Starting with japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed shinzo. A long time ally of the outgoing Prime Minister this liberal Democratic Party leadership vote paves the way for him to be placed in a parliamentary vote later this week is japans longest serving Prime Minister resigned last month for Health Reasons robert broads following this one from seoul today hi rob this looks like almost a succession in the end rather than election will be more of the same from a longtime ally of the Prime Minister. Indeed this is always going to be a foregone conclusion but still an impressive margin of victory or he goes super getting nearly 3 quarters of all of the votes cast his 2 rivals coming nowhere near to challenge him but then of course he was always the anointed successor in a way to as shinzo having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in these socalled conservative economics that were
Prime minister. Also in the news the future of social media at tick tock still uncertain but there are reports of a deal that could satisfy the United States government. Strong winds threatening the efforts to battle wildfires in the northwestern United States get a live update from california. Well start with the news out of japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed. Is a longtime ally of the outgoing Prime Minister the liberal democratic partys leadership vote now paves the way for suger to replace in a parliamentary vote this week. Is japans longest serving Prime Minister he resigned last month for health reasons. Well nobody as we faced a nationwide crisis of the krona virus hope araik we cannot have a political gap we need to overcome this challenge in order for every Single Person in japan to have a safe and stable life i need to proceed with what Prime Minister abbott has been working on and move it forward i believe this is my mission. Robin broad is
A cease fire as its rival parliament in the east aligned with war Khalifa Haftar has also called for a halt to the fighting but the tripoli government says it will respond to any violence it sees from have to force. Someone who can enter will have to respect this is where they will to guarantee he would respect to cease fire after the burning talks or previous agreements if you respects this is fire we will welcome that because we do not want bloodshed we call for peace however if you violate the Peace Agreement we are ready to fight and we will force him to leave like we forced him to leave western libya. The head of the u. S. Postal service has told a Senate Committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time for novembers election postmaster general lewis to joy has faced criticism for the changes that have caused delays in the postal system. U. S. President ial nominee joe biden says he would be prepared to shut down the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus he made tho
Illegally in the Eastern Mediterranean undermining stability in the region and affecting to Member States of the European Union greece and of course the other one is cyprus in whose exclusive Economic Zone turkey has been conducting drilling in seismic tests as well the question for the greeks now is whether turkey will agree to stop these activities in both greek and cypriots exclusive Economic Zones and agree without further action on the exploration front to sit downs talks which would take place on the basis of un maritime law and would disagree with its sign a statement to the effect that should those talks fail to achieve a file last real compromise between greece and turkey on maritime jurisdictions would turkey agree to settle this through our patrician at the International Coal at the hague the those are broadly speaking the things that greece is looking for in this initial round. Of contacts between the greek and turkish sides through the German Foreign minister the effort th
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