Peter really dull 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 are a while 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 and by favor for the past weeks and months all those even in states like georgia North Carolina where starting to see you know traditionally very conservative republican states where the demographics really have shifted it 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 settled by elite is narrowing in some case states like florida North Carolina still very tight so you know it. You know frankly i hear you talk and i know people listening to you are probably seeing 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 bit 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. You know the 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 wake of the financial crisis we saw the Auto Industry almost collapsing he went there to help save the industry with joe biden and this is definitely a reminder those you know remember this is who you voted for in this who helped save us essentially what you were 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 you know and this coronavirus certainly hasnt helped. With 48 hours now out here what is the election looking like. Biden still continues to hold a Comfortable Lead nationally obviously it will come down to key states like pennsylvania like was constant like michigan like florida. Bidens road to victory still looks much broader like the map so he could if he can hold on to the states that clinton won in 2016 and maybe flip a couple of the states that trump one like oh no where biden is currently up by 3 points michigan whereby its currently up by 8 points wisconsin where hes currently up by 8 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. Than there are for by his margin of error is a lot slimmer is what it sounds like actually peter real adults thank you so much for that lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour police and builders 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. Dolphins are choosing a new president 8 candidates are vying for the job including pro russian russia incumbent done his biggest challenger is pro european former Prime Minister my ascendant if no candidate gets at least 50 percent of the vote a runoff will be held in 2 weeks. At least 10 people are dead after typhoon goni slapped into the eastern philippines wind gusts up to 280 Kilometers Per Hour caused volcanic rocks to bury more than 300. 00 homes in Albay Province storm surges had some coastal towns rivers overflowed nearly 400000 people fled to safer ground. Now while many countries are shutting down their economies as they face troubling increases in covert 1000 cases slovakia is trying Something Different on saturday it started a nationwide effort aimed at testing its entire Adult Population the authorities have warned the only alternative would be a total lockdown this approach could reveal much about how the virus spreads and how many hidden cases there may be but it also comes with its own set of challenges. Long queues outside this coronavirus testing station and. It is one of thousands that opened on saturday to screen slovakians entire population of over 5000000 testing is voluntary but anyone not participating has to suffer isolate for 10 days. But. I am here because i believe we will find out who has the virus it will go away and eventually we will live a normal life again. In the past 3 weeks slovakia has seen thousands of new infections each day ma screening is hoped to control the virus and avoid further restrictions more than 40000 Health Care Workers and police have been deployed to carry out the tests medical stuff i expressing that concerns. Im going to be a doctor. And i dont want it to end up like its city. And i wouldnt want to find my 1st job is to decide if some. If you put it. This fast around of testing covered around a 1000000 people with reportedly one percent receiving a positive result a 2nd round of mass testing is planned in a weeks time. Heres 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 any nationwide lockdown that began in september and australia has recorded no newly locally transmitted infections for the 1st time in 5 months residents of hard hit melbourne enjoyed the 1st weekend of reopen cafes restaurants and pumps. French police say they have arrested a suspect over the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest in the Southern City of new york the 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 must just close in got 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 at all rolled out so i want comment on the target and what sort of attack this is because. We dont know yet. Residents express their shock im appalled because its very quiet neighborhood a good place to live. Much 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 the french president and called 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 drill. France is currently on its highest security. Switching gears to sports now in formula one Lewis Hamilton might not have started the emiliaromagna grand prix in pole position but that didnt keep the briton from winning in italy with every hamilton when theres more history made he now has 93 victories in his career Hamiltons Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas came 2nd and Daniel Ricardo from where you know finished 3rd with the with the Team Mercedes one to finish theyve clinched a record 7th straight constructors title. Rb leipzig started the day top of the table and travelled to a bridge gladbach looking to keep it that way but the hosts had other ideas displayed their quality when they drew with real madrid in the Champions League this week and they scored the only goal of the game through huntsville to take all 3 points celebrated moving up to 4th place well results elsewhere so leipsic slipped to 3rd. You watching the documentary series is up next with an indepth look at america in the age of trump if youd like more on any of the stories you can find plenty on our website thats dot com im michael in berlin for me in the entire team here thanks for watching well see you soon. This president ial election is a crucial why not just for the United States whos leading the race and americas policy will be right here for you and those how you everything you need to know as america decides well bring you the numbers issues the background join us for special coverage from the u. S. Election november 4th on. A country in turmoil. A president who provokes and divides. Driven into a corner by protests and the pandemic. Donald trump is fighting tooth and nail for a 2nd term. With the election fast approaching america continues to be shaken by the coronavirus and a debate about racism. Will meet people in 3 states that could decide the election arizona michigan wisconsin. After everything thats happened will they still go for trump. I was donald trump on the campaign trail fighting for votes in arizona was last time around he won this important state by a very narrow margin was. Prefer to listen to the president from outside the rally phoenix has become a coronavirus hotspot it tearing down statues desecrated monuments and purging dissenters its not the behavior of the peaceful Political Movement its the behavior of. The tallit terriers and tyrants and people that dont love our country they dont love our country. The bells often tune out when they hear trumps course rhetoric. What they care about is his economic record i think hes so probusiness he understands business. As a business is Business Owners we want somebody that kind of understands our issues for coping there we were writing it all for someone there so conway was doing well you know right we had high hopes for you know reelection and i mean its its crazy how kobe has just changed. America its changed the world but i really think that if he got in and i was elected for another 4 years that the things that he said in the beginning i think would come to flourish and. Its fairly quiet outside the rally in contrast to the last drop of an dodi and steve attended in february. Could it be the heat. Or the fact that the president has taken some hits in the polls i there doesnt seem to be as much energy in the crowd or even in his voice we were outside but you see him there but it just doesnt feel as energetic on the face tired or the masses are because its you know large so he draws energy from the crowd i dont know but it just seems a little bit more subdued judy and steve bell have always been steadfast republicans they plan to vote for trump and november across the country pastor great louiss venturing back into his church for the 1st time in months. Milwaukee is home to the largest black congregation in wisconsin and otherwise largely white rural state fair. Share of. Lewis is grateful in march the preacher was in intensive care. During the coronavirus brought him close to death the by wrist has killed 4 of his friends in milwaukee just like elsewhere black people have been more affected by cope with 19 than white people. Got. It is real and saved my life because i should have been dead you know i heard all proud of other issues on top of the corona you know what my believe is their god is that he would call the pastor hasnt fully recovered yet this is his 1st Service Since being seriously ill in any case churches in wisconsin had to stay closed for months. After such a long time away pastor lewis wants to use his sermon to preach about pervasive racism. He says the killing of george floyd caused many to wake up. Who didnt know. Or. Oh. Ma. Fired. Their. Pastor lucas his ministry doesnt stop at the church door. Hes been fighting against the discrimination faced by milwaukees black population for years. He now hopes they could be on the verge of meaningful change. Just because theres a law doesnt make things right so because slavery was a long. But it was a rubber soul so we just have a lot of work to do or we have to start to do that work right now where the people are protested in the streets before we go back to our old ways and being quite grosss. And bitter and hateful. The brutal killing of george floyd shook the nation yet again raising an uncomfortable truth black americans are much more at risk of dying from Police Violence they make up 13 percent of the population but 23 percent of those killed by Police Statistics the president prefers not to use and so are white people some are white people what a terrible question to ask so why people more white people by the way more white people black americans are much less likely to own their own home and can become homeless more quickly. And regardless of education they almost always are in considerably less than white americans. In arizona the lockdown has over restaurants and stores are open despite rising corona virus infections. Stephen dodie bells business selling Promotional Items is buzzing again like youre finally there are new inquiries and orders. In the 1st week after the lockdown the phone didnt even ring. Demand had completely collapsed it just happened so fast i knew that that economy would come back i just thought that it would come back quicker and now here we are almost in july and now we have the resurgence of cases and i think its it is a setback one of their regular customers wants a bulk order of t. Shirts 10000. 00 worth. But duty is still cautious about the recovery. As the pandemic struck the economy the trumpet ministration turned to stimulus to soften the blow at the end of july the state had provided Financial Aid worth 2. 00 trillion dollars many are calling for more the checks for up to 1200. 00 that most americans received have long been spent the economic collapse was the worst in 75 years a fact trump ignores but were going to go a lot of. People are going to say. Its guys doing a good job he knows what hes doing and i dont believe the fake news anymore but next year and i said it before it will be the single greatest economically weve ever had. The bells have received the equivalent of 51000 euros from the state. We havent had to dip into our own pockets to pay for our boys i mean i feel responsible for them i dont want to let them go to employees that have been with us almost 20 years i just cant do that so its helped keep us afloat. She can understand trumps desire to lift pandemic restrictions. Has he made all the right decisions probably has he made some good decisions yes but no matter what president was sitting in that office you know i dont i just dont know how you can judge something that weve never gone through before. Steve has another preoccupation with us through his friendship with one of his poker buddies whos black hes come to see how much racism affects the daily lives of black americans. A friend of mine just sent me a thing over the weekend about trump supporting. White supremacy some of you saw all that. And basically trump. Said that was a good thing on his tweet. I think hes going to be like. I think hes killing himself right now personally i think hes if he would learn to shut up. He might have a chance there right now and i think that maybe now that. Democratic candidate mr biden. Has a much better shot. Before the boxes are even packed a grim news alert record new corona virus infections ours and restaurants will have to close again so that kind of changes things again i clear talking about every day is a new day everything changes just when you think that youre getting some traction. Or not. Damn covert. Katie pontifex has to face the virus every day. In her home state of michigan the pandemic has been to some extent under control but the numbers are rising again. She has no sympathy for those who dont want to follow the rules anymore even though she herself longs for the time before corona i want to go back to my life the way it was and i think that its hard to swallow that our lives will be different moving forward until theres a vaccine. Time and again katie has had to witness patients losing their fight against cope at 19. The nurse hopes that those in washington d. C. Will take the danger more seriously. Most of us dont go