This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Saturday the 2nd of November, these are our main stories.

Donald Trump has been campaigning in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Arab majority city in the US,

where he hopes to attract support from Arab-American voters.

The heads of a number of UN agencies have described conditions in Gaza as apocalyptic

after weeks of an Israeli offensive against Hamas.

The number of people killed in catastrophic floods in eastern Spain has risen above 200,

as the authorities issue more weather warnings for other areas.

Also in this podcast,

K-I-T-Y, K-I-T-Y everybody say hello kitty.

The Japanese phenomenon, Hello Kitty, turns 50.

As the U.S. election campaign enters its final few days, both candidates have been continuing their tours of the crucial swing states that will decide the outcome.

On Friday, Donald Trump campaigned in Michigan, hoping to attract support from Arab American voters.

He made a campaign stop in Dearborn, the largest Arab majority city in the U.S.

There, he told a crowd of supporters that he wanted to see peace in the Middle East.

You're going to have peace. You're going to have peace in the Middle East.

And they should have peace in the Middle East.

But not with the clowns you have in the Middle East.

Let me tell you.

What you have, you have people in the Middle East that aren't doing their job

and you have people in the U.S. that aren't doing their job and when they get it together, when they get it right, you're going to have

peace in the Middle East.

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