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31/10/2020 GMT

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US sees record-high daily cases and Belgium and France are now in new national lockdown

The United States has again broken its daily coronavirus record with ninety four thousand new reported infections and nearly one thousand deaths. The number of people who have now tested positive in the US has passed nine million. Belgium has become the latest European country to announce a return to national lockdown for at least a month. 

Also in the programme: The search for earthquake survivors continues in Turkey, victims of falling buildings and rising seas; and Biden and Trump battle for swing states.

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