Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us most major countries in the region have congratulated joe biden as the next u. S. President the china has not saying it will wait its not clear until when but for the rest of asia governments face a new reality for the past 4 years donald trump has shaken the foundation of what u. S. Relations mean for the region with his tough talk and courting of traditional rivals so whats the outlook now for americas allies and competitors in the in the pacific. Joe biden has promised a new day for america but what does biden have in mind for asia the u. S. Has a powerful reach there over security trade and Climate Change but also a rival for economic and military dominance. A confident china which has managed so far to beat back its coronavirus epidemic and now looks to outmaneuver the u. S. As a global superpower. Meanwhile protest movements in thailand and hong kong look to the u. S. As a champion of democracy for the region. In nucle
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Record german coronavirus numbers. And way of blue cross welcome to the program joe biden is edging closer to the white house as final votes are being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election the democratic challenger is narrowly ahead in key states which have yet to declare their results lets have a quick look at where we are standing now it hasnt changed for a while Democrat Joe Biden has 264 Electoral College votes donald trump has 214 thats according to the a. P. News agency that were following now remember 270 is that magic number you need to win to claim the presidency now 2 big states pennsylvania that would be the big prize on the map left. Go 20 electoral votes joe bidens lead there is currently more than 15000 votes with 98 percent of the vote counted south of there georgia with 16 electoral votes its extremely close biden has pulled ahead of trump there with a difference of just over 4000. 00 votes and counting so it may go to a recount thats how close it will be over all loo
Elected to parliament 3 years ago. Can mr. Johnson holmes, whos carlos live in the opinion . Polls, and what will the party do if you tell me welcome to comfort zone. And to be here. I want to look at 1st, the governments handling of the pandemic in recent months. We know that a vaccine now appears imminent, but after a decade of conservative rule, britain was woefully unprepared to deal with this pandemic any pandemic, wasnt it . Despite numerous warnings and dress rehearsals, why was your party asleep on the job for so many years . Well, i think what we saw with the pandemic was that the vast, vast majority of countries found themselves unprepared for it. And the reason for that, the fundamental reason for that was that the nature of the pandemic wasnt quite what was previously expressed what was previously expected. What was generally expected by most countries was something that resembles blue. I realize it was different, but look at the figures before the coronavirus hit, the u. K
Ahead because with low temperatures this virus responds differently than what is on it ive just come out of the corona cabinet where we have again had a look at the situation we have in a moment we are concerned by that 12700 new cases reported by the robert carr institute which is traveling in 2 weeks 5 times the amount it made october. So this is exponential growth and we are heading straight for an acute emergency in our hospitals if we do not do anything and we see this when we look at the number of covered 1000 patients in our i. C. U. Nurse again theres been a doubling the rate from 1030 beds on the 22nd of october weve covered patients to 2000. 61 ice you bet occupied by 1000 patients on the 1st of november and we know that the number of patients in our i. C. U. Is always. Downstream its a bit later so that means that the cases who are reported now as in fact it will only end up in our i. C. U. Patients is just 6 in 2 weeks it takes a while for new cases to be in i. C. U. So wha