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More people have been pulled alive overnight from the rubble in the Turkish city of Izmir, where a powerful earthquake caused 20 buildings to collapse. Rescue teams are still searching under concrete slabs, despite the danger from hundreds of aftershocks since Friday's original magnitude seven quake. Turkey's relief agency confirmed 24 deaths and hundreds injured. The authorities have set up a tent area for 2000 people made homeless. The BBC's Esra Yalcinalp is in Izmir. Early this morning, the rescue of a 53-year-old woman from the rubble gave hope that there will be more to rescue from the apartment buildings that are complete around down. Of course, the aftershocks are still continuing, and it's giving another anxiousness to the people of Izmir at the moment, because we have seen a lot of buildings that have not been run down but are heavily damaged.
Ivory Coast is voting today in its presidential election as 35000 security force members monitor polling stations. The current President Alassane Ouattara is seeking a controversial 3rd term, which critics say violates the country's constitution.
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is looking at imposing a lockdown across the whole of England early next week due to coronavirus. The rethink comes as official government documents seen by the BBC suggest the UK is on course for significantly more deaths than during the first wave of the pandemic. Laura Kuenssberg reports. Downing Street is considering a month-long form of lockdown. It would not be exactly the same as in the spring. With rapid advances in mass testing, Number 10 hopes to be able to keep schools, colleges and universities open. But the decision would mean Boris Johnson abandoning his hopes of a local approach to managing the risk to life from the pandemic and the harm to the economy. But closing the country's doors once more is now highly likely.
President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden have been campaigning in the midwest of the United States before Tuesday's election. Jon Sopel has the details. Four days to go, and much as Donald Trump would like to see the COVID outbreak shrinking and disappearing in the rear view mirror, it's still front and center. At this most critical moment in the election campaign, new cases are hitting record highs. Deaths are ticking upwards to more than a thousand per day, ditto the numbers being admitted to hospital. Some of the areas worst hit are in swing states like Wisconsin, where this election will be decided. But the president is determined not to change course, holding mass rallies where there's no social distancing. Joe Biden is making a virtue, almost a comparison point, of holding socially distanced events with masks obligatory.
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