A state of emergency ethiopias president moves to replace the Regional Government in the troubled north. Of ivory coast Opposition Leader is arrested for forming a rival government challenging president Alassane Ouattara as reelection for a 3rd term. And sport the German Bundesliga gets ready for its biggest game of the season so far anyway rivals barring the dortmund showdown on saturday. So it is just after 1300 hours g. M. T. The u. S. East coast and democratic nominee joe biden says that he will emerge victorious after one of the most divisive elections in u. S. History but the votes are still being counted and President Trumps campaigners last while to pull legal child. Jesus heres where we stand by is ahead in pennsylvania and nevada and georgia hes predicted to have won 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 dont forget the number required is 2170 byte needs to win only one of the undecided states to get over the line. In pennsylvania is ahead of trump by more than 28000 vote
His musical career. The name is mike a welcome to the program tensions are running high had a 1st then shut elections in ivory coast on saturday after any i decided not to run for controversial at that president ouattara is seeking reelection after the death of his favorite success in july the opposition say they are not having it and are calling for you boycott of the elections and civil disobedience people are longing for peace and stability but many a repeat of history about a decade ago at least 3000 people were killed and now at least 30 people have already died from entire communal violence our correspondents funny fresh our reports from. You can see the tension but you can feel it as ivory coast braces itself for election day abidjan the commercial capital is awash with billboards of the sitting president and his son and what he promised not to run for a 3rd term but then his chosen successor died and he changed his mind. Several dozen people have been killed in protests against
A mass rally in. The near term abortions well bring you the latest from the polish. Welcome to the program. Strong earthquake has struck in the june and see causing extensive damage in greece and turkey. At least 12 people dead and more than 600. 00 injured the trans struck off the gene coast with the epicenter just north of the greek island of sandals the quake of course several buildings to collapse in the turkish resort city of izmir rescue efforts are ongoing. I believe this woman was almost buried alive i dont know how rescue workers are racing to free her from the rubble of a collapsed building one of many that came crashing down in this turkish resort city on friday. I thought the ground had shattered you can think in that moment all you can do is try to get out everything was collapsing around us but luckily our building stayed intact but we were really panicked and managed to get out at the last minute. The earth shook for at least 25 seconds according to some witnesses after
A very warm welcome its 9 am here in moscow and youre watching r. T. International with meaning. The number of covert 1000 cases in European Countries has a past 10000000 with half the cases being confirmed in the last 5 weeks alone both states reimposition of lockdown measures is bringing frustration with many taking their anger out onto the streets. Kind of a case of so lets cross live now to our correspondent peter all of us for the latest peter good to see you. Yes well here in europe we have 10 percent of the worlds population 22 percent though all of covert 19 infections here in germany on monday weve entered into whats have been called lockdown lite a measure in which angle america has said she wants to get infections down by 75 percent the idea being that schools kindergartens as much of the economy as possible stays open at the expense of social contacts that means that theater is james other fitness clubs beauty parlors will all have to be closed down theres also a limit on t
The lower bar for sarah youre watching out is there are live from london also coming up on the program. Ivory coasts government confirms 85 people have now died in violence over the disputed election. Double the previous estimates. Sudan says it fears up to 200000. People could flood into the country escaping the fighting in northern ethiopia. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned on mass in protest at the dismissal of 4 of their colleagues. The thank you for joining us. The World Health Organization has described europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easy coronavirus restrictions. The continent is experiencing an aggressive surge in infections with daily deaths steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave in spring. More than 50000. 00, people have now died from cope with 19 across the u. K. , and thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. Marking the countrys highest daily death toll since may. Infections are also climbing with al