Building. Maricopa county still has 275,000 ballots that need to be counted. President trump is hoping to stop the vote count but only in some states. Anne makovec joins us now from the live news desk with the very latest. Reporter the vote counting is on as we speak. It looks like we can likely have an answer as to who could be the next president of the United States by the end of the day. The demonstrations you talked about from yesterday continuing this morning including outside the office where theyre counting now in philadelphia, pennsylvania. Lets go inside that room right now where they still have about 1 million votes left to count. Pennsylvania is of course among the handful of Battle Ground states you mentioned still in play this morning. So far the mail in ballots theyre counting have skewed heavily in joe bidens favor but President Trump still has the lead. This was the state where in 2016 he won pennsylvania by less than one percentage point. We have an eye on the counting
November 4, 19 79, iranian student storm the American Embassy in tehran. Everybody thinks it will be an overnight affair, but it will not. music , this is the story of a traumatic crisis that lasted 444 days and ended in january 1981, a personal drama about 51 american men and two american women. We will be with you, hopefully, as soon as we can. Their crime was being associated with the u. S. Embassy in tehran, the punishment total incarceration. This will be an inside view, with exclusive iranian shot footage never seen before. When did you arrive in iran . September 19, 1979. I think today is the 19th of january. Your name and your job. This is what really happened as told by fugitive and captive americans, including the head of the u. S. Embassy. Our story starts at the white house on october 22, 1979. Day14, u. S. President jimmy carter believing the shaw of iran needed medical tests and treatment, allowed him to enter the United States. It was the right thing to do, and it was at
Is due to expire this evening. Electric cars could be given green number plates and possible parking concessions in an attempt to drive the number being bought. And japans Emperor Naruhito is formally enthroned in an elaborate ceremony inside the imperial palace. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news whos been spying at the Rugby World Cup . England head coach eddiejones says someone was filming their training session. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one live from westminster where crucial votes this evening will decide whether the Prime Minister will be able to live up to his do or die commitment to take the uk out of the European Union in nine days time. Borisjohnson will urge the commons to vote through his brexit deal. If mps agree to it, theyll have three days to scrutinise the legislation which runs to more than 100 pages. But Opposition Mps say thats not long enough to examine the small print and they could scupper the Prime Ministers plans this even
Will go ahead later this morning. They need to beat the hosts and at least match the number of bonus points both teams receive, if theyre to make it through to the quarterfinals. And our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9 35, this mornings reviewers are sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times, and prashant rao, global editor at the atlantic. Hello, good morning. Ministers say the American Woman involved in a fatal car crash in northamptonshireno longer has diplomatic immunity, because shes returned to the United States. Anne sacoolas left the uk after the collision in august, in which 19 year old harry dunn was killed. Shes now said she wants to meet the teenagers parents, who are due to fly to the us this morning to raise concerns about the case. Simon jones has more. Theyve ta ken their fight forjustice to the Foreign Office in london, and now harry dunns parents are flying to the us. They say ever since harrys death, theyve been trapped in a nightmare. He was
Qatar and other arab states with anne barnard from the ny times. Qatar is always punting above its weight in the region in a way that really wrangled with saudi arabia which thinks of itself as the leader and doesnt want to have rivals for regional influence. Qatar is always trying to play all sides of every issue. Thats one of the ways that it sort of increased its infliens and survival skills as a small country. Rose also this evening a conversation with Patrick Collison, the c. E. O. And cofounder of stripe. We wanted you to be able to come to a website, enter basic details like you would in signing up for any other service and start charging customers from all around the world some revenue and money and go get paid. That process at that time took weeks in some cases, even months and was very restrictive in terms of the kind of Business Models you could implement. And we con crude with gerard araud, the former french ambassador to the United States. In a sense the message of Emmanue