this is d.w. news live from berlin french police arrest a suspect in a church shooting in the young it comes with france on high alert after a string of suspected islamist terror attacks meanwhile president emmanuel mccall reaches out some muslims saying he understands their anger but that he won't tolerate violence is also coming out to more than a 1000000 people in slovakia line on about the country stands to screen its entire population to run a virus the testing is free and voluntary those who don't participate will be able

to partake. and violence mars ivory coast presidential election the incumbent president is hoping to secure a 3rd term of the opposition says that's unconstitutional we'll get the latest from our correspondent on the ground. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program french police say they've arrested a suspect over the shooting of a greek orthodox priest in the southern city of leone the priest was gunned down as he closed his church and is in a critical condition just 2 days earlier a suspected islam ist militant killed 3 people in a catholic church in the city of nice. the priest most just closing up this greek orthodox church late saturday afternoon when he was shot twice.

police kept the area fenced off warning the public to stay away prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder. at this stage we don't know what the motive is behind the attack no line of inquiry is preferred all ruled out so i want comment on the target of what sort of attack this is. we don't know yet. residents express their shock i'm appalled because it's very quiet neighborhood a good place to live in movies you have markets the synagogue a little further away the orthodox church everyone knows each other it's a small village and it's traumatic. recently francis seen a string of what the authorities describe as terror related incidents believed to have been sparked by cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed it was a french president and while mcconnell made his position clear if you don't

understand and respect the fact that one might be shocked by these cartoons i will never accept that one might justify physical violence over these cartoons and in my country i will always defend the freedom to speak to right to think and unteachable . france is currently on its highest security. let's go straight to france now where they have the correspondent marina strauss is standing by i'm a writer a suspect in this attack has now been arrested what more can you tell us. yeah man has been arrested last night after witnesses initial witnesses of the attack said that he might look like the perpetrator who attacked the orthodox priest last. saturday what we know is that the orthodox priest was severely injured he is still in a very critical condition but he is

a life and also another interesting fact came up an orthodox another orthodox priest who actually knows the person who was attacked told french media that the reason for the attack might be a personal one because there has been a fight going on over years between a church goer and this orthodox priest so this actually might be the reason but prosecutors say they're still looking in all it's all direction so it's not clear yet what the motive of this attack is yeah as you say not clear but it does come at a time after a string of attacks in france how people how worried are people in france about these attacks. wary worried i mean we been seeing this attack here in news just on on thursday in the church you can just see behind me the not sure damn bus really here in in nice and we've

been talking to many different people over the last couple of days and the reactions are a mix of anger and grief a deep sadness and many churchgoers told us they are afraid now to go to the church but they're also angry and they want police to better protect their church which is actually happening at the moment like a look when you walk through the streets and in these already go anywhere close to the church there are many policemen standing standing there we also went to a muslim neighborhood yesterday and people there told us they're very saddened as well but they're also afraid that this incident will further stigmatize muslims in france all right renee thanks very much corresponding marina strauss in nice france . i one many countries are shutting down their economies as they

face troubling increases in covert 19 cases slovakia is trying a different approach on saturday it started a nationwide effort aiming to test its entire adult population the authorities have warned the only alternative would be a total lockdown of this approach comes with its own set of challenges. long queues outside this coronavirus testing station but. it is one of thousands that opened on saturday to screen slovakia's entire population of over 5000000 testing is voluntary but anyone not participating has to self isolate for 10 days. but it was very interesting i am here because i believe we will find out who has the virus it will go away and eventually who will live a normal life again but in the past 3 weeks slovakia has seen thousands of new infections each day mass screening is hope to control the virus and avoid further

restrictions more than 40000 health care workers army and police have been deployed to carry out the tests medical staff expressing their concerns. we're going to move i'm going to be a doctor so you know and i don't want it to end up like it's really. it's about and i wouldn't want to find my 1st job is to decide if someone lives or dies because it is a preview of. this 1st round of testing covered around a 1000000 people with reportedly one percent receiving a positive result a 2nd round of mass testing is planned in a week's time. and let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world this hour british prime minister barak johnson has announced england will enter a 2nd nationwide lockdown starting next thursday with measures set to stay in place for at least 4 weeks johnson said. and is needed now to contain surging coronavirus cases britain has the highest coded 19 death toll in europe the wage. bill in its

new airport has finally opened 9 years behind schedule and 3 times over budget planning errors and construction chaos led to what's more being postponed 6 times the 7000000000 euro new airport has been dubbed by delays and by protesters concerned about noise and climate change. 7 opposition activists including 4 lawmakers have been arrested in hong kong on charges related to obstructing a legislative council meeting in may it comes after beijing passed a contentious security the war in june the arrests didn't appear to be directly linked to the law but police have used it to apprehend around 30 people. in the philippines has been batted by the most powerful typhoon to hit asia this year typhoon goni packed winds of up to 225 kilometers per hour as it made landfall in the east hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.

to the u.s. now where republican president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden have been campaigning in case states on the final weekend before tuesday's election a record 19000000 early votes have already been cast as the bruising contest heads towards the biggest turnout in at least a century. trump supporters in good spirits ahead of a rally on halloween night the president won the crucial state of pennsylvania in the last election and he's hoping for a repeat for many voters there's much at stake. here this battle isn't democrat versus republican this is the dark against the light it's the good versus evil in this is this is a monumental election because of that not because a star on the job i think it's because it is a way a life that we have known in this country for decades and it's it's at stake right

now. president trump spoke of unity as the nation braces for election day. where $101.00 people one family and one florrie's station under the gun and together with the incredible people of pennsylvania we have made america powerful again our military. in the battleground state of michigan democratic candidate joe biden was joined by his ex boss former u.s. president barack obama. i will never raise the white flag of surrender we're going to beat this virus or we're going to get it under control and the 1st step to doing that is donald trump. obama aims to help deliver biden a victory in the state that trump won by a razor thin margin 4 years ago along with the experience to get things done joe

biden has concrete plans and policies that will turn our vision of a better fairer stronger country into reality. campaigning enters its home stretch as a record number of americans are predicted to turn out. in west africa violence has marred the presidential election in ivory coast opposition parties who boycotted the vote say several people were killed in clashes on polling day on saturday police fired tear gas during demonstrations against the current leader and the son of a tara he was running for a 3rd term which the opposition says is unconstitutional. and correspondent funny is in abidjan in ivory coast funny some violence yesterday how is the situation there today. right now here in abidjan the commercial capital of ivory coast everything is quiet calm as you can see behind me the in

fact is not much going on the roads are more or less empty people are staying at home not only because it's sunday morning but because of this very controversial disputed election that played out quite violently yesterday now there being quite a few disruptions across the country both in the center and in the south a 5 story coast including the capital what we do not know at this point the exact numbers because there's a lot of conflicting information right now going on the opposition parties are talking about around 12 people dad yesterday and one government source said 2 people have been killed outside of outside of the commercial capital now one thing is certain have the president president ouattara he's trying to play down the things that. he's made just a few incidents it's clear of course what's important to him that this country moves on beyond this election and that the situation remains peaceful but it's anything but peaceful in

a political way also it's quite stable and the opposition parties are seeing this was not an election and quote that the president president ouattara rob the constitution the pictures coming out of ivory coast certainly local lawman you mentioned the opposition there why have the opposition boycotted these elections. they said that president ouattara didn't have the right to actually run for a 3rd term which has to do with the constitution was amended in 2016 limiting presidential terms to 2 now president ouattara basically said he didn't have a choice but to run for a 3rd time because his elected or chosen successor has died this summer now different readings there if you asked opposition parties and if you ask the president one thing is that the situation remains volatile here in this country and everything that's unstable when it comes to the election can trigger civil unrest not only here in ivory coast but also as we have seen play out in other parts of

africa beating guinea just a couple of weeks ago or in mali in august so what is really a question of how the next hours the next days are going to play out as well as how the reactions are going to unfold as the official results of this election will be announced funny thanks very much for the update. in abidjan ivory coast. one of cinema's all time greats is gone james bone star sean connery has died at the age of 90. go to. request that. took. a shot to stardom and the very 1st james bone film duff to know in 1962 and went on to dominate the silver screen for 4 decades the veteran scot won many accolades throughout his long career including

an academy award and 3 golden globes. we saw only missed you're watching news up next a doc film with a look into a multi-billion euro tax scandal we've got more on any of our stories you can find out on d.v.d. dot com as we get to follow us on social at the state of the news i'm rebecca thanks for watching. this presidential election is a crucial why not just for the united states who's leading the race in america's food lines because it will be right here for you and both tell you everything you need to know as america decides we'll bring you the numbers issues the background join us for special live coverage from berlin the u.s. election november 4th on digital age.