Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Context. What was happening during these two years and its importance today . Julie the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. The conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is soon killed and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a fraction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. By 1914, they had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, he breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he has a series of military reverses against the current government. He goes from having an army that is about 30,000 to 50,000 people operating nor sleet in the bot
, gainingets of today for the first thing and three, on track for the second weekly gain, best run since early november. 136, highest level since june of 2016. Day after the breakfast best run since december. Sterling falling the first three day of this week followed by continued signs of division over brexit, disappoint economic dating and the forecast 135. Rcb markets the most bearish, forecasting 1. 20. Vote, junethe brexit 23 of 2016, sterling finished the day at 1. 4877 and the next day at 136. 79. We are at 136. 87. Lets talk about gold. Longest run of gains and more than a decade, will jan benefiting from the weaker dollar attention to north korea and the middle east with gold futures headed for the fifth consecutive weekly gain and the longest rally permit twice 16, gold is at the highest level since september of last year and lets talk about russia investors had have been piling 122 million into the russia over the last five trading sessions, the longest stretch of inflows sin
To shut down an on off votes in the catalonia region social media has been flooded with images of chaos showing officers using batons and firing rubber bullets the National Government though blames Pro Independence leaders for what they call senseless events our reporters have been on the front lines well be live in barcelona and madrid a warning to the world but a catastrophic disaster is unfolding for world in jail refugees were running out of time to. The head of the uns food agency has been visiting camps in bangladesh and says that country simply cant handle it alone well hear what the say and shia muslims commemorate the seventh century killing of the Prophet Muhammads grandson there it is its an important event for as we look at how its being marked right around the world and protests turned deadly. As people in the English Speaking regions call forth the session a major chapelle finish your questions and comments using the hash tag its a news group. Here with a news grade were
We hope for their sake they dont do anything foolish. They do . They will pay a price like nobody has ever paid a price. Julie National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is at the pentagon with more. Hi, jennifer. Julie, this is a seventh tanker that we now understand that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy says that it has taken into custody, forcing it off course. Its a britishflagged oil tanker, swedish owned. The swedes have put out a statement. But this is the seventh incident, a new incident in just moments ago we learned about. Defense officials tell me there is clear evidence that this was an iranian drone that the u. S. Shot down yesterday. And that by the iranian leadership that the u. S. Shot down american drone are farfetched at best. In fact, this video released by the iranians today to prove the u. S. Navy did not shoot down its drone appears to prove the opposite, that an iranian drone was above a u. S. Navy vessel. Experts say it appears to be from 2018 an