host: thank you very much, john hendren in chicago. as part of our series polling battleground states in the midwest, john hendren reports from the battleground state of ohio on wednesday on al jazeera. moving to our other top story this hour, the second wave of covid-19 is hitting europe quite badly. the death rate in france has more than doubled over the past 24 hours. they report 523 deaths, up from 257 monday. record numbers of new cases are being reported across the continent, more than 230,000 on monday, almost 3.5 times the daily rate at the beginning of the month. belgium hit a daily high have more than 18,000 last week, almost a 10-fold rise on the highest number seen in the first wave in spring. in the german government says they will likely hit 20,000 cases a day by the weekend. it comes as medical workers in spain are holding a series of one-day strikes, demanding improved safety and working conditions. they say they are exhausted after months of dealing with the pandemic. arthur herrera reports from madrid. correspondent:

president revealed his all levels dropped briefly on both friday and saturday john hendren reports from but said. it was perhaps the most brazen campaign stop in u.s. history a candidate so sick with a potentially lethal virus that he has taken an experimental can't kill of drugs in it. least twice supplemental oxygen sneaking out of his hospital room and into a hermetically sealed as u.v. with 2 secret service agents waving at the fans lined up outside as his motorcade took a victory lap on both sides of the street he tweeted a video explaining why i also think we're going to pay a surprise to some of the great patriots that we have. and they've been out there. they love our country so i'm not telling. surprise visit it with yet another. moment like many trouble makes it divided america rilling the crowds here in the street but. remarkably the response to. the head of disaster medicine at george washington university medical center tweeted that presidential s.u.v.s not only bullet proof but hermetically sealed against chemical attack the risk of covert 1000 transmission inside is as hi

states in america's midwest john hendren reports from detroit michigan to find out just what masses to voters as in a trump majority county don't forget that's tuesday here on the air now u.s. secretary of state micron pair has arrived in india as part of a 6 day regional visit the. defense secretary mark espec will be meeting the indian counterparts for talks in new delhi they are expected to discuss global cooperation and security in the entire pacific region. one of the main leaders of colombia's left wing national liberation army has been killed in a military operation the government says the rebel leader known as reale was responsible for the murders and kidnappings the group had been in peace talks with the government but they were suspended after an attack on a military police academy last year soldiers and police officers in mexico have seized what they're describing as an industrial sized drug lab the facility was used to produce and fentanyl it had chemical preparation about 2 stories high which could process nearly 5000 kilograms of will materialize at a time. venezuelan

midwest john hendren reports from ohio very much a swing state to find out just what matters to voters as their time to get that's wednesday right here on al-jazeera. well president trungpa is still insisting the coronavirus will go away as he campaigns in those key battleground states before next week's election but infections continue to study across the country and with no economic stimulus package and sight stock markets took a tumble on monday and the reports. with all eyes focused on the presidential election it's easy to overlook the economic suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic in texas food banks like this one in houston a seeing a sharp rise in the numbers of those in need of help voters may be out in record numbers casting their ballots early but many are dealing with more pressing issues and we've depleted our saving we've had to do with last week we taped over our light bill company because we can't afford to pay the light bill was away from the reality of a crippling pandemic president trump continues to claim the u.s. is turning a corner and the virus will soon b

still ahead here on al-jazeera world i'm john hendren in ohio is state known for picking u.s. presidents it might just do it one more time. and we look at how armenia is living abroad are coming together to help their homeland during the conflict with as a vision. for. how i think it will be genuine feel of coolness in the air throughout much of charles great prince or in japan after this thing has gone through now that's effectively rather weak cold front there behind it is cold is leaking towards honshu and her car but you still got 23 degrees in tokyo and then there's a northerly breeze coming down through taipei douglas exactly cooling but it means reduction in humidity although in hong kong used to go a day or 2 of rain to come most a chance enjoying this fine weather and it's not even subzero in other or hoppin winter is still a long way in north now although it's very active and see. the moment you have a thai food making landfall it's just in that your screen there that won't be identified as a proper revolving storm as it goes across land but it probably will influenc

i'm john hendren at ohio state known for picking u.s. presidents it might just do it one more time. hello expect warnings to be issued for the weather in greece is this thing was last a thunderstorm warning heads in your direction now it's picking up more warmth and the bottom half of the cold front to be chopped off and start to spin up like this into a revolving storm which means wind potentially wind damage and thunderstorms will spread through greece and eventually towards turkey leaving behind a rather dry picture for italy the adriatic and generally speaking where it's raining now it won't be by the end of wednesday athens forecast and gusty day on wednesday the shasta when you're out on thursday then it quietened down the temperatures don't suffer a tall really know what do they really for most of europe is fairly mild the air that's coming in and being blown even some thoughts that's the remains of epsilon hurrican that's wrong by the way still quite warm air so we've got teens despite the fact it's overcast and running in london and in paris but the real strength there will

states in america's midwest john hendren reports from ohio very much a swing states to try to find out what matters to voters there that's wednesday right here on al-jazeera now the united nations is warning the humanitarian crisis in yemen is getting even worse with tens of thousands of children at risk of dying unicef says 250000 children are acutely malnourished and the number of children and urgent need of treatment has increased by nearly 10 percent this year compared to last the u.n. is warning that 98000 children are at high risk of dying that's the highest level ever recorded in southern yemen well ali i spoke to he is the unicef representative in yemen he says malnutrition is also a major threat to children's long term development. it's just putting the live on after. he has also. got children that we usually talk about the $1000.00 gold fund that kind of sat at the 9 months of pregnancy and all of that. that particular age creates. 'd damage to the brain and to the cognitive. wrong so it's absolutely terrible it not only puts a lot of children at risk of dying but also really

and pull to serious touring some of those battleground states in america's midwest john hendren reports from detroit michigan to find out what nasa has to vs and a trump majority county then that's tuesday right here on out there. now thailand's parliament is holding a special session to discuss months of protests calling for reform of both the government and the monarchy the biggest opposition party says prime minister pryce chano chair has become a burden and needs to quit the student protest movement says privates hold on power is illegitimate after last year's disputed elections there are what about it we have to admit that in thailand millions tens of millions of people do not want to see change through kamal's everyone has their own beliefs they see and believe all their lives therefore we must creatively find a balance between the needs of the individual and others in society but our correspondent scott hide in bangkok says that special session of parliament is not likely to resolve the issues. associates the 1st government forum for both sides of the issue to discuss things sinc

i'm john hendren at ohio state known for picking u.s. presidents it might just do it one more drawn. hello all hurricanes come to the stop line to die well in the very dead to me store active big system is not a hurricane anymore we're just mean windy and wet weather for all of north western europe that will be followed by z. turn a few days time this of course spreads to the heart of france and germany to the east of that rather quarter weather except if you happen to being greece it's been fairly stormy overnight and that stretched on to north africa as well that storm keeps circulated throughout wednesday's friends in the gin towards western turkey big thunderstorms are likely here in contrast to the just windy wet weather there is now focusing on the low countries and northern france throughout wednesday less so on thursday where then the folk focus is more like to be transferred northwards to the british isles particularly scotland that's a picture you don't want to see but it is october getting towards november so as to be expected

and in poetry of a serious touring some of those battleground states in america's midwest john hendren reports from ohio very much a swing state to find out what's measuring devices there that's wednesday right here on out is there. well still ahead for you. i warning from the wild health organization not to give up the fight against the coronavirus as the trump administration is accused of waving the white flag. had i was about to get stormy as i was in the eastern atlantic that massive cloud there is the remains of hurrican epsilon that will eventually turn itself into a real big storm and it will throw its weight against the british isles what extent is influence into much of western europe in the mean time snow that's already formed on the alps has stopped for the sun's come out might be good beautiful white ground in the rain or down 3 of your attic and focusing just south of italy and heading towards greece that could be a pretty vicious circulations ahead in towards athens for example on wednesday same times windy rainy for the british isles the low countries and france quite qu

america's midwest john hendren reports from these things stay in the hyatt find out what matters to voters that that's of course on wednesday on al-jazeera. now one of tanzania's main opposition parties is accusing the police of killing at least 9 people who were protesting against alleged voting fraud in the ongoing election that protests have been centered in the semi autonomous island of zanzibar where the main opposition candidate was arrested and then released the chairman of the african union has spoken out calling for calm catherine sawyer reports was this protesters in tanzania semi-autonomous region of zanzibar are mostly supporters of safe shareef hope that the main opposition presidential candidate was arrested in the early morning at a polling station during advance voting a special group such as security personnel election officials and people with disabilities he was related released was it's been tense in the last few days on the island with fighting between opposition supporters and police after a political rally of the candidates tanks and troops from the tanzania and main

in america's midwest john hendren reports from ohio a very much a swing state in 2020 to find out what matters to voters. here on al-jazeera. in other world news now the african union is calling for peaceful event is to be held in tanzania as it prepares to hold presidential and parliamentary elections with a semi-autonomous islands of zanzibar the leader of zanzibar as main opposition party was arrested but has since been released and 5 people who took part in protests were reportedly shot dead by police they fired tear gas and live i mean nation demonstrators who say ballot papers have been pretty mocked ahead of the vote it's . still ahead on al-jazeera. in a week and was. a county barrett is controversially sworn in as the new u.s. u.s. supreme court justice shifting the court further to the right and will tell you why a new abortion law in poland has triggered mass protests across the country. remains remarkably warm in the levant good cider western saudi arabia as well and that's despite what's developing in the mediterranean which is story whether through greece which head towar

and in part 3 of our series touring some of the battleground states in america's midwest john hendren reports from ohio to find out what matters to voters there on al-jazeera oh while the u.s. has been suffering under coronavirus so has europe the 2nd wave is hitting europe hard the death rate in france has more than doubled in the past 24 hours they're reporting $523.00 deaths that's up from $257.00 on monday record numbers of new cases are being reported across the continent more than 240001 monday almost 3 and a half times the daily rate at the beginning of the month belgium had a daily high of more than 800000 last week almost a 10 fold increase on the highest numbers seen in the 1st wave in spring and germany's government says they're likely to hit 20000 cases a day by the weekend medical workers in spain are holding a series of one day strikes demanding improved safety and working conditions they say they're exhausted after months of dealing with the pandemic and they're going to come out on strike on the final tuesday of every month on how that all reports from madrid. doctors

in america's midwest john hendren reports some ohio very much a swing state in 2020 to find out what matters to voters that's coming out wednesday on al-jazeera. in other world news a bomb blast in a religious school in northwest pakistan has killed at least 80 people more than 100 others were injured in the shower when a device was detonated as soon scattered forecasts that terri gave him the reports . up to 500 students were packed into this room when the bomb exploded. they were listening to a lecture by a prominent scholar at the jimmy is a very a religious school impish our could even start out a budget it was 8 o'clock in the morning the teacher was giving a lesson we just heard a big bang and all the students are running here and their. police say the bomb was hidden in an abandoned bag in the main hall pakistani and afghan students teachers and other members of staff are among the dead and injured several are in a critical condition police expect more faith tallaght. the injured were taken to the city's main hospital where relatives gathered waiting for news of. the attack co

hendren is been touring some of those battleground states he joins us from chicago and now john we have seen that biden is leading trump not just in national polls but also in many of those states that could really influence the outcome of the election but perhaps in some places the lead isn't. as strong as that his team would like. that's right a lot of people in 2016 posters were 'd relying on nationwide polls to talk about the election and now they're focusing a lot more on these battleground state polls really there are a lot of states like california new york that are going to vote for the democrat and then a number of conservative states like kansas and nebraska that will always vote for the republican pretty much all of the time well in. those 'd poll shows joe biden. percentage points ahead of donald trump 52 percent to 43 percent and that is a crucial state that helped put trump over the top he he won by sweeping through these midwestern swing states the used to be called the blue wall for barack obama a he was winning all of those democratic blue colors. one of the key places

and in part 2 of our series touring some of those battleground states in america's midwest john hendren reports from detroit michigan to find out what matters to vs that in a trump majority county that's tuesday right here on al-jazeera. now belorussian opposition need us to kind of sky is calling for a nationwide strike on monday after the president again refused to step down more than 100000 people rallied for the 11th week in a row on sunday demanding the resignation of alexander lukashenko alexia brian ports. this was the police response on the streets of the belorussian capital minsk. in what the opposition is calling state sponsored violence. security forces deployed stun grenades and tear gas on protesters who'd been marching against the president alexander lukashenko. the rally had started peacefully with wide columns of dam and stretches fanning out across ments they were heading for the president's home determined to send a message that it's time to god was the march was called by opposition leader script line a ticking off skier who'd given look into lee end of sunday to resi

i'm john hendren in ohio a state known for picking u.s. presidents it might just do it one more time. and then attempt to bring a more calm to iraqi politics mystery is can it work. hello bruce fans been hit hard by big showers recently now they're mostly drifting away you can see them to the extent of them on a satellite pickup but if you're in sydney then thursday is not going to be your best day that's an on shore breeze the showers are in your neck of the woods all were down to new south wales and stretching across towards adelaide as well but i think the sundry ones will be in the east a forecast as sydney gives you suddenly winds increasing and then easterly winds on saturday with the sun's storms coming back in by that time so that's a picture for friday then looking a little bit briefly but of a nuisance well so if a breeze been asked the purpose nor show of his record breaking a pretty big increase in temperatures up to 36 degrees in the hot sunshine now of course we're due for a change of season it was it way up in japan 1st of a

i'm john hendren in minneapolis a test case of whether young demonstrators will become young voters. however we've got some pretty wild weather still across eastern parts of australia wet windy thunder a shower was blowing away here some very active storm still in play there just around queensland new south wales victoria in particular some very heavy rifle with very strong winds. winds in excess 100 kilometers per hour and blustery shows a bit rattling through tasmania as well 13 celsius for melbourne should be about 20 degrees at this time of year so that's pretty disappointing wetter weather than to the eastern side of the southwest as we go through sunday show i was there up tools but it's been it's been policy that into the outback as well the way up towards northern territory darwin had stopped for 10 years and is very close to the all time record which goes back to 1941 and we still got a week of the month still to be a shot was there across northern territories go on through monday still a few showers up towards the cape built into russia's shallows there into new south wales

hendren is outside the hospital in bethesda maryland where the president john is now back into the hospital just talk us through how all of this played out. that's right the president sent out a tweet about 20 seconds before we saw his face that one that you just played in fact and we saw the streets suddenly not jammed like this with honking cars as you see it now but all of a sudden it even cleared police officers and cleared out the space and man this side of the road and then we saw a large motorcade of black vehicles that looked suspiciously like the president could of course people out here had no idea who it was they thought perhaps vice president mike might be coming by maybe some other dignitary that car passed on the opposite side of the street where walter reed national military medical center is and then he came by our side and it was right here on this corner i looked in the window and saw the distinctive face of donald trump wearing a black mask in the back of that car with secret service agents in the front rather heavily guarded up and at the same time the president sent out

i'm john hendren in minneapolis a test case of whether young demonstrators will become young voters. of. color into a quiet spell of weather across china or across the korean peninsula will see any increase the quantity into japan over the next few days has some rather wet weather here recently still a few showers around the 2 western pastas provide on the show wind just fading across the sea of japan there into the into northern parts of honshu but it brightens up nicely as we go on into monday $22.00 celsius in tokyo and there we go over the cliff guys and the sunshine across much of the korean peninsula the part of china you might just catch up shut down towards a fosse out nothing too much to speak of when i'm pleased to say weather is improving to the northeastern corner of india along with bangladesh there's still a little bit of cloud here still bringing a few showers into the final face off in the western parts of myanmar also still still seeing some rather heavy showers much of india does look dry the monsoon bicycles receding nicely now wanted to showers over towards additi

hendren al-jazeera door county was constant. us and sadness is a professor of political science at shippensburg university in pennsylvania and he says a number of factors can swing the outcome of the battleground states. it's a very small margin and i'm sure vice president biden wishes that it were significantly harder i think the biden campaign is hoping that those suburban areas around the cities around philadelphia and pittsburgh will really you know lock it in for him but the rural areas are dominated by trump supporters although we're seeing a lot more by and supporters sort of coming out of the blood work because in this election a lot of people or the volume's very high people are very angry for some of those states you know for georgia and iowa i think that the democrats this is a pleasant surprise for the democrats florida has always been very very close and in fact in 2000 really the election of george w. bush hinged on the florida vote because it was a tie the electoral college until lord was was counted so you know t

and in part 2 of a series touring some of those battleground states in america's midwest john hendren reports from detroit michigan to find out just what matters to voters says and a trump majority county trying to get out choose day hit on al jazeera. the coronavirus pandemic has severely affected the arts all over the wild but in the u.k. some autists a thriving despite cancelled shows and gallery closes and it's not just an autistic contribution they're making but an important economic one as well sunny day go reports from liverpool in times of crisis when normality fulls apart it is a time many say where great talent can come to life where hardship fi is the imagination to escape the harsh reality. from hollow spaces to the streets outside the pandemic has pushed both artists and imus's alike to find creative means of expression creative hubs around the country have been quietly carrying on and providing a much needed supporting role such as this make a space in liverpool where art fused with technology is funded and run by the community at the start of the lock down they set to w

hendren a correspondent saw him so john what was he doing. well as we were standing here when the police cleared the road and then we saw a black motorcade that looks suspiciously like the president's come on the other side turn around and come by on this side and looking into the window for a brief moment i saw the face of what was certainly donald trump driving by in the . motorcade checked twitter feed and about 8 or 9 minutes ago he said that he was going to pay a little surprise visit to the people outside. he's apparently a little drive by to reassure people that he's ok it's not clear whether he's going back inside but that seems to be what he was suggesting in that twitter video so it's really him coming by saying hello to the many fans that he has out here carrying flags and wishing the best to the president the to the best of our knowledge he is returning to walter reed military medical center but we really don't know much more than that and this is just a bit like yesterday the president trying to take the initiative on the p.r. fr

to john hendren show. john of course the great lakes region very important in this election. that's right fully if you took a boat from pennsylvania to ohio to michigan to wisconsin those are the great lakes swing states that trump won in 2016 and those are the ones without which he would not have won and the one that really put him over the top the unexpected one was wisconsin he won all of those states except ohio upset victories so that's why so many posters were surprised the next day neither democrats nor republicans want to be fooled on election day this time around so you can see the candidates spending a lot of time in those swing states and in wisconsin in particular that's a state that right now an average of polls has joe biden up by about 5 percentage points that's why you see trump and pence and biden and harris all converging on these states we went to one county within wisconsin wisconsin had not voted for a republican since 1984 for president but there is a swing county within wisconsin that we use is kind of for who's going to win the election and that's a co

constitution of john hendren al-jazeera washington. in bolivia's presidential election is set to get under way in just a few hours security forces have been deployed in and tis a patient of possible unrest an election last year plunged bolivia into political turmoil president even more as one that votes but resigned and went into exile shortly after allegations of electoral fraud. thousands in chile are set to mark one year since the beginning of a protest movement calling for social change demonstrators demanded a new constitution and the more equal society a latin america editor lucy a new reports from santiago the continuing push for progress. a small 30 percent increase in the metro fare was the detonator of a social explosion last year that has dropped latin america's most stable democracy ever since. the 24 year old was similar medius was one of the students that rushed this entangle metro station last october 18th it was the law and uncle as the saying goes it was in the 30 pesos with the 30 years of unfilled promises clearly th

hendren reports. of the suburbs were rolling lawns lead to expensive homes where scenic views meet shops quaint and common close to culture far enough from squalor idyllic havens of safety and middle income splendor but don't let the leafy tranquility fool you divisions here run deep these are the battlegrounds where the u.s. election will be decided. in suburban minnesota a short commute from minneapolis george floyd's death under a police officer's need led to raucous protests that divided a nation in many households. and probably for me it would be trying i like the idea of a republican socialism and that seems to be the direction of the democrats and i think character is an important quality and. i think also we need someone who can unify and not divide it why president donald trump seeks to instill fear into the suburban heart if you elected this guy the suburbs would be overwhelmed with violence and crime and why joe biden is striking back how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires how many su

constitution john hendren 0 washing. well a record number of americans have already voted nationally 26000000 people have cast their ballots by mail or through in person voting as according to the united states elections project that's a huge jump from the same time 4 years ago when less than one and a half 1000000 had voted. for months raise concerns about election fraud is encouraging his supporters to vote by mail in a new social media blitz gregory koger is professor of political science at the university of miami he explains the controversy surrounding mail in ballots and how it could affect the election. what president trump is trying to do is discredit the practice of 1000000 voting and he's clearly signaled that after the election he's prepared to file lawsuits to canada to stop the counting a mail ballots and in doing so to try to preserve what he expects will be an advantage in the vote count as of election day for himself in key states and the democratic advantage in early voting really you know puts an end to

hendren al jazeera washington. in indonesia workers unions are protesting about a controversial new jobs law. they've joined an estimated 2000000 other indonesians are angry about the bill they say weakens their rights will also reduce protections for the environment for the government says it'll are trying to investment and help an economy which is being crippled by the pandemic. jessica washington joins us now live from jakarta so jessica how paralyzing all the protests proving so follow how disruptive. sorry for the most part these protests are concentrated in areas with high populations of factory workers but some of those factory workers who are planning to come to jakarta to protest in front of the parliament but you can see the police and security vehicles behind me trying to stop people from doing that but as far as the protests themselves go this is a dangerous situation for indonesia a country which is yet to get the pandemic under control so having these large gatherings of people in the street protestin

john hendren reports from door county, wisconsin. >> donald trump swept into wisconsin like a cool wind off lake michigan and he left in 2016 with an upset victory in a state that had not voted for a republican for president since 1984. he did it in part here in door county, a swain county that voted twice for george w. bush, twice for barack obama and in 20 for donald trump. york county is a tree lined -- door county is a tree lined -- and tourism. at the farmers markets and coin stalls on this scenic landscape, voters are divided as they were four years ago. >> i went into the biggest depression that american people could actually vote for somebody who treated other people that way. it is just totally -- totally blew me away. >> donald trump has done a good job. whether he is going to get enernoc, i do not know, but i hope he does. i do not think the other guy is strong enough to handle the job. >> with just days before the sun rises in the november 30 election, party activists say both sides know if not for wisconsin, hillary clinton would be running for reelection. >> very early on,

hendren al-jazeera chicago. here is president donald trump and his white house challenger joe biden have been quizzed by the public during rival televised town hall style events they were asked about issues ranging from the coronavirus to conspiracy theories the supreme court and trump's finances they were supposed to face each other in a 2nd presidential debate but trump withdrew from that and his format was changed to virtual rather than in person and i got to go has more from miami where the trump forum was held. the answers that the president gave were fairly a very. very good there were some interesting moments he didn't really get many tough questions from the audience on the coronavirus he kept the line he's always kept that he's done a great job save thousands if not millions of lives that he acted quickly when he put travel bans in place for china and europe once again he blamed china on his taxes which was a big issue in the last debate he didn't deny that he was 400000000 dollars in debt that was an i

hendren al-jazeera bethesda maryland. yes there too is an emergency physician and professor at oregon health and science university she says the president's treatment is very unique and projects a high degree of concern every single time we get a clinical update about the president over the past 3 days it is more serious so 1st he had mild disease and he was being transferred out of an abundance of caution and then he had received this upgraded medical therapy rem does appear which is for patients who you know are not have more than mild disease then he had transience oxygen supplementation the then he had ones that were more serious it sounds like multiple times and now he's on dex the method zone which is really reserved for patients who have at least moderate but usually severe coated disease involving the lungs and and in patients who have have hypoxia so it certainly seems like his course is dynamic and it is headed in the wrong direction and we don't know as far as this whole cocktail because no one that i've probab

hendren joins us live now from washington and in the closing weeks of the campaign john president on old trump clearly on the defensive we see him campaigning in and visiting states that he won comfortably 4 years ago. yeah that's right until recently he was really on the defense he was campaigning in states that he should be handily ahead in including florida georgia and iowa now he's taking on those battleground states that he won by a whisker last time and needs again to win this time that includes pennsylvania but also the 2 states where he is right now michigan and in wisconsin where he is about to go for the next rally crossing lake michigan in order to get there he's due there i believe in less than an hour and i was in wisconsin just a day or so ago and the proliferation of trump signs in the rural areas tell you that there is still enthusiasm for this president who after all won those states last time around but he's behind in every major national poll by as much as 12 points he is behind in battleground state polls including in michigan and wisconsin so he's battling his wa

let's go to correspondent john hendren who has the line for us now from detroit and michigan and biden clearly bringing out the bring the big guns with president obama that why the focus on michigan 3 days before election day that's right he does have the heavy artillery on today if you look over my left shoulder those 2 bright lights are bell island just off of detroit across the detroit river and that's where they're talking right now you may occasionally hear all honking horns that's how the crowd responds at these drive in socially distanced braley is michigan is a particularly key state i know it must sound like every time we go to a different state we're trying to say that that's the crucial state but michigan really is one of those states that put trump over last time around and it put it put him over by the narrowest of margins literally the narrowest margin in the u.s. in that election in 2016 trump won by 0.2 percentage points 10000 votes so that means if biden can flip the state of michigan narrow trumps narrow victory last time would not be able to be repeated he'd have to

hendren al-jazeera was out of minnesota the u.s. justice department says google may need to be broken up as a file the competition lawsuit against the company the claim alleges the firm uses its market power to preserve a monopoly over search and advertising its the most aggressive u.s. legal challenge to a tech companies dominance in more than 2 decades. thailand's prime minister price channel shall will hold a special session and parliamentary next week as for testers continue their calls for him to quit thousands of rallied for $6.00 straight days in the capital bangkok he has and this you. oh the emotional scenes outside a prison in bangkok as 19 and he government protesters are free on bail. they were arrested last week when police fired water cannon to disperse large crowds defying a ban on public gatherings 3 protest leaders were also released but 2 were immediately rearrested relating to another rally last month their free colleague is vowing to carry on. we didn't feel deterred by the arrests we know that this is part of th

hendren reports. as pandemic cases spike across the u.s. new york's governor is it on with new york city's mayor over a plan coronavirus crackdown. governor andrew cuomo sped up a plan to close schools and 9 hot spots in new york city's brooklyn and queens areas beginning tuesday these clusters. have to be attacked and picture those hot spots as a as embers. within the field of dry grass ok that's how i think of it the only. course is to run to those embers and stay up them out but cuomo is refusing to allow new york city mayor bill de blasio to close non-essential businesses in 9 hot spots still de blasio says he will work to drive down the surge in those neighborhoods if we act aggressively right now we can do it i have absolute faith in what new yorkers can do once they have a clear direction here it is it's time to take resolute action in these 9 zip codes and protect the whole rest of the city and turn this around new york has seen a 62 percent increase of new daily coronavirus cases than it had

thank you for that john hendren live for us there in washington d.c. now of wreckage number of americans have already voted nationally 26000000 people have cast their ballots by mail or through in person voting that's according to the united states elections project that's a huge jump from the same time 4 years ago when less than one and a half 1000000 people had voted now trump who for months raise concerns about election fraud is encouraging his supporters to vote by mail in a new social media ad blitz let's speak to gregory colder about this his professor of political science at the university of miami and joins us via skype now from florida thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera so americans are voting early and invective numbers what inspired them do you think what's motivating them to go out and vote i think a lot of voters have been waiting for this election for years or months and so one part of it is just too easy to turn out and vote as quickly as possible as possible and make sure their votes are counted what about the coronavirus

constitution john hendren al-jazeera washington. thousands until they are said to mark a year since the beginning of a protest movement calling for social change demonstrators demanded a new constitution and the more equal society our latin america at its alice in human reports from santiago and the continuing push for progress. a small 30 pistol increase in the metro thing out was the detonator of a social explosion last year that has rocked latin america's most stable democracy ever since. 24 year old sim again i mean this was one of the students that rushed this entangle metro station last october 18th it was the law and vocal as the saying goes it was in the 30 places with the 30 years of unfulfilled promises clearly there was a before and after october 18th chile has never been the same the rules of the game have been totally modified in what way wasn't really in the sense as citizens of empowered and took over public spaces to demand their rights that had never happened that's why it's been a citizens revolution. the initial r

constitution john hendren 0 washing. thousands of people marched in lebanon i agree over the lack of political reform despite a year of anti-government demonstrations the protesters are demanding change saying use of corruption and mismanagement have left their country in tatters zana called reports from beirut. the determination to fight for political change is still alive. it's been a year since what some lebanese call a revolution was born. 7 some year allows our says she hasn't left the streets economic hardship was what triggered nationwide protests it turned into a revolt against what many call a corrupt willing elite that has been in power for decades we're not going to stop before. these people in power just leave and so we will make sure basically. so we we do this change and push them to design in any way because we will not go back to before up to over 70 in the leaderless and spontaneous movement was a turning point in lebanon's history sects came together in this divided society and for the 1st time people r

hendren reports from minneapolis on how that incident could impact this year's presidential election. when george floyd died beneath a minneapolis police officers need the youth of america filled the streets by the thousands. every 4th november many go a wall ghosting the ballot box i don't think my one vote is really going to make a big difference in the grand scheme of things and yeah i voted for hillary clinton last time and i felt bad doing it and it didn't make a lick of difference. young voters overwhelmingly lean liberal with 18 to 34 year olds in a recent poll preferring democrat joe biden over the republican president donald trump by a whopping $37.00 percentage points but americans over 60 are more than twice as likely to vote to be totally honest i'm not going to be voting for for either candidate. the ongoing protests over alleged police brutality against black americans could change that sending more young voters to the polls i know a lot of people who will be voting for biden a college student at the university of minnesota adan boozing once back bernie sanders but now

hendren reports. cleveland's industrial skyline rises from the ohio coast on lake erie and it's ohio as rick's an industry agriculture and service jobs that make it a microcosm of the u.s. and that's what makes ohio the bellwether state. for decades all routes to the white house have gone through here ohio has voted for the winner in every presidential election since 1064 and they take voting seriously here i think it's most important especially if you want to see change no republican has ever won the presidency without 1st winning in ohio. at may holes bowling alley winning is the name of the game. here in suburban cleveland the diversity within international border the crowd leans toward democrats and away from president trump he's mentally imbalanced and he is a threat to the health and well being of everyone on the planet i'm looking for a change this upcoming election season just that we can kind of get back on track as a country. on the state's vast farmlands and in the factory town of canton wh

constitution of john hendren al-jazeera washington. hundreds of people protested outside the tom protel in new york demonstrators when calling for an end to police brutality and racial inequality relatives of some of those affected by police violence against black people were there including the family of briana taylor she was sought by police in a home during a raid and sparked a nationwide protests. french prosecutors say an 18 year old man who beheaded a teacher in paris on friday approached students to help identify his victim parents and pupils have been laying floral tributes to the teacher on saturday prosecutors say the school had received multiple threats after the teacher showed a controversial image of the prophet muhammad during a lesson about freedom of expression the attacker died after being shot by police. there's been violence in haiti is the country marked its independence day and government protesters blocked roads and set fire to tires and the capitol police use rubber bullets and tear gas to try to break up the dem