At a Religious School in pakistan also this hour calls for a peaceful election in tanzania after violence and the arrest of an Opposition Leader in zines a car and the toll of yemens war on children the u. N. Says tens of thousands are suffering acute malnutrition. Im joined again with the sport as paralympic sprinter blake leeper loses his appeal to her to use prosthetic legs to true qualify for the olympics but he plans to fight what he says of races decision. Thank you very much for joining us with exactly a week to go before the u. S. Election theres been a surge in early voting partly due to and despite the coronavirus pandemic more than 63000000 americans had voted by monday nights thats 4000000 more than all. 4 years ago National Polls are giving democratic contender joe biden a solid lead although its a not tighter in some battleground states but the coronavirus pandemic continues to overshadow the campaign infections a surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since a pandemic began stock markets in the u. S. So their biggest one day drop in a month as concern grows that failure to contain the outbreak will hurt the economy recovery or rescue package remains held up in congress with democrats and republicans deadlocked over the details lets go straight to our White House Correspondent kimberly homepage who is live for us from the White House Committee so one week to go exactly before election day the polls not looking good for donald trump but as we know from 2016 you cant always trust the polls. Thats true except that there are a couple of indicators that are not good news for donald trump number one in the early voting in those enormous numbers what were seeing is a trend of young people voting many who stayed home in 2016 or werent able to vote the last election and most of them seem to be leaning democratic so that is not good news for donald trump as well the fact is that in 2216 by now what we saw even though Hillary Clinton the rival then was in the lead the the gap between donald trump and his rival was closing and this time theres not a lot of movement in those poll numbers and those are worrying sides so donald trump is continuing to focus on those battleground states where donald trump is catching up a little bit but there is still that biden lead hes going travelling to michigan wisconsin nebraska but when it comes to joe biden he is also traveling to georgia an area where the travis made a little bit of game particularly with africanamerican men. So hes trying to counter that so what exactly is the Campaign Strategy would just 7 days to go what messaging are they pushing forward right now. To thing seize voting or rather sending the message to voters that he delivered on a Campaign Promise big time 3 appointments to the Supreme Court most recently last night with the confirmation of a. B. Kone barrett no president s done that since Ronald Reagan and that is something that his base was counting on so its a promise delivered the other big thing that he is continuing to push is a law and order message which did work with a lot of suburban women and so that is Something Else that were going to see in this final stretch but the bottom line for donald trump is what hes trying to do is make sure that enthusiasm among his supporters doesnt wane given the fact that there is this lead in the National Polls for his rival in fact donald trump tweeting today not to get discouraged that the only poll that really matters is what a lection day as we often say and so he says cystic that he has a lead of at least one poll and for his voters not to give up. Or say the white house. Or donald Trump Victory 4 years ago was partly due to the upset in the usually Democratic State of michigan to be reelected he will need to win in the states the launch of counties live to john hendren aint chicago now John Michigan and the midwest in general really important in this election does the president still have a hold on the midwest or have things change. Well if you drive through the rural areas of the great lakes states including michigan you see one trump sign after another theres great support for him in the rural areas and if you go to the cities there is great support for joe biden in between in the suburbs is really where things were decided last time around and there you see a mix polls suggest that suburban women are pulling away from donald trump but we went there to go find out and what we did was we went to Mccone County this is a suburban county its on Lake Sinclair between lake huron and erie and its a middle class town that was really full of auto workers in the past and and now youve got some Beautiful Homes on the water so basically its a microcosm of the u. S. And after voting for barack obama it boded for donald trump we wanted to see which way d they would go this time and we found some interesting things take a look. Mccomb county which sits between 2 great lakes lake huron in lake erie is scenic patriotic middle class and overwhelmingly white in the last election trump resonated here in 2016 pledged he would not cut Medicare Medicaid or Social Security very different from other republican candidates and i think that combined with a lot of his appeals to white identity politics really i think really appealed to a lot of people in mccomb county. Trump inspires tributes on land and water and a rare devotion among supporters to the greatest president weve ever had in my lifetime he has made so many promises and hes kept more promises that hes made which has never happened ever as i believe in all his policies hes gotten the job done so far hes prolife hes everything i believe in. The 2020 election will test whether hes still popular here despite the coronavirus and an economic collapse has democrat joe bidens Campaign Workers canvassed the county early so i am proud are there are 3 more he leads trump handily in recent polls whats changed is this mask. The epidemic here and has been very difficult we have lost over a 1000 people to call that the president doesnt have a plan doesnt pretend to have one he wants more people to die joe biden will have a plan that will fix this coded so that we can try and get back to normal life what has also changed is a growing political conflict within the state. Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer as aggressive Pandemic Response led armed protesters to force their way into the State Capitol and it led to the arrest of 13 militia members who allegedly planned to kidnap or in trump has been fanning the flames youve got to get your governor to open up your state. So that conflict in this state of michigan has grown so harsh that not only were those militia members planning to kidnap the governor they were going to put her on trial and the whole issue there was the way she has cracked down very aggressively on the coronavirus refusing to allow people to travel within this state having a mask mandate well President Trump has made that a big issue with his sort of lukewarm support for masks and social distancing hes targeted Governor Gretchen Whitmer and what that means is in that state people are either on one side or the other by and large but we have a new poll from the university of wisconsin at madison and that suggests that biden is widening his lead in these great lakes states so in michigan that poll showed biden ahead by 10 in wisconsin by 9 and in pennsylvania by 8 Percentage Points but there are people who talk about pollsters that is who talk about the possible shy voter some of them think that there are people who just dont respond to the polls and that that might give a long or 2 percentage point edge but if trump is going to win michigan hes probably going to. To win it in places like mcallen county thank you very much for that john hendren live in chicago and in part 3 of our series soaring some of the battleground states in americas midwest john reports from ohio very much a swing state in 2020 to find out what matters so voters there as coming up on wednesday right here on. Here now the world news a bomb blast in a Religious School in northwest pakistan has killed at least 8 people more than 100 others were injured in fresh are when a device was detonated students gathered for lessons Victoria Gate to be has more. 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 in push our look at eventually our budget it was 8 oclock in the morning the teacher was giving a lesson which is 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 ConditionPolice Expect more fatal a t. The injured were taken to the citys main hospital where relatives gathered waiting for news of. The attack comes days after pakistans Intelligence ServiceWounded Armed groups could target public buildings including Religious Schools across pakistan Prime Minister imran khan condemned the bombing. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack the Pakistani Taliban condemned the bombing and denied involvement the group has targeted schools mosques and the military since 2001 when pakistan supported the u. S. Invasion of afghanistan starts out on the good ground. Well then. Well what you. Saw. In 1000 students were at the school when the bomb went off police say most of those killed were young people in their twentys Victoria Gate and be al jazeera. A car bomb blast near a special forces unit in eastern afghanistan has killed 2 people fighting is ongoing in the city of khost afghanistans interior minister says 25. 00 people were injured in the attack including 9 civilians no group has claimed responsibility. Theres lots more ahead on this al jazeera news hour including. The terrorists by muslims calling for a boycott of french products spreads we report from bangladesh where the latest demonstrations are being held. Boss aljazeera gains exclusive access to operations at the biggest u. S. Military base in the gulf. And premier league clubs are set to decide whether to scrap a controversial policy of charging fans up to 19. 00 to watch a match on t. V. Thats coming up in sports with joe. The u. S. Secretaries of state and defense are in india seeking to boost military cooperation maicon pale and mock hesper have signed a deal with their indian counterparts to expand information sharing from military satellites the stop in india is one of a 5 day asia trip aimed at strengthening strategic ties to counter chinas influence. The challenge of defeating the pandemic that came from also fed into a robust discussions about the Chinese Communist party. Our leaders and our citizens see with increasing clarity that the c. C. P. Is no friend to democracy the rule of law transparency in order freedom of navigation the foundation of a free and open and prosperous indopacific im glad to say that the United States navy are taking steps to strengthen our cooperation against all manner of threats and not just those opposed by the Chinese Communist party and is a bit random has more from new delhi on the defense relationship between india and the us. This time around they managed to sign the 4th and final of whats called these foundational Foundation Defense Agreements between the 2 countries and this one which allows the sharing of high end when the Tree Technology maps and sash is one thats eluded previous u. S. Governments because the previous government in power and via the congress was reluctant to sign such an agreement they thought it would be giving up something of its strategic autonomy but the trumpet ministration is one thats very close to the b j p government here in india and they decided that to expedite the signing of this deal when President Trump wants india in february so this is very much a sin the defining of the defense relationship between the 2 countries of course its coming at a time when relations between india and its neighbor china have been at an almost all time low its something that secretary of state might pompei referred to in his address he referred to the killing of 20 indian soldiers in june the 1st death along that border in 45 years and he said that the u. S. Stands with the people of india really interesting both the u. S. Officials singled out china spoke about what they said but chinas increasing aggression destabilizing moves the Indian Officials didnt use such language they said things like that that asia had to be multipolar and that is not surprising given that talks between indian and chinese officials are ongoing to try to resolve that border standoff bangladesh is the ages muslim nation calling for a boycott of french products the growing protests followed french and french fries and a recent controversial comments on islam and it follows the beheading of a french teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class michael has defended the caricature is and says you know tucker what he calls separatism in france chantry has more from bangladeshs capital dhaka. It started off with social Media Chatter for the last several days are going people to go in the street and protest theres been hashtag ill bring people to boycott french products so today there was a large gathering in the largest mosque in the capital city by the crown with tens of thousands mostly on the Islamic Party banner unity of the this people gathered here to protest and they wanted to go in front of the French Embassy but in the city intersection they were blocked by the police so they couldnt go since then it was dispersed theres been protests in the Dhaka University campus yesterday and the social media has been very active just to give you an context i mean these are not just islamic parties already people who are protesting the Common People there saying well if. France has a double standard put people in social media in a stand saying that france and other countries put freedom of expression as a defense but when it comes to groups like jewish groups on the holocaust and things like that are not you are not able to criticize of the ng it should be the same for islam because he is the most revered person one over 1000000000 people and it is a blast maybe to carry or to even depict him in any form now this movement probably will continue because there is a lot of chatter in the social media arguing for more protest in the streets. To africa now and the chairman of the African Union is calling for Peaceful Elections to be held in tanzania as he prepares to hold a president ial and parliamentary vote with the semiautonomous island of zanzibar as well the leader of the Main Opposition Party was arrested but has since been released and 5 people who took part in protests were reportedly shot dead by Police Police fired tear gas and live ammunition at demonstrators who said ballot papers had been pretty mox ahead of the vote as the bar is a group of islands off the coast of tanzania which holds semiautonomous status from the mainland residents there vote for a regional president as well as a national one tanzanias president john moghul fully has governed since 2015 and is seeking reelection his supporters say his clampdown on corruption but why schools say his weaponized along to stifle opposition is main challenger to unduly so is a fierce critic of the president he returned home in july after nearly 3 years in exile following a 2017 assassination attempt Rights Groups have also expressed concern about the elections being free and fair in both tanzania and zanzibar his government banned opposition parties from Holding Public rallies 4 years ago and theres been tight control of the media and zanzibar had 2050 new lection result an old over allegations they were raped or lets speak to david makali about this hes an observer of the times in the elections watch and is from Nairobi Kenya thank you so much for being with us david so in the run up to wednesdays vote in tanzania opposition parties had already complained of threats dozens of opposition voluntary and candidates were disqualified we have the main Opposition Leader in zanzibar rested and then released how much of a concern is all this to you do you think th