And hurrican zita slams into the u. S. State of louisiana the 5th major storm to hit the region this year. Tough new measures are being imposed across europe and fears hospitals are about to be overwhelmed by a growing number of coronavirus patients geminis imposing restrictions to last a month its closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open in italy dining out after 6 pm is now banned and theaters and gyms are shot its a similar situation in spain which is declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings and in the last few hours french president emanuel as announced a 2nd National Lockdown that will last until the 1st of december all nonessential businesses will have to shut that schools. Factories will be allowed to remain open bottle reports from paris. In a soviet t. V. Address french president emanuel said a new lockdown was necessary because frances Health Situation had deteriorated rapidly. Because of what we learned in the spring down will be adapted schools will stay
Continues to cast a shadow over the campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections in the past week mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On the Campaign Efforts the 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he took very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with Joe Biden Biden has shrunk that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do with in the white house. It is really a police fired tear gas at protesters over a renewed restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19th a 2nd wave is hitting your apart record new infections are being reported across the continent. The African Union is calling for calm in tanzania ahead of local and National Elections on whether to say police in the semi autonomous zones of our region of denied firing bullets of protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 p
Protect the vote. Scenes of devastation across Central America storm and its left dozens dead and thousands more homeless. Joe biden is getting ever closer to securing that magic number of 270 required to clinch the u. S. Presidency with Donald Trumps lead shrinking in 2 key states georgia and pennsylvania thats over georgia for thats where joe biden is now just over 1700 votes behind trump what was a solid republican state for decades has emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta were also still waiting on pennsylvania a very important state the state where joe biden was born translate has been consistently shrinking there about 22000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the do. Democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and the suburbs giving biden a very good chance of catching up lets look at the overall picture now the democrat
Their proposed restrictions include closing cafes bars theaters and restaurants as well as limiting social contact the u. S. Supreme court has rejected a republican bid to limit 20 mil in ballots can do sieved in 2 key swing states pennsylvania and North Carolina President Trump has regularly attacked mail in voting making claims of fraud without any evidence. A former u. S. Homeland security official has admitted to being the white house insider who wrote a scathing op ed 2 years ago condemning donald trump miles taylor is supporting joe biden and has called trump a model petty and ineffective mike hanna has more from washington d. C. The man who called himself anonymous in 2 separate books and lashing out at President Trump has now revealed his identity in an online post miles taylor is his name and he was a chief of staff in the department of Homeland Security at one point so a very senior official he was highly critical of trump in those 2 books saying that it was necessary for ame
A pandemic as the number of cases continues to rise. An explosion kills at least 8 people and injures more than 100 others at a Religious School in pakistan. Calls for Peaceful Elections in tanzania off the violence and the arrest of an Opposition Leader in zanzibar. Welcome to the news hour well its of course exactly a week to go before the election in the United States donald trump and joe biden is spending choose day crisscrossing the country in an intense day of campaigning National Polls are giving democratic contender biden a solid lead but its a lot tighter in some of those crucial battleground states of course the coronavirus pandemic has continued to overshadow the campaigning President Trump is holding 3 mass rallies on tuesday again downplaying the impact of the pandemic hes been attempting to shift the focus on to the economy. Its troubling the number one region that observe the year because of through return that a room. 70 were going to read the great state of. Arizona yo