started £200, doubling up if you pay early, you do get to pay half. it goes from a minimum of 400 it up to different system march are, you will be able to have funerals of up to 30 people, bea to have funerals of up to 30 people, be a weddings. up to six people. you'll be asked to stay home with only a few very limited exceptions but you cannot only take exercise, but you cannot only take exercise, but he can also do this open—air recreation which means that for example, fishing and a public place on your own and you can also meet

with one person. you may remember that we couldn't meet anybody outside of our household. you can meet with one person at such a household in fact, if those two people meet in separate households and have children under school age, thatis and have children under school age, that is also 0k. and have children under school age, that is also ok. so, couple of months. so i think the message is a very strict lockdown, but the government has thought about those things which are almost unbearable backin things which are almost unbearable back in march, like not being able to visit someone who was dying, not being able to hold a proper funeral, weddings being interminably postponed and they have tried to fix some of that. but, some the things people have been lobbying for, playing tennis and is still play golf, none of those are in there as exceptions. of course, the big massive exception and there is schools universities. they can carry on as normal and for example sports within the school environment can all happen is normal.

the government has released data saying that they have reported 397 new covid—19 deaths as compared with 136 deaths a day earlier. this is not taking the total number of people that have lost their lives to coronavirus to 47,250 in the uk. liverpool is to become the first city in the uk to trial a new coronavirus testing programme. from friday anyone will be able to get a test, whether they have symptoms or not. some people will be given their result within an hour. if the pilot scheme is successful it could be rolled out to other towns and cities. up to three thousand military personnel will be drafted in to help carry out the rapid turnaround tests. here's our health correspondent dominic hughes. like so many others across the country, pupils at st margaret's academy in liverpool are making up for time lost

during the first lockdown. the threat to their education from the coronavirus remains. especially from those who are asymptomatic who don't yet have symptoms but can still infect others. it's hard for to come home from work and from school after being affected so badly already... but what do these sixth—formers think about the plan for citywide testing? you've got to factor in all the people that don't want to get tested because you can't force people to get tested. people aren't being safe. especially in liverpool, there's been a few cases where people just aren't sticking to isolation rules and stuff. so, i think i can see from that point of view why they want to do that. people do live in fear about the coronavirus. it would sit on a lot of people's minds if they knew a definite yes or no whether they've got it. it's an opportunity to drive down the r rate... the school's principal is stephen brierley. i think if we've got good accurate knowledge of who's got it and who hasn't, our schools will be safer, because there will be less asymptomatic people in school.

there will be fewer people who are infected, fewer people in schools who are infected, and therefore more children staying in school, more learning going on. the liverpool pilot will start this week. as well as existing swab tests, there will be what are known as lateral flow tests which can provide a results within an hour without the need to use a lab. but organising a testing programme across an entire city will be a logistical challenge. the army will once again help, as it did during the first wave of the pandemic. they will be there delivering things like logistics, planning, command and control, and making sure that such a very large scale test, track and trace operation is done in a way that the military are used to and in a way that can deliver at pace and at scale. even a citywide testing programme won't be enough to stop covid in its tracks. the basics — washing your hands, wearing a face covering, maintaining social distance — remain the best way to stop the spread of the virus.

and there are big questions about how many people are going to want to self—isolate if they're not showing any symptoms and how many will be willing to come forward for a test if it potentially means missing out on work and the pay that will bring. in a city that has seen some of the highest number of covid cases in the uk, the big question is whether more testing will help slow or even reverse the spread of the virus and help keep places like st margaret's free from infection. now, yesterday we brought you the story of one little girl — elif — rescued from the rubble after that powerful earthquake in western turkey four days ago. one day later, and the miracle's been repeated. rescuers say they heard another girl, ayda, call out from under a collapsed 8 story apartment block. our international correspondent 0rla guerin picks up the story.

rescuers found her wedged in tight, after she had called out. and this was the moment they recovered ayda — if if not yet three years old. not yet three years old. there were chants of "god is greatest," and a rush to cover her in a thermal blanket after her 91 hours beneath the rubble in izmir. as ayda was carried away, she lifted the spirits of this bruised nation and of the exhausted rescuers. "we started working through a small hole," said ibrahim. "when we opened it more, we saw her face and her pretty green eyes, and we could hear her." "it gave us new energy." 0n the way to hospital, ayda was asked what she wanted to eat. meatballs, she said, and a turkish yoghurt drink.

ayda is now tucked up in hospital. she tells the nurse her tummy hurts, but her condition is said to be good. another precious life saved. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: how conspiracy theories and socila media misinformation have shaped the us the us election campaign more now on the terror threat level in the uk being raised to its second highest level after attacks in austria and france. it's been upgraded from ‘substantial‘ to ‘severe' — meaning that an attack on uk soil is now deemed ‘highly likely.‘ the home secretary priti patel says the change is not based on any specific threat — our security correspondent frank gardner explained

we are now on the second—highest of the five tier terror threat level assessments which put us at severe, highly likely, before that, we were on the substantial attack being likely. not particularly encouraging her comforting either. but, this is in response to what we have seen in vienna and france. it is not in response, we are told, to any specific threat in the uk. we would be remiss in saying that the government not to raise it. this is not made by the ministers. the advice comes from the joint terrorism analysis centre. that is a fusion centre that sits inside the headquarters in london, but it is separate from them and puts together a nalysts separate from them and puts together analysts from transports, health,

intelligence, military and they co nsta ntly a nalyse the intelligence, military and they constantly analyse the ongoing threat to uk citizens anywhere in the world and they had a look at what was going on in vienna and they looked at all the postings by isis and inspiring people to carry out attacks over the cartoons there was attacks over the cartoons there was a lot of outrage and that is been exploited by extremists or encouraging people to carry out attacks, hence the raising to severe. please do visit the bbc news website for more analysis on what the raising of the threat level means. this is bbc news, let's return now to the us presidential election. the winner needs 270 electoral college votes to secure the presidency. here's my colleague, christian fraser, breaking down the numbers across the battleground states and looking at how this race

compares, to 2016. remember that on the night, one of these candidates has to get to the 270 mark in the electoral college. that is the magic number. think back to 2016 and you might recall that hillary clinton was short of that mark by 38. so, that is the work thatjoe biden has to do this time around. where might he pick up those votes? well, i have put on our board here the states that we would consider battle ground states. now, you will see the three of them hillary clinton one last time and actually in diskless, joe biden is pulling and actually in this list, joe biden is pulling better than donald trump in a number of them. so, what i'm going to do is bring up our 2016 map because ijust want to show you the various routes thatjoe biden has to the white house as opposed to donald trump. here he is at 232. i'm going to take my pen, and i'm going to cover in some

of those states that are pulling well forjoe biden at the moment. so, the likes of wisconsin in the midwest, and michigan. and then i'm going to perhaps flip arizona which has looked pretty competitive forjoe biden and you will see that now, he is just short by one. maybe, he takes iowa which is pretty close at the moment. let's go another route. i'll put these back in red. 0k, we will leave wisconsin and michigan there. but maybe we turn georgia blue, 0k? and that then takes him over that magic 270. maybe, he goes a different route, maybe he doesn't win georgia. it is normally in the red column, georgia. maybe he takes north carolina, the changing face of america at the moment. more urban, more college voters in north carolina and again, he is on 273. you're starting to get a feel for it. there are different routes to the white house forjoe biden because the number of states puts him higher up the list in terms of electoral college than donald trump. let's have a look at it. we will go back to 2016 again. let me reset it for you.

0k, we will take the red pen. now, i tell you what, we will take the blue pen and i will show you how difficult it becomes for donald trump if we take out florida. ok, now he is down to 277. and what if we then put wisconsin and michigan back in the blue column, which are pulling very well forjoe biden? and you can see without florida, it becomes very difficult indeed for donald trump. we talked a lot about the misinformation and the social media. how do you view that playing into this election campaign? well, this and there's been a lot of misinformation generated from the far right in the united states and from foreign governments. this is misinformation. house and played a role in the selection as opposed

that have gone by in the past? most of the misinformation generated is actually targeted to a specific portion of the electorate. it is not for the average citizen are all citizens, it is primarily for donald trump supporters and primarily conservative content and 25% of the electorate that is a die—hard trim supporter, that is the audience for most of the misinformation. to give me an example of what we are talking about here and how it how effective it has been for the donald trump campaign was yellow covid—19 causes and what to do about it is misinformation about the state of the economy the economies elements and there is some kind of disinformation or misinformation, the interesting things over 2016 is that now, significant amount of the misinformation originates from the russian government the chinese government and it is targeted at us voters and that is a big difference

in 2016. and what role do social media platforms like facebook and ta ke media platforms like facebook and take the others have when it comes to the dissemination of this? and there are platforms of distributing misinformation. most of the firms have done some attractive things of the past few months and many would say not enough, they have been flagging content, taking it down but what if i am really concerned about is the misinformation about the election itself, but the process of counting ballots not going of the next few days. that is a form of misinformation that moves really quickly but the platforms may not be able to stop. as a buzz that answers my question which is what can be done to counter this? part of it is on the platforms, those that survive this kind of content to users. but that's two, we should not be forwarding content that we have not proved ourselves and we should be

going to look at professional news organisations and not organisations for information about what's going on. so, it is a bit of platform due diligence and earned media habits that make a big difference. in this will have a huge impact? it could have a huge impact in swing states, the battle ground states that a fraction of the presentence difference will have an outcome that shapes the electoral college votes. that is or misinformation could have the most impact. thank you so much for joining the most impact. thank you so much forjoining us for the oxford internet institute. do not forget our special here, the election night programme begins at 11. it will be taking you through all of the results of the huge team that we have got across the world and indeed across all the states in the united

states. most of them, in fact. but i will be back with you in the headlines and bbc news. the bushfires that raged across australia this time last year caused devastation. as well as claiming more then 30 lives, the country's wildlife was also badly hit. the koala population was decimated — and ever since volunteers on kanagaroo island have been doing their best to help them recover. our australia correspondent shaimaa khalil reports. they survived australia's fires. now these koalas are ready to go back where they belong. it's a very different scene from nearly a year ago. pictures of the badly burned animals shocked the world. hundreds were brought to this wildlife park when the flames tore through the island. as well as being faced with the burns and the starvation and the dehydration,

they were also very mentally affected as well. a lot of them were just feeling so terrible that they were just kind of cuddled in a ball, they didn't have that fight response which a wild animal should. of the 50,000 koalas living on kangaroo island before the bushfire, it's feared most of them were killed. images of the destruction and the loss of wildlife were seen across the globe, prompting millions of dollars in donations. it was just incredible to see how many people from pretty much every country in the world jumped on board to donate to looking after and saving as much wildlife on kangaroo island here as we could. helping koalas survive here is vital for australia's ecology. it's the one place where the animals are disease—free. for months now, hundreds of koalas have been looked after in the wildlife park, and it's been a long and tough journey for many of them. the aim is to get them strong enough to survive on their own here in the wild. and today, one of them

is being released. after ten months of care, it's time for merton's big move. ready? are you watching? here goes the koala. oh, here he goes! for dana, it's a bittersweet separation. there's no better feeling watching someone that you've helped either raise from a joey, or get through all of that treatment, and then get them back out to the wild, watching them climb back out of a tree, where they're meant to be. it'll take years for the island to recover, but it's hoped koalas like merton can still thrive in a much changed habitat. bye — bye. bye—bye, koala. bye — bye, koala. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, kangaroo island. the wales football manager ryan giggs has denied allegations of assault after police were called to his home on sunday evening. giggs was arrested and bailed after an alleged row with his girlfriend, kate greville. the welsh football association has announced that he will not be involved in the side's upcoming international camp. earl spencer — brother of the late

princess of wales — has made further allegations that the bbc used underhand tactics to secure the notorious panorama interview with her in 1995, in which she spoke about her failing marriage to prince charles. the earl is demanding that the corporation opens a new inquiry to examine the tactics employed by its journalist, martin bashir. the bbc says it's already apologised following previous allegations and will investigate ‘substantive new information'. martin bashir is currently seriously ill with complications from coronavirus. the police watchdog says that after an investigation into the actions of four officers involved in the case of the black teenager stephen lawrence in 1993, it will now pass a file to the crown prosecution service. the watchdog says there's an indication that the officers may have committed misconduct in public office. stephen lawrence was murdered in south east london in 1993.

two men are in prison for the murder. the comedian and actor john sessions has died, aged 67. he was best known for his work on spitting image and whose line is it anyway? he was also a character actor, appearing in films like kenneth branagh's henry the fifth and tv series including itv‘s victoria. the editor of private eye, ian hislop, paid tribute he was an old friend but he was also an absolutely brilliant actor, comedian, improviser. it is difficult to do a summary but he was a fantastic stage actor and particularly on the west end, or napoleon that extraordinary comedy drama stop john could napoleon that extraordinary comedy drama stopjohn could do everything. film acting, improvisation, voices, i met film acting, improvisation, voices, imet him film acting, improvisation, voices, i met him in the early days on spitting image. he was an amazing

actor and an amazingly versatile. and he would be really flattered. he was a modest man. i'm happy to see them described as a star because he probably thought he wasn't. and he was quite the funniest man in real life that you could ever meet. now, the weather with helen willetts. good evening. it won't surprise you when i say it's been the fifth wettest october since 1862. now, november, of course, started on a very wet and windy note, but for the rest of this week now, it's drier and it's calmer weather, which will prevail with frosty nights and foggy mornings taking over. the reason is the change from low pressure to the azores high moving in, drifting across our shores, drifting its way eastwards. for about three or four days, it promises to bring primarily dry and settled weather. but at this time of year, as we've seen, it means we're prone

to some frost and fog. and we've still got showers out there this evening. temperatures are already tumbling away, so they could leave the surfaces damp and with the frost expected, there could be the odd icy patch around. now, we keep quite a bit of cloud through the night across scotland and still some showers, so the north of scotland largely escaping frosty conditions. but for most others, but particularly for england and wales, the first widespread frost of the season is expected. as i say, with a few damp surfaces, that could be a little bit icy. there'll certainly be ice to scrape off the cars in the morning, and it will be a crisp start for many. now, there also could be one or two mist and fog patches around to wait to clear. and at this time of year, they do take their time to clear. and you can see there are a few showers dotted around for tomorrow. although for the majority it's much drier, escaping the showers, more sunshine and lighter winds, it would just be the odd shower around and the cloud will thicken across the northern half of scotland later in the day to bring more persistent rain as well. but i think for most of us, it won't feel as chilly as it has been today that we've

lost that wind. and those light winds continue through wednesday evening. just a smattering of rain mostly in the north, just more cloud, which means it won't be quite as cold tomorrow night going into thursday morning. and instead, we're more likely to see fog problems more widely. so that lingering fog as well this time of year, very little strength in the november sunshine to clear it away. so, in some places on thursday, it could stay all day. and in those areas, it'll be cold and grey throughout. difficult to pinpoint. we're thinking england and wales mostly to see the foggier conditions, but it should clear to some sunshine. we've got this general south—westerly drift, so any sunshine east of the grampians will allow those temperatures into the mid—teens still, so feeling very pleasantly warm here but low cloud further west. and again friday, it will dawn on a potentially foggy note and the fog risk pushes further northwards towards the weekend, by the end of which we may be inviting more rain back in by that stage.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. decision day in the us — voters queue to cast their ballots, but will it bejoe biden or donald trump who wins their seal of approval? winning is easy, losing is never easy. not for me, it's not. if you elect me, i'm going to be an american president. there's going to be no red states or blue states, just the united states of america! cheering. the opinion polls putjoe biden ahead nationally, but that's not the vote which counts. we'll take a look at the electoral college, which actually picks the next president. tough questions for the uk government's science advisers as england braces for a second coronavirus lockdown. after last night's deadly gun attack in vienna,