The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from vik ers like you. Thu. Laura i am Laura Trevelyan in washington, d. C. , and this is bbc world news america. The president relents on the transition of power to joe biden isnderway, but donald trump i not conceding. Even as biden introduces his cabinet picks. That america is ba. En a team once again sit at the head of laura stay home toave grandma is the message urom t. S. Health officials who warn there will be tragic consequences if americans traveled this thanksgiving. North dakota has one of the highest coronavirus mortality rates in the world. Is starting t still question regulations. Ople plus, we go behind the scenes withnd fins Prime Minister a the bbc finds 100 consequential pushing for equali in her firs year. Laura welcome to bbc world news america. The u. S. President elect joe biden has been introducing his first c
On the welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted and Sylvania Biden won 49. 7 percent and trump won 49. 2 the 20 electoral votes biden takes home in the state allowed him to surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press he also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290. 00 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. 00. Democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect by success from philadelphia to black lives matter plaza in washington to New York Times square people didnt want to hide their relief and excitement lets take a look at those reactions. To me me every time my mother is a disabled woman who goes directly to medicaid and medicare and said no a day. Out and you can no longer mess with those programs is the thing we w
With no chance of being freed a white supremacist who killed 51 muslim worship is in new zealand is sentenced. To 24 hours ago turkey warned greece not to test its patients and now we know what that means turkeys announced it will hold live firing exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean next week the latest escalation in a maritime dispute with greece over control of potential gas and oil reserves both countries have already been holding military drills near a patch of sea they both claim in addition the turkish government is extending the work of its vessel the one conducting Seismic Surveys of the area greece is also ratified a maritime agreement with egypt which turkey opposes so lots of escalations there. Making life difficult for germanys top diplomat whos calling for an end to the exercises the e. U. Tries to pull greece and turkey back from confrontation i am asked spoke at a meeting of e. U. Foreign ministers in berlin. We will see how things develop at the end of this month whe
Republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration followed the u. S. Conventions on aljazeera. Hello and welcome again to everyone im come out santa maria youre on rewind were revisiting some of the best and most influential programs from more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1978 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahedeen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against
Militarys testing capability, and chinas response to the pandemic. Good afternoon, everyone. The seats are starting to fill up. Good. I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to the more than 62,000 Service Members on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus, including over 3500 medical personnel staffing civilian facilities and embedded operations nationwide. Tomorrow marks the start of National Nurses week. We salute all nurses, military and civilian, who have served and are currently serving. Thanks to their efforts, we are encouraged to see the situation improving in several of the most impacted areas. In new york city, the Javits Centers remaining patients were discharged on friday, indicating stress on hospitals is subsiding. I had a conversation with mayor de blasio last friday. He called to express his thanks for what dod provided his city in a time of need and how warmly they were received by his civilian doctors and nurses. I said to pass along to the force, tho