House task force and dr. Atul gawande now advising the biden team. Plus, former National Security john bolton. And former Homeland Security jeh johnson on the lack of white house conversation. With all eyes on georgia the Senate Majority hanging in the balance. We talk to Democratic Senate candidate jon ossoff. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and welcome to this week. 306 to 232. That is where the Electoral College stands with projections now in from all 50 states and d. C. Joe biden with the same number of electoral votes donald trump claimed victory with four years ago. At the time trump called it a landslide. As we come on the air this morning, after refusing to accept the results, the president seems closer to admitting he lost. Trump tweeting his opponent won because, quote, the election was rigged. He did use the word won. Although he has not conceded and the president continues to spread falsehoods without evidence. It comes
When so many find themselves worlds apart, just to look for Common Ground time after time they were going underground 24 hours after afghanistan and the un cohosted a conference to safeguard Development Project after a charity save the children found over 26000. 00 children have been killed or maimed as a result of the u. S. U. K. War in afghanistan, coming up on the show. What fate lies in store for the socalled graveyard of empires . As u. S. President trump withdraws thousands more troops from afghanistan. A country used as a battleground by foreign powers. For decades, we ask the former Senior Adviser to the u. S. , special representative for afghanistan, and i want Everyone Needs to know as little rocket attacks, kill or injure scores in kabul. All this and more coming up in todays going on the ground, but 1st rocket attacks on the capital. Kabul greeted the news of President Trump finally fulfilling part of his election promise to draw american troops from 1000 years and counting
Presidency along with the 117th congress should do about them. I am joined by a distant wish group of scholars and friends from numerous institutions all around washington but nonetheless, reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking experience and approach in thinking about these kinds of things. Lots of handson expertise. Americanat the new initiative at the Atlantic Council. He is a longstanding scholar. Any of you will know him for his years at the Cato Institute many of you will know him for his years at the Cato Institute. He is a former navy officer and is in many ways one of the great skeptics and contrarian voices in American Foreign policy who i have known for a long time and am really pleased to have them with us in this event. , the Catholic University he used to be at cato as well. He recently wrote a important article called of the case for the throng from the middle east. He is an advocate of minimizing the u. S. Military footprint. I think it is fair to say that
Forces battle to stop taliban fighters closing in on the capital of Helmand Province and flooding and landslides kill or least 36 people in Central Vietnam with more heavy rain forecast. We begin this news hour in europe where many countries are seeing coronavirus cases surged to their highest levels in months and with that comes a wave of new restrictions france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 other cities you know the 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control meanwhile in the u. K. A new 3 tier alert. System has come into force in england only one city is in the highest level but with almost 20000. 00 new cases in the past 24 hours other areas look set to join it is in the meanwhile has seen its highest daily increase yet with more than 7300 new cases its infection rate has more than doubled in the past 2 weeks and germany hit a 6 month high i
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty kay in washington and this is bbc world news america. How to fight the pandemic china embarks on testing an entire city in just days and we will be live in sweden to find out if that countrys controversial approach was the right one. Confirmation hearings begin for u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett is the controversy surrounding her legal, political, religious or all three . We report from the devastated region of nagornokarabakh as a ceasefire comes under pressure. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. As the u. S. And u. K. Struggled to test even a fraction of their populations, china today embarks on the ambitiousoal of testing an entire city this week. They launched an Aggressive Campaign after just a hanul of new cases were disc