:00:00. > :00:00.day's news. But first we crossed the northern USA on the Empire Builder
:00:00. > :00:00.train route, to find out what issues resonate among American voters
:00:00. > :00:08.beyond the media spotlight. There's been a lot of talk
:00:09. > :00:11.of the personalities in this election, but there are big issues
:00:12. > :00:13.at stake for America. Things like counter-terrorism,
:00:14. > :00:20.like immigration. The idea of being constantly
:00:21. > :00:30.surveilled, of have people watching There is more protester
:00:31. > :00:34.activity, intimidation, We will look at those issues,
:00:35. > :00:40.as well as the role that race and the money in politics has played
:00:41. > :00:43.in this election cycle. We want to expand white privilege
:00:44. > :00:45.and deepen it. I do care about my people more
:00:46. > :00:55.than I do about other people. We'll doing it along an old,
:00:56. > :00:57.beautiful train route We will travel the famous route
:00:58. > :01:13.from Minneapolis to Seattle, taking a high-speed look at five key
:01:14. > :01:17.ways this election is crucial Many voters say their number one
:01:18. > :01:29.concern is immigration of one group We lived in this exact
:01:30. > :01:40.neighbourhood since I was seven. There is a sense of community
:01:41. > :01:44.and we are trying to keep it alive. There has been a lot of talk
:01:45. > :01:52.of Muslims coming to this country Some of those Muslims that have
:01:53. > :01:56.grown up in America say in the current climate, they feel
:01:57. > :01:59.more marginalised than ever before, undoing any successes
:02:00. > :02:01.counterterrorism Tens of thousands of Somali Muslims
:02:02. > :02:06.live in Minneapolis, either refugees Young people feel they
:02:07. > :02:20.are constantly being Young people feel they are
:02:21. > :02:22.constantly being watched by authorities and treated like a
:02:23. > :02:25.menace to society. With the approach they have
:02:26. > :02:27.to the Muslim community in America, it is to absolutely make you feel
:02:28. > :02:30.they are unAmerican. That is doing the job
:02:31. > :02:33.of Islamic State, because Isis is saying you are not American
:02:34. > :02:38.and they don't want you. Young American Somalis agreed
:02:39. > :02:46.they feel under they are intense scrutiny for being
:02:47. > :02:48.Muslims in the US. Sometimes I feel like
:02:49. > :02:50.it is like discrimination. There is this otherness
:02:51. > :02:55.attributed to Somalians. As a result, we are dealt
:02:56. > :02:58.with as a threat, not But over the years, a small number
:02:59. > :03:03.have gone on to join jihadi Nine Somali men were imprisoned
:03:04. > :03:15.this summer for trying to join The same department that prosecuted
:03:16. > :03:18.them is also giving out money to community groups
:03:19. > :03:20.to try to prevent radicalisation. Some here are saying that that
:03:21. > :03:23.money is not welcome. Of course I want the funding
:03:24. > :03:27.and of course I want the resources, but if this is being presented to us
:03:28. > :03:37.through a counter-terrorism lens, then you're definitely telling me
:03:38. > :03:42.I'm an issue and that some 8/9-year-old Somali kid has
:03:43. > :03:44.the potential to become something This woman is accepting government
:03:45. > :03:51.funds to help educate and mentor. She says the counter-terrorism tag
:03:52. > :03:54.bothers her, but she says the money is badly needed
:03:55. > :03:58.for some young people. They're in an ocean
:03:59. > :04:04.and don't know how to swim. These kids are looking
:04:05. > :04:07.for opportunities, they are looking But most agree that with the angry
:04:08. > :04:18.rhetoric in recent months, American Muslims are under pressure
:04:19. > :04:21.in the US like never before. I have never felt threatened
:04:22. > :04:24.in the 23 years I have been in I have never seen someone
:04:25. > :04:35.who is wanting to become the next President of the US threatening
:04:36. > :04:37.people because of their religion, saying, they cannot come to America
:04:38. > :04:45.or they need to go back. In that, she also feels,
:04:46. > :04:50.is counter-productive and is potentially alienating
:04:51. > :04:54.more young people. We board the Empire Builder
:04:55. > :04:57.train that night. When this historic route
:04:58. > :04:59.was created, it helped communities across the northern USA feel
:05:00. > :05:07.connected to the rest of the country We're travelling in it at a time
:05:08. > :05:13.when many people are frustrated It doesn't mean they are not
:05:14. > :05:18.engaged with this election. There is, after all,
:05:19. > :05:20.so much at stake. There is only one Empire Builder
:05:21. > :05:25.train a day. That is why after a full day of
:05:26. > :05:33.speaking to people in Minneapolis, we are arriving in Fargo,
:05:34. > :05:35.North Dakota, at 3.40am. Many will associate Fargo
:05:36. > :05:38.with the dark comedy and strange happenings of the movie and TV
:05:39. > :05:40.series of the same name. But it's the cultural hub of this
:05:41. > :05:45.state and a vital town. We're here to talk about
:05:46. > :05:47.what continues to be One where it doesn't just matter
:05:48. > :05:55.who's in the White House, but who they then choose to serve
:05:56. > :05:59.in the Supreme Court to make laws Once a week, the day abortions
:06:00. > :06:08.happen, protestors gather outside the only abortion clinic
:06:09. > :06:10.in the State of North Dakota. This is the civil rights issue
:06:11. > :06:15.of our day because it has to do with the death of innocent human
:06:16. > :06:20.persons that's legal in our country. All of the other liberties
:06:21. > :06:23.that we have in life, all of the other things,
:06:24. > :06:26.mean nothing to a dead Every time one of the patients
:06:27. > :06:32.turned up, the anti-abortion protesters followed
:06:33. > :06:33.and intimidated her, When they get here their minds
:06:34. > :06:42.are made up so it is But if we can maybe just offer
:06:43. > :06:46.a kind word or a smile Those in the blue vests
:06:47. > :06:50.are volunteers who protect A huge reason I out am
:06:51. > :06:59.here on the sidewalk is to show support for my local clinic
:07:00. > :07:01.as a North Dakota native. And also to make sure
:07:02. > :07:04.that this option is still For many years now, women
:07:05. > :07:13.who have come to this clinic for their abortions have
:07:14. > :07:15.had to run the gauntlet I really don't think they care
:07:16. > :07:19.about us or what we are doing They're not going to be
:07:20. > :07:24.there to hold our hand if we go The surgery's come at risk
:07:25. > :07:28.of closure from local politicians, though that threat's
:07:29. > :07:33.been averted for now. But when the political risk
:07:34. > :07:37.to abortion clinics recedes nationally and locally,
:07:38. > :07:41.antiabortionists will resort Protesting has gone up in the last
:07:42. > :07:47.few years, really since There is more intimidation,
:07:48. > :07:50.harassment, at clinics, Some advocates for a woman's right
:07:51. > :07:58.to choose whether they have an abortion, like Tammy,
:07:59. > :08:02.say the levels of provision and the number of clinics now
:08:03. > :08:04.are greatly inadequate. North Dakota only has one clinic
:08:05. > :08:08.on the fight eastern North Dakota only has one
:08:09. > :08:10.clinic on the far eastern But we also serves a tri-state area,
:08:11. > :08:14.North Dakota, South Dakota, And those distances are already
:08:15. > :08:25.stopping some from coming here, but it doesn't mean
:08:26. > :08:26.they are stopping abortions. If a person doesn't
:08:27. > :08:28.want to give birth, There is what they did in the '80s
:08:29. > :08:40.with coathangers and pens and stuff. Do you know of others who've
:08:41. > :08:42.had abortions that way, Advocates say this is precisely why
:08:43. > :08:48.more clinics like this are needed What folks don't realise is that
:08:49. > :08:57.abortion is extremely common, even It's common, it's normal
:08:58. > :09:02.and that is how abortion Abortion is one of those topics
:09:03. > :09:07.with very clear differences in the direction the USA could take
:09:08. > :09:16.depending on who is elected. And we were about to investigate
:09:17. > :09:19.another, in a part of America which would dramatically
:09:20. > :09:21.illustrate the tensions. I went on a daytime trip
:09:22. > :09:25.on the Empire Builder through some beautiful areas,
:09:26. > :09:27.but the evidence on the landscape in the last few moments shows
:09:28. > :09:30.we are going towards Williston, There were a number of companies,
:09:31. > :09:40.a lot of my friends themselves, they were shutting businesses down
:09:41. > :09:43.and on the border of bankruptcy. In the last decade they have made
:09:44. > :09:47.more money than the last 30 years The tremendous oil boom
:09:48. > :09:54.peaked three years ago, People who have made fortunes
:09:55. > :09:59.and money have poured it We have a new high school,
:10:00. > :10:03.a new rec centre where my children play
:10:04. > :10:05.three times a week. In a town where oil has brought
:10:06. > :10:17.riches and frustration In a town where oil has
:10:18. > :10:19.brought riches, there's gets in the way of business
:10:20. > :10:23.on the grounds of We have the outside influence,
:10:24. > :10:25.the Federal aspect, with the stroke of a pen,
:10:26. > :10:28.the pipeline is shut down. At the stroke of a pen,
:10:29. > :10:31.we have to worry about things It's tough to see that happening
:10:32. > :10:35.because you are left with this helpless feeling and you cannot do
:10:36. > :10:37.anything about it. But this is a story we're
:10:38. > :10:45.going to look at in two parts. We get back on the Empire Builder
:10:46. > :10:48.train to head west, to a place where the oil industry
:10:49. > :11:11.and climate change meet. As we left Williston behind,
:11:12. > :11:14.and we met Brandon, an oil worker, who is unimpressed
:11:15. > :11:16.by Hillary Clinton's What we do here is regulated
:11:17. > :11:19.and under the control And you have places like China that
:11:20. > :11:23.have no regulations that are dumping pollution into the atmosphere,
:11:24. > :11:25.and there is nothing But as we approach the stunning,
:11:26. > :11:29.rugged terrain of Glacier National That is a serious fracking
:11:30. > :11:33.operation going on. He said man's impact on the climate
:11:34. > :11:37.was being directly felt right here. You're not going to have the amount
:11:38. > :11:40.of snow required to sustain the glaciers if you have the amount
:11:41. > :11:45.of melt we have been experiencing We've just travelled seven hours
:11:46. > :11:55.from the town of Williston to here in East Glacier,
:11:56. > :11:58.an area that is something of a poster child
:11:59. > :12:11.for environmentalists. The beauty of the national
:12:12. > :12:16.park is breathtaking. But it's far harder to find
:12:17. > :12:20.a glacier than it once was. This is what the edge
:12:21. > :12:26.of a glacier looks like. The position it used to be
:12:27. > :12:29.in is exactly what the climate Say we came here in 1911,
:12:30. > :12:35.what would it look like? Some glaciers have ceased
:12:36. > :12:42.to become glaciers. They no longer have any moving ice
:12:43. > :12:49.and are now stagnant snow fields. Could there be a time
:12:50. > :12:54.when in the near future where Glacier National Park
:12:55. > :12:56.could have no glaciers? Mankind is contributing
:12:57. > :13:05.to global warming. The world has warmed and cooled
:13:06. > :13:10.and warmed and cooled naturally. What's going on now is the rate
:13:11. > :13:22.of it is so much faster. Disappearing glaciers are already
:13:23. > :13:24.having an impact on the water supplies, the forest,
:13:25. > :13:26.and the wildlife here. But as with many issues in America,
:13:27. > :13:32.climate change has been politicised, We cross the national park
:13:33. > :13:46.by train, contemplating one Specifically, what the election has
:13:47. > :13:51.done to embolden the far right. It's a pretty tourist town
:13:52. > :13:53.by the mountains of Montana. But White Fish is also home to this
:13:54. > :13:57.prominent white supremacist. I do care more about my people more
:13:58. > :14:13.than other people just like you care about your family more than you care
:14:14. > :14:16.about other children. Why is an African-American
:14:17. > :14:20.not your family? He is not part of this extended
:14:21. > :14:24.family that is a race that have evolved over tens
:14:25. > :14:26.of thousands of years. They are part of
:14:27. > :14:27.the American family. This United States was never
:14:28. > :14:35.defined by Africans. It was defined by Anglo-Saxons,
:14:36. > :14:39.white Europeans. Just as you are no longer European,
:14:40. > :14:42.they are no longer African, But I think who I am ultimately
:14:43. > :14:49.does derive from Europe. A tremendous amount of white people
:14:50. > :14:51.want race and identity Before this election,
:14:52. > :15:03.he and other white supremacists and separatists may have felt
:15:04. > :15:05.on the margins of society, Donald Trump came along and I feel
:15:06. > :15:14.like my movement and my ideology, we can be a kind of vanguard
:15:15. > :15:17.for a presidential candidate, that his arrow is pointing
:15:18. > :15:21.in our direction. And that is what is worrying many
:15:22. > :15:29.Americans, that somehow unpalatable, racist views have been in a sense
:15:30. > :15:33.legitimised by the rise of Donald The idea of Trump stepping
:15:34. > :15:36.into leadership in our country I believe that he is a bigot,
:15:37. > :15:45.and that he could just He is really, really
:15:46. > :15:52.milking the ignorance He wants to pretend he's not
:15:53. > :15:59.a racist but he totally is. They have needed a voice
:16:00. > :16:02.and a platform for their voice, I don't think he that he
:16:03. > :16:11.realises what he's saying, the kind of inflammatory
:16:12. > :16:13.message he's sending. But others felt Donald Trump should
:16:14. > :16:16.not be held accountable for every As long as they were not doing
:16:17. > :16:20.anything illegal, there was no Anybody in the United States,
:16:21. > :16:25.whether they're part of an organisation or not,
:16:26. > :16:27.they have the right What are Calvin's reasons
:16:28. > :16:33.for supporting the Trump has said he wants to put
:16:34. > :16:36.people back to work, close the borders until they figure
:16:37. > :16:39.out what is going on. But all the talk of shutting borders
:16:40. > :16:49.and building walls is definitely part of Trump's appeal
:16:50. > :16:51.to Richard Spencer, too. He has brought nationalism
:16:52. > :16:53.into the campaign. There is a sense that our power
:16:54. > :16:56.is going to be diminished. Average people see that Donald Trump
:16:57. > :16:59.is going to take care of them. He may be energised by Donald Trump,
:17:00. > :17:05.but whether he wins or loses, there are many others here who say
:17:06. > :17:08.that they feel Trump is already helping to cause deeper divisions
:17:09. > :17:22.in American society. After 1,700 miles and 38
:17:23. > :17:26.hours on this train, we're finally getting off
:17:27. > :17:30.for the last time. There is still one more important
:17:31. > :17:37.story to look into in Seattle. Seattle is one of the most
:17:38. > :17:42.left-leaning cities in the US. But still, inequality
:17:43. > :17:45.is not hard to find. Just a few blocks away from the most
:17:46. > :17:49.expensive real estate in the city, this is just one of several tent
:17:50. > :17:52.encampments of the homeless. This, activists say,
:17:53. > :17:55.is a tangible example of the problems
:17:56. > :18:00.of money in politics. As a person of faith,
:18:01. > :18:07.who is not necessarily that involved in politics otherwise,
:18:08. > :18:09.this is really a moral issue. Hi, have you heard about Initiative
:18:10. > :18:14.735 to get big money out Jonathan Tong is trying to raise
:18:15. > :18:19.awareness about the problems of senators and congressmen
:18:20. > :18:23.pandering to big-money and feeling they need to raise corporate money
:18:24. > :18:25.for election campaigns. 70% of their work week
:18:26. > :18:29.is spent raising money, making fund-raising calls instead
:18:30. > :18:31.of doing the work they When they are making those
:18:32. > :18:35.phonecalls, they are not calling people like you and me,
:18:36. > :18:39.they are calling people on a list that their aides gave them,
:18:40. > :18:43.people who give him This is the biggest problem
:18:44. > :18:55.we have in America. We do not even have a democracy any
:18:56. > :18:58.more. This region creates more and more
:18:59. > :19:00.millionaires by the day. There are many trying to fight
:19:01. > :19:03.the divide between rich and poor, like those at this meeting,
:19:04. > :19:05.calling for measures to reduce homelessness, but many on the left
:19:06. > :19:08.are furious with the Democratic presidential candidate they have
:19:09. > :19:09.ended up with. She represents the problems
:19:10. > :19:13.we are facing today. The corporate politics
:19:14. > :19:18.we have been dealing with. Sasha says while she could never
:19:19. > :19:20.vote for Donald Trump, she's going to go for a third-party
:19:21. > :19:23.candidate to protest against Hillary Clinton,
:19:24. > :19:25.who she does not think is interested She will get into office
:19:26. > :19:31.and I do not think she will do much We need to give Hillary Clinton
:19:32. > :19:38.a Congress that can continue to pull her to the left
:19:39. > :19:41.on places where she needs At a campaign event we find this
:19:42. > :19:46.woman, a progressive Democrat She is also upset about
:19:47. > :19:54.big-money in politics. What, locally, can you point
:19:55. > :19:57.to to say this is why money in politics
:19:58. > :19:58.is a problem? We have tried to pass bills around
:19:59. > :20:07.gun reform in the state legislature. The NRA has opposed every
:20:08. > :20:10.single one of those. But she thinks a protest vote
:20:11. > :20:16.for a third candidate Why would we waste that
:20:17. > :20:21.opportunity with a candidate Because the other alternative
:20:22. > :20:26.is to allow Donald Trump be president and I am not
:20:27. > :20:29.going to do that. While some on the left are angry,
:20:30. > :20:32.others think there is hope but there are large numbers who also
:20:33. > :20:37.feel utterly despondent. He was excited last year
:20:38. > :20:42.when he thought socialist Bernie Sanders had a chance
:20:43. > :20:45.of beating Hillary Clinton to the Democratic nomination,
:20:46. > :20:50.but that balloon has clearly burst. This election is everyone voting
:20:51. > :20:54.about who they hate. Democrats are voting
:20:55. > :20:58.against Trump and Republicans I was really excited
:20:59. > :21:02.about Obama in 2008. For those many Americans who believe
:21:03. > :21:11.that the amount of money in politics is the root of so many ills here,
:21:12. > :21:15.it is not hard to see why some fear that will not change at all,
:21:16. > :21:17.whatever the result When this extraordinary route
:21:18. > :21:27.was created, it made northern communities feel close to the rest
:21:28. > :21:29.of the country, But throughout our travels,
:21:30. > :21:35.we found people united in feeling their government was far
:21:36. > :21:41.away, and out of touch. We found the election had played
:21:42. > :21:43.a part in law-abiding Muslim immigrants in Minneapolis feeling
:21:44. > :21:47.under intense scrutiny. People in Fargo, on both sides
:21:48. > :21:52.of the abortion rights debate, felt the issue was at
:21:53. > :22:01.a critical juncture. The polarisation on views of climate
:22:02. > :22:04.change is as stark as ever with the next president having
:22:05. > :22:06.perhaps more responsibility than any We learned Donald Trump has
:22:07. > :22:12.empowered extremists And that Seattle's left had
:22:13. > :22:18.suspicions about Hillary Clinton and the claim she will reduce
:22:19. > :22:22.the influence of money in politics. Throughout, we found an electorate
:22:23. > :22:27.that was engaged and aware, and which, in every one
:22:28. > :22:30.of the diverse communities we passed through, felt this election
:22:31. > :23:19.really does matter. Some interesting developments taking
:23:20. > :23:24.place in the atmosphere in the week ahead. I'm confident we will not see
:23:25. > :23:28.anything as dramatic as we saw exactly 29 years ago when the great
:23:29. > :23:29.storm of October