On the cookie monster look at the global success behind the iconic childrens show sesame street. But its being counted in spains general election and whats shaping up to become a battle for power between the countries fragmented left and right this is the 4th time despondence have gone to the polls in 4 years after socialist leader and acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez failed to form a Coalition Government but sundays vote has been dominated by fears of a far right surge and a renewed push for Catalan Independence well al jazeera is jonah hol is following this story for us from the spanish capital madrid and jonah polls have now closed always getting an idea of whats happening. Thats right 8 pm polls are closed we dont have any official exit polls they dont do that sort of thing here in spain there are opinion polls that are conducted throughout voting day that give us some highly unofficial but sense of the direction of travel we can at least talk about those itll be a couple of hou
President donald trump prefers that American Special forces stormed i would barbara by god hes played out in northwestern syria well get analysis from our correspondent in washington. Thank you so much for your Company Everyone german chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives have suffered a crushing defeat in the eastern state of her c. D. U. Is projected to get about 21. 8 percent well that is a drop of a whopping 11. 00 Percentage Points the left party is soaring and has secured or is projected to secure 31 percent of the vote that is their best showing ever if there were the social democrats dropped to 8. 2. The a of d. The other big winner this evening has serves to about 23. 5 per cent the greens are at 5 point one percent and the f. T. P. At 5 as well at the 5 percent threshold that is needed to enter the state parliament now we have this following report for you with some reactions from the state capital erfurt. Scenes of jubilation at the left Party Headquarters the socialists a
Are using. Britain heading for its 1st december in action in almost a century a very forest johnson hopes will break the brics it deadlock. Was in doha with all the days sport bangladesh stalled around the shock about a hot sun has been banned for 2 years on 3 trips with corruption charges that some more later in the program. Break in lebanon where Prime Minister saad hariri has submitted his resignation to the president after 13 days of antigovernment protests harry reid says hes reached a dead end in dealing with the unprecedented demonstrations and violence but have paralyzed the country so that honda has been following the days developments from beirut. Protesters welcoming the decision by the Prime Minister to resign there are celebrating in the streets there calling this a victory welcoming a welcome 1st step this is what they have been demanding for the past 13 days demanding a new government is formed a government made up of technocrats which are not or ministers who are not al
Walk away from it, its a doubleedge sword for the democrats to go bonn this sword. Maria it sure on, we know the activity that went on in terms of hunter biden. Well, its crazy, to be honest, i dont understand why people arent saying why president made the phone call which was to congratulate the president of ukraine on his partys landslide wins in parliamentary elections the week before, i was actually in ukraine and people are acting as if the president called out of the blue to talk about biden, i wasnt that, a call made for purpose and this might have come up. Maria we will get the transcript soon. On deck this morning chairwoman of rnc, Ronnie Mcdaniel to talk about hearings, texas congressman and House Financial Services Committee Member lance on house leadership and Fox News Contributor karl rove on impeachment hearings, former ambassador to un, new mexico governor Bill Richardson on President Trumps un speech, we have a lot to talk about this morning, top story is the white hou
Mostly dry and fine, but there are some showers to come here. They could be thundery, this band of rain follows a nd could be thundery, this band of rain follows and stretches across another and to the south east and following brighter skies, potentially, but more showers. There is concern that we could see up to 30 millimetres of line and localised flooding. Still warm, but not as warm as it has been. That way now across the stewards of scotland. It dries up free time i did, but it will stay relatively mild. Just a bit misty and murky first thing in the morning, and that we have the next round of rain in the south west of england, wales and northern ireland. Wednesday morning mist clears away and the rain, it should be a fairly decent day. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Labour promises free prescriptions for all as it tries to put policy back in the spotlight at a Party Conference overshadowed by internal rows. Thomas cook will hold emergency talks this morning as it attempts