and explore fascinating world heritage sites. world heritage 316 get the map now. this is news coming to you live from berlin terror strikes the heart of piano people flee gunmen attack 6 locations near a synagogue in the city center 5 people were killed including one of the salem's police are hunting one or more attackers believed to be still it was. also coming up one of the most polarized campaigns in u.s. history draws to a close with the early voter turnout surging 2 precedented left in

a final pitch to voters donald trump predicts what he calls another beautiful victory is challenger joe biden tells americans now is the time to end the kale. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us 4 people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in what the austrian government is calling an islam is terror attack the gunman opened fire at multiple locations in the center of vienna on monday evening police say they shot and killed one attacker and are hunting one or more assailants still at large. panic on the streets of vienna the shooting began around 8 pm and police quickly flooded the city center it was an unseasonably warm evening and bars and restaurants were crowded ahead of

a partial lockdown beginning tuesday gunman opened fire at least 6 locations the 1st reports came from the of the city's main synagogue it was closed at the time but a rabbi watched the horror unfold from his window. i saw the attacker running into various os interest runs around or the street. and people running away in. a pack of armed chasing them or a little street they were shooting at least 100 rounds just in from the. police sealed off the city center urging people to stay away and remain indoors. last night we experienced an attack by at least one islam is to terrorist. a situation we haven't had to experience in austria for decades.

so i did same. authority is told parents not to send their children to school on tuesday if possible further attacks can't be ruled out. of this very well equipped they have automatic weapons and are very professionally for parents that as armed police continue their search the army has been brought in to god key locations additional checks are in place at the border as image fee is that $1.00 or more heavily armed suspects could already be far from the austrian capital. our correspondent paris balaji is in vienna and joins us now bearish austria's interior minister is calling this an islamist terrorist attack what more can you tell us. well tony bennett the ots had been able to identify this alleged attacker who was shot dead last evening but no details have been given out about his identity the police have been saying that given the current situation and given the

fact that this is still an active incident providing details of that would not be. all the name of the indian minister of australia to say that this was a radicalized son who was an i.a.s. simplifies a sympathizer all of us will hold the islamic state. and the argument a residence was created by police teams but beyond that what they found at that residence and what led them to that presidents none of those details have been provided by for these now police been able to determine for sure whether there was one or more attackers it's been suggested that one or more assailants could still be on the lists. this is very much an active incident is the message that it's coming from authorities that's coming from vienna police it's coming from you know

straining to you know minister. in the night we suspect it is at least one other attack on the run when this incident began. last evening the suspicion was that they could be up to 5 more attackers on the run but that number's going to run down to at least one through the night in fact is these option that the authorities of be out to be walking with them back and certainly the message that it's coming if it is one of the who is on the run which is why you have a huge police force the system by the army and other counter experts out of the streets again not particularly in the in a district in the in a city where this these seeds of attacks have been scouring the streets trying to find this location all totals are also mentioned that they have received offers of help from germany from hungary and from other. so-called going to spend in austria . i must be very distressing for the people of vienna the attack very short took

place near a synagogue i understand do you have any details about who exactly was being targeted in this attack. this exactly is also a question that has come up in the various briefings that have been held through the night but also to use. one but you can learn more too and ventouse. reason to be understandable considering that at least 6 locations. 2 within literally walking slash running distance from each other the synagogue there on which this attack took place was closed in the evening when this attack occurred it is perhaps footmen to look at the timing of the attack this attack occurred in the evening just about 4 hours before last year since we went into another coronavirus one of them which is why oz and restrooms a wish that many in this particular district these files in reston packed with people and they're potentially that could explain the timing of this it to other

areas thank you very much for brains up to date there that was our correspondent barish bennett in vienna. as we just heard austria has gone back into a current virus lock down today let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic the world health organization chief has said it's not too late to bring the virus under control tadros get brigade urged leaders in europe and north america to take urgent action as unbacked infections spike the wren reported a record daily death toll on monday a ban on travel in and out of major cities came into effect as the country imposes sweeping restrictions to stem a 3rd wave of the virus and a u.k. study has found that people with mild or asymptomatic cases of coke in 1000 retained immunity to the current virus 6 months later a scientist said the results were grounds for cautious optimism the study is small

and still needs to be peer reviewed. for sale look at some other stories making headlines around the world stage 4 year old girl has been rescued from the rubble of destroyed buildings in western turkey almost 4 days after a large earthquake hit the death toll in the quake has now reached 102 more 1000 injured 2 children were rescued from a 3 on one. frenched fence minister florence lisa says her country's forces have killed more than 50 jihad is aligned with al qaida in airstrikes in mali french authorities say the offensive took place on friday in an area near the borders of burkina faso and news share or government troops are struggling to rout an islamic insurgency. and women's groups in holland to protest for a 12th straight day over a constitutional court ruling that bans abortions in the case of fetal defects that

was one of the last legal grounds to end a pregnancy in the staunchly conflict country the protests have given voice to broader anger at poland's conservative government. down to the u.s. where in person boating has begun in one of the most anticipated and polarized presidential elections ever it takes place amid record early voting and a campaign marred by the president's allegations of foul play on the eve of the election donald trump and his democrat challenger joe biden made their final pitch to voters trump made a whirlwind tour of 4 swing states telling voters he would win again despite polls predicting his defeat to. remember what i said 4 years ago i am your voice we will all together make america great again that's what we're doing this role we've done. this time stirred up to take back our partners we get

this we can be better than. we are. you're. in the studio now is the w.'s chief international editor richard walker richard good to see you again you were in the u.s. covering the election 4 years ago what's different about it this time yeah well i mean i think there are 2 main things that i would pull out there terry the 1st of all is the obvious one that is in effect in the entire planet at the moment that is of course the pandemic and this is had a massive impact on both the nature of the campaign you know i mean to american election campaigns usually this kind of traveling circus with 2 rival traveling circus is huge numbers of a vent in person offense where people want to go and meet the candidate and really almost like a kind of a celebration of the atmosphere on both sides obviously that's been massively toned down you know the number of real in person events taking place particularly on the

democratic side on the scale of them has been really scaled back but also in the aspect of the coronavirus kind of putting into even sharper relief the fact that this election is a referendum on the presidency of donald trump which it was inevitably going to be off to 4 years of this kind of president but it puts that really interests up or leave because his handling of the pandemic has been so controversial so there's the pandemic on the other one side and then on the other side you just briefly referred to it in the introduction there is this sense about the integrity of the result on certainty about the result now there is a good chance that this time tomorrow we're not going to go know the results of this election a lot of very important states a very close. there's been a large amount of early voting by post a lot of those votes will not be counted by this time tomorrow morning and this opens up the possibility of there being a legal challenges to kind of

a long drawn out count in key states like. sylvania for example that could mean that we have a couple of weeks or even longer of not knowing the result next week really destabilizing 4 years ago the us was already polarized you could see it in the election but now things are off the stale did you see coming 4 years ago i think unfortunately you could only anticipate that really and if you look at this polarization it's a trend that goes back quite a long way really i mean you could chart it back at least to the 1990 say the period where you have bill clinton in the white house newt gingrich in congress that began this really kind of deep phase of polarization eyes think we're still in now and 2016 sort of felt like it had a new low for that obviously with the arrival of

a very polarizing figure donald trump i remember many of the rallies that i went to you know the trump supporters in the crowd chanting look her up talking about hillary clinton as is the rival. so that was very deep but of course what we've got on top of that now is that we've had 4 years of trump in the presidency which means that the 2 sides everyone is even more entrenched in the positions that they were in then trump supporters feel like they fought every fight with him and trump's bitterest opponents really feel like this is an absolutely crucial moment for the country to get rid of someone who they've grown to despise it's. what's quite interesting is in the middle of all of this you have joe biden who is in himself he's not really a particularly polarizing figure which you see in the nature of the attacks coming from the trump side they're often not actually directed at him they directed his son or at the left of the democratic party he himself is not a polarizing figure so i think what's going to be crucial to this result is whether

biden's own lack of polarizing character isn't a. to him because it helps him draw in kind of support votes is from the middle what remains of the middle independent voters or whether it may weaken him by lacking that total mobilization of the left that donald trump has a right richard thank you so much for your insights search chief international editor richard walker this is news coming to you live from berlin just reminder the top stories we're following for you today 4 people have been killed in the end in what the austrian government is calling an islamist terrorist attack attack by standards at 6 locations in the city center on monday evening police then also shot dead one of the assailants one of more attackers are thought to still be laura bush . and in person voting has begun in the u.s. election where in a new hampshire town cast their ballots after midnight it comes after

a last day of campaigning for dull trawled through seeking a 2nd term in office as president and his democratic challenger joe biden. you're watching d.w. news coming up next we've got a documentary film for you on boeing called boeing a deadly assumptions focusing on the ill fated 737 max i'm terry martin thanks for . this presidential election is a crucial why not just for the united states who's leading the race in america rise of politics 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 the u.s. election today and news.