that she's back. now time for the weather with tomasz schafernaker. hello. well, friday brought some storms to southern parts of the uk. even a report of a damaging tornado. but at the same time, some parts of the country were also quite sunny and warm. in kew gardens, the temperatures reached 25 celsius. the days ahead are looking very different — it's turning unsettled, it's turning autumnal. a jet stream will send weather fronts in our direction. i think there's a fair amount of rain on the way, particularly across the southern half of the uk, and this time next week, some parts of the country could be around ten degrees cooler by day. now, in terms of the rainfall this weekend, you can see where most of it will be. this is just the potential for rainfall here, perhaps 50mm or so in some parts of england and wales. so it is a mixed bag this weekend. certainly some sunshine on the way, particularly across northern parts of the uk, but also

heavy showers at times. through the course of saturday evening. and then on sunday the showers become more widespread and heavier across parts of england and wales. but again, the best of our weather on sunday will be in the north—west of the uk. so once again sunny spells for the western isles and not looking so bad there in belfast with a bit of sunshine too, but not so great for the south with all the cloud and the rain. now on monday, low pressure is over the uk. that again spells a fair amount of cloud outbreaks of rain

and the air will start to come in from the north, so the temperatures will start to drop from northern scotland, only 12 degrees in the south — still relatively warm. we're holding on to the mid, possibly the high teens. so here's the outlook for the week ahead. you can see that big drop in the temperature in the south 1a degrees in london. but look at edinburgh — by tuesday it's only around 11 degrees with showers. that's it. bye— bye. path to the presidency. take a look at michigan's role in shaping the us election in which voters would be the deciding factor come november. i spoke to one multi—generational family and they were all in for donald trump and said she cannot understand how anyone could vote for kamala harris and he said oh, granny

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the week, a lot of the chat about one assassination attempt and two is something beyond extraordinary. it really is, we were on the air pretty quickly and down on the ground in west palm beach to cover what was happening but as she said, it is stunning, shocking to see these does attempts on donald trump's life and its raising questions about political violence in such a polarised atmosphere as we are heading towards the election. the bbc verify team is been looking into what security donald trump has because that is going to be where the big questions, how do you protect donald trump as he continues to campaign and hold rallies and he is someone who likes to be out and about and he does these otr were he goes out of the cafe and shakes peoples hands, he does these big rallies as well, his fans are very enthusiastic, very exuberant and there is no miniature person security but are bbc verify team has been looking that according to an

author who is an expert on the secret service and sitting vice president getting around 300 agents from secret service assigned to them in a former president gets around 90 to 100 agents in this expert believes donald trump has around 80 assigned to him it is going to be a question going forward because we've heard on congress, the campaign team, should he have more resources into the secret service any more resources as well?— into the secret service any more resources as well? president biden and the acting _ resources as well? president biden and the acting director— resources as well? president biden and the acting director of— resources as well? president biden and the acting director of the - and the acting director of the secret service, did say this week that they have given donald trump the, what they call the highest level of security and particularly since that first assassination attempt injuly, speaking to a few secret service agents, this week, they're talking what's occurring at a golf course is particularly difficult. golf courses are vast open spaces —— securing. and bushes

are very hard to secure a fixed perimeter and many of them do not have fixed parameters or there bordered by water on one side and if it's a links course, that presents an extra difficult challenge for secret service and they're talking about the wake of what happened on sunday about having to move the perimeter around donald trump's golf courses and when he wants to play golf, which is his right is a human being to be able to do that, they are going to do is shut down more and more streets around those golf courses to try to get to a place where they have a secure perimeter where they have a secure perimeter where they have a secure perimeter where the public cannot access or try to access close as they can to the president but there is an interesting point, i made to go, will this inspire further acts of political violence, that is something i to jason on our shows earlier in the week. do you think

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we got from one of our viewers, listeners and if you have question for us we would love to know. i will read this out, this is from denmark and she wrote to us, i am interested in learning more about the role of gender and race in the race between harris and trump and will be great to know and break it down for us in the upcoming episodes and that is what we're going to do, thank you so much for the question. this is a really important question gender and race in this election cycle, you really cannot separate the two because of its gender, after kamala harris entered the race, we saw gender already entered the debate as we saw gender already entered the debate as we sand vance talk about childless cat ladies when referring to democrats and leaders of the democratic party and also kamala harris saying people without biological children. and we saw the governor of arkansas doubled down on

that this weekend and away when she said her kids keep her humble and said, kamala harris doesn't have anyone to keep her humble and so she is referring to the fact that she doesn't have biological children. she does have two stepchildren. and she does have two stepchildren. and the sa she does have two stepchildren. and they say that — she does have two stepchildren. and they say that she was very she played a large role in their upbringing as well. but the contrast between kamala harris running this campaign and hillary clinton in 2016 and the fact that the slogan for hillary clinton was i am with her and kamala harris has not leaned into the fact that she is a woman. prominently playing into our messaging, you covered that campaign and wondering how you see the difference between these two. it is very different- _ difference between these two. it 3 very different. hillary clinton leaned into that and she hasn't been leaning into ended previous primary cycle and she tried to get the

nomination ahead of barack 0bama and it was very noticeable that she had changed track when she was coming to try to seek the nomination and following on from barack 0bama. but i think, following on from barack 0bama. but ithink, it following on from barack 0bama. but i think, it is interesting that kamala harris is chosen not to do that because travelling notjust through michigan but others places, there are people, male and female who say they do not want a fema president and preps that seems like an odd thing to say and in ireland we've had two female presidents and people in ireland think the president to be a man or woman but has not happened in this country and considering how close this race is that kamala harris entered team probably take the decision to appeal to his broadest swathe of people as they possibly can and does not want to be seen just because she is a woman she wants to be elected because she is the best person for the job but it is very interesting to note that she has made a big

issue about that and in the interview she did on cnn she was asked about that and shown a picture of her needs listening to her and that iconic photograph. those two plaques on her grandniece's hair. even then, she did not bite on the question that was being put around what it would mean for women and for women of colour in particular should she be elected. i think it must be something quite calculated but we have seen supporters more than happy to lean into the fact that she is a woman in those early days, others record—breaking zoom calls with a black woman for kamala harris, white women for kamala harris, every single demographics and colour turned out to the one before but how many people they had. i’ere turned out to the one before but how many people they had.— turned out to the one before but how many people they had. i've spoken to female voters — many people they had. i've spoken to female voters who _ many people they had. i've spoken to female voters who support _ many people they had. i've spoken to female voters who support kamala i female voters who support kamala harris and those say that it is time for a woman to be present even if

she is not saying that herself, her supporters are. but i want to juggle a race as well because of the part of this is certainly, is going to play a role we have a woman of colour at the top of the ticket for the first time but when you saw some high—ranking republicans saying that kamala harris was a diversity higher and that's why she was the vice president and that got quite a lot of pushback from democrats and from president biden himself and you sell fairly early on when donald trump sat down with a journalist from the national association of black journalists when he was asked this question about kamala harris being a diversity higher and said, well, i didn't know that she was black, that she was indian in that she turned black. you might find interesting is kamala harris has also not engaged really frontally on this either. she's said same old playbook and here we go again and she did a bit

on the debate stage saying that you have this type of rhetoric from someone is trying to divide us. she isn't reall someone is trying to divide us. sue: isn't really making the essential point of her campaign. even this week, she has done another interview again with three journalists and three blackjournalists in this case and was asked a question about what she would do for black communities and we know statistically in this country are so disadvantage, particularly young black men most likely to be stopped by police, more likely to be stopped by police, more likely to be stopped by police, more likely to end up incarcerated and more likely to earn lower wages and have a lower level of education and so, donald trump is trying to attract that group of people with his message that the deck is stacked against you and i can make things betterfor against you and i can make things better for you against you and i can make things betterfor you and so, against you and i can make things better for you and so, kamala harris in this interview when she was asked about messaging to black african—american communities and communities of people of colour, she

chose to hone in on the economic message, saying at one point that we cannot operate from the assumption that black men are in anybody�*s pocket, they are like any other voting group you have to earn their vote and so, i am working to own —— earn their vote with housing in all those issues that appeal to all kinds of people. find all those issues that appeal to all kinds of people.— all those issues that appeal to all kindsof--eole. . , ., , ., kinds of people. and democrats have seem to have — kinds of people. and democrats have seem to have taken _ kinds of people. and democrats have seem to have taken those _ kinds of people. and democrats have seem to have taken those voters i kinds of people. and democrats have seem to have taken those voters forl seem to have taken those voters for granted, haven't they? and i think thousand admission if you look at some of the numbers, some of that support among young black men has been suffering as they turn more to donald trump for economic messaging and ifind it remarkable thinking about the fact that president 0bama in his time in office, he did not leaned into his identity as a black man either and it's interesting, even with the way race being discussed with how kamala harris

speaks and this is criticism from commentators on twitter about how she changes her style of speaking if she changes her style of speaking if she is in new york versus down in georgia and how she adapts to the way that she speaks and described by some republican commentators is not being authentic because she puts on a southern accent but black commentators and said look, this is called code switching and code switching is something that you see when people speak different languages or have different backgrounds and can slip into different dialects and these commentators made the point that is exactly what kamala harris is doing and she has a blackjamaican father and she has a blackjamaican father and a south indian mother and she is grown up in different contexts and like she said, is used to speaking with different groups because she spent her life on the west coast and i was on the east because even though that could affect the way that you speak to any group of

people versus your own family and so, ifound it really people versus your own family and so, i found it really interesting that you see this underlining of rates, even in the way that kamala harris delivers speech and that plays into the issue authentic or just putting this voice on for one certain group and for black americans, they say this is a part of the vernacular of the culture we look at all the polls and they show this race to be in a dead heat and i was looking at the polls that have been carried out since the debate and there were four of them. three of them, kamala harris is ahead by one or 2% and is within the margin of errorfor ahead by one or 2% and is within the margin of error for each of those and essentially, that means it's neutralised and in another one, both kamala harris and donald trump are tied and it's a dead heat and at this point in time, as we know, it

is a bit of a toss of state for either to win and just to put it in context, joe biden wanted in 2020 and donald trump wanted in 2016 when you get by 2.3% with a thousand votes, very little and joe biden's margin was greater but still a little bit small with less than 3%. at the moment, joe biden won by only 300 votes in the city. so, when you break it down to districts, the margins are really tiny and many of them have said, unprovoked, they do not talk politics with each other here any more because it's just so divisive and people losing friendships and their losing members of theirfamily and friendships and their losing members of their family and i spoke to one multi—generationalfamily and of their family and i spoke to one multi—generational family and the grandmother was all in for donald trump and said she could not understand how anyone would float for kamala harris and said, even as a woman, she couldn't understand how anyone would use the argument that

if your woman you should vote for kamala harris and then her grandson said, ok, granny, don't listen but i'm voting for kamala harris. thanksgiving topic. i’m i'm voting for kamala harris. thanksgiving topic. i'm doing the same, thanksgiving topic. i'm doing the same. her _ thanksgiving topic. i'm doing the same, her sister _ thanksgiving topic. i'm doing the same, her sister said. _ thanksgiving topic. i'm doing the same, her sister said. and i thanksgiving topic. i'm doing the| same, her sister said. and people same, hersistersaid. and people saying they're voting for kamala harris is way less than i would've anticipated or is seen past cycles here. and we are inside in flint yesterday, people they're really feeling left behind in ten years on from the water crisis if you can imagine that. there are still people who do not have clean drinking water in flint and they have not received compensation and that was due to them and on this part of the state, there is a visible decline, beautiful buildings and no one is in them but the windows are smashed and them but the windows are smashed and the bricks are falling down and on the bricks are falling down and on the mainstream of the high street, jobs go, people go and

unfortunately, a negative spiralling cycle and then in dearborn in detroit, dearborn is a majority american city. muslim american city. it's home to the biggest muslim, american and arab american population in the united states. i was there in april when people were kind of humming and hawing, what would they do? they were very angry aboutjoe biden's support of israel in in terms of, you know what, the bombing in gaza, the attacks on gaza. and they were kind of having these meetings with the administration, with senior ranking democrats. we saw what happened in the primary here in michigan. over 100,000 people in the democratic primary would not vote forjoe biden. they declared themselves uncommitted, which was their way of sending a message to him. that was april here now in the end of september in dearborn yesterday, at the end of september, the amount of people that said, i've made up my mind, i'm not voting for the democrats, i'm voting for donald trump, or i'm voting for the green party candidate, jill stein.

and, you know, they'd say, i acknowledge that it's probably a wasted vote that, you know, she may not win this state, and she wouldn't. it's unlikely she'd win enough states to be elected. but ijust cannot bring myself to vote for kamala harris or any democrat because of what's happening. and the way they put it was, you know, many of them were born here and we pay our tax dollars. here we were educated. here we are american. we pledge allegiance to this country. but our tax dollars are being used to bomb essentially in support of israel's military campaign. it's being used to, as they said, bomb and kill our neighbours, our friends, our cousins, our brothers, our sisters, our grandparents in countries in the middle east, in gaza in particular. and they said, how can we do that? we're putting this impossible situation of being loyal citizens, paying our taxes and knowing where that money is going. and katrina, do they feel that there's been any change betweenjoe biden and kamala harris?

because, you know, certainly when we saw that change at the top of the ticket, and kamala harris had that press conference when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited washington, d.c., and you were covering that at the capitol. she held that press conference where many of the muslim, american and arab american voices we spoke to afterwards were at least happy with the fact that, as they put it, they felt that she could hold both thoughts at the same time, namely supporting israel, but also. namely supporting israel, but also understanding palestinian suffering and giving a voice to palestinian suffering. and they had hoped for a change in policy, i understand, and in fact, i was at that rally in detroit with kamala harris about a month ago now, where it was interrupted by gaza protesters, and she was criticised for for interrupting them and saying, if you want to vote for donald trump, that's fine. but otherwise i'm speaking. it was seen as perhaps not at all in tune with what those protesters are calling for. but do they see then, any difference

between harris and biden? they don't at this point, many of them said to me that they thought at one point when she took over at the top of the ticket, that things might be different, and that she was expressing more empathy, more understanding of the humanitarian situation. but they say they've asked for, you know, the community leaders have asked repeatedly for meetings with her. they've asked for her to tell them exactly what she intends to do should she be re—elected. with regards to israel, they point to the debate last week when the issue arose and she said, you know wholeheartedly that she believed in israel's right to defend itself and that the us would remain a staunch ally of israel. and theyjust feel that, you know, the road has run out, essentially. we spoke to in excess of, i mean, heading for 30 or more individuals, and all of them had the same viewpoint, which was either they couldn't decide and they didn't want to vote for donald trump, or they were going to vote for donald trump orjill stein,

that they were just they just had had enough, and i suppose not helped this week by the images that they were seeing coming from lebanon. we spoke to a number of members of the lebanese community as well, many of whom told me how, um, they had cousins who had lost an eye. another lady had a cousin who'd lost fingers and a hand as those devices exploded in lebanon this week. 0ne individual told me about her cousin, who was a doctor working in a hospital, and his pager had exploded. so there's a lot of anger there that they feel, you know, things aren't getting better. in fact, they're getting worse. and they were just they were a lot more people were a lot more disappointed and vocally against democrats than when i had spoken to them in april, and theyjust felt there was nothing at this point that could win them back. that's so critical, katrina, because you were saying in saginaw, you know, the difference in the 2020 election was 300 votes. i mean, imagine if you're talking to 30 some individuals who say that they're not going

to cast their ballot or perhaps cast a ballot forjill stein, but that could be all the difference for the democrats there. that's it. i mean, you're talking in such small margins in michigan that you have a community like that who kind of all are feeling the same way. and i said to them, if there is a cease fire, if there is a deal done between now and election day, would that change your mind? they all seem to have quite a disappointing or pessimistic view of whether a deal was even possible at this stage. and you know, what would a deal look like? are you talking aboutjust getting to that first step of the three part plan thatjoe biden unveiled at the end of may, in which case they said that's not good enough, they don't like a couple of days or a week. pause is not a permanent deal. the things they need kamala harris to say, she's not saying. and so that was quite informative for me, just in terms of, you know, and it's obviously not scientific, but in terms of taking the temperature of people and just the level of anger

and the level of upset and disappointment and really people just agonising over wanting to belong in this country and pay their taxes and respect the rules. but at the same time, being conscious of what was happening to that, their tax dollars. 0k, katrina. really interesting insights from michigan. i know we're going to be on the road in these swing states, gathering all of these voices and hopefully gathering lots of good meals as well on the road. so i want to let you get back to that diner and perhaps try. what was that dish again? oh, that was the cream of potato and ham soup with melted cheese and spring onion. but i can't say, sumi, that i have already secured for us a delicious cinnamon loaf with some, you know, guilty, but good icing on the top. so i have that stuck in my suitcase. we can have it with our tea next week, so. looking forward to that. thanks for the gifts. i have to remember that for my next

trip on the roads to bring back gifts of course. but thank you everyone for tuning in. we're going to be back next week with katty, of course, on the path for the presidency, and we'll be on together once a week from now until election day. so do join us here again next week. hello. well, friday brought some storms to southern parts of the uk. even a report of a damaging tornado. but at the same time, some parts of the country were also quite sunny and warm. in kew gardens, the temperatures reached 25 celsius. the days ahead are looking very different — it's turning unsettled, it's turning autumnal. a jet stream will send weather fronts in our direction. i think there's a fair amount of rain on the way, particularly across the southern half of the uk, and this time next week, some parts of the country could be around ten degrees cooler by day. now, in terms of the rainfall this weekend, you can see where most of it will be. this is just the potential for rainfall here, perhaps 50mm

or so in some parts of england and wales. so it is a mixed bag this weekend. certainly some sunshine on the way, particularly across northern parts of the uk, but also heavy showers at times. so through the early hours, maybe some showers returning to southern parts of the uk, some cracks of thunder. it's not a cold morning by any means — temperatures of around ia in london, typically around 12—13 whether you're north or south. so further showers on the way on saturday, particularly across england and wales. later in the day, they could become heavy and move a little bit further north, but at the same time a lot of sunshine in the forecast around the irish sea for northern ireland, for western parts of scotland. 18 degrees in glasgow, but i think quite cloudy and much cooler along that north sea coast. and then notice the showers again here in the north—west through the course of saturday evening. and then on sunday the showers become more widespread and heavier but again, the best of our weather on sunday will be in the north—west of the uk. so once again sunny spells for the western isles and not looking

so bad there in belfast with a bit of sunshine too, but not so great for the south with all the cloud and the rain. now on monday, low pressure is over the uk. that again spells a fair amount of cloud outbreaks of rain and the air will start to come in from the north, so the temperatures will start to drop from northern scotland, only 12 degrees in the south — still relatively warm. we're holding on to the mid, possibly the high teens. so here's the outlook for the week ahead. you can see that big drop in the temperature in the south ia degrees in london. but look at edinburgh — by tuesday it's only around 11 degrees with showers. that's it. bye— bye.

live from washington, this is bbc news. hezbollah confirms a senior military commander is among those killed after israel's latest attacks on the militant group. early voting kicks off in the us presidential election — with voters casting their ballots in three states. meanwhile, georgia's election board officials approve a rule requiring counties to hand count all ballots the night of or the day following the presidential election. and new numbers show that more than 70,000 russian military personnel have died in the war in ukraine.

hello, i'm sumi somaskanda. we begin in lebanon, where there are concerns over escalating violence between the militant group hezbollah and israel. hezbollah has now confirmed the death of a top military commander — ibrahaim aqil — after israel struck the lebanese capital beirut on friday. he is considered the most high—profile member of the group to be killed in the current conflict.