A war crimes trial at the hague for his alleged role during the 1999 costs of all conflict the u. K. Gets a new multibillion dollar rescue package to boost its economy as a glint enters another pandemic lock down. Now were going to begin in the United States a nation on the edge almost 48 hours on the president ial race between donald trump and joe biden still remains too close to call the democratic candidate has already flipped to michigan and wisconsin donald trump has now really won those 4 years ago but biden now has a projected total of 264. 00 electoral votes trump is projected to get to 214. 00 now remember a candidate needs a minimum of 270. 00 Electoral College of. So when a few states here highlighted yellow on the map of nevada georgia pennsylvania North Carolina still in play counting is ongoing in georgia no democrat has carried this state since 1902 but drums lead there is narrowing fast what might help joe biden is that most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and i
With the tallying a vote still ongoing trump threatens to go to the Supremes Court to try to stop the counting biden has threatened counter legal action. And ethiopias Prime Minister declared a state of emergency in tikrit region following a deadly attack on a military base that. On the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has yet secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes still uncounted donald trump has even threatened to go to the Supreme Court something that bidens team says they are ready to challenge the total vote count could still take days. Well this is our team of reporters on the ground the salad rob reynolds as monitoring developments from Los Angeles Alison bidens home state that away and allan fisheye is in washington d. C. For us but fast also in jordan takes a look at how this night unfolded. Shortly after 2 am on wednes
Count the votes that came in late we look at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late ive already decisively won many critical stage yes democratic president ial candidate joe biden has been calling for calm as a final votes for him choose days election continue to be counted is closing the gap on donald trump in pennsylvania and georgia and says he is confident of becoming the next president each ballot must be counted. And thats what were going to see going through now and thats how it should be democracy is sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years the system of government governance has been the envy of the world. And we continue to feel sad and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is finished senator harris and i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working. The U
A possibility that the course of a jew need to come into the net looking at. Their act of war declared upon america by terrorists and we will respond accordingly deal with those who harbor them and feed them and house them. Make no mistake about it. Is the. Strong determination of america. To win this war. My message is for everybody who wears the uniform get ready the United States will do what it takes to win this war. Its difficult to explain to younger people today how emotionally fraught and just. Outraged a lot of people in the United States. Its where after 911. 00. People in the United States thought that this was like a unique event in Human History that had to change the course of Human History it wasnt just about the United States this was about what terrorism was and what it had become all that to say that because of that extraordinary measures were now called for things that had never before been done were going to happen. The reaction of the Bush Administration after 911.
Instrument its into all of many places its s. Dave i think totally wrong about that tell me a little bit more because i dont really see why democracy would be a stick of the west so tell me a little bit more about where that perception comes from well he your book is not very flattering to you after it terry ends but i think you ultimately confirmed that deeply have believed that everybody almost everybody uses different kinds of tricks and manipulation studio and you kind of center in the house and take expression of political will and based on his democracies i doing it in certain the way they are relying on laws and regulations to ensure that self interest authoritarian regimes may be doing that and what in crew there are ways but ultimately i think the conclusion of your book is that everybody doesnt. No really i mean i dont think thats the conclusion theres a lot of countries on in the book which dont really do it or at least do it less and theres a lot of countries in europe in n