A shooting on monday night the government calls it a terrorist attack. Ugandan politician will be winds arrested again shortly after he was nominated for next years president ial elections. Its 600. 00 g. M. T. And 11 am in the eastern United States where polls have opened for one of the most divisive and highly anticipated elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have campaigned for months its now up to the American Public polling has opened in all but one of the states the far flung island state of hawaii the man battling for the presidency havent stopped campaigning with biden in scranton pennsylvania and trump in arlington virginia. Heres our team on the ground weve got natasha got him standing by for us in minneapolis in minnesota d and he gallacher is in Miami Florida thats a key battleground state but 1st lets go to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan that they are is accounting a way to this election and yet the messaging still continues. Exactly 8 hours till the polls start to close seems we have to talk about it in those terms are we talking about the selection for the last 4 years almost since the moment donald trump was inaugurated in january 27000 we had protests so you say the white house with people suggesting that his time in the white house wouldnt be that long but hes continuing to hammer the message that hes done over the last few days youve got to give him credit he was in the hospital a few weeks ago with covered it came out and immediately hit the campaign trail hes done 17 events in the last 3 days hes been on television this morning by phone from the white house talking to his favorite t. V. Channel and his favorite t. V. Show fox and friends he said that he would accept the result he said theres no need to declare victory that he was going to win anyway and there was no need for any games he suggested that there were a lot of quiet trumped voters out there so he disputed the polls or to be honest ive covered donald trump covered his campaign 4 years ago been to many events in the last 4 years ive never met a shy trump yet so id be surprised if that prediction comes true but he feels very comfortable where he is at the moment hell continue to do phone calls from the white house hes going to call a number of radio talk shows over the next few hours he intends very shortly to leave for arlington just across the bridge in virginia where hell go to the republican. National committees headquarters of the all thank Party Workers there for all the efforts the in his behalf not just since the Election Campaign began but over the last 4 years and then hell come back to the white house this evening he intends to watch results from the white house there was plans for that event at his hotel in washington just down the road. But hes canceled those or certainly put them on hold because of corporate restrictions in white in washington you can only have a limited number of people in any one room but he can have 400 people in the room at the white house because federal buildings dont come under local laws so he intends to make a few remarks there whether or not will be an acceptance or a concession speech well that will be up to the voters to decide what is interesting of course is that there are a number of states key states important states that say they would have all the votes counted within hours of the poors close because theres a lot of work to do particularly when it comes to absentee ballots as well so they will all have to be added so a warning to people watching across the world this election which has been as you see contentious it is been difficult it has been hard fought but it might not end in the next few hours it could be a couple of days before we get a final result so people should be weary of politicians declaring victory unless on either side the result is clear cut the polls suggest thats whats going to happen donald trump says in 2016 they said the exact same thing and they won and hes clinging on to that hope. Thanks very much indeed thats alan fischer talking to us from washington d. C. Well for more on the battleground state of florida and the gallagher is live for us in miami its widely accepted that whoever wins florida is likely to win the presidency and yet in the last 24 hours or so neither of the main candidates has actually been there. No thats right rob i mean President Trump was here on sunday night at a big rally at a local airport but i think the headline out of this extremely important state with this 29 Electoral College votes is that 9000000 people have already voted in this state if you look at the figures for 2016 the total of people who voted by the end of election day it was only half a 1000000 more than that now early voting tends to favor joe biden the democratic candidate but its pretty much even joe biden has had a very slight lead in this state in recent polls but about 21 percent of those people that voted early are people that arent affiliated with either party so the places will be watching closely in the next few hours here in florida places like the i 4 corridor that central road that runs through the center part of florida through places like temper and orlando thats where a lot of the independent and swing voters are but no republican nominee in almost a century has won the white house without winning this state here in florida and we know there are many other paths to winning the white house for joe biden without winning florida but with 9000000 votes already cast and already being counted we are expecting results to come in fairly rapidly after the polls close at 7 pm in most of florida remember the panhandle is an hour behind but that tends to be a very red conservative area so it has been pretty efficient here there are been some problems with ballots found on a postal floor officials are now checking other post ill offices to see thats happened there but other than that 9000000 people voting early in this state just tells you something about the enthusiasm for this election no matter how contentious its been on both sides people are energized they want to get out there are more young people voting and there are more older people voting remember this state has a population of about 20 percent of older voters and of course covert 90 ripped through here in the summer with 15000 cases being the max. On the worst day in cases of course rising once again and thanks very much indeed and of course just in the last hour or so Melania Trump the wife of President Donald Trump has been voting in Palm Beach County close to where you are lets go to minneapolis now and minnesota thats when the touch of a name is standing by many in minnesota but in particular minneapolis is a very interesting place isnt it because culturally its really quite diverse and yet this year weve seen the violence surrounding the black lives matter protests and the killing of George Floyd Donald trumps messages on law and order how is all of that playing out with the people there. Well if theres one thing you need to remember about minnesota its this voters here are extremely in gauge when it comes to elections in 2016 more than 74 percent of all registered voters turned out and that was the highest in the country Voter Engagement continues to be robust in the early Voting Period which began on september 18th 1900000 people cast their votes minnesota has 10 Electoral College votes and historically the state has been a reliable source of support for the democrats theres been an almost 50 year streak but that streak could be broken in 2016 democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton lost the state by less than 45000 votes and trump was said to have viewed minnesota as a missed opportunity so this election cycle he has amped it up he has aggressively campaigned here his staff has advertised heavily he was just here on friday and the hope is that he can get this state to swing to republican for the 1st time since 1972 now the reasons for this are varied but if you look at the state you talked about diversity in minneapolis thats really not the case throughout the state here you have a population where 70 percent lives in the urban areas such as the twin cities which tend to be more progressive 30 percent in the rural areas and the demographics of the state do not align with National Demographics the population here is about 80 percent white in 2016 there were 19 counties in minnesota that represents about 10 percent of the states population that pivoted in 20122008 they had voted for president obama but in 2016 they flipped to President Trump we went to one of those counties in southern minnesota to try to understand why. A patchwork of soybean and corn field stretches across the plain of Blue Earth County minnesota the campus of Minnesota State university isnt manned kaito the seat of the county its attracted a Small Community of immigrants in 2012 the county voted for president barack obama in 2016 it pivoted to President Donald Trump. Is a somali immigrant hes the 1st person of color elected to the man cato school board the democrat says the evolving demographics of the county are at the root of its political whiplash in 2016 that really gives a lot of my. Our White Brothers and sisters a lot of anxiety that change of 4 generations the live in you know they feel a sense of belonging and bit of an edge in the system so that being threatened. Was something that from exploited. A 20 minute drive away on the duncans and family farm there harvesting the last acres of corn sold to make ethanol and probusiness anti regulation mindset of the trumpet ministration i appreciate we dont like people telling us how or what. We theres a sense of freedom out here agriculture and hog production are the economic drivers of Blue Earth County the population is about 90 percent white according to u. S. Census data the counties biggest city bank cato is the site of the largest mass execution in American History in 196238 members of the dakota tribe were hung after the u. S. Dakota war trials when westerman is dakota and the director of the Humanities Department at the university we have to acknowledge. The injustices of the past according to native news online the native american vote could be a factor in swing states such as minnesota there has been a Robust National get out the vote push thats one way that our voice can be heard is to vote and participate in the process and get in there and help make those changes the locals say you wont see Many Campaign lawn signs or hear arguments about the election though they may disagree about politics what people value more is what binds them together as neighbors. Like many states minnesota is facing a legal challenge with regard to voting late last week a federal Appeals Court said that the state cannot as play and continue to count absentee ballots until november 10th even if they are postmarked by election day the court said that is to head off any kind of future litigation now the secretary of state says that he will continue to count those ballots every evening until november 10th he says if the margin is wide enough in terms of the election he doesnt anticipate any litigation but rob we are talking about 339000 absentee ballots here in the state of minnesota that as of monday had yet to reach Election Officials the test thanks very much indeed this new task on a man in minneapolis minnesota still ahead on al jazeera the country divided why some opposition politicians in ivory coast are ignoring the results of sundays president ial election. Leading up to the damage operations begin in the philippines after its hit by the worst storm of the year. Head of the east asian monsoon is still visible its this broken line of cloud down to the bottom end of it is at sunny now this is a potential big typhoon but its staying over the water for the next few days so we can just about ignore it and as for shipping of course behind it is the air is cooler with at about 90 in turkey not far off the average the same is true in beijing quiet weather at the moment some cloud creeping through western china and might spread eastwards enough to take away the judgment of the sunshine otherwise its fine with this time of year and thats churned hong kong with low humidity as well we still got goni as the super typhoon that it no longer is this Tropical Storm now its heading towards the coast of vietnam so once again vietnam is going to get in dated with and hit 400 millimeters of rain i think in the next 2 days otherwise it showers this big shower as they watch this place not far away from singapore just the tip of peninsula malaysia and that is something that 120 min to be to so thats the scale of these shows which begin maybe just not far away from jakarta have a job from Southern Sumatra looks fairly west in the moment this is the wettest time the if it had all places sas and it carries on that way for a few days if not a couple of weeks yet. Since 2013 wish the World Innovation summit to health has gathered Health Care Leaders practitioners and understand just together to learn interact and engage with innovative organizations. They she wish will take place but chile under the banner of one world are on the. Register now wish dot org dot q a. You want to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour voting is underway in the u. S. As people decide of donald trump will get a 2nd term Democratic Party challenger joe biden will become president polls have opened in all states except for hawaii. Trump and biden made their case to voters in battleground states in the last night of campaigning the election is going to be decided by about a dozen states that could swing to either candidate. But the 2 candidates of course have very different foreign policies heres how the candidates stack up on china north korea and russia for example donald trump started a trade war with beijing confronted it on security and blamed it for the spread of coronavirus joe biden says he wants to work with allies to put pressure on china on trade and human rights trump was the 1st u. S. Sitting president to meet a north Korean Leader but hes been unable to persuade pyongyang to give up its Nuclear Arsenal biden says if elected he will not personally meet kim jong un without concessions on his Nuclear Program trump has strengthen ties with russia and moved away from traditional allies in europe biden says hell cement old alliances like nato and be tough on russia. Ok lets bring in jamie fly in ballin hes a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and was a Foreign Affairs advisor to u. S. Senator marco rubio thanks very much indeed for being with us i want to move away from the countries that i mentioned in the east i want to talk about the middle east weve seen obviously the trumpet administration going ahead with a what theyre calling the middle east peace plan with the normalization of relations between israel and other gulf states how do you think gulf countries are viewing the potential outcomes in the United States. And i think it from what i can see there seems to be a lot of alarm in the gulf about the potential bite in this ration president from like president obama has really focused on closer relations with the Sunni Arab States at the expense of u. S. Or u. S. Relations with iran the biden team in contrast has talked about reopening the j c. P. O. A conversation with iran and id say the Democratic Party right now in the u. S. Is much more skeptical of many of the Sunni Arab States and so i think this is one of those issues where the u. S. Approach will differ significantly depending on who is elected when you say that the Biden Campaign is skeptical about the relations with certain gulf states in practical terms what changes would we see. I think youll see more of a focus on human rights and that relationship with the Sunni Arab States this is something that the Obama Administration was era 10 between the obama stray ssion a number of countries in the region youll see perhaps less u. S. Support for certain arab initiatives like ongoing conflict in yemen perhaps more skepticism from a by the administration about arms sales to some of the Sunni Arab States. And all of these are in contrast to the approach of President Trump is really focused on strengthening those partnerships. And encouraging those countries to deepen their own ties with other u. S. Partners in the region like israel are going to do i ask you about that because that of course is a key relationship isnt it and particularly it has been a hallmark of the trumpet administration and the relationship between the us between the white house and israel under a Biden Administration would that change. I think it had been so my understanding is Vice President biden has a close personal relationship with israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu theyve known each other for decades going back to Vice President bidens time in the senate i think so president from has taken the us israel relationship in a significant direction that i dont think many in the Democratic Party indorse hes obviously moved the u. S. Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. Had you know a willingness to embrace some a Prime Minister netanyahu whose policies towards the settlements in the west bank and he really hasnt pressured Prime Minister netanyahu or the israelis to make concessions with the palestinians all of these are things that are hotly debated in american politics especially in the Democratic Party and so i think you will see a bit of a cooling of relations with israel i still think though theres strong bipartisan support for the Us Israel Alliance so that the ringback shift will not be all that significant but it will be a kind of slowing down of the relationship compared to what weve seen over the last 4 years or in the trunk the ministration let me ask you just very briefly do you think given the fact that theres somebody ministrations. Key as far as Foreign Policy has been concerned to essentially to extract the u. S. From what donald trump has described as wasteful wars do you think that there will be a change in dynamic in that given the fact that the people in the u. S. Have come to expect that their troops are coming home and that the u. S. Milonga has this world police role. Yeah i think this is actually one area of continuity between both parties this trend started in the Obama Administration President Trump as excello hated it and theres really no constituency in the Democratic Party right now for new interventions especially in a place like the middle east and so i think some of the fundamental realities that weve seen of the trump ministration about an approach to the middle east the disengagement from that region will continue even if theres a bi demonstration its really interesting to get your thoughts on this as always we appreciate it jamie fly thank you very much indeed thanks for having me and later were going to have live uninterrupted coverage of the u. S. Elections our correspondents are going to be reporting from crucial states across the country and were going to have export analysis and of course were going to bring you the results as they come in you can watch that here on aljazeera from 2200 g. M. T. At least 14 people have been arrested in austria after mondays shooting in vienna where morial was held for the 4 people who died on the other 22 have been injured when a gunman opened fire in the city austrian authorities are describing it as a terror attack paul always has this update from vienna. The interior minister held a press conference not long ago giving the update for the 14 people detained in 18 raids on tuesday as people were urged to stay at home and particularly so with more gunmen thought to be thought to be on the loose still but the interior minister did update that say that according to the evidence there was only one attacker who carried out these these attacks here in the in the busy restaurant district of vienna on monday night we know its a 20 year old male of north macedonian background but with an austrian passport as well. Found with an automatic rifle hunger a machete and also with a fake suicide vest on hes released from prison in the sand early from a 22 month sentence having tried to go to syria to join the Islamic State group last year and the interior minister said he had fooled the Radicalization Program allowing him to be released and killing the 4 people last night 22 more injured 3 of them critical here in austria. To ivory coast now where police have clashed with supporters of former president and Opposition Leader already called on b. D. As they try to enter is host to arrest him it came just hours after president allison what target was declared the winner of the president ial election the opposition says its creating its own Transitional Government theres been a lot of anger over the vote im concerned the demonstrations will result in violence causing thousands to flee the country. The mission of the National Transitional council is to prepare the framework for the organization of transparent and inclusive president ial elections to set up a Transitional Government in the next few hours and to convery mashable conference for national be conciliated with a view to the return to definitive peace in ivory coast already interest is following developments from a boozer. The stories we hearing from ivory coast and the incidents being reported of thousands of my border is now fleeing across the border into neighboring countries signifie said the situation is far from calm in ivory coast now with a call for muster demonstrations from. The Opposition Leaders and as well as the and also meant of a Transitional Government has sort of taken the situation to a higher notch and a lot of people believe that in the next few days when the opposition try to implement what they say or what they call a Transitional Program in ivory coast when they lose an elected president we are bound to see a lot of violence on the streets by the way there were incidents earlier reported today at the home of one of the president ial candidates who boycotted the election for president. Right now were hearing that journalists and supporters of the former president for all president former president have now been dispersed from that area were not sure whether hes been arrested or will be kept under house arrest at the time being for the time being but the developments things like developing quickly in ivory coast on the part of president Alassane Ouattara he feel that the validation of these elections yesterday was enough for ivorians to celebrate while on the other hand the opposition feel that it was a mandate that was illegally acquired and theyre calling on their supporters out onto the streets to protest and to force president Alassane Ouattara to leave and i sort of felt with think a lot of people are afraid the things will go from bad to worse right now. Ugandan Opposition Leader a musician but we wind has been released it was arrested once again shortly after he was successfully certified as a candidate in next years election according to a spokesman for his party line was forcefully taken out of his vehicle by police after handing in his president ial nomination papers supporters gathered outside his home after he was released hes been calling for a long time president Yoweri Museveni to step down. Rescue workers in turkey have pulled out a 4 Year Old Girl from the rubble after an earthquake 4 days ago she was trapped for 91 hours after the quake demolished her Apartment Building in the city of this mia more than 100 people are now confirmed dead but crews are still working to find more survivors there are quake in the aegean sea also cause damage in greece. The philippines is bracing for the arrival of another storm and thats as people continue to deal with the aftermath of typhoon goni at least 20 people have been killed after the worlds strongest typhoon this year destroyed houses and triggered floods across the country residents really go to tears he says the new storm named as sonny will cause Severe Damage in its path John Allen Dorgan describes how people are coping in the hardest hit province. You were just in a Smaller Community in about an hour an hour from the gaza city and what we saw there was i mean to to describe what survivors see beyond human comprehension this is a Coastal Community where more than 90 percent of homes have been destroyed over a 1000 families used to live there and now theyre clearly on the hand to mouth existence theyre in desperate need of food and Emergency Shelter and across many areas of by Province Central and southern is on the situation is also Difficult People were receiving aid here and there but they dont really know where the next meal will come so theyre calling on the local Government People in manila to come and bring aid immediately and thats just one area nic another island in fact and one this just only to the fortys managed to send aid so this has been happening since sunday you know and the situation is quite dire not to mention that this is the path of the most powerful storm going to ever hit this Year Category 5 in a country that is still reeling from a coronavirus find damage and a lot of people basically know and understand the governments resources are very stretched they know that help might be slow to come but they still hope that it will come soon enough you know we were seeing children really were taking and sleeping on the ground in places where their homes once stood to spare and are really afraid to keep their childrens clothes at night and during the day they salvage whatever they can the situation is quite desperate. This is all it is it really is of the top stories voting is underway in the u. S. As people decide of donald trump will get a 2nd term or of Democratic Party challenger joe biden will become president polls have opened in all states except for hawaii. Trump and biden made their cases to voters in battleground states in the last night of campaigning the elections going to be decided by about a dozen states that could swing to either candidate alan fisher has more from washington d. C. There are a number of states key states important states they say they would have all the votes counted within hours of the polls close
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