Records more people have voted before this election than the entire boat 2016. Welcome to the program there is a desperate search for survivors in the turkish city of izmir after it was struck by a powerful earthquake under the aegean sea the magnitude 7 trauma brought down buildings and triggered tidal waves in the coastal city as well as in parts of greece at least 20 buildings have collapsed several neighborhoods were flooded by sea water the current figures stand that 19 people 19 people are known to have died including 2 teenagers on the greek island of sound but that number is expected to rise more than 700 others were injured and rescue teams are still working through the rubble to find as many people as they can its an. Ports now from istanbul their. Rescuers search for survivors and rubble of buildings and is made trickiest 3rd biggest city the epicenter of friday afternoons shallow magnitude 7 earthquake was off the turkish cost. I have a shop on the back side i was talking w
A 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week. Well President Trump has focused on the economy at a Campaign Rally in michigan its trouble believe the number one reason that im standing here because of we turn that around. 7. Were going to win the great state. Were going to win for 4 years in the way. In our all the headlines this hour police in zanzibar have reportedly killed 5 people who took part in protests alleging ballot fraud ahead of tanzanias election on wednesday main Opposition Leader that was arrested earlier on tuesday but has since been released the African Union is calling for a peaceful poll. At least 8 people have been killed in a bombing a Religious School in the northwest pakistan city of bashara over 100 others were injured police say the bomb was hidden in a 5 left in the schools main hole the the device then detonated a students gathered for their lessons. 4 people including 2 children have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of france al
Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati
Dorsey, and alphabets sundar pichai, are set to testify virtually tomorrow. Section 230hange could have longterm ramifications on free speech on the internet. Banned news political ads. We will ask Cambridge Analytica whistleblower as part of our special electioneering series. First, lets get a read on stocks and microsoft results. Abigail doolittle with us from new york. Big beats out of the gate. Abigail in the after hours, they are trading higher. Although i think what we are about to look at could be all over the map at the moment. They are talking about the idea that further lockdowns could hurt demands. Their Cloud Business was weak. Microsoft Cloud Business very strong. That was a piece of the beat. Maybe part of the business that could have gone to microsoft. Again, after hours, this stock is trading higher on the year. Valuation is rich, but the theter is good enough that stock is doing just fine. The s p 500 index and the dow down once again. The nasdaq climbed sharply higher
A landslide election victories New Zealanders reward the covering for. Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests they have been rejecting corruption in the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic so a quick look at how we got to this point in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service led to the resignation of the Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people and became another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later a 2nd wave of coronavirus posed a threat for the 10s of thousands of people who lost their homes