Donald trump has made his first Public Comments since president Electjoe Biden was declared the winner of the election. Despite a Record Number of new coronavirus cases, the president said he would not put the us into lockdown. Mr trump avoided any direct comment on the recent election in his speech but came close to admitting that hes leaving the white house next year. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. After a record long period of silence eight days donald trump is approaching a microphone. The News Conference has been called to talk about the search for a vaccine, at a time when coronavirus cases seem to be spiralling out of control across the whole of the us. The past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilisation in us history, pioneering, developing and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Donald trump insisted he would not shut down the us economy again, but. I will not go this administration will not be going to a lockdown
Fighting with local forces in the Tigray Region appears to be spreading into neighbouring areas. A ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk is expected to be brought foward to 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Everybody, in their mind, they are scared about coronavirus, but at the same time, they are kind of adjusting to the new normal. Hello and welcome, if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Here in the uk, downing street sources suggest yesterdays sudden departure of the Prime Ministers chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, came about after relations between the two men went off a cliff edge. Borisjohnson is now said to want to move on following a week of turmoil in the Prime Ministers top team. It comes as trade talks with the e
Told the bbc that senior ministers are hoping for more of a say in how the country is governed. A warning this report from our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake contains flashing images. Stepping out of number ten but staying in the spotlight until the last possible moment. Dominic cummings left downing street for the final time last night at the end of a torrid week. After a meeting yesterday afternoon at which the Prime Minister, were told, wanted to clear the air and move on, mr cummings, already due out by christmas, was gone for good by the end the day. With that, say many, comes a chance for change. It does give the government the chance to reset all sorts of things. Its relationship with parliament, the way it deals with the press, im told its relationship with cabinet. So that in one respect is an advantage for the Prime Minister, but i do hope in doing it he doesnt forget the things where mrcummings was right, which is many of the failures of the last nine months have not
Fighting with local forces in the Tigray Region appears to be spreading into neighbouring areas. A ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk is expected to be brought foward to 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Everybody, in their mind, they are scared about coronavirus, but at the same time, they are kind of adjusting to the new normal. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Here in the uk, downing street sources suggest yesterdays sudden departure of the Prime Ministers chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, came about after relations between the two men went off a cliff edge. Borisjohnson is now said to want to move on, following a week of turmoil in the Prime Ministers top team. It comes as trade talks with th
To reset all sorts of things its relationship with parliament, the way it deals with press. Austria announces a National Lockdown of almost three weeks to try to stop rocketing coronavirus cases overwhelming the health service. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Rockets have been fired at the eritrean capital, asmara, from neighbouring ethiopia, in a major escalation of the conflict between the Ethiopian Government, and local forces in the tigray region. The attacks came hours after a senior official in tigray threatened missile strikes on eritrea. There were reports of clashes along the border between ethiopia and eritrea. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front see eritrea as supporting ethiopias federal government. In an earlier att