Candidate to take on the incumbent donald trump on november 3rd tonight there are 1357. 00 thats about a 3rd of the democratic delegates and 785. 00 republican delegates are at stake people are voting across 14 states plus the u. S. Territory of american lets not forget democrats given a broad are also taking part well in the past 48 hours the democratic race has narrowed down dramatically with just 5 contenders left so so Bernie Sanders seems to be going head to head against former Vice President joe biden and this is how the numbers stack up after the primaries and caucuses in 4 states vermont senator Bernie Sanders has an early age of biden hes got 60 delegates ultimately to win the Party Nomination the democratic candidate will need to secure 1991 delegates theres the magic number up there and on the republican side its donald trump versus former governor william weld in the magic number to beat is 1276. 00 to emerge as republican frontrunner and trump of course is unquestionably i
President says hes hoping to secure a ceasefire in syrias if the province when he meets with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday the leaders are expected to discuss the latest escalation in fighting between turkish and Syrian Government forces dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week lets go straight to sit in the who joins us live i believe from djibouti goes through on turkeys border with syria assam just tell us what else did president juan have to say. Well the persons are gone is trying to keep the diplomatic door open for negotiations for their best turkey believes that russia is an important player in order to provide peace and security for those millions inside that but of course depending on the latest developments the relations have been a little bit have been tense in a while and the 2 leaders have gone into 2 were expected to meet but. There were rumors that they were not going to meet but finally its announced by th
In the interest of time and because we are on air at cspan, we should get moving. Ill be giving opening remarks. Well get started on some of our opening remarks, and then swiftly alex will be here and well start the moderator discussion. First of all, as i say, welcome to the middle east institute. Thank you ever so much for joining us for this extremely important event. As someone whos work on syria and particularly on idlib nan stop for the last nine years, i can safely say that events like this kopt come as a more important time. Im also not aware of any other events like this one happening in washington these days. So im extremely glad its taking place. The humanitarian crisis thats developed in northwestern syria in recent months is entirely unprecedented. Not just after nine years of war in syria, but in this whole worlds modern history. And yet despite the sheer enormity of the crisis, the world has yet to do much more than issue public statements of concern. Im going to keep my
Government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. Now its a Panel Discussion on the syrian conflict and International Communities humanitarian military and diplomats response to the crisis. The middle east institute post runs just over 90 minutes. Im sorry for the delay this morning. Its keeping our moderator busy but in the interest in time and we are on air on cspan, we should get moving. Ill be giving opening remarks, well get started on our opening remarks and theyll be here and spend we will start the moderator discussion. First of all, welcome to the middle east institute. Thank you ever so much for joining us to this extremely important event. As someone who has worked on syria and particularly on this nonstop for the last nine years, i can safely say events like this couldnt come a more important time. Im mostly not aware of any other funds like this one happening in washington these days. Im extrema glad its taking place. The humanitari
Those results are not in yet but some of them are so lets tell you what we have right now early results show that former Vice President joe biden has won the state of North Carolina if you move up just a little the next state in blue is virginia bernie. Lets say joe biden has also won the state of virginia Bernie Sanders as one has helm state vermont so this is not a winner take all the delegate count is awarded proportionally right so some of that we dont know yet but we do know as we said that joe biden has taken the lead in the delegate count 116 coming into the night Bernie Sanders had led the 1st had not won all 4 contests but as a result of the 1st 4 contests in the 1st 4 states he had been leading the delegate count but as you can see Vice President joe biden has taken over so hes at 116 senator Bernie Sanders at 80 and Elizabeth Warren senator from massachusetts as is at 8 there 1991 is the number needed to get the nomination approximately a 3rd of the number that is needed is