Im michael okwu thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Where republican President Donald Trump and his democratic rival joe biden have been campaigning in key states on the final weekend before tuesdays election a record 90000000 plus early votes have already been cast as the bruising contest heads toward the biggest turnout in at least a century. Biden and obama sharing the stage again a 1st for the Biden Campaign as they fight for victory in michigan where trump won by a razor thin margin 4 years ago a final Campaign Push in a battleground state obama didnt hold back. I understand this is a president who wants full credit for the commie he had heard. And did 0 blame for the pandemic here nor the job doesnt work that one. Doesnt fix. Laden stuff up doesnt make peoples lives better youve got to have a plan. Biden drove home the words of his former boss. We sure you never diversion. Science over fiction. And yes reach your truth over a long. Charge tarver stared out take back our democracy we could do this were somewhat better than this we get to you we are at our best the United States of america. In pennsylvania large crowds gathered for president Trumps Campaign blitz the state has emerged as one of the top prizes this year and trump is hoping to repeat his success there of 2016 baidu or shut down your economy wipe out your factories and shut down your state ship your jobs to china raise your taxes for trillion dollars the biggest tax increase the biggest tax increase in the history of our country and i gave you the biggest tax cut in the history of our. Campaigning enters its home stretch as a Record Number of americans are predicted to turn out. Debbie reporter peter real adult joins me now for more on all of this peter 1st question is why are they barnstorming these particular states well because of these states like michigan pennsylvania florida. Well not so much florida but definitely michigan and pennsylvania are states that trump won by racial thin margin back in 2016 and without these states going to its hard to see how he really comes back and wins this election you know there are also states where bitin continues to hold the lead in the race has been fairly stable in. Favor for the past weeks and months although even in states like georgia North Carolina were starting to see you know traditionally very conservative republican states where the demographics really have shifted become younger. Voters of color that are really not very big fans of trump so were starting to see there a shift and by favor that set the bidens lead is narrowing in some key states like florida North Carolina still very tight so you know it. You know frankly i hear you talking and i know people listening to you have probably seen the ghost of 2016 because people were saying that Hillary Clinton was up to and then in the waning days it started to tighten so there must be some of that on the minds of the democrats as well theres a lot of that theres absolute a lot of we we have been seeing a lot of reports also of you know democrats you know especially you know even seasoned pollsters and Campaign Strategists obviously no one is going to rule out a comeback. And part of the way to try to make that not happen not sure is bringing out the big guns i mean today we see barack obama the former president out on the Campaign Trial with that biden why is it critical to bring him to debt particular state well because you know the rust belt michigan wisconsin a lot of these you know traditionally that used to be Strong Industrial states that have really been been you know hurt by. Global economy a lot of industry have left that area has been been drained economically financially. Obama was those things were really crucial to obamas victory back in oh wait in 2012 you know you might remember in the in the wake of the financial crisis we saw the Auto Industry almost collapsing he went there helped save the industry with joe biden and this is definitely a reminder of those you know remember this is who you voted for in this to help save us essentially what he was trying to say so i think with obama going to those states now were seeing you know them trying to win back a lot of those democrats who in 2016 turned around and went for and voted for trump and even a lot of disaffected republicans who hope you know what trump as this successful businessman that a lot of people thought of him as he has not been able to give that jolt to those states that they were hoping for and this coronavirus certainly hasnt helped. With 48 hours now out here what is the election looking like. But you can still continue to hold a Comfortable Lead nationally obviously it will come down to key states like pennsylvania life was gone and like michigan like florida. Bidens road to victory still looks much broader like the map so he could if he can hold onto the states that clinton won in 2016 and maybe flip a couple of the states that trump one like or sona whereby it is currently up by 3 points michigan whereby its currently up by 8 points wisconsin where hes currently up by points he could still lose big states like pennsylvania florida and still win trump it seems is really in the battle for his political survival never rule out a comeback he can still come back but the odds are definitely looking a lot bleaker then than there are for buying his margin of error is a lot slimmer is what it sounds like half way peter really dolls thank you so much for that. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world police in baylors have fired warning shots and use stun grenades in an attempt to disperse tens of thousands of protesters marching in central minsk dozens of demonstrators have been arrested mass protests demanding the resignation of longtime president Alexander Lukashenko are now in their 12th straight week. While dolphins are choosing a new president 8 candidates are vying for the job including pro russia incumbent ego doggoned his biggest challenge is pro european former Prime Minister meyer sound if no candidate gets at least 50 percent of the vote a runoff will be held in 2 weeks. Rescue workers have pulled a 70 year old man from a collapsed building in western turkey 2 days after a strong earthquake in the gnc struck the region but hopes of finding more survivors are fading the quake has killed at least 60 people and injured more than 900. To france now where the police say they have arrested a suspect over the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest in the Southern City of legal their priest was gunned down outside his church and is in Critical Condition the citys mayor says the motive is not yet known but it comes after several terror attacks in the country just 2 days earlier a suspected Islamic Militant killed 3 people in a Catholic Church in the city of nice. The priest this just closing up this Greek Orthodox church late saturday afternoon when he was shot twice. Police kept the area fenced off warning the public to stay away prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder. At this stage we dont know what the motive is behind the attack no line of inquiry is preferred all rolled out so i wouldnt comment on the target of what sort of attack this is. We dont know yet. Residents express their shock im appalled because its very quiet neighborhood a good place to live in d. C. Was a big rush you have markets the synagogue a little further away the Orthodox Church everyone knows each other its a small village and its traumatic. Recently francis seen a string of what the authorities describe as terror related incidents believed to have been sparked by cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed or a french president and while mcconnell made his position clear if they dont understand and respect the fact that one might be shocked by these cartoons i will never accept that one might justify physical violence over these cartoons and in my country i will always defend the freedom to speak to right to think and to draw. Fronts is currently on its highest security. Here are some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic protests have been held across italy against a raft of measures to contain a new spike in cases the country reported a Record Number of almost 32000 new infections in 24 hours israel has reopened Elementary School classes after 6 weeks shut down as the country eases restrictions following a nationwide lockdown that began in september and australia has recorded no new locally transmitted infections for the 1st time in 5 months residents of hard hit melbourne enjoyed the 1st weekend of reopen cafes restaurants and pops beginning on monday music venues here in germany will close for at least a month to help contain a surge of coronavirus but before going into lockdown the berlin philharmonic had time to feature a promising young talent 29 year old congo dog is a new breed of artist for the 21st century hes a composer and in instrumentalists shoes active on social media and a master of his own label. Just moments before the concert. Its a definite high point in the life of the composer pianist producer. Can the freedom to rise when playing music but hes also a perfectionist i want to feel a certain degree of perfectionism as long as you dont overdo it can lead to endless freedom if you take care of certain things ahead of time it makes it that much easier to just let yourself go and. His bearing studio combines electronic music with works from across the centuries for the be beethoven project marking the 250th anniversary of beethovens birth he took his inspiration directly from the great german composer. But he was also a teacher so as a teacher i think he would be on the side of helping Young Musicians and composers to find their own way their own path through music and this is exactly what the beautiful is helping me to do. Using his rented piano mixes electronic sounds tailored to his specific. So what im doing here is mainly adding something electronic to the acoustic sound of the piano and where im doing this is i have the life sound coming through the microphones into my system and the effect sound is going out over here into my loudspeaker and thats the idea behind it that i can add to the acoustic and electronic sound in the here in the concert hall and there is no amplification going on in the piano. The concert at the berlin philharmonic new york and his own song will take a musical journey through time the selection of works seems to perfectly capture the prevailing mood its one of the last concerts in germany. Before all venues are shut down for november. The will just keep making music im always composing and i dont need a concept for that im satisfied if we just play in my shoes judio. For life and. Im moving for knowing and hopefully. Will return to the stage before too long. Thank you. Youre watching news coming up next is our show reporter with a look at the man who specializes in making last wishes come true this is g. W. News for me and the entire new scene here in berlin and enjoy the rest of your day and then you howard my colleague will be up next at the top of the hour. We know that this is a scary time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself keep your distance wash your hands if you can stay at how we do w. Here for you we are working quietly to keep you informed on all of our platforms and were all in this together on together and well make it through. To save everybody. Is free to say stay safe please stay safe. Sylvia newmans last wish is to go out for just one more ride in the car. Convinced slow wants to make her wish come true as hes already done for so many terminally ill people. Theres a lighthouse in the background. One more trip to the beach the movies or back home from the fence will cost them stan and fatten. d saw how hard our Mission Today is to take out hostages but theres no answers on this encounter to say. Frank van slow and his assistants are ready whenever a terminally ill person in northern lower saxony would like to go for a ride the tours are free of charge the staff volunteers he has his own specially fitted ambulances they call the tours shannon fatah or make a wish trips today then slow and his team are picking up someone very special the woman is the daughter of his 1st passenger from 6 years ago this trip isnt easy for van slow. Was our days since then we had phone ways kept in touch was a good luck thats why for me this story goes around it if it climbs to the bathroom its not going to see if they are. Saw. This ill be annoying man has been in hospice for a few weeks the 55 year old is in the final stages of terminal cancer. The doctors say her tumor is in operable because its located just behind her spine today she would like to return together with her son and his fiance to the town was ill via grew up with her grandparents frank van slow has organized the trip. With us as. The happiest time in your lives and then its just nice to be back there again. And to be quiet. Just debris to feel. Well manage why dont. You feel the annoying man doesnt want to go far the town is only half an hour away then slow trains paramedics for a living he tries to fulfill his passengers each and every wish. Easy even driven all the way to north cape with them were going to rock concerts on the phone. Is ill be a new mine is unable to travel far before they set off she was given morphine for severe pain. Trying to focus on it and we. Got a start for you. With yes thats a line that helps with the pressure and. Then slow and his colleagues head out up to 2 times a week some of the passengers regret their choice because once theyve seen what theyre leaving saying goodbye is too hard for them to bare. Their missiles or im going to take it hasnt come of some months and then you can handle things quite well right. The so thats just the way our lives song. Now things we just confound dont get it out there and not just keep on a guy thats really i certainly hope so they arrive in her hometown band. He is here its just the way it was back then. The silliest chose in the church as her 1st stop the attendance must roll the stretcher carefully over the cobbles every bump is painful for the terminally ill woman. Is ill feel went to church here when she was a little girl later on she didnt go very often but on this day the memory of the services prayers and hymns is somehow comforting. Yeah i have my health and yes ive decided that id like to be buried here as well after. Getting. Sylvia wants to take one more stroll around the cemetery with her son this will be her resting place. For many relatives a last journey like this is even tougher to bear than it is for the dying person themselves as hell be annoying one son wants to get married in a week and hopes his mother will still be there to see it at 1st he says he feared the emotional stress of a trip like this but now hes happy hes here. Now your. Body can now i can see what this is doing for him and how valuable these moments are and that in the next days or maybe weeks ill have a much time shes gone laughed show draw strength from it as if im not important and beautiful and. The trip continues on a ferry across the vais a river for sylvia its another childhood memory. She wants to see the waters of this mighty river one more time. Trying to bend slow reserved a special place with a view for her. As a lighthouse in the background aboard the small of the water again. In the middle of the waterway the ferries captain turns the boat around a few extra times so sylvia noirmont gets the most of the view. You really get to see something. Thats down sometimes again up. Here thanks very much. Its time for the last part of the tour. Zilly annoying mom was happier living with her grandparents that her parents thats why she wants to take a little stroll around the house where her grandparents once lived. This was grandma and grandpas house grandpa always said when the house is finished the man dies and thats just but happened. Shed like to take one more look inside but the people who live there now arent at home. You know thats the way it is. And they go for another walk around the neighborhood they had to push the stretcher along the narrow main street then slow fulfilled this wish is well. What are sylvias thoughts on the coming days. Constant. Pretty relaxed i think i was back here again and thats really beautiful. And i will look at the pictures again. But theres something more to it now while i turn a list. Here. The tour takes 4 hours then its time to go back to the hospice franklin slow hasnt counted how many last wishes hes made reality. He says his guests shouldnt be reduced to numbers or statistics. Then its time to say farewell to the passenger and like every time its goodbye for good even for the young volunteers who go along on the journeys. Few of their friends understand why they would want to spend their free time looking mortality in the eye. Because of feeders are lots of people say that hats off to you i can only do that when i sang nonsense weve got all sorts of people on hearing here and there not all working joints that deal with our dad with thought control nevertheless we still manage it good us which often to us or and and i think anyone can do it is you know you just have to give you something a little push and say im going to do it. But doing it even after 6 years from vincent says is still hard. To produce not good bye and i said you dont see each other here any more than someplace else what else can you say. Were back outside the associations headquarters. Donations and fees from 1st aid courses that far then slow his colleagues off or pay for everything here. The ambulance is being readied for its next trip from the time a last wish tour is booked every day counts. Just outsourced and we often have a problem that the person whos built the tories in such a rough state that they dined during the planning phase or the. Order of another thing that happens often was that was set to go outside of is dotted and t. s crossed and the passenger is told that the torah is happening. Title justified and without thought in mind isnt he falls asleep and doesnt wake up because ive. Just got off oil all the associations vehicles bear the name of ben slows late wife list that. 6 years ago when she was dying of cancer she wanted to make one more drive to the north sea but events low couldnt find an organization that could fulfill this last wish for her because Health Insurers wouldnt pay for it. When they get down to and when our fellow human beings sense of what is a surety that our very and us arent able to send the dying off with a last bit of humanity or kindness if we dont honor that purely financial reasons then theres something wrong because that was the last straw what oclock pulled. After his experience then slow founded his own taxi service for the terminally ill he regularly invents new things to help passengers get the most of the trip the much more bill for example the. Stuff it often does this is designed for people who dont have time lying down during that taunt as little as its uncommon as a mirror it enables them to travel across title files on through the water so they can do it once again. That only works because of these build a balloon. Since then many people have imitated vents close concept of helping the terminally ill go out for just one last spin the 59 year old however is turning the operation over to his son bit by bit but the name of shannon fox will always be connected to van slow his very own story and stana the german word for star has not as metaphor was fought on the night my wife died i was standing out in the yard smoking my favorite cigar and looking up into the sky. But i must not bundle up on some meter lady from the couple next door of what i was friends with was standing next to me cooked with the washer looked at me and said frank has a star out there shining for you to listen is up there out now and just like vatican came to mind us were there we often think of death in relation to the stars they say theyre shining up above now or those left behind posterity hurdles and thats why the concept Shannon Wagner would have just came to me out of the blue. Eco africa. They had a Bad Reputation ha ha ha role in the ecosystem. Which is a very much important in cleaning the environment and calling them natures until many species are endangered a project to kenya seeks to protect the unloved scavengers that means above all talking to local people eco africa. Next on d. W. Much makes a princess a kind sad. Lets ask eduardo are also man their tailor. Europes crowned lady come. And go in his brussels fashion house. 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