Thousands of people have marched through the streets of washington to show their support for Donald Trumps unfounded claims of fraud in the president ial election. The demonstrations came after projections gave the state of georgia to the president Electjoe Biden. Many of the protesters gathered in Freedom Plaza before marching towards the supreme court. President trumps motorcade passed the demonstrators and did a circuit of the plaza, before carrying on to his golf club in sterling, virginia. Since election night, President Trump has tweeted dozens of times promoting claims of voterfraud, without providing any evidence. Meanwhile supporters of president Electjoe Biden gathering at the black lives matter plaza, close to the white house. Joe bidens victory in georgia gives him 306 Electoral College votes, well over the 270 he needed. And there have been reports of clashes between the two sets of supporters, police some on bicycles struggling to keep them apart. Experts now fear that on
Prime time tv shows has died at the age of 88. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. In the uk, the labour party is calling on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social Media Companies that fail to remove anti vaccination content ahead of the expected roll out of a jab against the coronavirus. Under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent such content from being published, and to remove anti vaccine messages if they do appear. Katherine da costa has more. With hopes rising of an effective Coronavirus Vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls Dangerous Anti vax content online. The party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading di
Has died at the age of 88. Hello and welcome to bbc news. In britain, the labour party is calling on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social Media Companies that fail to remove anti vaccination content ahead of the expected roll out of a jab against the coronavirus. Under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent such content from being published, and to remove anti vaccine messages if they do appear. Katherine da costa has more. With hopes rising of an effective Coronavirus Vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls Dangerous Anti vax content online. The party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading disinformation, which it says poses a real threat to the take up of the vaccine. Labour says it would back legislation which includes fina
Hello and welcome. Rockets have been fired at the eritrean capital, asmara, from neighbouring ethiopia, in a major escalation of the conflict between the Ethiopian Government and local forces in the tigray region. The attacks came hours after a senior official in tigray threatened missile strikes on eritrea. Earlier there were reports of clashes along the border between ethiopia and eritrea. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front see eritrea as supporting ethiopias federal government. In an earlier attack, the tplf fired rockets at two ethiopian airports in retaliation for Government Air strikes in the region. Lets take another look at the territory in the north, thats at the heart of the dispute. The Ethiopian Government says the rockets targeted the cities of gondar and bahir dar. Our Africa Regional editor, will ross, reports. Escaping from war, these ethiopians are making the difficult journey across the border into sudan after fleeing the fighting in the tigray region. They were stuc
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