Let people walk in the footsteps of gladiators in romes colosseum. This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. Im tony harris, today is the final day of campaigning before tomorrows midterm elections. Voters will determine the balance of power on capitol hill, and in state houses. The biggest prize is the control of the u. S. Senate. If the republicans take over, most of president Barack Obamas legislature in his last term of office will be dead. And getting approval for official nominees will likely not happen. David shuster is here. We have early information about early balloting. And what it may mean. To take control of the senate. Republicans need six senate seats. One of the reasons g. O. P. Is favourite is democrats are defending more seats than republicans. Here is the map of crucial races. Blue democrats, red, republicans. Retiring seats are not expected to be cheese. Not be close. Taking the numbers down to three. In the final election polling, republicans would flip
Good evening im julie chen reporting at this hour from missouri, for this special report, flashpoint Andrej Meszaros missouri. This whole area has become a flash point about race, the use of police force, and the ability of a community to rise up and speak for itself. It began with the death last weekend of an unarmed 18yearold man Michael Brown, and anger that emerged in the community because a Police Officers used his gun. We are continuing our coverage here, and have gone to the command center of the current event of the locality Law Enforcement, the county police and state Highway Patrol. They have gathered and been at work for hours, organising themselves, being prepared for at any time any possibility of renewed confron stations to break out confrontations to break out. That has not been the case. There has been protests but no clashes have been reported so far. There was a march from st louis gateway often, the gate way of the west through the streets o where the young 18yearold
Contain humanitarian aid. Ferg we have breaking news from iraq. Nouri almaliki withdrew his candidacy for another term as Prime Minister. Announcing it during an address to the nation, and threw his support behind Prime Minister designate haider alabadi. He had been under pressure to resign after the countrys new president appointed a body to form a new body. He was first elected Prime Minister in 2006. Joining us on the phone is richard murphy, the former u. S. Assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. Good to talk to you, sir. What is your reaction to the news that Nouri Almaliki is, in fact, going to step doing . Well, its, on one hand expected, but welcome news. He had become the symbol of a leadership which didnt seem to know how to be inclusive. To reach out to the other communities, the minorities in iraq, beyond the sort of inner core of his party, in the shiite leadership. This has given a head start to organizations such as the Islamic State to exploit the leader
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