tonight fresh in their minds. democratic senator rafael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker. senator warnock as you know won his seat in the 2020 election in a narrowly decided runoff. walker a former running back with the former president firmly behind him. senator warnock is a pastor. herschel walker is currently involved in a scandal over allegedly pressuring the mother of one of his children to get an abortion. here s how the abortion issue came up tonight. a week before the debate a former girlfriend made public accusations that you paid for an abortion and encouraged her to have another. in an abc interview this week you said the accusations are, quote, all lies. for the voters watching tonight can you explain the circumstances surrounding these claims? you have 60 seconds. as i said, that s a lie. i put it in a book. one thing about my life, i ve been very transparent. not like the senator. he s here things. at the same time, that s a law. on abortion
we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat
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