tarver stared out take back our democracy we could do this where some parts better this is where your dream you we are at our best the united states of america . in pennsylvania large crowds gathered for a president trumps campaign blitz the state has emerged as one of the top prizes this year and trump is hoping to repeat his success there of 2016 but i do want to shut down your economy wipe out your factories and shut down your state ship your jobs to china raise your taxes for trillion dollars the biggest tax increase the biggest tax increase in the history of our country and i gave you the biggest tax cut in the history of. campaigning and there's it's home stretch as a record number of americans are predicted to turn out. to be reporter

peter really dull joins me now for more on all of this peter 1st question is why are they barnstorming these particular states well because of these states like michigan pennsylvania florida are a while not so much florida but definitely michigan and pennsylvania are states that trump won by racial thin margin back in 2016 and without these states going to it's hard to see how he really comes back and wins this election you know there are also states where bitin continues to hold the lead in the race has been fairly stable and by favor for the past weeks and months all those even in states like georgia north carolina where starting to see you know traditionally very conservative republican states where the demographics really have shifted it become younger. voters of color that are really not very big fans of trump so we're starting to see there a shift and by favor. that settled by elite is narrowing in some case states

like florida north carolina still very tight so you know it. you know frankly i hear you talk and i know people listening to you are probably seeing the ghost of 2016 because people were saying that hillary clinton was up to and then in the waning days it started to tighten so there must be some of that on the minds of the democrats as well there's a lot of that there's absolute a lot of we we have been seeing a lot of reports also of you know democrats you know especially you know even seasoned pollsters and campaign strategists obviously no one is going to rule out a comeback. and part of the way to try to make that not happen not sure is bringing out the big guns i mean today we see barack obama the former president out on the campaign trial with bit biden why is it critical to bring him to debt particular state well because you know the rust belt michigan wisconsin

a lot of these you know traditionally that used to be strong industrial states that have really been been you know hurt by. you know the global economy a lot of industry have left that area has been been drained economically financially. obama was those things were really crucial to obama's victory back in oh wait in 2012 you know you might remember in the wake of the financial crisis we saw the auto industry almost collapsing he went there to help save the industry with joe biden and this is definitely a reminder those you know remember this is who you voted for in this who helped save us essentially what you were trying to say so i think with obama going to those states now we're seeing you know them trying to win back a lot of those democrats who in 2016 turned around and went for and voted for trump and even a lot of disaffected republicans who hope you know what trump as this successful businessman that

a lot of people thought of him as he has not been able to give that jolt to those states that they were hoping for you know and this coronavirus certainly hasn't helped. with 48 hours now out here what is the election looking like. biden still continues to hold a comfortable lead nationally obviously it will come down to key states like pennsylvania like was constant like michigan like florida. biden's road to victory still looks much broader like the map so he could if he can hold on to the states that clinton won in 2016 and maybe flip a couple of the states that trump one like oh no where biden is currently up by 3 points michigan whereby it's currently up by 8 points wisconsin where he's currently up by 8 points he could still lose big states like pennsylvania florida and still win trump it seems is really in the battle for his political survival

never rule out a comeback he can still come back but the odds are definitely looking a lot bleaker. than there are for by his margin of error is a lot slimmer is what it sounds like actually peter real adults thank you so much for that let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour police and builders have fired warning shots and use stun grenades in an attempt to disperse tens of thousands of protesters marching in central minsk dozens of demonstrators have been arrested mass protests demanding the resignation of longtime president alexander lukashenko are now in their 12th straight week. dolphins are choosing a new president 8 candidates are vying for the job including pro russian russia incumbent done his biggest challenger is pro european former prime minister my ascendant if no candidate gets at least 50 percent of the vote a runoff will be held in 2 weeks. at least 10 people are dead after typhoon

goni slapped into the eastern philippines wind gusts up to 280 kilometers per hour caused volcanic rocks to bury more than $300.00 homes in albay province storm surges had some coastal towns rivers overflowed nearly 400000 people fled to safer ground. now while many countries are shutting down their economies as they face troubling increases in covert 1000 cases slovakia is trying something different on saturday it started a nationwide effort aimed at testing its entire adult population the authorities have warned the only alternative would be a total lockdown this approach could reveal much about how the virus spreads and how many hidden cases there may be but it also comes with its own set of challenges . long queues outside this coronavirus testing station and.

it is one of thousands that opened on saturday to screen slovakians entire population of over 5000000 testing is voluntary but anyone not participating has to suffer isolate for 10 days. but. i am here because i believe we will find out who has the virus it will go away and eventually we will live a normal life again. in the past 3 weeks slovakia has seen thousands of new infections each day ma screening is hoped to control the virus and avoid further restrictions more than 40000 health care workers and police have been deployed to carry out the tests medical stuff i expressing that concerns. i'm going to be a doctor. and i don't want it to end up like it's city. and i wouldn't want to find

my 1st job is to decide if some. if you put it. this fast around 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. here's some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic protests have been held across italy against a raft of measures to contain a new spike in cases the country reported a record number of almost 32000 new infections in 24 hours israel has reopened elementary school classes after 6 weeks shut down as the country eases restrictions following any nationwide lockdown that began in september and australia has recorded no newly locally transmitted infections for the 1st time in 5 months residents of hard hit melbourne enjoyed the 1st weekend of reopen cafes restaurants

and pumps. french police say they have arrested a suspect over the shooting of a greek orthodox priest in the southern city of new york the priest was gunned down outside his church and is in critical condition the city's mayor says the motive is not yet known but it comes after several terror attacks in the country just 2 days earlier a suspected islamic militant killed 3 people in a catholic church in the city of nice. the priest must just close in got 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 at all rolled out so i want comment on the target and what sort of attack

this is because. we don't know yet. residents express their shock i'm appalled because it's very quiet neighborhood a good place to live. much 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 or the french president and called made his position clear if they 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 to drill. france is

currently on its highest security. switching gears to sports now in formula one lewis hamilton might not have started the emilia-romagna grand prix in pole position but that didn't keep the briton from winning in italy with every hamilton when there's more history made he now has 93 victories in his career hamilton's mercedes teammate valtteri bottas came 2nd and daniel ricardo from where you know finished 3rd with the with the team mercedes one to finish they've clinched a record 7th straight constructors title. rb leipzig started the day top of the table and travelled to a bridge gladbach looking to keep it that way but the hosts had other ideas displayed their quality when they drew with real madrid in the champions league this week and they scored the only goal of the game through huntsville to take all 3 points celebrated moving up to 4th place well results elsewhere so leipsic

slipped to 3rd. you watching the documentary series is up next with an in-depth look at america in the age of trump if you'd like more on any of the stories you can find plenty on our website that's dot com i'm michael in berlin for me in the entire team here thanks for watching we'll see you soon. this presidential election is a crucial why not just for the united states who's leading the race and america's policy will be right here for you and those how you everything you need to know as america decides we'll bring you the numbers issues the background join us for special coverage from the u.s. election november 4th on.

a country in turmoil. a president who provokes and divides. driven into a corner by protests and the pandemic. donald trump is fighting tooth and nail for a 2nd term. with the election fast approaching america continues to be shaken by the coronavirus and a debate about racism. will meet people in 3 states that could decide the election arizona michigan wisconsin. after everything that's happened will they still go for trump. i was donald trump on the campaign trail

fighting for votes in arizona was last time around he won this important state by a very narrow margin was. prefer to listen to the president from outside the rally phoenix has become a coronavirus hotspot it tearing down statues desecrated monuments and purging dissenters it's not the behavior of the peaceful political movement it's the behavior of. the tallit terriers and tyrants and people that don't love our country they don't love our country. the bells often tune out when they hear trump's course rhetoric. what they care about is his economic record i think he's so pro-business he understands business. as a business is business owners we want somebody that kind of understands our issues for coping there we were writing it all for someone there so conway was doing well

you know right we had high hopes for you know reelection and i mean it's it's crazy how kobe has just changed. america it's changed the world but i really think that if he got in and i was elected for another 4 years that the things that he said in the beginning i think would come to flourish and. it's fairly quiet outside the rally in contrast to the last drop of an dodi and steve attended in february. could it be the heat. or the fact that the president has taken some hits in the polls i there doesn't seem to be as much energy in the crowd or even in his voice we were outside but you see him there but it just doesn't feel as energetic on the face tired or the masses are because it's you know large so he draws energy from the crowd i don't know but it just seems a little bit more subdued judy and steve bell have always been steadfast

republicans they plan to vote for trump and november across the country pastor great louis's venturing back into his church for the 1st time in months. milwaukee is home to the largest black congregation in wisconsin and otherwise largely white rural state fair. share of. lewis is grateful in march the preacher was in intensive care. during the coronavirus brought him close to death the by wrist has killed 4 of his friends in milwaukee just like elsewhere black people have been more affected by cope with 19 than white people. got. it is real and saved my life because i should have been dead you know i heard all proud of other issues on top

of the corona you know what my believe is their god is that he would call the pastor hasn't fully recovered yet this is his 1st service since being seriously ill in any case churches in wisconsin had to stay closed for months. after such a long time away pastor lewis wants to use his sermon to preach about pervasive racism. he says the killing of george floyd caused many to wake up. who didn't know. or. oh. ma. fired. their. pastor lucas his ministry doesn't stop at the church door. he's been fighting

against the discrimination faced by milwaukee's black population for years. he now hopes they could be on the verge of meaningful change. just because there's a law doesn't make things right so because slavery was a long. but it was a rubber soul so we just have a lot of work to do or we have to start to do that work right now where the people are protested in the streets before we go back to our old ways and being quite gross's. and bitter and hateful. the brutal killing of george floyd shook the nation yet again raising an uncomfortable truth black americans are much more at risk of dying from police violence they make up 13 percent of the population but 23 percent of those killed

by police statistics the president prefers not to use and so are white people some are white people what a terrible question to ask so why people more white people by the way more white people black americans are much less likely to own their own home and can become homeless more quickly. and regardless of education they almost always are in considerably less than white americans. in arizona the lockdown has over restaurants and stores are open despite rising corona virus infections. stephen dodie bells business selling promotional items is buzzing again like you're finally there are new inquiries and orders. in the 1st week after the lockdown the phone didn't even ring. demand had completely collapsed it just happened so fast i knew that that economy would come back

i just thought that it would come back quicker and now here we are almost in july and now we have the resurgence of cases and i think it's it is a setback one of their regular customers wants a bulk order of t. shirts $10000.00 worth. but duty is still cautious about the recovery. as the pandemic struck the economy the trumpet ministration turned to stimulus to soften the blow at the end of july the state had provided financial aid worth $2.00 trillion dollars many are calling for more the checks for up to $1200.00 that most americans received have long been spent the economic collapse was the worst in 75 years a fact trump ignores but we're going to go a lot of. people are going to say. it's guy's

doing a good job he knows what he's doing and i don't believe the fake news anymore but next year and i said it before it will be the single greatest economically we've ever had. the bells have received the equivalent of 51000 euros from the state. we haven't had to dip into our own pockets to pay for our boys i mean i feel responsible for them i don't want to let them go to employees that have been with us almost 20 years i just can't do that so it's helped keep us afloat. she can understand trump's desire to lift pandemic restrictions. has he made all the right decisions probably has he made some good decisions yes but no matter what president was sitting in that office you know i don't i just don't know how you can judge something that we've never gone through before. steve

has another preoccupation with us through his friendship with one of his poker buddies who's black he's come to see how much racism affects the daily lives of black americans. a friend of mine just sent me a thing over the weekend about trump supporting. white supremacy some of you saw all that. and basically trump. said that was a good thing on his tweet. i think he's going to be like. i think he's killing himself right now personally i think he's if he would learn to shut up . he might have a chance there right now and i think that maybe now that. democratic candidate mr biden. has a much better shot. before the boxes are even packed a grim news alert record new corona virus infections ours and restaurants will have

to close again so that kind of changes things again i clear talking about every day is a new day everything changes just when you think that you're getting some traction . or not. damn covert. katie pontifex has to face the virus every day. in her home state of michigan the pandemic has been to some extent under control but the numbers are rising again. she has no sympathy for those who don't want to follow the rules anymore even though she herself longs for the time before corona i want to go back to my life the way it was and i think that it's hard to swallow that our lives will be different moving forward until there's

a vaccine. time and again katie has had to witness patients losing their fight against cope at 19. the nurse hopes that those in washington d.c. will take the danger more seriously. most of us don't go into this career for anything but appalling want to care for people so we don't feel like heroes we're just showing up and do our job. you know we take care of people and the best times of their lives and our worst and this was how different the simple facemask has become the symbol of a divided country with trump himself stirring up the dispute many republicans refuse to wear them while democrats are in favor of them and trump's message everything's under control every one of these doctors said you know so much about this maybe i have a natural ability a baby or should that instead of. the economic collapse caused by the pandemic

seems to be a personal affront to trump his 1st appearance in a mask was only in july. he then called mass wearing patriotic. it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better so i think i don't like saying things but that's the way it is. hindsight is 2020 meanwhile more and more american. as are dying. the number of coronavirus deaths continues to rise seemingly unchecked unlike in germany for example. the u.s. is handling of the pandemic put it on the level of a developing country because katie's hospital took early precautions she and her colleagues feel well equipped just very near. what she was here she then tested positive for home unrelated she was she's just starting to get a cough but rather than that she hasn't really had any of the symptoms of. the times they have praise for michigan's governor in part because she asked nurses

like katie for their advice. the state shutdown early on which drew sharp criticism from president trump katie didn't like that at all trump encouraged the governor's opponents who even blocked access to the hospital. i wish people would trust health care workers but there i have run into colleagues around the country that i went to school with who are on the other side of this and they too think that this is just like the flu and you know but that's not what we're seeing and we ate so even those of us who are educated in the sciences are are struggling at times. a new residential area on the outskirts of lansing michigan capital many here have been economically better off in recent years katie her 2 daughters and husband matt have just moved into their new home.

matt doesn't mind some of the administration's economic policies but he thinks its social responsibility is lacking and it has nothing to do with socialism the republicans favorite bogeyman. as a society we need to be making longer term decisions how do we buy and improve health care and insurance coverage and making sure everyone's taken care of that's not an easy fix and as much as we'd like to get the one second sound bite that says i have the solution and that it takes people coming together i can't i can't even watch videos if i need it and i read the subtitles because i think. it puts me in a bad place to just even here is voice some days and. i don't ever want to think that of any any any person even. if they're

a modern family katie does shiftwork matt takes on a large share of the childcare and housework it's not as though they long for more government regulations they're freedom loving americans but the country under donald trump is no longer an america they recognize. and parent we opposed to any policies that indicate that one group is below another that's just doesn't work with the family values that we have we know ourselves with any one party we know that our our you know our beliefs and. and morals and things like that line up a little bit more direct with one party versus the other but you know we look at the candidates issues and and thought along those lines up until. was it this primary election or maybe it was last year we've never voted a straight party ticket before and this year we well. one reason katie and matt

plan to vote democratic is their daughters. so they want eva and emerson to grow up to be strong self-confident women with equal rights. i just think it'd be nice to have a change because we've only had males president for a long long time and it be nice to just have. at least one it's a woman. as president. format who teaches at a university and katie a nurse for more years of donald trump are unimaginable the country can't handle more division. no i never would have been there's been something like that. probably my wildest dreams ok maybe my wife and see it honestly at times feels like we're living in a in a bad. back in phoenix trump supporter dodi belle is spending the day with her

grandson. it's a chance to take a breath and forget the stresses of work. the belles had actually planned to sell their business this year to step back and focus more on their family. but then came the pandemic. i mean i have hope i have i know that this is going to be over soon we're going to have our highs on our lows with a cow i can see that but right now i think it's just making weary and tired you know i'm tired of talking about it i i i feel for those that keep getting set i just feel that weight. steve clears his head by exercising before coronavirus he was sure that america was on the right track. now everything has changed my life was good could be at stake. if we

can't get our business back to 100 percent or at least close there's a real possibility we could lose our business. he worked hard for his dream after a childhood spent in poverty. when we were out of food we ate what was in the house and i remember one evening for dinner it was like the 3rd night in a row we were having pain cakes and. i can remember. going into the kitchen smelling the pancakes and throwing up because i couldn't do another night of pancakes but that's all we had. i have always had the mindset that if i want it i've got to work for it and i started working when i was in junior high and there's this mindset within our country that the government should take care of us and that i don't have to work

and i do think kind of the socialist mindset is coming into our country where we will no longer be necessarily a democracy. here in michigan the election is mainly about the economy it was a key reason trump won the state in 2016. under his administration some things in the so-called rust belt have improved. but the corona virus has undone much of that improvement. in the neighboring state of wisconsin known as america's dairy land many are murs back to tromp and helped him to victory. how will they vote this time for. the pandemic forced dave daniels to reduce milk production for several months but demand is starting to

pick up again these cows are about to be inseminated for the 1st time. david least hasn't had to throw away any milk we do have to keep on farming because these animals don't understand what's going on they are accustomed to their daily routine. eating lounging around and everything else so they they don't know anything different right now they just figure it's a nice sunny day here at the end of june. farmers like dave on trump hoping for better produce prices and less bureaucracy but thanks to trade disputes and the coronavirus they're now more dependent on financial aid from washington than before. response to cope with 19 or the trade war with china trump solution has always been money. $12000000000.00 during the trade war in 2018 another $16000000000.00 in 2019. and amid the

pandemic $19000000000.00 by the end of july 2020. 2. you can go back to abraham lincoln there's no president has treated the farmers like. here we're doing well with the farmers but i can't imagine. who wouldn't be wouldn't be withdrawn. many farmers love him for abolishing regulations. environmental safeguards are farmers these are great people great americans never complain never complain they just do what they have to do since the end of march dave has been head of the wisconsin farm bureau federation. he'd rather be working outside right now but because of coronavirus the meetings are piling up. today there's a conference with farmers associations from all over the country many support

despite the president's negotiating style. he is someone that takes we called the bull by the horns and he's been very aggressive and he says he has his reasons for it we can understand it that those are reasons we we wish that sometimes those tears when hurt as much but you know those opportunities that he has taken to hopefully have a better future for the united states in the. nearly all of dave's employees are from mexico most white americans don't want this kind of work. that's why the farmer is for simpler immigration laws. it's not as though dave isn't critical of the president if only he keeps his mouth

shut more often especially now when protests are sweeping the country. we've always been able to demonstrate so there is spend some demonstrations that have been on peaceful but for the most part the peaceful ones are doing it for the right reason. and you know when we have the african-americans and black white matters there there needs to be some some justification forced. things that have happened and they have the right to do that demonstrate. rural wisconsin is local slike to keep to themselves and the pandemic has isolated the population even more . dave's wife cam is a nurse she knows the best ways to avoid infection. but she's also a committed republican she rejects mandated mask wearing to raise them make up

their their own mind about who wears them and who doesn't and how they feel you know it is america and we can't force people to do things so we just hope they make the right decisions that will around the spinners both have traditionally voted republican although this time they say they haven't quite made up their minds it's more about milk prices than the larger political landscape the decisive factor is who will be better for farmers. dave says that trump has gotten a lot right. but he still on the fence trumps extremes his tendency to anger made situations and insult those who think differently. these things go against dave's perception of america. i think there's more people in the middle but the

boisterous ones on the right and the left and i think they're drowning out the middle and how we would like to have this country run so it's it will be a challenge because it seems like the pendulum swings way to the right and then we come back and swings way to the left and i wish we could stay in the middle for a will a little while longer so people could be happier. the sonoran desert in southern arizona a place blame is for its cacti. maxie adler and lake in georgia all want to show us the backs of tribes politics the pair document how the construction of trump's border fence destroys nature. trumps prestige project has grown despite opposition . laken is a former ranger he quit his job because of trump now he and maxie fight

against the construction of the border wall. as usual it doesn't take long for security guards to show up we're allowed to be here these are public lands is a taxpayer funded project we have every right to be here you can call your boss you call border patrol. 6 just the usual fun in games like and says he used to work here as a researcher and ranger now he works to protect the cacti. the saguaro is the emblem of the american west. it's blossoming is arizona state flower. always has construction traffic now it's like what like 40 or 50 trucks. seem like there's a lot more going on and just a lot more yet cause is that. the companies seem to be working flat out

the activist speer trump is using the pandemic to push construction along before the election. 3100 kilometers of borders separate mexico and the united states. my administration has done more than any administration in history to secure our southern border so far around 400 kilometers of fence have been built trump claims it will be $700.00 by the end of the year. to achieve this he suspended 41 environmental guidelines and competition regulations in arizona alone all planned and financed unilaterally bypassing congress. this unesco recognised reserve is now home to excavators and bulldozers. so. well. still well yeah it's i'm sure it was killed last week or 2 it's still totally what will be on the inside

a star has to be at least 75 years old to grow an arm and so our own has multiple. i don't know for sure how well that was but. yeah it could be it could be older than the border itself. these giants of the desert. cut down to fill a campaign promise. i mean not only are these plants due to fill an irreplaceable but they also provide a huge amount of habitat to birds to rodents. they stabilize the soil they provide all sorts of ecosystem services and if we keep destroying these things that hold the patchwork of life together. it's just

a matter of time until it all unravels. if i did the certainly i'll still this. would be a felony no chair you could be put in jail for harming one of these plants but here it's like. get everyone. for maxine lake and trump so-called wall is a symbol of his governing style never mind the laws. people fought for years to make them happen it's not like they happened overnight and the idea was that they would protect us and protect the things that we love and with so little. was able to just remove it as if it doesn't it doesn't exist anymore it's just an absurd amount of frustration it makes me feel like democracy doesn't exist.