Im burnt off its good to have you with those polls have just closed in britains general election counting ballots will go on throughout the night with the 1st race is not expected to be called for at least an hour or so but british media have just released their 1st exit polls giving indications of the outcome they are pointing to a massive massive lead for worse johnsons conservative. All right to break all of this day on tonight so im joined here at the big table by you came politics analysts to my right here is rob much and by my colleague roger evans both of these gentlemen of course hailing from the u. K. And barbara vessel she is standing by for us in london barbara i want to start with you tell us 1st of all where you are and lets talk about these 1st numbers what do you make up. Down in front of the red line which is right opposite across 3 from downing street downing street to the seat of the Prime Minister and just a bit off the road is the problem parliament when its sitting
But a soft. Piece of news new head. Broad review of the institutions tools at our 1st policy meeting and. Eskom struggles to keep the lights on across south africa and business is losing patience with us even if the president says it all be sorted out next year. Im chris. U. S. President signed off on a partial trade deal with china according to media reports that is a major step towards ending these 17 month u. S. China trade. Negotiators have reportedly offered to reduce. 375000000000. 00 in chinese goods by 50 percent. On 160000000000. 00 in goods set to go into effect on sunday the protracted dispute between the worlds 2 top economies as weighed on the profits of companies and global growth. Lets get the markets view on this with our man on wall street again scored against donald trump has been hinting the closing of this deal on his twitter feed something that people on wall street also watching obviously how did investors take the news. Clearly with some relief even if we do not
Is threatening sanctions against companies building the plan. Im calling asman welcome to g. W. And our special coverage of the u. K. General election and exit poll in the British Election is suggesting a massive victory for Boris Johnsons conservatives one that would give him the majority that he needs to ratify his bracks a deal and take the u. K. Out of the European Union british media releasing the 1st exit poll about an hour ago and it shows a landslide for the conservatives you see the numbers there on that wall winning 368. 00 seats that would give the party a clear majority in the parliament which has 650. 00 seats is also a historic loss for Jeremy Clarksons labor party losing some 71 seats as those projections show so we end up with 100. In 91. 00 of course vote counting will be going on throughout the night well be bringing you those results as they come in but some constituencies are expected to be coming in soon or heres a breakdown now of that exit poll there are projecte
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Is threatening sanctions against companies building the pipeline. Im calling aspen welcome to the program we start with special coverage of the u. K. General election and what is shaping up to be a landslide victory for the conservatives and exit polls suggesting a massive win for Prime Minister Boris Johnsons party one that would give him the majority that he needs to ratify his brets a deal and take the u. K. Out of the European Union the poll released by british media shows a clear majority for the conservatives winning 368. 00 out of 650. 00 seats if that holds it would ensure that johnson remains as Prime Minister and it would also be a historic loss for jeremy corbins labor party dropping below 200 seats for the 1st time since the 1930 s. So counting will be going on throughout the night. Heres now a look at exactly how those projections are breaking down by party remember the magic number for majority is 326 and you can see the conservatives there with 368 seats projected thats