Expanding his narrow lead over donald trump. But georgia one of the states still too close to call is set for a recount and legal battles and. Ultram continues to make baseless allegations of widespread fraud in states like pennsylvania which officials flatly reject. What the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And all resolved election and a nation on edge 3 days off to one of americas most divisive a knife edge president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump in the battleground states which will decide that final outcome is now. It in pennsylvania nevada and in georgia so far hes projected to have 1264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 of course the magic number required is 270 biden needs only to win one of those undecided states to get over the finishing line. Lets start with pennsylvania where bid
Russian people. And a rare sight from enter mongolia protesters united over fears their own Mother Tongue could be replaced by mandarin. Beers president sounds denied claims the cold war veterans and dead american soldiers suckers and losers the allegations were made in an article published in the atlantic magazine reports still were trumped announced as a hoax and a disgrace but less than 60 days to go until the election its become the focus of both democrats and republican campaigns as more. The u. S. Military and veterans are a big part of u. S. President Donald Trumps base he needs their support and now that could be much more of a challenge for those who believe the allegations that on this visit to france and 2018 the president. Supposed to visit a cemetery where more than 2000 american soldiers are buried he didnt go blaming the weather but according to the report in the atlantic he skipped it concerned about what the rain would do to his hair and he reportedly said why should i
Kosovo agreed to normalize ties also coming up on the news hour lebanon falls silent one month after the explosion that tore through the capital beirut and the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activist behind the nations fight for womens rights. In school enormous see is to remain a barcelona player messi says hes changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal disputes with the club. Welcomes the news our top story Donald Trumps allies are scrambling to his defense amid growing backlash of the u. S. President s alleged remarks on war veterans suckers and losers are amongst the times the president has called americas war dead according to an article in the atlantic magazine but given trumps support in the military and with less than 60 days to go until the election its become the focus of both campaigns of a night party call hayne has more. The u. S. Military and veterans are a big part of u. S. President Donald Trumps base he needs th
The impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u. S. Top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors in sport its a huge night for round madrid in the Champions League the 14 time when its currently bottom of their group. To fight the right. Lets get going to accuse president wretch up type are the ones in the russian for city of sochi for talks with lot of me a putin mr repeated his threat to restart his military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria the leaders are expected to discuss the turkish cease fire that was brokered by the u. S. Which is due to expire in a matter of hours the Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces the pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere as agreed under the terms of the truce before heading to sochi is what mr had to say. Vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizat
Side is perhaps them trying to use these things to their advantage trying as andrew said earlier to take advantage of perhaps a pivot in Public Opinion about what these protesters are doing inside the ledges and Legislative Council building. Really taking their time and really going to come down perhaps a very strongly afterwards on these protesters on the people involved there certainly beijing is not going to want to look weak in the face of whats happening there theyre going to want to really show a strong arm and theyre going to really say that look these are protesters for sauron we didnt we didnt provoke this and theyre definitely going to want to send a strong message there. For the moment thanks very much. Now lets talk more about this now with steve tsang via skype from london he is the director of the China Institute of the school of oriental and African Studies at the university of london thanks very much for being with us so 1st of all what do you make of the scenes that ha