France says it has no plans to withdraw around 1,000 of its soldiers based in niger where they are part of an International Effort to fight islamist militants. Aichatou kane is the nigerian ambassador to paris and the uk she has been in contact with president bazoum in niger and just before we came on air she told me how he is doing. The president of niger. Effectively, we have a daily call and is still a serious threat. But he is well and his morale is high as well as his familys morale. Does he think there will be a solution . And does he know when hell be freed . No, no, he dont talk with us on his terms. But as you know, the Prime Minister of niger is here in paris with him. We exchanged on the prevailing situation in niger, which is most worrying. And what is the Prime Minister saying . 0ur exchange is about the niger situation. We think together that this unfortunate event for our country cannot be caused by any internal crisis on all fronts. We are on a good trajectory, particul
it s the top of the hour you re watching cnn news central and it is election day in the united states. we re closely watching several key races on major issues that could reverberate all the way into november 2024 either though joe biden and donald trump or any other republican presidential candidates are not on the ballot today there are issues that fire up their party s respective basises and here they are, abortion. democrats have seen win after win in red states over abortion rights. in virginia one republican is leaning into the abortion fight, convinced he can snap the republican party s losing streak on that issue. we re covering those votes and more. let s start with sunland tracking the virginia race. abortion is not on the ballot in virginia neither is governor glen youngkin, but those two things weigh heavily on the minds of voters. reporter: that s right. the governor has been involved in this race, and made his abortion proposal front and center in this campa
eligible for what i have been able to do with the with the covid excuse me with dealing with everything we have to do with. ..er, look we finally beat medicare. he was hard to hear and sounded confused. this is him talking about immigration. the the total initiative relative to what we can do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. president trump? i really don t know- what he said at the end of that sentence. i don t know he knows, either. one ofjoe biden s strongest issues should be abortion but he couldn t score on that, rambling on instead about a different topic. look, there s so many young women who have been including a young woman whojust was murdered, and he went to the funeral. why, after a week of intense preparation, did he not have a great answer ready on what s a winning issue for democrats? immediately afterwards, the senior democrats who were sent out to talk to the press did not have any convincing excuses for that disastrous performance