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It is the final countdown in the race for the US presidency. Mitt | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Romney and Barack Obama on a frenetic last weekend of | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
campaigning in the all-important swing states. You know I tell the | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
truth and Janelle I will fight for you and your families. -- and you | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
know. He says it has to stay this way, but I say it cannot stay this | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
way. He is offering excuses, but I've got a plan. With the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
candidates neck and neck in the polls, we have the latest on the | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
campaign. Superstorm Sandy few horses -- forces fuel rationing in | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
New Jersey as more than 1 million homes and businesses remain without | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
power. Rebels in Syria attack a military base used to mount air | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
assaults on opposition fighters. And the Formula One championship is | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
thrown wide open tonight as Sebastian Vettel is penalised after | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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qualifying and will start Good evening. Barack Obama and Mitt | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Romney are spending the weekend in a frenetic round of campaigning | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
ahead of Tuesday's presidential vote, with the candidates running | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
virtually neck and neck in the polls. They have been focusing on | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
the crucial undecided swing state. Barack Obama said he wanted to | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
create a future on a strong and growing middle class. Mitt Romney | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
talked of wanting to lead America to a better place. Life to our | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
correspondent in Washington. -- lied. It's extraordinary that after | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
all of these campaigning, the race should come down to such a close | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
dead-heat as we are seeing. That means both candidates seemed that | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
more fired up than they have ever been and are both focusing on what | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
they can do. They are trying to Sometimes the line between | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
entertainment and politics is hard to draw in this election. The | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
singer Katie Perry opening for Barack Obama in Wisconsin today. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
The latest Tinseltown staff to throw her support behind the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
President. -- Tinseltown staff. When he emerged in the arena, | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Barack Obama was firing on all cylinders. It is good to be back in | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Wisconsin! Now it is nearly over, he looks more and beat Benny has | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
for months. You know why I'm working hard because my voice is | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
all ragged. But he is not home and dry yet. Earlier in Ohio, the state | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
on which the outcome may hang, there was an urgent appeal for the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
crowd to go out and vote. If you want to knock on doors and make | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
some phone calls with May and early vote for me, or turn out on Tuesday | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
for me, we will win at Ohio and we will win this election. According | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
to the latest polls, the likely carve-up of the electoral map is | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
clear in most places. So both candidates are now on a breathless | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
- -- breathless run to win over the swing states that could go either | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
way. Barack Obama's schedule looks from Ohio to Wisconsin and I were, | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
finishing in Virginia. Mitt Romney leaps from New Hampshire to Iowa in | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
the West and two stops in Colorado. For Mitt Romney, the final, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
frenzied sprint began last night with a spectacular rally in Ohio. A | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
small army of governors, senators and other Republican notables brave | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
to the freezing cold, joining him on stage will offer support. -- | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
braved the freezing cold. Look at this team. They have gathered | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
tonight because they are about to fan out across the entire nation to | :04:07. | :04:16. | |
make sure that we have victory on November 6th. In macro Waller -- | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
and Iowa, another dramatic entrance, where Mitt Romney poured scorn on | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
his opponent. He says it has to stay this way, but I say it cannot | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
stay this way. He is offering excuses, I've got a plan. With the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
opinion polls almost a dead heat nationally, this year's election | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
will come down to who has the advantage in just a few states. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Expect the frenzied pace to continue right up until the end. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Of course, you have to ask yourself, what difference will all of this | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
last minute running around the country make, when these days and | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
the United States more and more people are voting early? It is | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
thought in the state of Ohio, at least 30% will have voted by | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
election day. And in places like Colorado, also a swing state, it | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
could be as many as 80%. But when the national races this close and | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
he could come down to a few votes - - it could come down to a few votes, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
neither candidate will leave it to chance. Do you really think it | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
could go either way? There are scenarios where it could. In the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
national polls it seems as though they are in a dead-heat. Looking at | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
the swing states, those where it is still uncertain which way it would | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
go, over the last few weeks, quite consistently, it has looked as | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
though Barack Obama has a slight advantage. But in different polls | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
they can sometimes be one that will put Mitt Romney ahead. It is by no | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
means certain. When it is in five percentage points it is never | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
certain that the Poles are accurate, and if they are not, there could be | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
a surprise on election day, and Mitt Romney could be the next | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
President. If you look at the mood in both camps, I would say the Mitt | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Romney camp, including himself, they still seemed nervous and tense. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
My sense for Barack Obama in the last couple of days, especially | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
since the hurricane disaster, which seems to have given him a boost, he | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
does look as though he feels more You can keep up-to-date with the | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
race for the presidency by the visiting how website. -- and | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
visiting our website. Over 1 million homes in New York are | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
without power still because of Superstorm Sandy. It has already | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
claimed more than 100 lives. 80% of the city's subway system is back in | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
service but there is petrol rationing in much of New Jersey. We | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
report on the clean up in New York. Today they were packing up. The New | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
York Marathon cancelled for the first time in 42 years. Even in the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
weeks after 9/11 the race went ahead. But as bodies were still | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
being pulled from wrecked homes, the public outcry of holding a big | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
sporting event easily outweighed the spirit of keeping calm and | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
carrying on. This is where the New York Marathon was due to start, one | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
of the worst affected areas. While few doubt it was the right decision | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
to cancel, they wonder why the decision was not made earlier in | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
the week before tens of thousands of runners arrived in New York. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Barriers and tables were taken away and there were generators here, | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
food and security staff, all used elsewhere. People are hurting here | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
because they want to know whether relief is coming from. But their | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
resources here that would be helpful. I don't understand how you | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
think it could be a good idea. is still in short supply. This was | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
a queue at one of the Mobil petrol stations being set up across New | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
York to help ease the backlog. Help is getting through to those who | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
need it most. Communities are rallying round. And the lights are | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
coming back on. Tonight, most of Manhattan has power again. But | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
across all the storm hit states more than 1 million people are | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
still waiting. Until you have your lights on, you're not happy. We | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
understand. And we are not going to stop until we have every house, | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
every home with it their power restored. The if you have any | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
special skills, help us. Volunteers queued up to help in the chaste -- | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
East Village, among them marathon runners, who found out where to | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
come. I was ready to run the there is a lot of controversy and I felt | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
uncomfortable running even though I had trained for it. But I will be | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
excited to run next year when the city is back on its feet. We just | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
want to help the people of the city. We will head over to an apartment | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
complex which does not have electricity and we will knock on | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
their doors and make sure they are OK and help them. There has been | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
lost and there has been anger, but there is also spirit. People will | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
Syrian rebels say they are locked in a fierce battle with government | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
forces for control of a strategically important military | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
base. The attack on the air base at Taftanaz in the north of the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
country is aimed at hampering the regime's use of airpower to bomb | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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The rebel offensive began at first light. Fighters opened fire at the | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
Taftanaz airbase using multiple rocket launchers and mortars. The | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
video footage is not been verified, but it is thought to be genuine. -- | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
has not been verified. Syrian TV said the attack on the airport was | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
repelled. Armed forces killed a large number of terrorists and | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
destroyed their vehicles. These pictures appear to show government | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
helicopters able to land. But it has been impossible to get a full | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
picture of what has been happening. The rebels -- rebels have made | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
advances near Aleppo, but in spite of the larger weapons they have | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
tried to counter the Government's increasing use of airpower. | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Helicopter gunships and fighters are regularly in the skies. This | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
rebel fighters say they attacked Taftanaz airport and destroyed a | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
huge area and hit a number of planes. If the Syrian rebels manage | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
to capture and hold the air base it could be a major development. | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
particular air base provides the major route for supply is in Aleppo. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Most of the strategic roads have been captured by the rebels. This | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
particular area would be controlled by them now. But neither side seems | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
capable of delivering a decisive blow in the conflict. The uprising | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
in Syria began 19 months ago, but President Assad remains in power, | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
helped in no small part by opposition that is fragmented and | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
fractures. A fresh attempt will be made in the coming days in the Gulf | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
state of Qatar to bring forward -- together the disparate elements but | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
there is no promise of progress towards a united opposition front. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
On the ground, this was the aftermath of a bombing. People in | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
panic, making their way through the rubble. Amid the chaos, the | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
Work is underway to gather information about the spread of the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
fungal disease which is killing ash trees in the UK. Experts from DEFRA | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
are surveying land where the trees grow to find out the extent of the | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
Across thousands of acres of British woodland this weekend, | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
experts are looking for signs of a deadly disease. Ash dieback was | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
first discovered in the UK in March on saplings imported from the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Netherlands. But now the symptoms have been found in wild trees as | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
well, and knowing just how far it has spread could be crucial to | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
saving the species. understanding is that this has been | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
blown around by the wind, so now it is in the native population and we | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
need to work together and put money into research to see how we can | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
make a border and more resilient. This is what they are looking for. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Withered leaves and markings on the bark, signs of an infection that | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
has wiped out 90% of the Danish ash tree population. Imports to the UK | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
have now been banned. The there are three possible pathways, movements | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
of plants, movement of dead leaves and security measures can prevent | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
that, and then there is a belief later overwinter which doesn't take | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
place until the summer -- belief later. That kingmakers slow the | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
spread. The fungus has been found at dozens of sites across the UK. | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
In Scotland earlier in the week, thousands of saplings were uprooted | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
and burnt and walkers are being asked to wash their books, children | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
and dogs to try and stop the spread -- wash their boots. The that could | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
be quite difficult. Do you do it when you get home or do you do it | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
here? The ash trees on this National Trust Park in Suffolk are | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
free from the fungus, but last week a few miles up the road one of the | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
first cases of the disease in a wild ash tree was confirmed. The | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
fear is now that many more could soon become infected. The results | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
of this survey will tell scientists how widespread the disease has | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
become. Meanwhile, there are already calls to quarantine any | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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Now to sport, and a full round-up It is getting very interesting at | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
the top of the Premier League. Match of the day has all the goals | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
after the news, but I have the results coming up, so if you have | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
to, it is that time again. Manchester United are top of the | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
table for the first time this season. They beat Arsenal tool-1 at | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Old Trafford. Robin van Persie scored against his old club -- | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
tool-1. Patrice Evra got the other goal and Wayne Rooney missed a | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
penalty. The Gunners had Jack Wilshere sent off. United were the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
only side in the top half of the table to win as they replace | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Chelsea as leaders. Chelsea were held 1-1 at Swansea. There were | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
wins for Norwich and Aston Villa. Wigan won at Tottenham Hotspur and | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Manchester City could only draw at West Ham. Hibernian are top of the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Scottish Premier League after beating St Mirren. Aberdeen could | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
have gone level on points but lost to Ross County. Stephen Ross got | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
what proved to be the winner in their victory. Elsewhere there were | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
victories for Dundee, Inverness and Motherwell. There was high drama in | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton will be on | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
pole for the race but world champion Sebastian Vettel will have | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
to start from the pit lane after running low on fuel. That opens the | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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door for his title rival Fernando Stop the car. Stop the car! That | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
could be the moment Sebastian Vettel's hopes of securing three | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
titles in a row faded. After setting the third fastest time in | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
qualifying, his team ordered him to stop before he could return to the | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
pits. Initially nobody seemed to know or willing to say why he | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
didn't make it back. It was very sudden, and I got the call to stop | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
the car, and I am part myself. I waited for a taxi! Almost five | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
hours later the reason became clear with a ruling from the stewards. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Sebastian Vettel was qualified because he ran out of petrol. When | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
a similar incident happened to Louise Hamilton in Barcelona | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
earlier this season he was relegated to the back of the grid - | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
- Lewis Hamilton. Sebastian Vettel suffered the same fate. He makes a | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
difference, but it's thousands of the second. You do have to push to | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
the limits but you must play safe on a basic things like how much | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
petrol is in the car. His nearest rival Fernando Alonso moves up to | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
six on the grid giving him the opportunity to close the gap. It | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
will take a remarkable performance for Sebastian Vettel to score any | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
points. For the sake of a teacup full of fuel, Red Bull may have | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
thrown away the drivers' championship. England's rugby | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
league team are looking unstoppable in the autumn series after another | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
big victory. They ran in eight tries against France. Kallum | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Watkins scored a hat-trick in their 44-6 victory. They put 80 points | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
past Wales last weekend but they will play the French again next | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Sunday in the final. Champions Harlequins have moved three points | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
clear at the top of the Aviva Premiership. They lead by 10 points | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
at the break with three first-half tries including this one from Sam | :17:16. | :17:21. |