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
States that could secure part of victory donald trump is scheduled to hold 5 rallies including scranton pennsylvania the city where his rival joe biden was raised on the democratic nominee started his day in cleveland saying the u. S. Is done with the chaos of the Trump Presidency biden is wrapping up his campaign on the offensive traveling almost exclusively to states that trump won 4 years ago ohio in 2002000 drop your pledge to trusted me berar do gravitron or master trust me. Im proud of the coalition is character it is bill brock of democrats republicans independents. Im running as a proud democrat but ill govern as an american president. He. There will be no red states implode states just the United States North Carolina thank you very much oh of the tomorrow were going to win this state and were going to win for. The with you we will continue to cut your taxes cut regulation support our great Police Support our fantastic military. More now from alan fish and washington. If you l
A black man by police. Voting in president ial and parliamentary elections that opposition parties say are already deeply compromised by manipulation unfiled says. With a global Film Industry reeling from the effects of the pandemic delayed and diminished come Film Festival still rolls out the red carpet. To the program asked coronavirus cases are spiking across germany chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a Video Conference today with 16 regional leaders the aim is to agree on a new round of restrictions heres the situation 900 cases have risen quite shy. With a recent record high of nearly 15000. 00 new daily cases thats a sharp rise from june when new infections has dropped to just over 300. 00 per day an increase in testing is only partly behind that and that as illustrated by the rising intensive care admissions folk over 900 that figure usually lags behind you cases by 2 or 3 weeks of hospitalization were flung over the summer which you can see here but have now risen dramatically
Going up so you have to do your part to make them go down again there would be a profit businesses and hope that we will be spared but unfortunately we cant prove assault completely although im not sure if it will really help to contain the country america and then people for both the people i assume that there will be new measures theres nothing you can do about it and we have to get the infection under control in this new presuming that the new restrictions are expected on wednesday after chancellor merkel meets with germanys 16 regional leaders. News has seen a copy of Angela Merkels working paper for that conference with the 16 states leaders germany and heres more of what we think is going to propose schools and daycare facilities are to remain open and thats a major difference to the 1st lockdown germans will be told to limit contacts to an absolute minimum outside gatherings. Would be limited to a maximum of 2 households a complete shutdown of the entertainment sector bars resta
Lockdowns that would mean schools can look arms etc would be would be shocked and currently we have 2 districts in bavaria that are under lockdown because of their infection numbers but what im going to medical wants for the rest of the country is what shes calling a Circuit Breaker a lockdown that would last for a month starting on monday next week and the aim there is to prevent the Health Care System from collapsing its still coping ok but new infections you said it all rising much faster than expected i say use a filling up very fast and so im going mack who wants to go with nationwide restriction and shes actually not alone some state for me is the one from the very end lower saxony they agree but of course the country of 16 states do have the final say on what is ultimately going to be imposed and theres some resistance from other state premiers who say theyre not working for the chancery that working for their own people and they want to have the final say well thats thats a per