The german capital the man is charged with gunning down a former chechen commander in a park last year german russian ties already tense this trials outcome could make them worse plus. Legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen dies after a long battle with cancer considered one of the bravest rocker tars of all time he sounded ben hell in the band that rocks the charts in the seventys and eightys. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news the winner of this years nobel prize in chemistry has just been announced in stock all this year the. Prize is going jointly to the french scientists emmanuelle a shop and he and jennifer doomed from the United States it goes for the development of a method for genome editing or as the academy called it rewriting the code of life the award comes with a shared prize money of around 1000000 giraffes very much thank you and we will have more on the nobel Prize Winners later in the program 1st though we go to greece for a historic v
Supreme court nomination, stimulus talks, and last night, dueling banjos of town halls, one for President Donald Trump and the other for joe biden, the democratic president ial nominee. To get us started and talk about this is the Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Ashley, thanks for being here. Ashley thanks for having me jonathan. Jonathan on the town hall, these dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve its aim, scheduling the trump town hall at the same time as biden . Ashley if the aim in some ways was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden, i think, yes, anecdotally, more people seem to be watching the trump town hall in real time then the joe biden town hall. If real question to me is, knowing in hindsight how the townhall went, his the Trump Campaign happy that potentially so many people watched that trump town hall in real time . [laughter] jonathan im glad you pointed that out, because earlier in the day, i sent out a tweet saying, lets
Tanzania as president ial and parliamentary elections but opposition parties say the vote has already been corrupted by manipulation and violence and exclaim and countered flame is fighting flares again over nagornokarabakh times or by zhang accuses armenia of killing at least 21 people well get an update from our correspondent on the ground. Im brant goff to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome another lock down is coming to germany at least partially today german chancellor Angela Merkel announced a limited National Lockdown for most of the month of november the goal is to stop an out of control riots. Corona virus infections Bars Restaurants Hotels and cinemas will close next monday but schools and shops will stay open the government is earmarking up to 10000000000 euros in Financial Support to help businesses that will be hit by this 2nd shutdown the deserted streets of the spring are about to become all too familiar again
Good morning. Im jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post and welcome to first look, Washington Post onestop shop for news and analysis on the most pressing political issues of the day. This morning we are reviewing an actionpacked week, Amy Coney Barretts nomination, the coronavirus, stimulus talks and, of course, last nights dueling banjos of town halls, one for president donald trump, the other performer Vice President joe biden, the democratic president ial nominee. To get it started to talk about all of this is the Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, jonathan. So on the town hall, these dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve its t aim, scheduling the trump townhall at the same time as biden . Well, its the aim in some way was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden. I think yes. Anecdotally, or people seems to be watching thetr trump townhall in real time than the joe bide
Im told me a lot of book welcome to the program we begin in the United States where with less than 2 weeks to go until election day President Donald Trump and his democratic rival joe biden are set to face off in their 2nd and final president ial debate biden have both arrived in nashville tennessee where the stage is set for their spying much now one new rule of engagement for this evening microphones will be muted when a candidate is not supposed to speak thats after a chaotic 1st debate last month. Now both men will face questions on 6 topics these are fighting covert 19 American Families race in america Climate Change National Security and leadership with election day now only 12 days away this debate could be crucial in swaying any remaining undecided voters. Correspondent sumi so misconduct joins us from washington now for more suny the topics for the debate set microphones would be new to well can we expect well tommy i can tell you that anticipation here is very high i mean thi