At the moment the uk spends about 2. 3 on defence so it will be interesting to see if John Healy the defence actually makes any mention of that at all, particularly given the wide economic context. We had from the Chancellor Rachel reeves this morning about public finances and the central labour we had in the Run Up to the election about them wanting to sustain fiscal discipline. There is escalating tension in the Middle East. Give us an idea of where the government is on this and what messages they are trying to put a cross on both lebanon and israel. We heard from both lebanon and israel. Heard from the foreign Secretary Yesterday in a pretty wide ranging speech when again he touched upon ukraine and continued support for ukraine. He said the escalating tension was worrying and i had to be an immediate ceasefire and the information the government released to citizens in lebanon telling them to leave now. I think we can go no to the Conference Stage. I have a feed in front of me. It i
Hello, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The other day, i was asked by someone in france if this was going to be a boring election becausejoe biden seems to have it in the bag. My answer was no, it wont be and no, he doesnt. Yes, mr biden has had a steady stream of encouraging poll numbers recently and the media is, in turn, reflecting the view that he is likely to beat donald trump. But as we learnt in 2016, making bold predictions about us elections is a risky business, especially when there are also some very positive signs for mr trump. Take a look at these numbers. Voter registration patterns in key battleground states show that republicans have done way better than democrats in adding new voters to the rolls, as is the case in florida, pennsylvania and north carolina. Lots to go over. Lets bring in senior Political Writer for the polling site fivethirtyeight, clare malone. Thank you very much forjoining us. We have seen digestionjoe biden is almost untouc
Effo rts ok . Joe bidens team has called efforts to stop the count at rangers. He has urged his supporters to be patient. We are going to have to be patient. We are going to have to be patient until the hard work of tallying votes is finished. And it aint over till every vote is counted, every ballot is counted. Votes in the pivotal states of wisconsin, michigan and pensylvannia are still being counted. It could take days to find out who will be in the white house. And i am alive from the Battle Ground state of wisconsin, where the democrats say they have won the state. At the touch screen, keeping track of the votes as they stack up, is reeta chakrabarti. There is the slimmest of margins separating the two candidates as you can see, and i will plot the ten the potential paths to victory for each contender. The race for the white house is on a knife edge. This is bbc us election 2020. Imjane obrien in washington where the nation is on edge. There is no clear winner and campaign lawyers
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