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virtually neck and neck in the polls as they crisscross the bat grouped states. here in the u.k., a teenager has been charged for 1 years for stabbing his girlfriend to depth. catastrophic flash floods in spain. dozens are still missing. also coming up. scientists are using giant pack back rats to pick up animal scents. and from rats to brats. officially named the word of the year, brat. ♪ >> welcome to the world today an hour of international news for the bbc. the race for the white house is

entering its final stages. only four days to go until the presidential election in the united states. the former president donald trump and the current vice president kamala harris are crisscrossing the key battleground states. 66 million people have already cast their vote, beating the 2020 turnout record but it's the chase for undecided voters as well as getting their base voted out which will be critical. we'll be hearing from our correspondents in a moment. but first, emma has this report. >> as election day approaches, donald trump is ratcheting up his violent rhetoric. he's been threatening opponents throughout this campaign and now he's taking in one of his biggest critics, former republican congresswoman liz cheney. >> let's put her with the rifles with nine barrett aiming at her. let's see how she feels about it.

>> he has be calling the enemy within, that retribution my follow if he ask re-elected. >> the enemy from within is more dangerous than china and all these countries. >> donald trump is increasingly unstable. >> we're a dumping ground. we're like a garbage can. >> and now in more than 20 states, we have trump abortion bans. >> now, halloween is supposed to be scary as well as fun. a town in wisconsin takes trick-or-treating seriously and elections too, voting for the presidential winner in every recent contest. if this career year voters are feeling presented by a frightening choice. >> we're looking at a democracy that may no longer be that way. is he going to give up his

power? just vote this once and we don't have to vote again. what does that mean? it's terrifying. >> how would you feel if you woke up and feel that donald trump had won the election? >> oh, my god, i'd be throwing up. >> republicans is scared too. heather is going to be voting for trump for the third time. she's buried about the economy if he -- worried about the economy if he loses but also about the fear tactics. >> some of us live in fear. some of us are working two or three jocks and not getting family time because we do have to put food on the table. i believe they're making us live in fear just to get our vote. >> the warnings coming from both candidates about what could happen to america are making voters feel as though this election is an exist extend event that could have disastrous consequences if their side

doesn't win. it will not help a country that's divided like never before. >> later today trump and harris are the examined to hold dueling rallies in milwaukee. wisconsin is one of the key battleground states that will swing the next election next week. our correspondent is there and told us more. >> this is a key swing state. a big discussion happening among voters here and i'm joined by a couple of guests who obvious helping to lead that political discussion. i'm going to come around here. we are at a radio station today in milwaukee. this is 1501.7 the truth. this is a black talk radio station. you guys have been talking about this for years almost, this election. sherman hughes, when you are hosting your program, what are some of the issue that is come up among your listeners and voters, what is going to be driving them to the polls? >> believe it or not, it's character. i think policy is set mostly by congress and that's a whole

separate conversation but the president of the united states, our chief executive is the representation of america around the world and i think people want someone with a different level of character representing america and kamala harris seems to be the favorite among our listeners. >> does that sound light right to you? we hear a lot about inflation and immigration and what's driving the air waives when you're on the air? >> pretty much the same thing. my listeners dive in deep about the character representing the country. i would say the majority or for kamala harris. >> let's talk about kamala harris and trump in character. we're seeing among the polling among the african-american community overall that harris has less backing than biden did in 2020, than barack obama did. it's about a 7% to 10% disks. why do you think that is?

have you within hearing anything from your listeners about that? >> some it might be economic factors. people for some reason wax nostalgic to the economy when trump was president. i think trump has created an image for himself where he is the businessman, he can be better for the economy. but kamala harris has only been in this race for 90 days and it's very difficult to encapsulate all the d. constituency groups in three short months. >> sit a matter of time? do you think if kamala harris had a full campaign that she might have more backing behind her? >> i think she's doing it right. the constituency group is the united states of america of which black men are included in that group. i think if they would open their minds the same way they did for

barack obama or bill clinton and listen to what's being said, i think they'll find themselves in that message. i think it was one of those times where you had a younger demographic that decided they wanted to be singled out and get something. and they did. she gave them a plan saying these are some of the things that i'm going to work on policy-wise to work with just us you but understand that when she becomes president she would be the president of the united states of america and it would have to be inclusive. >> both candidates will be here making their case directly to voters in this crucial swing state of wisconsin. >> another of the swing states is north carolina and that's where we find our correspond helena in the town of asheville. >> one of the looming questions in this swing state of north carolina is will we see the impact of the devastation of hurricane helene? you can see just how hard it hit here last month.

over 100 died. this is river arts center, which you can see, an extreme level of devastation. i'm joined by jeffrey burrows, the president of river arts district artists. really sad for the creative community. this is also a jewel in terms of the economic vibrancy of asheville as well. do you think this could potentially impact the election? >> i think so. it's definitely encouraged our community to get out and vote early. as we were dealing with the initial shock and digging each other shock. we had joint efforts where weaved go together as communities and vote early. so everyone i know has already voted. >> and do you have a sense who they were voting for or if they had a feeling in terms of rebuilding areas like this which administration might be preferable? >> asheville is very much known as a place where we like to keep it weird.

we're a blue dot -- one ofhe blue dots in a purple state so i think that says a lot. [laughter] >> one thing that's interesting is you and i were talking. you were telling me that you moved from new york two years ago and we're going to be looking at these different demographics in this race. african-american votes, women. what we call covid transperhaps. people that much moved from big cities to areas like this. do you meet many of those people here? >> there's a lot of us here. my husband and i moved here right at the tail end when everything was scary in new york city and we came here and fell in love with it. it's an incredible, beautiful place and incredible community and there are a lot of us here. we always were joking like we would go to a neighborhood gathering -- and oh, you're from new york. you're from new york. oh, you're from l.a. there are a lot of us

transplants here and the first thing we did for a lot of us was register to vote. it's an interesting time. if you vote in new york city and somebody who votes blue, you're in a pool, a sea of a voting demographic where here, i feel like this is a place where your vote can really matter. >> speaking to voters in north carolina. you can watch live coverage of the results on bbc 1 in the u.k. next tuesday. we'll bring you a special program from washington, d.c. with our team of experts and correspondents. a teenage boy who talked and killed his 15-year-old former girlfriend has been jailed for at least 17 years. logan mcfail was 16 when he foowed holly for an alley before stabbing her to death in

north cumberland last year. the report contains distressing details. >> these are the moments holly newton was last seen alive. the 15-year-old had repeatedly told logan mcfail, seen here walking into an alleyway, that their relationship was over. holly, who was 15, hesitates but eventually her killer lures her to him. mctail fail, 16 at the time. launched an attack on her so brutal and sustained that the knife he was using broke. a boy who heard holly's screams and tried to save her was also stabbed. today mcfail was sentenced to jail and are at least 17 years for her murder. >> holly was a child. although you were not an adult, she was no match for you armed with a knife. she had severe injuries as she

sought to defend herself from the knife. she must have realized before she died, i'm afraid, that she was fighting for her life. >> throughout the trial mcfail had claimed he couldn't remember attacking holly and that he'd been carrying the knife for a week because he'd been planning to hurt mself and not her. >> i wanted to kill myself. >> but the judge said he had repeatedly lied. >> c.c. tv released today showed she's been he's been stalking her. the night before he killed her the cameras showed he was in north cumber land waiting hours for her in the cold. cameras picked him up hiding in a supermarket car park.

he followed holly for 45 minutes before the attack took place. the judge said today he'd been driven by resentment and jealousy. mcphail was sentenced to 17 years for his murder but the ever correct what he'd done to his girlfriend. >> successfully campaigned to free his mother from prison after she killed his father. it was a landmark appeal. david, welcome to "the world today." holly's mother said in a statement to the court that she had no idea of the emotional turmoil holly was going through in trying to end this relationship. these were two very young people. what do we need to learn from this case? >> first, necrology behavior

underpins all aspects of domestic abuse. this young man, this boy. his excessive behavior, stalking. all aspects of control, which leads to domestic abuse. and can lead to domestic abuse-related suicide or people who live their life with abuse and control. the necessity is for schools and education, families and communities to better understand this and tackle this and watch misogyny in the classroom. you don't kill out of jealousy. they want control, power. it's about possession. objectification. this young man who was skilled as a young cadet to stalk his victim. these aren't children who shouldn't be seen as victims of

domestic abuse like holly. she is and should be seen as one. >> you said she isn't going to be. this will be a knife crime statistic. why is that problem matic for you? >> her harms deserve to be recognized. what she's been through deserved to be recognized. she is not a knife crime statistic. this man, the boy, this whatever yowant to call him. he would have found a weapon anywhere. that's what abusive, violent men who commit femicide do. their physical strength will overwhelm young women and girls like holly. it's important to realize the extent of this. we can't let any victim of this scale of femicide, this male violence against women, go unseen and it's only right through thee holly's harms and

what she went through that she deserves to be seen. people and family and friends be looking out for? in this case it was holly's social media. asking for her passwords and checking up and isolating from friends and family. we always hear stories, horror risk as they are. people with outgoing penalties, burgining with life and they fall into a cage like a bird. social scenarios when she was left alone she wanted to reach out to people and be excessive but -- expressive but when she was with that person, that perpetrator, it's caging a bird of someone who wants to have a life and have freedom. we all saw that on c.c. tv. we need to start addressing them

as abusive and we need to stand by victims and really question the threat. especially if we lose young men and boys in their classroom. they'll be cap purred by misogyny influences, on facebook or whatever social immediatea group to have power and influence over women and girls because that's the way this world goes. age-old patriarchy and you have to call it for what it is. >> thank you for talking to us. around the world and across the u.k., this the is "the world today" on "bbc news." ♪

>> spanish authorities have extended a red alert for transitional rain on the southern coast after flash flooding killed more than 20, in the eastern areas -- 200 in the

eastern areas. mark levin rorts. >> with tragedy comes an army of solidarity. communities stunned by what's becoming spain's worst natural disaster in its modern history. how do you even begin to clean up when the calamity keeps deep sentencing every day the dead are rising by the dozens and very volunteers, it's overwhelming. >> people here have gone through a terrible agony -- sorry. [sobbing] passed away. i'm angry because our local government didn't do anything about it, knowing -- they well knew that this was coming and did nothing about it. >> wn the floods came, they swept up and tossed around what

lay in their path. cars, homes, lives upended. a year's worth of rainfall in eight hours. juan perez inspects what's left of his home, just one of those the floods tore through. >> all my life, my memories, my parents lived there and now overnight -- it's all gone in five minutes. >> the fear now is that many more bodies will be found underground arescuers begin to reach inaccessible areas and flush out the water. the horse slowly retrieve those trapped in car parks as the floodwaters rose around them. in valencia, firefighters are stepped to the limit. >> this was just one of the rivers that burst its banks with

the torrents of water and mud engulfing everything in its wake and this scene is repeated right acro this region. what's also repeated is the growing sense of abandonment that in the absence of the authorities, they're having to depend on one another. >> we found a shot owned by ampara andres. she's had it for 40 years, it was lost in an instant. the water rose and came up to my neck, she says. i had the feeling my life was ending. at least i'm alive but i've lost everything. my business, my home. and the government isn't doing anything. only the young people around are helping us. midst the sadness, anger is rising here, too, at local authorities that only sounded the alarm when the flooding had already started. messag sent to phones of people who had no chance to escape. there will be big questions to answer here but first the

cleanup, mourning, the start of coming to terms with camp if i. >> a court -- catastrophe. >> a court in brazil has sentenced terror ov over killing. they confessed to killing a driver in rio de janiero almost six years ago. they were an outspoken crick of police brutality. after her death she became the symbol of -- mrs. franco gave a statement after the sentencing. >> it's a very difficult day but today is definitely a victory for democracy but we still have many steps for us in this case

and in all cases. we will keep fighting. >> a rio de janiero counselor gave us her reaction to the sentencing today. >> some relief with the conviction of the pertrators of the crime but with the expectation that the heads of the crime will also be convicted too. >> we understand investigations are ongoing and those facing occasions are denying any involvement. tell us how well you knew franco. what was she like? >> i knew her personally and she invited me to be a candidate for the first time so she is a very important figure in my political development. she came to my house and invited me. >> so she inspired you, it sounds.

tell us what you believe her murder says about society from brazil, particularly towards women? >> i think that -- the regime of brazilian democracy and how -- [indiscernible] the preservation of the black women important. >> what would you like to see happen now to ensure that women are safer in your country? >> i would like to see true and full protection of women and the population in general. >> how safe do you feel as someone who is also involved in politics and as a woman of color? >> uh, i'm not safe. i don't feel safe in my job and

i don't think so. it's very difficult. i don't feel safe. >> thank you for speaking to us. the bbc website. live page which is up and running at the moment covering the campaigning in the swing states over the weekend, kamala harris and donald trump are engaging in. i think we can show you donald trump. his motorcade has just arrived in dearborn, michigan, and he's been meeting with businesses. at the great commoner catcha at the moment. some there say that announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james.

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