Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tied to and in other news the u. N. Calls for i mean media deescalation intentions that ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit region following at an auction on a military base the way. To. So democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes ron donald trump has 214 hour remember the magic number to become president is to 70 here in yellow youll see the states still in play nevada in the west and georgia and North Carolina in the south and up here pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states to stop votes being counted. Lets look at georgia firsts an extremely close race ted Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from atl
Ongoing trump threatens to go to the Supremes Court to try to stop the counting biden has threatened to counter legal action. And with both candidates aged over 70 we take a look at how their running mates are now more important than ever. While the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes still uncounted donald trump has threatened to go to the Supremes Court something that bidens team have said they are ready to challenge the total vote count could take days while we have a team of reporters for you on the ground at this hour rob reynolds is monitoring developments from Los Angeles Mike hanna is in bidens home state delaware and our white house. Correspondent candy how it is in washington d. C. That fast. Takes a look at just how these last few hours have unfold. Shortly after 2 am on wednesd
Well polio be eradicated worldwide the World Health Organization declares a major victory against the virus in africa but its still crippling children in afghanistan and pakistan all the lessons to be learned in the battle to control the coronavirus pandemic this isnt. Hello welcome to the program im wrong come on polio used to paralyze and disfigured tens of thousands of children every year and some didnt survive but major strides have been made in eradicating the disease much of the world is now podio free including africa the continents last case of naturally occurring polio was reported in Northern Nigeria 4 years ago but the campaign in borno state to immunize every child was attacked by boko haram fighters who killed an abducted Health Workers some children can still be struck by a red phone a polio virus it mutates from the polio vaccine and can then cause an outbreak in communities which havent been immunized. Lets have a look at the global fight against polio the disease was c
Security council that any israeli annexation is a crime. The president of course of all indicted for war crimes he stands accused of nearly 100 murders. And the show must go on but when it the british theatre industry struggles to find a way forward amid the coded 19 and that. And as for the england cricket board save a series with pakistan will go ahead that is despite pakistan announcing that 10 of their players have tested positive for corona virus. A watershed moment that will cause the most serious violation of International Law thats how u. N. Secretary general. Has described israels plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank members of the Un Security Council and the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put into motion as soon as next week most of them were united in their opposition with warnings that israels unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region. If implemented these moves could dramatically alter local then i mean
Thank you very much for joining us the white House Doctors says donald trump has tested negative for corona virus the u. S. President had potentially been exposed to it while meeting members of a brazilian delegation who later found out they were infected meanwhile trump has extended the european travel ban to include the u. K. And ireland spains Prime Minister is putting his entire country into law down like its early before its 46000000. 00 people will be ordered not to leave home unless its absolutely necessary frances shutting down restaurants cafes nightclubs and cinemas now this is the overall pandemic picture from John Hopkins University more than 156000 cumulative infections globally almost 74000 have recovered the number of deaths is heading toward 6000 well begin our coverage with this report from mike hanna in washington. Members of the coronavirus toss of course walk into the Briefing Room in terms of a new protocol all in the president s proximity must have the temperature