state of indiana that's where john hendren is standing by but first gabrielle is on joe is joining usfrom new york to tell us how voting there is going. it's moving very well quite frankly we got here a little bit before six am when the polls open here local time in new york city the first polls in the nation opened up here and there already about one hundred people in line at about five forty five in the morning waiting to vote at this school here you see you see behind me also been open here for a couple hours now we've seen a steady stream of people going into vote several hundred if not more than a thousand or so just in the first two hours at this one polling place this really gives an idea of what we expect throughout the country throughout the day is polls open as the morning progresses here is election has a lot of interest and not only here on election voting day but there's early voting in many states around the country and already about thirty five million americans have already cast their votes in early voting that's about a seventy five percent increase in early voting fr

have called this a political stunt there's a lot to talk about today with our guests but first john hendren with more from george. daniel known go was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on below the ballot came in we get we just can't get a credit we don't have the only information we need and the option to. dozen up doesn't work and when we don't really have that option we don't have barrier. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state electoral roll

georgia where the white republican candidate is facing strong competition from a black democrat john hendren reports from atlanta. daniel nuno was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on velo ballot came in we get we just can't take it we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know there's enough doesn't like yelling really don't really have that option we don't have that barrier. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from sta

well john hendren is live in fort wayne indiana for us so i would be holding a rally i want you to an issue is this an edge to to suppression of minorities nationwide john. well lauren in a race that's all about turnout and that's what this midterm election is about it could always make the difference perhaps less so in indiana where i am now than in states like georgia and florida where you have an african-american candidate running this is an issue in twenty six states according to a lawsuit by civil rights groups one that is thought to benefit republicans like president trump and his party president trump is here in fort wayne indiana today and i've got somebody who knows a little bit more about this this is andrew downs of the mike down center for indiana politics at purdue university fort wayne and let me ask you for starters. president trump won by nineteen percentage points in two thousand and sixteen why is he so popular here in indiana well indiana is a conservative state even a lot of the democrats are conservative in fact if you go down to the southern part of the state you

with you john of course follow votes with you over the city certainly the next thirty six hours john hendren in indiana cancer joins me now from tucson arizona a very different picture where you all idea because really the topic bad a old woman the top of the agenda is one that has geographical reasons i resigned and sort of national repercussions. that's right soho and it is also racially laced just as john was telling you about elsewhere in the country but here a mere one hundred kilometers north of the border it's immigration that time and time again voters in arizona have been talking to me about whether it's hispanic voters who may be immigrants themselves or just a few generations removed from immigrants or white retirees who lean conservative and who moved to arizona for its client sunny climate there is little consensus about what to do about border policy or about the illegal immigrants however they do tell me they agree that immigration is the issue that matters most here. the day of the dead a traditional mexican festival also celebrated here in the u.s. state of arizona across th

of voters being disenfranchised a feeling disenfranchised and we've heard one of our reporters john hendren reporting from georgia about sort of perches particular groups of individuals who have got the opportunity for one reason or another to vote in this how serious is this an issue becoming now and how serious would it become as we head towards the next presidential election well it's a serious issue because the political party. is trying to use the voting rolls to benefit itself and that's certainly a moral issue in terms of how much impact it would have on the election any any and any impact in a close election i could be important but it's not necessarily going to have a huge effect on who's able to vote for the most part people are still going to be able to vote tomorrow. no state is averaging away time more than twenty minutes now so it's not the most efficient process in the.

men were killed by white people in mississippi during lynchings before the civil rights era well john hendren is in jackson mississippi and joins me now and as you were saying john the final the final race for the senate this year is going to and tell us more about what we can expect from this contest that's right this will decide how many seats in the senate the republicans and the democrats have right now it stands at forty seven to fifty two a slight gain for the republicans and this is a closely watched race largely because it's the last race also because it's a rare chance when a democrat has a shot here in mississippi to become a u.s. senator that has not happened here since one thousand nine hundred eighty two and it hasn't happened for an african-american like mike espy the democratic candidate since the nineteenth century and the secretary of state's office says that so far it has been steady but slow at the polls we've heard some anecdotal reports that here in the city of jackson the capital of mississippi that there were long lines at seven o'clock in the morning but through the re

laurent gbagbo who's been charged with crimes against humanity for more on this let's bring in john hendren joining us from jackson mississippi so both controversial candidates john but the polls have just closed tell us how the race is looking. well there in we already have seventy five percent of the vote in and i'm at the headquarters for the republican in this race cindy hyde smith and they are very confident here so far with seventy five percent of the votes tallied she's got about fifty six percent of the vote compared to forty four for mike espy the democrat and they are so confident here they better a campaign aide just told me that they're predicting an eight percentage point win and they expect her to come out here within the hour just around ten o five local time here so within an hour they hope to be able to bring claim victory but those votes aren't all tallied there are a number of votes that are not counted in urban counties those urban counties tend to vote for the democrats a county where i am right now in the capital of jackson hinds county is voting eighty five percent fo

water waiting and hoping he and his family have not been drinking poisoned water all these years john hendren al-jazeera chicago or thousands of central american migrants have left the stadium in mexico city for the longest and most dangerous leg of that trek to the u.s. border president donald trump assigned an order that would deny asylum to any migrants who enter the united states illegally i was sandra now reports. it was still dark as the caravan of central americans left their shelter in mexico city. thank you thank you for everything they repeated as they pressed on towards their all to meet goal the southern border of the united states. allow them to travel for free on dedicated metro trains to cross the city. almost four thousand migrants left early on saturday following the roughly nine hundred were back on the road a day earlier. many were holding children on their shoulders and in strollers as they began the longest and most dangerous leg of their journey. falling we are used to the routine by the big trucks and walking. for many the stop in mexico city was their first real opport

is facing an equally controversial democratic challenger mike espy well let's get more now from john hendren who's at the rally in to palo in mississippi john so talk us through why this race is so important. well this is the last generation in the u.s. and that's because they were is a runoff between the two candidates right now even though a democratic wave swept the house of representatives and lost donald trump control of one of two houses of congress in the senate the republican party actually gained ground right now they've got the two republican senators to forty seven democrats donna from very much wants the edge that another republican senator would give him the democrats want another vote to check him but cindy hyde strip would be that vote she is voted with donald trump one hundred percent of the time she's got his picture on the side of his campaign and her campaign bus and she calls it the model wagon for from small auto make america great again so this is really a battle for intro of the senate which of course if there ever were and impeachment the house recommended senate and

his wife will also be notified that her ballot has also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren al-jazeera at lamda. all right let's introduce our panel joining us from washington d.c. is lara brown program director at the graduate school of political management for george washington university also in washington pete tucker an independent journalist and contributor to counterpunch and joining us here in doha rodney taylor coordinator of international studies and professor of language and literature at the community college of cutter welcome to you all ronnie let me start with you so you saw john hendren report there he's in georgia and in georgia you have a race if for governor in which the person who's overseeing the elections in that state is also a candidate for governor many say that that is improper many say that that is unethical how exactly is this allowed to happen this is simply a continuation of the status quo since the jim crow era and which blacks recently freed blacks were disenfranchised by the government by the slave state legislature to make sure that they could

and john hendren is live in fort wayne indiana for us we're told will be holding a rally shortly why is trump making indiana one of his last thoughts for the midterm elections. learn the president is here because republicans smell blood this is one of several states where a democratic incumbent senator is in what is normally a republican state so polls show a pretty even race joe donnelly is called the accidental senator. because nobody expected the democratically elected twelve years ago or at least not the majority of people and he's had to govern as a moderate because of that he is favors trumps border wall he is pro-life when it comes to abortion he often quotes ronald reagan the republican president and he faces republican businessman mike vaughan in a race that is neck and neck democrats need to hold on to ten seats like this that are vulnerable and they need to pick up two in order to control the u.s. senate that is a tall order and donald trump is here to make sure that doesn't happen and after you leave here he's going to go to the also reliably republican state of missouri

use of lobby for the form of ivory coast boat has been charged with crimes against humanity well john hendren joins us live now from jackson mississippi johns the polls have just closed tell us how the race is looking. that's right daryn votes are starting to trickle in less than twenty five percent of the votes in right now the republican and cindy hinds smith is leading fifty five percent over mike espy he is the democrat she's a republican he's got forty five percentage points right now but that is not terribly meaningful and one reason is that a lot of the urban areas still aren't counted hinds county where the capital of jackson is that's where we are right now has not been a majority that has not been tallied that's an urban vote right now it's going. for s.p. to thirteen percent for her what does this all mean it means we've got to wait there's it's way too early for anybody to be on that stage behind me where the concession or the victory speech will be given later this evening for mike espy a lot of analysts have said that the formula for him was to drive african-american turnout up

the tribune newspaper the is reporting that seventy percent of homes had lead in the tap water john hendren reports say. sam corona fears the pouring from his tap is a blend of life giving water and brain damage when i was younger i remember one to the filtration plants and taking a tour of it being told this is the safest drinking water in the world right when i was like eleven thirteen years old and here i have thirty seven years old finding out that there is lead inside the water over the past two years the chicago tribune tested water from nearly three thousand homes in nearly seventy percent of the samples the newspaper found lead in three out of ten samples lead levels exceeded five parts per billion the maximum level the u.s. food and drug administration allows in bottled water it's a health hazard in cities across the united states and around the world. lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines betwee

senate john hendren al-jazeera jackson mississippi a three weeks ago al jazeera spends a day on the road with a family who joined a large group of people trying to get the united states at that point that just crossed into mexico and had a long journey ahead of them now twenty five days later and four thousand kilometers on tunnel and caught up with them where the u.s. border.

senate john hendren al-jazeera jackson mississippi. help end the war in yemen prevent a massive famine and save tens of thousands of civilian lives that's the message from five major aid organizations to the united states they're calling on the u.s. defense department to cut military support for the saudi and iraqi coalition of the reports now from tbilisi across the red sea from yemen. in a joint letter to the u.s. government the five charities say the whole to us militarist support for the sodium but article would save many lives the u.s. they say is fueling a crisis that has severe consequences for millions of civilians. the international rescue committee oxfam america care u.s. save the children and the with generosity council say that fourteen million the yemenis art risk of starving to death if the parties to the conflict don't change course immediately we're completely desperate the more we wait every single minute at work day a week we wait means more civilian shipment lossless and we're safe enough now is the time for the u. s

senate john hendren al-jazeera jackson mississippi. well it's cold even in mississippi at the moment but no snow. no not this fosters that would be caught surprised that they haven't recovered from the thanksgiving storms twelve degrees in the gulf coast below that same new orleans but luckily proper winter is staying further now also example if you were driving in the east up towards new hampshire that would be what greeted you yesterday and of course they are preparing for this because it's always like that in the winter in the northeast it's not as bad as it was but the circulation is fairly obvious here. the lights these were lines are quite tight which means they're waiting for lake effect snow and the preparations are ongoing in pennsylvania was taken just before dark yesterday of course is probably still dark to be off at the moment there's not soon coming out of the snow falling and given you've got lake effect so this can carry on now for another twenty four hours you could see on the twenty's that said to be just more and tha

have called this a political stunt there's a lot to talk about today with our guests but first john hendren with more from george. daniel known go was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on below the ballot came in we get we just can't get a credit we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know doesn't up doesn't like yelling really don't really have that option but again. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state ele

that the states we should be keeping a very close eye on now that the polls have closed during john hendren talking about that really close race in kentucky. also indiana was the polls are closing though of course florida what should we be looking for yes i know now we're finally having real things to talk about if the great so as you mentioned kentucky's already close we're watching the results come in right now maybe six or seven percent has already been reported a very tight race between amy mcgrath who is a challenger a first time challenger for the democrats against an incumbent andy barr amy amy mcgrath is does not have political experience she has military experience she was a marine pilot to this is something that we've actually been seeing a lot of more and more democratic women with military experience going out and contesting the polls mickey cheryl in the new jersey eleventh is another example so we're watching to see what happens in this district in kentucky as a state it's eleven points more republican than the national average this is a republican state went for trump in two

ok so we've got correspondents tracking those results closely across the country we've got john hendren live in indiana the home state of vice president mike pence also is live in florida where there are two close races for governor and senator chris and salumi live for us in malls pennsylvania states with several key house races as well as get some latest results the indiana republican candidates mike braun has won the. well so i'm going to get some more thoughts that i got from a west of a genuine joe manchin the winning fifty percent saying republican cons at. forty five percent so republicans taking a senate house that in west virginia ok let's go to the to john hendren he's in indianapolis in indiana and it was a hotly contested race full the senate in indiana a disappointment for the incumbent joe connelly the democrats a lot of people disappointed that behind you it has had courses was. it right that clapping you hear behind me that's not for joe donnelly this is the democratic party i couldn't see the evening in there celebrating other candidates who have done better than joe do

his wife will also be notified that her ballot has also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren al-jazeera at lamda. kristen's newman joins us live from pittsburgh in pennsylvania kristin how much of an issue is this alleged disenfranchisement of minorities nationwide. well voter suppression is an issue nationwide not only the issue of suppressing voters in the twenty six states that john hendren talked about it takes different forms in other states as well because the rules that govern elections vary from state to state here in pennsylvania for example there's been an issue with the way the voting districts have been drawn in earlier this year a panel of judges actually found that. the the lines for the voting districts were unconstitutionally drawn to favor republicans and so the state had to hurry up and reconfigure all of the voting districts in the state and now they're considered to be more balance so we see these issues happening all over the country north carolina another state that had an issue with unconstitutional voting districts but there they didn't have enough tim

how did your castro is live for us in tucson arizona where the voting has just closed john hendren is live in indiana the home state of vice president mike pence and dee gallagher is live in florida where there are two very close races for the governorship and for several tauriel seats kristen salumi is live for us in mars in pennsylvania a state with several key house races and alan fischer joins me from washington d.c. and capitol hill let's go straight over to hi joe castro joins me now live from tucson in arizona a hugely important state when it comes to the various issues that republicans have been drumming home to the electorate not just in the state where you are but across the country. that's right here in the u.s. southwest we are in border states here in arizona and also next door in texas and us president donald trump has been canvassing these states in recent months campaigning for the republican candidates here and really turning to his signature issue of immigration and really the results here in arizona as well as texas will be a test of how effective that strategy of u

whether enough will come out on tuesday to give s.b. a chance to make history is less certain john hendren al-jazeera to mississippi. let's turn to weather now with everton and there are still storms across parts of europe yeah that's right we got some rather lively weather about bit of a fine weather sandwich s.t.'s quite nice in the middle that rough around the eighty's those put something on the central possibly looking for the good it quiets but some pieces of folks at the possibility but cold up towards the northeast down into the southeast where you can see that white cloud around italy the balkans pushing good tool seasons out of the med areas of low pressure rattling away very strong winds and up towards the northwest we've got some very strong winds coming in across the british isles at times this we go on through wednesday those winds could gust to certainly for island they could well touch on hundred thirty kilometers pariah western side of england and wales has winds around one hundred from this process damaging winds and some very heavy rain certainly a possibility as warm win

i'm john hendren in indianapolis indiana where the polls have just closed on have more coming up. also in other news sources tell al-jazeera saudi arabia is ready to pay so-called blood money to murder journalist jamal khashoggi family and exiled a week activist to the international community to stop trying his detention of large numbers of ethnic muslims. could have a company on the news are the first polls have just closed in the u.s. for midterm elections that could reshape the country's political landscape they are the first nationwide elections since donald trump took office and are widely seen as a referendum on his first two years in power voter turnout has been much tighter than normal for midterm elections with early numbers indicating that it could be the highest turnout in a generation a record thirty six million people cast early votes including many young people and those voting for the first time and that all comes despite some having to queue for hours in various parts of the country while republicans are trying to protect their majority in the house of representati

senator cindy hyde smith who's facing an equally controversial democratic challenger mike espy john hendren has more now from tupelo. a century and a half later in the deep south state of mississippi the civil war still holds the power to divide it's there in the confederate soldiers hat that republican senators cindy hyde smith dawns in a facebook photo it surfaces in the comment she made about public hangings here were five thousand black men were lynched in the postwar reconstruction are liberal . and it shows in the efforts that have effectively stripped black residents from voter rolls a move hyde smith applauded. her . big campaign donors including wal-mart and major league baseball have asked for their money back yet those gaffes might still not be enough to cost tied smith the election her rival in a tuesday runoff election for one of mississippi's two u.s. senate seats is mike espy president clinton secretary of agriculture he is an african-american who's offered a tepid response to those racially tinge comments apparently for fear of alienating white voters if given half their. ev

where the local newspaper the tribune found that seventy percent of homes have lead in tap water john hendren reports. sam corona fears the pouring from his tap is a blend of life giving water and brain damage when i was younger i remember one to the filtration plants and taking a tour of it being told this is the safest drinking water in the world right what i was like eleven thirteen years old and here i have thirty seven years old finding out that there is lead inside the waters over the past two years the chicago tribune tested water from nearly three thousand homes in nearly seventy percent of the samples the newspaper found lead in three out of ten samples lead levels exceeded five parts per billion the maximum level the u.s. food and drug administration allows in bottled water it's a health hazard in cities across the united states and around the world. lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between t

the local newspaper the tribune found seventy percent of homes had lead in top water as it was john hendren reports. sam corona fears the pouring from his tap is a blend of life giving water in brain damage when i was younger i remember one to the filtration plants and taking a tour of it being told this is the safest drinking water in the world right when i was like eleven thirteen years old and here i have thirty seven years old finding out that there is lead inside the water over the past two years the chicago tribune tested water from nearly three thousand homes in nearly seventy percent of the samples the newspaper found lead in three out of ten samples lead levels exceeded five parts per billion the maximum level the u.s. food and drug administration allows in bottled water it's a health hazard in cities across the united states and around the world. lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the

water waiting and hoping he and his family have not been drinking poisoned water all these years john hendren and his here in chicago thousands of central american migrants left a stadium in mexico city early on saturday for the longest and most dangerous parts of that trek to the u.s. border local authorities allowed them to travel on the subway for free as they continue making their way north they took the metro to the end of the line and then continued on foot with the hope of reaching tale one on the u.s. or dept president donald trump has signed an order that would deny asylum to any migrants who enter america illegally is also deployed thousands of american soldiers to the border. you know there is no yes. there's no work in nicaragua and there's a lot of selfishness there are a lot of gangs and if you get something there they take it away from us there are wars in our countries to another. i want my son to be better off for me to be working i want my son and my family. my wife to have a better future. some news from a city thousands of people have been protesting in rome against racism

his wife will also be notified that her ballot has also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren it lent now these concerns about voter suppression are one of the many reasons why this election is under a national and now i guess international spotlight there's several aspects to this georgia race that have people wondering as you see this user here asking some of these questions basically the same question how is some of this stuff legal and so have a lot of people watching this and questioning that on that ground sally is tweeted about another major elements to this race remember her she was the acting attorney general who was fired in the opening days of the trumpet ministration for refusing to comply with his travel ban which she's tweeted about fear in this campaign what she calls divisive scare tactics that are being used by president trump on the campaign trail. stacie edwards is one of the most extreme far left politicians in the entire country you know that. so that man right there may not be on the ballot but his agenda certainly is the president and his supporters have

the former ivory coast leader laurent gbagbo has been charged with crimes against humanity well john hendren joins us live now from jackson mississippi john so with less than an hour to go until the polls close the race looking. well the stakes are high and this would be the fifty third republican seat or the forty eighth democratic seat of the one hundred seat senate hearing for the first time in many years the democratic candidate actually has a shot here mike espy an african-american candidate here in a state with forty percent african-american population really needs to get that population out to vote today and he needs to get a good percentage of the rest of the population most of them caucasian and highly divided here in this state in order for him to win and one of the problems he has to overcome is that in a runoff election fewer people tend to come out and vote there just isn't the excitement that there is for a general election so both sides have pulled out the stops and cindy heinz smith whose headquarters i am at the moment right now she got donald trump to come here for two visi

states with close senate races will speak to highjack castries in tucson arizona shortly but first john hendren joins us from fort wayne indiana where president trump is holding a campaign rally we saw pictures of him john just to the top of the news bulletin what's he been saying. well president around as been rallying the crowd here he's trying to get them to vote for mike braun who is challenging an incumbent democratic senator here and he said if you want the economic expansion to continue vote for me if you want to stop vote for democrats or vote for republicans if you want to continue he said and then he brought up mike brawny also brought trump kellyanne conway his communications aid and also sarah huckabee sanders he's been also falsely saying that the big economic were great recession of two thousand and eight and nine which actually began in two thousand december two thousand and seven why is obama is recession when a fact started under president george w. bush and he has been trying to get people here to vote for braun in a very closely aligned race this is part of what he had to say

joining us live from new york let's go to john hendren now he's joining us from indianapolis indiana question health care and the state of the economy have dominated the debate up and control of the senate john could come down to closely four contests in just a handful of states one of what sure and. that's right you can tell that president trump is pretty much given up on that the house most polls show that the republicans are going to lose the house of representatives in this election but he's been very focused on the senate for a number of reasons the senate is an important body where he can still get treaties done he can still get his appointees through if there were an impeachment it would have to be approved by the senate so that is a high priority for him and right here in this heavily republican state there is a democratic senator president trump came here just hours ago to campaign for the republican in order to overturn that incumbent democratic seat his last two stops in fact were in indiana and then in missouri both states where there's an incumbent democratic senator in a

senate john hendren al-jazeera jackson mississippi. in the new zealand plane the plunge into the sea killing one hundred eighty nine people on board shouldn't have been flying the national transport safety committee says the lion a boeing seven three seven should have been grounded because of technical problems experienced the day before the fatal flight their plane crashed into the java suit shortly after takeoff from jakarta airport in october early analysis of the plane's flight recorder data from the pilots the battle to keep the plane from going down. from jakarta. these are not the final results of the investigation into this fatal crash on october twenty ninth why this lion airplane crashed into the java sea with high speed but it's giving quite a clear picture of what was happening previously to this fatal flight for days already this lion airplane it's a brand new seven three seven max eight boeing that was flying from bali as well going back to the in the previous days this plane had already had some very serious technical de

whether enough will come out on tuesday to give s.b. a change to make history is less certain john hendren al-jazeera tupelo mississippi mexico has deported ninety eight asylum seekers accused of trying to breach the u.s. border. the border crossing into california was temporarily closed until it was fired on sunday as asylum seekers attempted to scale a border fence u.s. president has just independently shut the border calling the asylum seekers stone cold criminals the former president of the mole deaves has had his thirteen year jail sentence overturned by supreme court judges. was sentenced three years ago after a trial condemned by many countries it was the maldives first ever democratic elected president to two thousand and twelve the party he previously led unexpectedly won the general election in september dozens of people have died in two separate attacks in somalia at least eight people were killed in the capital mogadishu after a car bomb went off in a busy market on monday vises came to sponsibility for another attack which killed twenty people at a religious center in the nort

republican senator cindy heights mitt has been accused of making racially insensitive comments john hendren has more from tupelo. a century and a half later in the deep south state of mississippi the civil war still holds the power to divide it's there in the confederate soldiers hat that republican senators cindy hyde smith dons in a facebook photo it surfaces in the comment she made about public hangings here were five thousand black men were lynched in the postwar reconstruction are liberal . in the uk. and it shows in the efforts that have effectively stripped black residents from voter rolls a move hyde smith applauded. her . big campaign donors including wal-mart and major league baseball have asked for their money back yet those gaffes might still not be enough to cost tied smith the election her rival in a tuesday runoff election for one of mississippi's two u.s. senate seats is mike espy president clinton secretary of agriculture he is an african-american who's offered a tepid response to those racially tinge comments apparently for fear of alienating white voters if given out. eve

senate john hendren al-jazeera jackson mississippi a three weeks ago al jazeera spent a day on the right for the family for us who joined a large group of people trying to get the united states at that point that just crossed into mexico and had a long journey ahead of them now twenty five days later and four thousand kilometers on tunnel and caught up with them where the u.s. border. the last time we saw the rays elia family they were sleeping on the street in south makes co after a week with the caravan of central americans maria was sick. alvin was struggling tool and early was exhausted she was eight months pregnant now everything's changed for one thing judy is right he's fifteen days old and has given the family fresh hope. we were frightened we would lose him on the way but god didn't want that and we had him safe and sound my whole body was hurting when my son arrived i felt like something paused through me and took the pain away. they've got to take the border with us and the church has taken the bait for the first time in more than a month they have regular meals a place to was

in georgia where the white republican candidate faces strong competition from a black democrat john hendren reports from atlanta. daniel known go was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on below the ballot came in we get we just can't get it right we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know doesn't up doesn't like gambling really don't really have that option we don't have any bearing on. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million vo

whether enough will come out on tuesday to give s.b. a chance to make history is less certain john hendren al-jazeera to mississippi the first spacecraft designed to study the depths of mons has successfully touched down on the red planet scientists are hoping the inside probe will help shed some light on have a planet was formed billions of years ago well from brazil and jordan in fact should now be experiencing the peak heating rate after ten years of dreaming and designing and testing. my heart was basically i just think to stop beating for seven minutes i don't know if that's healthy or not but. but then when we got the indication of parachute deployment which was absolutely terrifying thing to think about we got that positive and then listening to christine still a call out as we got closer and closer to the surface every time she made a call out you know the hairs on the back of my neck would start rising a little bit higher a little bit higher touchdown for the mars insight lander on monday as suggested by the santa mation touchdown transparent. that insight first photo from its new

water waiting and hoping he and his family have not been drinking poisoned water all these years john hendren al jazeera chicago. all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back in spork greece's rising tennis star finds a new way to vent his match frustration. american man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled we can move i salute bergstrom missed views which that he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment he spent twenty two months in hiding thirteen years in exile and seventeen years in jail. al-jazeera well tells the story of the dissident abrahams a fatty morocco's mandela. when a parent loses their child to a terminal illness. they often feel that they've taken on the weight of the world. but mr huang is determined to find out what caused his daughter's death and brought him such heartache. the story of a committed parent turned activist a father's protest part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. the australian police say the man behind what they're calling a terrorist attack in melbourne had links to ice or he's been identified

in georgia where the white republican candidate faces strong competition from a black democrat john hendren reports from atlanta. daniel known go was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on velo ballot came in we get it we just can't take it and we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know doesn't up doesn't really don't really have that option we don't have. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian kemp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state electoral rolls

has been charged with crimes against humanity well for more on this let's cross the john hendren in jackson mississippi john so with just hours to go now until the polls close how is the race looking today. is become a cliche to say that the race depends on turnout it depends on which side turns out but in this case mike espy a democrat an african-american really needs a large turnout among african-american voters here in a state where they represent forty percent of the electorate and then he needs a good slice of the rest of the voters most of them are caucasian to vote for him and president obama helps out with a robo call but he's finding against president donald trump who also came here twice just yesterday on the eve of the election in order to support his opponent cindy hyde smith and so this is a neck and neck race in a state where it really is such a race. just talk us through how my cast me as managed to make a race of it john i mean against republicans and the odd smith who is the favorite . well at the risk of offending my host here since i'm at her party she got he got a lot of

water waiting and hoping he and his family have not been drinking poisoned water all these years john hendren al jazeera chicago. time for sports news is andy thank you so much pete so in just over an hour's time japan's take on iran's persepolis in the second leg of the asian champions league final the japanese sign of a two nil advantage but home support could yet in spite persepolis to a first ever cycle when it's a mystery of it is with the fans inside iraq. fans are gearing up for the asian champions league final here in iran to iran's persepolis take on japan's kachina antlers in azadi stadium in front of around eighty thousand fans the japanese side head into the second leg of the final with a two miliband it's but the antlers head coach says that won't stop his side from being on the offensive. we've won the first leg at home but we understand that this away game the second make could be very difficult he's going to be a tough game for us who play the game as if the school is no new and not think about the school from the fiercely we're going to be positive given from the very first w

thanks very much that's going live to john hendren he's been standing by for us in indianapolis we did see one house seats in the story that i know you were talking about feels like a long time ago but it will be out in the last hour so much as happens claire mccaskill she was running for the democrats i just want to get an update on how she's ferrand. mccaskill is not fairing well she was trailing and so has of course of the man who we're here to see today joe donnelly this pretty much says it all if you can just take a look the bar is closed the podium is empty every last celebrant is gone there are just a couple of journalists here and this was supposed to be a celebration for joe donnelly a number of democrats were here as well it was a state wide party some of them did win but this was the big race they had really hoped for and they wanted him to be at the head the crest of this democratic wave which in the senate does not appear to have happened and not only that when he launched his cd actually set the democrats back a bit and i just got a text from a political science professor

she faced african-american democrat mike espy john hendren joining us from jackson mississippi and despite her becoming the first woman from mississippi elected to congress she's been a controversial candidate as we're saying. she has indeed this is a deeply republican state a state that has not voted for a democrat in a statewide office in is nineteen eighty two so it was a bit of a surprise that mike espy was making a run of it as a democratic senatorial candidate and that have been for two reasons one of them was that he was an unusually strong candidate for this state and the other one is that cindy hyde smith made a number of gaffes that caused her some serious problems first of all she made a joke to a supporter saying that if he were to invite her to a hanging she would sit in the front row well that did not go well here in this state where five thousand african-american men were lynched after the civil war she was caught she was photographed in a confederate battle cap on facebook and she made some jokes about voter suppression saying maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to make it a l