up and muscles are important for both candidates, especially when states like michigan. so how we would expect the outcome of this confidential election to us presidential election? 2024 watts. the whole coverage on the this is dw news lie from berlin, spain sands, thousands more soldiers to help deal with devastating floods. the prime minister is promise of more health follows the country is worse, natural disaster and decades. thousands of volunteers in the meantime filled the gap offerings, their support. officials fear there are still more bodies to be found and which is days left until the us presidential election. we take a look at one of the key issues driving voters to the polls. a battle for reproductive rights, the

mariana evans, dean, welcome spain's prime minister petro sanchez's of deploying 10000 more troops and police officers to help recovery efforts. and the parts of valencia hit by what he says was europe's 2nd dudley's flood. and of the century, a years worth of rain fell on the region within just a matter of hours, feet sweeping away homes and cars. more than 200 people have dined bumped the death toll is expected to rise with doesn't still missing. local authorities have come under fire for non warning residents of the incoming flood waters until it was too late. and for more i'm joined in the studio by dw correspondent nicole reese, who is usually reporting for us from spain. nicole really great to have you here in berlin to talk about what's been happening there. so 10000 troops have now being

sent to flood head valencia. but the spanish prime minister has been saying, he knows this is actually not even enough on his property rights, because we might very be a very easily be looking at one of the biggest climate catastrophes and recent history. in europe. we've seen lots of extreme weather events and these past years also this year, but nothing liked so that needs to more help and they need throughout that pond. at the moment we see the launch is deployment of military and security forces in times of peace. we might also see some international involvement in the close of future. there are office on the table, but spain at the moment is pulling people from his own regions to go into the practice areas. and in a few days that will also be a declaration of catastrophe. zones the affected areas where we made the catastrophe zones. that means that the local government actually can access easily fees to help funds that they really need. and in the meantime, the spanish government also needs to make sure that this soon a change on the political level,

because we've seen the blame game in the past few days. everybody's looking for the party that is responsible also because the warning system apparently didn't work as well as it should have worked. but a failure, such as the prime minister of spain is currently trying to get everybody together and that they are not political differences. but everybody is just focusing on this crisis, which will be there not only for a few days, but weeks and months. i think you, you mentioned that spain has never seen a natural disaster of this kind. do we know now the scale of, of what has happened? i think we have an impression of that scale, but it's too early to really decide how big of an impact is we're looking at something that in the future probably will be a wound in spanish society mentally. it cannot make only historically, people are just trying to solve to fan necessities right now. they're used to torrential rains, but if not, what happens there?

so they're trying to sort out where are the missing people? is my, my beloved ones, still alive or some what trapped food, water, shelter the main necessities of life. and this is crisis mode right now. this is naked survival really. and only in the in the longer future. i think we will learn how big of a catastrophe is there is because rebuilding needs to be done as well. and it's not going to be from one day to another or from one here to another. it's very complex . whole cities have been devastated businesses as well. this will also be a huge economic impact, but at the moment it's really finding those people was field trapped and making sure that they're healthy and fine. and it's getting more difficult by the day. of course. that was the w's nicole wrist. thank you so much. nicole, for all of your reporting, let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making use this hour. you and a teams have resumed a polio vaccination campaign in parts of golf. um, it was the rail by is really been bergman's mass displacement and the lack of

access to the children who needed vaccinations began in september after the 1st polio case and 25 years and gaza was detective. security forces have killed 3 suspected militants and indian controls kashmir. one was killed in the disputed regions, main city of sprint, a gar, in an exchange of gunfire. officials say the military also intercepted a group of militants in a forest of area and killed 2 in a gun battle. the conservative party has elected former business, administered, kimmy bade knock as a leader. she replaced as former prime minister receives soon as she becomes the 1st black leader of a major british political party. her task is to try to restore the party's refutation after it's suffered. it's worse to see to nearly 2 centuries in july's election offering to the us. now, where is the last weekend before tuesday's presidential election?

the 2 candidates are criss crossing the country and focusing on swing states that are considered to close to call vice president cala harris as holding rallies in atlanta and charlotte, north carolina. former president. donald trump is also campaigning in north carolina, which is marking it's last day of early voting. this is the 1st presidential votes, as the us supreme court overturn the constitutional right to abortion back in 2022 . trump appointed judges were key in that decision. and now harris has made restoring women's reproductive freedoms a central partner for a campaign w's in his pool. as this report, nancy davis has 2 daughters summer who is 3 in baby star who's just 5 months. so big a gap between them. and she had planned by the pregnancy between the 2 girls turned into a nice in june 2022. she was a 10 weeks and the teachers who was carrying was diagnosed with crania title no

matter. so i remember vividly standing in a cold hospital room here in baton rouge, louisiana. my doctor walked in and he said this is the worst case scenario. they normally die in utero. but if he or she makes 15 birth and he or she would die within minutes. so he recommended an abortion to alternately protect my health. however, due to louisiana's restrictive abortion laws, i was denied the carrier that i desperately need. and then stephen promptly, was there a situation and got the funding with the help of the bridge of the lines, an organization which offers practical support for people who need an abortion. she traveled 1400 miles to clinic in manhattan, new york for the procedure you know, having to leave your kids, leaving your family behind just to access the fundamental health care and going to a foreign place where i don't know anybody you know,

like it was one of the scariest things of my life, and i was in motion and the entire time, like on a plane. at the clinic, she stablished the foundation in her own name to support others facing similar situations to relieve louisiana in the deep south and test for hi. here in the midwest, access to abortion has been sharply limited since the supreme court decision, but it's still possible people like this come outside this clinic and dates and wanting to persuade women to not pass football oceans actually right now the clinic even has security because of people protesting outside numbers. so what as election comes, you'll see more and more people doing that. talk to catherine romano has,

has been carrying out abortions here in ohio since 2013 analysis. many people coming from other states. i think that's the intention of a lot of these laws so that people will be confused that people will be scared and that there will be less in portions. we see patients from georgia, alabama, arkansas, texas crossing state lines to get health care is incredibly stigmatizing. an abortion is a lonely decision as it is. so i think people who might have told a friend or a family member, if they were staying at home for their care, maybe are less likely to do so if they're traveling because it feels like they're doing something wrong. we oscar about the election kind of i think it's not good news for anyone with the uterus or who anyone who enjoys

bodily autonomy. if donald trump is elected, i think she's been really cagey about his own opinions, but i think the people around him are very clear that they want abortion to be an accessible. c c you are more so that will attach the future mores. nancy davis, good boards. when i when i think about my children going through the same thing, that id, or like my daughters going through the same thing that i do. it makes me angry. it makes me scary. i'm scared of what they looks like and it is very frustrating. and there's one other reduce that i advocate very, very hard to, to prevent my children from going through it to prevent your kids from going through it a future generations to come from going through the same thing for nancy's

daughters, the choice of what they can do with their bodies maybe decided on the election day . michelle squares is professor of american government at georgetown university in falls, church virginia. she's written 2 books on women and representation in congress. a short time ago, i asked her how big of an issue reproductive rights was when it comes to driving, voter turnout in the selection. in terms of driving the turn out for the election. there's a couple of ways to think about it. certainly it's one of the stronger issues for comma la harris, and she emphasized that a lot as part of her freedom agenda. there are also several states, 10 of them that have ballot initiatives, which means that the voters can vote to change their state laws where they're trying to either put abortion rights into their states constitution or they're trying to overturn previous bands. and some of those are in some of what we call the key battleground, states that people think will decide the election of those being arizona and nevada,

particularly. now we've heard in recent days, from prominent republican nikki haley that donald trump's messaging is turning women off. we heard trump just in the past week, say at a rally that he would protect women, whether they like it or not. do we know where he stands on a woman's right to choose? so president trump has been kind of cagey about it because he knows that his position right now is not that popular. so he's talked about the fact that he would support i b s. and making that something that was accessible to women. he leans into the idea that the states should decide as so he tries to get away from that issue and, and talk more about this protection idea. gens the women, particularly in college educated women or women that are most interested in the abortion rights question. and find it most motivating for their vote. and so they

would tend to be turned off by that kind of rhetoric. but there are significant number of pro life women that meant that perhaps that appeals to will. meanwhile, kind of le harris said that her 1st priority is present would be to, as she put it stops as pain coming out of abortion bands. but is she in a position to do that? so it would be difficult for her to make changes in law because that has to go through our congress. and it's not likely that either party is going to have a sufficient margin in congress to be able to pass a new law. but as president, you can do a lot of things through executive action. so i can imagine that she would try to make it easier to access, for example, the a portion till which if president trump becomes president again, i imagine that he would try to restrict access to it. so when i talk about

a national van or restoring role versus wade, those things are hard to do through law. but there's a lot that they can do through executive action. and before we go, mexico has been celebrating one of his most colorful holidays known as the day of the dead. the tradition dates back to centuries, dates back centuries to be ancient aspects. over the years, this evolved into a huge cultural event for the loss of ghoulish costumes and decorations. mexico city has set up giant skeletons in the central square ahead of today's spectacular day of the death parade. across mexico, altars with offerings to deceased relatives are set up in the family homes to honor the dead. and to celebrate lights. the

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