The headlines donald trump is visiting california with record wildfires still burning. He claims the fires are the result of poor forest management, not Climate Change. His election rival, joe biden, says the president s policies are contributing to natural disasters. Bill gates has told the bbc hes confident the United States will step up in the fight against coronavirus. He admits his country has made mistakes, but believes progress can still be made. He also dismissed conspiracy theories about a vaccine. An International Team of astronomers believe theyve found the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on the planet venus. Theyve detected traces of a gas in its atmosphere which is normally produced by living microbes. Theyve yet to find another explanation. But the temperature on the surface of venus is more than 400 degrees celsius. It is about liz30am. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Racial discrimination is americas wound that
This is bbc news. The headlines joe biden has been handed a major boost in the democratic contest to take on donald trump in novembers election. The former Vice President has won the partys primary in south carolina. Its be a welcome result after poor performances in the race so far. President trump says its time for american soldiers to come home from afghanistan after the us signed an agreement with the militant group, the taliban. He said the us had committed to withdraw five thousand troops by may and that he would meet taliban leaders in the nearfuture. The president s also urging calm after coronavirus claimed its first life on us soil. He said more cases were likely but that the country was well prepared. The victim who was in his fifties, was being treated in hospital in Washington State and is said to have had Underlying Health conditions. More now on the coronavirus and our health editor, hugh pym, has the latest on the preparations the government is making here. He said that
Be her tonight, when will america know . What were seeing right now in the key battleground of pennsylvania. And President Trump speaking at this hour. Youll hear him right here. And as the nation waits tonight for the results of this election, President Trump, his lead shrinking in pennsylvania. A state he needs to win to serve a second term. Where things stand in pennsylvania, how many votes left . And how many of those remaining votes would joe biden have to get to catch up to the president to surpass him in that key state . Also tonight, the president s lead shrinking in georgia. Now under 10,000 votes. What it means for the president ial race. And could what were seeing there play any role now in control of the senate . Tonight, the other battlegrounds, where the difference is razor thin in arizona. New word coming in at this hour. And nevada, the razor thin margin there. And tonight, what joe biden said
before the cameras late today, what he signaled while inside the white house,
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