Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. On the first day of the new reality in washington, a government that is about to become even more sharply divided. Voters have given republicans control of both houses of congress for the next two years, the last two years of the administration of democratic president barack obama. The g. O. P. Won back the senate by taking at least seven seats now held by teams. Three races are still undecided. The republicans will have at least 52 seats in the new senate, the democrats at least 45. Mitch mcconnell is expected to be the new majority leader in the senate. Today, both he and the president said they will try to Work Together to get things done try and we have a series of reports tonight. First, Major Garrett at the white house. Reporter after another Midterm Election drubbing, president obama pledged no fundamental changes in his White House Team or its tactics. If the way we are talking abou
Melbourne in australia is back in lockdown after recording its highest number of daily covid cases. Well look at whats behind the surge. And the Trump Administration has the video sharing app tik tok in its sight. Secretary of state mike pompeo was asked whether hed recommend downloading it. Only if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist party. Welcome to the programme. We have to start with jair bolsonaro, president of the country with the second highest number of covid cases in the world and now hes part of that total. Here he is telling reporters earlier. He appears without a mask but then puts one on. He tells them hes been feeling unwell since sunday, had a fever and was suffering some pain and then took a coronavirus test. Now, though, he says he feels perfectly well. Translation for example, if i hadnt taken the covid 19 test, i wouldnt know the result. And it turned out to be positive. Lets bear in mind this is a man who has repeatedly trivializ
It is not. It is not a cure. About a long history of ignorance about science, the president is claiming people will now immediately get better after being treated with it, though there is not yet the Scientific Evidence for that. Its a cure. And im talking to you today because of it. And, you know, because i think i could have been a bad victim. Again, it is not a cure. The president has zero medical expertise. His insistence that he is cured, which he is not, may be rooted in his anxiousness to return to the campaign trail just 25 days out from election day. The president s physician, who has already previously admitted to not being fully transparent about the president s condition, says that he anticipates the president can return to public engagements as soon as tomorrow, even though we should note the specifics of the president s condition still remain unknown to the public, such as, has the president tested negative since being treated . When did he last test negative . When did t
Countries ambassador to russia tells our teeth. India always takes decisions on its own based on its own National Interest and keeping in mind whatever it feels is best, its own country people. And thats how we will continue to work with wherever youre catching the program from today. Welcome to moscow on to the global news roundup on rti. Im you know, neil the u. S. Wants to see russias strategic exhaustion now. Its according to russias defense minister, surrogate shaw, who, who was speaking out of defense, meeting up a shanghai cooperation organization. Minister chicago also reiterated that russia is seeking to minimize casualties among civilians in the ukraine. Conflict. Good, is this a good that says massage or use military operation . The ukraine, russia 40 follows the norms of humanitarian law. Strikes a carried out with precision weapons on Ukrainian Military infrastructure. Everything is being done to avoid civilian casualties. Of course, this slows down the pace of the offensi
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