Say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of wild scale abuse which the army denies. But we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start so of the pandemic there have been more than 64000000. 00 confirmed cases nearly 1500000. 00 deaths the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on coronavirus diplomatic editor james bays is at the u. N. In new york and james that session is still ongoing but we understand the secretary general has addressed the meeting what did he have to say. Well secretary general was the 1st to address the meeting one of only a couple of speakers who were actually in the room at the General Assembly because of covert 19 most the leaders have submitted their speeches recorded speeches theyre being played out from all of them for
Each term aches landfall in the u. S. State of florida after killing dozens of people in Central America. Where the transition to a joe biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some key decisions already made the president elect has announced this task force to tackle what he says this is top priority the coronavirus pandemic is cochaired by dr David Kessler who served on the bush and clinton administrations on sunday biden visit a Church Cemetery where Family Members are buried including his late son donald trump spent the day playing golf and side washington and is still refusing to concede defeat his campaign is planning legal challenges and states vary hes dismissing the counting of votes where World Leaders including israels Binyamin Netanyahu and saudi Arabias Mohammed and sound man have congratulated joe biden while former u. S. President s and republican george w. Bush also sent his. Swishes well heres some more of what george bush had to say in that notes p
A sudden look on the other side of the atlantic and find a friend and a partner and a not i once once again said they would be a sort of. Incredible relief if you like in in europe and in having you know our 1st and foremost partner to work with on a number of issues you know from Foreign Policy to climate to sort of rebuilding a post economy now on the flipside of that there would also be in a sense a sort of temptation of europeans to sort of fall back into their comfort zone and put back into the closet the idea of assuming greater responsibility in Foreign Policy a because of an Ongoing Alliance and in fact dependence on the United States it is a little after i was 600 hours g. M. T. This is 0 of the special coverage of the u. S. Election market Mark Jacobson looking at nato donald trump called it obsolete before taking office he. Almost pulled out of the alliance in 2018 before National Security adviser thats on john bolton talked him out of it President Trump has been effective i
Battling on the u. S. President elect joe biden plans to reveal more of his cabinet choices within hours after his transition to the white house formally began, the head of a Government Agency responsible for this process is finally acknowledged by the apparent winner of the election and reports from washington d. C. This is the letter president elect. Joe biden has been waiting for, giving him the federal resources he needs to begin putting his administration in place. Trump loyalists. Emily murphy had delayed for weeks, but monday in this letter. She says she decided on her own, not the biden was going to be president , but that he can start planning in case he is us president tweeted out. He gave her permission to move forward, adding their own case strongly continues. We will keep up the good fight, but almost all of his legal cases have been quickly thrown out of court. I do think that he did have some interesting legal cases that he could have brought in a lot of these really clo
Stop diplomatic uses armenia committing a war crime in azerbaijan as the border fights takes a toll on civilians from both sides. A lifeline from mali the west African Regional bloc lifts economic sanctions that were imposed following a military coup. That has tens of thousands of people flee armed groups in mozambique the government searches the International Community to help. My. But we begin with fast moving developments from kyrgyzstan the Prime Minister has resigned this comes right after the Election Commission and notes the early results of sundays vote and the speaker of the parliament has also resigned now this follows an eyes of violence where protesters stormed state buildings there accusing the government. Of rigging the election in its favor the process is freed former president was back at them bias and other senior officials who were in jail president serum by jeenbekov has insisted that he is still in control of the country. But tells stratfords joins us on the phone f