Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Biden is joined by his former boss barack obama in the crucial swing state of michigan. By money in saeeds this is al jazeera life from die hard also coming up. Another lockdown for england this time for one month as it like all the European Countries grapples with spiraling coronavirus infections. The counting is underway in georgias parliamentary elections. The 1st action hero after a career that spanned 5 decades sean connery dies at the age of 90. Just 3 days out from the 2020 u. S. President ial election both candidates are making a final push in key battleground states right up until polling day President Trump is holding the 3rd for rallies in pennsylvania hoping to cling on to a state that he won by just one percent back in 2016 hes told supporters his opponent off is no future for America Biden will imprison. Your people your families in your house well letting rioters roam free and loot your streets or loot you still are under barred and there will be no school no graduations
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Imposed across europe as a surge in the coronavirus impacts life on the continent. While we begin with our breaking news out of france 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured its acar was wounded by police and is in custody in hospital frances antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of nice says it will say a terrorist attack and called for a crackdown on what he describes as islam will fascism. What are the risks we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side i want to say that we can no longer with the laws of peace in our country wipe out islamofascism while david chase is joins us now on the line from nice david we understand it the french president is on the scene but just start us off with the attack is there any more that you can tell us of any