Was scrub land. Now its a lully functions Treatment Center. And we report from lebanon where the groups say theyre protects their families from sunni militants. Hello. Welcome. In the United States, the Republican Party is celebrating after making sweeping gains in the Midterm Elections. They now control both houses of congress. Lets look at the story of the night in numbers. In the senate, republicans have gained seven seats so far taking their total to 52 with alaska still to declare but looking set to go red. The Democratic Party retains 45 seats of 100 seats with two independents. In the house of representatives, the republicans took more seats and retained control of the house. They currently have 243 seats. The Democratic Party at 175. That is a gain of 10 seats so far for republicans. Our washington correspondent has the latest. The high stakes were in the battle for americas a upper house of congress, the u. S. Senate. The results came in and it was clear this wasnt a good nigh
And we begin with ferguson, while protests have thinned out there, demonstrations have grown in other parts of the country. In new york city demonstrators tried to disrupt the macys thanksgiving day parade today. Police arrested several people who were protesting a grand jurys decision. Hundreds of protesters blocked streets in los angeles and cleveland, california last night. Some broken windows reported in the cleveland demonstration. And in ferguson, the National Guard remains in watch. John terrett has more from ferguson. Reporter rodney is a jock of all trades, sawing ply woods for the windows of his antique store. The way it is going right now, i dont see it stopping. I mean this is going on all over the country, you know . People rioting everywhere. Chicago, atlanta. Reporter before and especially after monday and tuesdays rioting, store owners all over ferguson have done the same. If rodney is a jack of all trades, antonio is the jack of trades. His auto repair business is just
Tunnels. And ten years off from the indian ocean tsunami we meet a victim who is changing lives for the better. We begin in tunisia where the candidate for the party is claiming a victory for the countrys historic president ial election. But the claim has been dismissed by the rival and says its too early to call a winner and official result is expected later on monday. Lets go to our correspondent jamal joining us from the tunisia capitol tunis so abdelfattah elsissi is saying one thing and the other saying its too early, what is the mood the capitol tunis, jamal . Well, elizabeth, great anticipation, essentially people are waiting and hopes to find out who will be the next president and it is a significant election to say the least, obviously not at least because for millions of tunisia people this is the first time in their life saying who leaves the country and lack of clarity is to who won the election is causing a bit of confusion and most exit polls and most of those observing t
Achieve the objectives the u. S. Led coalition has conducted 7500 missions since the airstrike began. Jordan has participated in almost 20 of the strikes. The military estimates, its killed more than 778 is ill fighters. Jordanian campaign has received support from regional and international allies. The un allotted Arab Emirates is sending a squadron of f16 jets. Some argue Campaign Needs to be racheted up to be effective against a Group Controlling vast territory. The whole campaign i could comment on that is too slow doing too little very constrained sort of thing. We need to increase the sort sortee. We need the logistic support, the bureaucracy from the pentagon or the congress. So we need these airplanes. They can inflict a lot of damage. Reporter that support would be crucial to keep the momentum against isil in places like the town of beiji and villages surrounding the town. Its a tough fight for iraqi troops backed by shia malitias. Aside bombing killed several soldiers north o
It has left many people unable to pay their home loans in eastern europe. We hear from those most affected in romania. A ruling in the case of two families whose babies were switched at birth 20 years ago. They has been awarded nearly 2 Million Euros in compensation and france. More on the psychological impact later. First, top stories. First, german chancellor Angela Merkel has stopped in the u. S. And canada for toplevel talks on ukraine. U. S. President barack obama has yet to rule out sending weapons to help ukraine. There has been renewed fighting around the eastern ukrainian town of debeltseve as rebels push to seize it before talks in minsk. Sean in moscow. The only thing the russians seem to have agreed to is to keep talking. What is the likelihood anything concrete will come from tomorrow . Weve had a lot of talk before. All the way back to the ceasefire in minsk. There was a lot of hope that the fighting was finally over. It never really held. In the last few weeks we have se